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UNDERWOOD (LEON) Animalia or Gibs about Beasts Engraved on Wood and Ensared in Verse, NUMBER 18 OF 28 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST/AUTHOR, WITH PROOF PLATES AND SPECIALLY BOUND, New York, Payson & Clarke, [1926] image 1
UNDERWOOD (LEON) Animalia or Gibs about Beasts Engraved on Wood and Ensared in Verse, NUMBER 18 OF 28 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST/AUTHOR, WITH PROOF PLATES AND SPECIALLY BOUND, New York, Payson & Clarke, [1926] image 2
UNDERWOOD (LEON) Animalia or Gibs about Beasts Engraved on Wood and Ensared in Verse, NUMBER 18 OF 28 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST/AUTHOR, WITH PROOF PLATES AND SPECIALLY BOUND, New York, Payson & Clarke, [1926] image 3
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UNDERWOOD (LEON)
Animalia or Gibs about Beasts Engraved on Wood and Ensared in Verse, NUMBER 18 OF 28 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST/AUTHOR, WITH PROOF PLATES AND SPECIALLY BOUND, New York, Payson & Clarke, [1926]

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Animalia or Gibs about Beasts Engraved on Wood and Ensared in Verse, NUMBER 18 OF 28 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST/AUTHOR, WITH PROOF PLATES AND SPECIALLY BOUND, printed on Van Gelder paper, signed on half-title, engraved frontispiece, title vignette and 20 plates by Underwood tipped in, all proofs printed by the artist from the original wood blocks, some off-setting from plates to facing text, tissue guards, publisher's parchment-backed boards, printed pictorial label on upper cover, later slipcase, 4to, New York, Payson & Clarke, [1926]

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