Author: Berjeau, J. P. (ed.)
Title: The Book-worm. An illustrated and bibliographical review. Volume I.
Description: London, The Office of the Bookworm, 1866. 12 parts in one. 4to (27.0 x 18.0 cm). iv, 192 pp.; numerous text engravings. Original printed wrappers with woodcut vignette. = The rare start of this series. Initiated, published, edited and largely written by the French author, art critic, and historian Jean Philibert Berjeau (1809-1891). Berjeau lived in exile after Napoleon III overthrew the second French Republic. His son, Philibert Charles Berjeau (1845-1927) became a natural history illustrator and lithographer. Uncut. In a later issue the editor disclosed that only 250 copies were printed. Inscribed in an old hand on the front wrapper; front board soiled and detached. Some damp staining to the lower margin of the front wrapper and first gathering; otherwise very good.

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