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THE BRITISH BOOK TRADE, 1475-1890: A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Howard-Hill, T.H.
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This superbly comprehensive and detailed bibliography of the British book trade, the product of research in over three hundred libraries in the UK and USA, supersedes all bibliographies on British authors and authorship, bibliography itself, book collecting, bookbinding, book illustration, bookselling, censorship, copyright, libraries, literacy, papermaking, printing, publishing, textual criticism, and typography until 1890. More than 24,000 items (notably articles in trade journals) are lightly annotated and arranged in classified chronological order to illustrate the social and technological development of British book crafts and industries. Items are minutely indexed on the accompanying CD-ROM. Large areas of the history and practices of the British book trades are opened to scholarly study for the first time. British Book Trade, 1475-1890 belongs in every research library: no-one who works in the fields of British literature, bibliography, or book trade history should neglect this work.
Trevor Howard-Hill is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. Besides his many publications on Shakespearean texts, Renaissance dramatic manuscripts, and textual scholarship are eight volumes of the Index of British Literary Bibliography (Oxford 1969-99).
Published by Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, in association with The Bibliographical Society and The Bibliographical Society of America.
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CHANTICLEER, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS,...
by Sandford, Christopher et al.
All of these are the limited edition version: 300 numbered copies each for Chanticleer and Cock-A-Hoop, 250 for Cockalorum, and 200 for Pertelote. All are signed by Christopher Sandford, who owned the Press from 1933 to 1959; in addition, Pertelote is signed by Owen Rutter and Cock-A-Hoop by David Chambers, who was its main author. These four volumes contain together 214 entries for Golden Cockerel publications, and listings of 96 general prospectuses and 100 prospectuses for individual works. Entries contain standard bibliographic information followed by Sandford's comments on the author, the work, the printing, the edition, the illustrator, and/or whatever else he wishes to mention. There are 200 illustrations of woodcuts and wood engravings by about 40 different illustrators: Book illustrations, title page designs, borders, head- and tailpieces, vignettes, and more than enough variations on the Golden Cockerel device. In addition to bibliographic matter, Chanticleer contains a foreword and an introduction, Pertelote has a foreword, Cockalorum offers no less than a foreword and six articles and addresses by Sandford, and Cock-A-Hoop has a foreword and introductory matter. All boards are covered in patterned cloth with a Golden Cockerel motif in different colors; leather binding colors (by vol.) are red, green, brown, and blue respectively. Gilt spine lettering; Cockalorum and Cock-A-Hoop have two raised bands each. Slight rubbing. Minor fading of the spines of first two volumes.
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