A Bibliographical and Descriptive Tour from Scarborough to the Library of a Philobiblist in its neighborhood.
Scarborough: printed and published by John Cole and by Longman, Hurst, et al, 1824.
Price: $2,000.00
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First edition. Limited to 158 copies, of which 100 were printed on small paper, 50 copies on large paper, and 8 on coloured paper (Lowndes p.491). This is a Large Paper Copy. The large paper copies are different from the small paper copies in the following ways: the book block measures 22 cm rather than 20 cm; the title page contains a view of Hunmanby, rather than a quote from Dibdin; the verso of the title page contains the Dibdin quote and is blank in the small paper copy. [2], iv, 92, [1 ad] pp. Woodcut vignettes on title and ad pages; woodcuts by Bewick on pp 85-86. 1 vols. 8vo (22 x 15 cm). Period half red morocco, gilt-ruled, spine gilt-lettered, uncut. Small brown stain to p 13, touch of rubbing to extremities, else fine and untrimmed. Hugo 4335.
Item #261992
RARE GUIDE TO THE LIBRARY OF FRANCIS WRANGHAM. John Cole (1792-1848) was a bookseller in Scarborough who befriended Francis Wrangham (1769-1842), Archdeacon of Cleveland. The present is a catalogue of 100 important English folios and quartos in his library; most notably the first edition Morte d'Arthur printed by Wynkyn de Worde. Cole inscribed other copies to the effect that only 100 were printed.
