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FRANKLIN Colin
Poets of the Daniel Press. [First Paperback Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition thus; original printed wrappers, a fine copy. Includes Bridges, Watson Dixon, Mary Coleridge, Wedgwood, Buckton, Margaret Woods, Herbert Warren, Binyon, Bourdillon and Henry Patmore. Published simultaneously with the limited edition of 45 copies.
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RAYMOND Harold
Publishing and Bookselling. A Survey of Post-War Developments and Present-Day Problems. With a Foreword by Hugh R. Dent. [J.M. Dent Memorial Lecture 1938]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., Sole Edition; original marbled boards, gilt back, a very good, clean, crisp copy.
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RAYMOND Harold
Publishing and Bookselling. A Survey of Post-War Developments and Present-Day Problems. [Eighth Dent Memorial Lecture]. With a Foreword by Hugh R. Dent. NEAR FINE COPY IN ROAN
Sm. 8vo., First Edition; original half roan, marbled boards, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt top, covers lightly age-marked, small label scar on rear paste-down else a very good, clean copy.
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CURLE Richard
The Ray Society. A Bibliographical History.
8vo., with a portrait frontispiece and a plate; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy.
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ROBERTS W.
Rare Books and their Prices. With Chapters on Pictures, Pottery, Porcelain and Postage Stamps. Second Edition. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY
8vo., on laid paper, endpapers browned; original buckram gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a near fine copy. The first edition appeared earlier in the same year.
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RINGLER Jr W.A.
Bibliography of English Verse 1501-1558. Prepared and completed by Michael Rudick and Susan J. Ringlerg.
8vo., First Edition; cloth gilt, a fine copy. Ringler's sequel to 'Bibliography and Index of English Verse Printed 1476-1550' which appeard in 1988. The work was compiled over four decades and completed from the author's notes following his death in 1988.
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ROBINSON Ltd W. H.
Catalogue 77: A Selection of extremely rare and important Printed Books and ancient Manuscripts. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with fine sepia-toned frontispiece, very numerous sepia-toned facsimiles in the text and 2 splendid folding sepia-toned facsimiles; printed boards, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, crisp copy. Robinson catalogues from the immediate post-war period are acclaimed as much for their intrinsic production values as for their reflection of the last 'golden age' of rarities. No. 77 is no exception containing as it does no fewer than 194 outstanding items, including the first book printed in the English language - Caxton's History of Troy (1485) - a MS of Bede's Ecclesiastical History (c. AD 820), a broadside ballad from Virginia (1623) constituting the earliest known American verse and Hariot's Artis Analyticae Praxis (1631) - the fundamental work on algebraic equations. As usual the catalogue is compehensively indexed
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BRITISH LIBRARY
Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues. Volume 14. Hospitals, Towns and the Professions. Edited by N.L. Ramsay and J.M.W. Willoughby. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy. Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, vol. 14.
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NELSON J.G.
Elkin Mathews. Publisher to Yeats, Joyce, Pound.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and very numerous illustrations ands facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. The work contains a checklist of the Mathews imprint from 1894 to 1922.
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FLETCHER Ifan Kyrle
Edward Gordon Craig. A Bibliography. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece; original printed wrappers, a a near fine copy. A detailed and most useful bibliography.
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[Sale catalogue of] Important Autograph Letters and Manuscripts. The Properties of the Heirs of Grace Phillips Johnson [Containing the Original Autograph Manuscript of the Sherlock Holmes story 'The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax'].
4to., with numerous coloured and monochrome plates; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. With the printed list of estimates bound in at end.The sale comprised 103 lots. Lot 90 is the original autograph manuscript of the Sherlock Holmes story 'The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax' (published in book form in 'His Last Bow'). The MS comprises 28 leaves containing approximately 95 minor corrections all in the author's hand. The first page is illustrated in full; the estimate is £12,000-£15,000.
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WALLIS P.
At the Sign of the Ship. Notes on the House of Longman 1724-1974. Foreword by Elizabeth Longman.
8vo., Sole Edition, with a frontispiece, 12 plates on 9 and a pedigree in the text; original printed wrappers, a very bright, clean copy
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MCDONALD D.
