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Bookplates from Mussett's Heraldic Office, with a Note on Their Forerunners
by Lee, B.N
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Copy XIII numbered and signed by the author on the limitation page. The subscriber's copy of Peter M. Scott, whose pencil si
- ISBN 10
- 0951724770
- ISBN 13
- 9780951724774
- Seller
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LONDON, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Bookplate Society and the Apsley House Press, Edgbaston, first de luxe edition, 1994. De luxe version - one of 20 special numbered copies with a tipped-in original proof plate, from a limited edition of 370 copies. Cloth (printed wrappers bound in), gilt spine-title, 8vo,. 80 pp, 22 plates and tipped-in plate. . 508 entries. The de luxe version, limited to 20 copies for subscribers. The catalogue " includes all ex-libris, signed and unsigned, in the Mussett archive ascribable to the firm, together with signed examples from other sources, including those cited in the introduction". Copy XIII numbered and signed by the author on the limitation page. The subscriber's copy of Peter M. Scott, whose pencil signature is on the front free endpaper and his elegant bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper. Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Wykeham Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIBLIO-58562
- Title
- Bookplates from Mussett's Heraldic Office, with a Note on Their Forerunners
- Author
- Lee, B.N
- Format/Binding
- Cloth (printed wrappers bound in), gilt spine-title, 8vo,
- Book Condition
- Used - Copy XIII numbered and signed by the author on the limitation page. The subscriber's copy of Peter M. Scott, whose pencil si
- Edition
- De luxe version - one of 20 special numbered copies with a tippe
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0951724770
- ISBN 13
- 9780951724774
- Publisher
- The Bookplate Society and the Apsley House Press, Edgbaston, first de luxe edition, 1994
- Date Published
- 1994
- Pages
- 80 pp, 22 plates and tipped-in plate.
- Keywords
- Mussett's Heraldic Office Mussett (Family) Bookplates, British - Catalogues Mussett, William, 1838-1923 Mussett, Albert Alfred, 1864-1940 Bookplates, English - s Heraldic bookplates - Catalogs Book plates ex libris Lee, Brian North ; Bookplate, Societ
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- Bookplates;
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About the Seller
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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