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See More... Fitzgerald, Carol. SERIES AMERICANA: POST DEPRESSION-ERA REGIONAL LITERATURE, 1938-1980, A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY INCLUDING BIOGRAPHIES OF THE AUTHORS, ILLUSTRATORS, AND EDITORS.
2 volumes. New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2009 6 x 9 inches 2 volumes, hardcover, dust jacket 1028 pages
First edition. During the years of the Great Depression and the decades that followed, works of American regional writing became increasingly popular. The thirteen series highlighted in this book were published from 1938 to 1980 and contain 163 titles, providing a broad representation of series Americana published during this span. Taken together, the series constitute a unique and compelling self-portrait of America, encompassing the American people, their history and culture, and the nation's natural treasures-its mountains, plains, and lakes-over a broad sweep of time measured in centuries. Other aspects of America-landmarks, seaports, forts, trails, folkways, customs, society in America, and even regional murders-are also subjects of these series. "Series Americana" continued to fill in the national self-portrait that began with the publication of state guide series by
the Federal Writers Project of the WPA (1937--1942), and continued with the Rivers of America series (1937--1974).

Each of the thirteen sections contains an introduction and publishing history, brief biographical sketches of the series editors, authors, and illustrators, a precise bibliographical description of the first edition/first printing of each title in the series, a tabulation of the number of reprints, and a listing of other works by the book's author. There are 242 biographical sketches altogether. With this wealth of relevant information, the books in these series function as guides to the regions or subjects they address. Much of the information presented about these books and their publishers, editors, and authors, has never before been assembled in an organized and usable format. This book will help preserve the memory of the talented American men and women who contributed to these series.

Carol Fitzgerald is the author of The Rivers of America: A Descriptive Bibliography (Oak Knoll Press, 2001). A longtime book collector, she has co-curated several exhibits of books and ephemera from her personal collections of Americana. She is a member of The Grolier Club, the Book Club of California, and the Fontaneda Society and lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with her husband, Jean.

Published in association with the Center for the Book, Library of Congress.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 114948

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See More... (Forgery) Bozeman, Pat (editor) FORGED DOCUMENTS, PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1989 HOUSTON CONFERENCE.
With a preface by Robin N. Downes. New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Books 1990 8vo. cloth. xvi, 162 pages.
First edition. Contains 13 papers and 4 floor discussions from this conference which covered all aspects of forgery and its impact on collectors, libraries and bookdealers. Includes important information on the Texas forgeries, methods of handling appraisals and tax donations, legal implications, and forgery detection.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 29906

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See More... (Foulis, T.N.) Elfick, Ian and Paul Harris. T.N. FOULIS, THE HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AN EDINBURGH PUBLISHING HOUSE.
New Castle, Delaware and London Oak Knoll Press & Werner Shaw Ltd. 1998 small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket 277 pages.
First edition. Operating from Edinburgh and London, the firm, T. N. Foulis, published more than 400 titles during the period 1904-25. The vast majority of their books were produced to the most exacting of standards. In recent times, the hallmarks of a Foulis book in the form of colored buckram bindings, tipped-in color plates, the elegant Auriol typeface, and rose-watermarked paper have drawn collectors to these elegant volumes. Today, such features are virtually unheard of in a world of generally uniform book production. Once handled, any true bibliophile must find it difficult to put down a Foulis-produced book. From the handsome classics sturdily bound in buckram to the charming so-called envelope books developed in the first decade of the century, essentially as gift books, the Foulis output is quite unique, and they are now being increasingly sought after. Although it is still relatively easy to obtain a handsomely produced copy of the publisher's bestselling, Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Dean Ramsay, well-preserved copies of the charming and fragile envelope books, many of them illustrated by artists of the caliber of Jessie M. King, W. Russell Flint, Frank Brangwyn, and F. Cayley Robinson, are now very difficult to find. The authors, both longstanding collectors of Foulis productions, have faced many complexities in preparing this history and bibliography. The publisher, Thomas Noble Foulis, is something of an enigma, born and raised in Edinburgh and dying in obscurity in Essex after the failure of the firm to which he devoted himself. Foulis listed many books which were never published in advertisements and catalogues. Those which were published appeared in many puzzling variants of bindings and formats, sometimes in different series from those announced and in very small editions. Descendants of Thomas Foulis have no records today of their now illustrious forbear. No official records or letter books of the firm survive. All these circumstances have contributed to painstaking detective work by the authors, both collectors and witnesses to all copies of the books listed in the bibliography. Illustrated. SALES RIGHTS: Available in North & South America from Oak Knoll Books. Available outside North & South America from Werner Shaw Ltd.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 50318

