A Catalogue of Books

by Henry George Bohn

$1,250 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

Frontis. depicting the facade of Bohn’s bookshop, title within decorative border foxed . 1 p.l., iv, 1948 pp.; 148, 4 pp. Two vols. Thick 8vo, cont. half-morocco & cloth sides minor foxing , spines nicely gilt. London: 1841. A very pretty copy, sensibly bound in two volumes, of the “celebrated ‘guinea catalogue’ which listed no less than 23,208 articles a figure unsurpassed in the annals of bookselling so far as my knowledge

• Binding: Leather

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