- Sl. foxed. Slipcase browned and worn along extremities. = Cf. Derra de Moroda 1656: "A most beautiful ed."
- Contents fine. Owner's stamp on verso first free endpaper; hinges weak. Binding badly finger-/ dustsoiled.
= The Unicorn Quartos no. 3.
= Arntzen/ Rainwater E37: "After Thieme-Becker the most useful universal dictionary of artists".
- One offset plate loose. Some vague scratches on frontcover. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVI.
= Arntzen/ Rainwater M416.
- Contents loosening. Binding worn along extremities.
AND 1 other auction catalogue concerning the sale of a Thomas Bewick collection (Pease Bequest).
- Contemp. owner's entry on first free endpapers. First vol. joints professionally restored; spine-ends worn.
AND the auction catalogue of the Hugo collection sale (London, 1877, modern hcl., orig. wr. pres.).
- Wr. trifle yellowed; trifle dogeared. = Rarely found unfolded.
= Printed in an edition of 40 copies, SIGNED and numb. on loosely inserted accompanying colophon card in envelope. Each sheet of wrapping paper printed twice.
- All unused.
= Sent yearly as a New Year's wish by the conceptual artist Barbara Bloom (b.1951), partly w. accompanying autograph wish. Present are: 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 (single sheet) and 2000.
AND a few autogr. cards etc. by the same.
= Provenance: the collection of Kees Broos and Liesbeth Brandt Corstius.
- Fold in frontwr. = SIGNED by the artist.
AND 1 other on artists' books.