Publisher's presentation
Books in The House. An Essay on Private Libraries and Collections for Young and Old.
Indianapolis: Published by arrangement with Ralph Fletcher Seymour by the Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1904].
Price: $200.00
About the item
One of 500 copies on hand-made paper. Pictorial title page by Seymour. 83 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's presentation. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt and in blind, uncut edges. Minor soiling.
Item #323430
Presentation inscription on the flyleaf “Curtis Dunham / with the compliments of the publishers / Christmas 1904.” With two subsequent presentation inscriptions from the original owner (one rather trenchant) and a later ownership signature. A desirable copy of this elegantly designed and printed edition of a delightful essay on book lore.
