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Deacon Richard

A Biography of William Caxton. The First English Editor, Printer, Merchant and Translator. EDITOR'S WORKING COPY WITH A.L.s

Muller, 1976

32.20 €

Island Books

(Devon, United Kingdom)

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Year of publication
1976
Author
Deacon Richard
Publishers
Muller
Keyword
bibliography, printing, caxton, richard deacon, donald mccormick, bibliography, printing, typography, biography, william, caxton
Languages
English

Description

8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations and plans (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, a very good, clean copy. EDITOR'S WORKING COPY, WITH NUMEROUS ANNOTATIONS AND REVISIONS IN A NEAT HAND THROUGHOUT; PAGES 97-98 CUT TO EXCLUDE ONE ILLUSTRATION ('Caxton and his Press from a painting by Vivian Forbes). SOLD WITH TWO A.L.s. FROM THE AUTHOR TO HIS EDITOR AUDREY WILLIAMSON (AT FREDERICK MULLER) DISCUSSING WORKS IN PROGRESS (IN PARTICULAR THE AUTHOR'S 'THE HISTORY OF THE JAPANESE SECRET SERViCE' ALSO PUBLISHED BY MULLER IN 1982) AND A RELEVANT CUTTING.