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... binding I am indebted to the papers of the late Mr. Sanders of Oxford . Other obligations I have acknowledged in the notes . ATHENÆUM CLUB , September 1886 . CONTENTS . OF THE MAZARIN BIBLE · · CONCERNING THE vi Preface .
... binding I am indebted to the papers of the late Mr. Sanders of Oxford . Other obligations I have acknowledged in the notes . ATHENÆUM CLUB , September 1886 . CONTENTS . OF THE MAZARIN BIBLE · · CONCERNING THE vi Preface .
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... BINDING AND ITS CURIOSITIES CURIOSITIES OF PRINTING OF GRANGERISING AND DICKENSIANA OF ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND EDITIONS " OF THE AUCTION - ROOM • PAGE I 17 32 47 • 67 82 • 99 136 168 • " LUXURIOUS OF THE SHAKESPEARE FOLIOS AND QUARTOS · L ...
... BINDING AND ITS CURIOSITIES CURIOSITIES OF PRINTING OF GRANGERISING AND DICKENSIANA OF ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND EDITIONS " OF THE AUCTION - ROOM • PAGE I 17 32 47 • 67 82 • 99 136 168 • " LUXURIOUS OF THE SHAKESPEARE FOLIOS AND QUARTOS · L ...
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... bindings , his russia leather , his rare editions , his illuminated missals , his black letters , his manuscripts , his breviaries and psalters . He declares that he sells everything , and never refuses an order . Each of these rooms ...
... bindings , his russia leather , his rare editions , his illuminated missals , his black letters , his manuscripts , his breviaries and psalters . He declares that he sells everything , and never refuses an order . Each of these rooms ...
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... binding , will to a certainty survive to the end of the world . " A little volume might be written on these now famous books , and it must be confessed that there is a sort of flavour of romance attached to them . This grand book — the ...
... binding , will to a certainty survive to the end of the world . " A little volume might be written on these now famous books , and it must be confessed that there is a sort of flavour of romance attached to them . This grand book — the ...
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... binding , with clasps and bosses . " It was styled " Mazarin " from the first discovery of a copy in Cardinal Mazarin's library . It is printed in double columns , in large letters , much like those used in the Missals . contemplating ...
... binding , with clasps and bosses . " It was styled " Mazarin " from the first discovery of a copy in Cardinal Mazarin's library . It is printed in double columns , in large letters , much like those used in the Missals . contemplating ...
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