Description

The Book-Lover Press, New York, Published date: 1901. Single issue magazine; original printed paper covers, staple bound; pages 385-480; approx. 31 cm. Bi-monthly periodical. Number 9, November-December 1901. In acceptable to poor condition. Original printed paper covers present and still attached, but starting to separate at the spine; covers show moderate to heavy chipping, tearing, and losses along edges and corners, with moderate overall age toning and soiling. Spine edge fragile but holding with original staples; text block remains intact. Interior pages show moderate age toning with frequent small chips and tears along outer margins and edges; all text present and fully readable; no pages missing. Early twentieth-century issue of The Book-Lover: A Magazine of Book Lore, an important American bibliophilic periodical devoted to literary history, bibliography, book collecting, printing, manuscripts, and publishing culture. Edited by W. E. Price, the magazine brought together essays, reviews, historical notes, and commentary by prominent writers, critics, and bibliophiles and is regarded as one of the key American journals of book lore from the period. Contents include: A Year's Sales: Features and Records Here and Abroad by Robert F. Roden; The Japanese Gutenberg by Philip Johnson; Some Personal Preferences; The "Young Idea's" Views on Poetry; In an Old Bookstall by Joseph Dana Miller; Authors' Visions; The Great Book Collectors, IV: Italy - The Age of Petrarch; The Humor and the Irritation that Spice the Search for Old Books; Bayard Taylor's Cedarcroft; Vagaries of Book-Hunters by John H. Slater (from The Romance of Book Collecting); Principles of Book Collecting by J. H. Slater (from The Connoisseur); Bookbinding for Bibliophiles: Of Endpapers by Fletcher Battershall (from Literary Collector); The Romance of a Dictionary by Edmund Gosse; Eugene Field; Auto-Analysis by Eugene Field; Reading and Re-Reading; Book Collecting as an Investment by W. Roberts (from Fortnightly Review); King Edward's Book Treasures; Early Spanish-American Printing; The Romance of a Book-Shop by Mrs. J. H. Walworth (from Ledger Monthly); Twenty-Second Century Rarities; From the Creed of the Craftsman's Guild; Books Wanted; When Critics Disagree; Unravelled "Travels"; New Home of "The Book-Lover"; Rare Numbers of "The Book-Lover"; Early Numbers of "The Book-Lover"; Volume One, Bound; Enlarging "The Book-Lover"; and numerous period advertisements and publishers' announcements.