Apr 18, 2002 - Sale 1932

Sale 1932 - Lot 73

Price Realized: $ 690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL. Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books printed in the Fifteenth Century, and of Many Valuable First Editions, in the Library of George John Earl Spencer.<> 30 plates; engraved dedication. Half-titles. 4 volumes. Large 8vo, 275x170 mm, contemporary red morocco, spines attractively gilt, joints rubbed on Volumes 1-3, Volume 4 rebacked retaining original backstrip; scattered foxing variously affecting some plates, offsetting from Volume 1 frontispiece onto title. London, 1814-15

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first edition. one of only fifty large-paper sets.<