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See More... (Gift Certificate) GIFT CERTIFICATE
Available in any amount New Castle DE Oak Knoll Single sheet in an envelope
Wondering what to give your favorite bibliophile for that special occasion? We would like to suggest an Oak Knoll Books Gift Certificate! Just click on Add to Cart. You can even create your own Gift Certificate by typing in an alternate amount in the special instructions field when you check out. Your order will be adjusted accordingly when we process it . Tell us what to say, where to send it, and in what amount. We will be happy to personalize each order. The certificate will be mailed, along with one of our recent catalogues, either to you or directly to the recipient. The Gift Certificates can be used online, by mail, phone or fax, and in the store.
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See More... (Great Britain) THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN GREAT BRITAIN. CATALOGUE 214.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Books n.d. (circa 1998) thick 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 352 pages.
Well illustrated antiquarian bookseller's catalogue.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 106022

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See More... Herrmann, Frank LOW PROFILE: A LIFE IN THE WORLD OF BOOKS
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2002 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 408 pages.
First edition. Low Profile is the autobiography of Frank Herrmann, author, publisher, one-time director of Sotheby's and founder of Bloomsbury Book Auctions. This unique work offers a tantalizing, behind-the-scenes look into the hidden worlds of Herrmann's life and his various careers. Beginning with his early years as a book designer at Faber (publishers of TS Eliot), the author then shares the times when he had the good fortune to work for firms who published Evelyn Waugh, Ernest Shepard (illustrator of A A Milnes's books), Beatrice Potter and Mrs. Beeton and a host of other famous figures in the writing world. Herrmann continues his story describing his stormy career as a Sotheby's director and then becoming the founder of his own publishing company and antiquarian book auction house. This well written text is illustrated with many rare photographs of the "movers and shakers" of the British publishing world.
Price: $ 39.95 other currencies Order nr. 90406

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See More... Herrmann, Frank LOW PROFILE: A LIFE IN THE WORLD OF BOOKS
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2002 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 408 pages.
First edition. Low Profile is the autobiography of Frank Herrmann, author, publisher, one-time director of Sotheby's and founder of Bloomsbury Book Auctions. This unique work offers a tantalizing, behind-the-scenes look into the hidden worlds of Herrmann's life and his various careers. Beginning with his early years as a book designer at Faber (publishers of TS Eliot), the author then shares the times when he had the good fortune to work for firms who published Evelyn Waugh, Ernest Shepard (illustrator of A A Milnes's books), Beatrice Potter and Mrs. Beeton and a host of other famous figures in the writing world. Herrmann continues his story describing his stormy career as a Sotheby's director and then becoming the founder of his own publishing company and antiquarian book auction house. This well written text is illustrated with many rare photographs of the "movers and shakers" of the British publishing world. Jacket spine is faded.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 108150

