Understanding Book-collectingThis work makes available a mass of useful information, including details of the technical aspects of book making, the vexed question of first editions and the matters of completeness and condition. Contains an excellent glossary. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 11 |
Foreword | 12 |
The Language of BookCollecting i 522 | 15 |
Copyright | |
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