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Allen, George R. HISTORY OF WILLIAM H. ALLEN, BOOKSELLER, 1918-1997.
Bethlelem Special Collections, Lehigh University Information Resources 1997 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 34, (2) pages.
Limited to 500 copies. Three page introduction by Steven Rothman. With six illustrations. To speak of Allen's is to speak of wit, integrity and devotion to the craft of bookselling. This booklet tells its history.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 49711

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Balsamo, Luigi BIBLIOGRAPHY, HISTORY OF TRADITION.
Translated by William A. Pettas. Berkeley, CA Bernard M. Rosenthal 1990 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. iii, 209 pages.
First U.S. edition. Originally published in Italian as LA BIBLIOGRAFIA, STORIA DI UNA TRADIZIONE IN 1984. Explains the circumstances and objectives behind the evolution of bibliographies. Includes chapters on books and book distribution in the Middle Ages, the introduction of printing, seventeenth century libraries, and the bibliography of librarians and historians in the nineteenth century.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 30553

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(Bartlett, John Russell) Mueller, Jerry E. (editor) AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN RUSSELL BARTLETT, 1805-1886.
Providence The John Carter Brown Library 2006 6 x 9 inches cloth 256 pages
First edition. John Russell Bartlett, a major American bibliographer and artist of the Southwest, had a remarkably multi-faceted career. He was for a time a bookseller, Chief of the United States Boundary Commission that established the border with Mexico following the Mexican-American War, Secretary of State of Rhode Island for 17 years, and, for many years, John Carter Browns personal librarian. Bartletts Dictionary of Americanisms saw three editions in the nineteenth century, and was again reprinted in 2000. His Personal Narrative about his years on the Boundary commission is a classic document of Western Americana.
Jerry Mueller has annotated and amplified Bartletts original memoir, adding 30 illustrations. Printed at Stamperia Valdonega, Arbizzano di Verona, Italy, and bound by Legatoria Zanardi Gropu, Padova, Italy. Designed and composed by Mark Argetsinger, Rochester, New York. Distributed for the John Carter Brown Library.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 99378

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(Basson, Govert) Bögels, T.S.J.G GOVERT BASSON, PRINTER, BOOKSELLERS, PUBLISHER, LEIDEN 1612-1630.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1992 24.5x16.5 cloth. 356 pages.
First edition. Basson takes a prominent place among the publishers and booksellers who served the Leiden academic institutions. Contains a full bibliography of publications (187 entries). With 2 portraits and 73 facsimiles of printer's devices, capitals, ornaments, etc.

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Price: $ 135.00 other currencies Order nr. 103276

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Boynton, Henry Walcott ANNALS OF AMERICAN BOOKSELLING, 1638-1850
New Castle Oak Knoll Books 1991 8vo. cloth. (13), x, 209 pages.
Reprint of the first edition, with a new introduction by Joseph Rosenblum. This work first appeared in 1932 to celebrate the 125th anniversary of its publisher, John Wiley and Sons. Boynton was interested in the colorful figures that populated the book world of early America and tells their fascinating story in an entertaining manner. His account begins with the establishment of the Cambridge Press in Massachusetts Bay in 1638 and ends in 1850, by which time the production and distribution of the book had entered the modern age. This is one of the best accounts of early American bookselling, printing and publishing.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 32807

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Briels, J.G.C.A. ZUIDNEDERLANDSE BOEKDRUKKERS EN BOEKVERKOPERS IN DE REPUBLIEK DER VERENIGDE NEDERLANDEN OMSTREEKS 1570-1630. EEN BIJDRAGE TOT DE KENNIS VAN DE GESCHIEDENIS VAN HET BOEK.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1974 24.5x16.5 cm cloth xvi, 649 pages.
This bio-bibliographical study concentrates on printers, publishers and booksellers, who originated in the Southern Netherlands and who were active in the Dutch Republic c. 1570-1630. It is largely based on archive materials and numerous new data are brought to light. By far the greater part of this book (pp. 16-554) is occupied by a bio- bibliographical Dictionary of printers, publishers, booksellers, active in the Republic of the United Netherlands c. 1570-1630. With 38 illustrations and 160 facsimiles of printer's marks.

