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COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA
A Descriptive List of the Incunabula in the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. [Introduction by Charles Perry Fisher]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Roy. 8vo., First and Sole Edition; original printed wrappers, lower wrapper with two closed tears and minor marginal loss, a very good, clean copy. A presentation copy from the British Medical Journal to the library of the British Medical Association with its stamps on front wrapper, title and first leaf of list (only). Originally published in the periodical 'Annals of Medical History', New Series, Vol. 3, Nos. 2,3,4, this is the third such list of the College's incunabula following those of 1919 and 1923. This, the best edition, reprints the entire list numbering 404 examples. VERY SCARCE.
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BLAND D.S.
A Bibliography of the Inns of Court and Chancery.
Roy. 8vo., cloth, gilt back, a very good copy. Sold from an institution with its cancelled bookplate, perforated stamp on title and neat accession panel on reverse. Selden Society, Supplementary Series, vol. 3.
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IRELAND Alexander
The Book-Lover's Enchiridion. A Treasury of Thoughts on the Solace and Companionship of Books. [Fifth Edition, revised and further enlarged]. LARGE PAPER COPY
Sm. 4to., Fifth Edition, LARGE PAPER, on laid paper, title in red and black, some very light and inoffensive spotting; brown cloth, upper board with two Greek Key fillets enclosing title in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, bevelled boards, black endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a near fine copy. LARGE PAPER COPIES ARE UNCOMMON.
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[Sale Catalogue of] The Parsons Fragment of Italian Prototypography. The Property of the Grandchildren of the Hon. Edward Alexander Parsons. 23 November 1998. Sale Code: BLUNDELL-6055. FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN ITALY
4to., First Edition, with fine coloured frontispiece and 18 fine full-page coloured facsimiles in the text; original printed wrappers, a fine copy. The Parsons fragment of the Leiden Christi [c.1462-63?] is unique. It is the only known example of the FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN ITALY, as well as being the FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN ITALIAN, and employing a UNIQUE TYPE FOUNT.
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LAMBETH PALACE LIBRARY
Catalogue of an Exhibition of recent Gifts and Accessions 1950-60 to mark the 350th Anniversary of the Foundation of Lambeth Palace Library, 1610. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. The catalogue lists 77 items including a manuscript of Accounts of repairs to St. Paul's Cathedral by Inigo Jones and a rare Missale Romanum printed by Lucantonio de Giunta at Venice in 1510.
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MORPURGO J.E.
Allen Lane: King Penguin. A Biography. UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY
Roy. 8vo., Uncorrected Proof Copy, with 14 plates on 8; original red wrappers, upper wrapper and backstrip lettered in black, covers unevenly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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GREEN Roger Lancelyn
Andrew Lang. A critical Biography with a short-title Bibliography of the Works of Andrew Lang.
8vo., with a coloured portrait frontispiece; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy. The useful bibliography lists works by Lang alone, by him in collaboration with others, translations by him alone, introductions and prefaces by him to books by others, a few contributions to books by others, and magazine articles on and about him
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NATIONAL BOOK LEAGUE
Alice Meynell,1847-1922. Catalogue of the Centenary Exhibition of Books, Manuscripts, Letters and Portraits. October 10 to November 7, 1947. [With a Foreword by Francis Meynell]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., original wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy. With the erratum slip at p.45. The catalogue, printed at the Curwen Press, lists 143 items.
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EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
[Catalogue of] An Exhibition in Honour of the Eightieth Birthday of Hugh MacDiarmid. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. The catalogue lists 132 items; the exhibition ran from 26th May to 31 August 1972.
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MAGGS BROTHERS LTD
A Catalogue of Maggs Catalogues 1918-1968. Catalogue 918. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text; original wrappers printed in red and white, a near fine copy. An invaluable reference listing, in addition to the main series of catalogues, 'Mercurius Britannicus', the renowned Bulletins of Oriental and European Miniatures, the special catalogues (London and Paris) and the 'Serie Francaise'. With subject and library indexes.
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MAGGS BROTHERS LTD
The Growth and Development of the Novel from Antiquity to the Present Day. [Catalogue No. 621]. WITH THE TRIBUTE TO BEN MAGGS
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous facsimiles (the majority full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, vertical strip offset on upper wrapper else a remarkably bright, clean copy. This major catalogue lists 684 items dating from 1469 to 1926; includes an index of authors. THIS COPY INCLUDES THE VERY SCARCE TRIBUTE TO BENJAMIN DAWSON MAGGS WHICH WAS LOOSELY INSERTED IN THIS CATALOGUE BUT IS NOW OFTEN MISSING. 'Ben' Maggs (1862-1935), eldest of the brothers and second President of the ABA, died on 4 October 1935; the tribute comprises a two-leaf insert with mounted photograph.
