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Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899, Grevel, H, Einsle, Anton, 1848-1897 · New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 190
tle Latin classics in duodecimo of which the value is now sogreat. Among others, Pliny issued from their presses in the year The Elzevirs. 171 1635, in three volumes, Virgil in 1636, and Cicero in 1642.To-day amateurs, above all those afflicted with bibliomania, huntfor unbound Elzevirs when they… … Fig. 103.—Title of Pluvinels Manege Royal, engraved by Crispin Pass in 1624. paper was larger, and the page in i2mo measured] from abouta hundred and thirty-five to a hundred and thirty-seven. Onemust be a book-lover to understand the interest attaching tothese figures, and employ his entire…
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