Apr 19, 2007 - Sale 2110

Sale 2110 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 5,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
POLLARD, GRAHAM; and EHRMAN, ALFRED. The Distribution of Books by Catalogue from the Invention of Printing to A.D. 1800. Based on Material in the Broxbourne Library. Folio, original 1/4 morocco. (EHLS) Cambridge: Printed for Presentation to Members of the Roxburghe Club, 1965

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first edition. one of 150 copies. The first book on the subject, " . . . for many types of catalogue it remains the most useful work of reference, while it is probably also the best-written and most wide-ranging study of the book trade in early modern Europe to have been published in English . . . [it] has attained the status of a classic text of historical bibliography"--Mandelbrote, "A New Edition of The Distribution of Book by Catalogue: Problems and Prospects," in PBSA 89:4 (1999), pages 399-408.