Bibliographica: Papers on Books, Their History and Art, Volume II (Parts V-VIII)

viii, 502pp, illustrated with line drawings, plate illustrations, some coloured and tissue-guarded. dropped caps and some head and tail piece decorations.  Quarter bound in blue cloth cover grey paper-covered boards with red lettering on a paper spine label.  Deckled page edges   Large and heavy 4to.  Covers are unevenly toned and marked, rubbed all round edges and around a sunned spine, gently rounded on corners and spine ends.  Spine label toned and faded, slightly chipped on edges.  Label from the John Crown collection of the Library of the University of Kent at Canterbury on front paste down – no other library markings.  Previous owner’s name neatly inked on front free endpaper.  Free endpapers heavily toned, paste downs less so.  Some toning around deckled edges, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 

Bibliographica was a periodical on books and book collecting published between 1895 and 1897.  Edited by Alfred Pollard, the work was issued in 12 quarterly parts and subsequently collected into three volumes.  This is the second of those volumes, containing parts V to VIII (that is four of the 12 quarterly issues).  Included in this volume are essays on English Illuminated Manuscripts, English Provincial Presses, The Illustrated Books of Sebastian Brandt, Florentine Book-illustrations of the 15th Century, English Book Sales, 1681-86, Little Giddings Bindings, Robinson Crusoe and its Illustrators, The Grotesque and the Humorous in Illuminations of the Middle Ages and many more.