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DIALOGUE IN THE SHADES, RARE DOINGS AT ROXBURGHE HALL PRINTED IN 1819 AND NOW REPRINTED IN FACSIMILE WITH AN INTRODUCTION.
Beckford, William
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- N.P. : Claude Cox 1985
- 8vo.
- stiff marbled paper covers, paper cover label.
- (x) pages followed by the 18 page facsimile.
- Order Nr. 15786
- Price: $ 20.00
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Limited to 250 numbered copies. Reprint of this scarce humorous satire probably by William Beckford on the book-collecting mania in early England and especially the Roxburghe sale.
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APPLETONS' CYCLOPAEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.
by Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske (editors)
Reprint of the first edition. A well-preserved set of this very important biographical dictionary which supplements the DAB. Over 15,000 biographies given and are often accompanied by portraits or other illustrations and, of importance to the student of autographs, facsimiles of the subject's signature. Includes the names of several thousand eminent citizens of Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru, and all the other countries of North and South America. Sixty-one steel engraved portraits. Covers rubbed; slightly shaken.
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