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(Bowers, Fredson) Tanselle, G. Thomas THE LIFE AND WORK OF FREDSON BOWERS.
Checklist and Chronology by Martin C. Battestin. Foreword by David L. Vander Meulen. Charlottesville, VA Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 2003 6.25 x 9.5 inches cloth. viii, 210 pages.
First edition, second printing. Widely acclaimed account of the remarkable career of Fredson Bowers, whose life (1905-1991) spanned the twentieth century and who came to symbolize the fields of analytical and descriptive bibliography, textual criticism, and scholarly editing.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 53830

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(Bowyer) Maslen, Keith and John Lancaster (editor) BOWYER LEDGERS, THE PRINTING ACCOUNTS OF WILLIAM BOWYER FATHER AND SON REPRODUCED ON MICROFICHE WITH A CHECKLIST OF BOWYER PRINTING 1699-1777, A COMMENTARY, INDEXES AND APPENDIXES.
London and New York The Bibliographical Society and The Bibliographical Society of America 1991 tall 8vo. cloth. lxxv, (1), 616, (4) pages. Accompanied by 70 microfiche enclosed in a separate box
The Bowyer ledgers, kept by William Bowyer, father and son, between 1710 and 1777, offer vast new information concerning authorship, book production and book distribution in eighteenth-century London. They are among the few surviving from this period and for London, the center of the British book trade. More than 5,000 works by some 1,000 authors were commissioned by some 500 customers, including booksellers, institutions and private gentlemen, and were produced by several hundreds of workmen. Copies were delivered to more than 1,500 persons, members of the trade or representatives of the reading public at large. The ledgers record what happened to the text as it moved through the printing house, noting paper, types, format, corrections, number printed and the like. This edition of the Bowyer ledgers presents the records themselves in photo-facsimile on microfiche, accompanied by a volume of editorial material. The microfiches reproduce the four surviving ledgers and associated papers, prefixed with detailed descriptions of the originals. Distributed for The Bibliographical Society of America. SALES RIGHTS: Available in the US from Oak Knoll Books. Available outside the US from The Bibliographical Society of America.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 44064

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(Boxing) Magriel, Paul A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOXING, A CHRONOLOGICAL CHECK LIST OF BOOKS IN ENGLISH PRINTED BEFORE 1900.
Mansfield Centre, CT Martino Publishing Co. (2002) 8vo. cloth. (vi), pages 263-288.
A reprint of the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, June 1948, volume 52, number 6. One of the rare bibliographical titles on boxing, describing three hundred early books in detail. The only book on the topic cited in Besterman (976). Illustrated with title-page facsimiles.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 70827

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(Boyle, Kay) Chambers, Clark KAY BOYLE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2001 8vo. cloth 360 pages
First edition. This is the first comprehensive bibliography on American author Kay Boyle. The political active Boyle was one of the so-called "Lost Generation" of American expatriate writers in Europe between the World Wars. She traveled in the literary circles of James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. She wrote fourteen novels, nine short-story collections, three children's books, five collections of poetry and two collections of essays. The gifted writer was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships and was a member of the American Academy of Art. The Academy recognized Boyle for her "extraordinary contribution to contemporary American literature over a lifetime of creative work." For Clark Chambers, the author of this bibliography, the challenge of researching this work has been a labor of love for more than ten years. We are proud to add it to our Winchester Bibliographies of 20th Century Writers series. Co-published with St. Paul's Bibliographies.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 64134

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(Bracaval, Bertrand) BRACAVAL ET LES ÉDITIONS LE PRÉ NIAN.
Paris, France Musée Départemental Stéphane Mallarmé 2012 8vo. self paper wrappers 53 pages
Exhibition catalogue of work by famed etcher and fine press printer Bertrand Bracaval and his press Le Pré Nian. Stéphane Mallarmé Museum celebrates Bracaval's work in painting, silkscreen, and wood and metal engraving, as well as his 30 years specializing in the publication of art books. Beautifully illustrated.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 115528

