Scholderer (Victor), 1880-1971

(19 × 11 cm), 49 (3) pp., with 7 illustrations. Publisher’s printed blue wrappers. - Scholderer’s working life was spent at the British Museum, where in 1904 he filled the vacancy that arose on the death of Robert Proctor in 1903. ‘A series of delicate little miniatures is devoted to the many persons whose paths crossed the author's own, whether as bibliographers or as fellow-members of the staff of the British Museum’ (from a review by Lotte Hellinga, in Quaerendo, volume 1, issue 2, 1971, p.57). Published on the occasion of the author’s ninetieth birthday, 9 October 1970. 700 copies printed by Koninklijke Drukkerij Van de Garde, Zaltbommel. ¶ Wrappers sunned. Very good, unmarked copy.