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Altre immaginiEditore: The Woodstock Press, London, 1933
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Da: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, Nuova ZelandaRenaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. 50 x 10mm damage at margin of front board, with cloth torn and piece of board of these dimensions broken. A 25mm tear at head of front joint. Previous owner's name label on front endpaper.; An edition of 750 copies, this copy unnumbered. 288 pages. Black cloth boards with gilt l…ettering on spine. Page dimensions: 224 x 141mm. Subtitled: "Being Sketches of Bookworms, Collectors, Bible Students, Scribes and Illuiminators, from the Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods, to the Introduction of Printing into England; with Anecdotes illustrating the History of the Monastic Libraries of Great Britain in the Olden Time". "A New and Revised Edition prepared by H. B. Copinger from Materials compiled by the late Walter A. Copinger, M.A., LL.D., F.S.A., etc.; First President of the Bibliographical Society. Produced by Hugh J. Schonfield". "I must say something, I suppose, on offering a book with so strange a title to the reading world; but I could find no better for the little odd antiquities of early literature which much research has enabled me to collect together, and which principally treat of the love of books in monkish days." - from the Author's Preface, page 9.
