[Rarebooks] FS: A lovely and scarce Unicorn

[Charles Agvent]

(CHELONIIDAE PRESS) BROWNE, Sir Thomas. PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA: UNICORNES 
HORNES. (Easthampton, MA): Cheloniidae Press, 1984. First Edition. 
Octavo (6-3/4" x 9-1/2") bound by Gray Parrot in full gilt-decorated 
vellum and laid in a custom gilt-lettered vellum-backed clamshell box. 
The text was first published as Chapter XXIII in Browne's PSEUDODOXIA 
EPDEMICA in 1646. Illustrated with an etching and wood engravings by 
Alan James Robinson. Introduction by Jan Van Dorsten. This is Artist 
Proof I of only 15 vellum bound copies of a total edition of 225 printed 
in black and blue by Harold Patrick McGrath and SIGNED by Robinson. This 
edition has an extra portfolio containing work proofs of the engravings 
and a state proof of the etching, each SIGNED and numbered by Robinson, 
as well as an ORIGINAL DRAWING SIGNED by Robinson. Prospectus laid in. 
Fine in clamshell box. (#011092)        $2,000.00

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