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[BACON, NICOLAS, SIR.] The recreations of his age.
Oxford, Daniel [Press], 1903 (issued, 1919). Edition ltd. to 130 copies, 8vo, [8] & 40pp., title-page text enclosed within ornamental border & reproduction after portrait of Bacon mounted to inside back cover; in the original blue wrappers with title printed on front cover, the edges chipped, curling, & torn with repairs in acid-free tape attempted on inside covers, internally very good. A composite book, with the poems themselves being printed by Daniel in 1903, the title-page and preface at the Clarendon Press in 1919, following the printer's death and the discovery of these pages in his effects. Madan, no. 58.
Offered for US$ 187.50 by: Rulon-Miller Books ABAA/ILAB - Book number: 5893