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John Hill Burton , with Advertisement After Title Page, Blank Flyleaf BOOKPLATE & Card Attached Some Pencil Notes, Hinges Reinforced with Clear Tape & Several Articles Glued Onto Endpaper re: Book Collecting Etc, Clear Mylar Protector TAPED to Endpapers : Book-Hunter Etc., The Book Hunter -Bibliomania, Book-Lover's Craze, Bookish Essays,This Book Owes Its Existence to a Concurrence of Accidents. The Author Had the Honour of Contributing to Blackwood's Magazine Some Sketches of the Ways of Book-Collectors

William Blackwood & Sons London Edinburgh, 1862

HB NODJ, 1st. edition. 1862, VG/VG-, AS-IS, NOJACKET, Green cloth with black Leather at tips & along entire spine, Lined in Gold Gilt on front, Raised Bands on spine with gilt titles, NOJACKET, Interiro nice tight clean light fox, wear , few pgs penciling, Outer pgs edges Marblelized, light scuff edges cvr,One-quarter Leather Bound, 384 pgs .The Author had the honour of contributing to Blackwood's Magazine some sketches of the ways of book-collectors, scholars, literary investigators, desultory readers, and other persons whose pursuits revolve round books and literature. Some friendly criticisms having induced him to reflect on what he had written, he saw, as will generally happen in such cases, that were he to go over the ground again, he would find much that lie would desire to alter, and many things that might be added. He therefore resolved to recast the whole and expand it to the compass of a thin volume. The thin volume, however, fattened as it approached maturity, until it reached the respectable dimensions in which it now awaits the appreciation of any reader who may think it worthy of his attention.. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket

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