The book collector's guide : a practical handbook of British and American bibliography / by Seymour de Ricci.

  • Seymour de Ricci
Date:
1921
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Credit: The book collector's guide : a practical handbook of British and American bibliography / by Seymour de Ricci. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A A’BECKET (Gilbert Abbott). 1811-1856 The Comic Blackstone. London, Punch Office, 1844-1846. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8°. Front, and 2 vignettes by Cruikshank. In orig. white boards $10-15, but more in parts. The Quizziology of the British Drama. London, Punch Office, 1846. 120. Illustrations by Leech. In orig. cloth $5-6. The Comic History of England. London, Punch Office, 1847-1848. 2 vols. 8°. 20 coloured pi. and 240 woodcuts by Leech. In orig. cloth $20-25 and, in 20 parts (in 9), $60-80. — £ 15 Hornstein (Apr. 1916, n. 1401) in parts; $75 Wilson (Apr. 1916, n. 3), in parts; $205 Norton (Nov. 1918, n. 1) in parts, with an orig. drawing added. Usually sold zmth the follozving: The Comic History of Rome. London, Bradbury and Evans [1848]. 8°. 10 coloured pi. and 98 woodcuts by Leech. In orig. cloth $20-25 and, in 10 parts (in 9), $60-80. — $54 Wilson (Apr. 1916, n. 5) in parts, minor defects; $185 Norton (Nov. 1918, n. 2) in parts. The above 3 vols. together, in orig. parts, with all covers and advertise¬ ments $225 Austin (Apr. 1917, n. 543). ABSTRACT (An) OR ABBREVIATION An Abstract or Abbreviation of some few of the Many (later and former) Testimonys from the Inhabitants of New Jersey. London, T. Milbourn, 1681. 40. 32 pp. The second of the seven “Scottish Proprietors’ Tracts.” Some five copies are known: 1. Brit. Mus.; 2. Garter Brown; 3. Hunt¬ ington (Church) ; 4. $1600 Crane (March 1913, n. 678) mor., by Lortic; 5. $950 Huntington (Dec. 1917, VI, n. 239) mor., by Riviere (Halsey copy).