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Volume 4-Subjects. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. Covers and back strip marked and worn. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Volume 4 Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 2450grams, ISBN:
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Volumes 4-Subjects. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Cloth-bound, . Front and back boards are separated. Backstrip very torn. Patterened endpapers. Patterned edges. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 3050grams, ISBN:
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None. Very Good. A four volume set of Robert Watt's 'Bibliotheca Britannica Or A General Index to British and Foreign Literature'. Four leatherbound volumes with marble paper covered boards, gilt foredge, and marble paper pastedowns. Dr Robert Watt (bapt. May 1, 1774 – March 12, 1819) was a Scottish physician and bibliographer. Watt's first bibliographical publication was a catalogue (1812) of his own medical library. However, Bibliotheca Britannica was a much more extravagantly ambitious project: "A General Index on the Literature of Great Britain and Ireland Ancient and Modern including Such Foreign Books as have been translated into English or printed in the British Dominions, as also a copious selection from the writings of the most distinguished authors of all ages and nations." Though Watt died in 1819, he lived to see the book mostly completed and printing begun. The support of Thomas Chalmers, James Ewing, George Jardine and Ralph Whitelaw was enlisted to ensure that publication would be completed. A complete edition in four large quarto volumes was seen through the press by 1824: volumes one and two were an alphabetical author index, and volumes three and four a subject index. Over 40, 000 authors were covered, and some periodical literature was also indexed. Paisley Public Library holds a manuscript of Bibliotheca Britannica in 57 folio volumes. In half leather bindings. Externally, smart. There is some wear to the extremities including bumping to the corners and rubbing to the leather and boards. There is a bookplate to the front pastedown and a small ink inscription to the front blank endpaper of each volume. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally clean and bright with the occasional handling mark, and spotting to most pages. The spotting is heavier to the first and final few pages. The pages have been rough cut. Very Good.
