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(Craig, James Thomson Gibson) THE GIBSON CRAIG LIBRARY. CATALOGUE OF THE VALUABLE AND VERY EXTENSIVE LIBRARY OF THE LATE JAMES T. GIBSON CRAIG, ESQ.
First portion London Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge 1887 large 8vo. half leather, marbled paper-covered boards (vi), 179,36 pages
First edition of one out of three volumes of the Sothebys catalogue of the James T. Gibson Craig library. Lot to be sold on June 27, 1887. Craig was a friend of Scott, Jeffrey and Macaulay and well-known for his book collecting. Also includes a list of the prices and purchasers names. Gilt lettering and four raised bands on spine, marbled paper covered boards, top edge gilt. Front six pages foxed throughout. Spine rubbed. Front and back cover cracked slightly on the inside.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 88633

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De Ricci, Seymour ENGLISH COLLECTORS OF BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS (1530-1930) AND THEIR MARKS OF OWNERSHIP.
New York Burt Franklin 1969 8vo. cloth. (4), 203 pages.
Reprint of the first edition of 1930. The Sandars Lectures for 1929-1930. Informative book.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 2089

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Dibdin, Thomas Frognall THE BIBLIOMANIA; OR BOOK-MADNESS; A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ROMANCE. ILLUSTRATED WITH CUTS.
London Chatto & Windus 1876 thick tall 8vo. original quarter leather over cloth, top edge gilt. (ii), xviii, 618, xxxiv pages.
New and improved edition of this classic being a resetting of the 1842 edition. (Windle & Pippin A11e; Jackson no.20). Profusely illustrated with chapter headings in black and red. The best edition to buy for those who want to read the full text of this book. Rubbed at spine ends. The half-title, title page and frontispiece are detached and chipped along bottom.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 12195

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(Dibdin, Thomas Frognall) Jackson, William A. ANNOTATED LIST OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE REVEREND THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN BASED MAINLY ON THOSE IN THE HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY WITH NOTES OF OTHERS.
Cambridge Houghton Library 1965 4to. cloth, paper spine and cover labels. 63 pages with many illustrations.
Limited to 500 copies. Spot on front cover.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 92900

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(Dibdin, Thomas Frognall) Neuburg, Victor E. THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN, SELECTIONS.
Compiled with an Introduction by Victor E. Neuburg. Metuchen Scarecrow Press 1978 8vo. cloth. viii, 245 pages.
First edition. This volume contains selections from Dibdin's work, a biographical sketch of Dibdin's life, and a bibliography of his writings. Volume Three of the Great Bibliographers Series.
Price: $ 18.50 other currencies Order nr. 2117

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(Dibdin, Thomas Frognall) Neuburg, Victor E. THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN, SELECTIONS.
Compiled with an Introduction by Victor E. Neuburg. Metuchen Scarecrow Press 1978 8vo. cloth. viii, 245 pages.
First edition. This volume contains selections from Dibdin's work, a biographical sketch of Dibdin's life, and a bibliography of his writings. Volume Three of the Great Bibliographers Series. Bumped at corners.
Price: $ 12.50 other currencies Order nr. 108159

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(Dibdin, Thomas Frognall) O'Dwyer, E.J. THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN, BIBLIOGRAPHER & BIBLIOMANIAC EXTRAORDINARY 1776-1847.
Pinner Private Library Assoc. (1967) 8vo. boards, dust jacket. 45 pages.
First edition, limited to 1400 copies. Describes the life of this author of books on book collecting and commentator on the famous collectors of his day. Jacket chipped along top edge.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 36040

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(Dibdin, Thomas Frognall) Rabaiotti, Renato (editor). HORAE BIBLIOGRAPHICAE CANTABRIGIENSES: A FACSIMILE OF DIBDIN'S CAMBRIDGE NOTEBOOK 1823 WITH READINGS FROM THE LIBRARY COMPANION 1824.
With an introduction by Renato Rabaiotti. New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Books 1989 6.5 x 9 inches quarter leather with acetate dust jacket, slipcase. 79, (3) pages.
First edition, limited to 250 copies. Printed by Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona on Magnani mould-made paper. A hitherto unpublished notebook reproduced in facsimile and accompanied by corresponding readings from the 1824 first edition of the Library Companion. It contains Dibdin's comments on books, manuscripts and prints examined by him in the University, Pepys, St. John's College and Trinity College libraries. The introduction by the editor, Renato Rabaiotti, describes the events surrounding Dibdin's life in the 1820's and places the notebook in the perspective of Dibdin's career. There is also a current finding-list of the books, manuscripts and prints Dibdin examined, compiled by David McKitterick. A fine production of one surviving testament of Dibdin's ambition to publish a Tour of England.
Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 24585

