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STEPHEN Leslie
Hours in a Library. New Edition, with Additions. SPLENDID SET IN PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL BINDING
3 vols., 8vo., original brown cloth, upper boards with double frame border in blind enclosing geometric floral device in gilt, gilt backs, black endpapers, uncut, a remarkably bright, fresh, clean set. Lovely set of the best edition.
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EDEL Leon
A Bibliography of Henry James. [Second Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 10 plates and facsimiles in the text; original buckram, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper. Revised issue of the original edition of 1957.
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MATTHEWS H.
The Forward Life of Richard Jefferies. A Chronological Study.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy. No dustwrapper issued. Detailed life chronology of Jefferies recording very numerous inaccuracies discovered (principally) by Hugoe Matthews whilst compiling the definitive bibliography. A valuable study and indispensable to the Jefferies scholar.
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HODNETT Edward
Francis Barlow. First Master of English Book Illustration. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and reproduction in the text; original brown boards, backstrip with printed label, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly spotted dustwrapper. With the separately printed errata slip loosely inserted facing title.
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VAN DORSTEN J.A.
Thomas Basson 1555-1613. English Printer at Leiden. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO SIR ROY STRONG
8vo., First Edition, with 5 plates (one folding an captioned in red) and 5 illustrations and facsimiles in the text; cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO [SIR] ROY C STRONG WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. This valuable reference includes an extensive checklist of Basson's works. Sir Roy Strong (1935- ), historian, art critic and garden writer, was educated at the University of London and the Warburg Institute. He was Director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1967 to 1973 and of the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1974 to 1987. In 1980 he was awarded the prestigious Shakespeare Prize by the FVS Foundation of Hamburg in recognition of his contribution to the arts in the UK.
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TATTERSFIELD Nigel
Bookplates by Beilby & Bewick. A Biographical Dictionary of Bookplates from the Workshop of Ralph Beilby, Thomas Bewick & Robert Bewick 1760-1849.
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous reproductions from engravings in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BLAND D.
The History of Book Illustration. The Illuminated Manuscript and the Printed Book. [Second Edition].
4to., Second Edition, with coloured plates and over 400 illustrations in monochrome; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Greatly augmented version of the original edition of 1958. A standard reference
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COCKERELL Douglas
Some Notes on Bookbinding. Line Drawings by Doris Meyer. [Second Impression].
8vo., Second Impression, with a sepia-toned frontispiece and numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original red buckram, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1929. Now scarce in its own right, especially in the dustwrapper.
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ALLEN Vivien
Hall Caine. Portrait of a Victorian Romancer.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and numerous illustratioins from photographs in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The best biography to date, including a worthy attempt at a bibliography of the novels
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CRUSE Amy
The Englishman and his Books in the Early Nineteenth Century. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece and 31 plates, half-title and rear free endpaper lightly offset, wanting front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board framed and lettered in blind, backstrip lettered in white, uncut, a very good, bright, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published two months after the first impression. This important study, social rather than bibliographical, covers the period 1790 to 1837. A continuation of the author's earlier 'Shaping of English Literature', it explores the reading audiences and habits of the period, with considerably detailed accounts of the Clapham Sect, Minerva Press, Waverley Novels, and the subscribers to 'Camilla', among other topics. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION (albeit without front free endpaper).
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CZECH K.P.
An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785 TO 1950. 750 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, with 32 coloured plates on 16; cloth gilt, gilt back, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 750 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Includes over 600 titles described and annotated in full.
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CZECH Kenneth P.
An Annotated Bibliography of Asian Big Game Hunting Books, 1780 to 1980. Including Note of Works Devoted to Pig Sticking and Small Game Shooting. 750 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, with 16 coloured plates; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 750 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Includes over 900 titles described and annotated in full.
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O'DWYER E.J.
Thomas Frognall Dibdin. Bibliographer & Bibliomaniac Extraordinary 1776-1847. EDITION LIMITED TO 1400 COPIES
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, title-vignette and numerous facsimiles (many full-page) in the text; boards, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 1400 COPIES (500 FOR SALE)
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EVANS Joan
The Endless Web. John Dickinson and Co., Ltd., 1854-1954.
Roy. 8vo., with a portrait frontispiece in photogravure, title in red and black, 49 plates, an endpaper pedigree and an endpaper map, fore-edges lightly spotted; buckram, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly soiled and creased (without material loss) at edges
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FUSSELL G.E.
The Old English Farming Books from Fitzherbert to Tull, 1523-1730. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip and rubbed with minor loss at upper fold-in.
