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Grabhorn Press.- Mandeville (Sir John) The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt. which Treateth of the Way to Hierusalem, and of Marvayles of Inde..., one of 150 copies printed in type designed by Rudolph Koch, woodcut illustrations and illuminated initials supplied by hand in red, blue and gold by Valenti Angelo, original morocco-backed wooden boards by William Wheeler, uncut, very very slight rubbing to head and foot of joints, fleece-lined dust-jacket, preserved in cloth drop-back box, morocco label, short splits to upper joint of box, folio, New York, printed by the Grabhorn Press of San Francisco for Random House, 1928.

⁂ A superb copy of the handsome production recounting the 14th century eastern travels by the probably fictitious Sir John Mandeville, taken from a 15th century manuscript in the Cottonian library.

Description

Grabhorn Press.- Mandeville (Sir John) The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt. which Treateth of the Way to Hierusalem, and of Marvayles of Inde..., one of 150 copies printed in type designed by Rudolph Koch, woodcut illustrations and illuminated initials supplied by hand in red, blue and gold by Valenti Angelo, original morocco-backed wooden boards by William Wheeler, uncut, very very slight rubbing to head and foot of joints, fleece-lined dust-jacket, preserved in cloth drop-back box, morocco label, short splits to upper joint of box, folio, New York, printed by the Grabhorn Press of San Francisco for Random House, 1928.

⁂ A superb copy of the handsome production recounting the 14th century eastern travels by the probably fictitious Sir John Mandeville, taken from a 15th century manuscript in the Cottonian library.

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