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London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1895. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine. 6 1/16" × 4 1/16" × 1". Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair: (two-volume set); by Morris, William (1834–1896). London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press. Printed by and sold by William Morris. 1895. Limited First Edition. First Printing. 16mo: 6 1/16" x 4 1/16" x 1" (15.4 x 10.3 x 2.5 cm). Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and paper title label. One of 600 [at fifteen shillings] paper copies (plus 12 [at four guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the first and second versions of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon in red. (6, blank), (iv), 256, (2, blank), (8, blank), (ii), 239, (3, blank) pp. Printed in black and red throughout in the Chaucer type designed by Morris for his press. Head-title, shoulder-notes, and colophon in red. Numerous 7- and 3-line woodblock initial capitals all…
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by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Sonnets and Lyrical Poems
by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
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London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. Limited First Edition. limp vellum. Fine. 8 3/16 5 13/16 1. Sonnets and Lyrical Poems; by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press. Printed by and sold by William Morris. 1894. Limited First Edition. First Printing. 8vo: 8 3/16" x 5 13/16" x 1" (20.8 x 14.8 x 2.5 cm). Bound in publisher's original limp vellum by J. & J. Leighton, with silk ties supplied by Morris & Co., with gilt titles to spine. One of 310 [at two guineas] paper copies (plus 6 [at ten guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper, with yapped edges. Uncut. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). [viii] (blanks), xii, 197, [7] (blanks) pp. Printed in black and red throughout in the Golden type designed by Morris. Head-title and shoulder-notes in red. Woodcut frontispiece title within a floral border, and facing page with full woodcut floral page-border (borders 1a and 1). Border 1a was engraved for this book as a pair to the first of the 8vo borders used in the first, second, fourth and later publications of the press. One 10-line, numerous 6- and one 4-line woodblock initial capitals designed by Morris for his press, engraved by William Harcourt Hooper. [Peterson A20a.] A fine copy. Top edge dusty. Text is clean and tight. Ornate lithograph bookplate of Philadelphia lithographer and printer John Louis Ketterlinus, on front free endpaper. Condition overall: Fine.
- Bookseller MRM Books (US)
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- Publisher Kelmscott Press
- Place of Publication London/Hammersmith
- Date Published 1894
- Size 8 3/16 5 13/16 1
- Keywords William Morris, collectable, Kelmscott Press, First Edition, Fine Press, rare, Private Press, colophon
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Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair: (two-volume set)
by Morris, William (1834–1896)
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Sire Degrevaunt
by anonymous
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London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1897. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 8 5/16" × 5 5/8" × 1/2". Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Sire Degrevaunt; by anonymous. Edited by Frederick Startridge Ellis, after the edition printed by J.O. Halliwell, from the Cambridge manuscript, with some additions and variations from the THORNTON ROMANCES manuscript, in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral. Illustrated by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press. Printed by and sold by William Morris. 1897. Limited First Edition. First Printing. 8vo: 8 5/16" x 5 5/8" x 1/2" (21.1 x 14.3 x 1.3 cm). Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and black titles to cover. One of 350 [at fifteen shillings] paper copies (plus 8 [at four guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device…
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The Floure and the Leafe; and the Boke of Cupide, God of Love, or the Cuckow and the Nightingale
by Clanvowe, Sir Thomas
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London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine. 9 7/16" × 6 7/16" × 5/16". The Floure and the Leafe; and the Boke of Cupide, God of Love, or the Cuckow and the Nightingale; by Clanvowe, Sir Thomas. Edited by Frederick Startridge Ellis. London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press. Printed by and sold by William Morris. 1896. Limited First Edition. First Printing. Medium 4to: 9 7/16" x 6 7/16" x 5/16" (24 x 16.4 x .8 cm). Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and black titles to cover. One of 300 [at ten shillings] paper copies (plus 10 [at two guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the Apple watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). [viii, blank], [ii], 47, [iii, blank] pp. Printed in black and red throughout in the Troy type, with the “Note" and "Colophon" in the Chaucer type, both types…
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Maud. A Monodrama
by Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
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London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Good+. 8 5/16" × 5 11/16" × 1/2". Maud. A Monodrama; by Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press. Printed by William Morris, and published by Macmillan & Co., Bedford Street, Strand. 1893. Limited First Edition. First State. 8vo: 8 5/16" x 5 11/16" x 1/2" (21.1 x 14.4 x 1.3 cm). Bound in custom hardcover full leather with tooled design. One of 500 [at two guineas] paper copies (plus 5 [not for sale] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). All edges gilt. [iv], 69, [70, imprint] pp. Printed in black and red throughout with the Golden type designed by Morris for his press, with stanza numbers in red. Woodcut title within a floral border, facing page with full woodcut floral page-border (borders 10a and 10). Numerous other floral edge borders at…
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A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press: Together with a Short Description of the Press by S.C. Cockerell, & an Annotated List of the Books Printed Thereat
by Morris, William (1834–1896); Cockerell, S.C