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HARMON Maurice
Select Bibliography for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature and its Backgrounds. An Irish Studies Handbook.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; black cloth, gilt back, mustard endpapers, a very good, bright, copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MACLEAN Victoria
A Short-Title Catalogue of Household and Cookery Books published in the English Tongue 1701-1800. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. A standard reference.
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MORGAN Charles
The House of Macmillan (1843-1943). DESMOND MORSE-BOYCOTT'S COPY WITH BOOKPLATE
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in red and black; decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, gilt top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed at head (not affecting lettering) and lightly browned at backstrip. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF DESMOND MORSE-BOYCOTT AND BEARS HIS FINE ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. 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. Desmond Lionel Morse-Boycott [d.1979] was the founder of the St. Mary of the Angels Song School and creator of the Morse-Boycott Bursary Fund. Now administered by the Dean & Chapter of Chichester Cathedral, the Fund continues to this day to finance boys at cathedral choir schools.
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HOLLOWAY Merlyn
Nineteenth-Century British Topographical Books with Steel Engravings. A Bibliography.
4to., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. The author worked formerly in the topography department of Bernard Quaritch Ltd.
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IPEX 80
Catalogue of Exhibitions of British Coloured Books 1738-1898. Including a Selection from the Royal Library at Windsor. [With a useful and extensive introductory essay by Ruari McLean].
8vo., with numerous high quality coloured plates; original pictorial wrappers in red and gilt, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. The exhibitions accompanied the 13th International Printing Machinery Exhibition st the NEC Birmingham.
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MILLER George
Richard Jefferies. A Bibliographical Study.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 12 plates and very numerous full-page facsimiles in the text; cloth, back lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. One of the finest bibliographies of any single author and a model of its kind. Covers over 1500 items in immense detail and provides valuable and extensive contextual introductions to each individual work. A masterly achievement. Extremely scarce, especially in this condition
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HOLLAENDER (ed.) A. E.
Essays in Memory of Sir Hilary Jenkinson. Edited for the Society of Archivists.
4to., First Edition, with 8 plates; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Scarce in this condition
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KEITH W.J.
Regions of the Imagination. The Development of British Rural Fiction.
8vo., Sole Edition; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A valuable study in which the author identifies the roots of the regional tradition in the success of the Waverley novels and in the profound changes forced by the Industrial Revolution
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CLARKE Stephen
R W Ketton-Cremer. An Annotated Bibliography. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. SCARCE.
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MAGGS BROS. LTD
Catalogue One Thousand. A Selection of One Hundred Books, Manuscripts, Bindings, Autograph Letters, etc., remarkable for their Interest, Beauty and Rarity. [With an Introduction by Nicolas Barker]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title-vignette and very numerous fine coloured and monochrome facsimiles (many full-page) in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The frontispiece depicts the front page of the first Maggs catalogue, issued in 1870.
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MCCRIMMON Barbara
Power, Politics, and Print. The Publication of the British Museum Catalogue 1881-1900.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SABBE Maurits
Christopher Plantin. Translated from the Flemish by Alice Van Riel-Goransson. With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell.
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, 11 tipped-in illustrations in red by Pennell, neat signature on front paste-down, page-edges lightly browning; boards gilt, small tear at extreme head of backstrip, blank lower outer corner removed from one leaf (not affecting text), a good, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter browned, frayed at edges and wanting most of backstrip. Pennell's pen drawings first appeared in Devinne's 'Christopher Plantin and the Plantin Museum' published for the Grolier Club in 1888.
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BENKOVITZ Miriam J.
Frederick Rolfe: Baron Corvo. A Biography.
8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates; decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good copy in the dustwrapper.
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WILLIAMS R.C.
Bibliography of the Seventeenth Century Novel in France.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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SMITH J.R.
Bibliotheca Cantiana. Or Antiquarian Kentish Books. Vol. 1: Being an Account of the Published Material, Books, Acts of Parliament, Maps and Ephemera, Relating to the County of Kent up to the Year 1836.
8vo., All Published; decorative blue cloth gilt, gilt back, chocolate endpapers; a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. High-quality fascimile reissue of the scarce original edition of 1836. A projected second volume was never issued
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TOOLE-STOTT Raymond
A Bibliography of Books on the Circus in English from 1773 to 1964. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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TATTERSFIELD Nigel
John Bewick. Engraver on Wood 1760-1795. An Appreciation of his Life together with an Annotated Catalogue of his Illustrations and Designs. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece and very numerous engraved illustrations and facsimiles in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MATTHEWS H.R.
