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MORISON Stanley
Four Centuries of Fine Printing. Two Hundred and Seventy-Two Examples of the Work of Presses established between 1465 and 1924. With an Introduction. [Second, revised, Edition].
8vo., on laid paper, with 271 fine plates of facsimiles; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Appleton A35a.
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NATIONAL BOOK LEAGUE
The Italian Book 1465-1900. Catalogue of an Exhibition held at the National Book League and the Italian Institute January to March 1953. Organizer J. Irving Davis.
8vo., First Edition; original pictorial wrappers, covers a little dusty, backstrip lightly frayed at head else a very good, clean copy. A major exhibition; the catalogue lists 364 exhibits.
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COX (ed.) E.H.M.
The Library of Edmund Gosse. Being a descriptive and bibliographical Catalogue of a Portion of his Collection, compiled by E.H.M. Cox. With an introductory Essay by Mr. Gosse.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, page edges lightly browning as usual; black cloth, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, backstrip chafed at head and tail else a sound copy of an uncommon work. Sold from an institution with the usual markings. '[An] important and valuable library' (de Ricci). Gosse was a close friend of T.J. Wise (to whom the work is dedicated) and an unwilling purchaser and recipient of several of the latter's forgeries. Wise was instrumental in publicising the successful sale of Gosse's library which realised a total of £26,615 at Sotheby's in 1928-29. See Partington, T.J. Wise in the Original Cloth.
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CRUTCHLEY E.A.
A History and Description of the Pitt Press. Pitt for the Use of the University Printing Press AD 1833, altered and restored AD 1937. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with folding coloured frontispiece and plates in monochrome; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, unevenly sunned dustwrapper.
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FORDHAM Sir Herbert George
The Road-Books and Itineraries of Ireland, 1647 to 1850. A Catalogue. Read 30th October 1922. The Bibliographical Society of Ireland. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, wrappers lightly browned else a very good, clean copy. VERY SCARCE.
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MEISS (intro.) Millard
The Rohan Book of Hours. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (MS. Latin 9471). Introduction by Millard Meiss. Introduction and Commentary by Marcel Thomas. IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
Sm. folio, First Edition thus, with 127 fine plates in gilt and colours; red cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in gilt, backstrip very lightly faded else a very good, clean copy in publisher's board slip-case, the latter with mounted coloured illustration (repeated from text) and mildly age-soiled.
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UPDIKE D.B.
Printing Types. Their History, Forms, and Use. A Study in Survivals. Second Edition.
2 vols., roy. 8vo., Second Impression thus, with numerous type facsimiles in the text; original buckram, gilt backs, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper.
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COCKERELL Douglas
A Note on Bookbinding by Douglas Cockerell. With Extracts from the Special Report of the Society of Arts on Leather for Bookbinding. IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, page edges lightly browned (as usual); original brown wrappers printed in black, sewed as issued, covers mildly dust-soiled else a very good, crisp copy. Published by W H Smith for their bookbinding department. In this copy the postcard has been removed but the gummed addressed label is present. A fragile but important item in binding history. Douglas Cockerell was at this time 'Controller of Bindery' for W.H. Smith, and subsequently one of the first and greatest of the craftsman binders. In this condition a rare survival.
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NICOLL W.R.
A Bookman's Letters. Third Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Third Edition, on laid paper, title in red and black; original brown buckram, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt , gilt back, uncut, a remarkably bright, fresh, clean copy. Much interesting material on Meredith, Emerson, Thackeray, Watts-Dunton, Gissing, Mark Rutherford and others.
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UNWIN Stanley
The Truth about a Publisher. An Autobiographical Record. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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STEELE R.
The Earliest English Music Printing. A Description and Bibliography of English Printed Music to the Close of the Sixteenth Century. [Facsimile reissue]. FINE COPY
4to., Second Edition, with numerous facsimiles in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy. High-quality facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1903.
