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NONESUCH PRESS WALTON (IZAAK) The Compleat Angler...Edited by Geoffrey Keynes, 1929; and 17 others (29) image 1
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WALTON (IZAAK) The Compleat Angler...Edited by Geoffrey Keynes, 1929; and 17 others (29)

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WALTON (IZAAK) The Compleat Angler; The Lives of Donne, Wotton ...; With Love and Truth; Miscellaneous Writings. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes, one of 1600 copies, engraved portrait frontispiece, illustrations in the text (some coloured), publisher's russet morocco gilt, light wear, t.e.g. others uncut, original marbled slipcase 1929--MILTON (JOHN) Poems in English with Illustrations by William Blake, 2 vol., one of 1450 copies, engraved plates, publisher's vellum backed boards, gilt titling on spine, light soiling,1926--The Writings of William Blake, edited by Geoffrey Keynes, 3 vol., one of 1500, black and white illustrations, publisher's vellum-backed marbled boards, rubbed, spines soiled,1925--WILSON (MONA) The Life of William Blake, one of 1480 copies, publisher's vellum-backed marbled boards, rubbed, spine soiled and spotted, 1927--RICKETTS (CHARLES) Oscar Wilde Recollections, one of 800 copies, illustrations by Ricketts, publisher's cream buckram gilt, rubbed, dust-jacket (torn and creased at edges), t.e.g, others uncut, 1932--[BURTON (ROBERT)] The Anatomy of Melancholy, one of 750 copies, illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer, publisher's vellum backed patterned boards, some damp-staining, spines soiled, 1925--SYMONS (A.J.A) DESMOND FLOWER AND FRANCIS MEYNELL The Nonesuch Century: An Appraisal...and a Bibliography...1923-1934, one of 750 copies, inscribed by Meynell on first free endpaper, tipped-in samples, a few pochoir or colour, plates and illustrations, publisher's green buckram, gilt title label on spine, rubbed, spine faded, 1936, all with bookplate of James Harold Leighton, some with institutional label on front free endpaper, some with light offsetting to front free endpaper, 8vo and 4to; and 10 others (29)

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