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Creator:
Earle, John, 1601?-1665
Title(s):
Micro-cosmographie, or, A piece of the world discovered in essayes and characters / by John Earle ; edited by Gwendolen Murphy.
Additional Title(s):
Piece of the world discovered in essayes and characters
Published/Created:
Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire : Printed and published at The Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXVIII [1928]
Physical Description:
[2], vi, [2], 73, [3] pages ; 27 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR2270.E27 M53 1928+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"This text is faithfully reprinted from the first complete edition in 1633, except that obvious misprints have been corrected, and two alternative spelling adopted, to facilitate reading."--Textual notes.
"This book was printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, and completed on January 10th, 1928, Compositors: A.H. Gibbs and F. Young. Pressman: A.C. Cooper. The edition is limited to 400 copies, of which 150 are for the United States of America."--Colophon.
Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949, 55
SML,Y Ih Ea75 +628Mj: Number 149.
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 246 of 400. Bound in red buckram.
Subject Terms:
Characters and characteristics.
Private press books -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence -- Specimens.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence.
Contributors:
Gibbings, Robert, 1889-1958, printer.
Murphy, Gwendolen, editor.
Golden Cockerel Press, publisher.
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