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Condizione: Good. 1926. No Edition Remarks. 384 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Five informative reference works on book collecting, all in the original bindings, with two works being first editions. The first edition for 'Bibliographical Notes' and 'Elements of Book Collecting'. The third edition for 'Dictionary of English Authors'. Second edition for 'Book-Collecting as a Hobby'. The first single volume for 'Letters of Literary Men', first published as a two volume work in 1906.Five volumes.Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece to 'Letters of Literary Men' and six monochrome plates to 'Book Collecting as a Hobby'. Collated complete.All the original publisher's cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper to 'Book-Collecting as a Hobby'.This set features five informative reference works on the subject of book collecting. The set includes; 'Bibliographical Notes: A Classified Collection of the Chief Contents of the Gentlemen's Magazine 1731-1868', which provides details on a variety of books, bookmaking and selling.'A Dictionary of English Authors, Biographical and Bibliographical', a handy guide to English Authors and their collectable works.'Letters of Literary Men: Sir Thomas More to Robert Burns', which provides biographical information on a variety of famous authors, through their letters and correspondences.'Elements of Book-Collecting', a useful guide to the hobby of collecting books, with space at the rear to make your own notes.'Book-Collecting as a Hobby', another informative guide to book collecting, written through a series of letters by P. H. Muir. In the publisher's original cloth with the original dust wrapper to 'Book-Collecting as a Hobby'. Externally lovely to 'Book-Collecting as a Hobby', very smart to 'Elements of Book Collecting' with only a slight lean, and generally smart to the rest with leans, fading to the spines, bumping and rubbing to the extremities, closed tears to the spine of 'Dictionary of English Authors' and scattered damp stains to the spine of 'Letters of Literary Men'. Hinges starting to 'Dictionary English authors' and spotting to the endpapers to all but 'Book-Collecting as a Hobby' and 'Elements of Book-Collecting'. The wrap is very smart with the odd closed tear to the extremities and spotting to the verso. Internally firmly bound with lightly age toned and generally clean pages to all, with spotting to the front and rear to 'Dictionary English Authors', except 'Book Collecting as a Hobby' which is clean and bright. Very Good. None stated (illustratore). book. …