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THE DOVES PRESS --Thomas James COBDEN-SANDERSON (1840-1922). Amantium Irae. Letters to Two Friends 1864-1867. Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1914. 4° (237 x 166mm). Printed in red and black. Portrait frontispiece and 2 illustrations. Original limp vellum by the Doves Bindery, lettered in gilt on the spine (upper hinge cracked, vellum slightly bowed). Provenance: Antonia Speyer (presentation inscription 'To Antonia Speyer "for remembrance" from her affectionate gossip C.S. 1 January 1914') -- Myles Standish Slocum (sale, Christie's New York, 20 November 1981, lot 196).
ONE OF 150 COPIES ON PAPER. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Cobden-Sanderson to the mother-in-law of his daughter Stella on the day of publication. Loosely inserted is the broadsheet 'Apologia' (Tidcombe Doves Press DPE 62). Tidcombe Doves Press DP 33.
ONE OF 150 COPIES ON PAPER. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Cobden-Sanderson to the mother-in-law of his daughter Stella on the day of publication. Loosely inserted is the broadsheet 'Apologia' (Tidcombe Doves Press DPE 62). Tidcombe Doves Press DP 33.
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