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FLOSCULI SENTENTIARUM PRINTER FLOWERS MORALISED
by [Gehenna Press]: [Roylance, Dale (afterword)]
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
[Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1967].. [31]pp. Small folio (29.5 x 21 cm). Quarter vellum and marbled boards, edges untrimmed. Printed in black and colors. Slight natural mottling to the vellum, otherwise about fine. First edition, regular issue, of this handsome presentation of many of Bruce Rogers' printer's ornaments then recently acquired for the Printing Office in the Yale University Library. The entire edition consisted of 250 copies printed by Harold McGrath on French handmade paper in Rogers' Centaur type. Fifty copies, numbered in Roman, were bound by Arno Warner in full leather, and 200 numbered ordinary copies bound as here. This is designated as copy 'lll' and is inscribed by the Baskins on the colophon: " ... with the affectionate regard of Lisa & Leonard 1967." BASKIN 51. BROOK 51.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCLIT88856
- Title
- FLOSCULI SENTENTIARUM PRINTER FLOWERS MORALISED
- Author
- [Gehenna Press]: [Roylance, Dale (afterword)]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Gehenna Press
- Place of Publication
- [Northampton, MA
- Date Published
- 1967].
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William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
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About William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
Since 1975, William Reese Company has served a large international clientele of collectors and private and public institutions in the acquisition of rare books and manuscripts and in collection development.
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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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- Fine
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- Inscribed
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- Edges
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- Folio
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- First Edition
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- Vellum
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- Marbled boards
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- A.N.
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