London: William Heinemann, 1929. pictorial paper-covered boards. Smith, Percy. small 4to. pictorial paper-covered boards. 31+(1) pages. Limited to 775 copies, numbered and signed by the author, of which 750 were for sale. Spine lightly faded, slipcase lightly worn. Else a near fine copy. Printed by W.A. Lewis at the Cambridge University Press. With a pictorial design on the front cover from a woodcut by Percy Smith. James Laver (1899-1975), in a widely varied career, won the Newdigate prize for verse at Oxford in 1921, wrote Nostradamus or The Future Foretold (1942), Taste & Fashion, A History of English Costume (1937), books on 19th century French art, and was Keeper of the Victoria and Albert museum for almost forty years.

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Bookseller: Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 138845
Title: MACROCOSMOS, A POEM
Author: Laver, James
Illustrator: Smith, Percy
Format/Binding: Pictorial paper-covered boards
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: William Heinemann
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1929

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Oak Knoll Books was founded in 1976 by Bob Fleck, a chemical engineer by training, who let his hobby get the best of him. Somehow making oil refineries more efficient using mathematics and computers paled in comparison to the joy of handling books. Oak Knoll Press, the second part of the business, was established in 1978 as a logical extension of Oak Knoll Books. Oak Knoll Books is a thriving company that maintains an inventory of about 20,000 titles. Our main specialties are books about bibliography, book collecting, book design, book illustration, book selling, bookbinding, bookplates, children's books, Delaware books, fine press books, forgery, graphic arts, libraries, literary criticism, marbling, papermaking, printing history, publishing, typography & type specimens, and writing & calligraphy - plus books about the history of all of these fields.

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