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(Bradley, Will H.) Bambace, Tony WILL H. BRADLEY: HIS WORK, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE.
Accompanied by an original copy of BRADLEY HIS BOOK. New Castle, Delaware and Boston, Massachusetts Oak Knoll Press and Thomas G. Boss Fine Books 1995 8vo. quarter leather with paste paper over boards, leather spine label. Booklet is stiff paper wrappers held in porfolio. Both inserted in a cloth-covered clamshell box. xxiii, 216 pages.
First edition. One of 44 special signed and numbered copies. Will H. Bradley (1868-1962) is widely regarded as one of the masters of design during the Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts periods. His typographic and illustrative work pushed the boundaries of these fields into new directions. In addition, his re-introduction and use of Caslon type brought it back into popularity. The guide includes 261 illustrations, including his designer's marks to help identify his pieces. The guide includes a Book Work section containing three parts: one of 81 definite books of Bradley's own execution, one listing those exhibiting the Bradley stamp but with no confirming documentation, and one listing those using his designs but were probably not produced by him. The remaining sections document magazine covers, advertisements, illustrations, posters, and other works.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 41679

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Brandt, William H. INTERPRETIVE WOOD-ENGRAVING: THE STORY OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN WOOD-ENGRAVERS
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2009 11.75 x 12.75 inches Hardcover, dust jacket 204 pages
In the late nineteenth century, wood-engraving was the principle medium of illustration employed by publishers. From this beginning, print collector Bill Brandt goes on to recount the story of the Society of American Wood-Engravers. He reveals the medium's intricacies, the controversies sparked between traditional wood-engravers and America's New School, and the international acclaim rightly bestowed on these innovative American artists.

The lost art of interpretive wood-engraving comes to life in Brandt's detailed account. Using tools the size of dental instruments, the movement's talented and resourceful men and women engraved award-winning works of art - both interpretations of famous masterpieces and striking original works. The fifty prints reproduced on these pages, scanned from Brandt's extensive collection with most produced at full size, highlight the astonishing skill and painstaking craftsmanship required of a wood-engraving artist of the golden age.

The author profiles many leading personalities on the American wood-engraving scene, including Alexander Anderson, a New York doctor who became the father of American wood-engraving; William J. Linton, a talented English wood-engraver who led the Old School's relentless but unsuccessful charge against New School engraving techniques; Anna Botsford Comstock, who created hundreds of original wood-engraved book illustrations from nature; General Rush C. Hawkins, a Civil War figure who, as U.S. Commissioner on Art, secured the prominent display of American wood-engravings at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris; Timothy Cole, who traveled through Europe creating wood-engraved interpretations of paintings by the old masters; and Elbridge Kingsley, whose revolutionary direct-from-nature wood-engravings were created in rural New England from his horse-drawn sketching car. Includes over eighty illustrations, and printed in an edition of 600 numbered books.

Brandt tells how the Society of American Wood-Engravers burned brightly for almost twenty years, and then faded away in the early days of photoreproductions. Readers, glimpsing the warm glow of a remarkable era, will take pride in this little-known period of American art history.

Bill Brandt has served on the boards of directors of the American Historical Print Collectors Society, the Northwest Print Council, and the Friends of the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts at the Portland Art Museum.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 102011

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Bridson, Gavin and James White PLANT, ANIMAL AND ANATOMICAL ILLUSTRATION IN ART AND SCIENCE.
Winchester St. Paul's Bibliographies in association with the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation 1990 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xxxvii, 450 pages.
First edition. Contains approximately 7,670 references dating from the early 16th century to the present day. There are four major sections: Nature in General, Plants, Animals, and The Human Body. Within each of these the four categories of listings are primary literature on hand created illustration methods; secondary literature on the history and criticism of natural history illustration; selected literature on the history of plant, animal, and anatomical representation in art, and primary and secondary literature on illustrative photography from the 1840s. There is also a section of Artist Biographies. The indexes include listings by title, subject, and name. Illustrated.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 28257

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Briggs, Asa. A HISTORY OF LONGMANS AND THEIR BOOKS, 1724-1990: LONGEVITY IN PUBLISHING.
New Castle, Delaware and London, England Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2008 7.5 x 9.75 inches Hardcover, dust jacket 624 pages
First edition. Longmans is the oldest commercial publisher in the United Kingdom, founded in London in 1724 by Thomas Longman. Asa Briggs's history is told within the context not only of the book trade, but also of national and international social, economic, intellectual, and cultural history. It tells of the people who ran the firm, the principles they held, and their success as entrepreneurs.

