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MACROCOSMOS, A POEM
Laver, James
Limited to 775 copies, numbered and signed by the author, of which 750 were for sale. Printed by W.A. Lewis at the Cambridge University Press. With a pictorial design on the front cover from a woodcut by Percy Smith. James Laver (1899-1975), in a widely varied career, won the Newdigate prize for verse at Oxford in 1921, wrote Nostradamus or The Future Foretold (1942), Taste & Fashion, A History of English Costume (1937), books on 19th century French art, and was Keeper of the Victoria and Albert museum for almost forty years. Half-title and final page discolored from offset.
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CEYLON.
by Goonetileke, H.A.I.
(Toomey 181). No. 5 in Bibliotheca Asiatica series. Foreword by J.D. Pearson of the School for Oriental and African Studies, University of London. The author was Deputy Librarian at the University of Ceylon. Preface and introduction by the author. Includes listing of principal libraries used, selected list of bibliographical sources, listing of abbreviations used for periodicals, and "plan of the classification." Index of authors, includes listing of corporate publishers and anonymous works. Ex library with markings. Endpapers tanned.
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