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SUN, SEA & EARTH
Jefferies, Richard ; Clare, John ; Thomas, Edward ; Hanscomb, Brian
One of 100 copies (of 125 total) with 12 double leaves ( 8 leaves on toned laid hand-made paper & 4 leaves cream laid paper) folded at the fore-edge. Eight copper-engravings by Brian Hanscomb illustrate the text. There were a limited supply of the hand-made papers for the engravings, hence the preliminary and subsidiary leaves were printed on a different stock. Very scarce.
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BIBLIOTHECA STAFFORDIENSIS
by Simms, Rupert
Printed in an edition limited to 200 numbered copies (Besterman 5885). Bibliography of all "books and other printed matter relating to--printed or published in--or written by a native resident, or person deriving a title from--any portion of the county of Stafford." Many of the approximately 20,000 entries have detailed commentary. Rupert Simms (1854-1937) lost both hands and an arm at the age of eight but learned to write by inserting a pencil in a hole in the leather case he wore on his right arm. A secondhand bookseller by trade, he spent 11 years collecting and collating the information for this bibliography. Bookplate on front pastedown of Donald and Mary Hyde. Ink inscription on front pastedown by Henry Elwell, 1894. Elwell also signed the title page. Hinges, head and tail of spine worn. Corners rubbed. Both covers scuffed.
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