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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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FUSSELL G.E.
Old English Farming Books 1523-1793. Fitzherbert to the Board of Agriculture. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition thus, with a portrait frontispiece and 4 plates; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 475).Much-needed re-issue in a single volume of the author's indispensable 'OId English Farming Books' '(1947) and 'More Old English Farming Books' (1950).
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COLLIE Michael
George Gissing. A bibliographical Study. [Second Edition]. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., Second Edition, with 5 plates; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. Published in the series 'St. Paul's Bibliographies', this is the extensively revised and extended edition of the original bibliography which appeared in 1976
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CARTER Harry
Orlando Jewitt.
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with a title-vignette and numerous reproductions of engravings (a number full-page) in the text; pictorial cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, patterned endpapers, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. Jewitt (1799-1869) was perhaps the finest wood-engraver specialising in Gothic architecture. Records of his life are, however, slight; this is the first attempt at a biographical essay
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HANDLEY-TAYLOR Geoffrey
John Masefield, O.M. The Queen's Poet Laureate. Bibliography and Eighty-First Birthday Tribute. 999 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Sm. 4to., with a title-vignette by Rex Whistler and numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 999 SIGNED COPIES (this copy out of series and UNSIGNED)
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LANE Charles
British Racing Prints 1700-1940.
4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. This major study, based around a catalogue by artist, includes a useful bibliography
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LONGFORD Elizabeth
Images of Chelsea. Gallery of Prints, Harriet O'Keefe. Catalogue of Prints, Jonathan Ditchburn. 000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Roy. 4to., with 70 pages of reduced facsimiles and numerous illustrations in the text; buckram, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. An invaluable work of reference illustrating and describing the area. The catalogue was prepared under the editorial supervision of Ralph Hyde, Keeper of Prints and Map at the Guildhall Library, City of London
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LOTH David
The Erotic in Literature. A historical Survey of Pornography as delightful as it is indiscreet.
8vo., cloth, a fine copy in the dustwrapper
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KIRKPATRICK B.J.
A Bibliography of Katherine Mansfield.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 9 full-page facsimiles in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. Published in series 'The Soho Bibliographies'.
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MARREN Peter
New Naturalist 82. The New Naturalists. Half a Century of British Natural History. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 16 coloured plates and very numerous monochrome photographs in the text; original series binding of green buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. New Naturalist 82. Dustwrapper artwork by Robert Gillmor.
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NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM
Catalogue of the Library. Volume Five: Naval History. Part One: The Middle Ages to 1815.
8vo., First Edition, with 12 plates; original decorative buckram gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. Sold from an institution with its cancelled bookplate.
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HOBSON H.
The Pearl of Days. An intimate Memoir of The Sunday Times from 1822-1972.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous plates, illustrations and facsimiles in the text, and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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SIMON Herbert
Songs and Words. A History of the Curwen Press.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 6 plates and very numerous illustrations and facsimiles (a number in colour) in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. An outstanding history of a fundamentally influential press. The work includes a catalogue raisonne of books printed at the press between 1920-1932.
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ROSE R.N.
The Field 1853-1953. A Centenary Volume. Foreword by The Duke of Beaufort.
8vo., Sole Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and 45 plates on 24; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at edges. The fascinating story of the great paper's development is inextricably linked with the advance and increasing sophistication of British sporting practice in fields as diverse as yachting and dog-breeding.
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NOWELL-SMITH (ed.) Simon
Letters to Macmillan. Selected and edited by Simon Nowell-Smith.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 11 plates, 5 facsimiles in the text and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. A valuable selection from over half a million latters accumulated by the grand publishing house in more than a century. The eighty-four correspondents here represented include Arnold, Barnes, Barrie, Beerbohm, Carroll, Churchill, Coleridge, Gosse, Hardy, Housman, Huxley, Keynes, Kipling, O'Casey, Rossetti, Shaw, Tennyson, Trollope and Wilde.
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SCHOFIELD G.
The Men that carry the News. A History of United Newspapers Limited.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text, and pictorial endpapers; pictorial boards gilt, cloth back gilt, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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ROSENKILDE V.
Thesaurus Librorum Danicorum 15th and 16th Century.
8vo., First Edition, with 8 coloured plates and 17 monochrome facsimiles in the text; decorative cloth gilt, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. Extensively annotated bibliography in English describing over 300 of the most important books published in Denmark and by Danish authors abroad.
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SIMMONS (ed.) Jack
English County Historians. First Series.
8vo., First Edition, A LL PUBLISHED, with 9 full-page illustrations and several pedigrees in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The first work in a series unfortunately not carried further. The eight biographical essays are devoted to Atkyns, Borlase, Hasted, Hutchins, Nicolson & Burn, Thoroton, Worsley and Wright.
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FIFOOT Richard
A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell.
8vo., First Edition, with three facsimiles; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY TO NAN AND ARTHUR WISE, INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED (1963) BY THE COMPILER ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Soho Bibliography, XI.
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EATON P.
Marie Stopes. A Checklist of her Writings.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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D'ARCH SMITH Timothy
Montague Summers. A Bibliography. Foreword by Father Brocard Sewell [Second and revised Edition].
8vo., BEST EDITION, with a portrait frontispiece, 2 plates and a full-page facsimile in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. The substantially revised and corrected edition of a work first published in 1964.
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UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, UTRECHT.
Illuminated and Decorated Mediaeval Manuscripts in the University Library, Utrecht. An illustrated Catalogue. Compiled by Koer T Van Der Horst. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Folio, First Edition, with 23 fine coloured plates on 16 and 718 monochrome plates on 342; terracotta cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in brown, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The manuscript collection contains some 700 codices, over half of which originated in the monastery libraries of the mediaeval bishopric of Utrecht. This catalogue, modelled on those of the Bodleian Library, presents all the essential information on the miniatures, marginalia and other decorations in 132 MSS from the northern Netherlands, and 49 others from Belgium, France, Germany, Greece and Italy.
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WHEELER H.A.
A Short Catalogue of Books printed in England and English Books printed Abroad before 1641 in the Library of Wadham College, Oxford. With biographical Introduction by J.C. Squire.
8vo., on laid paper, endpapers lightly marked; buckram, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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LOFTS W.O.G.
The British Bibliography of Edgar Wallace. [With an Introduction by Penelope Wallace and a Preface by Leslie Charteris].
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in the dustwrapper. Includes not only thrillers and short stories, but also articles and other contributions to periodicals.
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LOEWENSTEIN F. E.
The Rehearsal Copies of Shaw's Plays . A Bibliographical Study by F. E. Loewenstein. NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
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FFINCH M.
Donald Maxwell 1877-1936.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations throughout; original cloth gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Detailed and wonderfully illustrated biography, together with the most comprehensive bibliography to date listing over 1000 entries. EXTREMELY SCARCE
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MACDONALD H.
Thomas Hobbes. A Bibliography.
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 4 plates and 9 facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original series binding of grey boards, holland back lettered in black, uncut, backstrip very lightly sunned, a very good, clean copy. Besterman, p.1908.
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[Sale Catalogue of] the Diaghilev-Lifar Library.
4to., with a coloured frontispiece and 32 full-page illustrations in the text; decorative boards gilt, gilt back, covers very lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy. This renowned library of Russian literature which included, among other works, first editions of Lomonossov, Pouch, Tourgueniev and Dostoievsky, comprised 826 lots.
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