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See More... Hunt, Arnold, Giles Mandelbrote, and Alison Shell BOOK TRADE & ITS CUSTOMERS: 1450-1900 HISTORICAL ESSAYS FOR ROBIN MYERS.
Introduction by D.F. McKenzie. Winchester & New Castle, DE St Paul's Bibliographies & Oak Knoll Press 1997 8vo. illustrated, cloth, dust jacket. 334 pages.
Collected here as a homage to Robin Myers, these essays uncover the connections between the mechanics of the book trade and their human ends in the learning and transmission of knowledge. PART I: THE BOOK TRADE cover a variety of topics: "A 16th-century stationer and his business connections: the Tottell family documents (1448-1719) at Stationers' Hall," "Manasses Vautrollier in Cambridge," "A binding with the arms of the Stationers' Company," "Book trade patents, 1603-1640," and many more PART II: THE CUSTOMERS include "Magdalen College and the book trade: the provision of books in Oxford: 1450-1550," "The library of Sir Edward Sherburne," "Richard Lapthorne and the London retail book trade, 1683-1697," "The antiquarian satirized: John Clubbe and the Antiquities of Wheatfield," and several more. Spine of jacket is faded.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 98654

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See More... (Huxley, Elspeth) Cross, Robert and Michael Perkin ELSPETH HUXLEY, A BIBLIOGRAPHY
With a foreword by Elspeth Huxley. Winchester and New Castle, Delaware St Paul's Bibliographies and Oak Knoll Press 1996 8vo. cloth. xx, 187+(1) pages.
First edition. The fifth volume in the Winchester Bibliographies of Twentieth Century Writers series. Mrs. Huxley's writing life began at the age of fourteen when she sent anonymous articles, often with her own photographs, to the EAST AFRICAN STANDARD and other periodicals. By the age of seventeen she had written ninety-six published articles for editors who often had no idea who she was. Mrs. Huxley went on to write over forty-seven books, including the intriguing bestseller THE FLAME TRESS OF THIKA, which was turned into a successful TV series in Britain, America and over thirty other countries.
This bibliography describes the evolution of a remarkable writer, as well as gifted photographer, whose insight into people and her penetrating humor cast invaluable light on the Colonial and post-Colonial era in Africa. Illustrated. Slighty bumped at corners.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 108165

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See More... (Immanuel Church) ORDER OF SERVICE FOR THE REDEDICATION AND CONSECRATION OF IMMANUEL CHURCH, NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE.
New Castle, DE Immanuel Church 1982 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 44 pages.
With note from the rector, Myles W. Edwards.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 60900

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See More... Isaac, Peter and Barry McKay (editors). HUMAN FACE OF THE BOOK TRADE: PRINT CULTURE AND ITS CREATORS.
New Castle, Delaware and Folkestone, England Oak Knoll Press and St. Paul's Bibliographies 1999 small 8vo. Hardback printed covers. x, 228 pages.
First edition. These thirteen scholarly essays on the history of the book trade are the latest and third volume in the PRINT NETWORKS series of publications. The original papers were presented at the annual "Seminars on the British Book Trade." The essays covered include Paul Morgan's "Henry Cotton and W. H. Allnutt: Two Pioneer Book-Trade Historians," David Stoker's "The Country Book Trade," Warren McDougall's "Charles Elliot and the London Booksellers in the Early Years," Philip Henry Jones' "Scotland and the Welsh-Language Book Trade during the Second Half of the 19th Century," Brenda Scragg's "William Ford, Manchester Bookseller," and Barry McKay's "Niche Marketing in the 19th Century," among others. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 98357

