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TYPOGRAPHIA NATURALIS.
Cave, Roderick and Geoffrey Wakeman

- Wymondham : Brewhouse Press 1967 - 4to. - quarter leather over boards, impression of nature printed leaf on front cover. - 37 pages with five tipped-in plates. - Order Nr. 118394 - Price: $ 450.00

First edition, limited to 333 numbered copies. History of printing illustrations for natural history books and others directly from the specimens described, i.e., Nature Printing. Chapters on "Early Nature Printing," "The Nineteenth Century," "Postscript: The Twentieth Century." With reproductions of three early specimens and two actual nature prints executed by Rigby Graham and Morris Cox. With prospectus and invoice to former owner loosely inserted.

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JACOB'S ROOM by Woolf, Virginia First edition (Kirkpatrick A6). With 14 pages of advertisements. Cover soiled, paper cover label chipped. Corners and edges bumped. Cloth worn at corners. Minor library markings on the front pastedown. Pencil notations on rear pastedown. Inside hinges cracked but solid.