A Magnificent Farce and Other Diversions of a Book-Collector

xxvii, [1], 373, [3] pp. 8vo. Leather spine and corners, blue cloth boards, gilt titles and rules, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece, black-and-white plates, illustrations, and facsimile reproductions of documents throughout. A commentary on book collecting by one of the most famous bibliophiles in history.