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Dreyfus, John - William Caxton and His Quincentenary

Title: William Caxton and His Quincentenary
Description: San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1976. 12mo. 54 pp. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt title and spine. Very good. IMostly black and red text. Includes color frontispiece of reproduction of illustration from Caxton's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses and overleaf of colophon from The lyf of the holy & blessid vyrgyn saynt Wenefryde, printed by Caxton in 1458. Designed by Abe Lerner and printed in the year of the Caxton Quincentenary. Limited to 700 copies for typographers and 400 copies for the Book Club of California. Number 152 of 400 copies for the Book Club of California. A receipt from The Book Club of California is inserted into the pages. From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner, Jr. founder of Gale Research, Detroit. .

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Price: US$ 50.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 19-9697

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