1900 A Book For All Readers Designed as an Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries

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Leather Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

This work is a useful guide to the collecting, use, and preservation of books, looking in detail at book buying, the art of bookbinding, the history of libraries, rare books, and more. Written by Ainsworth Rand Spofford. Spofford was an American journalist, and also worked as the Librarian of Congress for thirty years, after having worked as a journalist and editor at the Cincinnati Commercial. With four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.