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PALMER (SAMUEL)
PALMER (A.H.) Samuel Palmer. A Memoir, ONE ORIGINAL ETCHING ("CHRISTMAS") BY SAMUEL PALMER, The Fine Arts Society, 1882

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
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PALMER (SAMUEL)

PALMER (A.H.) Samuel Palmer. A Memoir, ONE ORIGINAL ETCHING ("CHRISTMAS") BY SAMUEL PALMER, 13 autotype plates (including pictorial title), 9 woodcut illustrations "from the original blocks", early morocco-backed cloth, joints worn, 4to, The Fine Arts Society, 1882

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Includes an original etching by Palmer, "Christmas, or Folding the Last Sheep", 1850, illustrating the verse "Old Christmas comes, to close the wanéd year/ And aye the shepherd's heart to make right glad...". This is the fourth state (of 5, Lister E4), on laid paper, printed on pale cream wove paper, with printed title to lower margin '"Christmas" From Bampfylde's Sonnet'.

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