The Rowan Gibbs Book Collection
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Fabricius - The Maid of Avon or The Mirth of the Moon and Facts and Fancies
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Lot Details
Printed for the Author by John Henry Field, Auckland 1882 Poetry, 104pp 8vo original limp cloth boards, foxing, cover worn, the author's name penned on the title page beneath his pseudonym (“Doctor Wright’s brother, Parnell”). Fabricius [i.e. Charles Denyer Wright], dedicated this book "with permission to Sir George Grey, K.C.B.". The subscriber list totals 100 copies, Grey himself taking six. Bagnall 6188.
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