Author: (GRIFFITHS, A.F., ED.).- Auction catalogue
Title: Bibliotheca Anglo-poetica; or, a descriptive catalogue of a rare and rich collection of early English poetry: In the possession of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. Illustrated by occasional extracts and remarks, critical and biographical.
Description: London, for the proprietors of the collection, 1815. W.front. and num. sm. portraits in the text. Contemp. hlf. red mor., over grey cloth, spine gilt (some rubb. upper outer hinge; corners rubbed / dam.). [n3, a2, B4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, 3A4-3P4, X1]. (X [incl. front.], 481, I pp.). (A few annotations in ball-point ink on p. 1). (Some occasional spotting and yellowing.). De Ricci, Engl. collectors of books, 90/1: " ...an ambitious catalogue: ....drawn up by A.F. Griffiths and containing 956 items fully described and priced, many at quite expensive figures."

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