[Rarebooks] FS: Dibdin's "...Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics" (the 1st leaf-book).

[Karmbooks at aol.com]

(BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS) Dibdin, Thomas Frognall. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE 
OF RARE AND VALUABLE EDITIONS OF THE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS. Together with 
an Account of Polyglot Bibles... Fourth Edition; Greatly Enlarged and 
Corrected. London: Printed for Harding and Lepard, and G. B. Whittaker. 1827. 2 vols. 
bound in 1. (2),xiv,560;(4),580pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece facsimile 
and with an original leaf from Pickering's "Diamond" NEW TESTAMENT, 1826, at p. 
166. Late 19th c. 1/2 brown morocco, gilt, minor chip at foot of spine, 
hinges starting but still sound. A.e.g.     $350.00 (trade discount allowed)
The desirable "Fourth Edition" with the final revisions. This is the first 
book listed in the "leaf-book" bibliography, DISBOUND AND DISPERSED: THE LEAF 
BOOK CONSIDERED.

Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc.
P.O. Box 464
Santa Monica, CA 90406
Tel. (310) 451-4342; Fax. (310) 458-5930
Email: karmbooks at aol.com




**************
Feeling the pinch at the grocery store?  Make dinner for $10 or 
less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001)