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Early American children's books 1682-1840. The private collection of Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach. On exhibition at the New York Public Library
New York: New York Public Library 1927. 12mo pp. 15; 4 facsimiles; a very good copy in original brown printed wrappers. New York Public Library unknown
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Charavay, Etienne
Lettres autographes composant la collection de M. Alfred Bovet.ouvrage imprimé sous la direction de Fernand Calmettes
Paris: La librairie "Les neuf muses 1982. 4to pp. lvi 880 62; title page printed in red and black; illustrations and facsimiles throughout; original red cloth gilt stamped spine; very good. Reprint of the 1887 Librairie Charavay frères edition. La librairie "Les neuf muses unknown
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Sallander, Hans
Bibliotheca Walleriana. The books illustrating the history of medicine and science collected by Dr Erik Waller and bequeathed to the Library of the Royal University of Uppsala
Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell 1955 i.e. New York: Maurizio Martino 1992. Reprint edition limited to 400 copies 8vo 2 vols. in 1 portrait frontispiece 55 facsimiles; original maroon cloth gilt-stamped spine. Generally fine. Almqvist & Wiksell, 1955 [i.e. New York: Maurizio Martino unknown
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[Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York]
Systematic catalogue of books in the collection of the Mercantile Library Association of the city of New York; with a general index and one of dramatic pieces; together with an appendix; containing The Constitution and the rules and regulations of the association
New York: Harper & Brothers 1837. First edition 2 vols in one including supplement pp. xi 385 1; ex-Circulating Library of Rhinebeck No. 310; occasional light foxing extremities lightly rubbed else very good in original black calf-backed boards gilt lettering on spine. Harper & Brothers unknown
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Renouard, Ant Aug
Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde. Ou histoire des trois Manuce et de leurs éditions
Paris: Antoine-Augustin Renouard 1803. Two vols. 8vo; two portrait frontispieces; modern blue cloth binding with gilt stamped black morocco labels on spine. Pages untrimmed. A good copy of an early history of the Manutius family and the Aldine Press which would remain the most essential guide to the press throughout the 19th century. Antoine-Augustin Renouard unknown
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Gregory, Winifred
Union list of serials in libraries of the United States and Canada.Rag paper edition
New York: H.W. Wilson Company 1927. Large 4to pp. 1588; brown buckram over boards shelf wear; Northwestern University Library bookplace on front free endpaper. H.W. Wilson Company unknown
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Marsh, Elsie AG A G
The economic library of Jacob H. Hollander Ph.D.
Baltimore: Privately printed 1937. Limited edition of 500 copies this being no. 207 4to pp. xi 324; original three-quarter green cloth over green boards paper label with small loss not affecting text on spine hinges weak; interior fine. Inscribed by Hollander. Typescript addenda also compiled by Elsie A.G. Marsh laid in; pages frayed and sunned at edges. Privately printed unknown
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OLSCHKI, LEO S
Le livre illustré au XVe siècle
Florence: Leo S. Olschki 1926. First edition small 4to pp. xl 80; 344 illustrations on 220 plates including color frontis 3 plates in sepia text illustrations; gilt-stamped calf over pictorial boards signs of shelf wear very good. Leo S. Olschki unknown
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Catalogue of the Young Men's Mercantile Library Association of Cincinnati
Cincinnati: Truman & Spofford 1855. 8vo pp. xxxi 307; tan buckram over boards paper label on spine; foxing ink blots to title page otherwise a fine copy; short list of the library's holdings. Truman & Spofford unknown
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Winsor, Justin
Shakespeare's poems. A bibliography of the earlier editions
Cambridge Mass: Press of John Wilson and Son 1879. Large 8vo pp. 9; paper wrappers edges worn with loss to back wrapper not affecting text. Republished from the Bulletin of the Library of Harvard University October 1878 and January 1879. Bibliographical Contributions No. 2. Press of John Wilson and Son unknown
