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K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
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GRAY (THOMAS) Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, Printed at Strawberry-Hill, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757 (2)
4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £828.75 inc. premium
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GRAY (THOMAS)
Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, second or third issue, half-title ("Designs, &c."), printed on rectos only, engraved title-vignette, 6 plates, head- & tail-pieces and initials, 4pp. 'Explanation of the Prints' by Horace Walpole bound at end, occasional light spotting, short tear to margin of one plate, dark green straight-grained morocco gilt by Clarke & Bedford, spine elaborately tooled within compartments, g.e., slightly rubbed at extremities [Rothschild 1061], folio (380 x 265mm.), R. Dodsley, 1753; Odes, FIRST EDITION, half-title, engraved vignette on title, contemporary calf gilt, neatly rebacked [Hazen 1; Rothschild 1067], 4to, Printed at Strawberry-Hill, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757 (2)





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