Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: H. Grevel and Co, London
Date Published: 1887
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo. viii, 312 pp., illus. teg. Translated from the French into English by Edward C. Bigmore. Contains 118 illustrations. Bound in green cloth with gilt decoration and lettering on both front and spine. Hinges beginning to split, edgewear, corners bumped, covers a bit soiled. read more
Description: New York: Scribner & Welford. 1887. (First edition thus). Small octavo. Gilt decorated olive cloth. Ex library. Preliminaries and endpapers have soem of the usual library markings and attachments. Edges are tanned. Contents are shaken. Extremities are worn else good. A very readable reference copy of this important history of the book. Translated and enlarged by Edward C. Bigmore. Profusely illustrated. A wonderful book. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: H. Grevel and Co., London, large paper edition
Date Published: 1887
Description: Covers a little scuffed, otherwise Very Good. Large-paper copies are uncommon: there is a later pencilled note stating that only 50 were printed. Quarter-leather and cloth, 4to, viii, 312 pp, 118 ills, facs. A general history of the printed book with the emphasis on its illustration and the work of designers, engravers, etchers etc. The book is a translation, with revisions, from the French edition of about 1886. read more
Edition: First English language edition
Binding: HB in green cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration
Publisher: H. Grevel and Co., London
Date Published: 1887
Description: Good without dust jacket. Octavo. Wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Light scuffing to covers with a few minor wrinkles/ridges in binding. Gilt upper edges of pages. Front hinge is a little weak with a minor tear. Name and date written in pencil on front free endpaper and date written on page 312. Some foxing and spotting on pages. 312 pages with illustrations and index. read more
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