Author: JACKSON, Holbrook
Title: Of the Uses of Books
Description: New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering and purple patterned paper over boards. 29pp. Decorations; text pages ruled in red with margin notes printed in blue. Very good. Boards per usual a bit edgeworn, though internally tight and fine. Nice copy of this "Special Publications" volume of the LEC, an extract from Jackson's popular 1930 "The Anatomy of Bibliomania" -- an amusing essay on alternative uses for books. This copy bears a iunique frontispiece, for tipped in facing the title page is a fine, heavy stock leaf, a facsimile of a 16th century woodblock engraving depicting a medieval gent (likely clergy) writing in a book in his library while rows of persons seated behind him hold up open books, caption beneath reading "Gentlemen look more like gentlemen when fine books are spread out in rich magnificence before them." Verso of this high-quality prints notes, "Woodblock from 'Decretum Gratiani' printed by Francois Fradin, Lyons. c. 1510" and "Text from 'Bibliophobia, or Remarks on the Present Depression in the State of Literature and the Book Trade, 1832' by Thomas Frognall Dibdin" (source of this modern print unknown). Rear colophon notes limitation of 1500 copies "presented to the members of The Limited Editions Club by the Directors of the Club to greet them at the New Year.." NEWMAN A-8. .
Keywords: Bibliography & Books About Books
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Title: Of the Uses of Books
Description: New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering and purple patterned paper over boards. 29pp. Decorations; text pages ruled in red with margin notes printed in blue. Very good. Boards per usual a bit edgeworn, though internally tight and fine. Nice copy of this "Special Publications" volume of the LEC, an extract from Jackson's popular 1930 "The Anatomy of Bibliomania" -- an amusing essay on alternative uses for books. This copy bears a iunique frontispiece, for tipped in facing the title page is a fine, heavy stock leaf, a facsimile of a 16th century woodblock engraving depicting a medieval gent (likely clergy) writing in a book in his library while rows of persons seated behind him hold up open books, caption beneath reading "Gentlemen look more like gentlemen when fine books are spread out in rich magnificence before them." Verso of this high-quality prints notes, "Woodblock from 'Decretum Gratiani' printed by Francois Fradin, Lyons. c. 1510" and "Text from 'Bibliophobia, or Remarks on the Present Depression in the State of Literature and the Book Trade, 1832' by Thomas Frognall Dibdin" (source of this modern print unknown). Rear colophon notes limitation of 1500 copies "presented to the members of The Limited Editions Club by the Directors of the Club to greet them at the New Year.." NEWMAN A-8. .
Keywords: Bibliography & Books About Books
Price: US$ 75.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 49918
- Book number: 49918
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