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Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 103307

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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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(Children's Books) Moon, Marjorie BENJAMIN TABART'S JUVENILE LIBRARY, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS FOR CHILDREN PUBLISHED, WRITTEN, EDITED AND SOLD BY MR. TABART, 1801-1820.
Winchester St Paul's Bibliographies 1990 8vo. cloth. xvii, 180 pages.
First edition. In the early nineteenth century the prevailing influence in children's books was the promotion of morality, coupled with instruction, and fairy-tales and such-like improper subjects were widely discouraged. So Benjamin Tabart showed no little courage when, within three years of opening his Juvenile Library in Bond Street, he launched out into the publication of a series of well-produced fairy-tales and nursery stories.

During his short publishing career, he continued to provide children's bookshelves with light-hearted, attractive-looking books for which he employed excellent artists and some of the best children's writers of the day. Many of his publications are now very scarce, but Marjorie Moon has recorded about a hundred and ninety titles (often in several editions), which have survived the hazards of nursery life. Since Mr. Tabert was not only a publisher but also a bookseller, part two of this bibliography includes other titles which he advertized as being on sale in his shop.

An introduction discussing Tabart's publishing career, his family life, and the very close connection between Tabart and the prolific publisher, Sir Richard Phillips, is included. Brian Alderson has contributed an appendix on the illustrating of two of Tabart's picture-books, and another appendix reprints William Goodwin's remarkable preface to his book of Bible stories which so horrified Mrs. Trimmer, the self-appointed critic of Georgian children's reading matter.
Price: $ 36.00 other currencies Order nr. 32779

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(Covens & Mortier) COVENS & MORTIER. STOCK CATALOGUES OF MAPS AND ATLASES. (1721-1763) WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY P. VAN DER KROGT.
Utrecht HES & DE GRAAF 1992 5.5 x 8.5 inchees Paperback 142 pages
Covens & Mortier were one of the biggest producers of maps and atlases in Amsterdam in the eighteenth century. This book features the facsimile edition of the catalogue of copper plates and a stock catalogue originally issued in 1721 and 1763. Also included are an introduction on the catalogues and an introductory history on Covens & Mortier by Peter van der Krogt.

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Price: $ 130.00 other currencies Order nr. 103277

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Croiset, Uchelen van, K. van der Horst, G. Schilder THEATRUM ORBIS LIBRORUM. LIBER AMICORUM PRESENTED TO NICO ISRAEL ON THE OCCASION OF HIS SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY.
Utrecht HES & DE GRAAF 1989 6.5 x 9.5 inches cloth xii, 518 pages.
With contributions on geography, travel, rare books, booktrade, collectors and libraries by C. Koeman, G. Schilder, R. Breugelmans, K. van der Horst, F.A. Janssen, C. Reedijk, J. Storm van Leeuwen, E. Braches, E. Cockx-Indestege, I.H. van Eeghen, H. de la Fontaine Verwey, L. Hellinga-Querido, P.F.J. Obbema, B. van Selm. etc. Illustrated.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 190.00 other currencies Order nr. 103505

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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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Cuijpers, Peter M.H. TEKSTEN ALS KOOPWAAR. VROEGE DRUKKERS VERKENNEN DE MARKT. EEN KWALITATIEVE ANALYSE VAN DE PRODUCTIE VAN NEDERLANDSTALIGE BOEKEN (TOT CIRCA 1550) EN DE `LEZERSHULP` IN DE SECULIERE PROZATEKSTEN
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1998 8vo cloth 400 pages.
The Dutch book trade up to 1550. With a summary in English. With an appendix with 46 plates.

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Price: $ 155.00 other currencies Order nr. 103354

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(Doorn, Jan Evertsen van) THE CATALOGUS LIBRORUM MUSICORUM OF JAN EVERTSEN VAN DOORN (UTRECHT, 1639). WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND INDEXES BY H. VANHULST.
`t Goy-Houten HES & DE GRAAF 1996 22x15 cm stiff paper wrappers. 102 pages.
Facsimile of this 1639 bookseller catalogue. Doorn (1580 to 1585 - 1651) was a noted Dutch publisher and bookseller of musical works. Catalogi Redivivi IX.

