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AbeBooks Seller since July 8, 1998
About this Item
IX/12 COPIES (from an edition 16 copies), using the sheets of the original Litany printed in 1949, in black, red and blue on Handmade Vellum Parchment paper by Dixon & Roe, the prelims and colophon printed on Batchelor's Kelmscott handmade paper, this copy additionally inscribed in pencil and the colophon by the printer, John Randle, pp. [x], [12], 4to, original quarter vellum binding by James Brockman, backstrip lettered in gilt, tips of red morocco and boards of paste paper by Victoria Hall, edges untrimmed, bookplate to front pastedown, board slipcase with printed label, note from the printer on Press headed paper laid in, fine. The introduction is by one of the work's original printers, Henry Ball; in his history of the Press, Richard Russell considers this one of 'the four or five most ambitious and successful books printed at Marlborough. Seller Inventory # 74411
Bibliographic Details
Title: THE MARLBOROUGH LITANY.
Publisher: The Whittington Press
Publication Date: 1998
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