Henry Williamson. A Bibliography. FIRST COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first comprehensive bibliography of Williamson, documenting all his known publications in a single volume. Specifically it covers all the UK and US printings of Wiliamson's books - over 400 items. The first serious study since Williamson's death and a splendid complement to Girvan and Williamson's early (and necessarily far from complete) bibliography and critical survey of 1931.
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MAGGS BROTHERS LTD
Bookbinding in Great Britain. Fifteenth to Twentieth Century. Catalogue 966.
4to., First Edition, with numerous fine full-page photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. The catalogue lists 308 notable bindings.
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BRITISH LIBRARY
Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues. Volume 11. Henry of Kirkestede's Catalogue de Libris autenticis et apocrifis. Edited by R. H. Rouse and M.A. Rouse.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy. Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, vol. 11. Extremely scarce
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BRITISH MUSEUM
Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in the German-Speaking Countries and German Books Printed in Other Countries from 1455 to 1600 now in the British Museum.
8vo., First Edition; original blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down, neat accession data on title verso and small stamp on bottom edges.
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SAWYER Charles J.
English Books 1475-1900. A Signpost for Collectors. Volume I [only] Caxton to Johnson. 2000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a fine frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, a large folding facsimile (original tissue guard captioned in red present), and 51 facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text; original red buckram, boards framed in blind, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 2000 SETS. The first of two volumes; Sawyer & Darton' remains one of the finest guides to English books ever written. A lovely copy.
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BOAS (intro.) Frederick S.
The Player's Library. The Catalogue of the Library of the British Drama League [and Bibliography of the Theatre]. With an Introduction by Frederick S. Boas. [With Supplements 1-3]. COMPLETE WITH ALL THREE SUPPLEMENTS
4 vols., 8vo., First Edition; strongly bound in green buckram, gilt backs, first volume with red sprinkled edges, a very good, bright, clean set. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-downs, neat Dewey in gilt on backstrips and small accession stamp on title versos. The set comprises main catalogue (1950); Supplement 1 (1951); Supplement 2 (1954); Supplement 3 (1956). COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE
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EDDY D.D.
A Bibliography of Richard Hurd. Bibliography of Richard Hurd.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and plates; cloth, a near fine copy
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KELLY J.
The First Flowering. Bruce Rogers at the Riverside Press.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations in the text; cloth, a near fine copy. Includes a checklist of Riverside Press editions
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BRUCCOLI M.J.
Joseph Heller. A Descriptive Bibliography.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and numerous facsimiles (many full-page) in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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DNB
The [Concise] Dictionary of National Biography. Founded in 1882 by George Smith. The Concise Dictionary. Part 1. From the Beginnings to 1900. Being an Epitome of the Main Wotrk and its Supplement [with] Part II. 1901-1970 [complete set].
2 vols., cloth, gilt backs, a fine set in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HARKNESS Stanley B.
The Career of Samuel Butler (1835-1902). A Bibliography.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper.
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SAGAR Keith
Ted Hughes. A Bibliography 1946-1980.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece; cloth, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. The standard reference
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MORAN J.
Stanley Morison. His typographic Achievement.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous typographic facsimiles (some in red and black and many full-page) in the text; cloth, a fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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BATES David
A Bibliography of Domesday Book. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; cloth, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With the errata slip.
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KEYNES, intro. Geoffrey
The Library of Edward Gibbon. A Catalogue of his Books with an Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes. [Second Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece, 10 plates (one double-page) and three full-page facsimiles of titles in the text; original series binding of grey boards, holland back lettered in black, UNCUT AND LARGELY UNOPENED, a remarkably bright, clean copy in plain, unclipped dustwrapper (dustwrapper not shown in image). This classic study was first published by Jonathan Cape in 1940, but Keynes recounts in his memoirs '...publication in 1940...very few copies were sold. A few months later most of the stock was destroyed by German bombs...fewer than 100 sets of sheets of the book had been salvaged. These I offered to the Bibliographical Society for sale to its members, and they were soon taken up, while Cape's volume became much sought after...This volume is therefore the second issue of the first edition'. Keynes, 'The Gates of Memory' (1981), pp. 246-251.
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MORRIS Brian
John Cleveland (1613-1658). A Bibliography of his Poems. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece; original series binding of navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the original plain dustwrapper (dustwrapper not shown in image).
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RAMSDEN Charles
London Bookbinders 1780-1840. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., with 40 fine plates; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. Accessible reprint of the original edition of 1956.
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DAWES C. R.
Restif de la Bretonne, 1734-1806. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. This, the first work in English on Bretonne, includes two bibliographies.
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