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HASSLER (Konrad Dieterich)
Die Buchdrucker-Geschichte Ulm's...
4to, [vii]pp., 158 columns, with the H.P. Kraus bookplate, orig. printed wrappers. Dealing with the printers Ludwig Hohenwang and Johannes Zainer. The bibliographical part list 166 books printed at Ulm during the 15th and early 16th century.
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HAEBLER (Konrad)
Spanische und Portugiesische B?cherzeichen des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts.
Folio, [iv],xlpp., with the H.P. Kraus bookplate, 46 plates, cont. quarter roan, spine rubbed, marbled sides. The marks of 93 different Spanish and Portuguese printers are included in this study. An alphabetical list of printers' and publishers' names refers the reader to biographical sketch in which each name appears. Information presented includes the dates during which a printer was active, cities in which he worked, and associates with whom he worked. Clear prints of marks are provided, as are the title, author, date and city of publication, and size of book(s) in which each mark appears, as well as citations to other scholarly resources. The index of printers' and publishers' names is comprehensive, guiding users of this work to both the main entry on a printer or publisher as well as to entries in which the name is mentioned, which makes this a useful book for researching the interactions between various printers.
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HAEBLER (Konrad)
The Early Printers of Spain and Portugal.
[iv],165pp., frontis., 33 facsimiles, orig. cloth.
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PUBLISHING.
Hints and Directions for Authors in Writing, Printing and Publishing their Works.
[viii],56 + 16pp., of publisher's adverts, inner hinge shaken, orig. embossed cloth, a little faded and stained, title stamped in gilt on upper cover. A practical guide with a few historical observations, and illustrations of type size and proof correction. With a footnote by the publisher, who obviously inspired if not actually wrote the text, offering to publish an author's works directly.
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NYENHUIS (J.T. Bodel)
Liste Alphab?tique d'une Petite Collection de Portraits d'Imprimeurs, de Libraires, de Fondeurs de Caract?res, et Correcteurs d'?preuves.
6 Parts (of 7), 4to, 8; 24; 16; 29; 21; [vi],28pp., with the bookplate of H.P. Kraus, foxing to part i, orig. decorated patterned paper wrappers. "An interesting list of published portraits of printers and publishers, arranged in a tabular form, and giving the date of the birth and the death of the subject, and the painter and engraver of the portraits, with notes as to the 'pose', where the picture is preserved. &c. The author's valuable typographical library, including the collection of portraits described above, was sold, after his death in 1874, by auction, by Mr. Fred. Muller, and the collection of portraits, in one lot, fetched over ?100." ? Bigmore & Wyman, II, p.86. A seventh part of this very scarce privately printed catalogue was published in 1868, but is not present here.
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BLADES (William)
The Biography and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer.
Second Edition, xii,,387pp., 18 plates, bookplate of Arnold Yates, orig. decorated paper boards, small nick to upper joint, uncut.
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OSWALD (John Clyde)
A History of Printing, its Development Through Five Hundred Years.
Large 8vo, [xxii],404pp., title slightly foxed, frontis., numerous illustrs., (some coloured), orig. cloth.
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WINSHIP (George Parker)
Daniel Berkeley Updike and the Merrymount Press of Boston, Massachusetts 1860-1894-1941.
First Edition, xiv, 141pp., 40 illustrs., orig. cloth.
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PRINTING.
Gedichte zur Feier des Johannistages 1840.
First Edition, 4to, [ii],78,[2]pp., title vignette of a printing press, printed with various styles of type, orig. boards, a little chipped. Poems celebrating the invention of printing chiefly in German, but also in English, French, Greek, Italian, and Latin. Bigmore & Wyman I, p.260.
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LEMOINE (Henry)
Engraving of Henry Lemoine, The Eccentric Bookseller & Author. Engraved by R. Cooper. [Lemoine is represented here in a low-crowned hat, a long coat, knee-breeches, carrying a sack thrown over his shoulder].
255 x 170mm (plate size 205 x 135mm), slightly spotted. Henry Lemoine was a well-known character in the book trade. He translated from the German and other Continental languages and wrote occasional verses. He was for some years a bookseller in Bishopsgate Churchyard, in the City of London. Bigmore & Wyman I, p.432.
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COTTON (Rev. Henry)
The Typographical Gazetteer.
Second Edition, corrected and much enlarged, xviii,393,[1]pp., orig. cloth, re-backed. Bigmore & Wyman, I. p.145. "This is a standard work of reference, and has always enjoyed great authority. The names of the towns are arranged in alphabetical order, and the circumstances attending the introduction into them of the art of printing, the earliest products of their presses, and biographical references to early printers, are given in a succinct manner."