Agricultural Writers from Sir Walter of Henley to Arthur Young 1200-1800. [Facsimile reissue].
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous facsimiles in the text; original blue buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy. Much-needed reissue of the scarce original edition of 1908. Provides reproductions in facsimile and extracts from their actual writings, enlarged and revised from articles which have appeared in 'The Field' from 1903 to 1907. Includes an extensive bibliography.
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COHEN Ben
The Thames, 1580-1900. A General Bibliography. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
4to., First Edition; cloth, a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES
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DARROCH Elizabeth
A Bibliography of Norfolk History. Compiled and edited by Elizabeth Darroch and Barry Taylor.
8vo., First Edition; original green cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly faded (but all gilt wholly legible) else a very good, clean copy. A standard reference
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BLADES William
The Pentateuch of Printing, with a Chapter on Judges. With a Memoir of the Author and a List of his Works, by Talbot R. Reed. LARGE PAPER 'PENTATEUCH'. 100 COPIES WERE PRINTED.
4to., First Edition, LARGE PAPER, with a frontispiece, decorative and printed titles, and numerous plates (a number folding) and illustrations in the text; publisher's binding of boards, calf back gilt, gilt top, covers lightly rubbed and age-marked else a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER. Sold from an institution with its stamps and accession data. 'The best brief outline of the history of printing. This was the first comprehensiove primer in the English language on the subject and it may still be considered invaluable to the student of historical typography. As the title suggests, the history of the chosen art is traced in its various stages as the great Pentateuch traced the origin and wanderings of the chosen people.'. W. Turner Berry, 1924
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JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY MANCHESTER
Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester. [Preface by E. Gordon Duff]. IN THE ORIGINAL SIGNED FAZAKERLEY BINDING
3 vols., roy. to., First Edition; original binding of dark brown full morocco, gilt tops, gilt dentelles BY FAZAKERLEY of Liverpool, a very good, bright, firm copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplates and neat stamps on endpapers and titles. The world-famous John Rylands Library was formed from the collection purchased from Lord Spencer of Althorp. A very nice set of an important and valuable catalogue in publisher's original binding
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WHITBREAD AND CO
Catalogue of the Collection of Items at the Printer's Devil, Fetter Lane London EC4, illustrating the History of Printing. With Essays and a Glossary of Terms. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, illustrated title, 16plates on 14 and numerous facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text, presentation inscription on front free endpaper; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Catalogue of the collection of printing specimens and artefacts at the famous Fleet Street pub. Lists 140 items together with essays on The Printed Page by A. Lloyd-Taylor and The Printed Illustration by John Lewis.
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HODNETT Edward
English Woodcuts 1480-1535. [Second and Best Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 4to., Second Edition, on laid paper, with 251 facsimiles (several full-page) in the text; original series binding of navy blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Substantially revised, corrected and augmented version of the original edition of 1935. The 82pp of 'Additions & Corrections' (which include 18 new facsimiles) are presented as a separate section under the Society's imprint at the end of the work.
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[Sale Catalogue of] Livres Precieux. [Provenent de la Bibliotheque de Major Adrian McLaughlin]. 7-8 Ocober 1980.
4to., with a folding coloured frontispiece and numerous monochrome facsimiles (several full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, covers slightly scuffed else a very good, clean copy. The collection comprised 2071 lots, principally English and Continental books from the 16th-19th centuries, and bindings
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MAGGS BROS. LTD
The House of Maggs. Founded 1855. IN FULL BUCKRAM
4to., First Edition, with q frontispiece and numerous photographs and facsimiles (a number full-page, including 10 fine views of rooms); original pictorial wrappers, blocked and lettered in black, attractively bound in blue full buckram, gilt back, original yapped wrappers preserved, an elegant copy. Issued to mark the removal of the company from its premises at 34-35 Conduit Street to its present location at 50 Berkeley Square.
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WHITAKER Harold
The Harold Whitaker Collection of County Atlases, Road-Books & Maps presented to the University of Leeds. A Catalogue.
4to., SOLE EDITION, with a frontispiece and 9 plates of facsimiles; cloth, covers a little sunned and age-marked, backstrip faded else a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. This outstanding catalogue (compiled by Whitaker of his own collection) was published by the Brotherton Library as 'Library Publications' No. 2. It was never reprinted and is now increasingly hard to find. Sold from an institution with its small, neat stamp on front free endpaper, half-title and title only
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AMERICAN LIBRARY, LONDON.