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(Dibdin, Thomas Frognall) Rabaiotti, Renato (editor). HORAE BIBLIOGRAPHICAE CANTABRIGIENSES: A FACSIMILE OF DIBDIN'S CAMBRIDGE NOTEBOOK 1823 WITH READINGS FROM THE LIBRARY COMPANION 1824.
With an introduction by Renato Rabaiotti. New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Books 1989 6.5 x 9 inches quarter leather with acetate dust jacket, slipcase. 79, (3) pages.
First edition, limited to 250 copies. Printed by Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona on Magnani mould-made paper. A hitherto unpublished notebook reproduced in facsimile and accompanied by corresponding readings from the 1824 first edition of the Library Companion. It contains Dibdin's comments on books, manuscripts and prints examined by him in the University, Pepys, St. John's College and Trinity College libraries. The introduction by the editor, Renato Rabaiotti, describes the events surrounding Dibdin's life in the 1820s and places the notebook in the perspective of Dibdin's career. There is also a current finding-list of the books, manuscripts and prints Dibdin examined, compiled by David McKitterick. A fine production of one surviving testament of Dibdin's ambition to publish a Tour of England.
Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 104177

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(Dibdin, Thomas Frognall) Windle, John and Karma Pippin. THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN 1776-1847: A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 1999 6 x 9 inches cloth. 309 pages.
First edition. This is the definitive bibliography of one of the most influential figures in the annals of 19th-century book collecting. Dibdin was the self-proclaimed "father of bibliomania" and founder of the legendary Roxburghe Club. With his great love for books, he visited and studied the foremost collections in Great Britain and Europe. Dibdin's writings give today's collectors a unique window into early 19th-century collecting. Dibdin's books have appealed to many of the greatest of English and American collectors, especially inspiring the giants of 19th-century collecting to high levels of enthusiasm for early books and manuscripts. If it were not for this interest, many of these works would not have been saved and preserved, and the world of book collecting would certainly be different today. The most lavish of Dibdin's works, THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DECAMERON, marked the "highwater mark of Dibdin bibliomania," stated William A. Jackson, author of THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN, AN ANNOTATED LIST. However, one of Dibdin's most extraordinary achievements may have been THE LIBRARY COMPANION as "history's most voluminous exponent of footnote-authorship as a literary genre in itself," as described by Renato Rabaiotti in HORAE BIBLIOGRAPHICAE CANTABRIGIENSES. Today, this work is still endearing to Dibdin's devotees for its irrepressible flow of idiosyncratic and obscure anecdotes - that is, at least for those who are not bothered by Dibdin's bibliographical inaccuracies. And yet, these inaccuracies have become irrelevant for many 20th-century collectors in the desire to collect Dibdin's works. A growing interest in books by Dibdin has reached levels where collectors need to know if copies under consideration are complete. This new bibliography will inspire new collectors to begin collecting, intermediate collectors to improve their holdings, and advanced collectors, librarians, and book specialists to review and expand their collections as they will feel necessary.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 52910

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(Douce, Francis) THE DOUCE LEGACY, AN EXHIBITION TO COMMEMORATE THE 15OTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEQUEST OF FRANCIS DOUCE (1757-1834).
Oxford Bodleian Library 1984 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xviii, 188 pages.
Foreword by J.W. Jolliffe. S.G. Gillam wrote the introduction and edited the contributions. Illustrated. Spots in corner of front cover where label was removed.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 42833

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(Drummond) Macdonald, Robert H. (editor) THE LIBRARY OF DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN.
Edinburgh University Press (1971) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 245 pages.
First edition. History of this 17th century book-collector and his library followed by a catalogue of the books.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 13028

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(Elton, Charles and Mary) A CATALOGUE OF A PORTION OF THE LIBRARY OF CHARLES ISAAC ELTON AND MARY AUGUSTA ELTON.
London Quaritch 1891 tall 8vo. contemporary cloth, top edge gilt. (iv), 222 pages.
The private library of these English collectors and authors of The Great Book Collectors.The text was written with the aid of Alfred Pollard. The 28 plates show examples of the fine bindings in their collections. See DeRicci, pp.187-8, for biographical information on the Eltons. Inscribed "K.A.R. Elton with best regards from the Compilers, C.I.E., M.A.E. Oct 9, '97."
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 37041

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(First Edition Club) THE FIRST EDITION CLUB RULES.
(London Pelican Press) n.d. 16mo. stiff paper wrappers 8 pages
The record of the fifteen rules which govern the First Edition Club. Minor wear and soiling on covers.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 102610

