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THE OPENING OF THE NEW LIBRARY BY HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.

   

- Edinburgh : National Library of Scotland 1956
- large 8vo.
- stiff paper wrappers.
- 15+(1) with 8 pages of plates.
- Order Nr. 70724
- Price: $ 20.00



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The program from the opening of the New Library building at the National Library of Scotland. Includes a history of the library, phototgraphs, how the new library is arranged and the contractors. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. A full order of proceedings is loosely inserted along with a complimentary note from the librarian. Covers soiled with fading on back cover and bumped along the bottom edges.

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Limited to 450 copies.( Bishop 157-8). Reprint from the January 1850 issue of The Germ. Preface by the publisher. Ranson notes this work "was advertised as a 'facsimile reprint' of the Kelmscott Press edition, part of which was published in America by Way and Williams." Decorated initials and red marginal notes. Rebound, note binding information in Bishop 158 and note on free endpaper "with much love from the binder and Eva," dated Christmas 1902. Boards scuffed at edges and along spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.




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