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(Huth, Alfred H.) CATALOGUE OF THE FIFTY MANUSCRIPTS & PRINTED BOOKS BEQUEATHED TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM BY ALFRED H. HUTH.
London Printed for the Trustees 1912 small folio. cloth, top edge gilt. xvi, 130 pages.
Frontispiece portrait of Huth, introduction by F.G. Kenyon along with much text and illustrations including 18 separate plates done in collotype. Printed letterpress by Horace Hart at the University Press. Former library book from the Gloucestershire County Libraries with bookplate and pocket mounted on free endpaper. Paper label on spine.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 33505

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(Huth, Henry) CATALOGUE OF THE FAMOUS LIBRARY OF PRINTED BOOKS ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND ENGRAVINGS COLLECTED BY HENRY HUTH, AND SINCE MAINTAINED AND AUGMENTED BY HIS SON, ALFRED H. HUTH
London Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge 1920 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 2165-2292 pages.
Volume 9 (of 9) parts of this sale - this volume describesThe Printed Books and Illuminated Manuscripts. "The library of Henry Huth is of great interest to the historian of book- collecting ... the dispersal was one of the most striking events in the history of the English salerooms" - (De Ricci). No illustrations. Covers detached with spine covering partially missing.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 91330

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(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, limited to 210 numbered copies. 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 book has been bound by Campbell-Logan Bindery.
Price: $ 215.00 other currencies Order nr. 37909

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(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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(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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(Johnson, Samuel) Greene, Donald SAMUEL JOHNSON'S LIBRARY, AN ANNOTATED GUIDE.
N.P. English Literary Studies at the University of Victoria 1975 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 128 pages.
First edition. Works are presented in alphabetical order by author or title. Includes "A CLASSIFICATION BY SUBJECT OF THE WORKS IN JOHNSON'S SALE Catalogue." Includes general topics of Religion, Early Church History, Philosophy, Ethics and Morality, History, Natural History and Science, Biography, Encyclopedias, and Periodicals. Wrappers soiled. Ownership inscription in pencil.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 56503

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(Johnson, Samuel) Newton, A. Edward SALE CATALOGUE OF DR. JOHNSON'S LIBRARY WITH AN ESSAY BY A. EDWARD NEWTON.
New York Edmond Byrne Hackett (1925) 8vo. boards, paper spine and cover labels. 11 pages followed by the 28 page facsimile of the catalogue.
Limited to 250 numbered copies (Fleck A.10). Signed by Newton. The facsimile was made from Ralph Isham's copy and not Newton's as Isham's copy had both the prices realized and the names of the buyers. Excellent introduction. Some foxing of paper covering on boards. Lacks mailing box.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 36258

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(Joseph, E.) E. JOSEPH BOOKSELLERS GUIDE TO CARING FOR FINE BOOKS
(London E. Joseph Booksellers) n.d. 8vo stiff paper wrappers (ii), 11+(1) pages
Guide to preserving books within a collection, including information on temperature and humidity, precautions to take in case of disaster, displaying, cleaning, and repairing. Contains contact information for leather conservators, suppliers of hygrometers and humidity indicating cards and paper, and disaster control centers. Line illustrations throughout.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 94852

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Kaye, Barbara THE COMPANY WE KEPT.
London Werner Shaw Ltd. 1986 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 224 pages and 18 illustrations.
First edition. Barbara Kay (Muir) was Percy Muir's wife and has written a sequel to Muir's MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS describing the bookselling adventures that occured between 1938 and 1945. This is Kaye's 17th book and sure to be of interest to anyone interested in bookselling history. Spine of jacket shows fading.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 14386

