The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature, Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, Published in or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing; with Bibliographical and Critical Notices, Collations of the Rarer Articles, and the Prices at Which they Have Been Sold in the Present Century. [ 2 vols only of 3 ]
by Lowndes, W.T
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- A sound ex-library set with gilt callnumbers on the spines, library labels on the (replaced) front free endpapers, and small lib
- Seller
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LONDON, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
William Pickering, London, first edition, 1834. 2 vols only (lacking volume III), library half-leather and boards, spines gilt, 8vo. xii, iii, 758 + 759-1390 pp,. The first edition of Lowndes' stupendous achievement and the only one to be published by William Pickering, this manual was issued in parts to form four "handsomely printed volumes" (Keynes) but this set was bound as three volumes of which only Volumes I and II are present (taking the alphabet through from A-Ozanam inclusive. A sound ex-library set with gilt callnumbers on the spines, library labels on the (replaced) front free endpapers, and small library stamps on the versos of the title-pages. Top edges coloured blue, with slight colour bleeding at the top of some pages, generally a Good (though incomplete) set.
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- Seller
- Wykeham Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- BIBLIO-07218
- Title
- The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature, Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, Published in or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing; with Bibliographical and Critical Notices, Collations of the Rarer Articles, and the Prices at Which they Have Been Sold in the Present Century. [ 2 vols only of 3 ]
- Author
- Lowndes, W.T
- Format/Binding
- 2 vols only (lacking volume III), library half-leather and boards, spines gilt, 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - A sound ex-library set with gilt callnumbers on the spines, library labels on the (replaced) front free endpapers, and small lib
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Pickering, London, first edition, 1834
- Date Published
- 1834
- Pages
- xii, iii, 758 + 759-1390 pp,
- Keywords
- English literature Rare books Great Britain Great Britain Imprints Ireland Imprints Books Prices Lowndes, William Thomas
- Bookseller catalogs
- Universal and National Bibliography;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Wykeham Books
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About the Seller
Wykeham Books
Biblio member since 2005
LONDON, Aberdeen
About Wykeham Books
We specialize chiefly in "books about books", the emphasis being on historical aspects of book collecting, production and distribution. A particular speciality is in bibliographies, of all subjects of interest to collectors, dealers and scholars, with several thousand bibliography titles in stock. Other strengths include extensive holdings of auction catalogues for book sales and a good selction of reference material on and facsimiles of illuminated manuscripts. We also have a special interest in rare material by or about Rudyard Kipling.
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