[Rarebooks] FS: book collecting over 100 years ago

[Norman Kane]

SMITH, GEORGE D., Publisher.  THE LITERARY COLLECTOR.  N. Y., 1900-1904 .  A substantial but not consecutive collection of approx. 35 issues in original wrappers, most very good, between Vol. One, No. 2, Nov. 1, 1900 & Volume Nine, Nol. 1, Nov./Dec., 1904. Most issues with an appropriate frontispiece, (Early Connecticut laws; bookplates; hornbooks; Dickensiana; De Vinne on chapbooks; bookbinding for bibliophiles; Dante portraits; Goudy on book cover designs; Essex House Press; book advts in the 18th C.; unique Whittier leaflet; A. W. Pollard London letters; notes on Whistler, Wm. Dunbar by Wegelin; the "Fortsas" spoof; Kipling collectors; bibliomania; Gutenberg; Baskerville; book prices (each issue); Rowfant Club; Lewis & Clark; Blake; Early American plays and magazines by Wegelin; Beardsley; Chatterton; &c; &c.)  A marvelous look at the book and collecting world at the turn of the Century over  a hundred years ago. $50.00

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