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SULLIVAN Edward
The Book of Kells. Foreword by J.H. Holden.
4to. with coloured plates small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; ivory cloth patterned in green backstrip lettered in green a very good clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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Carter John
Taste and Technique in Book Collecting. A Study of Recent Developments in Great Britain and the United States. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; original ochre cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean, crisp copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly spotted and sunned at backstrip. A much-loved standard reference. This is the first UK publication of the Sanders Lecture in Bibliography for 1947. The original edition is uncommon in this condition
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DAVENPORT Cyril
Beautiful Books.
Sm. 4to. First Edition with mounted coloured frontispiece title and text in brown a mounted coloured plate and 17 plates in monochrome; red wrappers printed in black covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good clean copy.
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HARTHAN John P.
Bookbindings. [Revised Edition] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
8vo., with 72 fine plates of bindings and 7 plates on 4 showing technique; original grreen cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and black, a very good, bright, clean copy. Revised and expanded version of the original V&A edition of 1950.
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MEYNELL Francis
My Lives. WITH AN A.L.s FROM THE AUTHOR
8vo. First Edition with plates and facsimiles in the text; terracotta cloth gilt back blue endpapers a very good bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. WITH AN A.L.s FROM THE AUTHOR LOOSELY INSERTED. The letter is dated 18 September 1974 and written from Meynell's residence at The Grey House, Lavenham, Suffolk. It is highly characteristic, referring as it does to the design shortcomings of a published document -'the matter of the Report is full of interest - but its presentation - ugh! What conceivable justification is there for the vast head-of-page margins (and diminutive tail-margins) on type pages - made all the sillier by the full page arrangements of illustrated pages.' A copy of a newspaper obituary of the author is also included. A SPLENDID ASSOCIATION COPY OF MEYNELL'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY , ACCOMPANIED BY A TYPICALLY FORTHRIGHT CREATIVE OPINION FROM ONE THE LEADING BRITISH DESIGNERS AND TYPOGRAPHERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
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LANSDOWNE MANUSCRIPTS
A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum. With Index of Persons, Places and Matters. Printed by Command of His Majesty King George III, in pursuance of an Address of The House of Commons of Great Britain. [Preface by Henry Ellis] REMARKABLY FRESH, CRISP COPY IN INSTITUTIONAL BINDING
Large folio, First Edition, some moderate age-staining, a handful of leaves expertly remargined; strongly bound in early twentieth-century terracotta buckram, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down and small, neat stamp on title verso. The Lansdowne MSS are a significant named collection forming part of the holdings of the British Library. They include State papers and correspondence of Lord Burghley, Papers of Sir Julius Caesar, Papers of Dr. White Kennett (his manuscripts passed to James West and so to Lansdowne), historical papers from the 15th-18th centuries, William Petyt's parliamentary papers and papers of legal interest, and topographical and heraldic collections of great importance. The MSS were purchased by the british Museum at Sotheby's auction in 1807. The catalogue comprises: Part I: The Burghley Papers; Part II: the remaining papers (each part having its own separate index), together with a transcript of the Commons Address, the Royal Commission with Caley's Order and a detailed contectural Preface by Henry Ellis. A REMARKABLY FRESH, CRISP COPY OF AN INVALUABLE AND EXTREMELY SCARCE WORK.
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PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY, NEW YORK
Art of the Printed Book 1455-1955. Masterpieces of Typography through Five Centuries from the Collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. [With an Essay by Joseph Blumenthal. Third Impression]. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, Third Impression, with numerous fine full-page facsimiles throughout; black cloth, upper board blocked in gilt with the Aldine emblem, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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FARMER, ed John S.
