A Practical Guide to American Ninteenth Century Color Plate Books

New York: Bennett Book Studios, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. No DJ. First Edition. Hardcover. Frontispiece portrait of Lillian Bennett. Covers 19th cent. American books having at least three colored plates (including frontispieces). Includes extensive annotations and plate counts, but no collations. Children's books and books with tinted plates are *not* included. Overall, a handsome copy. Light shelf wear, ghost images of tape from long missing jacket on endpages, front hinge starting, else tight, bright and unmarred. Red cloth boards, gilt lettering, frontispiece. 8vo. xxi, 132pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Index.