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Maria matka dobré rady. Modlitební knizka k ucteni nejblahoslavenejsí Panny Marie
Vimperk: J. Steinbrenera n.d. 1887. Prayer book in Czech 24mo approx. 111 mm pp. 384; chromolithograph frontispiece and title-page 12 full-p. wood engravings at The Stations of the Cross publisher's binding of full celluloid with an elaborate metal onlay frame enclosing a maroon velvet background onto which have been applied a celluloid crucifix and a celluloid floral motif also lined in metal brass clasp intact both covers edged in brass; minor edge wear very good and sound. A similar publication is at the Czech National Library but with a slightly variant title. J. Steinbrenera, n.d. unknown
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Camp, Charles L
Henry R. Wagner's: The plains and the Rockies. A bibliography of original narratives of travel and adventure 1800-1865
Columbus OH: Long's College Book Company 1953. Third edition; 8vo; pp. 8; 601; 33; facsimile reproductions printed recto/verso on 16 plates. Extremities lightly worn and spine a bit frayed else good or better in original gray cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Long's College Book Company unknown
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Latimore, Sarah Briggs & Grace Clark Haskell
Arthur Rackham. A bibliography
Los Angeles: Suttonhouse 1936. First edition limited to 550 copies 8vo pp. xii 2 111; plates index; spine a bit faded slipcase lightly chipped at edges else near fine in original cloth-backed paper covered decorative boards with gilt lettering on spine in slipcase. Printed by Ward Ritchie. Suttonhouse unknown
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Cotarelo Y Mori, Emilio
Diccionario biográfico y bibliográfico de calígrafos españoles
Madrid: Tipografía de la "revista de Arch. Bibl. Y Museos 1916. 2 volumes 4to; dozens of facsimile plates; original drab printed wrappers very worn tears not affecting text; spine of Volume 1 split in three places Volume 2 shows substantial shelf wear as well although spine still in tact; pages uniformly toned. "Obra premiada por la Biblioteca nacional en el concurso público de 1906 é impresa á expensas del estado" - front wrappers. OCLC locates one copy in the United States at the New York Academy of Medicine. Tipografía de la "revista de Arch., Bibl., Y Museos unknown
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Todhunter, John
An essay upon essays. Written by command of his Oddship brother Francis Elgar whom God preserve and read before "The Sette of Odd Volumes" January 4th 1895.Presented to the Sette by John Lane bibliographer at the February meeting 1896
London: R. Folkard and Son 1896. Edition limited to 350 copies of which this is no. 111; 16mo pp. 55; title page printed in red and black; original purple printed wrappers fine. Half title: "Privately printed opuscula issued to the members of the Sette of Odd Volumes. No. XXXVI. R. Folkard and Son] unknown
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White, Gilbert
The natural history of Selborne.Edited with notes by Grant Allen. Illustrated by Edmund H. New
London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1902. 8vo pp. xl 552; portrait frontispiece of Thomas Pennant and Daines Barrington maps illustrations many full-page throughout; contemporary three-quarter red morocco over brick cloth gilt spine with 5 raised bands marble endpapers spine edges a bit rubbed else fine; contemporary inscription from "Mother Gale" to Sadie and Edward Gale. John Lane, The Bodley Head unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 38226
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O'Neill, Robert Keating
English-language dictionaries 1604-1900: the catalog of the Warren N. and Suzanne B. Cordell Collection
New York: Greenwood Press 1988. First edition 8vo pp. xxix-xxx 480-481; portrait frontispiece of Cordell; fine in original red cloth stamped in gilt and black. Chastized by me in a contemporary review the work is not without merit. I still use it for occasional collations a deficiency in Vancil. It also boasts a foreword by Suzanne Cordell and the reprinting of Warren Cordell's "Remarks" from Koda's seminal catalogue of the collection. Greenwood Press unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 42048
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Updike, Daniel Berkeley
Printing types: their history forms and use. A study in survivals
Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1951. Second edition second printing 2 volumes 8vo plates some folding and illustrations in text; a fine bright set in original red cloth gilt-lettered spines. Standard reference. Harvard University Press unknown
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Field, Thomas W
Catalogue of the library belonging to Mr. Thomas W. Field. To be sold at auction.May 24th 1875 and following days
New York: Bangs Merwin & Co 1875. 8vo pp. viii 393; contemporary half dark brown cloth over marbled boards dark brown morocco fore edge tips top edge red; boards rubbed edges and corners a bit shelf worn; previous owner's rubber stamp on front pastedown a couple early leaves detached but present pages uniformly toned and brittle binding rather loose. Auction catalogue of more than 2600 lots from Fields's collection of Americana with special emphasis on American Indians. List of prices pp. 377-393. Bangs, Merwin & Co unknown
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The library of the old English prose writers
Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown 1831. 8 of 9 volumes 8vo; contemporary blue-green cloth paper spine labels quite browned spine of Vol. I toned light uniform wear to edges and corners; endpages a bit spotted else a very good set albeit lacking Vol IV. Each volume with additional title page. Works include Thomas Fuller's "The Holy and Profane States" American Imprints 7200; Sir Philip Sidney's "The Defence of Poesy" and John Selden's "Table-Talk" American Imprints 9189; Sir Thomas Browne's "Miscellaneous Works" American Imprints 6323; Izaak Walton's "The Lives of Donne Wotton Hooker Herbert and Sanderson" in 2 volumes; Hugh Latimer's "Select Sermons"; "Selections from the Works of Jeremy Taylor" American Imprints 21442; and Sir Thomas More's "Utopia: and history of King Richard III" American Imprints 25827. Hilliard and Brown unknown
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O'Neill, Robert Keating
English-language dictionaries 1604-1900: the catalog of the Warren N. and Suzanne B. Cordell Collection
New York: Greenwood Press 1988. First edition 8vo pp. xxix-xxx 480-481; portrait frontispiece of Cordell; fine in original red cloth stamped in gilt and black. Chastized by me in a contemporary review the work is not without merit. I still use it for occasional collations a deficiency in Vancil. It also boasts a foreword by Suzanne Cordell and the reprinting of Warren Cordell's "Remarks" from Koda's seminal catalogue of the collection. Greenwood Press unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 42044
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Stillwell, Margaret Bingham
The Annmary Brown Memorial. A descriptive essay
Providence 1925. 8vo pp. 24; printed by order of the Trustees of The Annmary Brown Memorial written and illustrated by Stillwell; light edgewear to extremities else near fine in original cloth-backed boards with gilt-lettered spine. Copy no. 70 in a unspecified limited edition. unknown
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Burns, Robert
The poetical works.including the pieces published in his correspondence and reliques: with songs and fragments. To which are prefixed a history of the poems by his brother Gilbert Burns and a sketch of his life
London: John Bumpus.and Galignani Paris 1822. 2 volumes 12mo pp. xxx 268; xii 262; engraved portrait frontispiece in first volume; contemporary full black morocco elaborately stamped in gilt spine in five compartments with alternating gilt decorative stamping and lettering a.e.g. brown endpapers; extremities rubbed small 1/4-inch loss to volume 2 spine head; endpaper edges toned later 1910 owner's name on ffeps previous bookseller's description tipped to volume 1 flyleaf; interior mostly fine. A very handsome set. The first edition to be printed outside Britain or the USA according to Egerer 259. John Bumpus...and Galignani, Paris unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 40825
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Schafer, Jurgen
Early modern English lexicography
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1989. 2 volumes 8vo pp. 488 227; original blue cloth upper covers and spines lettered in gilt blue endpapers later clear plastic dust jackets; fine. Volume I: A survey of monolingual printed glossaries and dictionaries 1475-1640; Volume II: Additions and corrections to the OED. Clarendon Press unknown
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Burton, John Hill
The book-hunter etc.
