Centuria Librorum Absconditorum, being notes bio-biblio-icono-graphical and critical, on curious and uncommon books, by Pisanus Fraxi. [Second volume only of 3-volume set ]
by Ashbee, H.S. [ under pseudonym Pisanus Fraxi ]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Covers slightly scuffed, otherwise Good
- Seller
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LONDON, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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- Bookseller
- Wykeham Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIBLIO-58904
- Title
- Centuria Librorum Absconditorum, being notes bio-biblio-icono-graphical and critical, on curious and uncommon books, by Pisanus Fraxi. [Second volume only of 3-volume set ]
- Author
- Ashbee, H.S. [ under pseudonym Pisanus Fraxi ]
- Format/Binding
- Cloth, gilt cover-title, marbled endpapers, 4to, 25 cm,
- Book Condition
- Used - Covers slightly scuffed, otherwise Good
- Edition
- Limited edition of 395 sets
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Skilton, London, 1960 reprint of 1879 first edition
- Date Published
- 1960 reprint of 1879 first edit
- Pages
- lx, 593, [2] pp, plates
- Keywords
- Erotic literature erotica prohibited books pornography sex censorship curiosa Ashbee, Henry Spencer Pisanus Fraxi
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sex & Erotica (Bibliographies);
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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