Rogers, Horatio

Private Libraries of Providence, with a Preliminary Essay on the Love of Books.

Providence, RI: Sidney S. Rider, 1878. First edition, 1/250 copies. 4to. iv, (2), 255 pp. Illustrations from engravings, plates, coats-of-arm. Includes descriptions of the John Carter Brown and John R. Bartlett libraries, among others. Bookplate on front pastedown, a little foxing, but very good. Contemporary three-quarter morocco, gilt, and marbled boards, gilt spine title, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. (9543). Item #62861

Price: $125.00