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Editions limited to no more than 100 copies. Blind-decorated cloth, gilt spine-titles, small 4to, 23 cm, various paginations, 4 photographic plates, facs in red and black. One of the elusive volumes of the "Bibliographical and Historical Miscellanies", the most important productions of the Philobiblon Society, for 30 years an esteemed rival to the Roxburghe Club and one of the leading scholarly societies concerned with the history of the book. Includes 4 photographic plates illustrating the article '. L'Enfer decrit par ceux qui l'ont vu.' The contents comprise: List of Members of the Philobiblon Society; 1. Description of a Copy of 'Rationes Decem Campiani,' printed at Stonor, 1581. pp. 6, by Hon. Thomas Edward Stonor; 2. Notice of a Fragment of a Sarum Breviary in the possession of John Eliot Hodgkin, pp. 7; 3. Book-hunting under Edward III. pp. 78, by William Sidney Gibson; 4. Dementiana. pp. 29, by Octave Delepierre; 5. The Lord Mayor's Visit to Oxford, July, 1826, etc. etc. pp. 37, by Hon. Robert Curxon; 6. Original Letters of Sir Thomas Pope, Knight. pp 18, by Evelyn Philip Shirley. 7. Correspondence of Madame Lafayette and General Washington. pp. 16, by Henry Reeve; 8. The Crewe Papers. Section I. Windham Letters. pp. 72, by Lord Houghton. 9. Memorandum of the Diaries of the late Mr. Charles Greville. pp. 35, by Henry Reeve. 10. L'Enfer decrit par ceux qui l'ont vu. pp. 174, by Octave Delepierre (illustrated with 4 photographic plates). The Society's constitution required it to "print, once or twice a year, as may be found practicable, a volume of Bibliographical Miscellanies, which shall consist of Notices and Analyses of Rare or Curious Books or Manuscripts, Unpublished Documents and Letters, Biographical Sketches of Persons connected with Literature, from original sources, Typographical Curiosities, Illuminations, and Illustrations of Books, and Researches into the connection of Literature with the Fine Arts, Information respecting the Value, Sales and Publication of Rare Books, and of the contents of Peculiar, Dispersed or hitherto unnoticed Collections,- Accounts of the Productions of Private Presses, Abstracts of Bibliographical Works Published or Unpublished, Any matter especially interesting to the Lovers and Collectors of Books, and the Transactions of the Society." Although the publication schedule slipped, the finely-printed Miscellanies do indeed contain a wealth of valuable information - often unavailable elsewhere and never reprinted - on the lines described, and remain of great interest. Head and tail of spine mildly bumped, endpapers and untrimmed edges duststained, otherwise a Very Good unopened copy. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-51777
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