Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Last Words on the History of the Title-Page: With Notes on Some Colophons and Twenty-Seven Fac-Similes of Title-Pages
Review. A little time back I was honoured bya request to lend these scattered notes, but the request (which was accompanied by a promise to read) came from a lover of fine books, and when I looked at the loose leaves in my portfolio I was ashamed to send them. Moreover, no one can work in a great library, like that of the British Museum, without almost daily having brought under his notice fresh facts bearing on any subject Wth he has in mind. This had happened to me with regard to my in vestigations into the history of the Title-page. Since my articles were written I had found much that I wanted to say, and several fresh illustrations which I wished to reproduce. The temptation to print a separate pamphlet became irresistible. My two Editors came to my aid and very kindly allowed me to reprint all that I needed of the text, and all the illustrations of my old papers. Twelve illustrations and about half my letterpress now appears for the first time, and with these additions Itrust that my slight subject has in this final form received adequate treatment. Probably my promise has long since been forgotten, but in recasting and enlarging my old notes, and investing them with such beauty of type and fresh illustration as I could devise, I have done my best to fulfil it in a manner which should express my gratitude for the kind little compliment which it conveyed. Alfred W. Pollard.
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