Ex Libris: Essays of a Collector
by Allen, Charles Dexter
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Lamson, Wolffe, and Company, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Good. collotype photos. 12mo, 157 pages, gray cloth, untrimmed, heel of spine worn
Allen was a prominent scholar of bookplates and their literature. Twenty-one booplates are here reproduced, including one by Thomas Bewick. With the ex libris of John Edward Zahn, designed by T. R. Hopkins, and engraved by G. W. Van Nortwick of Denver. "My purpose is merely to set down ... certain facts and incidents in history and biography ... to show by such means in what the charm of the book-plate consists - Preface."
Allen was a prominent scholar of bookplates and their literature. Twenty-one booplates are here reproduced, including one by Thomas Bewick. With the ex libris of John Edward Zahn, designed by T. R. Hopkins, and engraved by G. W. Van Nortwick of Denver. "My purpose is merely to set down ... certain facts and incidents in history and biography ... to show by such means in what the charm of the book-plate consists - Preface."
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0009423
- Title
- Ex Libris
- Author
- Allen, Charles Dexter
- Illustrator
- collotype photos
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Lamson, Wolffe, and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- bibliomania, bibliophilism, bibliodisia, ex libris, bookplates, book-plates, thomas bewick, t. r. hopkins, g. w. van nortwick,
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About the Seller
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Biblio member since 2005
Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- First Edition
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- Spine
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- G
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- 12mo
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- Cloth
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