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See More... Isaac, Peter and Barry McKay (editors). THE MOVING MARKET: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN THE BOOK TRADE.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2001 8vo. Hardback printed covers. 206 pages.
First Edition. This title is the fifth in our Print Networks series, an important forum for biblio-scholarship and book history. This work offers fifteen authoritative essays from some of the leading scholars in the field. Their writings discuss a wide range of book trade-related issues and their historical significance.
A list of essays in the book include:
- Books and Culture in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Newcastle by Jeffrey Smith
- The First World War and Welsh Language Publishing by Philip Henry Jones
- . . . Scottish Booksellers Societies in the Nineteenth Century by Iain Beavan
- From Currys to Collins Street, or How a Dubliner Became the Melbourne Mudie by Wallace Kirsop
- Book Availability in Ipswich over the Years by Janet Phipps
- Reading in Seventeenth-Century Derbyshire: the Wheatcrofts and their Books by Maureen Bell
- Splendide mendax: Publishing Landscape Illustrations of the Bible by Peter Isaac
- John Atkinsons Lottery Book of 1809: John Lockes Theory of Education Comes to Workington by Barry McKay
- Beginning of the Book Trade in Leicester by John Hinks
- Aristotle to a Very Tall Man: Selling Secondhand Books in Manchester in the 1830s by Michael Powell & Terry Wyke
- From Scotland to the Strand: the Genesis of Andrew Millars Bookselling Career by Richard B. Sher with Hugh Amory. Covers show some soiling and bumping of corners.
Price: $ 9.00 other currencies Order nr. 108151

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See More... (Isaac, Peter) McKay, Barry, John Hinks & Maureen Bell. LIGHT ON THE BOOK TRADE, ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF PETER ISAAC.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2004 8vo. Printed hard covers. 210 pages.
First edition. A festschrift in honor of the late Peter Isaac. This is the sixth volume in the Print Networks Series and examines British provincial book history of the 18th and 19th centuries. There are 18 important essays by leading scholars, journalists and academics. They reveal interesting and little-known aspects of the history of the book. Authors include Caroline Archer, Maureen Bell, Iain Beavan, Margaret Cooper, Diana Dixon, John Feather, John Gavin, R.J. Goulden, David Griffiths, John Hinks, David Hounslow, Philip Henry Jones, Wallace Kirsop, Lucy Lewis, Warren McDougall, Barry McKay, Michael Powell, Linda Reynolds, Brenda J. Scragg, David Stoker and Sue Walker. Out of print.
Price: $ 39.95 other currencies Order nr. 71830

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See More... (Johnson, Samuel) Eddy, Donald D. (editor) SALE CATALOGUES OF THE LIBRARIES OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, HESTER LYNCH THRALE (MRS. PIOZZI) AND JAMES BOSWELL.
With Introductions by Donald D. Eddy. New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Books 1993 8vo. set of unbound signatures. (vii), 320 pages.
First edition, a set of unbound sheets of this book. In studying great authors, one of the persisting lines of inquiry has involved questions of influence and association. What specific authors influenced our writer? What books has he read, quoted from, or owned? The obvious first way to answer these questions is to examine the author's own published writings. Other ways include examining the author's correspondence; letters of the author's friends and acquaintances; contemporary biographical accounts; locating the actual physical volumes owned by the author or presented to others: etc. An important part of this process is examining any available list of the books in the author's library. All too frequently - and this is true in the case of Samuel Johnson - the only list is the sale catalogue of his library prepared for the auction following his death. However hastily such a catalogue may have been prepared, and whatever its faults and omissions, it is still invaluable since it presents the names of more authors and titles our author knew than any other source. It is for this reason that the three sale catalogues reproduced here, for the first time in one volume, are so important. Donald Eddy has provided a lively and informative introduction explaining the significance of each catalogue, some of the highlights of the sales and the dangers inherent in studying these catalogues. He also provides a list of known locations of each of these catalogues. The introduction has been printed by letterpress and the catalogues by offset lithography at The Ascensius Press. The first few pages show wear along the top edge.
Price: $ 100.00 other currencies Order nr. 52962

