Portrait of an Obsession: The life of Sir Thomas Phillipps, the world's greatest book collector, adapted by Nicolas Barker from the five volumes of Phillipps Studies
Author:
MUNBY, A N L; BARKER, NICOLAS
Title:
Portrait of an Obsession: The life of Sir Thomas Phillipps, the world's greatest book collector, adapted by Nicolas Barker from the five volumes of Phillipps Studies
Publisher:
Constable 1967
Description:
8vo, xvii + 278 pp.; black cl bds, red labels to spine lettered in gilt; top edge stained purple, black eps, frontis., plates; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; sl tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate chipping & some tearing; light tanning).
Keywords:
A N L Munby Nicolas Barker Sir Thomas Phillipps book collector collecting life lives biography 18th 19th century
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