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[Sale Catalogue of] The Collection of George Cosmatos including Autograph Letters, Manuscripts, Music and Film. 31 March 1998. Sale Code: LN8199 Birgitta. FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and facsimiles in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The private collection of George Cosmatos, Hollywood screenwriter, comprised 488 lots and included many items relating to Hollywood and the stars of the 'golden age' of studio cinema in addition to a number of scarce and notable historical autographs and documents.
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
A List of Books printed in Cambridge at the University Press 1521-1800. FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette; gray boards printed in black, ivory cloth back lettered in black, a fine copy.
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SMITH J.A.
British Armoured Formations 1939-1945. A Bibliography. Annotated and illustrated, incorporating Armoured Regiments, Brigades and Divisions in Service during WWII. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette; gray boards printed in black, ivory cloth back lettered in black, a fine copy. Excellent and much-needed record filling a long overdue gap in the bibliography of WWII. Annotated and illustrated, it lists all tank and armoured car regiments, and constitutes the sole single-volume reference for tank related histories and memoirs, together with memoirs of tank veterans. An invaluable addition to the literature and a cornerstone of any armoured collection
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BISHOP Philip R.
Thomas Bird Mosher, Pirate Prince of Publishers. A Comprehensive Bibliography and Source Guide to The Mosher Books reflecting England's National Literature and Design. With an Introduction by William E Fredeman. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 4to. First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, and numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text; brown cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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THORNTON John L.
Medical Book Illustration. A Short History. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Folio, First Edition, with frontispiece, and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in silver, blue endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BELL H.I.
Fragments of an unknown Gospel and other early Christian Papyri.
4to. First Edition, with 5 plates; maroon buckram, gilt back, a very good copy.
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GOLDSCHMIDT L.
Hebrew Incunables. A bibliographical Essay. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo. First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES
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WILSON G.F.
A Bibliography of the Writings of W.H. Hudson. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo. First Edition, on laid paper, with 8 facsimiles, endpapers a little browned; black buckram, gilt back, uncut, a near fine copy.
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DAVIES J.H.
Catalogue of Manuscripts. Volume I. Additional Manuscripts in the Collections of Sir John Williams. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED; NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., ALL PUBLISHED; navy buckram, gilt back, gilt top, UNCUT AND UNOPENED, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES
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OAKESHOTT Walter
The Artists of the Winchester Bible. And an Introduction by Walter Oakeshott.
Roy. 8vo. First Edition, with 44 half-tone plates from photographs; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip a little faded else a very good, clean copy.
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FIFOOT Richard
A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo. First Edition, with three facsimiles; red buckram, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Soho Bibliography XI.
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KEYNES Geoffrey
A Bibliography of Siegfried Sassoon. 1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo. First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 5 plates and 15 full-page illustrations in the text; original burgundy buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy. Soho Bibliographies X. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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SWINNERTON Frank
A London Bookman. IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, fore-edges a little dusty; original red buckram, backstrip with paper label, uncut, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Collects numerous articles and essays originally penned by Swinnerton as the London letter to the New York 'Bookman' between 1920 and 1927. Very elusive in anything like this condition.
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KEYNES Geoffrey
The Gates of Memory. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition, with numerous full-page photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Autobiography of the eminent surgeon and bibliographer of (among others) Austen, Brooke,,Browne, Donne, Evelyn, Hazlitt and Sassoon.
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HARTHAN J.P.
Bookbindings.
8vo. First Edition with 60 fine plates of bindings and 7 plates on 4 shewing technique; original printed wrappers a very good clean copy.
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St. JOHN John
William Heinemann. A Century of Publishing 1890-1990. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition on laid paper with numerous plates and several facsimiles and pedigrees in the text; cloth gilt back a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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GLENN John
Catalogue of the Francis Trigge Chained Library. St. Wulfram's Church, Grantham. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to. First Edition with frontispiece and illustrations in the text; blue cloth backstrip lettered in silver a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE
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CHAMBERLAIN E.
Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge. Volume III. Prints and Drawings. Part ii: Portraits. FINE COPY
Sm. folio First Edition; black cloth upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt a fine copy.
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WEINSTEIN H.
Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge. Volume II. Ballads. Part ii: Indexes. With a Note on the Collection by Richard Luckett. FINE COPY
Sm. folio First Edition; black cloth upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt a fine copy.
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SULLIVAN Edward
The Book of Kells. Foreword by J.H. Holden.
4to. with coloured plates small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; ivory cloth patterned in green backstrip lettered in green a very good clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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Carter John
Taste and Technique in Book Collecting. A Study of Recent Developments in Great Britain and the United States. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; original ochre cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean, crisp copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly spotted and sunned at backstrip. A much-loved standard reference. This is the first UK publication of the Sanders Lecture in Bibliography for 1947. The original edition is uncommon in this condition
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DAVENPORT Cyril
Beautiful Books.
Sm. 4to. First Edition with mounted coloured frontispiece title and text in brown a mounted coloured plate and 17 plates in monochrome; red wrappers printed in black covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good clean copy.
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HARTHAN John P.
Bookbindings. [Revised Edition] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
8vo., with 72 fine plates of bindings and 7 plates on 4 showing technique; original grreen cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and black, a very good, bright, clean copy. Revised and expanded version of the original V&A edition of 1950.
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MEYNELL Francis
My Lives. WITH AN A.L.s FROM THE AUTHOR
8vo. First Edition with plates and facsimiles in the text; terracotta cloth gilt back blue endpapers a very good bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. WITH AN A.L.s FROM THE AUTHOR LOOSELY INSERTED. The letter is dated 18 September 1974 and written from Meynell's residence at The Grey House, Lavenham, Suffolk. It is highly characteristic, referring as it does to the design shortcomings of a published document -'the matter of the Report is full of interest - but its presentation - ugh! What conceivable justification is there for the vast head-of-page margins (and diminutive tail-margins) on type pages - made all the sillier by the full page arrangements of illustrated pages.' A copy of a newspaper obituary of the author is also included. A SPLENDID ASSOCIATION COPY OF MEYNELL'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY , ACCOMPANIED BY A TYPICALLY FORTHRIGHT CREATIVE OPINION FROM ONE THE LEADING BRITISH DESIGNERS AND TYPOGRAPHERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
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LANSDOWNE MANUSCRIPTS
A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum. With Index of Persons, Places and Matters. Printed by Command of His Majesty King George III, in pursuance of an Address of The House of Commons of Great Britain. [Preface by Henry Ellis] REMARKABLY FRESH, CRISP COPY IN INSTITUTIONAL BINDING
Large folio, First Edition, some moderate age-staining, a handful of leaves expertly remargined; strongly bound in early twentieth-century terracotta buckram, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down and small, neat stamp on title verso. The Lansdowne MSS are a significant named collection forming part of the holdings of the British Library. They include State papers and correspondence of Lord Burghley, Papers of Sir Julius Caesar, Papers of Dr. White Kennett (his manuscripts passed to James West and so to Lansdowne), historical papers from the 15th-18th centuries, William Petyt's parliamentary papers and papers of legal interest, and topographical and heraldic collections of great importance. The MSS were purchased by the british Museum at Sotheby's auction in 1807. The catalogue comprises: Part I: The Burghley Papers; Part II: the remaining papers (each part having its own separate index), together with a transcript of the Commons Address, the Royal Commission with Caley's Order and a detailed contectural Preface by Henry Ellis. A REMARKABLY FRESH, CRISP COPY OF AN INVALUABLE AND EXTREMELY SCARCE WORK.
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PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY, NEW YORK
Art of the Printed Book 1455-1955. Masterpieces of Typography through Five Centuries from the Collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. [With an Essay by Joseph Blumenthal. Third Impression]. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, Third Impression, with numerous fine full-page facsimiles throughout; black cloth, upper board blocked in gilt with the Aldine emblem, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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FARMER, ed John S.
