From MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since July 12, 2005
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Provenance: Bookplate of Herbert Grant Smith. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth-backed paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; (xii, 232 pages) frontispiece, 12 plates. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Prologue.--On some books and their associations.--An epistle to an editor.--Bramston's "Man of taste".--The passionate printer to his love.--M. Rouquet on the arts.--The friend of humanity and the rhymer.--The parent's assistant.--A pleasant invective against printing.--Two modern book illustrators. I. Kate Greenaway.--A song of the Greenaway child.--Two modern book illustrators. II. Mr. Hugh Thomson.--Horatian ode on the tercentenary of "Don Quixote."--The books of Samuel Rogers.--Pepys' "Diary".--A French critic on Bath.--A welcome from the "Johnson club."--Thackeray's "Esmond."--A miltonic exercise.--Fresh facts about Fielding.--The happy printer.--Cross readings--and Caleb Whiteford.--The last proof.--Index. Subjects; Greenaway, Kate 1846-1901. Thomson, Hugh 1860-1920. English literature History and criticism. Books and reading ; Anecdotes. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 405661
Bibliographic Details
Title: De Libris : Prose & verse / by Austin Dobson
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Publication Date: 1908
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
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