Dickens Letters - presentation copy on vellum
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Author: Dickens, Charles
Title: The Dickens-Kolle Letters - presentation copy printed on vellum
Place Published: Boston
Publisher:The Bibliophile Society
Date Published: 1910
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xi, 90 pp. With portrait frontispiece, illustrated title page, numerous facsimile plates. The frontis etching is printed on vellum, the remaining illustrations and facsimile letters are printed on Japan vellum. Edited by Harry B. Smith. Printed on French-folded vellum. (4to) original full vellum-covered boards, spine decorated in gilt, Bibliophile Society stamp in red. One of a limited number of presentation copies printed for Harry Smith, each on different paper.
With presentation inscription to editor Harry Smith from the Bibliophile Society on the front free endpaper. The original photo negatives of two of the facsimiles are laid in. This copy is listed on page 108 of Smith's A Sentimental Library: Comprising Books Formerly Owned by Famous Writers, Presentation copies, Manuscripts, and Drawings. The only known copy printed on vellum, presented to Smith from the Bibliophile Society.
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