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The bibliographer's manual of English literature : containing an account of rare, curious, and useful books, published in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the invention of printing ; with bibliographical and critical notices, collations of the rarer articles, and the prices at which they have been sold in the present century.

Print Book, English, 1857-1865
New edition, revised, corrected and enlarged. View all formats and editions
Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, London, 1857-1865
Bibliographies
11 parts (iv, 3027 pages ; v, 336, 48 pages) ; 19 cm
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Part 1: A-Bre
Part 2: Bre-Cyr
Part 3. D-Fys
Part 4.G-Hyp
Part 5. I-Lyt
Part 6. M-Oze
Part 7. P-Rei
Part 8. Rei-Sim
Part 9. Sim-Utt
Part 10. Y-Yve
Part 11. Appendix
Part [11] with title: Appendix to the Bibliographer's manual of English literature. ..
Statement of responsibility relating to edition from pt. 2
Publisher varies. Parts 7-10: Bell & Daldy, 1864-1865
Printer from part 3 onwards: Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street
Issued in 10 numbered parts and Appendix by Henry G. Bohn and (from 1864 when Bohn sold his business) Bell & Daldy. Individual parts were reissued with cancel title pages giving later dates and, where applicable, the later publisher, but the covers give the original imprints. The Appendix volume gives advice "To the binder" recommending binding in 6 volumes, and supplies title pages for these, each with the imprint: London : Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1864. However, sets exist with variations on these imprints
Parts 1-10 paged continuously
"Messrs. Bell and Daldy's catalogue of Bohn's various libraries and of their other collections. With a classified index": 48 p. at end of Appendix
Library's copy [A] bound in 3 vols., with title pages dated 1857-1858. Preliminaries of individual parts wanting
Library's copy [B] bound in 6 vols., but lacking vols. 3 and 6. Title pages with imprint: London : Bell & Daldy, 6, York Street, Covent Garden, and 186, Fleet Street, 1865
Library's copy [C] in original parts. Parts 2-6 with reissue title pages giving later imprints, dated up to 1868, but with original imprints on covers. Original bindings of cloth printed with titles, rebacked. MS. annotations
Library's copy [D] bound in 6 vols. Title pages with imprint: London : Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1864