[Rarebooks] FS: Leadenhall Press facsimile of a 1615 work on leaded glass windows

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(LEADENHALL PRESS) [Gedde, Walter]. A BOOKE OF SUNDRY DRAUGHTES,
PRINCIPALLY SERVING FOR GLASIERS: and Not Impertinent for Plasterers,
and Gardiners: Besides Sundry Other Professions. Whereunto Is Annexed
the Manner How to Anniel in Glas: and Also the True Forme of the
Fornace, and the Secretes Thereof. London: Printed in Shoolane, at the
Signe of the Faulcon, by Walter Dight. 1615. London: The Leadenhall
Press, Ltd. 1898. 4to. (4),(12),104,(8)pp. Plus a 24 page publisher's
catalog at back. Profusely illustrated with full-page woodcuts. Orig.
vellum with leather ties in imitation of the edition of 1615. Front
cover stamped in black & gilt. Fine copy. Scarce.	$300.00 (trade
discount allowed)
With the printed slip on the endpaper, "The old parchment binding and
leather thongs are facsimiled from the original volume." The original
printing is STC 11695, an extremely rare book.

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