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For Private Circulation Only [Leadenhall Press]. 1893-97. First Edition, 2 vols., [2],49,[1];[2],57,[1]pp., limited to 153 copies printed on handmade paper, title in red and black, 21 plates (mostly of bookbindings, 2 in full colour), uncut copies in the original slightly soiled wrappers. This part of the magnificent library of the eminent Egyptologist comprises mainly French editions of either French or classical Greek and Latin Authors. Many descriptions include interesting anecdotal information, and the plates demonstrate the superb quality of the bindings of these books. De Ricci, p. 174. “In 1904 the Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923) who formed a small but choice library of French books of the eighteenth century, sold to the Paris bookseller Edouard Rahir, from whom he had purchased many of the finest items”. |
