[Rarebooks] FS: Bruce Rogers: THE HISTORY OF OLIVER AND ARTHUR, 1/350 copies, this with a letter from the publisher

[Charles Agvent]

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[ROGERS, Bruce]. THE HISTORY OF OLIVER AND ARTHUR. (Cambridge): 
(Houghton Mifflin), 1903. First Edition. Imperial octavo bound in 
contemporary red half morocco and black boards with marbled endpapers. 
Copy #245 of 330 designed by Bruce Rogers and printed at the Riverside 
Press in double columns of red and black letter on Arnold handmade paper 
with upward of 50 engravings redrawn from the woodcuts that appeared in 
the original of this medieval romance written in French in 1511, 
translated into German by Wilhelm Liely in 1521, and here rendered into 
English by William Leighton and Eliza Barrett. Laid in is a two-page 
typed letter from the publisher dated 1904 describing and offering the 
book. Spine darkened, gilt still bright. Near Fine in a Very Good 
example of the original slipcase with a paper label on the spine.     
     $200.00

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