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FREE TRADE IN BOOKS, A STUDY OF THE LONDON BOOK TRADE SINCE 1800.
Barnes, James J.

   

- Oxford : At the Clarendon Press 1964
- 8vo.
- cloth, dust jacket.
- ix, (v), 198 pages.
- Order Nr. 20315
- Price: $ 20.00



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First edition. Contains information on the first major conflict between the Booksellers Association and some private booksellers and publishers. Two of these outspoken individuals were Dickens and Gladstone. Largely devoted to the book trade organization and resale price maintenance after 1800. Jacket is price clipped.

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KELMSCOTT CHAUCER WITH A COMPANION VOLUME OF BURNE-JONES ...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

Limited to 515 numbered copies. Beautiful same-size reproduction of William Morris's Kelmscott Chaucer. Printed in red and black, with woodblock illustrations, first letter initials, and borders. Fore-edge untrimmed. Top and bottom edge trimmed. Companion volume contains history of the making of the Kelmscott Chaucer, with 85 tipped-in black & white illustrations and plates of Morris, his press, and illustrations of woodblock development to be used in the final 1896 book. Illustrations were drawn by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Binding cover is the 'Larkspur' pattern. The 'Larkspur' pattern cloth was designed by William Morris in 1874 and for this reproduction printed by Liberty of London. Printed on specially made Lochmill cartridge paper by Duncan Robinson at The Basilisk Press. In fine condition, aside from some scuffs to the wooden slipcase.




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