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See More... (Johnson, Samuel) Eddy, Donald D. (editor) SALE CATALOGUES OF THE LIBRARIES OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, HESTER LYNCH THRALE (MRS. PIOZZI) AND JAMES BOSWELL.
With Introductions by Donald D. Eddy. New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Books 1993 8vo. quarter leather, paper over boards. (vii), 320 pages.
First edition, a set of unbound sheets of this book. In studying great authors, one of the persisting lines of inquiry has involved questions of influence and association. What specific authors influenced our writer? What books has he read, quoted from, or owned? The obvious first way to answer these questions is to examine the author's own published writings. Other ways include examining the author's correspondence; letters of the author's friends and acquaintances; contemporary biographical accounts; locating the actual physical volumes owned by the author or presented to others: etc. An important part of this process is examining any available list of the books in the author's library. All too frequently - and this is true in the case of Samuel Johnson - the only list is the sale catalogue of his library prepared for the auction following his death. However hastily such a catalogue may have been prepared, and whatever its faults and omissions, it is still invaluable since it presents the names of more authors and titles our author knew than any other source. It is for this reason that the three sale catalogues reproduced here, for the first time in one volume, are so important. Donald Eddy has provided a lively and informative introduction explaining the significance of each catalogue, some of the highlights of the sales and the dangers inherent in studying these catalogues. He also provides a list of known locations of each of these catalogues. The introduction has been printed by letterpress and the catalogues by offset lithography at The Ascensius Press. Covers faded.
Price: $ 80.00 other currencies Order nr. 104868

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See More... Kaye, Barbara (Mrs. Percy Muir) SECOND IMPRESSION, RURAL LIFE WITH A RARE BOOKMAN
New Castle, Delaware & London, England Oak Knoll Press & Werner Shaw (1995) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 350 pages.
First edition. In The Company We Kept Barbara Kaye told the story of how the old established antiquarian book firm of Elkin Mathews survived the war years after evacuation to rural Essex in 1939. Now she carries on the story from 1945 to 1955, when Elkin Mathews expanded and her bibliophile husband, Percy Muir, became increasingly involved in the national and international politics of the antiquarian book trade. It was during this time that the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) was formed and the description of Percy Muir's part in this process provides a fascinating account of an historic event. Percy Muir became president of the ILAB in 1950 and on his retirement from office he was unanimously elected Life President of Honor. The Muirs' commitment to the ILAB meant they were often traveling to Europe to attend the annual conferences, which they combined with book-buying trips and sometimes even family holidays. The towns and cities they visited were just under reconstruction and the author describes the devastation and destruction caused by the war. At home the village where the Muirs lived was also changing, and the author gives a clear picture of daily life in a typical English village during the post-war decade. There are also several interesting accounts of the local and national political scenes. In 1951, the Muirs visited the United States for a lecture tour. The account of their four-week whirlwind tour is filled with bibliophilic adventures - from meeting Dr. Rosenbach and Fredson Bowers to dinner at the Four Oaks Farm Library and a visit to the Library of Congress. The book ends with a factual description of Percy Muir's long-fought campaign against book auction rings, culminating in the final show-down in 1956. Well-written by an accomplished novelist, this book provides a lively and entertaining account of the antiquarian book world and English village life in the post-war years.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 64331

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See More... (Kelmscott Press) KELMSCOTT, WILLIAM MORRIS AND HIS KELMSCOTT PRESS. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY. CATALOGUE 219.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Books n.d. (circa 1999) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 100 pages.
Antiquarian bookseller's catalogue. Includes all the books published by the Kelmscott Press for sale. Illustrated.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 106023

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See More... (Kotinos Press) Staikos, Konstantinos Sp. THE MIRROR OF THE LIBRARY.
With an Introduction to the Reader by Robert D. Fleck (New Castle, DE) Oak Knoll Press 2006 8vo. cloth, deckle edges, paper cover label 52 pages
Limited to 900 numbered copies of which this is one of 700 printed by hand at the Kotinos Press in Athens, Greece. Issued in conjunction with the 30th Anniversary of Oak Knoll and containing a biographical introduction by its proprietor, Robert Fleck. Konstantinos Staikos has become more than an author to Oak Knoll; he is our Greek friend who represents all that we admire most in this book world of ours. In addition to being a noted architect he has found time to write many significant texts on the history of libraries, form an important book collection, purchase and save a Greek letter-press printing company (which printed this book), establish a noted publishing house and develop a web based information resource for the study of library history. In this essay you will find his view of the development of the library and the impact it has had on mankind. You will read how the book and the knowledge it transmits has affected his life. You will feel his great love of books. You will read all this in a beautifully prepared book printed and bound by hand in the oldest tradition of fine craftsmanship.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 98625

