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EARLY WOODCUT INITIALS-1908,1300 ornamental letters

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EARLY WOODCUT INITIALS-1908,1300 ornamental letters

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Title: EARLY WOODCUT INITIALS-1908,1300 ornamental letters

Provenance: by Jennings, Oscar About this Item: Methuen and Co., London, 1908. Hardcover. Condition: VG+. First Edition. Green cloth, gilt lettered, decorated gilt spine, and TEG (top edge gilt). Containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries from different countries. Tight and sound binding with very lt extremity wear/rubbing. Color and b/w illustrations; Oversized; 9 1/2" x 11 1/2". 287 pages.

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