LUCRETIUS CARUS, Titus (?96-55 B.C.).  De rerum natura libri sex. London: Ashendene Press, 1913. 2° (285 x 200mm), initials hand-painted in gold, red or blue by Graily Hewitt, printed in black and red. Original vellum-backed blue paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, uncut. ONE OF 85 COPIES PRINTED ON PAPER. IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "To Sydney C. Cockerell from C. H. St. J. Hornby, July 14, 1914." Ashendene Press XXVII; Tomkinson p.7.
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LUCRETIUS CARUS, Titus (?96-55 B.C.). De rerum natura libri sex. London: Ashendene Press, 1913. 2° (285 x 200mm), initials hand-painted in gold, red or blue by Graily Hewitt, printed in black and red. Original vellum-backed blue paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, uncut. ONE OF 85 COPIES PRINTED ON PAPER. IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "To Sydney C. Cockerell from C. H. St. J. Hornby, July 14, 1914." Ashendene Press XXVII; Tomkinson p.7.

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LUCRETIUS CARUS, Titus (?96-55 B.C.). De rerum natura libri sex. London: Ashendene Press, 1913. 2° (285 x 200mm), initials hand-painted in gold, red or blue by Graily Hewitt, printed in black and red. Original vellum-backed blue paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, uncut. ONE OF 85 COPIES PRINTED ON PAPER. IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "To Sydney C. Cockerell from C. H. St. J. Hornby, July 14, 1914." Ashendene Press XXVII; Tomkinson p.7.
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