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FORDE H.
Domesday Preserved.
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) in the texct; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Deceptively detailed and well-illustrated account of the restoration and preservation of England's foremost MS record
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DRINKWATER John
A Book for Bookmen. Being edited Manuscripts & Marginalia with Essays on several Occasions [dedicated to Thomas J Wise].
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, bevelled boards, a very good, clean copy.
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ABRAMS George
[Sale Catalogue of] The George Abrams Collection. 16-17 November 1989. Sale Code: VENETIAN. [Introduction by Paul Needham]. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, very numerous fine coloured and monochrome plates (a number full-page) in the text, and monogrammed endpapers; burgundy buckram, upper board lettered in gilt with mounted coloured illustration, gilt back, partially unopened, a near fine copy. The catalogue of this outstanding collection of fine fifeenth and sixteenth century books is printed in Abrams Venetian, the typeface designed by Abrams for the use of the Printer of the Royal Danish Court. The sale, held 16-17 November 1989, comprised no fewer than 238 lots. The catalogue includes full indexes and a bibliography.
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[Sale Catalogue of a Manuscript of] Einstein's Theory of Relativity. 16 March 1996.
4to., with a coloured facsimile as frontispiece, a full-page portrait in monochrome, and 8 fine coloured facsimiles (6 full-page); original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The earliest surviving autograph manuscript on (arguably) the principal scientific theory of the twentieth century, the longest of the three major manuscripts on relativity theory, and the only one not in an institutional collection. The estimate was US$4m-6m.
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[Sale Catalogue of] The Evelyn Library. COMPLETE SET
4 vols., 4to., with 4 frontispieces (2 in colour and one folding), 108 plates of facsimiles, 32 fine coloured plates of bindings and numerous facsimiles in the text; original printed boards, joints of two volumes worn and rubbed else a very good, clean set. This series of sales was confined to books printed before Evelyn's death in 1706.
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BONSER Wilfred
A Bibliography of Folklore as contained in the first eight Years of the Publications of the Folklore Society.
8vo., First Edition; cloth blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, a fine copy. Publications of the Folk-Lore Society, CXXI.
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FUSSELL G.E.
More Old English Farming Books from Tull to the Board of Agriculture: 1731 to 1793.
8vo., First Edition, with 8 plates, free endpapers lightly browned; cloth, gilt back, backstrip sunned else a very good, clean copy. Sequel and complement to 'The Old English Farming Books' (1947)
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HOSKING Michael
David Garnett C.B.E. [Sale Catalogue of] A Writer's Library. [With an Introduction by Nicolas Barker]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, a fine copy. This valuable catalogue, no. 22 issued by Hosking from his Golden Hind bookshop, lists 3,407 items covering a wide range of subjects. It includes a check-list of books by members of the Garnett family. With a relevant cutting laid in.
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MORAN James
Henry George. Printer, Bookseller, Stationer and Bookbinder, Westerham 1830-c.1846. An Essay by James Moran with Illustrations by Thomas Streatfeild and George Cruikshank.
8vo., First and Sole Edition, with a frontispiece, and several plates ands facsimiles in the text; original cloth, paper label on upper board, a near fine copy.
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HARLING Robert
The Letter Forms and Type Designs of Eric Gill. Notes by Robert Harling.
Sm. 4to., with a portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text, signature on front free endpaper and title; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. Harling's study was first published in 'Alphabet & Image 6' (1948); this is a considerably revised and expanded edition
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GODDARD Canon H.
Wiltshire Bibliography. A Catalogue of Printed Books, Pamphlets and Articles bearing on the History, Topography and Natural History of the County. Part I: Wiltshire as a Whole; Part II: Individual Parishes arranged alphabetically.
8vo., Sole Edition, very small cancelled stamp on title only; cloth, a near fine copy. Canon Goddard's monumental bibliography was never published in full. The complete work exists only as two typescript copies, one held in the Library of the Wiltshire Archaeological Society at Devizes, the other in the Library of the Society of Antiquaries at Burlington House. The present work, although an abridgement, remains the most comprehensive published compilation
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CHAMBERS, D.
