A Monograph on Privately Illustrated Books, A Plea for Bibliomania

Flatbush, Long Island [NY]: [The De Vinne Press], 1892. 1/250. 501pp. Quarto [28 cm] 3/4 blue pebbled calf over marbled boards. Backstrip shows decorative gilt stamped panels between raised bands. Marbled pastedowns and endsheets. T.E.G. Better than very good with minor rubbing to extremities of boards and joints. 250 numbered copies were printed on handmade paper, this is copy number 250. Nice copy of this privately printed work on privately illustrated books by the noted Brooklyn based bibliophile, Daniel Melancthon Tredwell.