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First edition, 1/152 copies (this #93). 8vo. (8), 208 pp. Illustrated from photographs, portrait frontispiece, mounted plate of the Hutton library; title page printed in red and black. Inscribed by Eleanor Hutton on the front pastedown in the year of publication (Laurence Hutton died before publication, in 1904; 4-page printed obituary laid in). Ink annotation beside one entry in an unknown hand, later owner's signature on front pastedown, else very good. Original half-vellum and gilt-stamped boards (old oil stain along fore-edges of boards), gilt spine title. (10641).

WOOD, M.E., comp. Laurence and Eleanor Hutton Their Books of Association. Original 1/2-vellum and printed boards. New York: Privately Printed [The De Vinne Press], 1905. First edition. One of 152 copies. Presentation inscription on front pastedown, "To Owen Wistar [sic] Eleanor V. Hutton, Princeton, N.J., April 1905." With the bookplate of Laurence Hutton. Wister was a friend of the Huttons witnessed by the inscriptions of his books documented here. Spine slightly darkened, else a very good copy.