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  Limited Edition of Austin Dobson's Horace Walpole: A Memoir; Signed by American printer and typographer Theodore Low De Vinne

  DOBSON, Austin; [Theodore Low De Vinne].

  Horace Walpole: A Memoir with an Appendix of Books Printed at the Strawberry Hill Press.

  New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1890.

  Signed limited edition of the biography of the 4th Earl of Orford. Royal octavo, original half vellum, tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrated with several tissue-guarded engravings and tailpieces by Percy and Leon Moran. One of four hundred and twenty-five numbered copies printed on Dickinson paper and signed by American printer and typographer Theodore Low De Vinne on the limitation page, this is number 275. De Vinne was considered "the leading commercial printer of his day," printing the popular 'St. Nicholas Magazine' and 'The Century Magazine' for The Century Company as well as several books and multi-volume works such as John Hay's authoritative biography, 'Abraham Lincoln: A History.' He sought to increase printing capacity and co-founded the Typothetae, a trade organization of master printers, which was a predecessor of the Printing Industries of America. In very good condition with rubbing to the extremities.

  Price: $750.00     Item Number: 146607

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