A Catalogue of Books. [ The "Guinea Catalogue", H. G. Bohn, booksellers' catalogue, 1841 ]
Bohn, H.G.
From Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 12 July 2001
From Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 12 July 2001
About this Item
Original half leather over marbled paper-covered boards (bound by J. Wright of Noel St.), all edges marbled, very thick 8vo, 22 cm, iv, 1948, 148, [4] pp. 23, 208 entries. This catalogue - known as Bohn's Guinea Catalogue, from the price at which it was sold - is supposed to have cost Bohn some 2,000 guineas and made him famous. It lists some 300,000 works; a list of remainders alone occupies 152 pp and includes some 23.208 entries. According to Cordasco, "Bohn had personally searched for the volumes, and the catalogue describing them was completely his own labour." Booklabel of Augusta Thornton on front pastedown endpaper, incorporating the printed inscription "Presented by Mrs Eliza Ford of Clifton, 1848"; later label on front free endpaper signed Fattorini; signed on a flyleaf "J P Scrutton, 16 June 1885". Front board detached, covers rubbed and worn, frontispiece illustration of Bohn's premises detached, and this and title-page slightly spotted, contents otherwise Good with occasional minor marks. Seller Inventory # ABE-42222
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Title: A Catalogue of Books. [ The "Guinea ...
Publisher: H. G. Bohn, London, booksellers' catalogue, 1841
Publication Date: 1841
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
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