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THE BOOK IN ITALY DURING THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES shown in facsimile reproductions from the most famous printed volumes - 1928

by Orcutt, William Dana

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London: George G. Harrap & Company Ltd, 1928. Collected under the auspices of the Royal Italian Minster of Instruction, together with an Introduction by Dott. Comm. Guido Biagi, late librarian of the Royal Medicean Laurentian Library, Florence. Explanatory text and comment by William Dana Orcutt. Pp. 220+[2](colophon, verso blank), 3 hand-tipped coloured plates, plus 96 black & white plates (some with multiple images, all plates within pagination), text illustrations, bibliography; roy. 4to; qr. vellum, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, blue papered boards, fore-corners bruised; t.e.g., others uncut; dust wrapper, lightly soiled, edges slightly rubbed and split, the front flap fold silverfished, backstrip browned; endpapers slightly marked, a few tiny edge chips; George G. Harrap & Company Ltd., London, 1928. First edition, being one of 750 numbered copies for England (total edition 762). *From the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label on upper pastedown, above the earlier bookplate of Australian bookseller and bibliophile Harry Muir.
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