The Tudor Facsimile Texts. Everyman. Under the Supervision and Editorshop of John S. Farmer. THE EVERYMAN MSS
Roy, 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with many fine full-page facsimiles in collotype throughout, mounted section titles, interleaved with blanks, free endpapers browned, some light spotting to title and interleaves (not facsimiles), neat ownership inscription on front free endpaper; green cloth, ivory buckram back with printed paper label, uncut, a very good, bright copy. Splendid facsimiles of the two versions in the BM: the complete Scott-printed copy (Huth 32) and (2) the fragment of an edition printed by Pynson (C21. c17). John Alexander (Dept. of MSS), in comparing this facsimile with the original copies, reports that 'it is admirably reproduced, especially in the case of the Pynson fragment which is practically faultless'. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
The Dictionary of National Biography. The Concise Dictionary. Part II. 1901-1970. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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CHAPMAN George
The Works of George Chapman. Plays. Edited with Notes by Richard Herne Shepherd. New Edition THE CATALANI COPY WITH CAMERON BOOKPLATE
8vo., with portrait frontispiece, text in double column; original green cloth, upper board framed in blind and blocked in gilt, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut, hinges starting (but binding entirely sound), a good, bright, firm copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF W D S CATALANI AND BEARS HIS FINE ART-NOUVEAU BOOKPLATE BY DAVID YOUNG CAMERON ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. A FINE EXAMPLE OF THIS SPLENDID PLATE. W D S Catalani was Counsellor to the Italian Embassy, Washington. With the trade ticket of Thornton of Oxford on front paste-down and 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Rinder 445.
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'THE PEOPLE' NEWSPAPER
The People. A Weekly Newspaper for All Classes. Sunday February 3, 1901. A RARE SURVIVAL
Broadsheet newspaper, 16pp, measuring 2o x 15 ins (approx. 51 x 38 cms), front cover lightly age-soiled, horizontal and vertical fold-marks, one or two marginal closed tears else a remarkably well-preserved, bright copy. Front cover illustration by Harry Furniss. Includes coverage of events following the recent death of Queen Victoria. A crisp copy ideal for framing and display. Original issues from this period are EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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CRUTCHLEY Brooke
Two Men. Walter Lewis and Stanley Morison at Cambridge. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE; 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portraits and facsimiles; blue boards, red buckram back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. A Cambridge Christmas book.
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ATTAR Dena
A Bibliography of Household Books Published in Britain 1800-1914. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and illustrations; cloth, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Already scarce.
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STEPHEN Leslie
Hours in a Library (First Series). Second Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Edition, contemporary inscription on half-title; original brown cloth, upper board with double frame border in blind enclosing geometric floral device in gilt, gilt back, brown endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the trade ticket of Henry Sotheran on front free endpaper verso. First published in 1874.
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STEPHEN Leslie
Hours in a Library (Second Series). Second Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Edition; original brown cloth, upper board with double frame border in blind enclosing geometric floral device in gilt, gilt back, brown endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the trade ticket of Henry Sotheran on front free endpaper verso, and 4pp publisher's catalogue at end. First published in 1876.
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MORPURGO J.E.
Paper-Backs across Frontiers. FINE SIGNED COPY
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE. Written whilst the author was Director of the National Book League. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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WOODS Frederick
A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Winston Churchill. [Second Revised Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Revised Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, yellow top, yellow endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper.
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STANLEY GIBBONS ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS
Catalogues I-III. FINE SET OF THE FIRST THREE GIBBONS
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with plates; printed wrappers, all fine copies. The world-famous stamp company began trading in antiquarian books in September 1978. The first catalogue is designed by Ruari McLean.
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MAGDALENE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
The Pepys Library. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., with frontispiece and photographs in the text, small name on front wrapper; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Overview of the famous library, transferred to the College in July 1724.
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SADLEIR Michael
XIX Century Fiction. A Bibliographical Record based on his own Collection. NEAR FINE COPY
2 vols., roy. 4to., brown buckram, gilt backs, small paint mark on backstrip of first volume else a near fine copy. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1951. Sadleir's justifiably famous collection is particularly strong in Dickens, Hardy, Jefferies, Kingsley, Marryat, Peacock, Reade, Thackeray, Trollope and many others.
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