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ASHENDENE PRESS BERNERS (JULIANA) A Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1903 image 1
ASHENDENE PRESS BERNERS (JULIANA) A Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1903 image 2
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Lot 196

ASHENDENE PRESS BERNERS (JULIANA)
A Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1903

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ASHENDENE PRESS

BERNERS (JULIANA) A Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the printer C.H. St. John Hornby to J.G. Metcalf, one of 150 copies on paper, from a overall edition limited to 175, woodcut frontispiece and illustrations copied from the original edition printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1496, first initial printed in red, publisher's limp vellum [Hornby 16], 8vo, Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1903

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Provenance: J.G. Metcalf, gift inscription from Hornby, Christmas 1908; Helmut N. Friedlaender, book label; his sale, Christie's New York, 24 April 2001, lot 249; with Sophie Schneideman Rare Books.

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