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SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND WORKS OF THE LATE THOMAS BEWICK ... READ JUNE, 15, 1830. [Drop-title:]
Atkinson, George C.
Engraved plate showing bust of Bewick by Bailey. Very scarce. The earliest posthumous account of Bewick. Laid-down on the final leaf is a small broadside, with text noting the death of Bewick, his place of burial, and his descendants, set between two Bewick funereal vignettes. Removed from larger volume.
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GYSBRECHT VAN AEMSTEL D'ONDERGANG VAN ZIJN STAD EN ZIJN B...
by Vondel, I.V.
Text in Dutch. Limited, numbered (in Roman numerals) edition of 50 printed on Dutch paper. 435 copies, numbered in Arabic numerals, were also printed on English paper. This copy is one of the 50 on Dutch laid paper. No. 25 in the series "Trajectum ad Mosam." Frontispiece woodcut portrait by J. Franken Pzn. Initials by Alphonse Stols. Play by Ioost van den Vondel about a siege of Amsterdam in 1304, first produced in 1638. Two page prospectus and bookseller's description laid in. Coat of arms stamped on front wrapper, partly gilt. Wrappers warped and lightly soiled.
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