The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections

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