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Ulysses

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"The twelfth and final in this Sixth Series of books issued to the members of the Club ... The edition is illustrated by ... Henri Matisse; there are twenty drawings, made as studies for the etchings, and the six etchings printed by hand. ... The…

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly

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"The second in the Ninth Series of books issued to the members of this Club ... illustrated with sixteen lithographs ... It is designed by John S. Fass and printed by him ... The type used is linotype De Vinne (for the first time in one of our books)…

The Scarlet Letter

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"The second in the new Series of books issued to the members of this Club ... is illustrated with forty-nine lithographs ... It is bound in full leather ... The text is composed in monotype Bodoni types, and printed on a white rag paper especially…

The Last of the Mohicans

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"The ninth in the present series of books issued to the members of this Club ... with a special introduction by Edward Everett Hale ... Edward A. Wilson has made the illustrations, there being eight black pen drawings and sixteen water-colors…

The Comedies, Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare

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"Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed at the Press of A. Colish."--Colophon ; Edited by Herbert Farjeon from the text of the first folio and quarto editions

The Faerie Queene, Disposed into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues

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"The second, in this Twenty-second Series of the fine books made for the members of this Club ... typographic plans ... [of] John Austen... The composition, the printing and the binding were done under the supervision of Charles Batey ... The type is…

The Canterbury Tales

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"The first, in this Seventeenth Series of the fine books made for the members of this Club... The illustrations are portraits of the pilgrims, done as brilliantly-colored miniatures... The type used is Walbaum. The type pages are decorated with…

The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer

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Printed on grey paper with an arrangement of rules and floriated initials in color; quarter bound in white buckram with beige paper over boards; the front cover of each volume is illustrated with a reproduction of Chaucer's arms.

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

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"The fifth in the present series of books issued to the members of this Club... The type used is monotype Bembo in the 16-point size, and it is printed on a white manomacchina paper made by the Cartierre di San Marco of Milan and watermarked with the…

The Confessions of St. Augustine

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"The eighth of this Thirtieth Series of the fine books made for the members of this Club ... The twenty-four full-page color illustrations have been painted by Edy Legrand; four of thse have been printed as endpapers... The book has been designed by…