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Exhibition, The Assembly Rooms, York. [Exhibition catalogue]. Pp. 12, processed, 5 text illustrations, index of artists; demy 8vo; yellow stiff paper wrappers, stapled, the upper wrapper lettered and decorated in black, with date (1983) added by hand in blue ink, backstrip faintly faded, the upper wrapper a trifle soiled and slightly creased; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper wrapper; n.p., n.d.[the author, London, 1983?]. *Inscribed by the author (to English bookseller John Saumarez Smith) at the head of the first page. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Assembly Rooms, York, 24 & 25 September, 1983, held as part of the Tenth York Book Fair. The exhibition was first shown in Oxford in March the same year, and David Alexander's introductory essay was originally published in the annual magazine of Wolfson College, Oxford, Lycidas (No. 10, 1981-2). Item #167076
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