The Book: Its Printers, Illustrators, and Binders, from Gutenberg to the Present Time. With a treatise on the Art of Collecting and Describing Early Printed Books, and a Latin-English and English-Latin Topographical Index of the Earliest Printing Places. Edited by H. Grevel. Containing One Hundred and Seventy-Two Fac-Similes

London: H. Grevel, 1890. One of 100 large paper copies. An extensively revised edition containing sixty-five new illustrations. Wood-engraved frontispiece, text illustrations. Decorative borders, initial letters, and tail-pieces. Index. Contemporary armorial bookplate. Light foxing to edges, bookplate. A very good, attractive copy. Full vellum, decoratively stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut, Large octavo. xv, [1], 383, [1] pp. Item #15008

Price: $300.00

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