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ONE OF ONLY 9 HAND-ILLUMINATED COPIES
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(ALCUIN PRESS.) Cavendish, George.
The Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey
the Great Cardinal of England.
Hand-illuminated in gold and colors by Mabel Scriven.
4to, gilt-pictorial polished red calf, extremities lightly rubbed. Norman J. Sondheim book-
plate.
Chipping Camden, 1930
[600/900]
NUMBER
6
OF ONLY
9
COPIES HAND
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ILLUMINATED WITH INITIALS
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HEAD
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AND TAIL
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PIECES BY MABEL SCRIVEN
from a total edition of 325.
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(ALLEN PRESS.)
The Book of Genesis.
Printed in brown, teal, and orange on
all-rag paper hand-made in Italy, printed damp on an 1846 Columbian handpress. 24
engraved illustrations by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Folio, hand-blocked cloth by Fortuny,
Venice, in an Iranian design; endpapers faded from binding glue as usual; slipcase; prospec-
tus laid in. Norman J. Sondheim bookplate.
ONE OF
140
UNNUMBERED COPIES
.
Kentfield, 1970
[500/750]
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Public Auction Sale 2269 Febr uar y 23, 2012 1:30 pm
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