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BIBLIOPHILY & SCHOLARSHIP – Group of 12 titles, including Victorian-era bibliophily and 20th century bibliography and facsimile editions.

[Comprises:] SHAW, Henry. Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages. London: William Pickering, 1843. Two volumes, quarto. Chromolithograph plates. Red half morocco, spines gilt, top edges gilt (scuffing to spines). * Parables of Our Lord. London: Longman, Green, et al., c.1860s. 12mo. Chromolithographed (spotting to text). Black papier mâché binding of Gothic Revival design (one tiny chip to front cover). * DANTE ALIGHIERI. The Vision of Hell. [And:] The Vision of Purgatory and Paradise. London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1868. Translated by H.F. Cary. Illustrated by Gustave Doré. Two volumes, folio. * ARNOLD, Matthew. Essays in Criticism. Second Series. London, Macmillan, 1888. * BLADES, William. The Enemies of Books. London: Trubner, 1890. 2d edition. Twentieth century quarter morocco, most of original wraps bound in. * LOWELL, Amy. John Keats. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author, dated February 1925. Provenance: Richard Aldington, poet, 1892-1962 (presentation to Richard and correspondence laid in). Two volumes, quarto. Dust jackets. * DONNE, John. The First and Second Anniversaries. London: Noel Douglas, [1926]. Facsimile edition of the copy in the British Museum. Octavo. (Light foxing.) * MANSFIELD, Katherine. Novels and Novelists. London: Constable, 1930. Octavo. Dust jacket. * DONNE, John. An Anatomy of the World. Cambridge: Roxburghe Club, 1951. Facsimile edition. 12mo. * KEYNES, Geoffrey. The Bibliography of John Donne. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973. * Two other volumes.

Together, 15 volumes. Octavo except as noted; original bindings except as noted. Condition varies, overall about very good.
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