A Decree of Star Chamber Concerning Printing.: Made July 11, 1637
by (GROLIER CLUB)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Lebanon, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
(New York): Reprinted by the Grolier Club, from the First Edition by Robert Barker, 1637, (1884). No. 78 of 150 copies. 8vo. Hand-colored seal on title-page. Publisher's gilt-printed stiff wrappers; foxing to rear endpapers, else fine. In a custom red cloth slipcase and chemise A fine copy in original wrappers of the first publication of the Grolier Club. Printed by Theodore L. De Vinne in the year of the Club's founding.PROVENANCE: Robert Woods Bliss & Mildred Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks (bookplates with deaccession stamps)
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- Bookseller
- Bull's Head Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100826
- Title
- A Decree of Star Chamber Concerning Printing.
- Author
- (GROLIER CLUB)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- No. 78 of 150 copies
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Reprinted by the Grolier Club, from the First Edition by Robert Barker, 1637
- Place of Publication
- (New York)
- Date Published
- (1884)
- Keywords
- ABAA-NY
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Bull's Head Rare Books
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Lebanon, New Jersey
About Bull's Head Rare Books
Bull's Head Rare Books was established in 2020 by Alex Obercian after more than a dozen years in the New York City book trade. BHRB deals in rare books and manuscripts in all fields, with specialties in literature, bookbindings, architecture, photography, science and medicine and country-life pursuits — gardening, farming and landscape design.
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