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Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. First edition. Very smart complete set of the diary of important librarian and scholar Humfrey Wanley, the first Bibliographical Society edition. First edition of the Bibliographical Society printing.Complete in two volumes.In publisher's original blue cloth binding.Featuring a frontispiece to each text, Volume I containing the portrait painted by eminent artist Thomas Hill, a longstanding friend of the author.An English librarian, paleographer and scholar of Old English, Wanley was elsewhere known as the first keeper of the Harleian Library, now known as the Harleian Collection, one of the main 'closed' collections of the British Library. Within this volume C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright look back at his legacy and compile his correspondence. In publisher's original blue cloth binding. 1989 newsletter excerpt tipped in to Volume I. Externally, very nice condition with slight bumping and rubbing, subtle tanning and a few marks. Internally, firmly bound. Very bright and clean with the exception of the odd spot only. Near Fine. Thomas Hill (illustratore). book.…