The Tudor Facsimile Texts. Everyman. Under the Supervision and Editorshop of John S. Farmer. THE EVERYMAN MSS
Roy, 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with many fine full-page facsimiles in collotype throughout, mounted section titles, interleaved with blanks, free endpapers browned, some light spotting to title and interleaves (not facsimiles), neat ownership inscription on front free endpaper; green cloth, ivory buckram back with printed paper label, uncut, a very good, bright copy. Splendid facsimiles of the two versions in the BM: the complete Scott-printed copy (Huth 32) and (2) the fragment of an edition printed by Pynson (C21. c17). John Alexander (Dept. of MSS), in comparing this facsimile with the original copies, reports that 'it is admirably reproduced, especially in the case of the Pynson fragment which is practically faultless'. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
The Dictionary of National Biography. The Concise Dictionary. Part II. 1901-1970. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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CHAPMAN George
The Works of George Chapman. Plays. Edited with Notes by Richard Herne Shepherd. New Edition THE CATALANI COPY WITH CAMERON BOOKPLATE
8vo., with portrait frontispiece, text in double column; original green cloth, upper board framed in blind and blocked in gilt, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut, hinges starting (but binding entirely sound), a good, bright, firm copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF W D S CATALANI AND BEARS HIS FINE ART-NOUVEAU BOOKPLATE BY DAVID YOUNG CAMERON ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. A FINE EXAMPLE OF THIS SPLENDID PLATE. W D S Catalani was Counsellor to the Italian Embassy, Washington. With the trade ticket of Thornton of Oxford on front paste-down and 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Rinder 445.
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'THE PEOPLE' NEWSPAPER
The People. A Weekly Newspaper for All Classes. Sunday February 3, 1901. A RARE SURVIVAL
Broadsheet newspaper, 16pp, measuring 2o x 15 ins (approx. 51 x 38 cms), front cover lightly age-soiled, horizontal and vertical fold-marks, one or two marginal closed tears else a remarkably well-preserved, bright copy. Front cover illustration by Harry Furniss. Includes coverage of events following the recent death of Queen Victoria. A crisp copy ideal for framing and display. Original issues from this period are EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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CRUTCHLEY Brooke
Two Men. Walter Lewis and Stanley Morison at Cambridge. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE; 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portraits and facsimiles; blue boards, red buckram back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. A Cambridge Christmas book.
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ATTAR Dena
A Bibliography of Household Books Published in Britain 1800-1914. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and illustrations; cloth, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Already scarce.
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STEPHEN Leslie
Hours in a Library (First Series). Second Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Edition, contemporary inscription on half-title; original brown cloth, upper board with double frame border in blind enclosing geometric floral device in gilt, gilt back, brown endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the trade ticket of Henry Sotheran on front free endpaper verso. First published in 1874.
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STEPHEN Leslie
Hours in a Library (Second Series). Second Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Edition; original brown cloth, upper board with double frame border in blind enclosing geometric floral device in gilt, gilt back, brown endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the trade ticket of Henry Sotheran on front free endpaper verso, and 4pp publisher's catalogue at end. First published in 1876.
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MORPURGO J.E.
Paper-Backs across Frontiers. FINE SIGNED COPY
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE. Written whilst the author was Director of the National Book League. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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WOODS Frederick
A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Winston Churchill. [Second Revised Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Revised Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, yellow top, yellow endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper.
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STANLEY GIBBONS ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS
Catalogues I-III. FINE SET OF THE FIRST THREE GIBBONS
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with plates; printed wrappers, all fine copies. The world-famous stamp company began trading in antiquarian books in September 1978. The first catalogue is designed by Ruari McLean.
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MAGDALENE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
The Pepys Library. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., with frontispiece and photographs in the text, small name on front wrapper; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Overview of the famous library, transferred to the College in July 1724.
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SADLEIR Michael
XIX Century Fiction. A Bibliographical Record based on his own Collection. NEAR FINE COPY
2 vols., roy. 4to., brown buckram, gilt backs, small paint mark on backstrip of first volume else a near fine copy. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1951. Sadleir's justifiably famous collection is particularly strong in Dickens, Hardy, Jefferies, Kingsley, Marryat, Peacock, Reade, Thackeray, Trollope and many others.
