LANG, Andrew. The Library. Macmillan, London, 1892.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Description: Second Edition. octavo, original tan cloth with five raised bands on spine. (xvi), (192) pp. Macmillan, "The final chapter enlarged and further illustrations added." Two bindings illustrated in chromolithography. With illustrations in black and white by Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, Richard Doyle, William Blake, Thomas Bewick, D. G. Rossetti, John Tenniel, and others. The four chapters cover "An Apology for the Book-hunter," "The Library," "The Books of the Collector," and "Illustrated Books." This second edition includes a chapter on Modern English Illustrated Books by Austin Dobson. Three of the raised bands have small wear spots, foxiing to front and back endpapers. Tiny white spot on front cover. Bookplate. octavo, original tan cloth with five raised bands on spine

Seller: Colophon Book Shop, ABAA, Exeter, NH, U.S.A.

LANG, Andrew. LIBRARY. , 1892.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: LANG, Andrew. THE LIBRARY. With a chapter on modern English illustrated books by Austin Dobson. London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1892. Second edition. One of three hundred numbered large paper copies. Large 8vo., brown cloth, spine in gilt. As is: front joint split, with to cloth at extremes, slight loss to heel and crown, bump to bottom edge; sun to boards, hinges cracked. Clean, serviceable text.

Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

LANG, Andrew. The Library. Macmillan, London, 1892.

Price: US$1750.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A BEAUTIFULLY BOUND BOOK ABOUT BOOKS BY A FAMOUS FRENCH BINDER. Handsomely illustrated with 3 plates, including color reproductions of bindings; 22 woodcuts after Crane, Bewick, Cruikshank, etc. Imperial 8vo, magnificently bound by Thierry Petit-Simier in full green crushed levant morocco, with narrow ornamental borders enclosing spandrels with richly decorated floral ornaments and a center of a gilt rose semee; richly gilt paneled backstrip; doublures of crimson crushed levant with an ornamental framework of lines, morning glories and butterflies in gilt; colorful silk brocade endpapers, all edges gilt. London: Macmillan, 1892. A fine copy in an exquisite binding, protected in a marbled board slipcase. Limited second edition -- number 251 of 300 large paper copies, with a new preface by the author and a chapter on modern English illustrated books by Austin Dobson.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.