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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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Pearson, David PROVENANCE RESEARCH IN BOOK HISTORY: A HANDBOOK.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 1998 6 x 9 inches cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 326 pages.
Reprint of the first edition with a new introductory section containing additional references to update the original text. This book has quickly become established as a standard work in a field of rapidly growing interest. At a time when more and more people are studying private book ownership, this handbook offers a compendium of information on the ways of recognizing and identifying marks of ownership, and on placing that knowledge in a wider context. Topics covered include inscriptions; mottoes; bookplates; book labels and book stamps; armorials; sales catalogues; catalogues and lists of private libraries; provenance indices; heraldry and paleography. Co-published with the British Library.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 53851

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PENLAND BOOK OF HANDMADE BOOKS (THE)
Master Classes in Bookmaking Techiques New York Lark Books (2004) 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket 229+(1) pages
This book is from the Penland School of Crafts and offers instructional information on the art of bookbinding and papermaking in order to create your own handmade books. Well informed and provides techniques and tools used for many different materials along with a large number of illustrations that aid in giving visual instruction. Very minor rubbing of jacket.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 99353

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(Philobiblon Club) THE CENTENNIAL OF THE PHILOBIBLON CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA 1893-1993.
Philadelphia The Philobiblon Club 1993 large 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 53, (3) pages.
A catalogue for the exhibit which celebrated the centennial of the Philobiblon Club. It featured books printed in only a few copies and handsomely bound by the best binders. Included are 234 entries with an introduction by George A. Allen, President. Some notes in pencil.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 59411

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(Plough Press) Wakeman, Geoffrey and Graham Pollard FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN BOOKBINDING.
New Castle, DE and Kidlington, England The Plough Press 1993 8vo. cloth, leather spine label. 96 pages with six tipped-in handmade facsimile samples of cloth bindings and 31 other illustrations in black and white.
Limited to 180 numbered copies of which this is one of the 125 cloth-bound copies. Printed by hand by Paul Wakeman, the son of Geoffrey Wakeman, at the Plough Press. Three separate essays provide a fascinating study of English trade binding from the sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. In "Illustrations of English Trade Bindings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Geoffrey Wakeman describes what an ordinary book of the period looked like. Pollard's essay "Changes in the Style of Bookbinding, 1550-1830" originally appeared in "The Library" in 1956. The third article is again by Wakeman and is entitled "Bookbinding Styles in the Loughborough and Ashby-de-la-Zouch Parish Libraries." This article is based on illustrated slide lectures Wakeman gave while teaching at Loughborough and was meant to demonstrate to students the changes in binding style over the period covered in Pollard's article. These slides are reproduced as plates which are contained in a pocket in the back of the book. With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. Also present is a prospectus to the book and a letter from Paul Wakeman meant to accompany this complimentary copy.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 98809

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(Plough Press) Wakeman, Geoffrey and Graham Pollard FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN BOOKBINDING.
New Castle, DE and Kidlington, England The Plough Press 1993 8vo. cloth, leather spine label. 96 pages with six tipped-in handmade facsimile samples of cloth bindings and 31 other illustrations in black and white.
Limited to 180 numbered copies of which this is one of the 125 cloth bound copies. Printed by hand by Paul Wakeman, the son of Geoffrey Wakeman, at the Plough Press. Three separate essays which provide a fascinating study of English trade binding from the sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. In "Illustrations of English Trade Bindings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Geoffrey Wakeman describes what an ordinary book of the period looked like. Pollard's essay "Changes in the Style of Bookbinding, 1550-1830" originally appeared in "The Library" in 1956. The third article is again by Wakeman and is entitled "Bookbinding Styles in the Loughborough and Ashby-de-la-Zouch Parish Libraries." This article is based on illustrated slide lectures Wakeman gave while teaching at Loughborough and was meant to demonstrate to students the changes in binding style over the period covered in Pollard's article. These slides are reproduced as plates which are contained in a pocket in the back of the book. Presentation from the printer, Paul Wakeman, on the limitation page.
Price: $ 335.00 other currencies Order nr. 115660

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(Printing) WHAT ABOUT PRINTING?
Ohio The Champion Coated Paper Co. (1930) 4to. stiff paper wrappers (viii), 74 pages
Preface states that this book is a compilation of experience accumulated during the time when advertisers and printers have been learning the need of getting together in a more perfect understanding of each other's problems and in the production of more direct advertising. It is meant to enable advertisers to capitalize upon the experiences of those who have learned practical mastery of this necessary part of a well planned advertising program. Book tries to dispel myths and generalizations about the printing business so that printers and advertisers alike can work better together. Includes and appendix with paper types, printing estimates, practical folds, bindings, and stock paper sizes. Cover slightly worn with small closed tears along edges.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 88396

