CHAMBERS (Robert). The Book of Days. A miscellany of popular - Lot 71

CHAMBERS (Robert). The Book of Days. A miscellany of popular antiquities related to the calendar. Including anecdotes, biographies, and history, as well as literary curiosities... Edited by... Edinburgh, 1863–1864. 2 large volumes in 8vo, VIII, 832 pp. and [2 ff.], 840 pp., orange half-shagreen with corners, segmented spine, tears on the upper cap of volume 1, upper edge of the covers preserved. Text in two columns within a double border of black lines. Numerous illustrations. Included: - PLOMER (Henry R.), G. H. BUSHNELL & E.R. McC. DIX. A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1726 to 1775. Oxford University Press, 1932 (Reprint, 2008). In-8, [1 f], XXI, 432 pp, publisher’s cloth. - ESDAILE (Arundell). A List of English Tales and Prose Romances printed before 1740. London, Blades, East & Blades, 1912. Small in-4, xxxv, 329 pp, half-percaline, small pinholes on the endpapers. - SAWYER (Charles J.) & DARTON (F.J. Harvey). English Books, 1475–1900. A Signpost for Collectors. Westminster, Chas. J. Sawyer, 1927. 2 in-8 volumes, xvi, 367 pp. and viii, 423 pp., in the publisher’s red percaline. 100 illustrations per volume. Bookplate of bookseller René Giard. Volume I. Caxton to Johnson—Volume II. Gray to Kipling. One of the best guides for collectors of English books (Webber). Contains numerous anecdotes.