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 
Published: 1866
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First of 4 volumes in 8vo. pp. xiii, [1] (blank), 327.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">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 is in half morocco and is one of 75 copies on large paper. See A. &amp; J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, pp. 874-875; 1284-1285.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4117216" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>