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1892 Book Collecting A Guide for Amateurs
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Description
Colour Plates, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Pleasing Copy, Publishers' Original Binding
A limited edition to five hundred copies printed on large paper (including America.) This copy being number two hundred and nine.
A brilliant guide on collecting for amateurs, with hints on how to recognise collectible items, from ancient manuscripts, early printed American books, and suppressed books, to understanding the different press and printers, scarcity, collation, and much more.
An exhaustive and fascinating guide for those interested in starting to collect books.
Illustrated with one coloured plate and various in text illustrations.
Condition
In the original publisher's cloth binding, with gilt to the front board and spine. Externally excellent with only slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. R. E Marty's bookplate to the front pastedown, dated 1903. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally clean throughout with minor faint scattered spotting to the odd leaf. Illustrated with one coloured plate and various in text illustrations.
Very Good Indeed
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