El Zapatero Librero y La Imprenta en Inglaterra (Dos Relatos). Traducción y prólogo por M. Cardenal de Iracheta.
Valencia: Editorial Castalia, 1947.
Price: $225.00
About the item
No. 68 of 100 copies on better paper. Frontispiece engraving of bookstore, three plates (one folding); illustrations in text. 79, [5] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Full red morocco, with gilt books on spine, pastepaper endsheets, t.e.g., bound by F.A. Recht, Madrid.
Item #314810
Translation of two selections from The shadows of the old booksellers (1865) by Charles Knight (1791-1873): from chapter XIV on James Lackington, “the Cobbler turned Bookseller”; and from the Appendix on the “progress of Printing and Bookselling in England”.
Third volume in the series Gallardo, colección de opúsculos para bibliófilos.
A charming bibliophilic volume.
