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AUTOGRAPHS -- GREG, W.W. English Literary Autographs 1550-1650. Selected for reproduction and edited in collaboration with J.P. Gilson, Hilary Jenkinson, R.B. McKerrow, and A.W. Pollard. Oxford: 1925-1932. 4 volumes (3 vols. and 1 vol. supplement) bound in 3, 2 o (349 x 258 mm). 110 collotype plates, each with letterpress descriptive text and transcriptions, "prospectus" loosely inserted. Contemporary brown half sealskin gilt by W.H. Smith and Son, tooled in gilt and blind, top edge gilt. Provenance : Wilfred Merton (bookplate, dated 1932). Limited edition of 250 copies. Vol. I: Dramatists; II: Poets; III: Prose Writers; Supplement: Scholars and Archaeologists. [ With: ] CROFT, P.J. Autograph Poetry in the English Language. Fascimiles of original manuscripts from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. London: 1973. 2 volumes, 2 o (330 x 253 mm). 197 full-page facsimile illustrations. Original cloth-backed boards, dust jackets, within a single slipcase. Edition limited to 1,500 copies, this numbered 254. -- 14 others. (19)