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Taste & Technique in Book Collecting. The Sandars lectures in bibliography, 1947

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Taste & Technique in Book Collecting. The Sandars lectures in bibliography, 1947

by Carter, J

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Bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, Very Good in Very Good price-clipped dustwrapper
ISBN 10
0900002301
ISBN 13
9780900002304
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Private Libraries Association, London, fifth impression, 1977. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. xiv, 242 pp. From the blurb: "This new impression of John Carter's Taste & Technique in Book Collecting: A study of recent developments in Great Britain and the United States (the Sandars Lectures for 1947) has added to it a substantial epilogue: viz., the presidential address delivered to the Bibliographical Society in 1969, in which Mr Carter cast a reflective and not invariably respectful eye on the trends, conditions and personalities of the intervening twenty years. There are also three pages of corrections and notes, including some prepared in 1974, two years before the author's death. English reviewers of the original edition called it 'the perfect combination of formidable learning with grace and wit' (The Bookseller) 'this fascinating, witty and provocative book' (Percy H. Muir in The Clique), 'deeply informed, thoughtful, provocative and - let me add - as entertaining as it is instructive' (John Hayward on the BBC Third Programme). As for the United States, Cotton Storm in The Papers of tne Bibliographical Society of America roundly declared that 'the fact is very simple that no book-collector, amateur or adept, should be without a copy'. Bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, Very Good in Very Good price-clipped dustwrapper.

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Bookseller
Wykeham Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
BIBLIO-30728
Title
Taste & Technique in Book Collecting. The Sandars lectures in bibliography, 1947
Author
Carter, J
Format/Binding
Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,
Book Condition
Used - Bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, Very Good in Very Good price-clipped dustwrapper
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0900002301
ISBN 13
9780900002304
Publisher
Private Libraries Association, London, fifth impression, 1977
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1977
Pages
xiv, 242 pp
Keywords
Book collecting. Carter, John 0900002301

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