Gogmagog. Morris Cox and the Gogmagog Press.
Roy. 8vo., Sole Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, title-vignette and numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; original decorative cloth, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1650 COPIES (550 FOR SALE). Includes a bibliography and a checklist.
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GRAHAM Gordon
Burma Campaign Memorial Library. [Checklist of] A Collection of Books and Papers about the War in Burma 1942-1945. FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, a fine copy. The Burma Campaign Memorial Library was assembled jointly over many years by the Burma Star Association and the Burma Campaign Fellowship Group. With funding from the Sasawaka Foundation, the comprehensive collection is now housed in Bloomsbury at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. Although marred by the lack of a workable index, this is the best single-volume checklist of Britain's 'forgotten army' and its operations.
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GRAHAM Gordon
Burma Campaign Memorial Library. [Checklist of] A Collection of Books and Papers about the War in Burma 1942-1945. [Second, Revised, Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Second and Best Edition; original printed wrappers, a fine copy. The best single-volume checklist of Britain's 'forgotten army' and its operations. This is the substantially enlarged version of the original catalogue of 1999, with (for the first time) indexes by name and title. The Burma Campaign Memorial Library was assembled jointly over many years by the Burma Star Association and the Burma Campaign Fellowship Group. With funding from the Sasakawa Foundation, the comprehensive collection is now housed in Bloomsbury at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.
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SABBE M.
Die Civilite-Schriften des Robert Granjon in Lyon und die Flamischen Drucker des 16 Jahrhunderts. 250 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Sm. folio, First Edition, on laid paper, with title-vignette and 29 full-page facsimiles in the text; original blue-grey boards, backstrip with paper-label lettered in black, uncut, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 153).
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SOCIETIES FOR THE PROMOTION OF HELLENIC AND ROMAN STUDIES
A classified Catalogue of the Books, Pamphlets and Maps in the Library of the Societies for the Promotion of Hellenic and Roman Studies.
Roy. 8vo., with a large folding ley; boards, cloth back, covers somewhat age-marked but internally a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. THE SIGNET LIBRARY COPY, with its ownership inscriptions on cover and paste-down. The catalogue, which is well classified by subject, contains over 80,000 items of which some 200 are pamphlets
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GREG W. W.
A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration. [Second Edition. Complete set]. NEAR FINE SET OF THE SECOND EDITION
4 vols., roy. 4to., Second Edition, with 4 frontispieces, titles in red and black , and 133 fine plates of facsimiles; original series binding of dark blue cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set. Much-needed re-issue of the standard reference first published in 1939 as the Bibliographical Society's: Illustrated Monograph 24. Besterman, p.1067; NCBEL IV, p.1049.
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HARRISON Frederic
The Choice of Books and other literary Pieces. 250 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, LARGE PAPER; buckram, uncut, back worn and upper joint weak else a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES. With the engraved bookplate of John Bamford Slack.
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HARRISON H.G.
A select Bibliography of English Genealogy, with brief Lists for Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
8vo., original cloth, gilt back, a fine copy.
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HOUGHTON Jr Arthur A.
[Sale Catalogue of] Books and Manuscripts from the Library of Arthur A Houghton Jnr. [Foreword by W H Bond, Houghton Library Librarian]. NEAR FINE SET WITH PRICE LISTS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces (one in colour), 5 coloured plates, 93 plates in monochrome, and very numerous reproductions and facsimiles (many full-page) in the text; original printed boards, upper boards with triple gilt frame border, lower boards blocked in gilt, one small tear at tail of second backstrip else a near fine set. WITH THE PRINTED LISTS OF PURCHASERS AND PRICES REALISED LOOSELY INSERTED (first list present in photofacsimile). The set comprises: Part I: A-L (1979); Part II: M-Z (1980). This remarkable sale comprises 850 lots. 'The collection is primarily of English literature, with emphasis on the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The few excursions outside that range are exceptional books and manuscripts. Almost all that Houghton acquired is of superlative quality and interest - frequently the kind of item that causes one to be astonished that it should even exist. For example, of just over seventy-five Short-title Catalogue books appearing in the first part of the sale, more than a dozen are either unique, or the only known perfect copy, or the only one yet remaining in private hands'. Foreword. Houghton's watchwords were association, condition and rarity. Among the manuscripts are long runs of letters from Elizabeth and Robert Browning, two letters from Evelyn to Pepys, and the earliest holograph draft of Locke's 'Essay', arguably the most important of all English philosophical manuscripts in private hands. The descriptions are appropriately detailed, with full collations and standard references for virtually every item, making the two volumes a valuable bibliographical resource. A BRIGHT SET OF AN IMPORTANT CATALOGUE.
