Book Rarities; or a Descriptive Catalogue of some of the most Curious, Rare, and Valuable...
Three facsimile illus. in the text. iv, 34 pp. 8vo, cont. red half-morocco & brown drab boards, sides ruled in blind, spine lettered in gilt, a.e.g. London: Printed by W. Bulmer, 1811.
First edition, limited to 36 copies only (so printed on the half-title), and a presentation copy, inscribed on the free front endpaper “With the Author’s respectful Compts.” This is the very rare specimen of what was to ultimately become the great catalogue of the Spencer Collection, published as the Bibliotheca Spenceriana (1814-15) in four volumes with three volumes of supplements appearing in 1822-23. In the rather charming “Address”... More
