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Fifth Edition of Brunet's Bibliographic Dictionary

Jacques-Charles Brunet. Manuel Du Libraire et De L'Amateur de Livres Contenant 1. Un Nouveau Dictionnaire Bibliographique...2. Une Table en Forme de Catalogue Raisonne. Cinquième edition entièrement refondue et augmentée d'un tiers par l'auteur. Paris: Librairie De Firmin Didot Frères, 1860-1865; 1878.

Fifth edition, revised and expanded. Seven octavo volumes. 478; 462; 496; 371; 450; 470; 307 pages. Text in French.

The set in brown quarter leather with marbled boards and gilt spine titles. Five raised bands with blind-ruled compartments and gilt titles. Marbled endpapers. Lightly rubbed extremities with minor wear at corners. Bookplates on front pastedown and front free endpaper of all volumes. Pages lightly toned. Volume II has a split at upper end of rear joint, through first compartment. The set in very good condition.

The fifth, most comprehensive edition of Brunet's indispensable illustrated bibliographic dictionary and catalog of over 35,000 French titles. From the Professor John Ralph Willis Collection of Rare Africana.