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LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY
A Guide to the Manuscript Collections in Liverpool University Library. [Preface by D. A. Clarke]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original wrappers printed in red, sewed as issued, a fine copy. Library Publication No. 1. The guide comprises Western MSS (medieval and modern), Oxyrhyncus Papyri and Oriental MSS. SCARCE.
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WILLIAMS Iolo A.
Bibliographies of Modern Authors. No. 2. John Masefield. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, text in red and black; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, uncut, covers very lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. VERY SCARCE.
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HOUGHTON Jr. Arthur A.
[Sale Catalogue of] The Collection of Miniature Books formed by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr.. 5 December 1979. Sale Code: LILLIPUT. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with fine coloured frontispiece and 19 plates in monochrome; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. With printed list of estimates bound in. The collection comprises 351 lots.
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HANDLEY-TAYLOR Geoffrey
Bibliography of Monaco. 850 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece; original wrappers as issued, covers lightly age-soiled else a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 850 COPIES SIGNED BY THE COMPILER.
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[Sale] Catalogue of the Meggendorfer Archive. Comprising Watercolour Drawings, Hand-Coloured Proofs, and Specimen Sheets for Moving Picture Books, Panoramas, Transformation Books, and other Publications by Lothar Meggendorfer. 1 June 1982.
4to., First Edition, with numerous facsimiles in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Lothar Meggendorfer was the greatest innovator in the history of moving picture books and similar works. The sale comprises 135 lots (some unique).
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NATHAN M.
The Decoration of Leather from the French of Georges de Recy. With Illustrations and Examples of Leather Decoration from various Sources. WITH CONTEMPORARY EPHEMERA
8vo., First Edition, with a collotype frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 19 fine collotype plates and 34 illustrations in the text, some mild spotting (mostly marginal) throughout; original brown cloth, upper board blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, case a little shaken else a good firm copy. Sold with a small quantity of relevant ephemera including a selection of trade and promotional matter from the notable trade house of Gawthorp, and a copy of the illustrated booklet 'Better Leathercraft' published by George & Co of London's Soho to record the works awarded prizes in the George 1926 Leathercraft Competition. The original edition is scarce in any condition.
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SHAND P. Morton
Railroadiana. An Exhibition of Railway Books, Prints and Relics. Organised by P. Morton Shand and the late Harold Wyatt. Catalogue of the Exhibition held at 7 Albemarle Street, London, W1, September to November 1952. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. The catalogue lists more than 300 books, maps and prints. Ottley, 7827
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NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES
Llyfegell Genedlaethol Cymru.. The National Library of Wales Aberystwyth. Coming of Age Celebration, 1909 - 1929. CRISP, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece, 5 plates and coloured plan; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, yapped edges, uncut, a very good copy. Printed at the Private Press of the NLW, the work includes a brief history. SCARCE.
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NATIONAL BOOK LEAGUE
The Italian Book 1465-1900. Catalogue of an Exhibition. Organizer: J. Irving Davis. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., illustrated wrappers, as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the typewritten errata slip loosely inserted. The catalogue comprises 364 items with Foreword and Index.
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NATIONAL BOOK LEAGUE
Victorian Fiction. An Exhibition of Original Editions at 7 Albemarle Street, London. January to February 1947. Arranged by John Carter with the Collaboration of Michael Sadleir. [Foreword by Michael Sadleir. Introduction by John Carter]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, crisp, clean copy. With the NBL bookplate, signed by Rosemary Bullett, on front inside wrapper. This copy contains a few relevant tipped-in cuttings. This major exhibition was sourced principally from Sadleir's own collection.
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NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES
Annual Report 1981-82.
4to., First Edition; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy.
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COLLIER] [J.
The Literature relating to New Zealand. A Bibliography.
8vo., cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, a very good copy. Scarce
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OAK KNOLL BOOKS
A. Edward Newton. A Collection of his Works. [Oak Knoll Books. Catalogue 86]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 13 pages of reproductions and facsimiles; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Effectively a proto-bibliography of A. Edward Newton, the catalogue describes 678 items with full index.