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Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 103278

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Dubiez, F.J. OP DE GRENS VAN HUMANISME EN HERVORMING. DE BETEKENIS VAN DE BOEKDRUKKUNST TE AMSTERDAM IN EEN BEWOGEN TIJD, 1506-1578. TEN GELEIDE DOOR H.F. WIJNMAN.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1962 8vo cloth xii, 255 pages.
A history of printing and publishing at Amsterdam from the beginnings (1506) up to the "Alteration" (1578). At the end of each chapter devoted to a printer, publisher or bookseller a short-title list of his production, with references to existing bibliographies and location of copies." Extensive summary in English. With 32 plates.

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Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 103381

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Ferguson, W. Craig LOAN BOOK OF THE STATIONERS' COMPANY, WITH A LIST OF TRANSACTIONS 1592 - 1692.
London The Bibliographical Society 1989 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 42 pages.
Occasional Papers Number 4. Distributed for the Bibliographical Society.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 60382

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Fleck, Robert D. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS: A HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF OAK KNOLL PRESS, 1978-2008.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2008 6 x 9 inches Hardback, dust jacket 238 pages
Written to mark Oak Knoll Press's thirtieth anniversary, Books about Books is a comprehensive history and bibliography of the press, from its beginning in 1978 through the fall of 2008. Bob Fleck, founder, owner, and president of the Press, tells the story of his adventures in publishing. Bob decided to leave the field of chemical engineering in 1976 to start Oak Knoll Books, an antiquarian bookseller specializing in books about books. Two years later, he started publishing in the same field, beginning with a reprint of Bigmore and Wyman's A Bibliography of Printing. Oak Knoll Press has operated out of several buildings and under several publishing directors, but in the thirty years of its existence, it has developed a reputation for excellence in the field of books about books. The Press has published 320 books to date and is still going strong.

The book begins with a fifty-page history of the press, which is well illustrated with more than fifty images. The history is followed by the bibliography, which lists 320 books in order of publication. Each entry includes the author, title, edition, and a brief physical description, as well as a paragraph describing the contents of the book. Any subsequent reprints are also listed. The bibliography includes about twenty full-page images of Oak Knoll Press publications. Books about Books is sure to be a useful tool for all of those wishing to expand their Oak Knoll Press collection or understand individual titles in the context of the whole.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 99582

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Fleck, Robert D. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS: A HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF OAK KNOLL PRESS, 1978-2008.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2008 6 x 9 inches Paperback 238 pages
Written to mark Oak Knoll Press's thirtieth anniversary, Books about Books is a comprehensive history and bibliography of the press, from its beginning in 1978 through the fall of 2008. Bob Fleck, founder, owner, and president of the Press, tells the story of his adventures in publishing. Bob decided to leave the field of chemical engineering in 1976 to start Oak Knoll Books, an antiquarian bookseller specializing in books about books. Two years later, he started publishing in the same field, beginning with a reprint of Bigmore and Wyman's A Bibliography of Printing. Oak Knoll Press has operated out of several buildings and under several publishing directors, but in the thirty years of its existence, it has developed a reputation for excellence in the field of books about books. The Press has published 320 books to date and is still going strong.

The book begins with a fifty-page history of the press, which is well illustrated with more than fifty images. The history is followed by the bibliography, which lists 320 books in order of publication. Each entry includes the author, title, edition, and a brief physical description, as well as a paragraph describing the contents of the book. Any subsequent reprints are also listed. The bibliography includes about twenty full-page images of Oak Knoll Press publications. Books about Books is sure to be a useful tool for all of those wishing to expand their Oak Knoll Press collection or understand individual titles in the context of the whole.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 99583

