Private libraries of Providence with a preliminary essay on the love of books

by Horatio Rogers

$150 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Providence: Sidney S. Rider printed by the Providence Press , 1878. Edition limited to 250 copies, small 4to, pp. iv, 2 , 255, 1 ; frontispiece, 10 plates; original three-quarter maroon morocco, gilt-lettered direct on spine; spine scuffed, rear joint neatly reinforced; good copy, internally very clean. A note on the flyleaf reads Bought of Sidney Rider, Sept. 2nd '78 and with the ownership signature of Albt. B. Yohn. With accounts of 8 collectors and

• Binding: Leather

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