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LANDACRE, PAUL. California Hills and Other Wood Engravings. Colophon vignette, cover label, and 14 full-page wood engraved plates with captions in lower margins, by Landacre, printed from the original blocks by Harold Young. 320x240 mm; 12 3/4x9 1/2 inches, sheets. Folio, original decorated boards, toned, spine and edges rubbed with some loss; owner's inscription to front blank facing title-page. Los Angeles: Bruce McCallister, 1931
number 254 of 500 copies signed by landacre. The colophon states: "The artist and the printer pray that he who may be tempted to mutilate this book will be reminded of those dark words of St. Nicholas of Arrinstine: Quem si quis male tractaverit, morte moriatur, in sartagine coquatur, caducus morbus instet eum et febres, et rotetur, et suspendatur. Amen."
