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See More... (Almon, John) Rae, Robert Right " JOHN ALMON: BOOKSELLER TO JOHN WILKES."
1948 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp.20-28.
Limited to 250 copies. An article in The Indiana Quarterly for Bookmen, Vol. IV, No.1.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 107358

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See More... Arber, Edward THE TERM CATALOGUES, 1668-1709 A.D., WITH A NUMBER FOR EASTER TERM, 1711 AD., A CONTEMPORARY BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE REIGNS OF CHARLES II, JAMES II, WILLIAM AND MARY, AND ANNE.
3 volumes. London Edward Arber 1903-1906 4to. cloth. xvi,576; x,664; x,742 pages.
First edition, one of the 1000 numbered small paper copies signed by Arber. (Besterman p.2011). Edited reprint of the original catalogues which were issued by English booksellers and publishers to show what books were available to students. A wealth of information for the student of the book during this period. Covers unevenly faded and lightly marked and rubbed. Hinges solid.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 40571

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See More... Atto, Clayton "THE SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF LEARNING."
Oxford Oxford University Press 1938 8vo. stiff paper wrappers pp. 263-288
Article in The Library , Fourth Series, Volume XIX, Number 3, December 1938. Corners bumped.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 102101

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See More... (Bell, Robert) ROBERT BELL'S BOOK AUCTION CATALOG, AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN BROADSIDE.
A facsimile from the Library of Congress. (Washington, DC Library of Congress) n.d. 4to. self paper wrappers. (4) pages with broadside facsimile loosely inserted.
One page of text by James Gilreath. Facsimile is one of two known copies of this broadside. Broadside is loosely inserted in a pocket in folder.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 107497

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See More... (Bird & Bull Press) Feather, John ENGLISH BOOK PROSPECTUSES, AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
Newtown Bird & Bull Press and Minneapolis: Daedalus Press 1984 8vo. quarter morocco with tips, Dutch Gilt sides reproduced from an 18th century German decorated paper, plus 14 larger facsimiles in a separate accompanying portfolio. 109 pages.
Limited to 325 copies. The history of this important piece of publishing ephemera from its beginning in 1610 up through the 19th century and accompanied by 24 facsimile prospectuses from 2 to 10 pages in length. As the exact size was maintained, it was necessary to place 4 of the facsimiles in a separate portfolio. All but one of the prospectuses done in facsimile come from the Bodleian Library. This book is the kind of private press book that Oak Knoll likes to handle; an important new text presented in a superb format. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 165.00 other currencies Order nr. 2685

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  BOGVENNEN, AARBOG FOR BOGKUNST OG BOGHISTORIE.
Copenhagen Forening for Boghaandvaerk 1920's-1970's large 8vo. sewn, stiff paper wrappers. Various paginations (generally between 100-150 pages per volume).
Various volumes of the Danish annual, The Bibliophile, offered for sale individually. Each volume has illustrations and generally contains 4-6 articles on collections, bindings, publishing, typography, Danish books and collectors, and other book-related matters. Some have brief English-language summaries at the end. Some vols. are unopened. All have their original wrappers, which are usually soiled, chipped, worn and/or torn in some combination and degree. Backings of older issues may be damaged. Available: 1928, 1949, 1951(2), 1952(2), 1953(2), 1954, 1979. Price is per volume.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 51931

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See More... BOGVENNEN, AARBOG FOR BOGKUNST OG BOGHISTORIE.
6 volumes. Copenhagen Forening for Boghaandvaerk 1926-1931 large 8vo. original publishers paste paper covers with paper spine labels. Various paginations (approx. 2,500 pages total).
Six years of the Danish annual The Bibliophile: vols. 15-20 (1926-1931) of the original series The Bibliophile, which began in 1893, had by the 1920's lost interest in book crafts, and deals more with collecting and bibliophile issues, becoming rather more international in outlook. In 1926, reports on Danish Book auctions are added. There is more coverage of libraries and collections/ collectors, and of current book illustration. The reports on the activities of the Association for Book Crafts (Forening...) cease. The historical and retrospective articles continue, of course. Three volumes have cracked hinges. 1928 lacks the spine covering.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 105592

