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Lot 253
Sale 532 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Dec 6, 2017
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$750
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[BIBLIOGRAPHY & BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall (1776-1847). The Bibliomania or Book Madness. History, Symptoms and Cure of this Fatal Disease. Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1903.
4 volumes, 8vo (225 x 165 mm). Frontispiece etching in two states in each volume by W.H. Bicknell after Howard Pyle, engraved half-titles and title-pages printed on vellum. Green crushed levant morocco, covers with floral gilt and cream morocco onlay lilies, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt-lettered in two, the rest with gilt lily motif, wide turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers and doublures, top edge gilt to the same pattern, others uncut (spines slightly faded, otherwise fine). LIMITED EDITION, one of 483 copies. A FINE COPY.