From the start, the Longmans chose titles likely to have a long life. These included Roget's Thesaurus and Gray's Anatomy, which have gone through many editions. Early nineteenth-century Longman authors included William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, and Sir Walter Scott, and by the middle of the century they had become a publishing "Leviathan." Late Victorian authors included A.Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H. Rider Haggard.

Throughout its history, the House of Longmans has published a variety of important works, covering religion, law, medicine, science, and sport and has been a major publisher of dictionaries and reference books. It has also always been renowned for its educational publishing.

In the twentieth century, it became increasingly international, with branches and subsidiary companies all over the world. Questions of how, why, and with what effectiveness are dealt with in the last chapters of this comprehensive and intriguing study.

Asa Briggs is a leading historian both of the Victorian Age and communications. He has written many books, among which are The Age of Improvement, Victorian People, Victorian Cities and Victorian Things and his magisterial four-volume history of broadcasting in the United Kingdom. Among posts he has held have been those of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex and Chancellor of the Open University.

Co-published with The British Library. Sales rights: North and South America; available elsewhere from The British Library.
Price: $ 110.00 other currencies Order nr. 96667

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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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(British Museum) Ellis, Edward F. THE BRITISH MUSEUM IN FICTION; A CHECKLIST.
Buffalo Privately printed 1981 8vo. cloth. xiv, 193, (2) pages.
First edition, one of 500 copies. This is an incredible bibliography listing fictional works in which the British Museum is mentioned. Entries are arranged alphabetically by author with an index by title. Each book is accompanied by a short statement or quote from the book as to its reference to the British Museum. Printed at The Anthoensen Press.
Price: $ 29.00 other currencies Order nr. 3509

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(Browning, Elizabeth Barrett) Wise, Thomas J. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Folkestone Dawsons of Pall Mall 1970 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 247 pages.
Reprint of the 1918 first edition. Illustrated.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 1051

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Brun, Carl SCHWEIZERISCHES KÜNSTLER-LEXIKON, HERAUSGEGEBEN MIT UNTERSTÜTZUNG DES BUNDES UND KUNSTFREUNDLICHER PRIVATER VOM SCHWEIZERISCHEN KUNSTVEREIN;
4 volumes Mansfield Centre Martino Publishing 2006 thick 8vo. half cloth over pastepaper-covered boards xvi,648; vi,711; vi,584; vi,712 pages
Complete set of this standard biographical work on Swiss artists and illustrators that was original published by Von Huber & Co. in Frauenfeld over the period 1905 to 1917. Still the standard work on Swiss Art. Scholarly entries on painters, printmakers, sculptors, and architects, as well as decorative artists from about the 14th c. through the 19th. Provides lists of works and bibliographic data for the more important figures. V.4 is a supplement containing new information gathered since the set was begun. Prints are by Swiss artists only. Selective Catalogues are provided for some printmakers but not all. Some Catalogues are extensive, and may possibly be complete. Riggs, The Print Council Index to Oeuvre-Catalogues of Prints by European and American Artists, page xxxvii-xxxviii.
Price: $ 395.00 other currencies Order nr. 93078

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Brunet, Pierre Gustave RECHERCHES SUR LES IMPRIMERIES IMAGINAIRES, CLANDESTINES ET PARTICULIERES, PUBLIEES PAR LES SOINS DE PHILOMNESTE JUNIOR.
Mansfield Centre, CT Martino Publishing Co. 2003 8vo. cloth (ii), viii, 112, (2) pages
A facsimile of the edition first published in 1879 by Gay et Douce, Bruxelles (Besterman 2272), with 500 fully annotated entries. This scholarly work is concerned with books that were given false or imaginary imprints, usually to avoid retaliation by an offended government or religious institution, or to disguise the identity and location of those attempting to pirate a legitimately published edition.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 72602