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Fletcher, William Younger ENGLISH BOOK COLLECTORS
London Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner 1902 square 8vo. green cloth, top edge gilt. 448 pages.
First edition. (Webber p.70). Part of the English Bookman's Library edited by Alfred Pollard. Information on over 70 English collectors. Illustrated. Covers rubbed and spine faded. Stain along edge of front cover. Some foxing.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 3985

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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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Goodwin, Gordon CATALOGUE OF THE HARSNETT LIBRARY AT COLCHESTER IN WHICH ARE INCLUDED A FEW BOOKS PRESENTED TO THE TOWN BY VARIOUS DONORS SINCE 1631.
London Richard Amer 1888 tall 8vo. original cloth. xxxiv, 170 pages.
Limited to 250 copies. Contains numerous references to incunabula. With a fine colored frontispiece. Minor foxing.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 6426

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(Gutmann, Rudolf Von) SAMMLUNG RUDOLF VON GUTMANN INCLUDING CHINESE SCHOOL WATERCOLOURS IN TWO ALBUMS CONTAINING FINE LANDSCAPES AND INTERIORS [C.1790]; MELCHIOR PFINTZING TEUERDANK PRINTED ON VELLUM [1517] AND THE TELMAN ALBUMS C. 1720.
London Sotheby's 1993 small 4to. paper-covered boards. 117, (11) pages.
Rudolf von Gutmann's large collection of fine books and prints are offered for sale here. Among the items for sale are bound volumes of Canaletto prints, Calot's beggar series and Chinese landscape albums. Many examples of fine bindings. Illustrated in color and black-and-white.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 61659

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Hanff, Helene THE DUCHESS OF BLOOMSBURY STREET.
Philadelphia J.B. Lippincott Co. 1973 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. 137 pages.
First edition. The author who has carried on a love affair with England and her bookshops via the mail finally goes to England and visits the shops. Jacket chipped.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 46884

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(Harley, Robert) Roscoe, E.S. ROBERT HARLEY, EARL OF OXFORD
New York G.P. Putnam's Sons 1902 8vo. cloth, top edge giltbc xvi, 256 pages
Harley was Prime Minister from 1710 to 1714 after serving as Speaker Of The House Of Commons. He was imprisoned in the Tower Of London in1715. Harley was a book and manuscript collector. Light foxing to interior pages, hinges are cracked, covers soiled and spotted, edges worn. Previous owners signatures on free front endpaper.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 98317

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Herrmann, Frank THE ENGLISH AS COLLECTORS.
London The National Book League 1972 8vo. paper wrappers. 76, (10) pages.
159 items covering all aspects of English collecting. Illustrations in back.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 37988

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(Higgs, Griffin) Morrish, P.S. BIBLIOTHECA HIGGSIANA: A CATALOGUE OF THE BOOKS OF DR. GRIFFIN HIGGS (1589-1659).
Oxford Oxford Bibliographical Society 1990 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 69 pages.
Occasional Publication No.21. Describes 678 books principally listing those books bequeathed to Merton College library.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 37202

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(Hogan, Frank J.) THE ROMANTICS, 1803-1820, AN EXHIBITION OF BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPH LETTERS FROM THE COLLECTION OF FRANK J. HOGAN. WITH A PROLOGUE & AN EPILOGUE.
Los Angeles n.p. 1938 small 4to. cloth-backed paper-covered boards, paper cover label. 16, (6) pages.
Limited to 100 copies printed for Hogan by the Ward Ritchie Press. 50 of the copies were reserved for the Zamarano Club. With an illustrations of Hogan's Poems by John Ketas inscribed to Wordsworth and reproductions of two A.L.s. from Keats to Fanny Brawne. Wear along spine with splitting of cloth covering.
Price: $ 70.00 other currencies Order nr. 56088

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(Hogan, Frank J.) THE ROMANTICS, 1803-1820, AN EXHIBITION OF BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPH LETTERS FROM THE COLLECTION OF FRANK J. HOGAN. WITH A PROLOGUE & AN EPILOGUE.
Los Angeles n.p. 1938 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. 16, (6) pages.
Limited to 100 copies printed for Hogan by the Ward Ritchie Press. Fifty of the copies were reserved for the Zamarano Club. With an illustrations of Hogan's Poems by John Keats inscribed to Wordsworth and reproductions of two A.L.s. from Keats to Fanny Brawne.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 95997

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Horrox, Reginald (editor)b BOOK HANDBOOK, AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO OLD AND RARE BOOKS
Berkshire n.p. 1951 8vo. cloth. (iv), viii, 483+(1) pages.
Complete set. Made up from the nine original parts which were issued starting in 1947. With many plates and articles on books. Index. Edited by Reginald Horrox. This periodical became the Book Collector. Spine faded.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 31220

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