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See More... (Kynoch Press) Archer, Caroline KYNOCH PRESS: THE ANATOMY OF A PRINTING HOUSE.
PHYINV New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2000 large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket 240 pages
First edition. The history of the Kynoch Press that Caroline Archer offers is a result of exhaustive research, enriched by personal accounts from surviving staff which give a fascinating perspective on the half-century from 1930 to 1980. This work contains very detailed listings of the types held by the press at every period.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 60867

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See More... (Larkin, Philip) Bloomfield, Barry PHILIP LARKIN: A BIBLIOGRAPHY 1933-1994
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2002 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 256 pages.
The first edition of Barry Bloomfield's extensive bibliography of Philip Larkin (Faber 1979) covered the years 1933-1976. It went out of print several years ago and has since been difficult to obtain. This second revised and enlarged edition covers all Larkin's published work to the end of 1994 - including Selected Letters and Collected Poems. The listing of critical material is much extended owing to the explosion of interest in Larkin's poetry after his death. Every section has been brought up to date and the few omissions from the first edition have been repaired, making this the only comprehensive bibliography on Philip Larkin. Barry Bloomfield was a professional librarian and retired in 1990 as Director of Collection Development at the British Library. He had been President of the Bibliographical Society, President of the Private Libraries Association, and, at the time of his death in March 2002, was President of the Association of Independent Libraries. He was an Honorary Vice President of the Philip Larkin Society, and the author of numerous articles in bibliographical and other journals, and joint author, with Edward Mendelson, of the bibliography of W.H. Auden. Corners bumped.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 108171

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See More... (Leadenhall Press) Young, Matthew McLennan FIELD & TUER, THE LEADENHALL PRESS: A CHECKLIST
With an Appreciation of Andrew White Tuer New Castle, Delaware and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2010 7 x 10 inches hardcover, dust jacket 176 pages
This book is the first comprehensive (and long-overdue) bibliographic study of the London partnership of Field & Tuer and their publishing imprint, Leadenhall Press (later the Leadenhall Press, Ltd.). Matthew Young makes a convincing argument for Andrew W. Tuer (1838-1900) as one of the most imaginative and influential printers and publishers of the mid-to-late Victorian period. Known today primarily for old-style facsimile reprints and a few outstanding works such as Tuer's own History of the Horn-Book, the Leadenhall Press in fact published hundreds of titles in almost every subject area, from sixpenny pamphlets to vellum-bound limited editions dedicated by command to the Queen, as well as two important and long-running periodicals: The Paper & Printing Trades Journal and The Printers International Specimen Exchange. The remarkable range of the catalogue is evident in a small sample from 1885: Jerome K. Jerome's first book, On the Stage--and Off; Joseph Crawhall's hand-colored Izaak Walton: His Wallet Booke; The Owls of Olynn Belfry, illustrated by Randolph Caldecott; Sir Montague Shearman's Foot-Ball: Its History for Five Centuries; feminist Emily Jane Pfeiffer's Flying Leaves from East and West; and Songs of the North, illustrated by (among others) Edward Burne-Jones, Charles Keene, Albert Moore, Frederick Sandys, and J.M. Whistler.

The book includes a revealing portrait of Andrew Tuer as a man of energy, curiosity, and wit: a successful businessman, inventor, advocate for fine printing, publisher, designer, collector, author, and correspondent. The annotated checklist describes nearly 450 publications issued by Field & Tuer and the Leadenhall Press from 1863 to 1913. Listing details include: month and year of publication, publisher's job number, listed price, brief description of format and cover design, important aspects of content and publication, and location of scarce and noteworthy copies. Appendices cover Andrew Tuer's writings, ephemera, series titles, and institutional collections of special interest. A color section and illustrations in the text complete the story of an important link in the development of printing between the Chiswick Press of Charles Whittingham II and the celebrated publishers of the 1890s.