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(Forgery) Taylor, W. Thomas TEXFAKE, AN ACCOUNT OF THE THEFT AND FORGERY OF EARLY TEXAS PRINTED DOCUMENTS
Austin, TX W. Thomas Taylor 1991 7.25 x 10.25 inches hardcover xix, 159 pages.
First edition. With an introduction by Larry McMurtry. Describes the history and impact of various forged Texas documents. Mr. Taylor, who was instrumental in uncovering the forgeries, includes his own evidence, which made him suspect forgery. The forged and original documents are described in detail. The text includes an up-to-date census of each document as well as plates that illustrate differences between the genuine document and the fake. Also gives an account of the related looting and reselling of items belonging to Texas libraries. An in-depth and readable book.
Price: $ 39.95 other currencies Order nr. 33467

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Franklin, Colin OBSESSIONS AND CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK LIFE.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press, Books of Kells, and Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. 2012 6 x 9 inches hardcover, dust jacket 296 pages
Reminiscences of an author, bookseller, and publisher, written at the age of eighty-eight, Colin Franklin's newest book is perhaps his most entertaining. It wanders freely through themes which have absorbed him - a lost world of publishing, adventures in bookselling, and the irreplaceable scholarly eccentrics who dominated that world a generation ago. During his numerous trips to Paris, Japan, South Africa, and many universities in the United States, Franklin kept diaries of his accounts which have helped him to put together this new publication. The chapters represent a type of memoir recalling his various book interests developed during his life of publishing and bookselling.

Including serious essays on diverse characters who have fascinated him, the book discusses the Bowdlers and their 'Family Shakespeare'; William Fowler of Winterton, who neglected his humble calling and privately produced books of the greatest magnificence on Roman Mosaic Floors (when these were being discovered under England's green and pleasant land); a little-known Oxford antiquary and print-maker Joseph Skelton; the once-so-popular Robert Surtees and John Leech (much admired by Ruskin), who illustrated his novels; on the neglected theme of Binders' Lettering; and on his lifelong hero William Morris. There is also a new assessment of the Italian printer Giambattista Bodoni, whom Franklin considers to have been finest of them all. A satirical essay called 'Expert', in addition to the anecdotal and narrative style of text, make this an entirely enjoyable work, rich in illustrations and photographs.

Because of Franklin's exhaustive love for books, he has been able to handle some of the most outstanding examples of work he could ever desire. His passion for private presses, early color printings, early editions of Shakespeare, and beautiful Japanese scrolls, has led him to believe that most booksellers, collectors, and even librarians are guided by his or her taste rather than by calculation, just as he has been.

After wartime service in the British Navy, Colin Franklin graduated in English from St. John's College, Oxford and entered the publishing firm of Routledge and Kegan Paul. In middle life the decision was abruptly taken (with his wife's blessing) to quit publishing and turn bookseller. Franklin and his wife Charlotte had five sons and now live near Oxford where they recently celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary.

Available in Australia from Books of Kells; available in the UK from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 108511

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Gatch, Milton McC. THE LIBRARY OF LEANDER VAN ESS AND THE EARLIEST AMERICAN COLLECTIONS OF REFORMATION PAMPHLETS.
BSA Occastional Publications, No.1 New York The Bibliographical Society of America 2007 8.5 x 11 inches paperback 212 pages
Reformation pamphlets (or "Flugschriften") were among the first rare book acquisitions of American libraries. Gatch traces the remarkable history of the Leander van Ess collection purchased by the Union Theological Seminary in 1838, the first and largest collection of these religious tracts to arrive in America. He notes how they were originally obtained by van Ess, a Catholic priest, translator of the Bible, and a former Benedictine monk, who built an impressive personal collection of books and manuscripts when monastic libraries were being dispersed during the Napoleonic wars. Gatch has also identified a significant group of pamphlets assembled at Wittenberg during the 1520s, Luther's most creative period. Never before accurately described, the surviving pamphlets from this collection are listed here in the order of van Ess's own catalogue, with a set of indexes to authors and printers, and with concordances to major bibliographical resources. Gatch reviews the history Reformation pamphlet collecting in the United States from these earliest efforts up to the beginning of the twentieth century, and reflects on how these primary resources were used (or neglected) by American church historians. An extensive bibliography and a detailed index of the introductory essays are included. Illustrated. Distributed for the Bibliographical Society of America.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 93560

