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SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS SPENSER (EDMUND) The Works, 8 vol., Shakespeare Head Press, 1930; and others (26)
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SPENSER (EDMUND) The Works, 8 vol., number 215 of 350 copies, printed in red and black, wood-engraved decorations by Hilda Quick, initials and headings by Hilda Quick after Joscelyn Gaskin in red, black and blue, publisher's green quarter morocco, 1930--MALORY (THOMAS) The Noble & Joyous Boke Entytled Le Morte Darthur, 2 vol., one of 370 copies printed from the Wynkyn de Worde edition of 1498, printed in red and black in double-column, woodcut illustrations, publisher's orange half morocco, t.e.g., 1933--FROISSART (JEAN) Cronycles. Translated out of the French by Sir John Bourchier Lord Berners, 2 vol. in 8, number 265 of 320 copies on paper, hand-coloured woodcut coats-of-arms on titles and in margins throughout, maps hand-coloured in outline, contemporary brown morocco, gilt lettered on spine, 1927-1928--BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI) Decameron, number 148 of 325 copies, printed in blue and black, wood-engraved title-borders and illustrations after the Venetian edition of 1492, contemporary blue half morocco gilt, t.e.g., 1934--HOMER. The Whole Works of Homer, 5 vol., number 92 of 450 copies, woodcut illustrations by John Farleigh, original half morocco, spines rubbed, 1930-1931--BEDE. The History of the Church of Englande, limited to 475 copies, original half morocco, 1930, 4to and small folio, Oxford, Shakespeare Head Press (26)



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