Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. No notes or highlighting. Nice older book in good condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> ANY are the interesting facts connected with book-plates known to students and collectors yet little dreamed of by the greater number even of those who hold themselves curious of everything connected with “”The Book.”” Indeed the chief difficulty in pre- senting these facts to the reader is to reduce them to sufficient order chronologically or other- wise. There is so much multifarious information capable of being “”tacked on”” to the subject that every specialist writing about ex-libris is prone to make them vehicles for his own favourite snippets of information. This is more particularly notice- able in those numerous disquisitions on book-plates contributed to antiquarian periodicals. On the other hand of the very few works existing in volume form (half-a-dozen at the most) which deal with the subject at hand only two treat of English Book-plates. These latter which have long been out of print rich mines of information though they be and indispensable to the regular collector are for that very reason not sufficiently. (SP)