New York: Sheldon and Company 1863. 8vo pp. xii 411; with additional notes by Richard Grant White; t.e.g. shaken extremities lightly rubbed and worn corners bumped cloth buckling else very good in original brown cloth with paper label on spine. Sheldon and Company unknown
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Lehner, Ernst
The letterhead. History and progress
New York: Museum Books Inc 1955. First edition large 4to unpaginated; profusely illustrated throughout including a collection of letterheads designed by outstanding artists and typographers and printed especially for this volume. Light edgewear to extremities else very good in original cloth-backed paper covered boards spiral bound. Museum Books, Inc unknown
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Morley, Henry
English writers.with an introductory sketch of the four periods of English literature
London: Chapman and Hall 1866. 2 volumes in 3 8vo pp. xii 432; xi 1 425-780; xiii 3 462; title pages printed in red and black; contemporary three-quarter dark olive morocco over marbled boards gilt spine in 6 compartments t.e.g. marbled endpapers; edges a bit scuffed spines toned; modern ownership signature on flyleaf of volume 1 pt. 1 else a very good attractive set. Volumes 1 pt. 1 and 2 pt. 1 dated 1867; volume 1 pt. 2 dated 1866. Contents: Celts and Anglo-Saxons; Conquest to Chaucer; and Chaucer to Dunbar. The projected second part to volume 2 was never published although Morley see DAB would eventually produce 10 of an intended 20 volumes from 1887 to his death in 1894 see NCBEL III 1396 bringing the history up to Shakespeare. Chapman and Hall unknown
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WINGER, HOWARD W
Printers' marks and devices
Chicago: Caxton Club 1976. First edition ltd. to 600 copies 8vo pp. 3-107 2; frontispiece and 78 printers' marks and devices from the 16th century some printed in red and black each with a brief biographical sketch of the printer; fine copy in orig. red buckram and glassine jacket. Caxton Club unknown
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Bly, Carol
An adolescent's Christmas: 1944
Afton Minnesota: Afton Historical Society Press 2000. First edition limited to 50 copies handbound at the Campbell-Logan Bindery Minneapolis of which this is no. 18 slim 8vo pp. 62; red morocco-backed blue cloth boards in matching cloth slipcase; fine. Colophon signed by the author. This limited edition does not appear to be in OCLC. Afton Historical Society Press unknown
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A selection of six publications as below
Minneapolis and/or Saint Paul v.d. Brown John Mason. Beyond the present. Minneapolis & St. Paul 1948. Edition ltd. to 650 copies slim 8vo 6 & 28pp. fine copy in orig. brown cloth paper labels tissue dust jacket. Aris Rutherford. The ampersand in script & print. An essay in honor of the Ampersand Club on the occasion of its semicentary Minneapolis 1980 8vo pp.13 illustrated throughout fine in original pictorial wrappers. Rota Anthony. Life in a London bookshop: excerpts from a lecture. Minneapolis: Ampersand Club 1989. Edition limited to 200 copies 8vo pp.4 19 5; frontispiece; fine in original olive cloth stamped in gilt. McLean Austin J. In fair dehiscence. The correspondence of James R. Eckman & T. M. Cleland 1961-1963. Minneapolis 1992. 8vo pp. 30 2 illustrations from photographs; fine in original printed paper-covered boards. Wulling Thomas E. Emerson G. Wulling: 75 years a printer . with excerpts from the subjects writings. Minneapolis 1991.12mo pp. 27; portrit frontispiece printer's mark fine in original decorative wrappers. Andersen Elmer L. On book collecting. By Arne Kjelsberg. Minneapolis: Ampersand Club 2005. Limited to 626 copies this 1 one 500 of the regular edition printed on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Ampersand Club by Gaylord Schanilec; 8vo pp. 2 43 8; wood-engraved frontis portrait of the author by Schanilec title-p. printed in blue and black; as new in original gray cloth with printed wrap-around label on spine and upper cover. Elmer Andersen long-time Ampersand member Grolier Club member governor of Minnesota CEO of H.B. Fuller and newspaper publisher contributed a regular column to one of his newspapers on book collecting under the pseudonym of Arne Kjelsberg a selection of which is printed here with an Afterword by Rob Rulon-Miller. unknown