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Brun, Robert LE LIVRE ILLUSTRÉ EN FRANCE AU XVIe SIECLE.
Mansfield Centre, CT Martino Publishing 2005 large 8vo. cloth (iv), 336 pages followed by 32 plates.
Reprint of the 1930 first edition (Besterman 3010). Brun provides ten chapters followed by an annotated bibliographical catalogue of the principal books illustrated in France during the sixteenth century. Illustrated and indexed. In all, 1250 books are described. Never reprinted, this remains a difficult title to find. Includes 32 illustrations, mostly of title pages.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 87551

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Burdick, Bruce Stanley MATHEMATICAL WORKS PRINTED IN THE AMERICAS, 1554-1700
Baltimore The Johns Hopkins University Press (2009) 8vo. paper covered boards. x, (ii), 373, (3) pages.
First edition. Part of the Studies in the History of Mathematics series issued by this publisher. With a detailed, annotated bibliography of the 218 books printed in Mexico, Lima, and the English colonies of North America. Full of new discoveries.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 101012

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(Burns, Robert) Watkins, Larissa P. BURNSIANA: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WILLIAM R. SMITH COLLECTION IN THE LIBRARY OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL, 33°, S.J.
With a Foreword by Akram Elias, Grand Master of Free and Accepted Masons, Washington, D.C., Editor-in-Chief New Castle, Delaware and Washington, D.C. Oak Knoll Press & Library of the Supreme Council, 33°, S.J. 2008 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover 240 pages
First edition. Published shortly before the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns in 2009, this bibliography presents the unparalleled Burnsiana collection held by the Library of the Supreme Council of the Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction, USA, the most complete collection of Burnsiana in the United States. The William Robertson Smith Collection is the second largest compilation of Burns materials in the world, ranking only behind the collection maintained in The Mitchell Library in Glasgow, Scotland. In terms of American material about Burns, the Library of Supreme Council has the world's largest collection. The contents of this collection, compiled over a lifetime by William Robertson Smith, are available to American and international scholars, historians, literary critics and linguists.

For Masons, because both Robert Burns and William Robertson Smith were Masonic Brothers, this catalogue is meaningful as a living memorial to international Masonic fraternal and literary traditions. Because of the paucity of bibliographic literature illuminating Burns' involvement in Freemasonry, the work contains a biographic sketch entitled "Robert Burns-Freemason" written by Robert L.D. Cooper. From a historical, bibliographical, informational and aesthetic perspective, the Burnsiana catalogue has no analog among currently existing bibliographies. The catalogue is illustrated by the engravings of several generations of artists that provide an image of the Bard of Caledonia and the scenes of Scotland that he loved, and which inspired his creativity. This bibliography is a distinguished gift from the Fraternity of Freemasons in honor of the 250th anniversary of the birth of this distinguished Scottish poet and Mason, Robert Burns.

Larissa P. Watkins is Assistant to the Librarian at the Library of the Supreme Council in Washington, D.C. Educated in the Russian Federation as a journalist and librarian, she holds an honors degree in Library Science from the Cultural Sciences Institute of Higher Learning in Ussurisk, Primorskiy Krai, and was Director of Acquisition and Automation at the State Scientific Library in the Maritime Provinces in Vladivostok. In this capacity, she represented the Library administration at annual national conferences in Moscow and Leningrad. In Russia, her book The Men of Dal'zavod was written as the official history for the 100th anniversary of the Dal'zavod, the largest shipyard in the Russian Far East. In the USA, Larissa is a member of Masonic Library and Museum Association and the author of three fundamental bibliographies published by Oak Knoll Press and the Library of the Supreme Council: American Masonic Periodicals: 1811-2001; International Masonic Periodicals: 1738-2005; and Our Very Illustrious Brother, Abraham Lincoln.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 96673