Walt Whitman. Catalogue of an Exhibition held at the American Lbrary, London: March-April, 1954. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, preface in red and black; original printed wrappers, covers lightly dust-soiled else a near fine copy of a scarce work. The catalogue lists 118 notable exhibits, based largely on the renowned collection of Charles E. Feinberg. 'This exhibition is in a sense the visit that Walt Whitman had always wanted to make. The letters and presentation copies of his books shown here are intimately connected with his literary friendships in the British Isles. Noteworthy acquaintances through correspondence were Tennyson, Swinburne, Ruskin, Dowden, Symonds and others'. Foreword
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MARTIN E.A.
A Bibliography of Gilbert White. The Naturalist & Antiquarian of Selborne. With a Biography and a descriptive Account of the Village of Selborne.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, title-vignette and 7 plates and 9 illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, small age-stain on outer margin of upper board else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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WHEATLEY H.B.
How to make an Index.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, title in red and black; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. With the bookplate of G.C. Dunning, archaeologist and scholar. Published in the attractive 'Book-Lover's Library' series.
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WARD Gladys A.
Essex Local History. A Short Guide to Books and Manuscripts. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 4 plates; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. O'Leary, 498; not recorded [surprisingly] by Powell.
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FOXCROFT Albert Broadbent
A Catalogue of English Books and Fragments from 1477 to 1535 in the Public Library of Victoria. With Preface by Ernst B. Pitt. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and 8 other facsimiles; printed wrappers, sewed as issued, backstrip worn else a sound, clean copy. Among the printers represented are Caxton, De Worde, Rastell, Berthelot, Hawkins and Pynson.
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UNWIN Philip
The Book. Number Five: Publishing from Manuscript to Bookshop. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition; original decorative wrappers, paper label on front wrapper, a near fine copy.
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VAN GENNEP K.
Bibliographie des Oeuvres d'Arnold Van Gennep. Preface de G-H. Riviere. 1255 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, text in French, with frontispiece; original wrappers, sewed as issued, UNCUT AND LARGELY UNOPENED, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1255 COPIES. Arnold Van Gennep (1873-1957) was perhaps the greatest French ethnologist of recent times. This bibliography provides details not only of his books but also of his far more numerous contributions to periodicals. SCARCE.
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UNWIN Stanley
The Truth about Publishing.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a coloured plate and several illustrations in the text; buckram, gilt back, uncut, backstrip faded else a very good, clean copy.
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SINKER Robert
Biographical Notes on the Librarians of Trinity College on Sir Edward Stanhope's Foundation. BRIGHT, FIRM COPY
8vo., First Edition; original wrappers, sewed as issued, uncut, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy. 'Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 8vo Publications', No. XXIX.
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TOMLINSON J.T.
The Prayer Book, Articles and Homilies. Some forgotten Facts in their History which may decide their Interpretation.
8vo., with a frontispiece and facsimiles in the text; cloth gilt, gilt back, uncut, a very bright, clean copy. Scarce.
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TUCKER L.L.
A Bibliography of Fifteenth Century Literature with special Reference to the History of English Culture.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, covers a little age-marked and with one small marginal tear affecting first three leaves, a good, sound copy. 'University of Washington Publications in Language and Literature', vol. 2, no.3, pp.113-274
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(THE TIMES)
The Times Literary Supplement Printing Number, October 13 1927.
4to., with numerous facsimiles, type-specimens and advertisements in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; boards, leather label, cloth back, a little browned else a very good, clean copy. Scarce. A work of particular interest inasmuch as it appeared at the height of the revival of interest in fine printing and includes types and illustrators of the period.
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BUTTERFIELD L.H.
Anticipation. Reprinted from the First Edition, London 1778. With an Introduction, Notes & a Bibliography of [Richard] Tickell's Writings by L.H.Butterfield. [With a Foreword by Randolph Adams of the W.L. Clements Library].
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy.
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THACHER Charles
Angling Books. A Guide for Collectors. 600 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece; pictorial cloth, a near fine copy in publisher's slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 600 COPIES. A monumental study listing and describing over 15,000 angling books.
