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Donald and Mary Hyde created one of the nation's foremost private book collections at their beautiful Four Oaks Farm in New Jersey. The collection, housing an amazing number of rare books , manuscripts and art, is collecting on a grand scale only imaginable in the wildest fancies of most book collectors. Included in the Four Oaks Library are books and manuscripts from Samuel Johnson, Henry Fielding, James Boswell, Mrs. Thrale, valuable materials from other noteworthy 18th century authors, a collection of 18th century portraits, an Oscar Wilde collection, a collection of rare Japanese books, a George Bernard Shaw collection, a large selection of Elizabethan Books and Early Drama including a special portrait of Shakespeare. there are many fine bindings and curiosities of the binder's art, and a wide ranging collection of valuable autographs. It is such an array as to make one stop in wonder.
Offered here is the two volume limited edition set, "Four Oaks Farm" & "Four Oaks Library", edited by Gabriel Austin, and privately published in Somerville, New Jersey. Both volumes were issued in November 1967 : "Four Oaks Farm" in a limited run of 1,000 Copies, and "Four Oaks Library" in a limited run of 1,250 copies. The books were printed on Curtis Rag Paper by Clarke & Way at The Thistle Press. Both volumes are illustrated with photographs printed by the Meridian Gravure Company. (There are also a couple of maps of historical interest to the farm.) The binding was made by The Russell-Rutter Company, and the entire work was designed by P. J. Conkwright.
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TITLE : Four Oaks Farm - Four Oaks Library
AUTHOR : Mary Hyde, et al
EDITOR : Gabriel Austin
IMPRINT : Privately Published
PRINTER : Clarke & Way at the Thistle Press
ILLUSTRATIONS : Meridian Gravure Company
PLACE : Somerville, New Jersey
DATE : November 1967
SPECIAL ATTRIBUTES : Limited Print Run : "Four Oaks Farm", 1,000 Copies & "Four Oaks Library" 1,250 copies; set of 2 encased in a marbled slip-case.
STATUS : OP
PHYSICAL DETAILS : Both volumes have photographic illustrations; "Oak Farm" has a couple of maps. "Oak Library" has a number of photographs of hand-written manuscripts. "Oak Farm" : [vi] + 113 pages; "Oak Library" : xxii + 135 pages. Both volumes measure 6 1/8" x 9 1/4"; quarter-bound, gray paper-covered Boards and black cloth-covered spine with gilt lettering (on spine); marbled paper-covered slip-case. Both volumes, edited by Gabriel Austin, are comprised of a variety of essays by different authors. The "Oak Farm Library" includes a Bibliography.
CONDITION -- BOOKS : VERY GOOD - SLIP CASE : VERY GOOD - This is a previously owned set, with the following particulars noted ::
EXTERIOR -- Covers are clean and bright with negligible signs of handling; text-block edges have just a touch of weathering (or light foxing) - else the edges are clean.
BINDINGS -- Tight
INTERIOR -- In the Oak Farm Volume, on the Table of contents page, there are two minute fox dots or discolorations (these also transferred just slightly to the page opposite ) not egregious. Else the interiors are clean and free of marking.
SLIP CASE -- Solid with no splitting. Case fits snugly.
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