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The Grolier Club - Catalogue of Original and Early Editions of Some of the Poetical and Prose Works of English Writers from Langland to Wither
New York, The Grolier Club, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Special Limited Edition of 400 copies only. With collations & Notes & 87 facsimile illustrations of title pages and frontispieces, "Being a contribution to the Bibliography of English Literature." Bound in brown weave cloth over boards, fine publisher's device in gilt to front cover, missing rear board, with a repaired, rebacked heavy brown paper cover over stiff card wraps at spine with paper title label, chip missing at rear panel bottom. Imperial octavo format. Front paste-down reinforced with paper tape. Rough-cut fore and bottom edges, to edge only lightly dust-soiled. Printed for the Grolier Club by the De Vinne Press. Colophone notes, "The Publication Committee of the Grolier Club certify that this copy is one of an edition of four hundred copies on Holland hand-made paper, and three copies on vellum, all of which were printed in the month of April, 1893." First edition. Preface from 1893 from the Committee, then a List of Facsimiles, then Collations and Notes, proper, and with many, many quite sharp and distinct facsimile pages, reproducing well the original attractions of the title pages. Easy to read, marvelous to look at. From the personal library of the noted Altadena, California bookseller and appraiser, Mr. Robert Allen, editor of the series devoted to Eighteenth Century Literature. xiii [1], 2-240 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 19 | £UK 16.25 | JP¥ 3158] Booknumber: 356035
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USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 19 | £UK 16.25 | JP¥ 3158] Booknumber: 356035
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Total: USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 19 | £UK 16.25 | JP¥ 3158]
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