Detroit: Gale Research Company, (1997). 4to. cloth. xx, 531 pages. From the Dictionary of Literary Biography: First Series. First edition. A fine copy. Personal and literary biographies of the most important contemporary British book collectors and bibliographers. Well-illustrated with facsimiles of dust jackets, title pages, early drafts of works, photographs, typescripts, book illustrations and much more. With lists of works, suggested readings, references. Includes a cumulative index of previous volumes in this biographical series.
London: Privately Printed for Members of the Society of Bibliophiles, 1898. 8vo. publisher's green cloth, gilt, top edges gilt. 399; 359; 401; 315 pages. Translated by W.G. Waters. Illustrated by Jules Garnier and E. R. Hughes. Limited to 1500 sets, of which this is one of 500 sets printed on Japanese Vellum. Contains tissue guards. Untrimmed edges. Minor rubbing to the cloth boards and spines, all four volumes shaken. A collection of stories by Italian.....