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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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SADLEIR Michael
Authors and Publishers. A Study in Mutual Esteem. [Second Dent Memorial Lecture]. With a Foreword by Hugh R. Dent. bright, clean copy
Sm. 8vo., First Edition; original half roan, marbled boards, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt top, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy.
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BISHOP T.A.M.
Scriptores Regis. Facsimiles to identify and illustrate the Hands of Royal Scribes in original Charters of Henry I, Stephen, and Henry II. [Preface by V.H. Galbraith]. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 39 plates of fine facsimiles; original navy blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO THE LIBRARY OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL, WITH THE LIBRARY'S BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN AND PRESENTATION BOOKPLATE AND PRESS-MARK ON \FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
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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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