From the OPUS PASCHALE of C. SEDULIUS (Patrologiæ/Tomus xix/ edited by J.-P. Migne)

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Lexington The Anvil Press, 1955. Sm. 4to., decorated paper over boards with a printed paper label extending onto both covers. One of just 250 COPIES printed in black and brick red in Hammer's American Uncial type on handmade paper by Carolyn Reading Hammer. There are eight woodcuts of the Evangelists & their symbols, also used in the Press's edition of The Gospells. The figures were derived by Hammer from the Holkham Bible. A fine copy of a most attractive book. See: Victor Hammer: Artist and Printer. p. 59. EIGHT WOODCUTS BY VICTOR HAMMER

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