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See More... Bond, Richmond P. GROWTH & CHANGE IN THE EARLY ENGLISH PRESS.
Lawrence University of Kansas Libraries 1969 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 18, (2) pages.
The 15th Annual Public Lecture on Books and Bibliography sponsored by Kansas.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 56477

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See More... (Bookbinding) LIVRES DANS DE RICHES RELIURES DES SEIZIÈME, DIX-SEPTIÈME, DIX-HUITIÈME ET DIX-NEUVIÈME SIÈCLES.
Paris Librarie de la Société des Bibliophiles François 1910 4to. later two toned cloth, leather spine label (iv), 95 pages with 50 plates interspersed throughout.
Damascène Morgand (Paris) bookseller's catalog of particularly precious bindings from the 16th-19th centuries. An introduction to the collection is provided in which each century's offerings are broadly characterized. Illustrated with 50 black-and-white plates. With decorative head and tail pieces. Printed in Lille by L. Danel. With a bookplate indicating that this set came from the reference library of H.P. Kraus. Leather spine label abraded. Ownership inscription in ink on free endpaper. Lacks original wrappers.
Price: $ 210.00 other currencies Order nr. 75396

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See More... (Bookbinding) Maggs 893 BOOKBINDING IN GREAT BRITAIN, SIXTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Catalogue 893. London Maggs Bros. 1964 square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 193 pages.
S-K 3520b. With many full-page plates illustrating bindings. (Brenni no.769). Foxing of title page and back cover.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 76649

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See More... (Bookbinding) Maggs 893 BOOKBINDING IN GREAT BRITAIN, SIXTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Catalogue 893. London Maggs Bros. 1964 square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 193 pages.
S-K 3520b. With many full-page plates illustrating bindings. (Brenni no.769). Ink stamp on front cover. Loosely inserted is an article by Brander Matthews entitled "Bookbindings of the Present" that was removed from a 19th century periodical.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 93523

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See More... (Bookbinding) Maggs 893 BOOKBINDING IN GREAT BRITAIN, SIXTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Catalogue 893. London Maggs Bros. 1964 square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 193 pages.
S-K 3520b. With many full-page plates illustrating bindings. (Brenni no.769). Covers rubbed. Corner bumped.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 102229

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See More... (Bookbinding) Maggs 893 BOOKBINDING IN GREAT BRITAIN, SIXTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Catalogue 893. London Maggs Bros. 1964 square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 193 pages.
S-K 3520b. With many full-page plates illustrating bindings. (Brenni no.769). Head of spine bumped and wear to paper covering of spine.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 106109

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See More... (Bookbinding) Sorgeloos, Claude QUATRE SIECLES DE RELIURE EN BELGIQUE, 1500-1900, III.
Bruxelles Eric Speeckaert 1998 4to. stiff paper wrappers 430 pages.
First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Volume three in a series of exhibitions and catalogues devoted to Belgian bookbindings. 190 books pictured and described in this catalogue from the Biblioteca Wittockiana (Brussels) exhibition of 1998/99. The catalogue also served as a bookseller's catalogue for Eric Speeckaert. In French. Minor cover rubbing.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 71468

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See More... (Bookselling) KEEPSAKE PRINTED FOR THE WYNKYN DE WORDE SOCIETY ON THE OCCASION OF THEIR VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Oxford Alden Press for the Society 1970 4to. paper wrappers. (8) pages.
Reproduces in facsimile the Stationers' Company almanack for 1781 which has one of the earliest known portrayals of Stationers' Hall in London.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 838

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See More... (Borntraeger) GEBRÜDER BORNTRAEGER. BERLIN UND LEIPZIG 1790-1930.
Berlin Gebrüder Borntraeger (1930) 8vo. cloth 351 pages
First edition. The products of one hundred fourty years of publishing and book selling are contained withint this volume. The Berlin firm of Grebrüder Borntraeger celebrated this anniversary by compiling a bibliography of its titles. A history of the firm's development prefaces the Catalogue of books. The bibliography is arranged by subject and author. In German. Top edge of spine rubbed. Back hinge cracked.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 62533

