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Lot 152
Browne (Sir Thomas) Religio Medici, Urn Burial, Christian Morals, and other Essays, one of 310 copies on paper, wood-engraved vine border designed by Charles Ricketts, some light spotting, George Parker Winship's copy with his book-plate, original linen-backed boards, uncut, a little browned and spotted, spine label chipped, [Vale Press], 1902 § Revelation of Saint John the Divine (The), from the first printed English translation MDXXV, decorative borders, plates after Durer, signature of G.P.Winship, original half vellum, uncut, Cranbrook Press, 1901 § Tinker (C.B.) & Frederick Albert Pottle. A New Portrait of James Boswell, one of 425 copies printed under the supervision of Bruce Rogers, with signed note by Rogers "One of the few (?15) 'author's copies' - with a date corrected in the List of Plates, by Bruce Rogers" to front free endpaper, with cancelled sheets pp.3-10 loosely inserted, plates, some foxing, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, Cambridge, Mass., 1927, all rubbed; and another, small folio & 4to (4)⁂ George Parker Winship (1871-1952), American author and librarian at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island and later the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard.
