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Elizabeth Gaskell: The Grey Woman (1861)
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Recueil d’Ornements d’après les Maîtres les Plus Célèbres des XV, XVI, XVII et XVIIIe Siècles Agatha Christie Award-winning biographer Richard Holmes hasBALDUS, douard. Recueil dOrnements daprs les Matres les Plus Clbres des XV, XVI, XVII et XVIIIe Sicles, or, Collection of Ornaments after the most famous masters of the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Paris: Heliogravure par Edouard Baldus, 1866. Large folio, 448 x 328 mm. French text. First edition. Ornamental heliogravure title, 99 further heliogravure plates of designs after Aldegraver, Beham, Durer, Delaune, and others