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CATALOGUE OF THE FIFTY MANUSCRIPTS & PRINTED BOOKS BEQUEATHED TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM BY ALFRED H. HUTH.

   

- London : Printed for the Trustees 1912
- small folio.
- cloth, top edge gilt.
- xvi, 130 pages.
- Order Nr. 33505
- Price: $ 250.00



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Frontispiece portrait of Huth, introduction by F.G. Kenyon along with much text and illustrations including 18 separate plates done in collotype. Printed letterpress by Horace Hart at the University Press. Former library book from the Gloucestershire County Libraries with bookplate and pocket mounted on free endpaper. Paper label on spine.

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