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[ALLSTREE, Richard]. The Ladies Calling. Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, 1675. 8°. Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title, woodcut headpieces (a little light spotting, one rust-hole affecting one letter). Contemporary black morocco elaborately tooled in gilt with wide border round sides composed of tulips, roses, fleurons, birds heads with infilled corner pieces surrounding a central diamond shaped decoration composed of the same tools, the whole within a narrow border of poinitllé dots, semi-circles, etc., gilt spine and edges. Provenance: Heneretta Maria Capoll, Henrietta Maria Pitches (owner's inscription, in same hand, on front free endpaper) -- H.M. Cornwallis (owner's inscription on title). Wing A-1143.
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