The Rowfant library :
a catalogue of the printed books, manuscripts, autograph letters, drawings and pictures collected by Frederick Locker-Lampson.

Description

Main Author

Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895.

Related Names

Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, illustrator.
Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933.
Locker Lampson, Godfrey, 1875-1946.

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Bernard Quaritch, 1886-1900.

Subjects

Locker-Lampson, Frederick, > Locker-Lampson, Frederick, / 1821-1895 > Locker-Lampson, Frederick, / 1821-1895 / Library.
Manuscripts > Manuscripts / Catalogs.
Rare books > Rare books / Catalogs.
First editions > First editions / Catalogs.

Note

Vol.[1]: One of 150 copies printed for sale. The etching by Cruikshank which forms the frontispiece to this volume is one of the first 250 impressions from the plate; v.[2]: Three hundred and fifty copies were printed ... of which one hundred are in the possession of the Rowfant Club, Cleveland, Ohio.
Vol.[2] compiled by Godfrey Locker-Lampson, preface by Augustine Birrell.
Vol.[2] has special title page: An appendix to the Rowfant library; a catalogue of the printed books, manuscripts, autograph letters etc. collected since the printing of the first catalogue in 1886 by the late Frederick Locker Lampson. London, Printed by Charles Whittingham & Co. at The Chiswick Press, 1900.

Physical Description

2 v. : fronts., ports., facsims. ; 27 cm

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