John Macfarlane. Antoine Verard. Chiswick Press, 1899.

Price: US$25.20 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 1899. First Published in Norton Lib. 143 pages. No dust jacket. Brown paper covered boards with brown cloth to spine. Written in both French and English. Contains black and white illustrated frontispiece, with other illustrations throughout. Pages are mildly tanned, but text remains clear. Binding is firm. Rough-cut edges, with some pages remaining uncut. Thumb-marking present to some pages, but text is not obscured. Boards have heavy shelf-wear, with visible corner bumping and noticeable scuffing to edges. Minimal crushing to spine ends. Moderate rubbing and scuffing overall. Small but visible marks to rear board.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

MACFARLANE, JOHN. Antoine Verard. [Bibliographical Society Illustrated Monograph No. VII.]. printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Chiswick Press, September 1900, for, London, 1899.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: 4to, pp. xxxii, 143, [1]; 80 facsimile illustrations of the great French printer's typefaces and woodcuts, historical introduction, plus an extensive catalogue of nearly 300 books printed between 1485 and 1520; minor rubbing at corners, else a fine copy in original brown morocco-backed boards, gilt-lettered direct on spine. Handsome production.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.