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Title: PHILIBIBLON. (For The Book Club of California)..
Description: San Francisco, Robert Grabborn, 1925. Un volume (26x39 cm) di (6)-41-(5) pagine, su carta a mano olandese, stampa a due colori, capilettera incisi e figurati. Legatura originale in cartonato azzurro con grande stemma dorato al piatto, dorso in tela: usure ai due estremi del dorso , agli angoli e (meno evidenti) ad un margine. Edizione numerata di 250 copie (questa la n. 124) stampata da Edwin e Robert Grabborn. Ex libris al retro del piatto di Emma and Alfred Ehrman. Al colophon: "The Book of Philobiblon, written by Richard De Bury, sometime Bishop of Durham; finished by him in the year A.D. 1345, and first printed at Cologne in 1473. Translated into English by John Bellingham Englis, printed at London, in 1832, and now printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, San Francisco, California, with decorations and initial letters by Donald McKay. Alfred Brooks Kennedy, compositor. Of this edition two hundred & fifty copies have been printed on Holland hand-made paper for The Book Club of California. Finished the fifth day of December, 1925".

Keywords: BIBLIOGRAFIA, BIBLIOFILIA

Price: EUR 60.00 = appr. US$ 65.21 Seller: Libreria Bacbuc – Studio bibliografico Coisson di Giova
- Book number: 011393