Reefs Bibliophilic: an address to the Amtmann Circle at Massey College, University of Toronto, 9 May 1983. [Frontispiece portrait drawing of the author by Elizabeth Harrison]

John SANDERSON

Verlag: Edinburgh: printed for the Amtmann Circle by the Tragara Press, 1984

Beschreibung

Green wrappers. Edition limited to 200 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered and inscribed by the printer and dedicatee "proof copy"; from the collection of Alex Bridge, with his bookplate and ownership inscription, 17 June 1991. "This book is the second publication of The Amtmann Circle. The Circle's objective is to commemorate Bernard Amtmann [1907-1979], founding president of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of Canada, by sponsoring project[s] in bibliography, Canadian history, bookselling & book collecting." "When life's raison d'être is the pursuit of books, collectors must possess a gusto compounded of obdurate persistency, Micawber-like financial insouciance & exceptional tact." A book collector, John Leslie Sanderson used to visit Alan Anderson in Edinburgh; 10 years after Sanderson's death, his widow, Marjorie, at his wish, gave his collection of Norman Douglas books and manuscripts, "one of the most complete collections known", to the National Library of Scotland. Halliwell B48. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers TR100293

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Reefs Bibliophilic: an address to the ...

Verlag: Edinburgh: printed for the Amtmann Circle by the Tragara Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 1984

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition