Book Worm, BIBLIOGRAPHY, literature, printing, 1866

The Book-Worm - An Illustrated Literary and Bibliographical Review
by
J. Ph. Berjeau (ed.)

 DETAILS: (London): 'At the Office', 1866. First edition. Quarter leather, with cloth boards. 192pp. Illustrated with b/w plates, some full page. Large 8vo (slightly larger than standard sized book).

CONDITION: Very Good to Good (see table below for details). Some rubbing and edgewear to boards and spine, fading to top of boards. Foxing to edges and endpapers, heavy to first and last few pages, light to some several pages. All text still clear and readable, binding solid.*Photo(s) given of actual book.

CONTENTS: A collection of 12 monthly issues of this book periodical. Articles include 'Manuscript hunting in England', 'Marie Antionette's letters', 'Dialogues of Creatures Moralysed', 'Book of Bees', 'Book of Perfumes', 'Book printed on white silk', 'Medical book of Eobanus Hessus', 'Travels of Montfart from Paris to China', Virgil's Bucolics (undescribed edition of', and 'Pamphilo Castaldi, the inventor of movable type?'. There are also scattered notes on printers, and bibliographical queries from readers answered, together with examples of plates from many of the books mentioned. Uncommon, and likely to be of interest to the collector.