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HAVLICE P.P
And So To Bed. A Bibliography of Diaries Published in English. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
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KEYNES (rev.) Geoffrey
Bibliography of William Hazlitt. Second Edition revised by Geoffrey Keynes. 750 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., BEST EDITION, with a portrait frontispiece, and 6 full-page illustrations and 32 title-pages in facsimile in the text; cloth, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 750 COPIES. 'St Paul's Bibliographies' 4. The first edition was published by the Nonesuch Press in 1931.
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HEATH A.R. Ltd
[Sale Catalogue]. English Civil War and Commonwealth 1640-1660. [Catalogue No.2]. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., with full-page illustrations in the text; original illustrated wrappers, a very good copy. An important catalogue listing 383 items.
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HINE Reginald J.
The Cream of Curiosity. Being an Account of certain Historical and Literary Manuscripts of the XVII, XVIII and XIX Centuries collected by Reginald L. Hine.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece toned in sepia, title in red and black, and 15 plates, free endpapers lightly browned; original decorative burgundy buckram blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a near fine copy.
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HELLMUT SCHUMANN AG
History of Science and related Subjects. Catalogue 577. Astronomy. Mathematics. Medicine. Natural Science. Physics. Technology. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. The catalogue contains 437 items with selective subject index.
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HOEPLI Ulrico
Manoscritti dal Secolo IX al XVI.. Vendita All'Asta 3-4 Decembre MCMXXIX NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Folio, First Edition, with 69 fine plates of facsimiles (including bindings), a number double-page, some light foxing, mainly marginal; original wrappers, sewed as issued, a very good, clean copy of a scarce work.
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KEMP Ivor
Laurence Housman, 1865 -1959. A brief Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts and Drawings, presented to the Street Library by the Family of Roger and Sarah Bancroft Clark, to mark the Centenary of Laurence Housman's Birth, 1965. NEAR FINE COPY WITH SCARCE SUPPLEMENT
8vo., with a frontispiece, and an illustration and a facsimile in the text; original wrappers, a fine copy. WITH THE SCARCE TWO-LEAF SUPPLEMENT LOOSELY INSERTED.
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DYSON PERRINS C.W.
[Sale Catalogue of] The Dyson Perrins Collection. Illuminated Manuscripts. Parts 1-3. With an Introduction by Professor Francis Wormald.. 9 December 1958; 1 December 1959; 29 November 1960. Sale Codes: CAROLUS; JOHANNES; NIVARDUS respectively. COMPLETE SET OF THE ILLUSTRATED ISSUE WITH PRICE LISTS
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition [Illustrated Issue], with portrait frontispiece, 2 fine coloured frontispieces, 183 fine plates (16 in colour) and several facsimiles in the text; original printed boards, corners lightly bruised else a very good, bright, clean set. WITH THE PRINTED LISTS OF PURCHASERS AND PRICES REALISED LOOSELY INSERTED. Complete set of the MSS sale catalogues of one of the greatest private collections of the first half of the twentieth century. The sale realised a total of £888,370. COMPLETE SETS OF THE ILLUSTRATED ISSUE WITH PRICE LISTS ARE VERY SCARCE.
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PAYNE J.R.
W.H. Hudson. A Bibliography. Foreword by Alfred J. Knopf. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy.
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HUTH Henry
[Sale] Catalogue of the famous Library collected by Henry Huth. The Printed Books and Illuminated Manuscripts. Second Portion. A RARE SURVIVAL
4to., First Edition, with 26 plates (2 coloured and 3 folding); strongly bound in dark red buckram, gilt back, ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a very good, bright, clean copy. Comprises 1,368 lots, accounting for the ninth to sixteenth days' sales. This portion of Huth's magnificent library includes, amongst much else, the outstanding assemblage of De Bry's major and minor voyages in Latin and German, and a virtually unique collection of the works of Defoe. RARE.
