[CLUB BINDERY] -- [GROLIER CLUB].  Effigies of the Most Famous English Writers from Chaucer to Johnson. New York: The De Vinne Press for the Grolier C

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  [CLUB BINDERY] -- [GROLIER CLUB].  Effigies of the Most Famous English Writers from Chaucer to Johnson. New York: The De Vinne Press for the Grolier Club, 1891.
  
  8vo (228 x 150 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the addition of 80 engraved portraits. (Some minor offsetting of plates to text.) Contemporary red crushed levant gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in three, the rest gilt-decorated, turn-ins gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, STAMP-SIGNED BY THE CLUB BINDERY (tiny bump and scuff to top edge, some light rubbing to corners). Provenance: Edwin B. Holden (1861-1906), President of the Grolier Club (bookplate, sold his sale, American Art Association, 28 April 1920, lot 741).  LIMITED EDITION, one of 200 copies of the LARGE-PAPER EDITION of the Grolier catalogue for their exhibit of effigies of English writers, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED by the addition of engraved portraits of English writers and BOUND BY THE CLUB BINDERY.   Edwin B. Holden, an early member of the Grolier club, served as President of the organization in 1906. A FINE ASSOCATION.  
  
  
  Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois

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