SELIGMAN, Edwin Robert Anderson.

£1,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington

Curiosities of Early Economic Literature. First edition, number 13 of 100 copies only, set in Cloister Oldstyle type on Van Gelder paper. The private press movement nearly passed by economic literature entirely; this is one of the few exceptions. "This very interesting discourse on some early English and American Curiosities was read by the author at the fourteenth quarterly dinner of the Hobby Club of New York, in 1914. It was not printed until six years later, 1920, due to the outbreak of the World War. The frontispiece is a full-page reproduction of the menu card, a very elaborate production showing pictorially some of the characters and books with which the address was concerned. This is a very scarce item" (O'Day, Catalogue of Books printed by John Henry Nash, pp. 19-20). Library Hub lists just four copies in British institutions.

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