Author: Fitzgerald, Percy
Title: The Book Fancier, or, the Romance of Book Collecting
Description: New York, Scribner & Welford, 1887. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Bound in custom 3/4 brown leather and marble illustrated boards; 5 raised bands on spine with gilt tooling and lettering; marble illustrated end papers; top edge gilt; VI, 312 pp; 71 extra copper, steel and wood engravings bound in. This is a revised second edition. Contents include: Of Book Collectors and Book Dealers; Of the Mazarin Bible; Concerning the Incunables or Cradle Books; Of the Elzevirs, Plantins, and Old Printers; Of Caxtons and of the English Printers; Of the Library; Of Binding and Its Curiosities; Curiosities of Printing; Of Grangerising and Dickensiana: Of Illustrated Books and "Luxurious Editions"; Of the Auction-Room; Of the Shakespeare Folios and Quartos; L'Envoi; Index. VG+ (pages are lightly age toned as expected but otherwise very crisp and clean, binding is tight, pages and plates are in excellent condition considering age of book) .

Keywords: Books and Manuscripts and Printing ; Book Collecting ; ;


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