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London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1898. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine. 8 1/4" × 5 5/8" × 7/16". Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press: Together with a Short Description of the Press by S.C. Cockerell, & an Annotated List of the Books Printed Thereat; by Morris, William (1834–1896); Cockerell, S.C. Illustrated by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press. Printed by William Morris and sold by the Trustees of the late William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. 1898. Limited First Edition. First Printing. 8vo: 8 1/4" x 5 5/8" x 7/16" (21 x 14.3 x 1.1 cm). Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and black titles to cover. One of 525 [at ten shillings] paper copies (plus 12 [at two guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the…
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Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair: (two-volume set)
by Morris, William (1834–1896)
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London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1895. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine. 6 1/16" × 4 1/16" × 1". Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair: (two-volume set); by Morris, William (1834–1896). London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press. Printed by and sold by William Morris. 1895. Limited First Edition. First Printing. 16mo: 6 1/16" x 4 1/16" x 1" (15.4 x 10.3 x 2.5 cm). Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and paper title label. One of 600 [at fifteen shillings] paper copies (plus 12 [at four guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the first and second versions of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon in red. (6, blank), (iv), 256, (2, blank), (8, blank), (ii), 239, (3, blank) pp. Printed in black and red throughout in the Chaucer type designed by Morris for his press. Head-title, shoulder-notes, and colophon in red. Numerous 7- and 3-line woodblock initial capitals all…
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The Floure and the Leafe; and the Boke of Cupide, God of Love, or the Cuckow and the Nightingale
by Clanvowe, Sir Thomas
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London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine. 9 7/16" × 6 7/16" × 5/16". The Floure and the Leafe; and the Boke of Cupide, God of Love, or the Cuckow and the Nightingale; by Clanvowe, Sir Thomas. Edited by Frederick Startridge Ellis. London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press. Printed by and sold by William Morris. 1896. Limited First Edition. First Printing. Medium 4to: 9 7/16" x 6 7/16" x 5/16" (24 x 16.4 x .8 cm). Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and black titles to cover. One of 300 [at ten shillings] paper copies (plus 10 [at two guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the Apple watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). [viii, blank], [ii], 47, [iii, blank] pp. Printed in black and red throughout in the Troy type, with the “Note" and "Colophon" in the Chaucer type, both types…
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The Tale of the Emperor Coustans; and Of Over Sea: Done out of Ancient French by William Morris
by Morris, William (1834–1896) (translator)
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London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Very Good+. 5 13/16" × 4 1/8" × 3/4". The Tale of the Emperor Coustans; and Of Over Sea: Done out of Ancient French by William Morris; by Morris, William (1834–1896) (translator). London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press. Printed by and sold by William Morris. 1894. Limited First Edition. First Printing. 16mo: 5 13/16" x 4 1/8" x 3/4" (14.8 x 10.5 x 1.9 cm). Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and black titles to cover. One of 525 [at seven shillings and sixpence] paper copies (plus 20 [at two guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the Perch watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon. [iv], 130 pp. Printed in black and red throughout in the Chaucer type designed by Morris for his press. Woodcut frontispiece title within a floral border, and facing page with full woodcut floral page-border (borders 11a and 11). Numerous 7,…
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Gothic Architecture: A Lecture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
by Morris, William (1834–1896)
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London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 5 13/16" × 4 1/16" × 3/8". Gothic Architecture: A Lecture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society; by Morris, William (1834–1896). London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press. Printed by and sold by William Morris. 1893. Limited First Edition. First State. 16mo: 5 13/16" x 4 1/16" x 3/8" (14.8 x 10.3 x 1 cm). Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and black titles to cover. One of 500 [of a total run of 1,500, at two shillings and sixpence] paper copies (plus 45 [at ten and fifteen shillings] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon. [ii], 1, [i] 68, [viii] pp. Printed in black and red throughout in the Golden type designed by Morris for his press. Head-title and shoulder-notes in red. Numerous 6- and 4-line woodblock initial capitals all designed…
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Psalmi Penitentiales
by transcribed and edited by F.S. Ellis
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London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Very Good+/N/A. 8 7/16" × 5 11/16" × 3/8". Psalmi Penitentiales; by transcribed and edited by F.S. Ellis. Edited by Frederick Startridge Ellis. London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press. Printed by William Morris. 1894. Limited First Edition. First Printing. 8vo: 8 7/16" x 5 11/16" x 3/8" (21.4 x 14.4 x 1 cm). Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and paper title label. One of 300 [at seven shillings and sixpence] paper copies (plus 12 [at three guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). [ii] (blank), 63, [ii] (blank) pp. Printed in black and red throughout with the Chaucer type designed by Morris for his press. Head-titles in red. Numerous three-quarter woodcut ornamental borders…
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Printing Digital Type on the Hand-Operated Flatbed Cylinder Press
by Lange, Gerald
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- 9781633980709 / 1633980707
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Chatwin Books, 2018. Trade Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" New!
