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ROXBURGHE CLUB -- GEORGE III. A Selection from the Papers of King George III preserved in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle. Embracing the period from the 1st day of November 1781 to the 20th day of December 1783, edited by John Fortescue, Cambridge: printed by W. Lewis for the Roxburghe Club, 1927. 2 volumes, 4°, printed on deckle-edged paper, the Roxburghe Club name appearing in red, photogravure frontispiece by Emery Walker, original buckram backed in brown morocco, smooth spines lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut (without slipcases).
GIBBON, Edward. Gibbon's Journey from Geneva to Rome, edited by Georges A. Bonnard, London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1961]. 4°, collotype portrait after Thomas Patch, original vellum, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g., others uncut. FIRST EDITION. NO.66 OF 105 COPIES on Milbourn hand-made paper.
DOBSON, Austin. Eighteenth Century Vignettes, London: Chatto and Windus, 1892. 4°, 7 plates, contemporary brown calf by Zaehnsdorf with gilt and blind ruling, and repeated pattern of 4 gilt dots on covers and spine panels (spine slightly sunfaded), gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., others uncut. NO. 128 OF 250 COPIES in the specially illustrated, large paper edition, signed by the author; with tipped-in autograph note from Dobson, dated November 11 1896, sharing Lamb's sentiments on the "all-swallowing indiscriminating nature of the common post" -- and one other work, printed at the Chiswick Press and limited to 75 copies. (5)
GIBBON, Edward. Gibbon's Journey from Geneva to Rome, edited by Georges A. Bonnard, London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1961]. 4°, collotype portrait after Thomas Patch, original vellum, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g., others uncut. FIRST EDITION. NO.66 OF 105 COPIES on Milbourn hand-made paper.
DOBSON, Austin. Eighteenth Century Vignettes, London: Chatto and Windus, 1892. 4°, 7 plates, contemporary brown calf by Zaehnsdorf with gilt and blind ruling, and repeated pattern of 4 gilt dots on covers and spine panels (spine slightly sunfaded), gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., others uncut. NO. 128 OF 250 COPIES in the specially illustrated, large paper edition, signed by the author; with tipped-in autograph note from Dobson, dated November 11 1896, sharing Lamb's sentiments on the "all-swallowing indiscriminating nature of the common post" -- and one other work, printed at the Chiswick Press and limited to 75 copies. (5)