[Rarebooks] FS: An original leaf from Caxton's Polycronicon, 1482
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(LEAF BOOKS) AN ORIGINAL LEAF FROM THE POLYCRONICON PRINTED BY WILLIAM
CAXTON AT WESTMINSTER IN THE YEAR 1482. The Life and Works of William Caxton,
with an Historical Reminder of Fifteenth Century England by Benjamin P. Kurtz
Together with a Note on the Polycronicon by Oscar Lewis & an Appreciation of
William Caxton by Edwin Grabhorn. San Francisco: Printed at the Grabhorn
Press for the Book Club of California. 1938. Lg. 4to. (4),54pp. Printed in
black & red. Tipped in is an original leaf from the Polycronicon (10" x 7")
rubricated in red (very minor foxing). Edition limited to 297 copies printed
for the Book Club of California by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn in July 1938. Tan
linen over brown boards stamped in black, paper spine label. Near fine
copy. $1,750.00 (trade discount allowed)
GRABHORN BIBLIOGRAPHY, #292. DISBOUND AND DISPERSED, 76.
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