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BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1998 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages.
VOLUME 3, NO.11, NOV., 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: A. Tufel on George Eliot, R. Armstrong on Alan Paton, and J. Waters on "Invasion of the E-Books" (yes, a certain software company has expressed interest). N. Basbanes tours that institution, The Strand; R. Brown and Tasha Tucker discuss Tasha Tudor (with notice of the new Tasha Tudor bibliography by John & Jill Hare, published by Oak Knoll!); P. Szatmary reports on the Houston Museum of Printing History, and...MUCH MORE.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 53574

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(Bookbinding) Bennett, Stuart TRADE BOOKBINDING IN THE BRITISH ISLES, 1660-1800
New Castle and London Oak Knoll Press and the British Library 2004 small 4to. cloth, dust jacket 176 pages
First edition. This book is the first illustrated guide to this complex and controversial subject. In 1930, in The Evolution of Publishers' Binding Styles, Michael Sadleir declared that "the bookseller-publisher of the decades from 1730 to 1770 issued his books either in loose quires, or stitched, or a most in a plain paper wrapper." This view is still generally accepted. Bennett, however, presents new documentary and visual evidence that books were predominantly sold ready-bound in sheep, calf, and goat as well as boards and wrappers. Over 200 color illustrations show what these bindings looked like, and how their styles evolved. Co-published with the British Library.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 75432

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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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Bristol, Roger Pattrell. INDEX OF PRINTERS, PUBLISHERS, AND BOOKSELLERS INDICATED BY CHARLES EVANS IN HIS AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Mansfield Centre, CT Martino Publishing 2005 8vo. cloth. iv, 172 pages.
Reprint of the 1961 first edition published by the Bibliographical Society of America (Besterman 5196). This useful bibliography is a tool for use in conjunction with Evans, American Bibliography. Bristol has provided an index of printers, publishers, and booksellers to help navigate Evans when author-title information is not clear, or not properly transcribed. Bristol suggests that Evans made many attributions of author, publisher, and place of publication which have been found to be poor hunches. The index is an attempt to correct some of these errors. Names of printers and publishers are brought together under place, with no attempt to establish relationships or to differentiate between the individuals of the same name. Bristol was involved in updating Evans even further through supplements and indexes intended to make the information provided in Evans more accurate and accessible.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 89018

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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.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 130.00 other currencies Order nr. 103277

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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.

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Price: $ 140.00 other currencies Order nr. 103435

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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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Hunt, Arnold, Giles Mandelbrote and Alison Shell BOOK TRADE & ITS CUSTOMERS, 1450-1900: HISTORICAL ESSAYS FOR ROBIN MYERS.
Introduction by D.F. McKenzie. Winchester & New Castle, DE St Paul's Bibliographies & Oak Knoll Press 1997 8vo. illustrated, cloth, dust jacket. 334 pages.
Collected here as a homage to Robin Myers, respected book trade historian and editor of the Publishing Pathways Series devoted to studies in book trade and publishing history, these essays uncover the connections between the mechanics of the book trade and their human ends in the learning and transmission of knowledge. They show that the processes and materials involved in the production of books pave the way for larger economic and social issues ranging from business connections, patents, copyrights and their transfer, London's relations with Ireland and America, the Stationers' Company and what transpires when books pass into the hands of customers. This work also includes a memoir of Myers along with a bibliography of her published works.
Here in PART I: THE BOOK TRADE, the contributors discuss a variety of topics: Ann Greening on "A 16th-century stationer and his business connections: the Tottell family documents (1448-1719) at Stationers' Hall," Elisabeth Leedham-Green on "Manasses Vautrollier in Cambridge," David Pearson on "A binding with the arms of the Stationers' Company," Arnold Hunt on "Book trade patents, 1603-1640," Giles Mandelbrote on "Richard Bentley's copies: the ownership of copyrights in the late 17th-century," Michael Harris on "Scratching the surface: engravers, printsellers and the London book trade in the mid-18th century," Scott Mandelbrote on "John Baskett, the Dublin booksellers, and the printing of the Bible, c. 1710-1724," James Tierney on "Dublin-London publishing relations in the 18th-century: the case of George Faulkner," Michael Turner on "A list of the stockholders: the Stationers' Company's English Stock in the 19th-century," and Esther Potter on "The changing role of the trade bookbinder, 1800-1900."
PART II: THE CUSTOMERS include Christine Ferdinand on "Magdalen College and the book trade: the provision of books in Oxford: 1450-1550," Tom Birrell on "The library of Sir Edward Sherburne," Michael Treadwell on "Richard Lapthorne and the London retail book trade, 1683-1697," Alison Shell on "The antiquarian satirized: John Clubbe and the Antiquities of Wheatfield," James Raven on "Gentlemen, pirates and really respectable booksellers: some Charleston customers for Lackington, Allen & Co.," David J. Hall on "Francis Fry, a maker of chocolate and Bibles, and Eiluned Rees on "Art and craft: bookbindings in the National Library of Wales."
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 47253