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THE STUDIO
The Studio. A Bibliography of the First Fifty Years 1893-1943.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Includes individual volumes, annuals and series. Scarce.
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STONEMAN, ed. W.P.
Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues. Volume 5. Dover Priory. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition; original series binding of red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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STAPLES PRESS LTD
[Catalogue of an] Alphabet Exhibition. The Alphabet throughout the Ages and in all Lands. Sponsored and arranged by Staples Press, London, 1953. [Compiled by] David Diringer. Assisted by H. Freeman.
4to., with a folding frontispiece and numerous illustrations and type samples in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a very good, clean copy. Scarce. The advisory panel includes Francis Meynell, Stanley Morison and Mortimer Wheeler.
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SNODGRASS Mary Ellen
Encyclopaedia of Frontier Literature.
8vo., with illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a mint copy.
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SOUTHERN A. C.
Elizabethan Recusant Prose 1559-1582. A historical and critical Account of the Books of the Catholic Refugees published abroad and at secret Presses in England together with an annotated Bibliography of the Same. With a Foreword by H. O. Evennett. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates (a number folding); original blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip moderately faded, short split in upper joint (but binding entirely sound), else a very good, clean copy.
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YANAIHARA Tadao
A Full and Detailed Catalogue of Books which belonged to Adam Smith. Now in the Possession of the Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo. With Notes and Explanations. [Facsimile re-issue].
8vo., on laid paper, with 6 plates on 5; buckram, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy. Good quality re-issue of the original edition of 1951.
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KERR Alison
Bernard Shaw. An Exhibition of Books and Manuscripts from the Collection presented by Mr. Bernard Burgunder, Cornell 1918. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
4to., First Edition, with title in blue and black; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, yapped edges, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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NATIONAL BOOK LEAGUE
Bernard Shaw. Catalogue of an Exhibition at Albermarle St London to celebrate his ninetieth Birthday: July 26 to August 24 1946. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, yapped edges, a near fine copy. The exhibits, numbering 182 items, include copies of all the major works and first-night progammes.
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SHAKESPEARE William
Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Works of Art, Antiquities and Relics at present exhibited at Shakespeare's Birthplace. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 60 illustrations ands facsimiles in the text; boards blocked and lettered in black, cloth back gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. With a personal pictorial bookplate on front paste-down.
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BRITISH MUSEUM
Guide to the MSS & Printed Books exhibited in Celebration of the Tercentenary of the First Folio Shakespeare. BRIGHT, FIRM COPY
4to., First Edition, with 8 plates (one folding); original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, covers moderately age-marked, upper joint split else a good, clean copy.
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H.P. KRAUS
The Four Folios of William Shakespeare. Together with some Quartos. Catalogue No. 138. 'FROM ONE GREAT BOOKSELLER TO ANOTHER'
Sm. folio, First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 10 full-page reproductions in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. FRANK HAMMOND'S COPY WITH THE FIRM'S STAMP ON FRONT WRAPPER. With the separately printed price list loosely inserted. This remarkable catalogue lists one copy of each of the four folios, together with the third folio of the 'Works' and separate quartos of 'Lucrece', 'King Lear' and 'A Yorkshire Tragedie'.
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[Sale Catalogue of] Continental Books and Manuscripts including Science and Medicine. 5 December 1996.
4to., with very numerous facsimiles in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The sale comprised 248 fine lots including an Apollo and Pegasus binding for Giovanni Battista Grimaldi, the second issue of Newton's 'Principia', and important letters from Einstein including a series relating to the Hebrew University. With bibliography and index
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[Sale Catalogue of the] Autograph Manuscript of the 'Szenen aus Goethes 'Faust''. 6 December 1996.
4to., with 8 full-page facsimiles (4 tinted); original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The MS (for which this separate catalogue was issued) comprised lot 241 in the sale of Fine Printed and Manuscript Music. The estimate was £600,000-800,000.
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SANDERS H.A.
The Minor Prophets in the Freer Collection and the Berlin Fragment of Genesis.
4to., First Edition thus, with 7 plates of facsimiles; original green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. University of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series, Vol. XXI.
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