SEXTODECIMOS ET INFRA.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. First edition, 1/140 copies (of 152; this #68) on English hand-made paper. 12mo. xiii, 117 pp. Illustrated from photographs of bindings, facsimile title pages, illustrated manuscripts, etc., 36 plates, twelve of them, of bindings, in full color, color title-page illustration and historiated initial; the final nine pages of text comprise a bibliography of the author's publications through 1898. Ruminations on various small books in the author's library. A few nicks at extremities, else a fine copy. Original light paper boards in French-fold gilt-stamped, elaborately ornamented wrappers, gilt spine title, publisher's slipcase. (10635). Item #64160

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