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SIMON Oliver
Signature. A Quadrimestrial of Typography and Graphic Arts. New Series. Volumes 1-18. NEAR FINE RUN IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS AND CLOTH
18 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations throughout; two volumes in original cloth, the remainder in printed wrappers with tissue dustwrapper, a near fine run. A GOOD RUN IN UNUSALLY BRIGHT CONDITION.
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BIRMINGHAM SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY.
A Shakespeare Bibliography. The Catalogue of the Birmingham Shakespeare Library. NEAR FINE SET IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
7 vols., 4to., First Edition; original cloth, a near fine set. The Birmingham Shakespeare Library, comprising upwards of forty-five thousand volumes, is considered one of the two largest such collections extant. This magisterial catalogue consists of two parts, corresponding respectively to the original guard book catalogue (complete to 1932), and the subsequent card catalogue in use to the time of publication. EXTREMELY SCARCE AND SELDOM OFFERED FOR SALE IN THIS CONDITION.
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FITZGERALD Percy
The Book Fancier. Or the Romance of Book Collecting. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., Frst Edition, title in red and black; original cloth gilt, gilt top, gilt top, bevelled boards, uncut, a trifle shaken else a bright, clean copy. As always with Fitzgerald, a delightful and readable pot-pourri of subjects including 'Of the Mazarin Bible', 'Of Printers', 'Of Grangerizing and Dickensiana' and 'Of Binding and its Curiosities'
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MACGIBBON David
Jean Bourdichon. A Court Painter of the Fifteenth Century. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 31 plates; burgundy cloth, gilt back, uncut and largely unopened, a near fine copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. The definitive and privately printed study of the greatest French illuminators. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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DUNNE Tom
Gerard Manley Hopkins. A Comprehensive Bibliography. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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GILL Eric
Letters of Eric Gill. Edited by Walter Shewring. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece in red and black, and plates; red cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, , red top (lightly faded), fore-edge mildly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip.
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MORISON Stanley
Stanley Morison and D.B. Updike. Selected Correspondence. Edited by David McKitterick. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with title in blue and black, and 20 plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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DAVENPORT Cyril
English Heraldic Book-Stamps. Figured and Described. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations throughout, free endpapers lightly browned; original dark red buckram, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy with virtually no trace of the usual foxing. Bright, firm copy of the standard reference, seldom found without institutional markings. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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WRIGHTSON Priscilla
The Small English House. Catalogue 35. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. With the errata slip mounted on title. The catalogue describes over 660 items with full index.
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SEYMOUR Terry
A Guide to Collecting Everyman's Library. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Since its foundation in 1906, Everyman's Library has published more than 1,000 titles covering virtually every field of knowledge. This work is the first comprehensive guide to the series between 1906 and 1976, with detailed listings, points, issues and scarcity.
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BLOCH, comp. Joshua
The People and the Book. The Background of Three Hundred Years of Jewish Life in America. A Tricentennial Exhibition at The New York Public Library. Sponsored by the Louis M. Rabinowitz Foundation. October - December 1954. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; patterened boards, burgundy cloth back lettered in gilt, red top, a near fine copy. An annotated list of illuminated manuscripts, rare books, authentic documents and related materials.
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CRUISING ASSOCIATION.
The Cruising Association Library Catalogue. A Collection of Books for Seamen and Students of Nautical Literature, Atlases and Charts. Compiled by HerbeRt J. Hanson. [Third Edition]. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY: THIRD EDITION WITH ADDENDA
8vo., Third Edition, with full-page illustrations in the text; burgundy cloth, upper board blocked in colours and lettered in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. The Addenda for Jan-June 1954, and Jan 1988-Jan 1989 are loosely inserted. A valuable resource for maritime literature, though this third edition is abbreviated to authors, titles and dates.
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YABLON G. Anthony
A Bronte Bibliography [1856-1978]. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, on laid paper; navy cloth gilt, gilt back, a fine copy.
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WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY.
The Work of William Morris. An Exhibition [at The Times Bookshop] arranged by the William Morris Society. 2000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Sm. 4to., First Edition; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 2000 COPIES. The exhibition was held from 25 October - 10 November in the Rare Book Room.
