Catalogue of valuable English and foreign books and manuscripts comprising illuminated ancient manuscripts on vellum, devotional

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This edition is associated with Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge and a publication year of 1783.

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Catalogue of valuable English and foreign books and manuscripts comprising illuminated ancient manuscripts on vellum, devotional, historical, poetical, genealogical, etc. Literary documents and autograph letters of celebrated writers; presentation copies, etc. An important collection of some of the rarest pre-Shakespearean interludes, comedies and morality plays; twenty original plays by Shakespeare; fine copies of the first four folios; plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries and successors; rare books containing references to Shakespeare; first editions of early English writers and of modern English authors; rare books and tracts on America; Caxton's Golden Legend, 1483; Blake's Poetical Sketches, 1783; fine specimens of English and foreign bindings by the Mearnes, Eves, Derome, etc., and some royal bindings by Reynes and others, etc.

Author: Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge

Year: 1907

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