An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics; including the Scriptores de re Rustica, Greek Romances, and Lexicons and Grammars: to which is added a complete Index Analyticus:.

Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

Published by Printed for W, Dwyer, Hanwell and Parker, Cooke, Deighton, and Barrett, Holborn Hill, Oxford, and Cambridge, 1804

About this Item

Second Edition, Enlarged and Corrected , 1804, bound in contemporary full vellum, red leather labels with gilt lettering and rules at spine, all edges gilt, pp. xx, lxxiii, 571, [1]errata. frontis. facsimile of Complutensian Polyglot text. with half-title. The bookplates of J. Keene Fleck, legendary Princeton bookseller front paste down, and John Clyde Oswald, president of the National Arts Club, printer, publisher and outstanding authority on Benjamin Franklin, rear pastedown. Very Good, a few tidy marginal pencil notations, inked letters verso front end page, vellum soiled, text with light toning, binding solid. A quite useful and solid copy with a unique provenance.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics; including the Scriptores de re Rustica, Greek Romances, and Lexicons and Grammars: to which is added a complete Index Analyticus:.
• Publisher: Printed for W, Dwyer, Hanwell and Parker, Cooke, Deighton, and Barrett, Holborn Hill, Oxford, and Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1804
• Language: English
• Binding: Vellum
• Edition: Second Edition, Enlarged and Corrected
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nineteenth Century
  • Books About Books and Fine Printing