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First edition, [vi], 198pp., frontis., illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. Signed by Nixon in pencil with several critical notes within the text, Nixon's 3 page list of the main points relating to William Caxton & Westminster for a forthcoming talk. Provenance: From the library of Howard M. Nixon (1909-1983), British librarian and bookbinding historian.
First edition, frontis., 6 plates, 8 illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth, d.w. Signed by Nixon with his pencil notes within the text. Provenance: From the library of Howard M. Nixon (1909-1983), British librarian and bookbinding historian.
Second edition, [2 ads], [36]pp., with printed title-page and half-title, engraved headpiece, the advert leaf includes two editions of Beckford's Vathek and A Description of Fonthill Abbey. Small 4to (235 x 145 mm), 2 works in one, recent half calf to style, marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt. A survey of the principal public and private libraries in England, listing highlights of the collections and concluding with brief accounts of 30 important English book auctions from the 17th century onwards. William Beckford assisted in the compilation of this work, particularly in the description of his own library at Fonthill. The Dialogue in the Shades is a two-part pamphlet of satirical verse is a response to Dibdin's Lincolne Nosegay and the Bibliographical Decameron. The attribution varies from William Beckford to the Clarke brothers. This second edition is issued with an additional half-title, title-page with note from 'Mr. Wynkem' on the verso, and with the addition of The Diary of Roger Payne, a work in the same vein. A rare anti-Dibdinia item. Windle & Pippin, D9.
Small 4to (230 x 185 mm), 19, [1]pp., orig. printed wrappers bound-in, cont. cloth, slight stain to lower fore-edge of covers.
8vo (230 x 155 mm), viii, 274pp., 12 plates (mostly folding), cont. quarter morocco, marbled boards, lightly rubbed but a nice copy. 533 items described.
4to (270 x 180mm), [6]pp., with introduction followed by 8 ff. in exact facsimile, one of 250 copies, orig. vellum-backed boards, vellum label on upper cover, uncut.
4to (270 x 180mm), [6]pp., with introduction followed by 40 ff. in exact facsimile, one of 250 copies, a very good ex-library copy, orig. vellum-backed boards, vellum label on upper cover, uncut.
8vo (218 x 145 mm), vi, [2527]-4066, xli, [1]pp., inscribed with Bernard Quaritch's compliments, front hinge a little shaken, orig. red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, small nick to head of spine. Valuable reference covering 2,609 items, Quaritch's General Catalogue Part XV.
First edition, 8vo (205 x 130 mm), [4], vi, 158pp., portrait frontispiece, some light water-staining to a few margins, recent marbled boards, morocco title label to spine. "A sketch of the life of Gutenberg, with a eulogium of his invention."?Bigmore & Wyman. Bigmore & Wyman II, p. 70.
Small 4to (265 x 180 mm), [vi]pp., + 38 pages of facsimiles, limited to 250 copies, a very good ex-library copy, vellum-backed boards, slightly rubbed, vellum label on upper cover, uncut.
Small 4to (265 x 180 mm), [vi]pp., followed by 65pp., of facsimiles, limited to 250 copies, vellum-backed boards, vellum label on upper cover, uncut.
Small 4to (265 x 180 mm), [vi]pp., followed by 64pp., of facsimiles, limited to 250 copies, a couple of library reference numbers added in ink, vellum-backed boards, vellum label on upper cover, uncut.
Small 4to (265 x 180 mm), [vi]pp., followed by 19pp., of facsimiles, limited to 250 copies, a couple of library numbers in ink, vellum-backed boards, vellum label on upper cover, uncut.
4to (270 x 180mm), [6]pp., with introduction followed by 41 ff. in exact facsimile, one of 250 copies, orig. vellum-backed boards, vellum label on upper cover, uncut.
4to (270 x 180mm), [6]pp., with introduction followed by 9 ff. in exact facsimile, one of 250 copies, ex-library, orig. vellum-backed boards, vellum label on upper cover, uncut.
4to (270 x 180mm), [6]pp., with introduction followed by 8 ff. in exact facsimile, one of 250 copies, ex-library, orig. vellum-backed boards, vellum label on upper cover, uncut.
4to, 56pp., orig. printed wrappers. A catalogue of Rattey's incunabula, collected over 20 years. This collection was later dispersed by Maggs.
9 Parts., 4to, numerous plates throughout, including some chromolithographed (some which a couple of the folding examples are adhered), list of prices and buyers' names bound in of the back of each part, uniform brown buckram, spines lettered in gilt. A complete record of the sale of printed books and manuscripts which De Ricci described as "one of the most striking events in the history of the English sale-rooms". Huth's collection, which ranked among the finest in England, was rich in incunabula, voyages, Shakespearean and early English literature, and Bibles. De Ricci, pp. 151-154.
8vo (225 x 140 mm), xxiii, [1], [3]-343, [1]pp.,, 8 lithographed plates (5 folding), later calf brown morocco, uncut, t.e.g. a nice copy. Scarce sale catalogue of the large celebrated collection of incunabula (mainly from German presses) and manuscripts gathered together by Professor Kloss, a physician from Frankfurt, built on the collections of Johannes von Dalberg, Bishop of Worms, Adelmann von Adelmannsted and the Church Library at Essligen. 4,682 lots. Provenance: From the reference library of E. P. Goldschmidt with initials stamped in gilt at base of spine. De Ricci, p.117.