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COOK Olan V.
Incunabula in the Hanes Collection of the Library of the University of North Carolina. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, title-vignette in blue; burgundy buckram, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, uncut, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. A SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE COMPILER TO NEILS CHRISTENSEN. Full indexes by printer and place are given, together with concordances to Hain, Copinger, Reichling and Gesamtkatalog.
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COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA
A Descriptive List of the Incunabula in the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. [Introduction by Charles Perry Fisher]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Roy. 8vo., First and Sole Edition; original printed wrappers, lower wrapper with two closed tears and minor marginal loss, a very good, clean copy. A presentation copy from the British Medical Journal to the library of the British Medical Association with its stamps on front wrapper, title and first leaf of list (only). Originally published in the periodical 'Annals of Medical History', New Series, Vol. 3, Nos. 2,3,4, this is the third such list of the College's incunabula following those of 1919 and 1923. This, the best edition, reprints the entire list numbering 404 examples. VERY SCARCE.
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BLAND D.S.
A Bibliography of the Inns of Court and Chancery.
Roy. 8vo., cloth, gilt back, a very good copy. Sold from an institution with its cancelled bookplate, perforated stamp on title and neat accession panel on reverse. Selden Society, Supplementary Series, vol. 3.
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IRELAND Alexander
The Book-Lover's Enchiridion. A Treasury of Thoughts on the Solace and Companionship of Books. [Fifth Edition, revised and further enlarged]. LARGE PAPER COPY
Sm. 4to., Fifth Edition, LARGE PAPER, on laid paper, title in red and black, some very light and inoffensive spotting; brown cloth, upper board with two Greek Key fillets enclosing title in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, bevelled boards, black endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a near fine copy. LARGE PAPER COPIES ARE UNCOMMON.
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[Sale Catalogue of] The Parsons Fragment of Italian Prototypography. The Property of the Grandchildren of the Hon. Edward Alexander Parsons. 23 November 1998. Sale Code: BLUNDELL-6055. FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN ITALY
4to., First Edition, with fine coloured frontispiece and 18 fine full-page coloured facsimiles in the text; original printed wrappers, a fine copy. The Parsons fragment of the Leiden Christi [c.1462-63?] is unique. It is the only known example of the FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN ITALY, as well as being the FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN ITALIAN, and employing a UNIQUE TYPE FOUNT.
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LAMBETH PALACE LIBRARY
Catalogue of an Exhibition of recent Gifts and Accessions 1950-60 to mark the 350th Anniversary of the Foundation of Lambeth Palace Library, 1610. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. The catalogue lists 77 items including a manuscript of Accounts of repairs to St. Paul's Cathedral by Inigo Jones and a rare Missale Romanum printed by Lucantonio de Giunta at Venice in 1510.
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MORPURGO J.E.
Allen Lane: King Penguin. A Biography. UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY
Roy. 8vo., Uncorrected Proof Copy, with 14 plates on 8; original red wrappers, upper wrapper and backstrip lettered in black, covers unevenly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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GREEN Roger Lancelyn
Andrew Lang. A critical Biography with a short-title Bibliography of the Works of Andrew Lang.
8vo., with a coloured portrait frontispiece; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy. The useful bibliography lists works by Lang alone, by him in collaboration with others, translations by him alone, introductions and prefaces by him to books by others, a few contributions to books by others, and magazine articles on and about him
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NATIONAL BOOK LEAGUE
Alice Meynell,1847-1922. Catalogue of the Centenary Exhibition of Books, Manuscripts, Letters and Portraits. October 10 to November 7, 1947. [With a Foreword by Francis Meynell]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., original wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy. With the erratum slip at p.45. The catalogue, printed at the Curwen Press, lists 143 items.
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EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
[Catalogue of] An Exhibition in Honour of the Eightieth Birthday of Hugh MacDiarmid. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. The catalogue lists 132 items; the exhibition ran from 26th May to 31 August 1972.
