Item #409685 Catalogue of the More Important Books, Autographs and Manuscripts in the Library of George C. Thomas. George Clifford THOMAS, collection.
Catalogue of the More Important Books, Autographs and Manuscripts in the Library of George C. Thomas
Catalogue of the More Important Books, Autographs and Manuscripts in the Library of George C. Thomas

Catalogue of the More Important Books, Autographs and Manuscripts in the Library of George C. Thomas

Philadelphia: [Privately Printed], 1907. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 86 pages. Frontispiece showing Thomas's library. Contemporary red hard-grained morocco, gilt-ruled and -lettered, top edges gilt, by Lippincott's, a presentation binding found on some copies. Small stain on rear cover, light wear at extremities, but a near-fine copy. Item #409685

THE FIRST COPY. First edition of the catalogue of the private library of Philadelphia industrialist George C. Thomas (1839- 1909). (The compiler’s note is signed A. H. R.) Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the collector to his wife on the front free endpaper: “To my dear wife / This first copy of my Library is given by her Loving Hus- band Geo. C. Thomas / ... Sept. 9 1907.” Thomas’ books were sold by Rosenbach after his death. The library – fairly seen as a wealthy man’s collection of high spots – included some 2800 volumes, including a large Dickens collection, Cruikshankiana, fine press, Bibles, missals and Books of Hours, Shakespeare (the four folios, including Sidney Lee’s no. 4 of the first), and important American manuscripts by Lincoln, Washing- ton, Poe, Cooper, and English and European manuscripts by Bach, Wagner, and other figures.

Price: $250.00