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Lot 75
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$100 -
200
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$75
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Lot Description
[FINE PRESS & LIVRE D'ARTISTE]. -- [NONESUCH PRESS]. FONTENELLE, Bernard le Bovier de (1657-1757). A Plurality of Worlds. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929.
8vo. Headpieces printed in color and gold, title-page printed in red and black. Original limp vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (slight soiling); original slipcase (some wear to extremities).
LIMITED EDITION, number 332 of 1,200 copies, designed by Francis Meynell, printed at the Curwen Press; described by Meynell to Bennett Cerf at Random House as "a little peach of a book."