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See More... Medlicott, Margaret P. NO HERO, I CONFESS, A NINETEENTH CENTURY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
New York Taplinger Publishing Co. (1970) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 162 pages.
First U.S. edition. The autobiography of Christopher Norton Wright, bookseller and publisher, written by him from 1813 to 1871, and finally published by his great grand-daughter. Bottom of spine bumped.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 13423

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See More... Moran, James HENRY GEORGE, PRINTER, BOOKSELLER, STATIONER, AND BOOKBINDER WESTERHAM 1830 - C.1846.
Westerham, England Westerham Press 1972 8vo. cloth, paper cover label. 55, (15) pages.
First edition, one of the 150 signed and numbered copies. This biography includes an eight page section in facsimile of one of his Cruikshank illustrated books, three sample pages from his Westerham Journal and other material.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 115001

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See More... Muir, Augustus (editor) THE INTIMATE THOUGHTS OF JOHN BAXTER, BOOKSELLER.
Introduction by James Horatio Cockburn. London Methuen & Co. (1942) small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 166 pages.
First edition. Jacket with small tears along edges and some soiling.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 3582

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See More... Muir, Augustus (editor) THE INTIMATE THOUGHTS OF JOHN BAXTER, BOOKSELLER.
Introduction by James Horatio Cockburn. London Methuen & Co. (1942) small 8vo. cloth. viii, 166 pages.
First edition. Covers rubbed.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 37407

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See More... Mumby, Frank A. THE ROMANCE OF BOOKSELLING; A HISTORY FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES.
Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1911 thick 8vo. red cloth, top edge gilt. xviii, 490, (2) pages.
First U.S. edition. Illustrated. The appendix contains The Stationer's Company, granted by Philip and Mary, 1557 and a 39 page bibliography of publishing and bookselling. Covers faded and worn at spine ends.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 102714

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See More... Mumby, Frank PUBLISHING AND BOOKSELLING; A HISTORY FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY.
London Jonathan Cape (1930) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 480 pages.
First edition. With 27 illustrations. Contains a bibliography by William Peet on publishing and bookselling. (38 pages). Jacket worn and spotted.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 9769

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See More... Myers, Robin and Michael Harris (editors). ECONOMICS OF THE BRITISH BOOKTRADE, 1605-1939.
Cambridge Chadwyck-Healey 1985 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xiii, 231, (3) pages.
Publishing History Occasional Series 1. Eight papers on various aspects of this subject. Includes Mirjam Foot on bookbinder's price lists of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Price: $ 27.00 other currencies Order nr. 56404

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  Myers, Robin and Michael Harris (editors) A GENIUS FOR LETTERS: BOOKSELLERS & BOOKSELLING FROM THE SIXTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURIES.
Winchester & New Castle, DE St Paul's Bibliographies & Oak Knoll Press 1995 8vo. printed paper over boards. 188 pages.
By the mid-eighteenth century bookselling was established as the key factor in the book business. On the one hand, booksellers were at the center of the interlocking range of associated activities involved in the manufacture and distribution of a multi-form product. On the other hand, they helped to shape the consumption of print in the market, responding to and guiding the taste of readers as customers.
Printers, binders, authors, and readers never achieved the corporate force and solidarity of the booksellers who, in England, early on dominated the London Stationers' Company. It was as `publishers' in its increasingly specialist sense of the marketing and distribution of texts, that this commercial sector acquired its authority in the long term. As the owners of valuable copyrights the leading London booksellers laid the foundation of a commercial interest which was never seriously challenged.
The contributors to this volume unravel some of the complexities of the trade organized by business people working at different times and different places but all pursuing what might be called the logic of the market place through the sale of books. Topics include booksellers and bookbinders by Anthony Hobson; Italian bookselling in the eighteenth century by Luigi Balsamo; booksellers and bookshops in late seventeenth-century London by Giles Mandlebrote; and circulating libraries, booksellers and book clubs 1870-1966 by Simon Eliot. Head of spine bumped. Spot on free endpaper.

Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 115675

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See More... Myers, Robin and Michael Harris (editors). THE STATIONERS' COMPANY AND THE BOOK TRADE 1550-1990.
New Castle, Delaware and Winchester, England Oak Knoll Press & St. Paul's Bibliographies 1997 small 8vo. paper-covered boards (v), xiii, (i), 210 pages
First edition. For more than 400 years, the Stationer's Company has been a focus for the conduct of the print and book trade. Booksellers, stationers, printers, binders, other producers, and dealers united with a common purpose to protect their trade interests and to exert control in such matters as apprenticeship and the number of master printers. Profitable activities over a long period such as the English Stock and the regulation of the printing almanacs are examples of this role the Company played. The Company also effectively restricted the production and sale of the printed materials which were registered in its Entry Books at Stationers' Hall. In this, the Company has appeared to be closely aligned with the interest of the State in regulating and controlling a powerful medium for dissent and subversion.
In recent years, as the Company's archives have been opened up to researchers and as new evidence has come to light from other sources, the relationship of the Stationers' Company to the book trade as a whole has been shown to be more complex than had been previously imagined. Some scholars now emphasize the limitations of the power exercised by the Company over print publication, while others have shown that it was very closely linked to political and religious networks, especially in the Tudor and Stuart periods. Equally, while fundamentally metropolitan in interest and in character, it is now clear that the Company played an important role in the regions. Welsh printers, for example, sought to protect their publications by entering them in the Company's registers. By contrast, in 18th-century Scotland, a network of booksellers attempted to break free of London regulation as it developed a clandestine trade with Ireland, the great source of pirated editions.
These are some of the themes in this volume, in which the Stationers' Company, in all its aspects, is shown to be central to any study of book trade history in Britain. Contributors include Ann Saunders, Peter Blayney, D. F. McKenzie, Jean Tsushima, Ian Gadd, Robin Myers, Warren McDougall, and Philip Henry Jones. Part of the Publishing Pathways Series.

Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 98351

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See More... Myers, Robin. JOURNEYS THROUGH THE MARKET: TRAVEL, TRAVELLERS AND THE BOOK TRADE.
New Castle Oak Knoll Press 1999 8vo. pictorial paper-covered boards. ix, 154 pages.
First edition. Part of the Publishing Pathways Series. This work is a series of scholarly essays on the history of travel, travelers and their relation to the book trade. The essays are written by the following prominent British scholars: Bill Bell, University of Edinburgh; Jeremy Black, University of Exeter; Michael Harris, University of London; Charles Newton, Victoria and Albert Museum; Anthony Payne, Bernard Quaritch Ltd.; Andrew Tatham, Royal Geographical Society; and Giles Barber, University of Oxford.
Price: $ 39.95 other currencies Order nr. 57369

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See More... Myers, Robin, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote (editors) AGAINST THE LAW: CRIME, SHARP PRACTICE AND THE CONTROL OF PRINT.
(New Castle and London) Oak Knoll Press & The British Library 2004 8vo. cloth-covered boards, dust jacket. 200 pages
Part of the Publishing Pathways Series. Eight chapters on different aspects of "sharp practices" in the book world. Includes Christopher de Hamel on "Book Thefts in the Middle Ages," Adri K. Offenberg on "The Censorship of Hebrew Books in Sixteenth-Century Italy," Alastair J. Mann on "Some Property is Theft: copyright law and illegal activity in early modern Scotland," Maureen Bell on "Offensive Behaviour in the English Book Trade, 1641-1700," Helen Berry on "Crimes of Conscience: the last will and testament of John Dunton,", Nicholas Pickwoad on "The History of the False Raised Band,", Anthony Hobson on "Guglielmo Libri," and Bill Bell on "Bound for Botany Bay; or, what did the nineteenth-century convict read?" Illustrated and with an index. Sales Rights: Worldwide except in the UK; Available in the UK from The British Library.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 78557

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See More... Myers, Robin, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote (editors) THE LONDON BOOK TRADE: TOPOGRAPHIES OF PRINT IN THE METROPOLIS FROM THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
New Castle Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2003 8vo. cloth, dust jacket xvi, 185 pages.
Part of the Publishing Pathways Series. London as a center for business and culture provided the essential focus for the development of the English book trade. In physically constricted urban spaces, printing, bookselling, and all the associated activities were organized in intricate topographical patterns. How this worked on the ground provides the central theme of this volume, containing original essays by specialists in a variety of related fields. Several chapters explore the communities of printers and booksellers around St. Paul's Cathedral and its neighborhood in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Other topics range across the areas of London associated with the print trade, to French émigrés in the book trade, and the output of private presses in the London suburbs in the nineteenth century. Sales rights worldwide except UK. Available in the UK from the British Library.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 117048

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See More... Myers, Robin STATIONERS' COMPANY ARCHIVE, AN ACCOUNT OF THE RECORDS 1554-1984.
Winchester St. Paul's Bibliographies (1990) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxxvii, 376 pages.
First edition. Contains an introductory essay on the history of the archives and the use scholars have made of it, plus the first complete listing of the 550 volumes in the muniment room and two registers of supplementary documents. This archive contains the longest unbroken run of booktrade records in existence.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 31141

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See More... (Nijhoff, Martinus) CATALOGUE OF ENGLISH BOOKS AND OF WORKS ON ENGLAND, ITS COLONIES, ETC.
The Hague Martinus Nijhoff 1893 8vo. later quarter cloth with marbled paper-covered boards, original paper wrappers bound-in. (ii), 185+(1) pages.
A catalogue (no.243) from Dutch bookseller Martinus Nijhoff containing books on the history of England. Ex-library with markings throughout. Front cover detached. Spine loose, piece missing at head of spine. Front free endpaper and title page detached, next several pages partially detached. Corners and edges worn.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 59484

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See More... Nuttall, D. (editor) BOOK TRADE IN THE NORTH WEST PROJECT. OCCASIONAL PUBLICATIONS NO. 3. THE BOOK TRADE IN CHESIRE TO 1850: A DIRECTORY.
Liverpool Liverpool Bibliographical Society 1992 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, plastic spiral binding. xv, 85 pages.
Historical introduction followed by the directory. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson on the front inside cover.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 99217

