full vellum non-adhesive limp binding by Gray Parrot, quarter vellum tray-case, quarter vellum over cloth boards clamshell box
1984 · Williamsburg
by Browne, Thomas
Williamsburg: Cheloniidae Press, 1984. full vellum non-adhesive limp binding by Gray Parrot, quarter vellum tray-case, quarter vellum over cloth boards clamshell box. Cheloniidae Press. tall 8vo. full vellum non-adhesive limp binding by Gray Parrot, quarter vellum tray-case, quarter vellum over cloth boards clamshell box. 56 pages. Limited to 210 copies of which this is one of 5 artist proof copies signed by the artist. This deluxe edition is printed on an obsolete Whatman paper and contains a frontispiece etching of Sir Thomas Browne not in the regular edition and is inserted in the special tray-case. Also inserted are three 'first state' proofs, 28 'working proofs', 15 'artist proofs', and one 'rejected print', all signed by Alan James Robinson. First published as Chapter XXIII of PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICAin 1646. Illustrated with sixteen woodengravings by Alan James Robinson and with an introduction by Jan van Dorsten, head of the Sir Thomas Browne Institute in Leiden, Netherlands who comments on Browne's life, work and thought. Printed by Harold P. McGrath at the Hampshire Typothetae.
(Inventory #: 134578)