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MARLOW, Jeremiah. A Book of Cyphers or Letters Reverst. London: W. Rogers, 1683.
8°, engraved throughout with title and 68 plates, red morocco over bevelled wood boards by J. Leighton, covers with blind-stamped device and cypher. Provenance: William Stirling Maxwell (1818-1878, bookplate, and ?his cypher on binding); Keir, Arts of Design (label on rear pastedown).
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. The subtitle describes this all-engraved work as "very pleasant & usefull as well for Gentlemen as all sorts of Artificers, Engravers, Painters, Carvers, Chacers, Embroiderers &c., where you may find a cypher for any name whatsoever curiously compos'd after the newest mode." Wing M698.
8°, engraved throughout with title and 68 plates, red morocco over bevelled wood boards by J. Leighton, covers with blind-stamped device and cypher. Provenance: William Stirling Maxwell (1818-1878, bookplate, and ?his cypher on binding); Keir, Arts of Design (label on rear pastedown).
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. The subtitle describes this all-engraved work as "very pleasant & usefull as well for Gentlemen as all sorts of Artificers, Engravers, Painters, Carvers, Chacers, Embroiderers &c., where you may find a cypher for any name whatsoever curiously compos'd after the newest mode." Wing M698.
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