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Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

  • View full screen - View 2 of Lot 1649. Dibdin, An introduction to Greek and Roman classics, Gloucester, 1802, nineteenth-century three-quarter brown morocco.
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Dibdin, An introduction to Greek and Roman classics, Gloucester, 1802, nineteenth-century three-quarter brown morocco

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July 11, 09:30 AM GMT

Estimate

300 - 400 GBP

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DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL. An introduction to the knowledge of rare and valuable editions of the Greek and Roman classics: being, in part, a tabulated arrangement from Dr. Harwood's view, &c. With notes from Maittaire, de Bure, Dictionnaire Bibliographique, and references to ancient and modern catalogues. Gloucester: H. Ruff, 1802


FIRST EDITION of a classic bibliographical work by Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847).

8vo (195 x 125 mm). Roman type. collation: a2 b4 B-I4: 38 leaves. (Some spotting and small inkstain to verso of final leaf.)


binding: Nineteenth-century brown three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. (Extremities rubbed.)


provenance: Stamp on title-page of George Wareing Ormerod (1810-1891).

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