Bibliography & Books about Books

Bibliography & Books about Books

This is the first in a series of lists of bibliography and books about books, drawn from a large private collection and featuring a wide variety of works, some with interesting associations. Among the notable titles are Lamesle’s specimen book, Épreuves Générales des Caractères (1742), a complete set of Pollard’s Books about Books (6 vols., 1893-4), Bauchart’s Femmes Bibliophiles de France (1886), Francis Meynell's copy of the large paper Typographia (1824) as well as another copy in 32mo, the Officina Bodoni edition of Feliciano’s Alphabetum Romanum in full binding (1960), as well as books on the Catnach Press, William Loring Andrews, and two by Claire Bolton.