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Lot 254
Sale 5132 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2017
5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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(Early Printing) 2 ...
(Early Printing) 2 Vols. Dibden, Thomas Frognall. An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics. London: William Nicol, Shakespeare Press, for Harding and Lepard. 1827. Fourth edition, 1/250 large paper copies. Large 8vo, contemporary full gilt-paneled red morocco, richly-gilt spine compartments, all edges gilt, inner dentelles gilt; re-backed original spines laid down. With engraved plate (foxed), and proof leaf from Pickering's miniature Greek Testament mounted on p. 166 of vol. 1. Complete with half titles. Internally generally clean. Bookplates of Benjamin Hicklin and Arthur Gale.