BOOK CLUBS & PRINTING SOCIETIES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
London: Printed at the Curwen Press, and published by the First Edition Club, 1929. First edition, 1/750 unnumbered copies. 8vo. viii, (2), 126 pp. Title-page imprint, shoulder notes, and colophon printed in red. "On the study of texts, on the appeal of antiquarianism, on wayfarings among forgotten books or rare editions, and the contribution these ventures bring to our knowledge of history, of social life, and of literature, are founded those societies whose work this essay follows" (Preface), e.g., Roxburghe Club, the Camden Society, the Hakluyt Society, the Harleian Society, the Selden Society, the Shakespeare Society, the Early English Text Society, the Type Facsimile Society, the Baskerville Club, the Bibliographical Society (London), among some 60 others discussed. Very good. Original patterned cloth, spine title. (10559). Item #37055
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