Bibliography.- Greg (W.W.) & Boswell E. Records of the Court of the Stationers' Company 1576 to 1602..., signed presentation copy from William A. Jackson, for The Bibliographical Society, 1930 § McKerrow (Ronald B.) An Introduction to Bibliography..., second impression, Oxford, 1960 § de Ricci (Seymour) The Book Collector's Guide..., number 8 of 1000 copies from an edition limited to 1100, profusely annotated throughout, clippings and ff. from other works tipped-in, Philadelphia & New York, 1921 § Twyman (Michael) Early Lithographed Books..., Williamsburg & London, 1990 § Williams (Iolo A.) Points in Eighteenth-Century Verse..., one of 500 copies, being volume VII from Sadleir's Bibliographia series Studies in Book History and Book Structure, 1934, last two frontispieces and plates or illustrations, last original paper-backed boards, else original cloth or cloth-acked boards, third and last uncut, each worn or a little rubbed, third joints splitting, last backstrip loose, second with ink staining to boards and fore-edges, second dust-jacket, stained, tears and a little loss; and a quantity of others, related, 4to & 8vo (qty.) ⁂ William A. Jackson (1905-1964) Professor of Bibliography at Harvard; first librarian of the Houghton; President of The Bibliographical Society of America. The inscription is complete with poem: "To Les Oliver | With appreciation of his interest | And devotion to the drudgery of | Bibliography and best wishes | Wm. A. Jackson. On the World | The World's a Booke, writ by th'eternall Art, | Of the great Maker, printed in Mans heart; | 'Tis falsely printed, though divinely pend, | And all th'Erratas will appeare at th'end. | -Francis Quarles, Divine Fancies, 1632."
Bibliography.- Greg (W.W.) & Boswell E. Records of the Court of the Stationers' Company 1576 to 1602..., signed presentation copy from William A. Jackson, for The Bibliographical Society, 1930 § McKerrow (Ronald B.) An Introduction to Bibliography..., second impression, Oxford, 1960 § de Ricci (Seymour) The Book Collector's Guide..., number 8 of 1000 copies from an edition limited to 1100, profusely annotated throughout, clippings and ff. from other works tipped-in, Philadelphia & New York, 1921 § Twyman (Michael) Early Lithographed Books..., Williamsburg & London, 1990 § Williams (Iolo A.) Points in Eighteenth-Century Verse..., one of 500 copies, being volume VII from Sadleir's Bibliographia series Studies in Book History and Book Structure, 1934, last two frontispieces and plates or illustrations, last original paper-backed boards, else original cloth or cloth-acked boards, third and last uncut, each worn or a little rubbed, third joints splitting, last backstrip loose, second with ink staining to boards and fore-edges, second dust-jacket, stained, tears and a little loss; and a quantity of others, related, 4to & 8vo (qty.) ⁂ William A. Jackson (1905-1964) Professor of Bibliography at Harvard; first librarian of the Houghton; President of The Bibliographical Society of America. The inscription is complete with poem: "To Les Oliver | With appreciation of his interest | And devotion to the drudgery of | Bibliography and best wishes | Wm. A. Jackson. On the World | The World's a Booke, writ by th'eternall Art, | Of the great Maker, printed in Mans heart; | 'Tis falsely printed, though divinely pend, | And all th'Erratas will appeare at th'end. | -Francis Quarles, Divine Fancies, 1632."
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