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MAGGS BROTHERS LTD
A Catalogue of Maggs Catalogues 1918-1968. Catalogue 918. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text; original wrappers printed in red and white, a near fine copy. An invaluable reference listing, in addition to the main series of catalogues, 'Mercurius Britannicus', the renowned Bulletins of Oriental and European Miniatures, the special catalogues (London and Paris) and the 'Serie Francaise'. With subject and library indexes.
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MAGGS BROTHERS LTD
The Growth and Development of the Novel from Antiquity to the Present Day. [Catalogue No. 621]. WITH THE TRIBUTE TO BEN MAGGS
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous facsimiles (the majority full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, vertical strip offset on upper wrapper else a remarkably bright, clean copy. This major catalogue lists 684 items dating from 1469 to 1926; includes an index of authors. THIS COPY INCLUDES THE VERY SCARCE TRIBUTE TO BENJAMIN DAWSON MAGGS WHICH WAS LOOSELY INSERTED IN THIS CATALOGUE BUT IS NOW OFTEN MISSING. 'Ben' Maggs (1862-1935), eldest of the brothers and second President of the ABA, died on 4 October 1935; the tribute comprises a two-leaf insert with mounted photograph.
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LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY
A Guide to the Manuscript Collections in Liverpool University Library. [Preface by D. A. Clarke]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original wrappers printed in red, sewed as issued, a fine copy. Library Publication No. 1. The guide comprises Western MSS (medieval and modern), Oxyrhyncus Papyri and Oriental MSS. SCARCE.
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WILLIAMS Iolo A.
Bibliographies of Modern Authors. No. 2. John Masefield. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, text in red and black; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, uncut, covers very lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. VERY SCARCE.
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HOUGHTON Jr. Arthur A.
[Sale Catalogue of] The Collection of Miniature Books formed by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr.. 5 December 1979. Sale Code: LILLIPUT. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with fine coloured frontispiece and 19 plates in monochrome; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. With printed list of estimates bound in. The collection comprises 351 lots.
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HANDLEY-TAYLOR Geoffrey
Bibliography of Monaco. 850 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece; original wrappers as issued, covers lightly age-soiled else a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 850 COPIES SIGNED BY THE COMPILER.
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[Sale] Catalogue of the Meggendorfer Archive. Comprising Watercolour Drawings, Hand-Coloured Proofs, and Specimen Sheets for Moving Picture Books, Panoramas, Transformation Books, and other Publications by Lothar Meggendorfer. 1 June 1982.
4to., First Edition, with numerous facsimiles in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Lothar Meggendorfer was the greatest innovator in the history of moving picture books and similar works. The sale comprises 135 lots (some unique).
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NATHAN M.
The Decoration of Leather from the French of Georges de Recy. With Illustrations and Examples of Leather Decoration from various Sources. WITH CONTEMPORARY EPHEMERA
8vo., First Edition, with a collotype frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 19 fine collotype plates and 34 illustrations in the text, some mild spotting (mostly marginal) throughout; original brown cloth, upper board blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, case a little shaken else a good firm copy. Sold with a small quantity of relevant ephemera including a selection of trade and promotional matter from the notable trade house of Gawthorp, and a copy of the illustrated booklet 'Better Leathercraft' published by George & Co of London's Soho to record the works awarded prizes in the George 1926 Leathercraft Competition. The original edition is scarce in any condition.
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SHAND P. Morton
Railroadiana. An Exhibition of Railway Books, Prints and Relics. Organised by P. Morton Shand and the late Harold Wyatt. Catalogue of the Exhibition held at 7 Albemarle Street, London, W1, September to November 1952. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. The catalogue lists more than 300 books, maps and prints. Ottley, 7827
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NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES
Llyfegell Genedlaethol Cymru.. The National Library of Wales Aberystwyth. Coming of Age Celebration, 1909 - 1929. CRISP, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece, 5 plates and coloured plan; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, yapped edges, uncut, a very good copy. Printed at the Private Press of the NLW, the work includes a brief history. SCARCE.
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