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Arber, Edward THE TERM CATALOGUES, 1668-1709 A.D., WITH A NUMBER FOR EASTER TERM, 1711 AD., A CONTEMPORARY BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE REIGNS OF CHARLES II, JAMES II, WILLIAM AND MARY, AND ANNE.
3 volumes. London Edward Arber 1903-1906 4to. cloth. xvi,576; x,664; x,742 pages.
First edition, one of the 1000 numbered small paper copies signed by Arber. (Besterman p.2011). Edited reprint of the original catalogues which were issued by English booksellers and publishers to show what books were available to students. A wealth of information for the student of the book during this period. Covers unevenly faded and lightly marked and rubbed. Hinges solid.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 40571

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Baldwin, T.W. SHAKESPEARE'S LOVE'S LABOR'S WON, NEW EVIDENCE FROM THE ACCOUNT BOOKS OF AN ELIZABETHAN BOOKSELLER.
Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press 1957 small 4to. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. ix, 42, (2) pages.
First edition, limited to 2500 copies. The finding of this manuscript bookseller's list from the early 17th century led to the dating of Shakespeare's play. The list is reproduced in collotype. Only minor wear to jacket.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 13739

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(Basson, Govert) Bögels, T.S.J.G GOVERT BASSON, PRINTER, BOOKSELLERS, PUBLISHER, LEIDEN 1612-1630.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1992 24.5x16.5 cloth. 356 pages.
First edition. Basson takes a prominent place among the publishers and booksellers who served the Leiden academic institutions. Contains a full bibliography of publications (187 entries). With 2 portraits and 73 facsimiles of printer's devices, capitals, ornaments, etc.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 135.00 other currencies Order nr. 103276

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Bennet, Thomas Letter from T. Bennet to unnamed recipient.
N.P. n.p. n.d. (12 by 7 1/2 inches)
A letter from T. Bennet to unnamed recipient. Discusses "the suspicion that has been raised that an imprinted book of the subject of Religion" was "purloined." Bennet calls this "the most unlikely thing in the world;" there is "nothing like it at present either at the Tower or at the Chapel of the Rolls." Bennet asks his addressee to offer his opinion. Postscript states that a "messenger shall call for this paper, with your answer tomorrow abt. one of ye clock."
Thomas Bennet (1664/5-1706) was a London bookseller, Half-Moon in St. Paul's Churchyard. See Henry R. Plomer, A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, 29, and Norma Hodgson and Cyprian Blagden, The Notebook of Thomas Bennet and Henry Clemens (1686-1719), 3-6.
Lightly soiled and bent at edges.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 109435

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BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1998 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages.
VOLUME 3, NO.8, AUG., 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: W.C. Webb on the Viking Portable Library, D. Lindley on Samuel Beckett, A. Hanson on the publishing consequences of the Jack the Ripper crimes, K. Jones on the novelist Larry McMurtry as a bookseller, H. Morris (proprietor of Bird & Bull) on the printing of medals, R. Armstrong on digital facsimiles, AND MUCH MORE.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 53135

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(Bird & Bull Press) Feather, John ENGLISH BOOK PROSPECTUSES, AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
Newtown Bird & Bull Press and Minneapolis: Daedalus Press 1984 8vo. quarter morocco with tips, Dutch Gilt sides reproduced from an 18th century German decorated paper, plus 14 larger facsimiles in a separate accompanying portfolio. 109 pages.
Limited to 325 copies. The history of this important piece of publishing ephemera from its beginning in 1610 up through the 19th century and accompanied by 24 facsimile prospectuses from 2 to 10 pages in length. As the exact size was maintained, it was necessary to place 4 of the facsimiles in a separate portfolio. All but one of the prospectuses done in facsimile come from the Bodleian Library. This book is the kind of private press book that Oak Knoll likes to handle; an important new text presented in a superb format. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 165.00 other currencies Order nr. 2685

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Blagden, Cyprian "THE STATIONERS' COMPANY IN THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD."
N. P. (but Oxford) (Oxford University Press) 1958 8vo. stiff paper wrappers pp. 1-17
An article in "The Library", Fifth Series, Vol. XIII, No. 1, March 1958. Corners bumped, creasing near top corner.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 101875

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Blayney, Peter W.M. THE BOOKSHOPS IN PAUL'S CROSS CHURCHYARD.
London The Bibliographical Society 1990 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 103 pages.
Occasional Paper no.5 issued by the Society. With a number of foldout illustrations. Concerns mostly 17th century bookselling. Corner bumped.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 40348

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BOGVENNEN, AARBOG FOR BOGKUNST OG BOGHISTORIE.
Copenhagen Forening for Boghaandvaerk 1920's-1970's large 8vo. sewn, stiff paper wrappers. Various paginations (generally between 100-150 pages per volume).
Various volumes of the Danish annual, The Bibliophile, offered for sale individually. Each volume has illustrations and generally contains 4-6 articles on collections, bindings, publishing, typography, Danish books and collectors, and other book-related matters. Some have brief English-language summaries at the end. Some vols. are unopened. All have their original wrappers, which are usually soiled, chipped, worn and/or torn in some combination and degree. Backings of older issues may be damaged. Available: 1928, 1949, 1951(2), 1952(2), 1953(2), 1954, 1979. Price is per volume.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 51931

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BOGVENNEN, AARBOG FOR BOGKUNST OG BOGHISTORIE.
6 volumes. Copenhagen Forening for Boghaandvaerk 1926-1931 large 8vo. original publishers paste paper covers with paper spine labels. Various paginations (approx. 2,500 pages total).
Six years of the Danish annual The Bibliophile: vols. 15-20 (1926-1931) of the original series The Bibliophile, which began in 1893, had by the 1920's lost interest in book crafts, and deals more with collecting and bibliophile issues, becoming rather more international in outlook. In 1926, reports on Danish Book auctions are added. There is more coverage of libraries and collections/ collectors, and of current book illustration. The reports on the activities of the Association for Book Crafts (Forening...) cease. The historical and retrospective articles continue, of course. Three volumes have cracked hinges. 1928 lacks the spine covering.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 105592

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Bond, Richmond P. GROWTH & CHANGE IN THE EARLY ENGLISH PRESS.
Lawrence University of Kansas Libraries 1969 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 18, (2) pages.
The 15th Annual Public Lecture on Books and Bibliography sponsored by Kansas.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 56477

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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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(Bookbinding) Rasmussen, Holger BØGER OG BOGBINDERE I ODENSE FØR 1696.
(Odense, Denmark Carl Nielsens Bogbinderi) 1959 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards, paper spine label. 121, (3) pages
Text in Danish. Table of contents. Foreword by the author. A study of books and bookbinding in the city of Odense as of 1694. Includes chapters on the background, book collections, the social position of bookbinders and book salesmen. Black and white illustrations.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 114364

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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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Briels, J.G.C.A. ZUIDNEDERLANDSE BOEKDRUKKERS EN BOEKVERKOPERS IN DE REPUBLIEK DER VERENIGDE NEDERLANDEN OMSTREEKS 1570-1630. EEN BIJDRAGE TOT DE KENNIS VAN DE GESCHIEDENIS VAN HET BOEK.Â
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1974 24.5x16.5 cm cloth xvi, 649 pages.
This bio-bibliographical study concentrates on printers, publishers and booksellers, who originated in the Southern Netherlands and who were active in the Dutch Republic c. 1570-1630. It is largely based on archive materials and numerous new data are brought to light. By far the greater part of this book (pp. 16-554) is occupied by a bio- bibliographical Dictionary of printers, publishers, booksellers, active in the Republic of the United Netherlands c. 1570-1630. With 38 illustrations and 160 facsimiles of printer's marks.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 103307

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Burn, Jacob Henry DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE LONDON TRADERS, TAVERN, AND COFFEE-HOUSE TOKENS CURRENT IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY PRESENTED TO THE CORPORATION LIBRARY BY HENRY BENJAMIN HANBURY BEAUFOY.
London Corporation Library 1855 8vo. later cloth. xcvi, 287 pages.
Second edition. Detailed descriptions of over 1,300 tokens. With frontispiece portrait of Beaufoy and three other plates. With pencil annotations throughout. Includes information on tokens issued by booksellers, publishers and printers. Covers detatched, leather on the spine mostly worn away. Corners heavily worn.
Price: $ 70.00 other currencies Order nr. 51563

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Cruz, Laura THE PARADOX OF PROSPERITY: THE LEIDEN BOOKSELLERS' GUILD AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF BOOKS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE.
With a Foreword by Jan de Vries New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2009 6 x 9 inches hardcover, dust jacket 256 pages
First edition. In The Paradox of Prosperity, Laura Cruz explores the world of the book trades as it was constructed in Leiden in the decades after the Revolt against Spanish rule. She traces the migration of printers from the Southern Netherlands to Leiden and observes how they congregated within the city and sought contracts with the city's new university. But this is only the beginning of a multifaceted analysis of the development of a market-driven industry that eventually is organized under the protective umbrella of a guild. And this guild, in turn, is something other than the traditional guilds of medieval origins. Rather than a bulwark against market forces, the guild of the printers was an instrument to exercise market power. This book offers a fresh look at the role of an institution that is often dismissed, even in the early modern period, as a relic of an earlier time.