8vo, 30, [2 blank]pp., lightly waterstained throughout, orig. drab paper wrappers, bound in patterned paper boards. First edition of a fascinating early monograph on printed signatures, foliation, registers and catch-words in 15th-century books. It is dedicated to the great Belgian collector Charles van Hulthem. Count Serna, who is here given the timely title of "Citoyen", was an important incunabulist and printing historian. He correctly attributes the first use of signatures to Johann Koelhoff the elder in Nider's Praeceptorium 1472, and of foliation to Arnold Ther Hoernen in Adrianus Carthusiensis' De remediis utriusque fortunae 1471. He agrees with Marolles (Recherches sur l'origine et le premier usage des registres 1783) that Sweynheym and Pannartz were the first printers to employ a register [the table in the 1469 Caesar], but it is now thought that the anonymous Hieronymus' Epistolae [Rome: probably Sixtus Riessinger, c. 1468--69] may be the first book to have been issued with one. The author rightly identifies Vindelinus de Spira (and not his brother Johannes) as the printer of Tacitus' Opera [now assigned a somewhat later date than Haebler's 1471], the first printed book with catch-words. Provenance: Bookplate of A. W. Barten. Bigmore & Wyman II, 352.
5 Vols., 4to (268 x 180 mm), limited to 130, frontis., portrait, a very good ex-library set, later red quarter calf, cloth boards. Huth's collection, which ranked among the finest in England, was rich in incunabula, voyages, Shakespearean and early English literature, and Bibles. He began compiling this catalogue late in life, but finding it too time-consuming, he employed W.C. Hazlitt and F. S. Ellis to do most of the work. "With the assistance of Ellis and Hazlitt, Huth had started printing a magnificent catalogue of his library, with full titles of every item and exact collations, both entirely novel features in a library catalogue. The work was completed in five volumes two years after his death and has remained... a corner-stone of British bibliography." De Ricci, p. 151.
First edition, 3 vols., bound in 4, 4to (279 x 185 mm), ONE OF 100 COPIES PRINTED ON THICK AND LARGE PAPER WITH EXTRA PLATES, [4], xxv, [7], 462,lxxix, [1]; [2], 555, [1]; [2], 298; [2], 299-622, lxiipp., with the author's wood-engraved device on each title-page, a wood engraving of the elaborately-quartered coat of arms of the Roxburghe Club on the dedication page, 85 engraved plates ((including the private plate of 'Diana de Poictiers' in vol. 2, which was apparently destroyed after only 50 copies had been printed, and a proof of the 'Prater' plate in vol. 3), 62 illustrations printed on fine and thin "India" paper and mounted on the text leaves, 55 other illustrations in the text, with the additional sixty engraved plates on 52 leaves from Lewis' Series of Groups bound in at the appropriate places as designated by Lewis in his 'Directions to the binder', contemporary notes in pencil to several endpapers and a few within the text, text and plates have staining of varying degrees, pale stain to many lower margins, a little damage to endpapers where bookplates have been removed, full red hard grain red morocco,,covers waterstained, spines lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Unfortunately this handsome large paper copy has suffered from water damage sometime in the past, additional photographs are available upon request. This set with the additional set of etchings on india paper by George Lewis, of a classic work of the utmost importance for its wealth of eye-witness information and anecdotes about printed books, manuscripts, buildings, other artefacts and people, both from past centuries and from the author's own day, for the extraordinary collection of illustrations, mostly drawn during the tour itself, and finally as a sumptuous piece of book production. As soon as the book appeared, leading scholars derided Dibdin for his lack of scholarship, especially concerning early manuscripts and printed books. But one must distinguish between the extensive and extremely useful information about things and people Dibdin saw during his 1818 tour, and his own interpretations and conclusions, which now serve only as a window to the attitudes of the time. Dibdin's enthusiasm, readable style and entertaining anecdotes, moreover, caught the mood of his age, making the book extremely popular and influential. Lewis' A Series of Groups... was intended to accompany Dibdin's Tour but was rejected by Dibdin as unworthy of his book. Lewis, most perturbed, issued them at his own expense and presented his case in the eight-page Advertisement which was separately printed. Jackson 48; 56; 56n: Windle & Pippin A38a; A44; D13.
First Edition, 4to, xv, [i], 196pp., frontis., 10 full-page facsimiles, orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut. As well as describing, in great detail, each work from Caxton's press it also includes some early imprints of Wynkyn de Worde, printed immediately after Caxton's death.
First Edition, 3 vols., 4to, xix, [i], 124; [viii], iv, 297, [1]; xiv, 161, [1], viii, 92, 11, [1]pp., printed on thick Van Gelder paper, plates and illustrs., throughout (some coloured), orig. buckram, uncut, t.e.g. a very nice set. Describes many items acquired by Hodgkin from the Phillipps sales of manuscripts, also, the fine collection of incunabula. Volume three has an annotated bibliography of firework books. De Ricci, p. 187.