[Early Cloth Binding]. Le Rime.
London: C. Corrall for G. Pickering, 1822. One of the series usually known as Pickering’s “Diamond Classics,” they are some of the earliest books to have publisher’s bindings of cloth. 48mo. [7], 237pp., [9, index]. Keynes, pg. 72. Porter 146. Tomlinson & Masters, pg. 11. Carter, Binding Variants.....
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