Horace Walpole. A Memoir With an Appendix of Books Printed at the Strawberry Hill Press. With Illustrations by Percy and Leon Moran
by WALPOLE (Horace). DOBSON (Austin):
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1890. LIMITED EDITION. Large 8vo, 250 x 170 mms., pp. 370, frontispiece, illustrations, headpieces, uncut (some leaves unopened), original cloth (cream spine, blue boards); spine faded and sunned. No. 399 of 425 copies: "This edition, consisting of 4 copies on vellum, 5 copies on Van Gelder paper, 50 copies on Japan paper, 425 copies on Dickinson paper, was printed from type in the month of October, 1890. Theo. S. DeVinne & Co."
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- Bookseller
- John Price Antiquarian Books (GB)
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- 6132
- Title
- Horace Walpole. A Memoir With an Appendix of Books Printed at the Strawberry Hill Press. With Illustrations by Percy and Leon Moran
- Author
- WALPOLE (Horace). DOBSON (Austin):
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1890
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- biography printing literature
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- biography;
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