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JOSEPH ARNOLD FOSTER, PRINTER
Harmsen, Tyrus G.
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- Pasadena, CA : Juniper Press 1998
- 12mo.
- quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label
- vii, 13 pages with 23 pages of type specimens and miscellany, and (2) pages
- Order Nr. 101285
- Price: $ 350.00
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Limited to 60 copies printed by the author on Barcham Green Georgian paper and 20 on Mohawk, this being one of the 20 on Mohawk. With an introduction and bibliography. Contains 25 type specimens, six pages of different borders, and five pages of miscellany (florets and mignonettes). Laid-in is a sheet by a book shop with a description of this book by the owner.
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KEW GARDENS
by Woolf, Virginia
Third English edition, limited to 500 numbered copies (Woolmer 155; Kirkpatrick A3c). Published November 1927; the British Museum copy is dated 17 November 1927 (Kirkpatrick). Illustrated by Vanessa Bell. Brief novel set in the luxuriant flora of Kew Gardens. Front board decorated azure blue, lime-green and milk-chocolate brown. Title page also milk-chocolate brown. Text, on recto of leaf only, is surrounded by black and white illustrations by Bell. Printed and engraved by Herbert Reiach, Limited. Spine rebacked. Boards soiled and stained, slightly worn at edges. Pencil notations on back pastedown. Slight tanning.
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