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Gruys, J.A. , C. de Wolf THESAURUS 1473-1800. NEDERLANDSE BOEKDRUKKERS EN BOEKVERKOPERS. MET PLAATSEN EN JAREN VAN WERKZAAMHEID. DUTCH PRINTERS AND BOOKSELLERS. WITH PLACES AND YEARS OF ACTIVITY.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1989 8vo cloth xxiv, 295 pages.
This new, revised and considerably augmented edition is extended to the year 1800. The new Thesaurus contains 5,730 names of Dutch printers and booksellers spread over 135 places.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 140.00 other currencies Order nr. 103435

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Hellinga, Lotte, Alastair Duke, Jacob Harskamp, and Theo Hermans (editors) THE BOOKSHOP OF THE WORLD. THE ROLE OF THE LOW COUNTRIES IN THE BOOKTRADE 1473-1941.
`t Goy-Houten HES & DE GRAAF 2001 6.5 x 9.5 inches clothq 350 pages
Proceedings of a Conference held in London, 15-17 September 1999, organized by The Association for Low Countries Studies, University College London, Centre for Dutch and Flemish Culture, The British Library, Dutch and Flemish section, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. Twenty-five papers by experts in their particular period or area were selected for publication. Covering almost five centuries, they represent a wholly modern approach to the history of the book and publishing in a European context, highlighting for the first time the crucial role of the Low Countries in transmitting the intellectual heritage of an area well beyond their own changing borders. Illustrated.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 115.00 other currencies Order nr. 103445

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Herrmann, Frank THE ENGLISH AS COLLECTORS
New Castle Oak Knoll Press 1999 tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 509 pages.
Reprint of the original edition, with corrections and a lengthy new introduction. This book is a unique and important source of information for those interested in the history of famous collections. Not only is the importance of collecting a growing factor in the history of art and antiques, but the details of provenance of objects traded on the art and antiques market are vital. In effect, the author has gone to the most revealing sources to produce a history of collecting in England and a study of the gradual emergence of the museum as a national institution.
ENGLISH AS COLLECTORS also offers interesting and compelling insight into the private lives of great collectors whose acquisitions became the nucleus of the foremost museums of Great Britain. Through 96 rare illustrations and 75 collector profiles, Herrmann goes behind the scenes to capture the drive, enthusiasm, and eccentricities of these patrons of the arts. In addition, this revised and expanded edition contains a useful and detailed bibliography of collecting history.
Since its first publication, ENGLISH AS COLLECTORS has become a classic in its field, and the first edition is now highly sought after. No other publication with so much detail has appeared to rival Herrmann's pioneering work. This volume is kept as a ready reference by those entrusted with the care of major private and public collections as well as those who organize exhibitions. This new edition has been issued because of continuing demand, and the author has contributed a well-written new introduction, brilliantly summarizing the state of private and "official" collecting today.
Frank Herrmann is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and
the author of a Sotheby's history: SOTHEBY'S: PORTRAIT OF AN AUCTION HOUSEand THE NORTON-SIMON MUSEUM.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 57257

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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, 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. 70587

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Hinks, John and Catherine Armstrong (editors) BOOK TRADE CONNECTIONS FROM THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURIES.
Delivered at the Twenty-second Conference on the History of the British Book Trade Birmingham, July 2005 New Castle, Delaware and London, England Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2008 6 x 9 inches Hardcover, dust jacket. 281 pages
First edition. This ninth volume of the Print Networks series contains twelve exciting chapters from scholars working on the connections between the parties involved in the production of print artifacts; from author to printer, publisher, bookseller and reader. Chronologically, the offerings range from the seventeenth to the twentieth century as they track the developing trade in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Publishers and readers who spent part of their lives in North America are also featured in several of the chapters. The main theme emerging from this volume is the significance of cheap print, including newspapers and journals. The social, cultural, political and economic significance of these artifacts is highlighted by an in-depth examination of the lives of those men and women who participated in the book trade. Co-published with The British Library.

Available in the UK from The British Library.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 96655

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