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104 - Fore-Edge painting.- Jortin (John) The Life of Erasmus, 1 vol. only (of 2), presentation copy inscribed'Ex dono Revdi Authoris' to front free endpaper, mezzotint portrait frontispiece by Houston after Holbein, 2 facsimile plates of Erasmus's writing, blind stamp to front free endpaper for Library of Victor A. Harris, bookplate, 1 f. publisher's advertisement to rear, light foxing to first few ff., many rippled, first few ff. and frontispiece splitting at gutter, contemporary morocco, spine label refreshed, old rebacking with later spine repair, some loss to spine, upper cover detached and lower starting, rubbed, g.e., fore-edge painting beneath the gilt attributed to Samuel E. Stevens (c.1947-1967), Blackfriars Bridge and St. Paul's, 4to, J. Whiston and B. White, 1758.
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Fore-Edge painting.- Jortin (John) The Life of Erasmus, 1 vol. only (of 2), presentation copy inscribed'Ex dono Revdi Authoris' to front free endpaper, mezzotint portrait frontispiece by Houston after Holbein, 2 facsimile plates of Erasmus's writing, blind stamp to front free endpaper for Library of Victor A. Harris, bookplate, 1 f. publisher's advertisement to rear, light foxing to first few ff., many rippled, first few ff. and frontispiece splitting at gutter, contemporary morocco, spine label refreshed, old rebacking with later spine repair, some loss to spine, upper cover detached and lower starting, rubbed, g.e., fore-edge painting beneath the gilt attributed to Samuel E. Stevens (c.1947-1967), Blackfriars Bridge and St. Paul's, 4to, J. Whiston and B. White, 1758. *** Slipped in is the original catalogue description from Sotheby's New York auction 27th February 1973.
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