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MEMORIALS OF CHRISTIE'S, A RECORD OF ART SALES FROM 1766 TO 1896.
Roberts, W.
2 volumes.
First edition. Detailed history of this auction firm and the important art sales that they had in addition to the book sales. With many separate plates and a number of illustrations in the text. Light cover rubbing. Private bookplate in each volume.
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PAPERMAKING IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND.
by Thomas, Peter and Donna
First edition, limited to 200 numbered copies. Reproduces diary entries written by John Evelyn and Celia Fiennes which record their visit to an English paper mill. These accounts are the only known records of how paper was being made in England in the 1600s. Contains an original sample of seventeenth century paper and a reproduction of brown paper. Printed by letterpress on handmade paper and illustrated with five linocuts by Donna Thomas.
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