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How to Collect Books by Slater, J. Herbert - 1905

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How to Collect Books by Slater, J. Herbert - 1905

How to Collect Books

by Slater, J. Herbert

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[6], xii, 205, [3] pages.

First edition. With numerous black and white full-page and in-text illustrations.


Cloth covered boards, stamped in brown and gilt to spine and front. Cloth very lightly rubbed in places. Top edge gilt. Very light foxing to end-papers and some text pages. Small ex-libris stamp "LS" to title-page.


Contents: I. Hints to Beginners; II. Some Practical Details; III. Manuscripts; IV. Paper and Paper Marks; V. The Title-Page and the Colophon; VI. Incunabula and the Early Printers; VII Illustrated Books; VIII. Some Celebrated Presses; IX. On Bookbinding; X. Great Collectors; XI Auction Sales and Catalogues; XII. Early Editions and Strange Books.


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  • Bookseller Independent bookstores ES (ES)
  • Format/Binding Cloth covered boards.
  • Book Condition Used - Good+
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  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher George Bell and Sons.
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1905
  • Size 8vo.
  • Size 8vo.

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Canterbury Bookshop. Collectible - Acceptable. Signed Copy Collectible - Acceptable. No Dust Jacket From the Art Reference Collection of wildlife artist and outdoorsman Alan James Robinson. This collection was used by Robinson to create his wonderful art and Cheloniidae Press books. Signed by Alan James Robinson on custom bookplate on endpage. Facsimile edition. Uncut pages. Shelf worn. Shelf cocked. Rubbed and scuffed on corners. Corners bowed. Foxed and toned on page edges. Rubbed on cover. Sunned on spine. (how to, book, collecting)
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London: George Bell and Sons, 1905. original decorated cloth, top edge gilt. 8vo. original decorated cloth, top edge gilt. xii, 206, (2) pages. First edition. (Webber p.120). Rubbing to spine and hinges. Front hinge starting. Private bookplates of Jacob L. Chernofsky and Charles Feleky on front pastedown. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Twelve chapters including ones on paper and water marks and bookbinding.
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London: George Bell and Sons, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor wear to head and tail, minor foxing, else tight, bright and unmarred. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and black decorative elements, frontispiece. 8vo. 205pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Index. 2pp. advertisements.
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London: George Bell and Sons, 1905. 8vo. 205pp. Hard cover in plastic bag. Black and white plates. Good. Some water damage.
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