[Rarebooks] FS: Wilson's "...The Highest Form of Flattery..." Deluxe ed. w/fine incunable leaf
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(LEAF BOOKS) Wilson, Adrian and Joyce Lancaster Wilson. ...THE HIGHEST FORM
OF FLATTERY... With a Leaf from the 1497 Edition of the Pirated Nuremberg
Chronicle Printed at Augsburg. Santa Cruz, CA: University of California at
Santa Cruz, Cowell Press. 1982. Folio (18)pp. Illustrated with numerous
facsimile woodcuts. Housed in a mounted vinyl sleeve is an original folio leaf
(double column text, rubricated in red, with a large woodcut city view of
"Argentina" i.e. Strasburg, across both columns). The deluxe edition limited to
60 numbered copies bound in green morocco, gilt, over olive cloth. Pictorial
d.j. printed in red. Where the d.j. was in contact with the morocco spine
the paper has become browned & brittle, otherwise a fine copy. $300.00
(trade discount allowed)
Disbound and Dispersed, #178.
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