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ABC FOR BOOK COLLECTORS. 6TH ED. (U.S.)
Carter, John
Sixth Edition with additions and corrections by Nicolas Barker.
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Reprint of sixth edition with additions and corrections by Nicolas Barker. See S-K 1602 for binding references. Shaken! Unsophisticated! Harleian Style! Fingerprint! Yapp! Dentelle! Can you define these terms? If not this is the book for you! John Carter's ABC For Book Collectorshas long been established as the most enjoyable as well as the most informative reference book on the subject. Here in over 450 alphabetical entries, ranging in length from a single line to several pages, may be found definition and analysis of the technical terms of book collecting and bibliography, interspersed with salutary comment on such subjects as auctions, condition, facsimiles and fakes, `points', rarity, etc. This sixth edition incorporates corrections and amendments already prepared by John Carter before his death and includes a number of other entries. The ABC For Book Collectorsthus retains its character as the one indispensable guide to book collecting. Fourth printing of American sixth edition.
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TE DEUM LAUDAMUS.
First edition. (See William Fredeman's article on this press in the Library, June 1974, pp.139-164). Printed, published and illuminated by Emily Faithfull, the proprietor of the Victoria Press. Fredeman calls this one of the "most splendid works published by Emily Faithfull". "As physical objects (this book and one other produced by Faithfull), they are superior to any book issued with the imprint of the press, and they compare favourably with similar books by Owen Jones and Noel Humphreys..." Emily Faithfull established this press in 1860 as an outlet for her theories on the employment of women and the press employed mostly women in most facets of the business. The press was transferred to the Queen Printing and Publishing Company in 1881.
Presentation on verso of free endpaper "R. Townsend Mayer, With Emily Faithful's best regards, Feb. 24, 1869." With the bookplate of Samuel Ralph Townsend and Gertrude Mary Mayer on front pastedown. Wear at bottom of spine and one corner. Inside hinges craced with pages loose as often happened with this book as the pages were not sewn in by the original binder.
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