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The first crusade: the deeds of the Franks and other Jerusalemites . translated into English for the first time by Somerset de Chair. Engravings by Clifford Webb.
London, 1945. Edition limited to 500 copies, this 1/400 in half vellum over orange buckram-covered boards, small folio, pp. 92, [1]; 5 full-p. wood engravings, vignette title and initial capital; generally fine. Cockalorum 168: "I must admit that the production of this book gives me great pleasure, and I can find no fault with it - although one miserable critic, who likes a dismal gray page set in small type sparsely inked and weakly leaded, complained that the inking was too black! In my experience, the scarcely perceptible nimbus along the edges of type printed on dampened, hand-made paper is as charming as it is in the correct printing of line engravings in copper" (Christopher Sandford).
Offered for US$ 312.50 by: Rulon-Miller Books ABAA/ILAB - Book number: 9701