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ÃSOPIC TWENTY-FOUR COUPLETS ... TO ACCOMPANY THE THOMAS BEWICK WOOD ENGRAVINGS FOR SELECT FABLES ...
by [Gehenna Press]: Hecht, Anthony
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, [1967].. [31]pp. Oblong octavo. Gray-green fabriano over boards. Illustrations printed from the original blocks. This copy shows no evidence of having had a spine label, otherwise fine. First edition. With a concluding essay by Philip Hofer, then the owner of the original blocks, "On Bewick's Blocks." From an edition of 500 copies printed on Arches by Harold McGrath at the Gehenna Press, this is one of an unknown number of out of series, with the manuscript denotation 'printer's copy' in Leonard Baskin's hand in place of a number in the colophon. Additionally, it is inscribed and signed on the colophon by Baskin, utilizing initials: "S. & J. from L 1970." BROOK 53. BASKIN 53.
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- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCLIT88855
- Title
- ÃSOPIC TWENTY-FOUR COUPLETS ... TO ACCOMPANY THE THOMAS BEWICK WOOD ENGRAVINGS FOR SELECT FABLES ...
- Author
- [Gehenna Press]: Hecht, Anthony
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Gehenna Press
- Place of Publication
- Northampton, MA
- Date Published
- [1967].
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization.
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