Two Tracts. Affrican and Mensola, an Elizabethan Prose Version of Il Ninfale Fiesolano by Giovanni Boccaccio and News and Strange Newes from St. Christophers by John Taylor the Water Poet
by ROXBURGHE CLUB
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About This Item
Printed for Presentation to Members of the Roxburghe Club, Oxford. 1946. 4to, facsimiles, with the bookplate of Viscount Esher and his name printed in red in the roll of members, title printed in red and black, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gilt, uncut, t.e.g. Presented by C.H. Wilkinson. Barker, 207.
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- Forest Books (GB)
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- 20860
- Title
- Two Tracts. Affrican and Mensola, an Elizabethan Prose Version of Il Ninfale Fiesolano by Giovanni Boccaccio and News and Strange Newes from St. Christophers by John Taylor the Water Poet
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- ROXBURGHE CLUB
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Printed for Presentation to Members of the Roxburghe Club, Oxford. 1946
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- Gilt
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- Morocco
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