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"New edition, revised, corrected and enlarged, with an Appendix relating to the books of literary and scientific societies." 11 matching volumes in later quarter vellum bindings. 12mo. 7.0" x 4.75" x 1.25". 6 volumes in 11 books. Books 1 - 10 with continuous pagination - pp.3027 . Book 11 (Appendix) - pp.5/[3pp.]/pp.336 . Each volume with vellum spine over green marbled boards. Each spine with balck leather title label. Light toning to vellum, otherwise very clean and tight bindings. Red bookplate to the verso of each front board: "Allston A. Kisby, Cottingham". Later endpapers and free-endpapers added to each volume. Each of the 11 books with a separate title page and clear English text throughout, just a little light spotting to the preliminaries. A very good set in attractive bindings. VG. * Allston A. Kisby, headmasterof Cottingham School during the 1940s and a keen local historian. He was the author of Indifferent Children (1935). ** "William Thomas Lowndes (c. 1798 31 July 1843), English bibliographer, was born about 1798, the son of a London bookseller. His principal work, The Bibliographer s Manual of English Literature the first systematic work of the kind was published in four volumes in 1834. It took Lowndes fourteen years to compile, but, despite its merits, brought him neither fame nor money. "For years Lowndes was the national British bibliography." It is regarded as a "bibliographical classic" although "pleasurably more scattershot than systematic." Lowndes, reduced to poverty, subsequently became cataloguer to Henry George Bohn, the bookseller and publisher. In 1839 he published the first parts of The British Librarian, designed to supplement his early manual, but owing to failing health did not complete the work." - See Wikipedia *** Book 11 has special titlepage: ' Appendix to The bibliographer's manual of English literature: containing an account of books issued by literary and scientific societies and printing clubs, books printed at private presses, privately printed series, and the principal literary and scientific serials / compiled by Henry G. Bohn.' **** Full title reads: The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature, containing an account of rare, curious, and useful books, published in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the invention of printing; with bibliographical and critical notices, collations of the rarer articles, and the prices at which they have been sold. Seller Inventory # 44250
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