Matthew Young is a graphic designer and book collector. He was the recipient of a 2008 Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship award to examine the collection at the Lilly Library (Indiana University), and he has presented papers on the Leadenhall Press at conferences in England, Canada, and the United States. A previous article, "The Mystery of Walt Ruding: A Solution," was published in the Antiquarian Book Monthly in 2001.


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See More... (Limited Editions Club) OAK KNOLL BOOKS
Catalogue 111. New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Books n.d. 8vo. paper wrappers. 89 pages.
Catalogue no.111, including 85 books from the Limited Editions Club.
Price: $ 7.50 other currencies Order nr. 49238

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See More... (Limited Editions Club) OAK KNOLL BOOKS
Catalogue 135. New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Books n.d. 8vo. paper wrappers. 93 pages.
Catalogue no.135, featuring nearly 250 books from the Limited Editions Club.
Price: $ 7.50 other currencies Order nr. 49246

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See More... (Marion Press) Larremore, Thomas A. and Amy Hopkins Larremore THE MARION PRESS, A SURVEY AND A CHECKLIST.
With Incidental Alarums, and Excursions Into Collateral Fields. Checklist by Joseph W. Rogers. New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Books 1981 8vo. cloth xxii, 271 pages.
Reprint of the 1943 first edition which was printed in a very small number. Frank E. Hopkins set up a press in the attic of his "Red House" in Jamaica, New York in 1896 and named it after his daughter Marion. He printed the first announcement of his press a few months after the death of William Morris and continued printing until his own death in 1933. Unlike most of the founders of private presses in the 1890s, who drifted into printing from other fields, Hopkins was already well schooled in the practical aspects of the printing business. Forced to leave college for financial reasons after his father fell ill he found a job working for the DeVinne Press as a proofreader. The book designs that he subsequently created for DeVinne were among the finest produced by the firm and are generally considered those publications on which DeVinne's considerable reputation was built. Although Hopkins died in relative obscurity, his works remain as an example of the quality of fine printing in America at the turn of the century. Amy and Thomas Larremore, daughter and son-in-law of Frank E. Hopkins, have written a sensitive, in-depth account of his life including an even-handed evaluation of his typography and design work at the Marion Press. In addition Joseph W. Rogers has compiled a detailed, descriptive, bibliographical checklist of Hopkins work at the Marion Press.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 75444

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See More... McGrew, Mac AMERICAN METAL TYPEFACES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 1993 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 398 pages
Second, revised edition. Discover 1,600 classical as well as bizarre typefaces in one of the most massive tributes to the history of printing and metal types. This edition of American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century contains 300 more typefaces in a clean, attractive format. This well-organized work captures the rapidly disappearing traditions and legacy that metal-type printing has left behind. Much of this information has been lost by the passage of time, and its preservation in this book is essential for anyone studying typefaces, typography, and its history.

Structured by alphabetically-listed type families, these typefaces and their variant forms are shown in full alphabets - upper and lower case with numerals and punctuation. The specimens themselves are cleanly reproduced from metal types for maximum clarity. The text is detailed and informative, not only identifying the designer, foundry, and date of issue but also the range of sizes and closely similar designs by other founders. The history, aims, and purpose behind many of these typefaces are also described, along with production problems encountered and individual characteristics. Additional information includes extensive appendices listing common pseudonyms, popular imports, and antique faces, plus American Typefounders, Monotype, and Ludlow series numbers. The indexes provide easy access to typeface names as well as names of designers, punch cutters, matrix engravers, and other tradesman.

The history of metal types and printing, now forever preserved, has long affected the spread of human civilization. Oak Knoll Press is proud to offer this work to generations of graphic designers, typographers, printing and graphic arts enthusiasts all over the world.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 108358

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