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Kaye, Barbara THE COMPANY WE KEPT.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 1995 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 224 pages and 18 illustrations.
Reprint of the first edition. In 1938, after three years of sharing a house in London with a moody, elderly Russian who translated Chekhov, Barbara Kaye and her husband, Percy Muir, move to a Tudor cottage in northwest Essex, in joyful anticipation of having a home to themselves at last. As she handles a young daughter, domestic crises, a garden, chickens and writes novels - Percy commutes to London to carry on his antiquarian book business at Elkin Mathews in Duke Street. Eighteen months later, on the eve of war, the business and staff join the exodus of evacuees from London to room with the Muirs, along with parents and dog, in their draughty and already over-crowded cottage. In this entertaining and very personal sequel to Percy Muir's MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS, Barbara Kaye describes the struggle to keep the firm of Elkin Mathews going while, as they host an egotistical author engaged on a book on women, an eccentric poet, the creator of James Bond and other friends who come for temporary refuge from the Blitz. Writers and artists living in northwest Essex at the time come into story, amongst them A.J.A. Symons, Marjorie Allingham and A.E. Coppard. The book also gives a vivid picture of war-time life in a village where American Forces were stationed.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 41946

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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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King, A. Hyatt SOME BRITISH COLLECTORS OF MUSIC, C.1600-1960
Cambridge University Press 1963 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 178 pages.
First edition; the Sandars Lecture for 1961. Contains 8 plates. With various bibliographical lists of collectors. Jacket chipped.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 9304

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(Klotz, L.H.P.) THE L.H.P. KLOTZ COLLECTION OF INCUNABULA, GERMAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND ATLASES.
London Christie's 1994 small 4to. paper wrappers. 253, (15) pages.
Catalog of an auction in London of incunabula, manuscripts, reference books, German illustrated books, atlases, travel and miscellaneous books. Many interesting offerings, including an illuminated copy of the ninth German bible, 1483, Ptolemy's LIBER GEOGRAPHICA, 1511, and a fine Renaissance binding by Joachim Linck. Well illustrated, with many plates in color.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 45271

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(Lawrence & Bullen) CHOSEN BOOKS FROM LAWRENCE & BULLEN'S LIST
London Lawrence & Bullen 1895 12mo. stiff paper wrappers (vi), 28 pages
This small volume is a list of 18 books recommended and sold by Lawrence &Bullen press. The entries include bibliographic information, description, publication history and price for each book. Includes Hans Christian Anderson's "The Little Mermaid" and Catullus's "Pervigilium Veneris." Edges of cover worn with small tears and folds.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 87340

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Lievsay, John L. THE ENGLISHMAN'S ITALIAN BOOKS, 1550-1700.
Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press (1969) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. ix, 104 pages.
The Rosenbach Lecture for 1969.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 96042

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Locker-Lampson, Frederick MY CONFIDENCES, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH ADDRESSED TO MY DESCENDANTS.
London Smith, Elder, & Co. 1896 thick 8vo. original cloth. xii, 440 pages.
First edition. Autobiography by this book-collector and the father-in-law of Augustine Birrell. Covers rubbed especially along hinges. Inside hinges cracked. Bookplate.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 15048

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Mandelbrote, Giles (Editor) OUT OF PRINT AND INTO PROFIT
A History of the Rare & Secondhand Book Trade in Britain in the 20th Century New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press & The British Library 2006 6.75 x 9.5 inches Hardcover, dust jacket 414 pages
First edition, first printing. Published to mark the centenary of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, this is the first book to map out the history of the rare book trade in the 20th century - the end of this period broadly coinciding with the end of an era in traditional bookselling and the arrival of the Internet. Twenty contributors describe and explain the ways in which booksellers acquired their stock and sold books to customers, bringing to life the personalities in this most individualistic of trades, and offer many insights into changes in taste and fashion in book collecting, during what was also a formative period for many of the world's most important research libraries, especially in North America.
Bibliographical scholars write alongside well-known experts from the book trade itself, drawing on a wide range of sources, including unpublished archives, marked sets of catalogues and the memoirs (published and unpublished) of members of the antiquarian book trade itself. The book contains reproductions of many period photographs and several useful reference aids, including a survey of book trade archives, a checklist of memoirs, and three indexes.
The book will appeal to historians of the book, and of 20th-century cultural and intellectual life, as well as to everyone interested in the world of buying and selling rare books, either as booksellers themselves or as readers and collectors. Co-published with The British Library.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 90786

