[Rarebooks] FS: Dibdin's "Greek and Latin Classics" (the first leaf book!). London: 1827

[Kenneth Karmiole]

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. (2),xiv,562;(4),580pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece facsimile and with an original leaf from Pickering's "Diamond" NEW TESTAMENT, 1826, pasted to p. 166. Late 19th c. 1/2 brown calf and marbled boards. T.e.g.    $600.00 (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.

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