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BRITISH LIBRARY.
Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in France and of French Books Printed in other Countries from 1470 to 1600 in the British Museum. [With:] Supplement.
2 Vols., viii, 491; viii, 156pp., orig. cloth, upper hinge to mail work slightly torn.
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BRITISH MUSEUM.
Short Title Catalogue of French Books 1601-1700 in the Library of the British Museum by V.F. Goldsmith.
4to, x,690pp., ex-library, orig. cloth.
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OLSCHKI (Leo S.)
Le Livre Illustr? au XVe Si?cle.
4to, 80pp., coloured frontis., 220 plates, cont. half morocco by Anker Kyster, a nice copy. A bibliography of illustrated books of the fifteenth-century dealing with 225 titles. Besterman, 3006.
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MORTIMER (Edward Ltd.)
Mortimer's Waistcoat Pocket Ready Reckoner; with Special Tables for Stationers, Printers, Bookbinders, Box Makers & Booksellers.
16mo (9 x 5.5cm), 300pp., small hole in blank margin of title, printed on india-paper, followed by 16pp., of graph paper at rear, orig. maroon morocco, red edges. A charming little book, it really does fit in your waistcoat pocket!
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BRITISH LIBRARY. GOLDSMITH (V. F.)
A Short Title Catalogue of Spanish and Portuguese Books 1601-1700 in the Library of the British Museum.
4to, vi, 250pp., orig. cloth.
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McKERROW (Ronald B.)
Printers' & Publishers' Devices in England & Scotland 1485-1640. Illustrated Monographs No. XVI.
First edition, 4to, liv, 216, [2]pp., 428 facsimiles (nearly all full-page), orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut. The introduction to this definitive work classifies the devices as: signs indicating where the printer worked, puns upon the owner's name, monograms, portraits, heraldic devices or emblems. There are lists of devices, notes on their transfer from one printer to another, also indexes of the devices used by booksellers and printers, of mottoes, of initials of artists or engravers, and of devices according to subject.
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MACLEHOSE (James)
The Glasgow University Press 1638-1931. With some Notes on Scottish Printing in the last Three Hundred Years.
First Edition, xvi,286pp., frontis., 7 plates, orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut, t.e.g. This describes the beginnings, the heyday of Scottish printing, the connection between Blackie's and the university printers, the work that Macmillan's gave to the Glasgow University Press because of the friendship between the Macmillan brothers and James Maclehose as fellow apprentices, and the foundation of Robert Maclehose & Co. There is a list of university printers and dates.
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SCH?FER (Otto)
Katalog der Bibliothek Otto Sch?fer Schweinfurt. Edited by Manfred von Arnim. 1 Drucke, Manuskripte und Einb?nde des 15. Jahrhunderts.
2 Parts, 4to, 420;396pp., one of 800 copies, 168 illustrs., (28 coloured), orig. cloth, gilt, slip-case. "The Sch?fer Library is one of the largest and finest private collections in Europe!... a great catalogue of a great collection... an essential tool for any incunabulist and for students of early illustrated books..." - from a review.
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RENOUARD (Ph.)
Bibliographie des ?ditions de Simon de Colines 1520-1546.
First edition, vii, 516pp., 37 facsimiles, orig. printed wrappers, uncut, a nice copy. Standard bibliography of the famous French printer.
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SORBELLI (Albano)
Storia della Stampa in Bologna.
Folio, [viii],379,[3]pp., 66 plates, 54 illustrs., in the text, cont. blue morocco-backed marbled boards, slightly rubbed. The rare first edition in which Sorbelli provides a history of Bolognese printing from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries. From the library of Bernard H. Breslauer.
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LAIRE (Francois Xavier)
Specimen Historicum Typographiae Romanae XV. saeculi opera et studio.
First Edition, 2 parts in one, xiv,[ii],308pp., title printed in red and black, enraged vignette of cherubs and type trays, engraved folding plate, 19th-century marbled boards, morocco label on spine. Reviewing the origin of printing in Italy, he provides a chronological list of books printed in Rome during the fifteenth century. "A folding-plate contains specimens of the types of Sweynheym and Pannartz, two of the earliest Roman printers... Laire was one of the most learned bibliographers of France during the 18th century... At one time he was the librarian of Cardinal Brienne; subsequently he became librarian at the Ecole centrale de l'Yonne, in which position he remained up till his death." ?Bigmore & Wyman, I. p. 416. Brunet III: 774.
