1889-45 Book Collecting Reference Works

Description

First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

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.