Repertorium Bibliographicum; or, Some Account of the Most Celebrated British Libraries

by William Clarke

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First edition

Engraved frontis., nine engraved plates all somewhat foxed as is usual , & two woodcut ports. in the text. iii -vi, 2 , vii-xlviii pp., one leaf, 138, 133*-138*, 139-78, 2 , 179-392, 2 , 393 - 454 , 449*-454*, 455 -672, 1 pp. Tall 8vo, cont. dark red straight-grained morocco, sides panelled in an elaborate gilt design, spine richly gilt, a.e.g. London: W. Clarke, 1819. First edition, and an unusually lovely copy, of a book which is today

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