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WESTREENEN VAN TIELLANDT (Willem Hendrik Jacob, Baron van)
Rapport sur les Recherches, Relatives a l'Invention Premi?re et a l'Usage le plus Ancien de l'Imprimerie St?r?otype...
First edition, 61, [1 blank]pp., the text appears in Dutch and French on facing pages, 4 folding plates, marbled endpapers, recent full green calf by Gray of Cambridge (note in pencil by Bernard H. Breslauer to this affect), spine gilt, unopened, uncut. "Containing the first full and authoritative account of the Muller stereotyping process, the earliest known (save the doubtful claim of Valleyre); preceeding Ged's experiments by a comfortable margin. It was overlooked or ignored by the 19th-century historians, who dismissed Muller's products as merely soldered forms of type metal. Its existence was unknown to me or my expert advisor when I was preparing William Ged and the Invention of Stereotype (The Library, 1960). Its significance was recognized (through Ellic Howe's copy) by Percy Muir in 1963". (John Carter). Bigmore & Wyman, III. p.78. From the library of Bernard H. Breslauer.
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MEYER (Anton)
Wiens Buchdrucker-Geschichte 1482-1882.
2 Vols., folio, xvi,404; viii,427pp., numerous plates and illustrs., (some coloured), orig. cloth richly decorated in gilt and black, re-backed with the majority of the orig. spines laid-down. First Edition of this comprehensive history of printing in Vienna. From the library of Bernard H. Breslauer.
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ANNINGER (Anne)
Spanish and Portuguese 16th Century Books in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts. A Descriptive of an Exhibition and a Bibliographical Catalogue of the Collection.
First Edition, small folio, 94pp., 40 illustrs., orig. printed wrappers. 210 Items described with full collations From the library of Pierre Ber?s.
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VERVLIET (Hendrik D.L.) Editor.
Post-Incunabula and their Publishers in the Low Countries. A selection based on Wouter Nijhoff's 'L'Art typgraphique' published in commemoration of the 125th anniversary of Martinus Nijhoff on January 1, 1978.
4to, xiv,205pp., text in Dutch and English, illustrs., orig. cloth, gilt. From the library of Pierre Ber?s.
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ORCUTT (William Dana)
The Book in Italy During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Shown in Facsimile Reproductions from the Most Famous Printed Volumes.
First Edition, folio, 220,[2]pp., limited to 750 number copies, prelims slightly foxed, coloured frontis., 128 plates (of which 3 are coloured), some light foxing to prelims, orig. quarter vellum (the de-luxe binding), corners a little rubbed, soiled and torn dust wrapper, uncut, t.e.g.
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HOLME (Charles) Editor.
L'Art du Livre. ?tude sur Qurlques-uns des Derni?res Cr?ations en Typographie, Ornamentation de Textes, et Reliure, Ex?cut?es en Europe et en Am?rique.
4to, vii,[i],276+4pp., of adverts, numerous plates and illustrs., (some coloured), orig. printed wrappers, a nice copy. Profusely illustrated and containing some superb coloured plates. Includes an article by Douglas Cockerell 'La Reliure de luxe en Angleterre.' p.69-121. From the library of Pierre Ber?s.
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SCHREIBER (Fred)
Simon de Colines. An Annotated Catalogue of 230 Examples of His Press, 1520-1546. With an Introduction by Jeanne Veyrin-Forrer.
First Edition, 4to, lxxxiv, 242pp., one of 750 copies, frontis., 102 plates, orig. cloth, printed paper label on spine. A full bibliographical catalogue of a collection of 230 books issued by the celebrated French Renaissance printer Simon de Colines. The collection was form by the distinguished bookseller and scholar Fred Schreiber, and sold en bloc to the Brigham Young University. From the library of Pierre Ber?s.
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MACFARLANE (John)
Antoine V?rard. Illustrated Monographs No. VII.
First Edition, 4to, xxxii,143,[1]pp., frontis., title printed in red and black, 79 facsimile woodcuts, orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut, a very good copy. V?rard was one of the earliest publishers to popularise the illustrated book. Provenance: from the library of Dr Elizabeth Armstrong with her signature to front-free endpaper.
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AMRAM (David Werner)
The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy. Being Chapters in the History of the Hebrew Printing Press.
xvii,[i],417pp., numerous illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. Publications of the Soncino and Bomberg families and later printers are given careful and detailed examination.
