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Published by Jonathan Cape and the Medici Soc, 1929
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback, with some spine wear and colouring of page edges due to age. Still very useable. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Published by Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society Ltd, London, 1920
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by W. Russell Flint (illustrator). First Edition Thus. First Printing. Two hardcover volumes. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spines, intricate gilt panels on covers with title in coats-of-arms surrounded by embossed gilt patterns, fore and bottom-edges deckle, t.e.g. Illustrated with 36 exquisite color plates by W. Russell Flint. Printed by R. & R. Clark, Ltd., Edinburgh. Includes Caxton's preface to the original (1485) edition, a Bibliographical Note by the editor, A. W. Pollard; a Glossary, and Index. This edition was first printed in the Riccardi Press Books, Extra Crown Quarto, 1911; and is now reprinted in Small Crown Quarto, 1920. [Gaines A16.a.2]. . Slight edge-wear, former owner's name on ffep ("Rena J. White"), some pencilled bibliographic notes on ffep, front hinge just starting in Volume II only, else fine. NEAR FINE. A beautiful set. Riccardi Press Books Series. Color Illustrations. Small Crown 4to. xxx, 439; xxii, 531 pp.