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See More... (Breitkopf, Johann Gottlob Immanuel) Breitkopf, Johann Gottlob Immanuel. UEBER BUCHDRUCKEREY UND BUCHHANDEL IN LEIPZIG.
Leipzig Deutsche Bücherei 1964 12mo. paper wrappers, paper cover label. x, 57+(1) pages.
Facsimile edition of a 1793 article on printing and the booktrade in Leipzig by the printer and bookseller Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf. Introduction by Helmut Rötzsch. Wrapper discolored; small waterstain on spine.
Price: $ 6.00 other currencies Order nr. 50592

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See More... Burn, Jacob Henry DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE LONDON TRADERS, TAVERN, AND COFFEE-HOUSE TOKENS CURRENT IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY PRESENTED TO THE CORPORATION LIBRARY BY HENRY BENJAMIN HANBURY BEAUFOY.
London Corporation Library 1855 8vo. later cloth. xcvi, 287 pages.
Second edition. Detailed descriptions of over 1,300 tokens. With frontispiece portrait of Beaufoy and three other plates. With pencil annotations throughout. Includes information on tokens issued by booksellers, publishers and printers. Covers detatched, leather on the spine mostly worn away. Corners heavily worn.
Price: $ 70.00 other currencies Order nr. 51563

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See More... (Carpenter, James) Montgomery, Robert A.L.s. from Robert Montgomery to Mr. Carpenter
Harrogate, Yorkshire n.p. 1800 8vo. unbound 2 pages
A letter from Robt. Montgomery to Mr. Carpenter, New Bond Street, London, Bookseller. The letter, dated 30 August 1800, mentions that the writer is "just setting out for York" and expresses his obligation to Carpenter for "the trouble you have been at." The Exeter Working Papers in Book History list a James Carpenter, bookseller and bookbinder, at 14 Old Bond Street, 1799-1835. Over time, James Carpenter had partnered with various relatives and others. His business dealt mainly with art publications, having a large collection of painting. Carpenter's son William Hookham Carpenter became keeper of prints at the British Museum (DNB III:1077-8). Tanned and lightly stained. Copy of biography in Exeter Working papers laid in.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 109432

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  Chalmers, George THE LIFE OF THOMAS RUDDIMAN N, A.M., THE KEEPER, FOR ALMOST FIFTY YEARS, OF THE LIBRARY BELONGING TO THE FACULTY OF ADVOCATES AT EDINBURGH.
New York Garland 1974 8vo. cloth. (xiv), 467 pages.
Reprint of the London 1794 edition. Ruddiman was a librarian with interesting secondary ties to the book world. In 1707 he became a book auctioneer, and in 1715, a printer in partnership with his brother. Chalmers was a fellow Scot and a noted antiquarian.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 1361

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See More... (Christie'S) Marillier, H.C. " CHRISTIE'S", 1766 TO 1925.
London Constable & Co. 1926 small 4to. cloth. xii, 311+(1) pages.
First edition. History followed by an appendix entitled "Humours of Auctioneering" and a chronological list of more important sales. Illustrated. Covers rubbed with some wear at spine ends.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 115249

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See More... Cole, Richard Cargill IRISH BOOKSELLERS AND ENGLISH WRITERS, 1740-1800
Atlantic Highlands, NJ Mansell Publishing and Humanities Press Intern. (1986) 8vo. boards. xv, 266 pages.
First edition. Contains a number of chapters on Irish booksellers and publishers in America through the 1820s and an appendix in which the known Irishmen working in America are listed.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 14491

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See More... Darnton, Robert, Bernhard Fabian, Roy Wiles THE WIDENING CIRCLE, ESSAYS ON THE CIRCULATION OF LITERATURE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE. Edited by Paul J. Korshin.
N.P. University of Pennsylvania Press 1976 small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 204 pages.
Essays on bookselling, publishing and reading. Very minor jacket soiling.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 8197

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See More... Davis, Richard Beale A COLONIAL SOUTHERN BOOKSHELF.
Athens The University of Georgia Press (1979) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 140 pages.
First edition. Talks about eighteenth century reading with helpful hints for understanding publishing, bookselling and the early Southern reader. Well preserved copy.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 37846

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See More... (Delaware) Rink, Evald PRINTING IN DELAWARE, 1761-1800, A CHECKLIST.
Wilmington Eleutherian Mills Historical Library 1969 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 214 pages.
Best reference book on the subject. Full bibliographical descriptions given along with locations and indices of printers, booksellers and publishers.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 4049

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