first edition Hardcover
1886 · New York
by De Vinne, Theodore Low
New York: Grolier Club, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gilt lettered cloth backed boards. Teg. Very good. 110 pages. 26 x 21 cm. Limited edition, one of 200 on Holland Paper and two copies on vellum. Elegantly printed, wide text margins with 24 text illustrations. Bright, clean text, laid-in Grolier Club card announcing "An Exhibition Of Books And Miniatures From Persia And The Levant, December 8, 1917, to January 13, 1918. Also laid-in pamphlet, "History of the Book," by Margaret N. Hincks, with illustrations by W.A. Dwiggins in the original envelope. (Inventory #: 21197)