Danforth (Susan)
John Carter Brown Library
A matter of taste : discrimination in nineteenth-century book collecting : catalogue of an exhibition of rare books from the John Carter Brown Library
Providence, RI, Associates of the John Carter Brown Library, 2008
(28.5 cm), xx (2), 85 (1), illustrations (most in colour). Publisher’s decorated cloth binding. - Catalogue illustrating books in the JCB collections exhibiting various marks of ownership (book brands from Mexican libraries, ink stamps, supralibros, exlibris), embellished bindings, fore-edge paintings, pen facsimiles (to complete imperfect books) and methods of restoration. ¶ As new.