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VERDIER (Pierre Le)
L'Amelier de Guillaume Le Talleur. Premier Imprimeur Rouennais Histoire et Bibliographie.
4to, 178,[1]pp., one of 300 copies, 76 facsimiles (some folding), orig. printed wrappers detached, spine broken.
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MACFARLANE (John)
Antoine V?rard. Illustrated Monographs No. VII.
First Edition, 4to, xxxii,143,[1]pp., frontis., title printed in red and black, 79 facsimile woodcuts, orig. printed wrappers with closed tear to upper wrapper, unopened, uncut. V?rard was one of the earliest publishers to popularise the illustrated book.
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GRAY (George J.)
The Earlier Cambridge Stationers & Bookbinders and the First Cambridge Printer.
First Edition, 4to, xvi,81,[1]pp., 29 plates (of which 25 are of bindings and stamps and rolls), orig. printed wrappers bound in, cloth-backed boards, uncut, a nice copy. Illustrations include examples of Godfrey's and Sperincks's bindings, rolls and stamps used by Siberch (the first Cambridge Printer) and by Godfrey.
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[MAISEAU (L.R.B.)]
Manuel de la Libert? de la Presse, ou Analyse des Discussions L?gislatives sur les trois lois Relatives ? la Presse et aux Journaux et ?crits P?riodiques...
First edition, [viii], 344, [2]pp., cont. half calf, hinges cracked, upper board almost detached.
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TIMPERLEY (C.H.)
A Dictionary of Printers and Printing, with the Progress of Literature, Ancient and Modern; Bibliographical Illustrations, Etc. B. Johnson. 1839. First Edition, vi,996pp., 11 plates (some foxed as usual), 11 plates, unopened. [Bound with:] ----. The Printer's Manual; Containing Instructions to Learners, with Scales of Impositions, and Numerous Calculations, Recipes, and Scales of Prices in the Principal Towns of Great Britain: Together with Practical Directions for Conducting Every Department of a Printing Office.
First Edition, [ii],115,[1]pp., frontis., unopened. Large 8vo, 2 Vols., in one, orig. embossed cloth, re-backed with the original spine laid-down. Bigmore & Wyman (III p.12.) says of the first work "One of the most interesting works a printer can possess; while laying no claim to originality, it is full of anecdote and historical facts."
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LEMOINE (Henry)
Typographical Antiquities. History, Origin, and Progress, of the Art of Printing, from its First Invention in Germany to the End of the Seventeenth Century; and from its Introduction into England, by Caxton, to the Present Time... its Progress in the Provinces; with Chronological Lists of Eminent Printers in England, Scotland, and Ireland... also a Particular and Complete History of the Walpolean Press, Established at Strawberry Hill; with an Accurate List of Every Publication Issued Therefrom, and the Exact Number Printed Thereof... a Curious Dissertation on the Origin of the use of Paper... a Complete History of the Art of Wood-Cutting and Engraving on Copper...
First Edition, 12mo, 156pp., some light foxing, orig. half calf, rubbed, upper cover detached, uncut. Bigmore & Wyman I, p.431. Lemoine was a translator and compiler for various London publishers. For some time he was also a bookseller in Bishopsgate Churchyard, in the city of London.
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ARBER (Edward) Editor.
The English Scholar's Library of Old and Modern Works. No. 1-2.
2 Vols., in one, some light foxing, cont. half calf, a nice copy. No. 1. The History of Reynard the Fox. Translated and Printed by William Caxton. June 1481. xvi,120pp. No. 2. John Knox. The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. 1558. xviii, 62pp.
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BRITISH LIBRARY.
Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in Italy and Italian Books Printed in other Countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Library.
2 Vols., viii,992; [viii],156pp., orig. cloth.
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BARBER (Giles) Compiler.
French Letterpress Printing. A List of French Printing Manuals and other texts in French bearing on the Technique of Letterpress Printing, 1567-1900.
4to, x,39pp., orig. printed wrappers.
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SCOTTISH BALLAD.
Roy's Wife of Aldivalloch. To which is added, the Highland Plaid. Neil Gow's Fareweel, John Anderson, my jo, Maria.
8pp., in verse, woodcut vignette of title, folded as issued. Attributed to Mrs. Grant of Carron.
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ROSSI (Giovanni Bernardo de)
Sinopsi della Ermeneutica Sacra o dell' arte di ben interpretare la Sacra Scrittura.
First Edition, 84pp., small neat stamp to title, orig. quarter vellum, marbled paper sides, uncut.
