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A CATALOGUE OF SEVERAL LIBRARIES, CONTAINING A CURIOUS COLLECTION OF NEAR FORTY THOUSAND VOLUMES, IN ALL LANGUAGES AND FACULTIES ... WILL BE SOLD ... THIS DAY, JANUARY 1780 ... .
ESTC online lists 2 copies, at BL and Bodley. Despite the erratic pagination, the text is continuous and conforms to the BL copy. The final 52 pages are a separate section devoted to pamphlets. With probable rodent damage affecting lower section of first seven leaves, portion of titlepage absent with loss of text, ditto Index leaf, part loss of text for the remaining 5 leaves - although all the entries are intelligible, there is similar but lesser damage to top edge, not affecting text.
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> BOOK SELLING, EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
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> PAYNE, THOMAS
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> from the inventory of Questor Rare Books
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> JOHN RYDER, DESIGNER & ART DIRECTOR FOR THE BODLEY HEAD AN EXHIBITION AT THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, 1974-75.
> Moll, June, BRITISH HERITAGE, EXHIBITION OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS AND ICONOGRAPHY FROM THE COLLECTIONS.
> THE BRITISH TRADITION ILLUSTRATED IN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, AUTOGRAPH AND ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, DRAWINGS AND PRINTED BOOKS..
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THE HATCHET THROWERS.
by Greenwood, James
First edition. Greenwood (1831-1926) was an English social critic, concerned about the plight of those in London's workhouses and the working poor. Frontispiece and thirty-six illustrations, tinted and drawn on wood by Ernest Griset, Edward Hodnett notes his "good animal and insect illustrations for each of the three far-fetched and sometimes offensive narratives by James Greenwood." See Hodnett, Five Centuries of English Book Illustration (Aldershot: Gower Publishing, 1988), 155-7. Marbled pastedowns and free endpapers. List of illustrations. Some scuffing at edges. Slipcase worn at edges.
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