Description

[003764] Ford, Paul Leicester (Ed) The Journals of Hugh Gaine Printer. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1902. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Limited Edition. Good / No Jacket (as Issued?). Two volumes complete – Volume One – Biography and Bibliography – [8], ix-xi, [2], 3-239pp, [1] and Volume Two – Journals and Letters – [4], v-xi, [3], 3-234pp, [2]. Original half Japon vellum and boards, paper title label to spine

Spines browned and rubbed, scrape to head of volume two catching label with small amount of loss, corners bumped, boards lightly soiled. Internally quite bright and clean

Folding facsimile letter frontispiece to volume two.

This is one of thirty copies on Imperial Japan paper (with a further three hundred and fifty copies bound in cloth and printed on deckle edged paper)

Gaine was a printer and bookseller, born in Belfast, who arrived at New York in 1745

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