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Daguerre Savoie

71 - CHAMBERS (Robert). *The Book of Days*.
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Estimate €50 - €80
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CHAMBERS (Robert). *The Book of Days*. A miscellany of popular antiquities relating to the calendar. Including anecdotes, biographies and history, literary curiosities... Edited by... Edinburgh, 1863–1864. 2 substantial volumes, large 8vo, VIII, 832 pp and [2 ff], 840 pp, orange half-shagreen with corners, ribbed spine, tears to the upper cap of volume 1, upper edge of the covers preserved. Text in two columns within a double frame of black lines. Numerous illustrations. Included: - PLOMER (Henry R.), G. H. BUSHNELL & E.R. McC. DIX. A Dictionary of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775. Oxford University Press, 1932 (Reprint, 2008). In-8, [1 f], XXI, 432 pp, publisher’s cloth. - ESDAILE (Arundell). A List of English Tales and Prose Romances printed before 1740. London, Blades, East & Blades, 1912. Small in-4, xxxv, 329 pp, half-percaline, minor pinholes on the endpapers. - SAWYER (Charles J.) & DARTON (F.J. Harvey). English Books, 1475–1900. A Signpost for Collectors. Westminster, Chas. J. Sawyer, 1927. 2 volumes in-8, xvi, 367 pp and viii, 423 pp, the publisher’s red percaline. 100 illustrations per volume. Bookplate of the bookseller René Giard. Volume I. Caxton to Johnson – Volume II. Gray to Kipling. One of the best guides for collectors of English books (Webber). Contains numerous anecdotes.
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About the sale In preparation – The Jean-Paul Delon Bookshop Collection, Part I (Bibliography – Scholarship – Bibliophilia)
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Auction time 10/05/2026 at 2:00 PM
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