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ROSSI (Giovanni Bernardo de)
De Praecipuis Caussis: et momentis neglectae a nonnullis hebraicarum litterarum disciplinae. Disquisitio elenchtica.
First Edition, 4to, [viii],207,[9]pp., title vignette, two old small neat stamps, half calf, marbled sides, slightly rubbed.
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ROXBURGHE CLUB. COXE (H. O.) Editor.
Poema quod dicitur Vox Clamantis, necnon Chronica Tripartita, auctore Johanne Gower. Nunc primum edidit H.O. Coxe, M.A. Impensis Societatis Roxburgensis.
4to, [xii],11,[1],lxiii,[i],427,[1]pp., title printed in red and black, with an additional engraved title, Rev. Philip Bliss' name printed in red in the roll of members, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gold. Barker, 69.
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TAUBEL (Christian Gottlob)
Allgemeines theoretisch-praktisches Wortebuch der Buchdruckerkunst und Schriftgiesserey, in welchem alle bey der Ausiibung derselben vorkommende und in die damit verwandten Kunste, Wissenschaften und Gewerbe einschlagende Kunstworter, nach alphabet. Ordnung deutlich und ausfuhrlich erklart werden.
First Edition, 2 vols., 4to, [ii], vi, 152; [ii], vi, 88, 40, [148], [4]pp., engraved frontispieces, 8 engraved plates, 27 folding tables, wide-margin copy, some light worming to inner margins (not effecting text), orig. marbled paper wrappers, unopened, uncut, a very nice set. "Arranged as a dictionary, defining printing terms and containing much practical matter. A collection of diagrams and folding sheets shows presses and tools, type-founding utensils and moulds, type-specimens, case-lay, and imposition. Several poems in praise of printing precede a form of ceremony for reception of a new member of a printers' guild."?A List of Printers' Manuals to 1850. JPHS, No. 4, 1968. Without the third volume which was published four years later in 1809. Bigmore & Wyman, III, p.2.
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GAUTIER (Henri)
L'Art de Laver oder: Die Kunst zu Tuschen, das ist: die allerneueste Manier Vestungen und andere Risse mit gehorigen Farben zu mahlen und zu tuschen... ; nunmehr ins Teutsche ubers. / von H. Gautier de Nismes. Monath, Nurnberg. 1745. [xiv],96pp., 2 engraved plates (one large folding). [Bound with:] BOSSE (Abraham) Gr?ndliche Anweisung zur Radier- und Etz-Kunst: Nemlich: wie man mit Scheid-Wasser in Kupfer und andere Metalle etzen, das Wasser, wie auch den harten und weichen Etzgrund bereiten solle; Ferner, Wie die Kupffer-Platten abzudrucken; die Drucker-Presse zu machen, und was man sonsten dabey in acht zu nehmen hat; Diesem ist als Anhang beygef?gt: H. Gautier de Rismes Kunst zu Tuschen, Beede mit hierzu dienlichen Kupffern versehen.
[xiv],209,[7]; engraved frontispiece, 18 engraved plates. 2 works bound in one, neat stamp to title of first work otherwise plates and text are nice and clean in both volumes, recent full vellum. The first work, originally published in 1687, was one of the earliest European works on the techniques of using watercolours. The second, a treatise on engraving, when first issued in 1645, the work was "notable for its completeness for the time of its production, and for its plates, which have been reproduced by most subsequent writers on the art"?Bigmore & Wyman I, p.72.
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MORRIS (Owen)
Llyfryddiaeth Ieuan Ebblig: A Checklist of the Publications of Evan Griffiths, Swansea between 1830 and 1867. [Off-print from 'The National Library of Wales Journal - XXVI].
4to, [59]-221pp., the author's copy with a few notes in pencil within the text, orig. printed wrappers.
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BRECKNOCKSHIRE.
A List of Brecknockshire Manuscripts and Records in the National Library of Wales.
4to, printed title followed by 40pp., of typescript printed on verso only, from the library of Owen Morris, orig. printed boards.
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JAMES (E. Wyn) & ROBERTS (Brynley F.)
Gomer, John Evans, A Swp o Ffigys, Daniel Evans. [Off-print from 'The National Library of Wales Journal', Vol. XXV, No. 3, Summer 1988].
4to, 313-340pp., text in Welsh, from the library of Owen Morris, with a presentation inscription and T.L.s from Roberts, orig. printed wrappers.
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EVANS (H. Turner)
A Bibliography of Welsh Hymnology to 1960.
4to, 206pp., of typescript, from the library of Owen Morris, orig. cloth.
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