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Title(s)
The Ashley library, a catalogue of printed books, manuscripts and autograph letters, collected by Thomas James Wise ...
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Published/Created
London, Printed for private circulation only, 1922-36.
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Physical Description
11 v. fronts, ports., facsims. 27 cm.
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Holdings
Reference Library
Z997 .W57 (LC)
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Books
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Notes
BEIN Richards Kipling 1606: Imperfect: Vol. X only. Bound in yellow buckram, ornamented and lettered in gilt. From the David Alan Richards Collection of Rudyard Kipling.
Part of plates printed on both sides.
"Of this book two hundred copies only have been printed."
Device on recto of last leaf inscribed: The Ashley library. Privately printed.
"Mr. Wise's aim ... has been to form a library of the first editions of the famous English poets and dramatists, in perfect state, from Elizabethan times until the present."--Pref.
Richards, D.A. Rudyard Kipling: a bibliography, B 88 -
Subject Terms
English drama -- Bibliography -- Catalogs. | English literature -- First editions -- Bibliography. | English poetry -- Bibliography -- Catalogs. | Kipling, Rudyard, 1865–1936 -- Bibliography -- Catalogs. | Rare books -- Bibliography -- Catalogs. | Richards, David Alan, 1945– -- Ownership. | Wise, Thomas James, 1859–1937 -- Library.
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Form/Genre
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Export
I. A-C -- II. D-Jones -- III. Jonson-Pollard -- IV.Pope-Settle -- V. Shadwell-Shirley -- VI. Sterne-Swinburne -- VII. Swinburne (continued)-Wollstone -- VIII. Wordsworth-Yates. Additions and admissions: A-W -- IX. [Supplement] A-Y. Index to v. 1-9 -- X. [Supplement] A-Y -- XI. [Supplement] A-Y. Index to v. 10-11.
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