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Joyce, William L., David D. Hall, and Richard D. Brown PRINTING AND SOCIETY IN EARLY AMERICA
Worcester American Antiquarian Society 1983 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 322 pages.
First edition. These essays have been written by leading scholars on early bookselling, reading habits and the impact of printing in early America. Printing history in its broadest context may be viewed as a distinct form of cultural history, a synthesis combining the attention to ideas that is central to intellectual history with the emphasis on patterns of behavior and organization characteristic of social history. This work encourages new approaches to the study of early printing, including the fusion of bibliographical analysis and the broadly cultural approach of the French historians of books and society. Together, the essays demonstrate how the world of print changed between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - both shaping and reflecting the larger American culture. Titles of the papers presented here include "The Uses of Literacy in New England, 1600-1850," "The Anglo-American Book Trade before 1776," "The Wages of Piety: The Boston Book Trade of Jeremy Condy," "The Colonial Retail Book Trade: Availability and Affordability of Reading Material in Mid-Eighteenth Century Virginia," "Bibliography and the Cultural Historian: Notes on the Eighteenth-Century Novel," "Early Music Printing and Publishing," Books and the Social Authority of Learning: The Case of Mid-Eighteenth-Century Virginia," "Elias Smith and the Rise of Religious Journalism in the Early Republic" and "Print and the Public Lecture System, 1840-1860." Most of the essays were originally prepared for an October 1980 conference of the same title sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society.
Price: $ 37.50 other currencies Order nr. 14220

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(Leers, Reinier) ELEVEN CATALOGUES BY REINIER LEERS 1692-1709. WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND INDEXES BY H.H.M. VAN LIESHOUT AND O.S. LANKHORST.
Utrecht HES & DE GRAAF 1992 22x15 cm stiff paper wrappers. 375 pages.
Facsimile of this series of bookseller catalogues issued over the period 1692-1709. Leers (1664-1714) was a bookseller/publisher in Rotterdam. This series of catalogues contain 4419 items. Catalogi Redivivi VII. With statistical analysis.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 103275

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Muller, F., de Vries, Scheepers POPULAIRE PROZASCHRIJVERS DER XVIIE EN XVIIIE EEUW. FOTOMECHANISCHE HERDRUK VAN DE MAGAZIJNCATALOGI VAN DE FIRMA`S FREDERIK MULLER & CIE (1893) EN R.W.P. DE VRIES (1907) EN DE VEILINGCATALOGI VAN DE COLLECTIE J.F.M. SCHEEPERS (1947 EN 1949).
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1981 8vo cloth 496 pages.
Photographic reprints of the original catalogues issued by these bookselling firms.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 103442

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Myers, Robin, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote (editors) LIVES IN PRINT: BIOGRAPHY AND THE BOOK TRADE FROM THE MIDDLE AGE TO THE 21st CENTURY.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2003 8vo. hardcover, dust jacket 218 pages.
First edition. This is the 22nd title in our Publishing Pathways series. Ten leading scholars focus on prominent printer/publishers and their contribution to printing history. Subjects covered include the works of John Nichols, John Foxe, Andrew Brice, John Wolfe, Shakespeare's Lives in Print, Interpreting Manuscript Evidence, The Dictionary of National Bibliography, and John Day's Book of Martyrs, etc. Co-published with the British Library.
Price: $ 39.95 other currencies Order nr. 71829

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Plomer, H.R., G.H. Bushness, E.R. McC. Dix A DICTIONARY OF THE PRINTERS AND BOOKSELLERS WHO WERE AT WORK IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND FROM 1726 TO 1775.
Mansfield Centre Martino Publishing 2008 8vo. cloth. xxi, 432 pages.
Reprint of the 1932 first edition. Among the most significant undertakings of the Bibliographical Society in the U.K. were the dictionaries of early English printers and booksellers, which with this edition extends the account through 1775. This is the fourth in a series of dictionaries covering the period from 1557; (1) A dictionary of printers and booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland ... 1557-1640, edited by R.B. McKerrow. 1910. (2) 1641-1667, by H.R. Plomer. 1907. (3) 1608-1725, by H.R. Plomer. 1922. The organization of the dictionary is alphabetical by subject. Dates for publishing activity are provided, as are associations with other printers and publishers, such as employment history and apprenticeship. The Dictionary also provides short biographical sketches based on available information. Contains circa 3000 individuals active in the trade during the period.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 100084

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Winans, Robert B. DESCRIPTIVE CHECKLIST OF BOOK CATALOGUES SEPARATELY PRINTED IN AMERICA 1693-1800
Worcester American Antiquarian Society 1981 8vo. cloth. xxxi, 207 pages.
First edition. Excellent book describing over 300 book catalogues separately issued in America before 1801 by booksellers, publishers, auctioneers, and libraries. Includes locations of copies of the catalogues when known. Most complete listing to date. Printed at the Stinehour Press.
Price: $ 37.50 other currencies Order nr. 5062

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