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REPRODUCTION OF SOME OF THE ORIGINAL PROOF SHEETS OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.

   

- Buffalo : Privately printed by R.B. Adam for his friends 1923
- folio
- cloth-backed boards.
- (viii) pages followed by 63 full page facsimiles of the corrected proof sheets.
- Order Nr. 114856
- Price: $ 200.00



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With a superb three page introduction by A. Edward Newton dated October 16th, 1923 (Fleck D.11). No limitation given but a very small printing. About 100 pages with reproductions of many of the proof sheets along with Boswell's annotations. Adams was a noted Buffalo book collector whose collection was purchased by Donald and Mary Hyde. Covers stained along edges of covers and edges of preliminary and end pages.

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> ADAM, R.B.
> JOHNSON, SAMUEL
> NEWTON, A. EDWARD
> BOSWELL, JAMES
> FACSIMILES, EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

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PRIVATE INTERLUDE.
by O'mara, Michael

Numbered edition, signed on colophon by the author, this being number 16. Etchings from copper plates of personal romantic encounters. One etching loosely inserted in pocket on back pastedown which is signed. Accordion folded.




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