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LOT 2159
SOLD €70,00

Two titles: (1) Advice to the officers of the British Army.

[By Francis Grose]. A Fac-simile Reprint of the Sixth London Edition [1783]. New York, Agathynian Club, 1867, printed in 120 numbered copies (this is number 71) on laid paper, (4),XX,(3 blank),(3),4,(2),134,(2),5 p., with one plate, contemporary half morocco, 4to.

Free endpapers and title trifle torn in; binding with some wear along edges/ on hinges. A good copy, moreover on large paper, with unidentified ex libris "BSG" (braided initials) on inside endpaper. Agathynian Club Publications No. I. Rare and relatively early bibliophile edition, refined printing. (2) Poems by Thomas Gray. Printed at the Eton College Press, 1894, XIV,164,(1) p., with hélio-engraved portrait and 3 steelengraved plates, finely bound by R. Ingalton Drake in gilt polished calf with coat of arms on both boards, gilt and ribbed back with morocco letterpiece and coat of arms, all edges gilt, 4to (top hinge torn in). Finely printed on laid paper, in school-prize binding of Eton College, with the prize awarded to Leopold Colin Henry Douglas Campbell, 1899 (total 2).

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