A bibliographical and critical account of the rarest books in the English language alphabetically arranged which during the last fifty years have come under the observation of J. Payne Collier F.S.A. In four volumes Vol. I [II]

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First and second of 4 volumes in 8vo. pp. xiii, [1] (blank), 327; pp. [4], 355. A version unauthorized by John Payne Collier of a work originally published in 2 volumes (London 1865, see Bib# 1695388/Fr# 1037 in this collection). The work incorporates all the material contained in Collier's Bridgewater catalogue, 1837 in its main text. There are three copies in this collection. The present has volume 1 and 2 and volume 3 and 4 combined and is in contemporary binder’s cloth. It is ‘one of five copies’ printed on India paper and has a tipped-in slip announcing that seventy-five large-paper and five India paper copies ‘printed in a superior manner [...] may be had of the Publishers.’ See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, pp. 874-875; 1284-1285. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.