[AMERICAN VELLUM PRINTING]. BEDFORD, FRANCIS, binder. HOE, ROBERT, editor., DE VINNE, THEODORE LOW, printer. MABERLY, JOSEPH. The Print Collector. An introduction to the knowledge necessary for forming a Collection of Ancient Prints...With an Appendix containing Fielding's Treatise on the Practice of Engraving. Edited with notes, an account of Contemporary Etchings and Etchers, and a Bibliography of Engraving, by Robert Hoe, Jr. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company 1880. 4to, 283 x 230 x 44m. (11 1/8 x 9 1/16 x 1 3/16in.), citron morocco, covers with triple gilt fillet border around an inner rectangular panel of triple gilt fillet with inner and outer stylized floral corner ornaments; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in one compartment, an ornamental panel with vase and flowers in the rest; board edges with double gilt fillet, turn-ins with gilt flower roll, vellum endleaves, g.e., stamp-signed by the binder on upper turn-in, contemporary dark blue straight-grained morocco pull-off case (case with minor wear to extremities). THE ONLY COPY PRINTED ON VELLUM from the Large Paper Edition of which 50 copies were printed on Whatman hand-made, ROBERT HOE'S COPY, signed on fly-leaf "Robert Hoe Jr 1880" and with a pencil inscription: "This is the only copy upon vellum, & Mr. [Theodore Low] De Vinne, the printer selected the skins with great care. It is the most important example of printing upon vellum executed in this country up to the present date (1880)."A remarkable association copy, linking two American printing giants, founders of the Grolier Club, four years before the Club's foundation. Provenance: Robert Hoe, as above and by descent to the present owner.

[AMERICAN VELLUM PRINTING]. BEDFORD, FRANCIS, binder. HOE, ROBERT, editor., DE VINNE, THEODORE LOW, printer. MABERLY, JOSEPH. The Print Collector. An introduction to the knowledge necessary for forming a Collection of Ancient Prints...With an Appendix containing Fielding's Treatise on the Practice of Engraving. Edited with notes, an account of Contemporary Etchings and Etchers, and a Bibliography of Engraving, by Robert Hoe, Jr. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company 1880. 4to, 283 x 230 x 44m. (11 1/8 x 9 1/16 x 1 3/16in.), citron morocco, covers with triple gilt fillet border around an inner rectangular panel of triple gilt fillet with inner and outer stylized floral corner ornaments; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in one compartment, an ornamental panel with vase and flowers in the rest; board edges with double gilt fillet, turn-ins with gilt flower roll, vellum endleaves, g.e., stamp-signed by the binder on upper turn-in, contemporary dark blue straight-grained morocco pull-off case (case with minor wear to extremities). THE ONLY COPY PRINTED ON VELLUM from the Large Paper Edition of which 50 copies were printed on Whatman hand-made, ROBERT HOE'S COPY, signed on fly-leaf "Robert Hoe Jr 1880" and with a pencil inscription: "This is the only copy upon vellum, & Mr. [Theodore Low] De Vinne, the printer selected the skins with great care. It is the most important example of printing upon vellum executed in this country up to the present date (1880)." A remarkable association copy, linking two American printing giants, founders of the Grolier Club, four years before the Club's foundation. Provenance: Robert Hoe, as above and by descent to the present owner.

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[AMERICAN VELLUM PRINTING]. BEDFORD, FRANCIS, binder. HOE, ROBERT, editor., DE VINNE, THEODORE LOW, printer. MABERLY, JOSEPH. The Print Collector. An introduction to the knowledge necessary for forming a Collection of Ancient Prints...With an Appendix containing Fielding's Treatise on the Practice of Engraving. Edited with notes, an account of Contemporary Etchings and Etchers, and a Bibliography of Engraving, by Robert Hoe, Jr. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company 1880. 4to, 283 x 230 x 44m. (11 1/8 x 9 1/16 x 1 3/16in.), citron morocco, covers with triple gilt fillet border around an inner rectangular panel of triple gilt fillet with inner and outer stylized floral corner ornaments; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in one compartment, an ornamental panel with vase and flowers in the rest; board edges with double gilt fillet, turn-ins with gilt flower roll, vellum endleaves, g.e., stamp-signed by the binder on upper turn-in, contemporary dark blue straight-grained morocco pull-off case (case with minor wear to extremities). THE ONLY COPY PRINTED ON VELLUM from the Large Paper Edition of which 50 copies were printed on Whatman hand-made, ROBERT HOE'S COPY, signed on fly-leaf "Robert Hoe Jr 1880" and with a pencil inscription: "This is the only copy upon vellum, & Mr. [Theodore Low] De Vinne, the printer selected the skins with great care. It is the most important example of printing upon vellum executed in this country up to the present date (1880)."

A remarkable association copy, linking two American printing giants, founders of the Grolier Club, four years before the Club's foundation.
Provenance: Robert Hoe, as above and by descent to the present owner.