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Carter, John & Nicolas Barker ABC FOR BOOK COLLECTORS 8TH ED. (U.S.)
Eighth US Edition With Corrections, Additions and an Introduction by Nicolas Barker. New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2006 tall 12mo. cloth, dust jacket. 232 pages
Eighth edition, completely revised and re-set, with additional information and an Introduction by Nicolas Barker. Shaken, Unsophisticated, Harleian Style, Fingerprint, E-book, Dentelle. Can you define these terms? If not, this is the book for you! John Carter's ABC for Book Collectors has long been established as the most enjoyable as well as the most informative reference book on the subject. Here, in over 490 alphabetical entries, ranging in length from a single line to several pages, may be found definition and analysis of the technical terms used in book collecting and bibliography, interspersed with salutary comments on such subjects as auctions, condition, facsimiles and fakes, 'points', rarity, etc. This eighth edition has been revised by Nicolas Barker, editor of The Book Collector and incorporates additional words created by the introduction of web-based collecting. ABC for Book Collectors retains its humorous character as the one indispensable guide to book collecting while also keeping us up-to-date with modern terminology.
Price: $ 29.95 other currencies Order nr. 75338

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(Carter, John) Dickinson, Donald C. JOHN CARTER, THE TASTE & TECHNIQUE OF A BOOKMAN
New Castle Oak Knoll Press 2004 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 422 pages.
First edition. Preface by Sebastian Carter. Throughout his professional career, John Carter, 1905-1975, was recognized as one of the most important figures in the Anglo-American book world. He was known as an imaginative book dealer, a creative bibliographer and a stylish and thoughtful writer. In 1934, after working for several years in the London book trade, he achieved instant fame, along with his co-author Graham Pollard, for An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets, a brilliant piece of detective work that exposed Thomas J. Wise.
Carter quickly built up a circle of friends, including Frederich Melcher, the editor of Publishers' Weekly and Elmer Adler, the editor of The Colophon. With those useful connections, he was able to publish over a dozen articles on bibliography and the rare book trade before he was thirty years old. Critics agreed that Carter's writing was characterized by precision, elegance and wit. Among his best known publications were Taste & Technique of Book Collecting and his popular glossary, ABC for Book Collectors. He was, above all, an articulate spokesman for the pleasures and challenges of book collecting. Contains a full checklist of John Carter's publications. Well-illustrated. This work will be appreciated by all bibliophiles who are interested in 20th century bibliophilia.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 76307

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Chanin, Eileen BOOK LIFE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DAVID SCOTT MITCHELL.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2012 6 x 9.25 inches paperback 496 pages
Australia's greatest book collector, David Scott Mitchell, gave his extraordinary library and a bequest for its development to the people of Sydney and the world. Book Life: The Life and Times of David Scott Mitchell, by Eileen Chanin, is the first comprehensive account of his life and collecting, told through books, readings, and contemporary correspondence.

Mitchell was a man of astoundingly diverse interests whose collection was not merely for show or posterity, but was, in fact, his own personal reading library. Thus, we can learn much about him by examining his books. Previously labeled as an enigma and portrayed as recluse, Mitchell's true self is revealed through this book. Many books in his collection were written by people he knew, and letters reveal a more socially connected Mitchell than ever seen before. Chanin also delves into the historical events he lived through and their impact on his life and collection.

The growth of Australia from an island of criminals to a legitimate nation happened almost literally during Mitchell's lifetime. Mitchell collected books on Australian history before it was even studied at Melbourne University. Without his contributions, it is unlikely that a full history of Australia could be written.

In the foreword, Bob Carr, former Premier of New South Wales, praises Mitchell's benevolence and hails the Mitchell Library as the "DNA of Australia." The story of his life and collection is important to the story of Australia as a nation and is "in danger of slipping from history."

This book features dozens of color illustrations and black-and-white photographs. Also included are notes, bibliography, index, a list of dramatis personae and several family trees.

The first edition sold out within six months - ahead of news that the book was awarded the 2011 Alex Buxo Prize and shortlisted for the prestigious Waverley Library Award for Literature sponsored by the Copyright Agency Limited's Cultural Fund. The book was also one of five books shortlisted for the 2012 Magarey Medal for Biography, awarded by the Australian Historical Association.

