An Annotated Bibliography of Sir Richard Francis Burton.

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Edition limited to 500 numbered copies printed on large paper. Contemporary quarter green leather and cloth, black leather spine-labels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, 4to, xvi, 351 pp, portrait frontispiece, several black-and-white plates. Approximately 500 entries. The attractively produced first edition of what is still the best bibliography of Burton. Indeed it is "probably unsurpassable", as the bibliographer Percy Muir - not noted for words of praise - observed in 1934. Contents are as follows: Introduction.-The existing bibliographies.-Works, translations, and works annotated by Burton, arranged chronologically with notes and prices; tabulated list of works.-Articles, pamphlets, letters, etc., arranged chronologically with notes.-Appendices: A. The Burton library at Kensington and the relics at Camberwell. B. "Lives" of Burton with short criticisms, prices, etc. C. Note on the life of Albert Letchford.-Index. Copy No. 316 signed and numbered by the author. Namestamp on verso of front free endpaper of Arnold Riegger of Bloomington, Illinois. Joints heavily rubbed, spine browned, slightly agetoned, otherwise Good. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-46326

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