DEWEY, MELVIL A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library. Thin 8vo, later cloth,

leather spine label rubbed. Amherst, 1876 FIRST EDITION of the proposal for Dewey's widely influential classification system. Not inappropriately, a very good ex-library copy, with only perforated stamp on title, and bookplate.