Available in Australia from Australian Scholarly Publishing
Price: $ 59.95 other currencies Order nr. 108954

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(Children's books) Alderson, Brian & Felix de Marez Oyens BE MERRY AND WISE: ORIGINS OF CHILDREN'S BOOK PUBLISHING IN ENGLAND, 1650-1850
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press & The British Library 2006 9 x 12 inches hardcover, dust jacket 320 pages
When was it that someone decided that books might be written and published for child readers? It's fair to say that some kinds of text-alphabets, fables, the Lord's Prayer, may have been seen as fundamental to the process of learning to read from the beginning of book making, but when did children come to be seen as a readership for whom special provision should be made? The child as the audience for books in the English language is the subject of this bibliographical study, which had its origins in an exhibition held at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. From this beginning, Felix de Marez Oyens and Brian Alderson have compiled Be Merry and Wise and shown how certain creative talents, driven by a sense of purpose, or a wish to make some money, attempted to appeal directly to children, and how the publishing industry came to realize that this audience might prove to constitute a profitable market.
In conducting their survey, which is centered upon the books themselves, mostly drawn from the holdings of the Morgan Library, the authors not only plot the chronological development of children's book publishing from almost random beginnings to the diversity of the early Victorian period, they also show how publishers adapted their trade methods to exploit this new market. Sweetness and light did not prevail everywhere, but, even in some of the most forbidding examples presented here, there was a commercial optimism that both merriment and wisdom might be happily combined, within the pages of children's literature. Co-published with the Pierpont Morgan Library, The Bibliographical Society of America, and The British Library.

Sales rights: North and South America; available elsewhere from The British Library.
Price: $ 115.00 other currencies Order nr. 90644

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(Children's Books) THE KENNETH E. LUTHER COLLECTION OF BOOKS ABOUT CHILDREN'S BOOKS. CATALOGUE 117 PART A-G AND CATALOGUE 120 PART H-Z.
Compiled by Robert D. Fleck who has written a foreword and with an introduction by Helen Luther. New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Books (1991) 8vo. cloth. 83; 94 pages plus index.
One of 200 copies bound thus and containing the index. Describes over 1,300 books about children's books and shows the individual asking prices. A useful reference tool which is completely indexed. Illustrated.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 33046

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Clouse, Doug MACKELLAR, SMITHS & JORDAN: TYPOGRAPHIC TASTEMAKERS OF THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2008 8.5 x 11 inches Hardcover, dust jacket. 176 pages
First edition. This is the first full-length study of the leading American type foundry of the nineteenth century. It is an interesting history of the foundry from both a business and a design point of view. The emphasis is on the design of the hundreds of typefaces that were produced by the foundry, from its inception in the 1860s until its merger with most other American foundries at the end of the century. The author describes (with many detailed photographic illustrations) how changing business conditions and technical improvements in typefounding interacted with changes in public taste to modify, over the decades, the appearance of the typefaces that Americans found in their publications. While this is a study of only one of many American foundries, in many ways MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan can stand as an exemplar of all the rest. It was the descendant of the first successful American type foundry, Binny and Ronaldson, started in Philadelphia in 1796. Extensive business records of the firm exist, as do scores of type specimen books and promotional publications of the foundry. All of these have been used extensively by the author. The scores of typefaces illustrated and described are considered as the ever-changing output of a corporation, with lesser emphasis on the individual creators of each typeface. At the turn of the twentieth century, taste turned away from the florid, ornamented style of the earlier decades. Mr. Clouse has shown in this well-written study that the earlier styles were very successful in their own time and should be judged on that basis. A completely illustrated appendix showing MS&J's patented typefaces is extremely helpful.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 96669

