Hieroglyphic Tales - Officina Bodoni 1929
by Walpole, Horace
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
London: Elkin Mathews., printed at the Officina Bodoni, 1929. 1st edition, limited to 250. Hardcover. 1929, Printed for Elkin Mathews at the Officina Bodoni . 85, [3] pp. 23.5x16.4 cm (9¼x6½"), patterned paper-covered boards, paper spine label. One of 250 copies printed by hand with the original 12 point type Cuneo of Giambattista Bodoni by Giovanni Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni.
"The first edition of Hieroglyphic Tales consisted of only six copies which were printed in 1785 by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill. The book was reprinted, with alterations and excisions, in Walpole's collected works edited by Miss Berry in 1798. The text here followed is that of the first edition. Some notes, written by Horace Walpole in his copy of the first-sheets of the first edition, now in the British Museum, have been added" - colophon.
"The first edition of Hieroglyphic Tales consisted of only six copies which were printed in 1785 by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill. The book was reprinted, with alterations and excisions, in Walpole's collected works edited by Miss Berry in 1798. The text here followed is that of the first edition. Some notes, written by Horace Walpole in his copy of the first-sheets of the first edition, now in the British Museum, have been added" - colophon.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rare Books Honolulu (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1071L
- Title
- Hieroglyphic Tales - Officina Bodoni 1929
- Author
- Walpole, Horace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition, limited to 250
- Publisher
- Elkin Mathews., printed at the Officina Bodoni
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Limited Editions;
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- Colophon
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- First Edition
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