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NEWGASS Edgar
An Outline of Anglo-American Bible History.
4to., with a frontispiece and 16 fine plates of facsimiles; buckram, gilt back, a fine copy in the dust-wrpper. A brief yet useful survey including accounts of all the major editions and a short bibliography
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NORWICH CITY LIBRARY.
Catalogus Librorum in Bibliotheca Norvicensi. A Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the City of Norwich in the Year MDCCCLXXXIII. Compiled by Frederic Kitton. NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., title in red and black; brown cloth, upper board framed in blind and blocked with the arms of the City of Norwich in gilt, a remarkably bright, clean copy of an uncommon work. The first catalogue, published in 1706, was followed by Mackerell's compilation of 1732. The present (and last published) edition lists over 1,700 works, the latest of which were published in the early eighteenth century, together with an extensive list of benefactors. Amongst the collection are a number of specimens of early printing by Caxon, De Worde, Julian Notary, Pynson, Grafton and several continental printers. There is also a collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean theological tracts relating to the Reformation, and another of Chancery Records. Among the donors to the library were the Rev. Richard Ireland and the Rev. Thomas Nelson, each of whom presented his entire library. The former also donated his copy of the celebrated Wiklif Bible, now in the Norfolk and Norwich Musum. SCARCE. Darroch and Taylor, 5569.
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BROOKS Harold F.
A Bibliography of John Oldham, the Restoration Satirist. NEAR FINE COPY IN WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, on laid paper; original printed wrappers, yapped edges, uncut and largely unopened, covers a little dust-soiled else a near fine copy. Oxford Bibliographical Society, Proceedings & Papers, Vol. V Part I.
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PARTINGTON Wilfred
Thomas J. Wise in the original cloth. The Life and Record of the Forger of the Nineteenth-Century Pamphlets. With an Appendix by George Bernard Shaw.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 20 plates on12, and 7 facsimiles and an illustration in the text; pictorial buckram gilt, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dust-wprapper, the latter chipped at head and tail of backstrip and wanting a small piece from upper margin of lower cover. With the errata slip
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[Sale Catalogue of] The celebrated Library of Boies Penrose. Removed fom Barbados Hill, Devon, Pennsylvania. NEAR FINE COPY
2 vols., 4to., with folding coloured frontispiece, 16 plates (2 folding) and very numerous facsimiles (a number full-page and one folding) in the text; original boards, a near fine copy. A highly important collection of works on travel, exploration, navigation and trade.
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PIERRE BERES
Catalogue 53. Livres Romantiques et Modernes. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 8vo., with frontispiece and 6 other fine plates of splendid bindings, and numerous facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. The catalogue lists 445 notable items, including substantial holdings of Apollinaire, Balzac, Baudelaire, Colette, Flaubert, Hugo, Maupassant, Proust, Sand, Stendhal and Verlaine among many others.
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PLOMER Henry
Wynken De Worde and his Contemporaries from the Death of Caxton to 1535. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and 13 facsimiles (11 of which are full-page) in the text; minimal spotting on endpapers; boards, holland back, paper label, gilt top, covers very slightly age-marked else a bright, clean, crisp copy.
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GUTMANN Rudolf von
[Sale Catalogue of] Sammlung Rudolf von Gutmann. 2 April 1993. Sale Code: DONAU. FINE COPY WITH PRICE LIST
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous coloured and monochrome facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text; original pictorial boards, a fine copy. WITH THE PRINTED LIST OF PURCHASERS AND PRICES REALISED LOOSELY INSERTED. Comprises 121 outstanding lots, with introduction, list of references and index.
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MICHAEL JOSEPH Ltd
At the Sign of the Mermaid. Fifty Years of Michael Joseph.
Oblonf 4to., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and very numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations in the text; decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in original glassine wrapper, the latter a little frayed at edges.
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PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN
Catalogue of a Display of Printing Mechanisms and printed Materials arranged to illustrate the History of Western Civilisation and the Means of the Multiplication of literary Texts since the XVth Century.
8vo., with 49 plates (one in colour); original printed wrappers, a fine copy.
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THE TIMES
Past. Present. Future.. To celebrate Two Hundred Years of Publication.
4to., with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations and advertisements; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
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LAMBERT J.W.
The Bodley Head 1887 - 1987.
