The Tinker Library, A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Books and Manuscripts Collected by Chauncey Brewster Tinker
by Metzdorf, Robert F
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New Haven, Connecticut: The Yale University Library, 1959. Cover is in Very Good condition. Square and tight. Spine is uniformly sun faded -- but only a shade or 2. Sharp corners. Internally FINE -- clean, unmarked -- probably never read. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. 1959. First Edition. Limited to 500 copies. Expertly described here are 2,368 books, letters, and manuscripts by important English authors of the 18th and 19th centuries. Fully annotated and indexed. An exceptionally good reference for works by Matthew Arnold (180 entries), William Blake (30 entries), James Boswell (67), Robert Browning (32), Lord Byron (123), Samuel Coleridge (60), George Crabb (35), George Eliot (70), Oliver Goldsmith (153), Samuel Johnson (139), Charles Kingsley (29), Walter Savage Landor (36), William Morris (31), Daniel G. Rossetti (29), Robert Southey (31), Lawrence Stern (25), Algernon Swinburne (35), Alfred Tennyson (64), Anthony Trollope (101), William Wordsworth (45 entries), and hundreds of others. Preface by James T. Babb. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Tinker and 6 other plates. Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped blue cloth. Full title: "The Tinker Library, A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Books and Manuscripts Collected by Chauncey Brewster Tinker, Sterling Professor of English Literature, Emeritus and Keeper of Rare Books in the Yale University Library.". First Edition, Limited 500 copies. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket, as issued. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xxvi, 530pp, + 7 plates. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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- Title
- The Tinker Library, A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Books and Manuscripts Collected by Chauncey Brewster Tinker
- Author
- Metzdorf, Robert F
- Illustrator
- NOT a library discard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good condition
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket, as issued
- Edition
- First Edition, Limited 500 copies
- Publisher
- The Yale University Library
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Tinker Library
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- Book Collecting / References for Book Collectors;
- Size
- xxvi, 530pp, + 7 plates
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