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New York, NY: Burt Franklin. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1970. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Spine ends lightly bumped.; Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland has an impressive collection of incunabula donated from the collections of at least eight Archbishops, an entire library donated by the "English army in Ireland," another library of a Doctor of Divinity, and numerous smaller libraries from collectors. Originally published in 1905, this catalog of incunabula was compiled by the Trinity College's librarian and cataloger of manuscripts Reverend Thomas Kingsmill Abbott. Lists bibliographic information and collation for 606 books. Eleven plates depict decorative capitals, printed leaves, illustrations, and a particularly fanciful illustration of the Purgatory of Saint Patrick that should frighten anyone into a sin-free life. Includes a Preface, List of Books Referred to, a Corrigenda of errors, Chronological Index from 1481-1500, Index of Printers and Places, Index of… Read More

Boston: Little Brown and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1937. 1st Separate Edition. Hardcover. Wear to all corners, spine ends rubbed, free endpapers and heads of leaves very faintly toned. Lacks the glassine wrapper, as most do.; Morley was Editor-in-Chief of the 1937 11th edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and wrote this oh-so-typically-Morley Preface. In editing with collaborator Louella D. Everett, they focused not only on inclusion, but the exclusion of quotations that had outlived their usefulness. Of "Bartlett's" he said " This is in no sense a collection of personal choices. It is foremost a salvage of those words which users of the English tongue have shown evidence not willingly to let die." "Ancient footnotes that have come downstream through former editions have often been dropped when they seemed pointless: one remembers the man (I forget who) described by Dr. Johnson as having ‘a rage for saying something when there was… Read More