Private Libraries in New York.

Original publisher’s dark-gray cloth hardback, gilt lettering spine, thick 4to: wood-engraved frontispiece, title-page printed in red & black, [ij], viij, 472pp., index. Untrimmed. 100 copies have been numbered & printed on large paper. This copy is not numbered however bears the BOOKPLATE OF GEORGE WATSON PRATT, the owner one of the libraries mentioned. Fine copy., Accounts of the libraries include descriptions of editions of Shakespeare and Shakespeariana. Originally prepared for and published in the Evening post, about two years since [1860]. The separate articles have all undergone a careful revision while many have been entirely rewritten, and a few new ones added. Private Libraries mentioned: John Allan – Henry J. Anderson – Prof. Anthon – George Bancroft – Thomas P. Barton – Rev. Dr. Bethune – J. Carson Brevoort – Joshua Brookes – Wm. E. Burton – Rev. Dr. Chapin – Alexander I. Cotheal – Wm. J. Davis – Daniel Embury – D.W. Fiskes – George Folsom – Rev. Dr. Forbes – Dr. J.W. Francis – A.W. Griswold – Archbishop Hughes – Richard M. Hunt – Judge Kent – D.N. Lord – Rev. Dr. Magoon – Wm. Menzies – Henry C. Murphy – Wm. Curtis Noyes – Geo. W. Pratt – Geo. T. Strong – R.IL. Stuart – Chas. M. Wheatley – Richard Grant White – Rev. Dr. William – &. 19 miscellaneous collections shortly mentioned.