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Austin, Gabriel THE LIBRARY OF JEAN GROLIER: A PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE.
New York The Grolier Club 1971 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover 137 pages
Jean Grolier can be considered a window to the history of French culture. He was interested in Italian and French scholarship, music and publications, antiquarian books, book collecting, and more. The Grolier Club has been named after this "prince of bibliophiles." This book is a groundbreaking study of the legendary bibliophile and patron of printing. Colin Eisler provides an informational and historical introductory study on Jean Grolier and the Renaissance that includes a full-page color illustration of Grolier's Painted Arms and Emblematic Device. It also contains eight full-page black-and-white illustrations including an Italian plaquette binding and various forms of Grolier's signature.

The bibliography includes books and essays that discuss Grolier bindings in different collections, in addition to contemporary references to Jean Grolier. The extensive catalogue lists books from the library of Jean Grolier, providing author, title, editor, imprint, size, provenance, booksellers, catalogues of private libraries and auction sales, and catalogues of institutional libraries. Entries are arranged alphabetically by author, Greek authors are listed in their English form, Roman authors in Latin form, and others in their colloquial form. The book was designed by Greta Franzen and printed by the Halliday Lithograph Corporation.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 106587

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CATALOGUS DER BIBLIOTHEEK VAN DE VEREENIGING TER BEVORDERING VAN DE BELANGEN DES BOEKHANDELS TE AMSTERDAM.
`s Gravenhage HES & DE GRAAF 1965 23.5 x 15 cm Wrappers XV, 943 pp
This volume lists all New Acquisitions 1949-1964 of publications in the field of History of the Book, Bibliography, History of Typography, and allied subjects. Articles from periodicals, yearbooks, etc. are also included. Fully indexed.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 103323

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(Center for Book Arts) THE FIRST DECADE, CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS, AN EXHIBITION AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY SEPTEMBER 7 - NOVEMBER 29, 1984.
New York Center for Book Arts 1984 4to. stiff paper wrappers with illustration on front cover 56 pages
An exhibition held at the New York Public Library from September 7 to November 29, 1994 celebrated the first ten years of the Center's existence. Including 132 works by 112 artists, it was not intended as a retrospective, but rather as an overview of traditional book forms, paper arts, bookbinding and art works based on, or alluding to, book forms. Introduction by Frances O. Mattson, curator of Rare Books at The New York Public Library. Each entry is accompanied by a black and white photograph.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 103186

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Christianson, C. Paul A DIRECTORY OF LONDON STATIONERS AND BOOK ARTISANS 1300-1500.
New York The Bibliographical Society of America 1990 8vo. cloth. 254 pages.
The history of the book trade in Medieval London before the age of print has long remained a matter of speculation. Few records survive that name the book artisans and entrepreneurs involved with this early trade venture or that document directly their methods of producing books and creating markets for them. In this directory, C. Paul Christianson assembles an extensive body of alternative data drawn from archival documents that identifies 262 participants in the London trade during a period of 200 years. This group includes stationers, manuscript artisans (called limners), textwriters, bookbinders, parchment sellers, and other London citizens active in book production and sale. This book provides a summary of information about the independent book craftsman working in London during this period. Four appendices contain indexes, and two maps, one modern and one from the sixteenth century, illustrate the historical area of the craft community around St. Paul's. Manuscripts and books cited are also listed. Designed by Abe Lerner. Distributed for the Bibliographical Society of America.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 29985

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Danforth, Susan (editor) A. MATTER OF TASTE: DISCRIMINATION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOOK COLLECTING
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Rare Books from the John Carter Brown Library Providence The John Carter Brown Library 2008 8 x 11 inches cloth 86 pages
Curated by Susan Danforth, the exhibition that formed the basis for this catalogue demonstrated how the urge to collect, preserve, and ultimately share books can, however subtly, affect the physical character of the book itself. With a focus on acquisitions made in the nineteenth century - including several made by founder John Carter Brown - this exhibition uses selections from the Library collection to illustrate some of the effects that taste and trends in book collecting have had on the book as an object.

Some typical practices of the era-such as the use of book brands, ink library stamps on title pages and elaborate bindings-did not affect the integrity of the book as an expression of an idea, but according to Danforth, other practices are more problematic. The nineteenth-century collector's acceptance of "sophistication" (the gathering together of bits and pieces of several copies of a publication to make one "complete" volume) is a concern to scholars interested in textual integrity. Similarly, the use of carefully constructed facsimiles to complete imperfect books encouraged the specialized talents of artists and printers; the work of these skilled craftsmen could fool the eye of the casual observer and sometimes cause consternation in scholars' and collectors' circles. Knowledge of these past practices is helpful to today's scholars who use rare books as research material.