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NEEDHAM, Paul
William Morris and the Art of the Book. With Essays on William Morris as Book Collector by Paul Needham, as Calligrapher by Joseph Dunlap, and as Typographer by John Dreyfus. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with 114 fine plates and pictorial endpapers; green cloth boards, back in darker green cloth lettered in gilt, darker, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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COUPE Robert L.M.
Illustrated Editions of the Works of William Morris in English. A Descriptive Bibliography. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous reproductions in the text; cloth, gilt back, patterned endpapers, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Published in association with the British Library.
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BIRLEY, comp. Robert
The Eton College Collections. One Hundred Books. Selected and annotated by Robert Birley. BRIGHT COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., with a frontispiece; original printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Eton College Collections, Occasional Publications, no. II. The frontispiece is taken from the Eton Chrysostom (1610-13), n. 64, the engraved title of which contains the earliest depiction of the college. The work was the gift of Sir Henry Savile {of Banke] and was bound by Williamson.
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BARKER Nicolas
Stanley Morison. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, red top, fore-edge spotted else a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter browned at edges and fold-ins.
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NOWELL-SMITH Simon
The House of Cassell 1848-1958. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 23 illustrations in the text (the majority full-page and one double page); navy buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper. The standard history, handsomely printed at the Curwen Press.
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MOUNT ATHOS.
The Treasures of Mount Athos. Illuminated Manuscripts, Miniatures, Headpieces, Initial Letters. Volume I [only]. The Protaton and the Monasteries of Dionysiou, Koutloumosiou, Xeropotamou and Gregoriou. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
Folio, First Edition, with 376 fine coloured reproductions and several other photographs and maps, patterned endpapers; original tan faux-morocco cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked in gilt and colours, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the whole housed in publisher's illustrated board slip-case.
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MORGAN Charles
The House of Macmillan (1843-1943). BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in red and black; decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, gilt top, a near fine copy. The classic account of one of the greatest nineteenth publishing houses. It includes much detail on the relationship between the Macmillans (particularly Frederick) and the writers of the day (Hardy, Carroll, James, Tennyson, Kipling among others) who often owed much to the firm's encouragement.
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WWII.
Bibliografia della Seconda Guerra Mondiale 1945-1975. NEAR FINE COPY IN LAMINATED BOARDS
8vo., First Edition, text in Italian; laminated boards, a near fine copy.
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WHITE Arthur S.
A Bibliography of Regimental Histories of the British Army. With a Foreword by Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer. [Second Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition; green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper The standard reference. Much-needed reissue of the first edition of 1965.
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CRESSWELL Mary Ann
United States Air Force History. An Annotated Bibliography. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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BAYLISS Gwyn M.
Bibliographic Guide to the Two World Wars. An Annotated Survey of English-Language Reference Materials. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, neat signature on front free endpaper; blue buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HELD Walter
Verbande und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Eine Bibliographie der deutschen Nachkriegsliteratur. Band 2. 1977-1981. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, text in German; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. Standard German-language reference. SCARCE.
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SCHMITT Bernadotte
Les Duex Guerres Mondiales. Bibliographie Selective. 1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, text in French, with pictorial endpapers; grey cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 932). Standard French-language reference. SCARCE.
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OTTLEY George
A Bibliography of British Railway History. Compiled by George Ottley. Foreword by Professor Jack Simmons. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of the best edition of this invaluable standard reference.
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ENSER A. G. S.
A Subject Bibliography of the Second World War.. Books in English 1939-1974. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, wanting front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of an invaluable standard reference. A supplementary volume was issued in 1987.
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TOOLEY R. V.
English Books with Coloured Plates 1790- to 1860. A Bibliographical Account of the most important Books illustrated by English Artists in Colour Aquatint and Colour Lithography. [Revised Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition thus; blue buckram, gilt back, blue top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of this invaluable reference, first published in 1935 and here reissued in greatly expanded form. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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