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Estienne, Charles
Dictionarium historicvm ac poeticum: omnia gentium hominum locorum fluminum ac montium antiqua recentioráq; ad sacras ac prophanas historias poetarumque fabulas intelligendas necessaria vocabula bono ordine complectens
Geneva: Franciscus Perrinus 1566. 8vo ff. 2 341; title within woodcut border text in double column; title page defective with loss to bottom margin and top right corner causing loss to woodcut border but no letterpress; also with neat repair to corners of second leaf with loss to the ends of 3 lines and the third through the sixth leaf with minor loss in the upper corner; otherwise a nice crisp copy in 19th century full mottled calf black and red morocco labels on gilt decorated spine. The Preface by Charles Estienne in this edition does not appear in the 1553 first edition. A rare edition not found in Adams Schreiber the French BM-STC or NUC; OCLC finds the Harvard ISU Grinnell and Brigham Young copies only; see Renouard p. 104-05 for the first edition of 1553. Franciscus Perrinus unknown
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Varillas, Monsieur
La pratique de l'education des princes contenant l'histoire de Guillaume de Croy surnommé Le Sage Seigneur de Chiévres gouverneur de Charles d'Autriche qui fut Empereur Cinquiéme du Nom
Amsterdam: H. Wetstein & H. Desbordes 1686. 12mo pp. 34 407; woodcut printer's device initials and head- and tail-pieces; full contemporary vellum soiled contemporary ink manuscript spine title; several contemporary and early 18th century ownership signatures on frontfree endpaper and title page as well as early 18th century bookplate partially obscuring engraved title printer's device. Text block fine. Antoine Varillas 1624-1696 was a French historian best known for his history of heresy. He was born in Guéret and made a troubled way as a man of letters in Paris. He worked as a historian for Gaston Duke of Orléans. Then through an introduction from Pierre Dupuy he was able to have library access leading to work on manuscripts for Jean-Baptiste Colbert. Colbert however was dissatisfied with his work and replaced him. Varillas enjoyed support from Pierre Huet but became a marginal figure. H. Wetstein & H. Desbordes unknown
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Deedes, Cecil, ed
Royal & loyal sufferers. Edited with notes and biographic and bibliographic sketches
London: F.E. Robinson & Co 1903. Edition limited to 350 copies of which this is no. 25 8vo pp. xiv 147; engraved portrait frontispiece of Princess Elizabeth title page printed in decorative border facsimiles throughout; contemporary dark blue morocco elaborately tooled and stamped in gilt and red t.e.g. marbled endpapers; extremities scuffed hinges reinforced else a very good unopened copy. Vol. V of the Russell Press Stuart Series. F.E. Robinson & Co unknown
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Symonds, John Addington
New Italian sketches
Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz 1884. Copyright edition small 8vo pp. 326; contemporary full vellum yapp edges elaborate leather stitching partially pershed upper cover title nicely lettered in manuscript in blue black and gilt all edges red; contemporary ownership signature on ffep; a very nice copy overall. Collection of British Authors Tauchnitz Edition Vol. 2217. Bernard Tauchnitz unknown
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[Scott, Walter]
The bridal of Triermain or The vale of St. John. In three cantos
Edinburgh: John Ballantyne and Co 1813. Third edition 16mo pp. xvii 1 233; later full green star-patterned calf some dampstaining tooled in black and gilt black morocco spine labels small loss to bottom label all edges marbled marbled endpapers; spine darkened to brown extremities a bit scuffed from shelf wear marbled edges quite faint; later 1929 gift inscription on ffep contemporary ownership "Harriett" on title page else mostly fine. John Ballantyne and Co unknown
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Nixon, Howard M
Five centuries of English bookbinding
London: Scolar Press 1979. 8vo pp. 232 9 index; numerous black & white illustrations near fine in original cloth with dust jacket. Scolar Press unknown