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Mandelbrote, Giles (Editor) OUT OF PRINT AND INTO PROFIT
A History of the Rare & Secondhand Book Trade in Britain in the 20th Century New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press & The British Library (2007) 9.5 x 12.5 inches Hardcover 414 pages
First edition, second printing, with a few minor corrections. Published to mark the centenary of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, this is the first book to map out the history of the rare book trade in the 20th century - the end of this period broadly coinciding with the end of an era in traditional bookselling and the arrival of the Internet. Twenty contributors describe and explain the ways in which booksellers acquired their stock and sold books to customers, bringing to life the personalities in this most individualistic of trades, and offer many insights into changes in taste and fashion in book collecting, during what was also a formative period for many of the world's most important research libraries, especially in North America.
Bibliographical scholars write alongside well-known experts from the book trade itself, drawing on a wide range of sources, including unpublished archives, marked sets of catalogues and the memoirs (published and unpublished) of members of the antiquarian book trade itself. The book contains reproductions of many period photographs and several useful reference aids, including a survey of book trade archives, a checklist of memoirs, and three indexes.
The book will appeal to historians of the book, and of 20th-century cultural and intellectual life, as well as to everyone interested in the world of buying and selling rare books, either as booksellers themselves or as readers and collectors. Co-published with The British Library.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 95405

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(Mellon, Paul) DeVanter, Willis van LIFE IN ENGLAND, 1770-1860
Illustrated in Color-plate Books from the Library of Paul Mellon '29 [New Haven] Yale University Library 1965 oblong 12mo. stiff paper wrappers (12) pages.
Illustrated.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 91267

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Millgate, Jane "' LITERA SCRIPTA MANET': GEORGE HUNTLY GORDON AND THE ABBOTSFORD LIBRARY CATALOGUE."
N.P. (but London) (Oxford University Press) 1998 8vo. stiff paper wrappers pp. 118-125
An article in "The Library", Sixth Series, Volume XX, No. 2, June 1998 on the catalogue of Sir Walter Scott's library.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 101430

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(Miniature Books) Field, Eugene. DIBDIN'S GHOST.
Fullerton Lorson's Books & Prints 1980 miniature book (7.2 x 5.9 cm.) stiff paper wrapper. Unpaginated.
Edition limited to 500 copies (Bradbury, Lorson's, 1). A reprint of Eugene Field's poem from The Book-Lover's Almanac for the year 1893 published by Dupart & Co., New York. With letterpress by Vance Gerry.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 55607

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(Morris, John) Birrell, T.A. THE LIBRARY OF JOHN MORRIS, THE RECONSTRUCTION OF A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY COLLECTION.
(London) Published for the British Library by British Museum Publications (1976) large 8vo. cloth xxiv, 83+(1) pages
John Morris (1580-1658) was "a first-rate bookman with a lively interest in typography and in the dissemination of printing," whose widow sold his collection to the Old Royal Library at St. James. The library reflects Morris's personalilty as the" type of gentleman scholar in the Republic of Letters in the seventeenth century." Some of the items catalogued include a presentation copy from John Milton and a pamphlet with the signature of Ben Jonson. A full and separate index of provenance is provided after the catalogue. With eight plates.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 62925

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Muir, Percy H. ENGLISH IMPRINTS AFTER 1640.
London The Bibliographical Society 1933 square 8vo. paper wrappers. (ii), pp.157-176.
An offprint from the Transactions of The Bibliographical Society. Muir addresses the Society in 1933 on English Imprints and collectors of first editions. Edges of wrappers are browned, creased and faded.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 59778

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Munby, A.N.L. THE CULT OF THE AUTOGRAPH LETTER IN ENGLAND.
London The Athlone Press 1962 8vo. two-toned cloth, dust jacket. viii, 117 pages.
First edition. Gives an interesting history of many of the more important collectors of letters. well-preserved.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 13611

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(Munby, A.N.L.) MODERN LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS FROM KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AN EXHIBITION IN MEMORY OF A.N.L. MUNBY.
Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum 1976 oblong 12mo. paper wrappers. Not paginated.
Illustrated. Contributions by Nicolas Barker, Michael Jaffe, and Penelope Bulloch.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 30009

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