Ashendene Press.- Vita di Santa Chiara, one of 236 copies, original limp vellum with ties, 1921
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Ashendene Press.- Vita di Santa Chiara Vergine composta per Vgolino Verino Cittadino Florentino, Reprinted from the Original Manuscript with an Introduction and Notes by Walter W. Seton, one of 236 copies on paper, printed in red and black in Subiaco type with initials in red & blue, first two leaves of the original manuscript reproduced in collotype facsimile, original limp vellum with ties, spine titled in gilt, uncut, [Hornby XXX; Franklin p.240], 8vo, Ashendene Press, 1921.*** The original manuscript, written in a late XVth century hand for the nuns of St.Clare, belonged to Lord Vernon and was bought by Hornby at the sale of Vernon's library at Sotheby's in 1918. "Another neglected Ashendene book: owners should take a more intelligent interest than to close it after admiring type...This and Omar Khayyam are the two Ashendenes which rank as serious critical editions". (Franklin).
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Ashendene Press.- Vita di Santa Chiara, one of 236 copies, original limp vellum with ties, 1921
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