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Coakley, J.F. THE TYPOGRAPHY OF SYRIAC: A HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF PRINTING TYPES, 1537-1958.
New Castle, Delaware and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2006 7 x 10 inches hardcover 272 pages
Syriac, a dialect of the ancient Aramaic language, has a remarkable Christian literature spanning a thousand years from the fourth to the thirteenth century, including important versions of the Bible. It remains the liturgical language of several churches in the Middle East, India, and the west, and 'Modern Syriac' is a vernacular still in use today. It is no wonder that this language has a long and rich printing history. The challenge of conveying the beautiful cursive Syriac script, in one or another of its three varieties, was taken up by many well-known type-designers in the letterpress era, from Robert Granjon in the sixteenth century to the Monotype and Linotype corporations in the twentieth, as well as by many lesser-known ones. This study records and abundantly illustrates no fewer than 129 different Syriac types, using archival documents, type-specimens, and the often scattered evidence of the print itself. The Typography of Syriac will be of interest not only to scholars of Middle Eastern languages and scripts but also to all historians of type and printing.
J. F. Coakley is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and on the staff of Houghton Library, at Harvard University. His private press, the Jericho Press, occasionally makes use of Syriac and other exotic types.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 91843

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Cohen, Ben THE DELAWARE RIVER AND BAY 1600-1999: A SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2008 8.5 x 11 inches Hardcover 276 pages
First edition. This work is a new bibliography on the Delaware River and Bay by Ben Cohen, the author of similar bibliographies on the Thames and the Clyde. The author first became interested in the Delaware River when he read D.B. Tyler's The Bay and River Delaware, which refers to the Delaware as the "American Clyde." Tyler writes poetically of the Delaware: "Its upper reaches have the beauty and vigor of youth. When, at Trenton, it turns adventurously westward, growing bigger and straighter, it has the solidity and single-mindedness of maturity. At the end, when it swings southward to lose itself in the greater ocean, it takes on the grandeur and dignity of age conscious of its past." This comparison to the Clyde in Scotland, where Cohen was born, ignited the bibliographer's interest in the Delaware. The Delaware River and Bay bibliography includes chapters on photographs, bridges, maps, fish, ports and commerce of the Delaware, containing hundreds of annotated entries, and concludes with four useful appendices, including one on Delaware River shipwrecks. As with his other books, original title spellings have been retained for historical purposes. Author Ben Cohen, F.R.C.S., is a graduate of Glasgow University and bibliographer of The Thames, 1580-1980: A General Bibliography, first published in 1985, and The River and Firth of Clyde, 1549-1993: A Selective Bibliography, first published in 1995.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 95869

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Cohen, Ben THE RIVER AND FIRTH OF CLYDE 1549-1993: A SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2008 8.5 x 11 inches cloth 290 pages
Reprint of the out-of-print 1995 first edition, with index revised to include place names. This bibliography of the River Clyde and Firth of Clyde covers a period of over four centuries. The material derives from collections in libraries and institutions in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Clydeside and on the Firth. All items are collated in full, illustrations are itemized and engravings are described with details of measurements and the identification of artists. There are numerous annotations and many excerpts from the texts. Original spellings have been retained throughout, adding to the authenticity and general interest of the work. The contents, including five appendices, are alphabetically arranged in fourteen sections. An author, title and place name index facilitates the identification of particular items.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 95871

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Cohen, Ben THE THAMES 1580-1980: A GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2008 8.5 x 11 inches cloth 400 pages
Reprint of the out-of-print 1985 first edition with the addition of an index which was lacking from the first edition. This book represents the first bibliographic attempt to record the vast amount of literature on the River Thames written between 1580 and 1980. Annotations are grouped by topic and arranged alphabetically by author, when available. Topics include floods, bridges, fishing, frost fairs, journals and river police. For historical purposes, original spellings of titles have been retained. The section on Guides and Maps includes an appendix listing the Thames map list for the British library and additional maps from the Bodleian and Cambridge University Libraries. The index added to this edition includes authors, titles and place names.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 95870

