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... fine paper instead of unlimited on wood pulp - unique extra illus- trated copies to be always chosen rather than volumes manufactured by the thousand , with well - worn plates and indistinct impressions - the choicest examples of ...
... fine paper instead of unlimited on wood pulp - unique extra illus- trated copies to be always chosen rather than volumes manufactured by the thousand , with well - worn plates and indistinct impressions - the choicest examples of ...
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... fine arts . Wood engraving has some particularly fine representatives . Every book in the library , almost without exception , is the very best edition ever issued , in whatever form that may be ; and of works of an important character ...
... fine arts . Wood engraving has some particularly fine representatives . Every book in the library , almost without exception , is the very best edition ever issued , in whatever form that may be ; and of works of an important character ...
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... fine plates are Lodge's Portraits , Houbraken's Heads , and Woodburn's Gallery of Rare Portraits , all in folio ; then too , there is an original Hogarth from the library of David Roberts , the painter , in elephant folio ; and , of ...
... fine plates are Lodge's Portraits , Houbraken's Heads , and Woodburn's Gallery of Rare Portraits , all in folio ; then too , there is an original Hogarth from the library of David Roberts , the painter , in elephant folio ; and , of ...
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... Fine portrait . 6 vols . royal 8vo , calf , gilt , marbled edges . London , Cadell and Davies , 1811 LARGE PAPER . " We own that the humor of Addison is , in our opinion , of a more delicious flavor than the humor of either Swift or ...
... Fine portrait . 6 vols . royal 8vo , calf , gilt , marbled edges . London , Cadell and Davies , 1811 LARGE PAPER . " We own that the humor of Addison is , in our opinion , of a more delicious flavor than the humor of either Swift or ...
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... fine copy of this rare and beautiful book . Perfectly free from stains and with brilliant impressions of the plates . 12 ESOP . Fables of . With full - page illustrations by HENRY STEPHENS , lithographed in tint by JULIUS BIEN . 4to ...
... fine copy of this rare and beautiful book . Perfectly free from stains and with brilliant impressions of the plates . 12 ESOP . Fables of . With full - page illustrations by HENRY STEPHENS , lithographed in tint by JULIUS BIEN . 4to ...
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Page 109 - PASTON LETTERS. ORIGINAL LETTERS, written during the Reigns of Henry VI., Edward IV., and Richard III., by various Persons of Rank or Consequence.
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Page 271 - Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Page 194 - A work of the very highest merit ; its learning is exact and profound ; its narrative full of genius and skill ; its descriptions of men are admirably vivid. We wish to place on record our opinion that Dr. Mommsen's is by far the best history of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Commonwealth.
Page 212 - The striking passages are in every mouth ; and the public seems to judge rightly of the faults and excellences of this play, that it is the work of a man not attentive to decency, nor zealous for virtue; but of one who conceived forcibly, and drew originally, by consulting nature in his own breast.
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