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(WOMEN.)Wainwright, J. M., Rev.
TheWomen of the Bible.
Steel-engraved
plates of female figures from Scripture after G. Staal, many hand-colored. Translated by
Mary Anne Peck. 4to, publisher’s gilt-pictorial red morocco with raised decorative panels,
extremeties worn, joints starting; scattered foxing *
Les Femmes de la Bible.
Earlier
French edition. Plates uncolored. 4to, publisher’s mauve cloth binding highly gilt in the
French style with green and red calf decorative onlays, moderately rubbed; scattered
foxing.Together, 2 volumes. NewYork and Philadelphia, 1849; Paris, 1846
[250/350]
A notable feature of the French edition is the addition of a frontispiece of a nude Eve holding her infant,
not present in theAmerican edition.The latter contains the first plate listed, of Hagar, as its frontispiece.
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WOOLF,VIRGINIA.
On Being
Ill.
8vo, publisher’s gilt-lettered
1
/
4
vellum;
preliminaries unopened, vignette byVanessa
Bell on final leaf; pictorial dust jacket by
Bell, edges and folds rubbed, light shelfwear,
short closed tear on lower front panel.
(London), 1930.
[2,000/3,000]
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION
,
NUMBER
24
OF
250
COPIES SIGNED BY WOOLF
and with the
type set by her.Woolmer 245.
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YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER.
Michael Robartes and the Dancer *
Dramatis Personae * New Poems.
Together, 3 First Limited Editions. Device on
titles, colophons printed in red.Each 8vo, linen
backed blue cloth boards, printed paper spine
labels, faint evidence from old binder’s glue to
endpaper gutters as is usually encountered,
unopened with discreet bookseller’s labels to
last blank (except first title); Norman J.
Sondheim bookplates. Each unnumbered, but
one of 400, 400, and 450 copies, respectively.
Cuala Press, 1920; 1935; 1938
[600/900]
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