De libris : prose & verse / by Austin Dobson
1908, First Edition. London : Macmillan Co. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Unread with unopened pages. Item #431816
Physical description; xii, 232 pages) frontispiece, 12 plates. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Prologue.--On some books and their associations.--An epistle to an editor.--Bramston's "Man of taste".--The passionate printer to his love.--M. Rouquet on the arts.--The friend of humanity and the rhymer.--The parent's assistant.--A pleasant invective against printing.--Two modern book illustrators. I. Kate Greenaway.--A song of the Greenaway child.--Two modern book illustrators. II. Mr. Hugh Thomson.--Horatian ode on the tercentenary of "Don Quixote."--The books of Samuel Rogers.--Pepys' "Diary".--A French critic on Bath.--A welcome from the "Johnson club."--Thackeray's "Esmond."--A miltonic exercise.--Fresh facts about Fielding.--The happy printer.--Cross readings--and Caleb Whiteford.--The last proof.--Index. Subjects; Greenaway, Kate 1846-1901. Thomson, Hugh 1860-1920. Thomson, Hugh. Greenaway, Kate. English literature History and criticism. Books and reading ; Anecdotes. Books and reading. English literature. Illustrators Great Britain.
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