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(BIBLIOGRAPHY.) Lowndes,WilliamThomas.
The Bibliographer’s Manual of
English Literature.
6 volumes. Small 8vo, later
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parchment-backed blue cloth, spines
gilt, morocco lettering pieces, moderate shelf wear, all edges stained yellow; contents clean;
unobtrusive tickets to rear pastedowns. Revised, corrected and enlarged edition. Includes
the one volume appendix not present in earlier editions containing information on books
produced by literary and scientific societies.
London: George Bell, 1883
[150/250]
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(BINDING.) Roscoe, William.
Life of Lorenzo de’ Medici, Called The
Magnificent.
Frontispiece portrait. 8vo, handsome all-over scrollwork with central medal-
lions on covers, raised bands, turn-ins, and full gilt and gauffered edges
BY RIVIERE
, very mild
rubbing to joints; early owner’s notes on endpaper.
London: Bogue, 1846
[200/300]
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BLAKE,WILLIAM. (Yeats,William Butler and Ellis, Edwin John, eds.)
The Works
of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic and Critical.
3 volumes. Frontispieces, numerous
illustrations and lithographed facsimiles, mostly in third volume. Partially unopened. Tall
8vo, original green cloth, spines and front covers elaborately decorated in pictorial gilt after
designs by Blake, top edges gilt, others uncut, minor finger-soiling, spine tips slightly
bumped.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893
[1,000/1,500]
FIRST EDITION
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ONE OF FIVE HUNDRED UNNUMBERED SETS
comprising the regular paper
issue. “The enthusiasm and comprehensiveness of this work are of considerable historical impor-
tance” (Bentley, p. 502).Wade 218.
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