[Rarebooks] FS: "Who Spoils Our New English Books..." Chiswick Press. 1884. Presentation copy to Astor Librarian

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS) Stevens, Henry (of Vermont). WHO SPOILS OUR NEW ENGLISH BOOKS... London: [The Chiswick Press] for Henry Newton Stevens. 1884. 12mo. (40)pp. Orig. blue cloth, gilt stamped cover & spine, extremities a bit rubbed. This copy inscribed, "to Robbins Little Esq. with the compliments and best wishes of the author Henry Stevens of Vermont. London, New Years, 1885."                       $250.00 (trade discount allowed)
A criticism of modern British bookmaking in a lecture presented to the Library Association at Cambridge in October 1882. Robbins Little was the head of the Astor Library in New York, which later, in 1895, became a part of the New York Public Library. He was a client of bookseller author Henry Stevens.

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