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(Burton, Sir Richard F.) Penzer, Norman M. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON
Mansfield Maurizio Martino Publisher n.d. (circa 1997) 8vo. cloth. xvi, 351 pages.
Facsimile reprint of the 1923 edition. Limited to 250 copies. Preface by F. Grenfell Baker. The definitive bibliography of Burton with appendices on the Burton library, the "lives" of Burton, and the life of Albert Letchford. 24 illustrations.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 52715

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(Cabell, James Branch) Bruccoli, Matthew J. JAMES BRANCH CABELL, A BIBLIOGRAPHY. PART II. NOTES ON THE CABELL COLLECTIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
Charlottesville The University of Virginia Press 1957 8vo. unbound sheets stapled. 178 pages.
Complete study in itself. Name in ink on front cover.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 16123

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Cagle, William R. and Lisa Killion Stafford. AMERICAN BOOKS ON FOOD AND DRINK, 1739-1950.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 1998 8vo. cloth. 862 pages.
First edition. This comprehensive bibliography describes the American cookbooks in the Gernon Collection housed at the Lilly Library. AMERICAN BOOKS and its British/European counterpart, A MATTER OF TASTE, fully describe over 2,300 works in gastronomic literature and are testaments to the collecting achievements of Dr. and Mrs. John Talbot Gernon. The collection was donated to the Lilly Library in 1979 by Dr. and Mrs. Gernon, and their European collection of cookbooks were added in 1984. A MATTER OF TASTE, which describes the collection's British and European works, was published in 1990. The Gernon Collection also includes books on agriculture and gardening, brewing, distilling and wine-making, health and diet, household management, and the operation of restaurants and hotels. Famous American cookbooks include a first edition of Amelia Simmons' AMERICAN COOKERY (1796), a second edition of Mary Randolph's THE VIRGINIA HOUSEWIFE (1825), Robert Roberts' THE HOUSE SERVANT'S DIRECTORY (1827), the first book by an African-American to be commercially published; and Eliza Leslie's SEVENTY-FIVE RECEIPTS FOR PASTRY, CAKES, AND SWEETMEATS (1828) among many others. The publication of A MATTER OF TASTE marked a closure for Dr. Gernon regarding British and European cookbooks, but it encouraged his interest in American books, which he continued to purchase and donate to the Library until his declining health took its toll. His last gift was the first edition of Elizabeth Kirkland's SIX LITTLE COOKS (1877) in May 1993. However, the Lilly Library has been able to add over 300 more American works since the Gernon collection first arrived. In addition to rare and famous cookbooks, the collection's depth and breadth are also of great importance. Many 19th-century popular works are represented in multiple editions, providing bibliographers and culinary historians with publishing histories of these books. Since the collection documents many aspects of culinary customs and traditions, it also provides a social history of the United States. Books on food and drink from the 18th and early 19th centuries and the early years of this country originated mostly from America or Britain. European cooking, including German, Swedish, Czech, and Polish, was only introduced after 1840 when upheavals overseas brought these new cultures into American society. Regional tastes, such as New England, Southern and, Southwestern, are also represented. Illustrated.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 52922

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"A MONUMENTAL WORK!"

Cagle, William R. A MATTER OF TASTE.
New Castle Oak Knoll Press 1999 tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 1205 pages.
Revised from the first edition, which was published in 1990 in only 150 copies. This revised edition includes numerous new illustrations. This work is an expanded and revised bibliography of the British and Continental component of the Lilly Library's Gernon Collection of Books on Food and Drink, located at Indiana University. A MATTER OF TASTE is the companion volume to AMERICAN BOOKS ON FOOD AND DRINK. This volume also includes culinary works of Canada, India, Japan, Mexico, and the Philippines. This work is a must have for all gastronomic and culinary historians and collectors as it contains full bibliographical information in addition to annotations and notes. A MATTER OF TASTE also features more than 200 line engravings of 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century dinner scenes, title pages, and frontispieces from important culinary works.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 53908

