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Issued unbound in a case (46 cm.) with portfolio (43 cm.).
Facsimile of a vol. in possession of Paul Mellon containing 116 designs with inlaid pages from Gray's Poems, 1790. The designs were probably begun in 1797.
"518 copies ... 12 copies numbered I to XII, in three volumes, full morocco, with an additional portfolio containing a series of progressives showing the stages in the hand-stencil colouring of a single plate, together with original guide-sheets and stencils and other material used in making the facsimile, presented in a matching box. 36 copies numbered 1 to 36, unbound in the French style, in a full morocco portfolio, with an additional portfolio containing technical material ... 352 copies numbered 37 to 388, in three volumes bound in quarter morocco or unbound in the French style in a quarter morocco portfolio ... 100 copies numbered 389 to 488 are reserved for Mr. Paul Mellon. 18 copies numbered A to R are hors commerce"--Leaf 2.
Victoria University Library copy is no. 459 of 100 numbered copies reserved for Mr. Paul Mellon.
Victoria University Library copy has original wrappers as issued.
Victoria University Library copy has reprint from the Nov. 21, 1971 Observer article on the techniques of publication of this volume laid in; Interim prospectus laid in.
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