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(Reid, Mrs. Whitelaw) WORKS BY EMINENT WRITERS IN HANDSOMELY BOUND SETS, BIOGRAPHIES, HISTORIES, AND GENERAL LITERATURE, THE LIBRARY REMOVED FROM OPHIR HALL, PURCHASE, NEW YORK, RESIDENCE OF THE LATE MRS. WHITELAW REID.
New York American Art Association/Anderson Galleries 1936 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 103+(1) pages
Priced auction catalogue of the Library of the Late Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, of Ophir Hall, Purchase, New York, May 6-7, 1936, American Art Association, New York, 540 lots, this being a follow-up to an earlier auction of her books, May 4, 1934 (McKay 9604). A limited edition of Big Game Hunting in the Rockies1899, illustrated by Remington and Frost, tan buckram, uncut, signed by Theodore Roosevelt, was knocked down for $15.00. Chockablock wtih Depression era highlights.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 69662

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Ripley-Duggan, Edward. BOOK ARTS COLLECTIONS, A REPRESENTATIVE SELECTION.
New York Haworth Press 1988 small 8vo. cloth. (x), 123 pages.
After an introduction and list of suggested readings by E. Ripley-Duggan, seven curators and librarians discuss the book arts collections in 7 libraries in the U.S. and Canada.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 52343

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Roff, Renee DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN BOOK WORKERS.
New York Nicholas T. Smith (1981) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 117 pages.
S-K 8032. First edition. Comprehensive listing of hand workers in the book arts in the United States and Canada. Cross-indexed. With lists of binders.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 4671

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Rota, Anthony. APART FROM THE TEXT.
New Castle, Delaware and Pinner, Middlesex, England Oak Knoll Press & Private Libraries Association 1998 small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 253 pages.
First edition. This book is an exploration of what the physical appearance of 19th- and 20th-century books can teach us, not only about the history of publishing but also about economic and social history and the career of authorship. It examines changes in binding styles from boards through cloth to paperbacks, noting trends in design, and studying the inception and subsequent virtual extinction of pictorial cloth bindings. It follows the evolution of the dust-jacket from simple protective wrapping to elaborate artifact. Changes in publishing practice come under review, as do the effects of two world wars on book production. Comparisons are drawn between English and American treatment of specific titles.
The intention of this book is to give insight into bibliographical matters, which will not only be of help in textual, critical, and biographical study, but above all, it will give them added pleasure as they take a book from the shelf and open it - even before they begin to read. In short, this work is about what books offer "apart from the text."
The author goes back to earlier works and as far back as the cradle of printing. He shows how economic factors influenced practice, and especially how 19th-century industrial changes and the advent of steam-power affected the natural order of composing, printing and binding of books. In actual practice, mechanization first came to presswork, binding, and then lastly to composing type. However, one will want to recognize that despite these changes, hand-printing was the most efficient technique for producing considerable quantities of books, so efficient that little of truly revolutionary change occurred between 1455 and 1955, when publishing saw the advent of filmsetting and other related wonders. Illustrated.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 63657

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Silver, Rollo THE BOSTON BOOK TRADE, 1800-1825
3 volumes. In The Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Vol. 52, Nos. 10, 11, and 12, 1948. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers.
Excellent guide to the publishers, binders, booksellers, etc. active in Boston during this period. Gives addresses at corresponding dates.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 7604

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Standard, Paul TEN YEARS OF BOOK MAKING PROGRESS AT H. WOLFF.
N.P. H. Wolff n.d. small 4to. cloth. (12) pages and two plates.
Wolff was one of the oldest binderies in the country. This is an advertising book describing the printing and binding methods available from the firm. Covers faded.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 19753

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Strauss, Victor PRINTING INDUSTRY, AN INTRODUCTION TO ITS MANY BRANCHES PROCESSES AND PRODUCTS.
New York Printing Industries of America (1967) thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 814, (2) pages.
First edition. A massive book covering all aspects of the printing industry. Includes sections on illustration and binding methods. Jacket chipped.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 8091

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Strauss, Victor PRINTING INDUSTRY, AN INTRODUCTION TO ITS MANY BRANCHES PROCESSES AND PRODUCTS.
New York Printing Industries of America (1967) thick 8vo. cloth. xvi, 814, (2) pages.
First edition. A massive book covering all aspects of the printing industry. Includes sectons on illustration and binding methods.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 34930

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(Tolstoi, Leo) Yassukovitch, Antonina. TOLSTOI IN ENGLISH 1878-1929.
New York New York Public Library 1929 large 8vo. paper wrappers. 37 pages.
Introduction by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. Front wrapper soiled. Corners bumped. Rear wrapper and pp.21-37 torn and creased. P.19 soiled.
Price: $ 18.00 other currencies Order nr. 50689

