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JOHN BASKERVILLE OF BIRMINGHAM LETTER-FOUNDER & PRINTER.
Pardoe, F.E.
First edition. A biography of the printer; color frontispiece. Part of the Ars Typographica series.
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A MASQUE OF LOVE.
by Wood, Charles Erskine Scott
One of five hundred copies printed at the Elston Press of New Rochelle, New York. (Ransom no. 20). Title page decorated with an arabesque bar and a small cherub. Initials of scene openings elaborately wood-engraved. Unopened, spine paper label soiled slightly, paper sides slightly soiled, slight foxing to first and last gatherings. Presentation from the author to Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard on the free endpaper. Mounted on the back pastedown is a small envelope containing a three-leaf letter from the author to Mr. Villard. The last book of the press. Some age darkening of covers around edges. Small ink ownership stamp on front pastedown.
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