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Van Dorsten J.A.

Thomas Basson 1555-1613. English Printer at Leiden. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO SIR ROY STRONG

Universitaire Pers Leiden for the Sir Thomas Browne Institute, - Leiden, 1961

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Year of publication
1961
Author
Van Dorsten J.A.
Publishers
Universitaire Pers Leiden for the Sir Thomas Browne Institute,, Leiden
Keyword
bibliography, printing, basson, holland, leiden, roy strong, j.a. van dorsten, bibliography, printing, typography, thomas, basson, 1555-1613
Languages
English

Description

8vo., First Edition, with 5 plates (one folding an captioned in red) and 5 illustrations and facsimiles in the text; cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO [SIR] ROY C STRONG WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. This valuable reference includes an extensive checklist of Basson's works. Sir Roy Strong (1935- ), historian, art critic and garden writer, was educated at the University of London and the Warburg Institute. He was Director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1967 to 1973 and of the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1974 to 1987. In 1980 he was awarded the prestigious Shakespeare Prize by the FVS Foundation of Hamburg in recognition of his contribution to the arts in the UK.
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