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[NICHOLSON, WILLIAM, Illustrator]. The Square Book of Animals. Rhymes by Arthur Waugh. London: Heinemann, 1900. 12 full-page color woodblock illustrations. Large 4to, original cloth-backed pictorial boards; some slight foxing to endpapers, otherwise a very good copy. FIRST EDITION of one of the most scarce and beautiful Nicholson books. Bookplate of Robert F. Norton -- NICHOLSON. An Alphabet. London: Heinemann, 1898. Woodcut title and 26 woodcut plates. Folio, original pictorial beige cloth, backstrip defective, edges age-darkened. LARGE-PAPER ISSUE, with each plate inserted between sheets of heavy brown paper and top edges gilt. (2)
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[NICHOLSON, WILLIAM, Illustrator]. The Square Book of Animals. Rhymes by Arthur Waugh. London: Heinemann, 1900. 12 full-page color woodblock illustrations. Large 4to, original cloth-backed pictorial boards; some slight foxing to endpapers, otherwise a very good copy. FIRST EDITION of one of the most scarce and beautiful Nicholson books. Bookplate of Robert F. Norton -- NICHOLSON. An Alphabet. London: Heinemann, 1898. Woodcut title and 26 woodcut plates. Folio, original pictorial beige cloth, backstrip defective, edges age-darkened. LARGE-PAPER ISSUE, with each plate inserted between sheets of heavy brown paper and top edges gilt. (2)