English Books 1475-1900: a Signpost for Collectors [2 vols; signed]
- SIGNED
- Westminster: Privately Printed, 1927
Westminster: Privately Printed, 1927. First Edition. Edition of 2000 sets. This copy signed on half-title of v.1 by co-author Charles Sawyer, dated January 1st, 1928. Two octavo volumes; publisher's smooth red buckram; top edge gilt; fore and bottom edges untrimmed; dustjackets; xvi,368+viii,423pp. Small area of residue from removed bookplate to front pastedown of v.1, else a clean, sturdy set in the original printed dustwrappers, uniformly darkened on spines, rubbed, with small losses at spine ends and margins - just Very Good.
A popular treatise on collecting for the pre-WW2 20th-century bibliophile, quaint in spots but with much advice that remains sounds today ("...when you know the reasons for costliness you still have to identify the desirable object. What are the stigmata, the marks of genuine rarity, or of genuineness, in a rare copy? That is what this work is intended to state...").
A popular treatise on collecting for the pre-WW2 20th-century bibliophile, quaint in spots but with much advice that remains sounds today ("...when you know the reasons for costliness you still have to identify the desirable object. What are the stigmata, the marks of genuine rarity, or of genuineness, in a rare copy? That is what this work is intended to state...").