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Hardcover, maroon cloth lettered in gold on spine. in publisher’s non priced and non clipped dust-jacket. 350 pages. With an introduction and notes by Andrew Carpenter. First edition thus, limited to 600 copies. On the cusp the 17th century John Dunton arrived in Dublin with the intention of selling books via auction, much to the consternation of the bookmongers already in residence. Thus establishes the circumstance from which the present scuffle ensues. In addition to the blow by blow account of dueling bibliomaniacs, Dunton provides a vivid portrait of everyday life of the denizens of the city from all walks of life. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and near like new copy, with a touch of rubbing to the underside of boards from shelving. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.