The JCB exhibition has been grouped into four broad categories: identification, embellishment, restoration, and an exploration of the challenges presented by facsimiles. Among the items on display are long-collected books published by Aldus Manutius and Theodor DeBry, as well as a section on the Aldines. The latter group of special books was actively collected as early as the sixteenth century and just as enthusiastically presented to the buying public in forged editions.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 100943

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(Fore-Edge Paintings) Weber, Jeff ANNOTATED DICTIONARY OF FORE-EDGE PAINTING ARTISTS & BINDERS, with a catalogue raisonne of Miss C. B. Currie
Los Angelos, CA Jeff Weber Rare Books 2010 8vo cloth, dust jacket 432 pages
Limited Edition of 1,000 copies, designed and typeset by Patrick Reagh, and printed photo-offset under his supervision. Signed by the author. This is the most important contribution to fore-edge painting history in over 40 years. The text contains the first comprehensive annotated dictionary to contain the identification of all known fore-edge painters and binders. The book is sure to become the authoritative resource for fore-edge painting identification. The book is profusely illustrated with color reproductions. Containing two parts, the first will appeal to everyone with an interest in fore-edge painting: a comprehensive annotated and illustrated dictionary of every artist and binder known to make and sign fore-edge paintings. This includes some additional binders and artists whose work can be grouped and identified, as well as some binders who are suspect and possibly never made fore-edge paintings. An attempt is made to prove the work of every person and to give numerous examples. Included also is the most comprehensive assessment of seventeenth century English fore-edge specimens up to the present.
The other part is a full history of the mysterious Ms C. B. Currie, one of the most important fore-edge artists from England in the twentieth century and the only artist to have numbered her editions. This project was challenging since no record of her entire fore-edge work exists and her own identity has been unknown until recently.
Jeff Weber is recognized as the foremost authority on the history of fore-edge paintings as a result of collecting, study, lectures and articles.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 108247

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Howard-Hill, T.H. THE BRITISH BOOK TRADE, 1475-1890: A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
New Castle, Delaware, and London, England Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2009 7.5 x 9.75 inches Hardcover, 2 volumes 1,876 pages in 2 volumes, plus index on CD-ROM
This superbly comprehensive and detailed bibliography of the British book trade, the product of research in over three hundred libraries in the UK and USA, supersedes all bibliographies on British authors and authorship, bibliography itself, book collecting, bookbinding, book illustration, bookselling, censorship, copyright, libraries, literacy, papermaking, printing, publishing, textual criticism, and typography until 1890. More than 24,000 items (notably articles in trade journals) are lightly annotated and arranged in classified chronological order to illustrate the social and technological development of British book crafts and industries. Items are minutely indexed on the accompanying CD-ROM. Large areas of the history and practices of the British book trades are opened to scholarly study for the first time. British Book Trade, 1475-1890 belongs in every research library: no-one who works in the fields of British literature, bibliography, or book trade history should neglect this work.

Trevor Howard-Hill is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. Besides his many publications on Shakespearean texts, Renaissance dramatic manuscripts, and textual scholarship are eight volumes of the Index of British Literary Bibliography (Oxford 1969-99).

Published by Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, in association with The Bibliographical Society and The Bibliographical Society of America.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 96665

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(Hugues, Jean) JEAN HUGUES, LIBRAIRE-ÉDITEUR
Le Point Cardinal Paris Pour les Amis de Jean Hughes, Éditions des Cendres 2004 4to. stiff paper wrappers 117, (9) pages
Text in French. Limited to an edition of 900. A collection of essays by André Jammes, Antoine Coron, Jean Toulet, and Yves Peyré about Jean Hugues as a bookseller and editor. Includes a chronology of Hugues' life and a bibliography of his works. Illustrated in color and black-and-white throughout. Preface by Chantal Duchesne-Hugues. Printed in Apolline by l'imprimerie Landais.
Price: $ 38.00 other currencies Order nr. 94601

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(Logos) THE LITERATURE OF THE BOOK.
UK LOGOS 2005 6" x 9" stiff paper wrappers 120 pages
First edition. This 120-page book was created and published by Logos: The Journal of the World Book Community. Fifteen corresponding contributors helped to cast a useful descriptive bibliography, which would inform the book professions about the best books written by, about and for them. This book becomes the overall critical guide for the world of Books About Books. This guide is an overall collection which covers all book professions. The bibliography would be useful both to institutions seeking to form overall collections and to individuals building personal libraries in their own fields.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 86935

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(Murray, Charles Fairfax) Davies, Hugh W. CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF EARLY GERMAN BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY OF C. FAIRFAX MURRAY.
2 volumes in 1. Mansfield Centre Martino Fine Books 1999 thick 4to. cloth. xviii, (4), 462; 463-818, lxii pages.
Reprint of the 1962 first edition, in small size. Seymour de Ricci called this work a "Bibliographical monument of lasting importance." Originally issued in an edition of 250 copies, the first edition has become scarce (Brenni no. 678). The word "German" in the title refers to books produced in countries with a non-Latin European base; thus books from Belgium, Switzerland and Austria-Hungary are included. A number of bindings illustrated.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 55015

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(Rothschild Library) THE ROTHSCHILD LIBRARY, A CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF EIGHTEENTH -CENTURY BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS FORMED BY LORD ROTHSCHILD.
2 volumes. New York James Cummins 1993 large 8vo. cloth. 840 pages.
2 volumes. Limited to 350 sets. Reprint of the very scarce first edition. Some facsimiles. An important reference book describing 18th century works by English authors as Rothschild has provided excellent bibliographical descriptions of his collections of all the major authors. Also includes separate appendices on English private presses with sections on the Baskerville Press, Foulis Press and Strawberry Hill Press and over 20 pages devoted to English, Scottish and Irish bindings of the period. Contains sections focused on Poley Collection of Pamphlets, Rolle Collection of Plays and Mordaunt Letters. Has a full index of titles in addition to an index of manuscripts and a general index. 2739 total entries. Also important is the information on special copies in the library as this helps establish provenance. Distributed for James Cummins.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 75345

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