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Sweet Roman Hand – Five Hundred Years of Italic Cursive Script
£40.00
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Author: BLUNT, Wilfred
Published by: James Barrie (London , 1952)
8vo, 100p, 47 calligraphic examples. Black cloth, gilt. d/w
A very good copy of the second edition, published in the same year as the first. SIGNED & DATED BY BLUNT on the half-title. Mild isolated toning and a nick to the base of the spine of the d/w, which is sun lightened.
Cat. ref.: 60
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