[Rarebooks] FS: Stirling-Maxwell's 1860 catalog of his books relating to proverbs, emblems, etc. at the Keir Library. ONLY 75 Copies Printed.

[Kenneth Karmiole]

[Stirling-Maxwell, William]. AN ESSAY TOWARDS A COLLECTION OF BOOKS RELATING TO PROVERBS, EMBLEMS, APOPHTHEGMS, EPITAPHS AND ANA, BEING A CATALOGUE OF THOSE AT [THE LIBRARY AT] KEIR. London: Privately Printed. 1860. Lg. 8vo. (8),243,(1)pp. Title printed in red & black, with a chromolithograph device. Also illustrated with a color plate of the Library at Keir. Edition limited to 75 copies (limitation stated in the preface). Orig. calf over marbled boards. T.e.g. Bookplate of writer & editor Victor de Guinzbourg on front pastedown.    $500.00 (trade discount allowed)

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