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Collins, John THE TWO FORGERS, A BIOGRAPHY OF HARRY BUXTON FORMAN & THOMAS JAMES WISE.
(New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Books) and (Aldershot): Scolar Press (1992) 8vo. quarter morocco. xiv, 317, x, (iv), followed by a 7 page pamphlet and a 2 page colophon.
First edition, one of 57 special numbered and signed copies (50 for sale) bound thus and containing additional material and available exclusively from Oak Knoll and Maggs. In an introductory note John Collins describes the additional material in this special edition as follows: (1)The life of Alfred Forman by his brother, written in 1926 but hitherto unpublished. In 1973 (Quartich Catalogue 926) Graham Pollard christened Alfred Forman the `third conspirator'. This was on the basis of his initials on the proofs of two chimerical wrappers for Morris pamphlets. Later that year, staying at Waddesdon with Graham, I upbraided him and suggested that initials on two proofs of a wrapper were an uncommonly slender thread on which to convict. Graham agreed and I think we must remove Alfred from his position as third man. (2)Alfred's previously printed sonnet AT BROWNING'S GRAVE 1899. This is without imprint: who printed it? There was a copy in the Forman sale (Sotheby's 10 April 1972, lot 200: £35) described as printed on John Dickinson paper while the B.M. copy was cited as one of five on Whatman. Our copies have only the watermark and seem therefore to be a third variant. Sold with the 1972 lot was a letter from Alfred to his nephew Maurice stating of the leaflet, `It is very scarce indeed and I have only 2 copies that I know of...'. The present bundle comprised 66 copies, and each one is meticulously costed in pencil by Maggs. (3)A colophon claiming a limitation of 50 copies, perhaps from the Browning bibliography of 1897. The fact that 64 copies were in the bundle may be thought to throw some doubt on the limitation.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 34885

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Cooke, Simon ILLUSTRATED PERIODICALS OF THE 1860S: CONTEXTS & COLLABORATIONS.
New Castle, Delaware, Pinner and London, England Oak Knoll Press, The Private Libraries Association, The British Library 2010 7.25 x 10.75 inches Hardcover, dust jacket 224 pages
The 1860s are considered the "Golden Age" of illustrated periodicals, a time when the "knockabout" humor of the 1840s, which was dominated by illustrators such as Cruikshank, Doyle, and Phiz, gave way to a more considered style grounded in serious artistic principles, allowing for deeper expression and emotion in artistic output. The first book of its kind, Illustrated Periodicals of the 1860s, focuses extensively on the illustrated magazine as a distinct form.

Illustrated Periodicals provides a new and informative approach to the study of "sixties" periodicals, revealing the previously unstudied area of the complex interrelationships between the various parties involved in the production of these magazines: publishers, editors, artists, engravers, and authors. The book considers the effects of these relationships on creative output, both artistic and literary, and in so doing provides a detailed, historical reconstruction of the essential character of the periodicals of that era. The book includes over 120 reproductions of engravings and preparatory drawings, almost all of them original size.

Additionally, the text contains two appendices; the first includes a reflection of the work that goes into collecting and researching these periodicals. The second lists the key illustrators, engravers, publishers, editors, as well as magazines mentioned throughout the text, each including a brief description. This work is an informative and colorful choice for those interested in the history of periodicals, the production of magazines, and art.

Simon Cooke has written widely on the subject of Victorian art and literature. He received his doctorate from Exeter and his teaching qualifications from the Open University and the University of Leicester. Cooke is currently a teacher of English language and literature.

Available outside North and South America from The British Library.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 103919

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Cooper, Constance J. (Editor) 350 YEARS OF NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE
New Castle New Castle Historical Society and Cedar Tree Books 2001 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 206, (2) pages.
First edition. A chronological history of the town of New Castle with illustrations. Signed and dated (2001) by the editor on the half-title.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 97234

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Cooper, Constance J. (Editor) 350 YEARS OF NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE
New Castle New Castle Historical Society and Cedar Tree Books 2010 8vo. cloth, dust jacket xvi, 206, (2) pages.
First edition. A chronological history of the town of New Castle with illustrations.
Price: $ 29.95 other currencies Order nr. 106339

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Coupe, Robert L. M. ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS OF THE WORKS OF WILLIAM MORRIS IN ENGLISH.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2002 small 4to. cloth with dust jacket 240 pages
First edition. This prestigious work presents a detailed description of the various editions of works by William Morris, in which one or more artists have illustrated the text. Each bibliographic entry, in addition to supplying comprehensive information on the physical appearance of the title, emphasizes the artistic aspects of the particular book. The author has paid special attention to each artist and to his or her visual interpretation of Morris' writing. Dr. Coupe has supplied biographical notes for every artist and has also appended critical comments on the success of the illustrator in complementing Morris' vision. In the course of compiling the entries in this book, the author has brought together a wide array of interesting information that will be of value not only to the many Morris enthusiasts but also to those studying the history and art of the book. Dr. Coupe is a life member of the William Morris Society. Co-published with The British Library.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 70934