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See More... Parks, Stephen (editor) THE ENGLISH BOOK TRADE 1660-1853.
(New York) Garland Publishing, Inc. n.d. 8vo. later marbled paper covered boards, paper cover label, original wrappers bound in unpaginated
List of 156 titles related to the history of English bookselling and publishing for sale by this publishing company.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 106054

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See More... Parks, Stephen "THE LONDON BOOK TRADES, 1775-1800, A PRELIMINARY CHECKLIST OF MEMBERS."
Dekalb Bibliographical Society of Northern Illinois (1978) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers (i), 82 pages
An article in ANALYTICAL & ENUMERATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY. Volume II Number 1Periodical concerned with various bibliographical subjects. Typescript text. Wrappers sunned at spine. Slight wear to corners.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 106057

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See More... (Payne, Thomas & Son) A CATALOGUE OF SEVERAL LIBRARIES, CONTAINING A CURIOUS COLLECTION OF NEAR FORTY THOUSAND VOLUMES, IN ALL LANGUAGES AND FACULTIES ... WILL BE SOLD ... THIS DAY, JANUARY 1780 ... .
[London, Castle Street], St. Martin’s Thomas Payne & Son (1780) 8vo. stitched as issued iv, 137, 140-149, 146-230, 52 (p. 54 misnumbered p. 58)
ESTC online lists 2 copies, at BL and Bodley. Despite the erratic pagination, the text is continuous and conforms to the BL copy. The final 52 pages are a separate section devoted to pamphlets. With probable rodent damage affecting lower section of first seven leaves, portion of titlepage absent with loss of text, ditto Index leaf, part loss of text for the remaining 5 leaves - although all the entries are intelligible, there is similar but lesser damage to top edge, not affecting text.
Price: $ 375.00 other currencies Order nr. 80612

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See More... Pearson, David DURHAM BOOKBINDERS AND BOOKSELLERS, 1660-1760
Oxford Oxford Bibliographical Society 1986 square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xi, 61 pages.
Occasional Publication No.19. Biographical sketches followed by plates showing bindings and specific binding tools. Bumped.
Price: $ 14.00 other currencies Order nr. 18562

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See More... Pearson, David PROVENANCE RESEARCH IN BOOK HISTORY.
London The British Library 1994 (actually 1995) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 326 pages.
First edition, second impression. "This handbook will provide a basic reference source for anyone who is concerned with the provenance of printed books and manuscripts." Discusses bookplates, inscriptions, binding stamps, library catalogues, etc. Illustrated. Small damaged spot on spine of jacket. Ink ownership inscription.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 43742

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See More... (Pepys, Samuel) Wilson, Edward M. and Don W. Cruickshank SAMUEL PEPYS'S SPANISH PLAYS
London The Bibliographical Society 1980 8vo. cloth. (viii), 196 pages.
First edition. A detailed study on the subject with much about printing and the book trade in Seville up to 1700.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 10872

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See More... (Pepys, Samuel) Wilson, Edward M. and Don W. Cruickshank SAMUEL PEPYS'S SPANISH PLAYS
London The Bibliographical Society 1980 8vo. cloth. (viii), 196 pages.
First edition. A detailed study on the subject with much about printing and the book trade in Seville up to 1700. Distributed for the Bibliographical Society.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 60378

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See More... (Pickering & Chatto) CATALOGUE OF OLD, RARE & VALUABLE BOOKS REMARKABLE FOR THEIR FINE CONDITION PART I.
London Pickering & Chatto 1920 small 8vo. quarter red diced calf, red cloth, all edges gilt.
Catalogue 188. Presentation copy. The inscription reads "C.S. Brigham Esq. with the compliments of the compiler Thomas Chatto Aug 20, 1920." There 3581 entries on old, rare, and valuable books. Illustrated in black-and-white. Covers soiled and rubbed with some nicks. Calf coming loose from the head of the spine.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 70413

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See More... (Pickering & Chatto) ENGLISH LITERATURE NOTED BIBLIOGRAPHICALLY AND BIOGRAPHICALLY, A CATALOGUE WITH PRICES AFFIXED, OF A VERY EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF THE FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS OF ANCIENT AND MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE.
3 volumes in one. London Pickering & Chatto n.d. (c1895) 8vo. later half leather, cloth-covered boards, five false raised bands, original stiff paper wrappers bound in. (ii), 504, (10) pages.
Pickering, later Pickering and Chatto, is generally thought of in connection with printing and publishing, but the firm also sold books from the beginning. This alphabetical, undated catalogue (we guess c1895) of 3,380 priced entries was issued in three parts, but with consecutive numbering and pagination. Inscription on front blank. Front board detached. Rubbed on backing and corners; backing is faded. Moderate soiling, some scratching of covers.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 54139

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See More... Plant, Marjorie THE ENGLISH BOOK TRADE, AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE MAKING AND SALE OF BOOKS.
London George Allen & Unwin (1965) thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 500, (4) pages.
Second edition, revised. Jacket is soiled with some spotting of jacket spine.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 15665

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