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HOBSON, ANTHONY
Humanists and bookbinders: the origins and diffusion of the humanistic bookbinding 1459-1559 with a census of historiated plaquette and medallion bindings of the Renaissance
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1989. First edition 4to illustrated pp. xix 1 296; color photographic frontispiece black and white text illustrations throughout; a fine copy in original dustjacket. Important study of north Italian and Parisian bindings. Cambridge University Press unknown
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JOHNSON, MERLE
American First Editions: Bibliographic Check List of the Works of One Hundred and Five American Authors
New York: Bowker 1929. First edition 8vo pp. 242 a very good copy in original blue cloth printed paper spine label "additions and corrections" list laid-in. Standard reference. Bowker unknown
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The works
London: Walter Scott n.d. 1894. 13 volumes small 8vo generally a fine set in matching orig. green cloth attractively stamped in silver and red after a design by Walter Crane; t.e.g.; not in BAL; Browne p. 15 noting only a 12 volume Scott edition 1894 with a frontispiece by Walter Crane. In our set there are gravure frontispieces in each volume by T. Eire Macklin or James Torrance but not Crane. Walter Scott, n.d. unknown
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STONEHILL, CHARLES, JR
Anonyma and pseudonyma
London: C. A. Stonehill Jr. 1926. Edition limited to 325 copies; 4 volumes; 8vo; bindings loose but insides firm cloth cracking at rear hinge of volume I; good copy in original blue cloth. Comprehensive listing of known authors of anonymous works as well as commonly used pseudonyms. C. A. Stonehill, Jr. unknown
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Vergilius Maro, Publius
Publius Virgilius Maro
Londini: impensis Gul. Pickering 1821. First Pickering edition issued in his Diamond Classics series and printed in Diamond type by C. Correll; 48mo 8 cm. pp. 283 1; generally fine in contemporary and probably original pebble-grain green morocco gilt a.e.g. ribbon bookmark. One of the rarest of Pickering's Diamond Classics; most of the edition burned in a fire. Pickering's first book in the Diamond Classics series was his Horace of 1820. Editions of Virgil and Cicero appeared in the following year the Virgil being first and in 1822 he published Petrarch and Tasso. Terence and Dante followed in 1823 and Horace was reprinted in 1824.The series continued later including English authors until 1831. Keynes p. 93. impensis Gul. Pickering unknown
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American imprints inventory no. 39 a check list of Arkansas imprints 1821-1876. Prepared by the Arkansas Historical Records Survey division of community service programs Work Projects Administration
Little Rock Arkansas: Arkansas Historical Records Survey 1942. First edition; 4to; pp. 12 139; 5; printed and numbered only on rectos; near fine in original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Arkansas Historical Records Survey unknown
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Catalogue
Cincinnati: Press of Wilstach Baldwin & Co 1871. Thick 8vo pp. ix-xii 644; hinges cracked else good or better in orig. green cloth gilt t.e.g.; presentation copy from Poole the librarian to MHS; ex-MHS. Contains an historical sketch of the library and a floor-plan of the building. Press of Wilstach, Baldwin & Co unknown
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GRAY, GEORGE J
The earlier Cambridge stationers & bookbinders and the first Cambridge printer
Oxford: printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press 1904. First edition letterpress printed by Horace Hart 4to pp. xv 1 81 1; title-page printed in black and red 29 full-page plates; a fine uncut copy in natural linen over tan paper-covered boards lettered in black direct on spine with the original printed brown wrappers bound in at end. This copy from the library of Roy Stokes d. 1995 renowned bibliographer author and director of the library school at the University of British Columbia; with his ownership signature on front free endpaper. "The first attempt to secure a proper position for the Cambridge Binders in the history of English bookbinding in the early part of the sixteenth century" p.1. No. XIII in the Bibliographical Society's Illustrated Monographs series. 2. printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press unknown
