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Proverbs in porcelain : to which is added, Au revoir, a dramatic vignette / by Austin Dobson.

Accession number
PML 143499
Creator
Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921.
Published
London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd Paternoster House, Charing Cross Road, 1893.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Added illustrated t.p.
"With twenty-five illustrations by Bernard Partridge."--Added t.p.
Large paper issue, with Partridge's 11 full page illustrations on Japan vellum protected by guard sheets and the rest printed on chine collé.
"Reprinted from Old world idylls [which] were first published in 1877 ... to these is now added ... Au revoir from At the sign of the lyre"--Prefatory note, p. [11].
"The Large Paper Edition of this volume, consisting of 175 Copies for England, 75 Copies for America, All of which are numbered, was printed in November 1893. This is No. [blank]"--Half t.p. verso.
Library has copy no. 92.
"Ballantyne Press Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. Edinburgh and London"--Colophon.
Description
110 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
English copy of the large paper issue, in white cloth as issued by the publisher.
Classification
Department