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[Laguna Beach, Ca.:] Laguna Verde Imprenta, [1985], 1985. First edition, one of "some" 70 copies. Spine a trifle faded; fine copy.. 8vo, quarter blue morocco, decorated paper boards, gilt lettering. Color illustrations and facsimiles of Jane Grabhorn's work. A charming book about the printer Jane Grabhorn based on a talk by the printer Ward Ritchie which he gave as part of the Goudy Lecture series at Scripps College, Claremont, California. Ritchie later converted his talk into this book, the 25th publication of his Laguna Verde Imprenta. This copy, unlike many, is signed by Ritchie on the colophon page with a small ink notation below "WR 25." The colophon states "Perhaps some seventy copies have survived this printing by Ward Ritchie on the Albion hand press of Laguna Verde Imprenta . . ."

London: Printed and Sold by A. Baldwin, 1700, 1700. Fourth edition. ESTC R219623 (six in the UK and five in North America); Wing E3940A; Keynes, Evelyn, 16a. Wrappers a little worn at the edges; shadow of a label on the front wrapper; very good copy.. 8vo, early plain pink wrappers, 35 pages. With half-title. An anonymously written pamphlet under the guise of being a dairy of a Frenchman's visit to England and his shock at the dirty, chaotic streets of London, the noise and polluted air, the vulgar women in Alehouses, ad infinitum. Evelyn originally published this in 1659 under the title A Character of London. There were three editions that year, followed years later by this fourth one, with an altered title, which was apparently meant to associate it with William Lister's A Journey to Paris in the Year 1698 and the satire of it by William King, A Journey to London in the Year 1698. From the library of Robert S. Pirie, with his bookplate inside the front wrapper and his notation in pencil that he… Read More