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Coupe, Robert L. M. ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS OF THE WORKS OF WILLIAM MORRIS IN ENGLISH.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2002 small 4to. cloth with dust jacket 240 pages
First edition. This prestigious work presents a detailed description of the various editions of works by William Morris, in which one or more artists have illustrated the text. Each bibliographic entry, in addition to supplying comprehensive information on the physical appearance of the title, emphasizes the artistic aspects of the particular book. The author has paid special attention to each artist and to his or her visual interpretation of Morris' writing. Dr. Coupe has supplied biographical notes for every artist and has also appended critical comments on the success of the illustrator in complementing Morris' vision. In the course of compiling the entries in this book, the author has brought together a wide array of interesting information that will be of value not only to the many Morris enthusiasts but also to those studying the history and art of the book. Dr. Coupe is a life member of the William Morris Society. Inscribed by the author on the half-title.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 96190

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Cox, Nigel S. ORGANIZATION AND HANDLING OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORDS BY COMPUTER.
Newcastle upon Tyne Oriel Press (1987) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 187, (5) pages.
A collection of articles by leading experts. Jacket rubbed and soiled. Top corners bumped.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 51228

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Cox, N.S.M., J.D. Dews and J.L. Dolby THE COMPUTER AND THE LIBRARY THE ROLE OF THE COMPUTER IN THE ORGANISATION AND HANDLING OF INFORMATION IN LIBRARIES.
Newcastle upon Tyne University of Newcastle upon Tyne Library 1966 8vo. paper wrappers. 96 pages.
Some cover soiling. Early use of the computer in the library. Corner bumped.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 1710

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(Crawhall, Joseph) Felver, Charles S. JOSEPH CRAWHALL, THE NEWCASTLE WOOD ENGRAVER (1821-1896).
Newcastle upon Tyne Frank Graham n.d. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 144 pages.
First edition. With a list of books illustrated by Crawhall. Loosely inserted commemorative booklabel indicates that this copy came from the reference library of Deval and Muir. Jacket age yellowed.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 27486

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(Croquet) Drazin, David. CROQUET: A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
New Castle Oak Knoll Press 2000 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 528 pages.
First edition. The definitive bibliography on the game of croquet. This scholarly work contains specialists books and pamphlets starting in the earliest times and going to 1997. The literature of croquet has long been of interest to scholars and collectors, but until now, no systematic bibliography of this subject has been published. There are over 1,000 entries, including works in English, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Afrikaans, Chinese, and Japanese.
Price: $ 59.95 other currencies Order nr. 56712

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(Croquet) Drazin, David. CROQUET: A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
New Castle Oak Knoll Press and Roefield Press 2004 cd contained in plastic case 940 pages contained in CD form.
Revised edition, expanded from the 2000 first edition. The definitive bibliography on the game of croquet. This scholarly work contains specialists' books and pamphlets starting in the earliest times and going to 1997. The literature of croquet has long been of interest to scholars and collectors, but until now, no systematic bibliography of this subject has been published. There are over 1,700 entries covering 633 titles, 918 subsequent editions and variants, and 181 patent documents including works in English, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Afrikaans, Chinese, and Japanese. Also with a new classified index of titles, and several hundred thumbnail illustrations, mostly in color. With excellent search facilities as it is produced on CD-Rom.
Price: $ 99.95 other currencies Order nr. 78416

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Cruz, Laura THE PARADOX OF PROSPERITY: THE LEIDEN BOOKSELLERS' GUILD AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF BOOKS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE.
With a Foreword by Jan de Vries New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2009 6 x 9 inches hardcover, dust jacket 256 pages
First edition. In The Paradox of Prosperity, Laura Cruz explores the world of the book trades as it was constructed in Leiden in the decades after the Revolt against Spanish rule. She traces the migration of printers from the Southern Netherlands to Leiden and observes how they congregated within the city and sought contracts with the city's new university. But this is only the beginning of a multifaceted analysis of the development of a market-driven industry that eventually is organized under the protective umbrella of a guild. And this guild, in turn, is something other than the traditional guilds of medieval origins. Rather than a bulwark against market forces, the guild of the printers was an instrument to exercise market power. This book offers a fresh look at the role of an institution that is often dismissed, even in the early modern period, as a relic of an earlier time.

