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GENESIS.
Limited to 20 copies (Peich 1). McCurdy's first published work. The 2nd and 3rd chapters of the book of Genesis in the Old Testament of the Bible. Bound in quarter blue patterned cloth and light blue-gray Fabriano paper boards. Handprinted on double-fold Japanese Masa paper by McCurdy. Pendle Press on colophon. The press's name was changed to Hillside Press, then the Penmaen Press, when McCurdy found other printers using the same names (Finding Aid, Penmaen Press records, Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs). Broadside "An Introductory Comment as to the Aims & Aspirations of the Hillside Press" laid in. Very rare. Also present is another version of this broadside in a different typographic arrangment with a pencil note that states that this version was not used. Cloth portion of boards stained. Paper portion of boards lightly faded at edges.
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THE ENGLISH, SCOTCH AND IRISH HISTORICAL LIBRARIES.
by Nicholson, W.
"A new edition, corrected." Dedicated to Thomas Watson Wentworth, the Earl of Marchmont, and Geroge Stacpoole. Three volumes in one (England, Scotland and Ireland), originally published separately 1696-9, 1702 and 1716, First published in one volume, 1736 (Watson II, 1612, 1795). "A new edition, corrected." Author William Nicholson (1655-1727) was Bishop of Carlisle. A basic bibliography of sources relating to the history of the British Isles. Indices and appendices. Boards scratched and worn at corners. Ex library copy including bookplate on front pastedown and embossed stamp with library name on the title page. Endpapers torn at edges.
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