Lang, Andrew — Books and Bookmen

London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover Presentation Copy (from the publisher), with scuffed but unbruised tips, foxed endpapers and embossed publisher's stamp at title page, unobtrusive; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Rough-cut page edges, and with learned and lively essays and verses about books and bookmen. Table of Contents: 1. Elzevirs; 2. Ballade of the Real and Ideal; 3. Curiosities of Parish Registers; 4. The Rowfant Books; 5. To F.L.; 6. Some Japanese Bogie-Books; 7. Ghosts in the Library; 8. Bibliomania in France; 9. Old French Title Pages; 10. A Bookman's Purgatory; 11. Ballade of the Unattainable; 12. Lady Book-Lovers. 148 pp., with 18 illustrations, bound handsomely in olive-green bevelled cloth, gilt title to spine, rubbed, rubbing to, bumping and scuffing of spine head and tail, else a little tank-like volume that feels good in the hands.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good