BRITANNIA, LATHOM, VILLA BROMHAMENSIS - [BODONI] - Limited to 130 copies on carta velina.
by TREVOR, ROBERT [VISCONTE DI HAMPDEN]
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About This Item
PARMA [PARMAE]: Bodoni, 1792. Hardcover. Fine. Folio (44.5X30 cm). - [16], 231 pages. - 3/4 marbled dark red morocco, red cloth covers, spine with 5 bands and title in gilt. - On the lower margin on verso of front cover, in very small letters in gilt: "Bound for Bernard Quaritch. Ltd. / by Sandorski and Sutcliffe" - Very fine. - Interior very fine. - Full-margined copy. - Engraved medallion portrait on title-page. - A 30x19.5 cm double-page leaf, with "Errata" in manuscript, in ink, tipped on the title-page, and continues on the blank after the last page (Page 231). - A 10x14.5 cm slip, with manuscript note laid in: "Sangorski $ Sutcliffe - do not bleach - Q never let them take a book apart - scornful of Riviere / Robert Trevor, Viscount Hampden". - Limited to 130 copies on carta velina. - A collection of 3 Latin poems by Hampden: the first on British topography, climate, customs , and contemporary affairs, the second a translation of Ossian, and the third describes Bronham Manor in Bedfordshire. - Brooks 470. - Giani 30.
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- Bibiliophilia Books
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- 000161
- Title
- BRITANNIA, LATHOM, VILLA BROMHAMENSIS - [BODONI] - Limited to 130 copies on carta velina.
- Author
- TREVOR, ROBERT [VISCONTE DI HAMPDEN]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Bodoni
- Place of Publication
- PARMA [PARMAE]
- Date Published
- 1792
- Keywords
- BODONI - FINE PRINTING - PRIVATE PRESSES - ITALY - ITALIAN BOOKS - 18TH CENTURY BOOKS - ENGLISH BOOKS PRINTED ABROAD - ENGLAND - HAMPDEN - PARMA - BERNARD QUARITCH - BEDFORDSHIRE - SANDORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE - RIVIERE - MOROCCO -
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Bibiliophilia Books
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Tampa , Florida
About Bibiliophilia Books
Formerly Helena Szepe Books of Chicago, we have close to 40 years experience as sellers of antiquarian, rare, and interesting books and ephemera. We have recently moved ourselves and our books to sunny Florida.Specialties: Art, Early Printed Books, Science, Scholarly Books, German Books, Hungarian Books.
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