First edition. One of 2000 sets printed. Inscribed and signed by Sawyer.

Sawyer and Darton compiled English Books for book collectors as "a 'Signpost' through the Labyrinths of English Literature" to appeal to the uninitiated as well as to the experienced collector. This work describes "what is sought for and why, it tells the prices which are - or have been - paid for rare books, and it shows the romantic as well as the prosaic side of book collecting".

8vo, two volumes. 368+423pp, 52+49 illustrations.

Red cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, other edges rough trimmed, printed buff dust jackets, glassine wrappers.

Cloth slightly marked and rubbed, in browned dust jackets with worn glassine wrappers. Endpapers and edges browned, some foxing to contents. Pencil marks to endpapers.