Ege, Otto F. [compiler]. "Original Leaves From Famous Books." [Cleveland: n.p., c. 1950]. Limited # 97 of 110 copies. Folio, 25 leaves matted, loose (as issued) in folding cloth case. Printed annotation tipped onto each mat. Includes three manuscript leaves, three incunabula leaves (including the 1480 Golden Legend and 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle), eight sixteenth century printed leaves (including the 1555 Vesalius and 1597 Gerard History of Plants), and eleven leaves from the seventeenth to the twentieth century (including the 1611 King James Bible, the 1685 Fourth Folio of Shakespeare, the 1755 Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, and leaves from the Doves, Ashendene, and Bremer Presses).
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