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5:00 AM PT - Mar 1st, 2012

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Erasmus.- Knight (Samuel) The Life of Erasmus, Mor

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Erasmus.- Knight (Samuel) The Life of Erasmus, More Particularly that part of it, which he spent in England,
original folded publisher's sheets, unbound, 19 engraved plates, some by Vertue after Holbein, lacking frontispiece portrait, repair to lower corner of title, plate 'South Prospect of the Parish Church of Aldington' with short repaired tear within image and with margins torn with loss (repaired), some light browning, occasional spotting, a few small water-stains, housed in a modern calf-backed drop-back box, gilt, 8vo, Cambridge, printed by Corn. Crownfield, 1726.

***Scarce in this original form. ESTC would seem to erroneously call for 16pp. of index at end. Our copy collates with the digitalised version found via ESTC..

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