Maggs Bros

1921 · rif. BIBLIO-65376 — Maggs Bros. London bookseller's catalogue 1921. 2 vols contemporary half-morocco and boards marbled endpapers original printed wrappers bound in with additional blank leaves at front and back top edge gilt gilt spine-title small 4to. 180 212 pp frontispiece plates. 1295 1296-2757 items. With a great number of interesting items including for example: Charles Dickens’s Sketches by ‘Boz - Illustrated by George Cruikshank with 40 plates -a very fine set of the first edition in the original parts; a Complete Set of the Books Printed and Published at the Doves Press 1900-1916; Robert Browning’s Letters to Various Correspondents edited by T. J. Wise and printed on vellum; Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s The Art of Scansion. Privately Printed by Clement Shorter for distribution among his friends; Shelley’s Alastor or the Spirit of Solitude :and other Poems; first edition; Swinburne’s ‘The Devil’s Due. A Letter to the Editor of ‘The Examiner’’printed on vellum. Bookplate of the journalist critic and editor Clement King Shorter on the front pastedown endpapers minor wear to extremities boards a little rubbed and slightly faded contents Good. Maggs Bros., London, bookseller's catalogue, 1921 hardcover