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Title: Book Handbook - an Illustrated Quarterly for Discriminating Booklovers - Near Complete Set 1947-51
Description: The Dropmore Press, . Soft Cover. Precursor of The Book Collector 1947 - 1952. v.1/1-9. + index & v.2/1 &3 only. An Illustrated quarterly with authoritative & scholarly articles on all aspects of books & book collecting such as:- The Ghost stories of M R James, Bookplates, The Quaritch Centenary Catalogue, the works of Richard Ford, signed manuscripts in Sydney Cockerell's Collection, Herrick's Tercentenary, John Franklin & the North-West Passage, De Thou's Library, Samuel Rogers; Books on Cock Fighting; a table for identifying Shakespeare folios(!),etc. Contributors include G R Hamilton, C Sandford, G B Shaw, S Cokerell, O Lodge, E A Osborne, H Rycroft, etc. Profusely illustrated with a large number of facsimiles, reproductions of rare title pages, folding plates,etc. A near complete run of the 12 issues (one double issue) published & index together with the supplement for 1947. Vol. 2 Nos2 & 4 are missing. All in good to VG condition. The booklets have dusty coversand there is some bleeding of staples in early volumes causing the first few leaves of the first volume to be detached.Otherwise internally mostly VG - no significant marks or signatues. See scans . Good to Very Good

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