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(BOOK COLLECTORS). (QUARITCH, BERNARD). Contributions Towards a Dictionary of English-Collectors, as also of some Foreign Collectors Whose Libraries were incorporated in English Collections or whose books are chiefly met with in England. [Wrapper title]. Part I-[VIII] of 13. London: Bernard Quaritch, May 1892-December 18. 8vo. Illustrated with numerous plates, including colored plates of book bindings, boo. Orig. printed wrappers for each part. Slight fraying, library blind stamp on wraps, but very nice. $350.00

 

An incomplete, but very rare, early and quite splendid authoritive English work on book collectors by a famous bookseller, starting with the libraries of Thomas Cranmer and Bilibald Pirkheimer up through, in part VIII, W.E. Gladstone and James Lenox ("the greatest representative which America has produced").