8vo., First Edition, with 31 plates and 16 illustrations on tinted stock; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dust wrapper. With the publisher's presentation bookplate on front free endpaper.
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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Oxford Publishing since 1478. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 8 plates; original pictorial wrappers in red and black, a near fine copy.
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BERNARD QUARITCH LTD
A Catalogue of Important and Rare Books of the Fine Arts. Catalogue 434. FINE COPY IN BUCKRAM
8vo., First Edition; strongly bound in green buckram, upper board letterd in gilt, ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a fine copy The catalogue lists over 3,164 items.
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HART C.
Charles Earl Stanhope and the Oxford University Press. Reprinted from Collectanea, 111, (1896) of the Oxford Historical Society with Notes by James Mosley.
8vo., with 6 plates on 3 and 6 illustrations (2 full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, a fine copy. Printing Historical Society, Publication No. 2
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BERNARD QUARITCH LTD
A Catalogue of Books on the Fine Arts, Music & Dancing (including a few Autographs). Catalogue 561. NEAR FINE COPY IN BUCKRAM
8vo., First Edition; strongly bound in red buckram, upper board lettered in gilt, ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a near fine copy. The catalogue lists over 1,314 items.
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FRANKLIN Colin
Poets of the Daniel Press. [First Paperback Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition thus; original printed wrappers, a fine copy. Includes Bridges, Watson Dixon, Mary Coleridge, Wedgwood, Buckton, Margaret Woods, Herbert Warren, Binyon, Bourdillon and Henry Patmore. Published simultaneously with the limited edition of 45 copies.
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RAYMOND Harold
Publishing and Bookselling. A Survey of Post-War Developments and Present-Day Problems. With a Foreword by Hugh R. Dent. [J.M. Dent Memorial Lecture 1938]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., Sole Edition; original marbled boards, gilt back, a very good, clean, crisp copy.
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RAYMOND Harold
Publishing and Bookselling. A Survey of Post-War Developments and Present-Day Problems. [Eighth Dent Memorial Lecture]. With a Foreword by Hugh R. Dent. NEAR FINE COPY IN ROAN
Sm. 8vo., First Edition; original half roan, marbled boards, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt top, covers lightly age-marked, small label scar on rear paste-down else a very good, clean copy.
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CURLE Richard
The Ray Society. A Bibliographical History.
8vo., with a portrait frontispiece and a plate; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy.
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ROBERTS W.
Rare Books and their Prices. With Chapters on Pictures, Pottery, Porcelain and Postage Stamps. Second Edition. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY
8vo., on laid paper, endpapers browned; original buckram gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a near fine copy. The first edition appeared earlier in the same year.
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RINGLER Jr W.A.
Bibliography of English Verse 1501-1558. Prepared and completed by Michael Rudick and Susan J. Ringlerg.
8vo., First Edition; cloth gilt, a fine copy. Ringler's sequel to 'Bibliography and Index of English Verse Printed 1476-1550' which appeard in 1988. The work was compiled over four decades and completed from the author's notes following his death in 1988.
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ROBINSON Ltd W. H.
Catalogue 77: A Selection of extremely rare and important Printed Books and ancient Manuscripts. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with fine sepia-toned frontispiece, very numerous sepia-toned facsimiles in the text and 2 splendid folding sepia-toned facsimiles; printed boards, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, crisp copy. Robinson catalogues from the immediate post-war period are acclaimed as much for their intrinsic production values as for their reflection of the last 'golden age' of rarities. No. 77 is no exception containing as it does no fewer than 194 outstanding items, including the first book printed in the English language - Caxton's History of Troy (1485) - a MS of Bede's Ecclesiastical History (c. AD 820), a broadside ballad from Virginia (1623) constituting the earliest known American verse and Hariot's Artis Analyticae Praxis (1631) - the fundamental work on algebraic equations. As usual the catalogue is compehensively indexed
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BRITISH LIBRARY
Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues. Volume 14. Hospitals, Towns and the Professions. Edited by N.L. Ramsay and J.M.W. Willoughby. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy. Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, vol. 14.
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NELSON J.G.
Elkin Mathews. Publisher to Yeats, Joyce, Pound.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and very numerous illustrations ands facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. The work contains a checklist of the Mathews imprint from 1894 to 1922.
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FLETCHER Ifan Kyrle
Edward Gordon Craig. A Bibliography. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece; original printed wrappers, a a near fine copy. A detailed and most useful bibliography.
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