Leiden's book trade was unique, exhibiting a specific quality that calls for a specific explanation. Laura Cruz addresses this historical specificity, but goes a step further. Leiden publishing emerged as an industry with a European scope and with national and international competitors. Distinguishing the particular from the general and the accidental or providential from the systematic forces at play within early modern European society is an historian's duty, but one that is often neglected. Savoring the particular is often thought to be enough, indeed, to be the only real purpose of history. Laura Cruz goes further, harnessing her rich historical material to the methods of economic and social history. From this vantage point, she addresses questions that give new insights to the culture of the young Republic that are based not only on the thoughts and dreams of individuals, but also on the behavior and aspirations of groups and the constraints and opportunities presented by institutions.

Laura Cruz is an Associate Professor of History at Western Carolina University. She earned her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 2001. Her publications include multiple articles on book markets, social networking and death practices in the seventeenth-century Netherlands. She currently serves as the President of the Society for Netherlandic History and the book review editor for the journal Itinerario.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 96671

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Darton, Lawrence. THE DARTONS: AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS ISSUED BY TWO PUBLISHING HOUSES 1787-1876.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2004 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 709 pages.
First edition. In 1787, William Darton began engraving and printing children's books. Over the next 60 years, his firm printed over 1,000 books for young people. In 1804, a separate firm of Darton was founded by William's oldest son. They published over 1,600 children's titles. The work contains the details and bibliography of both Darton firms and an index of their artists and engravers. This work is a major reference source on juvenilia and the early history of children's books. The author is the great-great-great-grandson of William Darton. There are seventy illustrations in this work. Jacket with snag in front cover.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 97950

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(Davies, W.H.) Harlow, Sylvia W.H. DAVIES: A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
New Castle, Delaware and Winchester Oak Knoll Books and St Paul's Bibliographies 1993 8vo. cloth. xii, 259 pages.
First edition. The third volume in the Winchester Bibliographies of Twentieth Century Writers series. W.H. Davies is best remembered as the author of THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SUPER-TRAMP first published in 1908, and still in print, but his reputation is based on his poetry which was published in over fifty books and has appeared continuously in anthologies ever since. This bibliography provides the opportunity for a comprehensive study of this important twentieth-century writer, and it will also be a vital guide to collectors of his work. The sections cover Books, Anthologies edited by Davies and those containing his work, Articles, Broadcasts by and about Davies, and Articles and Books about him. The book also contains a Chronology and Index. Illustrated.
Price: $ 78.00 other currencies Order nr. 36407

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Davison, Peter (editor) THE BOOK ENCOMPASSED.
New Castle, Delaware and Winchester, England Oak Knoll Press & St. Paul's Bibliographies 1998 tall 8vo. paper wrappers. 336 pages.
Reprint of the first edition. The techniques and approaches fostered in the first half of this century by the "New Bibliography" have spread throughout the world, developing and expanding in association with bodies, such as the Bibliographical Societies of Britain and America. These essays, specially commissioned for this book, take "New Bibliography" into the 21st century. Surveying bibliographic and textual studies in some thirty fields, they discuss major issues and developments. Areas covered include manuscript studies and the analysis of handwriting; the physical characteristics of the book - its paper, type, and binding; enumerative and descriptive bibliography, incunabula, cartography, book illustration, book catalogues, and the Stationers' Company. This work also discusses bibliographical developments in the history of science and in many countries - the British Isles, France, Germany, Italy, North America, Japan and Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Developments in the theory and practice of editing texts (including biblical texts); the history of the book and the implications of the computer for bibliography are also focused on in this volume. These essays open possible research proposals by students and scholars, ensuring the vitality of bibliography in to the next century. These collections provide a landmark, taking stock of developments in a vast and vital area of study, and maps out its future parameters.
Price: $ 29.95 other currencies Order nr. 52297

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