A Catalogue of One Hundred and Fifty Choice and Valuable Books and Manuscripts. To Which is Prefixed An Historical Account of the Bookselling Business Carried on Continuously at this House since 1728, [ Ellis, bookseller's catalogue no. 150, 1913.].

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Contemporary quarter-cloth and boards (original printed wrappers bound in), small 4to, xv, 72 pp, 21 plates (some folding). 150 items. With a frontispiece photograph of the interior of Ellis' shop at 29 New Bond St. Includes two Caxtons, John Stowe's 1561 Chaucer, Philip Bliss' set of Robinson Crusoe in "The Original London Post or Heathcot's Intelligence", 1719-20, the 1499 Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, "St Jerome's Exposicio", 1468 [but a misdate for 1478], the first book printed in Oxford, and other interesting works. Covers faded and marked, contents Very Good. Clipping of a newspaper obituary of Sir John Whitaker Ellis laid in. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-58714

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