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SUPPRESSED COMMENTARIES ON THE WISEIAN FORGERIES ADDENDUM TO AN ENQUIRY.
Todd, William B.
Limited to 750 copies (Fleck D.41.A.1). This copy bears the following inscription on the front free endpaper "Of Twenty-Five advance copies, this one is presented 23.xi.1969 to Carolyn and Ernest on the occasion of our marriage, Ann Bowden Todd, Bill Todd" where Ann Bowden Todd has written in her name in a different shade of ink. Reprints a letter to Gabriel Wells from A. Edward Newton concerning Wise on pages 36-37. Covers faded.
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THE LIFE OF MR. THOMAS GENT, PRINTER, OF YORK WRITTEN BY ...
by Gent, Thomas
First edition. (Bigmore & Wyman I, 260). "A very interesting biography of a distinguished country printer. It contains also a number of details relative to the history of typography during the second half of the eighteenth century." Thorpe found this manuscript in an Irish collection he had purchased. Gent had written the manuscript in 1746, 32 years before his death at the age of 85. See Lowndes p.875 for further comment on this work. Cracked along back hinge. With an ink inscription on the front free endpaper "E.T. Mason, Feb. 1877" and a note by him stating that he had purchased this copy at the Hastie-Tracy sale 30c." Well preserved copy.
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