Private Libraries of Providence, with a Preliminary Essay on the Love of Books

Name: Private Libraries of Providence, with a Preliminary Essay on the Love of Books
Price: 125 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Horatio Rogers

by Horatio Rogers

$125 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Providence, RI: Sidney S. Rider, 1878. First edition, 1/250 copies. 4to. iv, 2 , 255 pp. Illustrations from engravings, plates, coats-of-arm. Includes descriptions of the John Carter Brown and John R. Bartlett libraries, among others. Bookplate on front pastedown, a little foxing, but very good. Contemporary three-quarter morocco, gilt, and marbled boards, gilt spine title, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. 9543 . Item #62861

Binding: Leather

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