THE BOOK-LOVER'S ENCHIRIDION: Thoughts on the solace and companionship of books, and topics incidental thereto;
gathered from the best writers of every age, and arranged in chronological order. Pp. xx+492+[4](colophon and blanks)+8(advertisements), the title page printed in red & black, index; f'cap. 8vo; light blue/grey cloth over bevelled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt & black, lightly worn, the spine extremities slightly split; upper hinge cracking, the lower hinge reinforced with paper, a few ink & pencil annotations, particularly on the last text page and on recto of lower pastedown, a little light foxing; Simpkin, Marshall/W. R. Chambers, 1884. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. *Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author to British author and politician Sir John Lubbock (later Baron Avebury) on the half-title page, and with the latter's armorial bookplate on the upper pastedown. Subsequently from the library of Claude Prance, with his small book label (from Malta) on the upper pastedown, plus his pencilled notes on the verso of the upper free endpaper. Most recently from the collection of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label on the upper free endpaper. First published 1882. Item #163529
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