Ownership: 300 copies designed by Jerome E. Brooks and Richard Ellis and printed on specially made Ivory Archer Velvet Smooth paper from monotype MacKellar Caslon type. Cf. colophon, v. 4.
Content: Vols. 1-4 published 1937-1943; v. 5: 1952.
Content: Vol. 5 printed by the Anthoensen Press, Portland, Me.
Content: "Privately printed for George Arents"--Colophon, v. 4.
Content: In 1944, Arents' collection was acquired by The New York Public Library.
Content: The present catalog was supplemented 1958-1969 by: Arents Tobacco Collection. Tobacco, a catalogue of the books, manuscripts, and engravings, acquired since 1942 in the Arents Tobacco Collection at the New York Public Library, from 1507 to the present (New York : The New York Public Library, 1958-1969).
Content: Title page vignette (bookplate of George Arents, Jr).
Content: "Corrections": v. 4, p. 485; v. 5, p. 326-327.
Content: Copy in Pub. Cat.: Copy no. 99. East wall.
Content: Copy in *KAD+: Copy no. 39.
Content: Copy in *KF+: Copy no. 50.
Content: Copy in Arents 98-200: Copy no. 2. Binding: Dark red morocco, gilt, by Jas. MacDonald Co., N.Y. Shelved in Rm. 324.
Content: Copy in Arents 98-292: Copy no. 5. Shelved in Rm. 324.
Content: Copy in Arents Ref.+: Unnumbered. Vols. 1-4: annotated in ms.; copy used to prepare the index volume by Anne M. Nill (v. 5 of the set). Vol. 1 lacks t.p.
Physical Description
Extent: 5 v. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports., facsims. ; 35 cm.