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George J. Coombes, 1886. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. VERY GOOD volume bound in original blue cloth, with publishers deckled edge. This is the Scottish writer's treatise on all things bookish. He is best known for his important collections of folk and fairy tales. Front cover is scuffed and rear cover has 3 small circular blemishes. Crown and foot barely fray. Interior is very clean; frontispiece has tissue guard in place, but lower part of page has pulled away from gutter. NO markings at all. A previous owners period bookplate on front end-paper. Front gutter (between blank free end-papers) has been a tad over-extended, but holding tight. All Fourteen illustrations in place.

Ny, Coombes, 1886 First edition 177 pages. Illustrated. Contents include Literary Forgeries, Bookmen in Rome, Bookbindings, A Bookman's Purgatory, Parish Registers, Bibliomania in France, Elzevirs, Some Japanese Bogie-Books, A Ballade of the Unattainable. A very good copy with wear to the spine ends as shown, to small spots to the top edge of the front cover, interior clean and tight. Nice collectible copy. See Photosbx 186 / E