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Rare Books

The vocabulary and habits of book collecting: editions and impressions, bindings, condition, completeness, and the questions a specialist asks of a title page.

Antiquarian bindings on dark walnut shelving, one volume drawn forward to show its gilt tooling
An early printed folio open at a woodcut illustration beside a marbled slipcase

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Collecting Rare Books

A grounding in the vocabulary and habits of book collecting: how editions and issues differ, why collation matters, what a binding tells you, and how to build a collection with a coherent shape.

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