Description

The Book-Lover Press, San Francisco, California, Published date: 1900. Single issue magazine; original printed paper covers, staple bound; 96 pp; approx. 31 cm. Quarterly periodical. Number 5, Autumn issue, covering September and November, 1900. In acceptable to poor condition. Original printed paper covers present, with the front cover completely detached from the text block. Covers show several large chips, tears, and losses along edges and corners, with heavy overall wear. Spine edge supported by original staples only; text block remains solid and intact. Interior pages show light to moderate age toning with frequent chipping and small tears along outer margins and edges; several pages remain uncut. All pages present and text unaffected. NOT ex-library. Includes a full-page portrait illustration of T. Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847). Early original 1900 issue of The Book-Lover, an American periodical devoted to literary history, bibliography, book collecting, printing, manuscripts, and publishing culture at the turn of the twentieth century. Contents include: The Evolution of Literary Decency by Andrew Lang; Poet and Potentate (verse) by Harrison S. Morris; Oliver Goldsmith; Shakespeare (verse) by Lorenzo Sosso; Literary Modes Needed; The Proofsheets of Redgauntlet; Stephen Crane by Hamlin Garland; Book and Heart (verse) by George Seibel; How Coleridge Acquired the Opium Habit; Burton's Anatomy (verse) by Andrew Lang; My First Book by Rudyard Kipling; Mrs. Radcliffe's Novels by Andrew Lang; On Keats (verse) by Lorenzo Sosso; Richard Hovey's Famous Line; Richard Baxter by D. C. Sapp; The Old-Fashioned Novel (verse); Modest Monsieur Hugo; Book-Fires of the Rebellion by J. Anson Farrar; Literary Nomenclature by F. Foster; Kelmscott Press Books - Record Prices; A Little Bookworm (verse) by Monroe H. Rosenfeld; Her Face (verse) by Dwight Anderson; A Great Forgotten Book by J. D. Miller; The Forgotten Lore Society by J. H. Slater; Tennessee (sonnet); Rare Old Latin Books; Privately Illustrated Books by Daniel M. Tredwell; The Manuscript Thief (tale); In Arcady (verse) by Chas. T. Lusted; Lines to a Book Borrower (verse); For the Bookplate of a Married Couple (verse); Eccentric Eccentricities by John De Morgan; The Great Book Collectors by Charles and Mary Elton; Shakespeare's Sonnets (sonnet); Shakespeare Comes to Naught (verse) by G. F. Frey; In Memory of James Russell Lowell (verse); Ezra Higgins, Poet (tale) by Sidney Pickering; Lorenzo Sosso; Books and Faces (verse) by Chas. W. Stevenson; William Cowper by Augustine Birrell; Ernest Dowson by R. H. Sherard; The Seclusion and Isolation of Hawthorne; De Bury's Philobiblon; Selections from Philobiblon; Milton the Unglorious; Shakespeare (verse).