Charles Isaac Elton (1839-1900)

THE GREAT BOOK-COLLECTORS

1893
Book format 8°, 21x13,5 cm, 228 numbered pages, in English. Hardcover, black and ocher leather binding with gold letters and decorative geometric motifs, marked on back endsheet with gold letters Wiener Werkstätte. Textile endsheets with floral black and white décor. Frontispiece with architectural motif, title page printed in black and red. First edition. Published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., London (1893). The Great Book-Collectors, a study of bibliophilia and bibliomania, a rare book title usually represented in the largest book collections. From the edition Books about Books. Worn spine and black parts of the binding.