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Portland: Thomas B. Mosher, 1915. First edition. Hardback. Very Good Indeed. 6.5" by 5". Not Stated. A smart copy of the general index for the twenty-one volume work The Bibelot, spanning years 1895 to 1914. The first edition of this work in the original blue and white paper boards, with the spine label. Loosely inserted is a publisher's note, apologising for the delay in the publication of this general index. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and a facsimile of the signature of Thomas B. Mosher. The General Index for the Bibelot, a twenty-one volume anthology of poetry and prose for book-lovers, from scarce editions and sources not generally known. This index spans the whole anthology, from 1895 to 1914. This index was compiled by Milton James Ferguson, with a foreword by Thomas B. Mosher, and essays of appreciation by Eleanor Cuyler Patterson, Richard le Gallienne, William Marion Reedy. In the original paper boards. Externally smart, with the odd spot to the boards and spine, and darkening… Read More

Thomas B. Mosher, 1896. Hardcover. Good Condition. Includes all except from volume 1. Uniform bindings; some wear to the edges; moderate discoloring; good sound bindings; some with damage to the spines; soiling to the spine labels but a good old set overall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Inventory No: 159905. . This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1895. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. All volumes lack slipcases and jackets. Spines toned, boards lightly toned and foxed, front joint of index volume splitting. 1895 Hard Cover. Complete in twenty-one volumes, originally published monthly 1895-1914, and here collected in its entirety with a new index. This series of literary chap-books, with much of its content gleaned from Mosher's own extensive personal library, is credited with introducing William Butler Yeats to American readers, and establishing, improving, or restoring the reputation of several other authors (e.g., William Morris and Oscar Wilde). From the preface: "To bring together the posies of other men bound by a thread of one's own choosing is the simple plan of the editor of The Bibelot. In this way those exotics of Literature that might not immediately find a way to wider reading, are here reprinted, and, so to speak, resown in fields their authors never knew. The Bibelot does not… Read More

(MOSHER PRESS) THE BIBELOT. 20 volumes and Index volume, complete. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1895-1915. 12mo. First editions. Being a complete run of The Bibelot. Bruce Rogers, in a letter to Mosher, stated "you have succeeded (to the dispair of us all) in doing just what he (Aldus) did four hundred years ago...making beautiful little editions of the best writers in an inexpensive form." Volumes I-VI and the Index volume of t set are bound by the publisher. Volumes VII-XX are in the original printed wrappers. A few of the wrappers are darkened and Volume V lacks a slipcase. Generally a very good set, however.