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Boston:: Little, Brown & Company,, 1930.. First Impression of the Trade Edition. Fine. A Fine copy in a Fine DJ. Octavo. Brown boards, lettered and elaborately stamped in gilt. xi, [1], 314pp. Colored frontispiece with tissue guard, b/w plates. A companion volume to his ''In Quest of the Perfect Book', the continuing explorations, discoveries and saga of a supreme Bookman. From the resurrection of the Vatican Library to the printing of the Early American Colonies, a fine work from the modern historian of the book. The typography, press work, and binding are by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Massachusetts, executed under the personal supervision of the author, William Dana Orcutt. Companion volumes reviewed on dust jacket. Boards