[Rarebooks] FS: THE ANATOMY OF TOBACCO, 1884, Arthur Machen's first book

[Charles Agvent]

[MACHEN, Arthur] SILURIENSIS, Leolinus. THE ANATOMY OF TOBACCO: OR
SMOKING  METHODISED,  DIVIDED,  AND CONSIDERED AFTER  A  NEW  FASHION.
London:  George Redway 1884. First Edition. Arthur Machen's first book
after  the  notoriously  scarce ELEUSINIA of 1881, of which  only  one
copy  is  known.  Bound in full vellum as issued, with a  later  cloth
slipcase.  The  paper is age-toned; the front hinge is gently  cracked
but  tight. A library blindstamp is on two text leaves and a number is
faintly  visible at the base of the spine. A doctor's modern bookplate
is  on the front pastedown. Laid in is an interesting holograph letter
from  the  New  York bookseller Alfred Goldsmith presenting  the  book
along  with a little history of its publication. Spotting and  soiling
to vellum. Good copy of a scarce book.                         $650.00

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