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(Calligraphy) Gourdie, Tom. CALLIGRAPHY FOR THE BEGINNER.
New York Taplinger Publishing Company (1979) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 60 pages.
A basic practical manual for those who have never tried this art before.
Price: $ 5.95 other currencies Order nr. 23230

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(Calligraphy) Henning, William E. AN ELEGANT HAND, THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICAN PENMANSHIP & CALLIGRAPHY.
Edited by Paul Melzer New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2006 4to. cloth, dust jacket 320 pages
This work chronicles the history of the Golden Age of American penmanship and calligraphy. The author guides the reader through the lives and careers of some of the most important American penmen, including Platt Rogers Spencer, the Father of American Handwriting, and Spencer's gifted student, George A. Gaskell, whose books and periodicals reached hundreds of thousands of students throughout the second half of the 1800s. Paul Melzer, the editor of this work, added more than 400 examples taken from original specimens to handsomely illustrate Henning's manuscript.
Price: $ 59.95 other currencies Order nr. 68991

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(Calligraphy) Knight, Stan HISTORICAL SCRIPTS FROM CLASSICAL TIMES TO THE RENAISSANCE.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press and John Neal, Bookseller 1998 4to. hardcover, dust jacket 112 pages.
Reprint with minor corrections of second edition. The craft of calligraphy has a 2000-year history in the Western world. Up to the time of the Renaissance, calligraphy was the only means of preserving literature, and so, it played a vital role in the spread of learning, culture, and religion. Historical scripts were not rigidly-fixed "styles;" they represented the high peaks in an endlessly shifting landscape. Throughout centuries, styles of writing were continually being modified and developed in response to a multitude of influences encompassing political, religious, aesthetic, intellectual, sociological, and pragmatic changes in the ways that books were made and scripts were written. The modern calligrapher, typographer, historian, and anyone interested in western lettering and documents benefits from studying the methods, skills, and attitudes of generations of historical scribes who produced such outstanding and accomplished works for so many centuries.
Revised and expanded, this book is an excellent survey of bookhands with its full-page, enlarged illustrations and solidly researched sources. It is a useful text for studying the history of manuscripts as well as the details of letter construction. This work also helps one make judgments about the technical condition of letter writing and its qualities of rhythm and movement, possible only when consulting an original manuscript. The author has gone to considerable lengths to obtain photographs that are well-focused and lit so that the tactile qualities of surfaces, ink tone, and flow are revealed. The author has chosen examples of formal writing that show a coherent and reasonably consistent relationship between methods of tool use and letter formation, making the construction of a script much easier to grasp in practice. He has also made the effort of selecting writing without idiosyncrasies of style.
Price: $ 39.95 other currencies Order nr. 52752

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(cANADA) Hugolin, R.P. NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES POUR SERVIR À L'HISTOIRE DES RÉCOLLETS DU CANADA.
Mansfield Centre Martino Publishing 2006 square 8vo. cloth. 208 total pages.
Reprint of the first edition published in Montreal during 1932-1933. Four parts bound in one. The Récollets (Recollects) were a French branch of the Franciscans (Latin: Ordo Fratrum Minorum), first established in France about 1570. The French Récollets had 11 provinces with 2534 cloisters by the late 18th century. The order was suppressed during the French Revolution.
The Récollets were important as missionaries to the French colonies in Canada, although they were displaced there by the Jesuits. The first Récollet missionaries arrived at Quebec City, from Rouen on June 2, 1615. The Récollet fathers are said to have brewed the first beer in New France in 1620. They left New France in 1629 but returned in 1670. After the British conquest, the order was prohibited from recruiting new members. The last Canadian Récollet Brother Louis died in 1848 at Quebec City. Includes bibliographies of these famous French missionaries and/or explorers. Includes Viel, Nicolas, d. 1625; Pelletier, Didace, 1657-1699;
Viel, Nicolas, m. 1625; Didace, frère, O.F.M. Réc., 1657-1699; Hennepin, Louis, 1626-1705?
Price: $ 70.00 other currencies Order nr. 93665

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