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    Printed Books including Printing History and Reference

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    20 March 2001

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    Lot 192

    [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. TROLLOPE, Anthony. The Barsetshire Novels. 1929. 14 vols. LIMITED EDITION, one of 525 copies. -- PLUTARCH. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes. 1928. 8 vols. -- FROISSART. Chronycles. 1927. 8 vols. LIMITED EDITION, one of 350 copies. -- FIELDING, Henry. The Novels. 1926. 10 vols. -- SMOLLETT, Tobias. The Novels. 1926. 11 vols. LIMITED EDITION of 520 sets. -- STERNE, Laurence. The Works. 1926. 7 vols. Together 50 vols. All LIMITED EDITIONS of 500 copies unless stated, printed at the Shakespeare Head Press for Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York. All 8o, some uncut, quarter-cloth, most with morocco lettering pieces (conditions generally good). (58)

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    USD 1,880

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    USD 1,500 - USD 2,000

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    [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. TROLLOPE, Anthony. The Barsetshire Novels. 1929. 14 vols. LIMITED EDITION, one of 525 copies. -- PLUTARCH. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes. 1928. 8 vols. -- FROISSART. Chronycles. 1927. 8 vols. LIMITED EDITION, one of 350 copies. -- FIELDING, Henry. The Novels. 1926. 10 vols. -- SMOLLETT, Tobias. The Novels. 1926. 11 vols. LIMITED EDITION of 520 sets. -- STERNE, Laurence. The Works. 1926. 7 vols. Together 50 vols. All LIMITED EDITIONS of 500 copies unless stated, printed at the Shakespeare Head Press for Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York. All 8o, some uncut, quarter-cloth, most with morocco lettering pieces (conditions generally good). (58)

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