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Tomlinson, William. BOOKCLOTH, 1823-1980.
(Stockport, UK Dorothy Tomlinson 1996) 8vo. cloth. xvi, 144, (24), with 19 illustrations and 66 samples.
First edition; made up of the original sheets and samples and placed in a cloth binding similar to the original. The first and arguably the only comprehensive study of the science and history of manufacturing bookcloth. Offers "a study of early use and the rise of manufacture/ Winterbottom's dominance of the trade in Britain and America/ production methods and costs/ and the identification of qualities and designs" (subtitle). Focuses on the development and use of starch-filled bookcloth in particular, from building factories to the formation of the Winterbottom Book Cloth Company in 1891, which dominated the industry for almost a century. Examines the process of producing the various types of bookcloths in the Victoria Mills in Weaste, Salford, enhanced by illustrations of the production machinery such as starch mangles, drying cylinders and spreaders. Lists prices and costs of production. Minutely describes fifty individual qualities of cloth with details of who made them and when they were available. The real treasure of this book is the section at the end containing 36 tipped-in samples of the qualities and 30 examples of designs, which bring the processes and treatments described in the text to life in a way that words alone simply cannot. This volume compels the reader to be "aware of all the processes that cloth goes through, and the potential hazards involved in manufacturing a consistent product in a range of scores of thousands of 'effects' (grains, colours and combinations thereof)...with new eyes and more respect for the people who made them" (Bernard Middleton's Foreword, viii). Includes bibliography and extensive notes and appendices. Color portrait frontispiece of Archibald Winterbottom (1814-1884) and color portrait of George Harold Winterbottom (1860-1934), the founders of the Winterbottom Book Cloth Company (1891-1980). This book was sold for $500 when published; Oak Knoll has recently purchased the remaining copies and can offer them for considerably less.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 47781

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(Twombly Press) Bullwinkle, Benjamin B. BINDING IS THE FINISHING TOUCH.
Portland, OR The Twombly Press 1985 16mo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. (12) pages.
Limited to 150 numbered copies printed for the Amalgamated Printers Association.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 105609

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Van Der Meer, J.H. RAPPORT BETREFFENDE GEGEVENS OVER DE AMERIKAANSE GRAFISCHE INDUSTRIE VERZAMELD GEDURENDE EEN STUDIEREIS NAAR DE VERENIGDE STATEN VAN NOORD-AMERIKA [REPORT ON OBSERVATIONS ON THE AMERICAN GRAPHICS INDUSTRY GATHERED DURING A STUDY TRIP...].
Amsterdam Stichting Instituut voor Grafische Techniek 1951 small 8vo. stapled, stiff paper wrappers. 24 pages.
A report by J.H. van der Meer, who was then director of the "Institute for Graphic Technology" on new equipment, materials and processes in the U.S., including a report on the 6th Graphic Arts Exhibition in Chicago in Sept., 1950. An English-language summary is stapled to the inside of the back cover.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 50691

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Vincent, Francis A HISTORY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT UNTIL THE PRESENT TIME, CONTAINING A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST DUTCH AND SWEDISH SETTLEMENTS, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF ITS GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY.
Fifteen parts bound in one. Philadelphia John Campbell 1870 8vo. original cloth. 478 pages.
B1-1494. First edition. (Howes V-110). Labeled as Volume One, but this was all that was published. With the book-seller's ticket of Johnston & Bogia of Wilmington. Wear at spine ends and along edges.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 28352

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Vincent, Francis A HISTORY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT UNTIL THE PRESENT TIME, CONTAINING A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST DUTCH AND SWEDISH SETTLEMENTS, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF ITS GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY.
Philadelphia John Campbell 1870 8vo. later cloth. 478 pages.
B1-1494. First edition. (Howes V-110). Made up from the original 15 parts with original paper wrappers bound-in. Spine slightly faded. Delaware history through the Swedish and Dutch settlements. The author intended to continue his work to the "present time", about 1870, but no further volumes were published.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 29719

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(Wilmerding, Lucius) THE NOTABLE LIBRARY OF THE LATE LUCIUS WILMERDING.
3 volumes. New York Parke-Bernet 1950-1951 tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 187; 204; 240 pages.
Wilmerding had a collection of renaissance and other armorial and association bindings which were sold in part two of the sale. Many illustrations. With a biographical sketch of Wilmerding. Some cover soiling with edge of front wrappers spotted on volume three.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 5992

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(Wilmington) CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY RELATI NG TO THE CITY AND ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS, RULES AND REGULATIONS OF DEPARTMENTS OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT IN FORCE JANUARY 1ST,1910 AND THE ORIGINAL BOROUGH CHARTER (ANNOTATED).
Wilmington Published by Order of the Council, The Star Printing Co. 1911 thick 8vo. later cloth, red leather spine label. xiv, 1260 pages.
B1-516. With ink stamp on front pastedown indicating that this copy was "BOUND BY R.T. STUART, 16 Shipley St., Wilmington, Del.". Covers rubbed with cloth along back hinge partially split. Binding broken. Signatures detached.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 67858

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Wroth, Lawrence C. THE COLONIAL PRINTER.
Portland, ME The Southworth-Anthoensen Press 1938 tall 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt xxiv, 368 pages.
Second edition, revised, limited to 1500 copies. With chapters on the first presses, the Colonial printing house, ink, type, bookbinding, etc. With illustrations. Rubbed along hinges with small split in front hinge at top.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 5135

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Wroth, Lawrence C. THE COLONIAL PRINTER.
New York The Grolier Club 1931 tall 8vo. half cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, top edge gilt. xvii, 271, (3) pages.
First edition, limited to 300 copies (Asaf 96). Printed by D.B. Updike at his Merrymount Press. With chapters on the first presses, the Colonial printing house, ink, type, bookbinding, etc. With illustrations. Slight wear around edges and at spine ends.
Price: $ 135.00 other currencies Order nr. 19878

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