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PRIVATE PRESS.|THE
by Cave, Roderick
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New York: Watson - Guptill, 1971. cloth, dust jacket. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 376 pages. First U.S. edition. Jacket lightly soiled, else a fine copy. Traces the development of the private press over the last 500 years. 83 figures in the text and 72 plates. Better printed than the second edition and containing some material not present in the first edition and thus still desirable.
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The Eye of Heaven: a Narrative Poem
by Efird, Susan
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Abattoir Editions, 1982. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. One of 150 numbered copies printed by Harry Duncan; this being #84. 9.25 X 12 inches. 40pp., bound in tan wraps with mounted cream printed paper label wrapping around the spine and front cover. Letterpress printed on Japanese Etching paper, from Poliphilus, Blado, and Fournier Ornate types; with 2 woodblock prints by Michael McCurdy. Faint dampstaining to the text margins of the fore-edge, else Very Good.
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Nomi no Kai
by Minegishi, Shinsuke
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Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, 2006. Limited Edition. Wraps. Fine. [4]pp. Black & white frontispiece by Shinuske Minegishi, reproduced from the original engraving. One of 75 copies (from an edition of 100, signed and numbered by Minegishi). Designed by Rollin Milroy and printed by David Clifford at his Black Stone Press. Sewn into a Canson paper wraps. A Fine copy. // A previously unpublished essay by the artist, paying homage to a group of six Japanese wood engravers 'who were responsible for reviving the art form in that country'. Published to accompany the artist's first solo exhibition in the United States, at Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, November 2006.
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The First Ten: A Penmaen Press Bibliography
by Peich, Michael; Michael McCurdy
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Lincoln: Penmaen Press, 1978. First Edition, one of 500 copies printed. This copy SIGNED by McCurdy twice, at Title and Afterword. Woodcuts by McCurdy. Bibliographically describes all Penmaen Press books, broadsides and ephemera 1968-1978, with additional items. Includes 16 pp. of photographs of contributors: Peich, McCurdy, Lynd Ward, Allen Ginsberg and others. A demonstrable work of love. 9½ x 6½.. Near Fine original blue cloth-covered boards blind stamped with gilt lettering to spine in like dust jacket.
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Germinal
by Emile Zola
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Longmont, Colorado, United States
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The Easton Press, The Collector's Library of Famous Editions, 1992 (1942). First Thus; Collector's Edition. Translated by Havelock Ellis. Illustrated by Berthold Mahn. Hardcover. Issued without dust jacket. Used - Fine, "Like New" condition. Appears unopened / unread. Binding and text block are tight, bright, and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Bound in full (genuine) leather with hubbed spine. All edges gilt. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints, silk moire fabric end leaves, and permanent satin ribbon marker. Notes From The Archives sheet laid in. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books. A gorgeous copy.
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The Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes (Signed, Limited Edition in Slipcase)
by Faith Jaques; Zena Sutherland
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London: Orchard Books, September 1990. Hardcover. Signed Limited Edition. Quarter-bound in dark grey cloth with dove grey sides. Silver titles and top edge. Silver silk ribbon marker. Illustrated endpapers. Dove grey slipcase. Presentation copy of a Limited Edition of 250 copies. Flat-signed by illustrator Faith Jaques, the noted children's book author, illustrator, artist, and advocate. Fine book in a Near Fine slipcase. Not from a library. 88 pages. Profusely illustrated.
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Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands, 1800-1804: With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C.-A. Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France
by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur; Nicolas-Martin Petit; Jacqueline Bonnemains (ed); Elliott Forsyth (ed); Bernard Smith (ed)
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- 9780195547870 / 019554787X
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Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and…
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Catalogue of the Private Collection of Paintings Belonging to Peter A. Schemm Philadelphia, PA
by [SCHEMM, Peter A.]
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Philadelphia: [privately printed] Beck Engraving Company, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Small quarto, unpaginated. Hundreds of black and white halftone plates, depicting the various paintings. On the opposite leaves, printed in red ink, are the painting titles and artists. A front blank contains a tipped-in photograph of Schemm, surrounded by his bounty of paintings. A crisp, clean copy in the publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt. Very minor dust-soiling to the cloth, and an owner's name on the front free endpaper, else a rather crisp, sharp example; near fine. A very nice production.
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A Song About Major Eatherly
by Wain, John
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Iowa City, Iowa: Qara Press, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine -. Baasch, Norman. [16] p.: 2 linoleum cuts; 27 cm. Original light blue paper over boards with white paper label on front board, printed in black. "Printed by Gerald M. Stevenson, Jr. on Curtis Rag paper with linoleum cuts by Norman Baasch. Of an edition limited to 190 cpies, this is copy 25." -- colophon. This poem first appeared in The Listener on Aug. 6, 1959. Major Claude R. Eatherly was one of the pilots involved in the atomic bombing of Japan in World War II. In Near Fine- Condition: cover lightly soiled; pages are clean and crisp.
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