UNIVERSAL CLASSIC MANUSCRIPTS: FAC-SIMILES FROM ORIGINALS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS BRITISH MUSEUM, OF ROYAL, HISTORIC AND DIPLOMATIC DOCUMENTS, LETTERS AND AUTOGRAPHS OF KINGS, QUEENS, PRINCES, STATESMEN, GENERALS, AUTHORS, ETC.
2 volumes
- Washington and London: M. Walter Dunne, n.d.
- folio
- original cloth
- unpaginated, with 150 facsimiles.
- ISBN: none
Price: $300.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 136365
This set is one of the Autograph edition de luxe, numbered "852" and signed by the Editorial Director Oliver H. Leigh. Heavy rubbing to the bindings of both volumes. Hinges and gutters are still sound. Corners rubbed. Special Introduction by S.M. Hamilton. Color printed limitation page in volume one and gilt illuminated title page in volume two. Each volume contains 75 large facsimiles of an autograph followed by a separate leaf with a transcription of the document and information concerning the author. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.