The Art of Carving,.... excerpted from a Work entitled The Honours of the Table (1788). Now reprinted by W.L. [Walter Lewis]. With a Biographical Note by S.M. [Stanley Morison] and an Appreciation by S.C.R. [Sydney Castle Roberts].

(Cambridge Christmas Book.) TRUSLER (John, Revd Dr)

Publication details: Cambridge: At the University Press,1931,

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Inscribed on the flyleaf, by the manager of the Press's London office: 'Ambrose Heal, from R.J.L. Kingsford, Christmas 1931'; the recipient was the furniture-designer and bibliophile.The Cambridge University Printer's Christmas book for 1931, the second in the series - a positive notice in The Times prompted a trade edition.

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ONE OF 100 COPIES, reproductions of 26 woodcuts, pp. x, 76, foolscap 8vo, original quarter blue cloth with marbled boards, backstrip lettered in gilt and slightly faded, edges and endpapers lightly spotted, pencil smudges at top corners of flyleaf, very good,

Bibliography: (Appleton 118a: Crutchley p.14)

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