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    Reference 3938 (2175)
    Category Miscellaneous
    Author Stevenson, Robert Louis
    Title Poems: Underwoods; Ballads; Songs of Travel; A Child's Garden of Verses
    Publishing Information Chatto & Windus in Association with Longmans, Green & Co., 1913
    Description 1913 Limited Edition: 400 pages Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Vellum covers. Title page printed in blue and black, top edge gilt, else untrimmed. Covers slightly grubby with some marks, contents clean and bright. "One of 500 copies printed on laid paper."G.S. Tomkinson, Bibliography of modern presses, p. 85 no. 8 Printed under the care of Bernard Newdigate at the Arden Press on behalf of Chatto and Windus's Florence Press in Herbert P. Horne's Florence type 'modelled upon the finest types used by the Italian Master-Printers of the Quattrocento and Cinquecento.' Founded in 1908 by Chatto and Windus the aim of the Florence Press was to bring to mainstream publishing a quality of printing and book production tending towards Kelmscott ideals.
    Price £40.00
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