Edition of 260 copies. Pollard was educated at King's College School in London and St John's College at the University of Oxford. He joined the staff of the British Museum in 1883, as assistant in the Department of Printed Books; he was promoted to Assistant Keeper in 1909, and Keeper in 1919. Light tanning to edges of paper-covered boards, lovely frontispiece, unopened, very light rubbing to ends of spine.