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DAVIS, WILLIAM
A journey round the library of a bibliomaniac: or cento of notes and reminiscences concerning rare curious and valuable books
London: for W. Davis bookseller 1821. First edition 8vo pp. viii 96; late 19th century brown morocco-backed black pebble-grain cloth gilt-lettered spine; front joint starting else good or better. Approx. 125 bibliographical excursions by the famed bookseller: the best edition of Bacon's works Bruno's Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast; the Ibarra edition of Cervantes Coryat's Crudities Hakluyt Purchase Shakespeare's portrait by Droeshout and Virgil's Opera largest paper Elzevir 1676. for W. Davis, bookseller unknown
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SILVER, ROLLO G
The American printer 1787-1825
Charlottesville VA: Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 1967. First edition 8vo pp. xii 2 189 1; illustrations; black and gray cloth stamped in gilt fine with a presentation from the author "To the family with much appreciation for your wonderful hospitality from Rollo. Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia unknown
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GRAESSE, JEAN GEORGE THEODORE
Trésor de livres rares et précieux ou nouveau dictionnaire bibliographique. Contenant plus de cent mille articles de livres rares curieux et recherchés d'ouvrages de luxe etc. Avec les signes connus pour distinguer les éditions originales des contrefaçons qui en ont été faites des notes sur la rareté et le mérite des livres cités
Milano: Gˆrlich 1950. 8 volumes 4to orig. beige cloth gilt-stamped direct on spines; pages a little browned as usual else generally a very good sound set. Reprint of the 1859-1869 edition describing more than 100000 rare books largely continental and especially strong in German books. Gˆrlich unknown
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Firmage, George J
E. E. Cummings: a bibliography
Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press 1960. First edition 8vo pp. ix 1 129 1;a fine copy in dustjacket with only a few inconsequential nicks at spine ends. Wesleyan University Press unknown
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COWPER, WILLIAM
Table talk and other poems. With numerous illustrations by Harrison Weir Wimperis Barnes Gilbert Noel Humphreys and other eminent artists
London: Religious Tract Society n.d. 1870. 8vo pp. v-xvi 17-307 1; engraved frontispiece of Cowper; wood engraved illus. throughout; publisher's full green morocco gilt ruled border on both covers enclosing embossed floral motif and a central gilt vignette of Cowper and 2 hares pictorial gilt spine a.e.g.; inked gift inscription on front pastedown dated 1930 remains of old collegiate rubberstamp on front free endpaper flyleaves foxed; all else good and sound or better. Religious Tract Society, n.d. unknown
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Lake, Edward
Officium Eucharisticum: a preparatory service to a devout and worthy reception of the Lord's Supper.The thirtieth edition
London: R. Ware W. & D. Baker et al. 1753. 12mo pp. 8 9-168; bound with a 23-p. Order for the Administration of the Lord's Supper drop title a single gathering of 12 leaves the first trimmed at the bottom without loss and likely separately printed; engraved frontispiece portrait by Van der Gucht; original full black goatskin gilt roll-tooled border enclosing an elaborate central panel with double gilt roll-tooled floral border floral motifs in the corners gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments marbled endpapers a.e.g. blue silk bookmark; spine very slightly discolored else near fine throughout. ESTC records only the Univ. of Leeds National Trust Lambeth Palace and the British Library copies none of which with the Order for the Administration. OCLC adds the National Library of Scotland Emory Auburn LSU Brown and Boston Public. R. Ware, W. & D. Baker [et al.] unknown
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