The Receipt Book of Elizabeth Raper And a portion of her Cipher Journal. Edited by her great-grandson the late Bartle Grant with a portrait and decorations by Duncan Grant. Written 1756-1770 and never before printed.

Raper, Elizabeth

Published by The Nonesuch Press Soho, 1924

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8vo. Limited edition. #363 of 850 copies. Rebound by Best & Co in full dark blue morocco with gilt flower emblems to the boards and spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Gilt dentelles. Printed by the Kynoch Press on wove paper. Leather faded around the edges of the boards and faded to brown on the spine which is rubbed and beginning to split to the top and bottom of the back joint. Corner tips rubbed. Endpapers foxed. Bookplate (of Evelyn Vere Boyle) on the front pastedown. Good +. Duncan Grant (1885-1978) was the son of Bartle Grant and, alone among the contributors to the Nonesuch Press, belonged to the original Bloomsbury Group. Smartly rebound but not well-preserved.

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Title
The Receipt Book of Elizabeth Raper And a portion of her Cipher Journal. Edited by her great-grandson the late Bartle Grant with a portrait and decorations by Duncan Grant. Written 1756-1770 and never before printed.
Author
Raper, Elizabeth
Publisher
The Nonesuch Press Soho
Publication year
1924
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition
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