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Lot 389

BURTON (JOHN)]
A Genuine and True Journal of the Most Miraculous Escape of the Young Chevalier, from the Battle of Culloden, to his Landing in France [Bibliotheca Curiosa], ONLY COPY PRINTED ON VELLUM (with a manuscript note by the editor noting this on the limitation page, from an overall edition of 350 copies

29 – 30 August 2012, 11:00 BST
Edinburgh

£500 - £700

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[BURTON (JOHN)]

A Genuine and True Journal of the Most Miraculous Escape of the Young Chevalier, from the Battle of Culloden, to his Landing in France [Bibliotheca Curiosa], ONLY COPY PRINTED ON VELLUM (with a manuscript note by the editor noting this on the limitation page, from an overall edition of 350 copies, edited by Edmund Goldsmid, half-title and title printed in red and black, bookplate of Richard George Penn, Earl Howe, publisher's maroon morocco gilt, extremities slightly rubbed, t.e.g., 8vo, Edinburgh, Privately Printed, 1884

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THE ONLY COPY PRINTED ON VELLUM.

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