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Varia: Readings from Rare Books


J. Hain Friswell


Sampson, Low, Son & Marston 1866

Binding:  Hardback  |  Condition: Fair  | 

Curious volume of literary essays that seeks to describe books and authors that are well known but seldom read. Subjects include Nostradamus, George Psalmanazar, Paracelsus, Quevedo and others. Publisher's decorative cloth. Tissue guarded frontisportrait of Thomas Browne, another subject. Beveled edges, 12mo. Cloth tear to top of spine. Spine cocked. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Contents clean. Fair+

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