W B Rye (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. b/w Photos (illustrator). First Edition.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of the third and final part of this extensive catalogue of the Grenville Library at the British Museum. First edition. Part Three of three only. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated with a frontispiece from the bust of Thomas Grenville in the Grenville Library of the British Museum. The comprehensive catalogue of the library bequeathed to the British Museum by Thomas Grenville, a significant British politician and bibliophile. Compiled by John Thomas Payne and Henry Foss, with an introduction by W. B. Rye. In the publisher"s original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with slight bumping and rubbing and the one or two marks to boards. Internally, firmly bound, with the exception of the tissue guard to the frontispiece, which is present but loose. A bright and clean copy with subtle age toning and the odd spot, heavier to the first and last few pages, and with light marking to the title page. Very Good. book.