THE BOOK-HUNTER.
by BURTON, John Hill
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Worthington, 1887. Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo; xvi, 396 pages, rebacked in light leather, publisher's cloth, new endpapers, corners worn
This edition begins with a memorial biography of Burton by E. J. G. Mackey. "From early manhood, Burton was a book-collector. His library comprised some ten thousand volumes . Upon publication [this] became and remains a standard work -Webber, BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS." Issued in The London Library Series. Frontispiece portrait of Burton.
This edition begins with a memorial biography of Burton by E. J. G. Mackey. "From early manhood, Burton was a book-collector. His library comprised some ten thousand volumes . Upon publication [this] became and remains a standard work -Webber, BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS." Issued in The London Library Series. Frontispiece portrait of Burton.
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2020503
- Title
- THE BOOK-HUNTER.
- Author
- BURTON, John Hill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Enlarged Edition
- Publisher
- Worthington
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1887
- Keywords
- BIBLIOMANIA, BOOK COLLECTING, CLUBS, bibliophilia, Roxburghe Club, Robert Wodrow, Librarians, E. J. G. Mackey
- Bookseller catalogs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary;
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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