Leiden's book trade was unique, exhibiting a specific quality that calls for a specific explanation. Laura Cruz addresses this historical specificity, but goes a step further. Leiden publishing emerged as an industry with a European scope and with national and international competitors. Distinguishing the particular from the general and the accidental or providential from the systematic forces at play within early modern European society is an historian's duty, but one that is often neglected. Savoring the particular is often thought to be enough, indeed, to be the only real purpose of history. Laura Cruz goes further, harnessing her rich historical material to the methods of economic and social history. From this vantage point, she addresses questions that give new insights to the culture of the young Republic that are based not only on the thoughts and dreams of individuals, but also on the behavior and aspirations of groups and the constraints and opportunities presented by institutions.

Laura Cruz is an Associate Professor of History at Western Carolina University. She earned her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 2001. Her publications include multiple articles on book markets, social networking and death practices in the seventeenth-century Netherlands. She currently serves as the President of the Society for Netherlandic History and the book review editor for the journal Itinerario.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 96671

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(Doorn, Jan Evertsen van) THE CATALOGUS LIBRORUM MUSICORUM OF JAN EVERTSEN VAN DOORN (UTRECHT, 1639). WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND INDEXES BY H. VANHULST.
`t Goy-Houten HES & DE GRAAF 1996 22x15 cm stiff paper wrappers. 102 pages.
Facsimile of this 1639 bookseller catalogue. Doorn (1580 to 1585 - 1651) was a noted Dutch publisher and bookseller of musical works. Catalogi Redivivi IX.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 103278

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(Dunton, John) Parks, Stephen JOHN DUNTON AND THE ENGLISH BOOK TRADE A STUDY OF HIS CAREER WITH A CHECKLIST OF HIS PUBLICATIONS.
New York Garland Publishing 1976 8vo. cloth. x, 452 pages.
First edition. An important study of this late 17th - early 18th century bookseller and publisher. The checklist covers books written by Dunton and books published by him. Reproduced from typescript.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 2253

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Ferguson, W. Craig LOAN BOOK OF THE STATIONERS' COMPANY, WITH A LIST OF TRANSACTIONS 1592 - 1692.
London The Bibliographical Society 1989 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 42 pages.
Occasional Papers Number 4. Distributed for the Bibliographical Society.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 60382

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Ferguson, W. Craig THE LOAN BOOK OF THE STATIONERS' COMPANY, WITH A LIST OF TRANSACTIONS 1592 - 1692.
London The Bibliographical Society 1989 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 42 pages.
Occasional Papers Number 4. Covers rubbed.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 37205

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Gibson, Strickland ABSTRACTS FROM THE WILLS AND TESTAMENTARY DOCUMENTS OF BINDERS, PRINTERS, AND STATIONERS OF OXFORD FROM 1493 TO 1638.
London Bibliographical Society 1907 square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xxii, 64 pages.
S-K 7872. Part of spine covering lacking and damage along edge.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 97230

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Greg, W.W. " ENTRANCE, LICENCE, AND PUBLICATION."
(London Oxford University Press) 1944 8vo. stiff paper wrappers pp. 1-22
An article in "The Library", Fourth Series, Vol. XXV, Nos. 1,2, June, September, 1944 with thoughts on booksellers and publishers of the 16th and 17th century. Wear at extremities, with chips, tears, and creasing.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 101428

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Greg, W.W. LICENSERS FOR THE PRESS, &C. TO 1640, A BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX BASED
Oxford The Oxford Bibliographical Society 1962 8vo. cloth-backed boards. vii, 109 pages.
First edition. New Series Volume X issued by the Society. Biographical information on licensers active between 1557 and 1640.
Price: $ 28.00 other currencies Order nr. 14137

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Growoll, A. THREE CENTURIES OF ENGLISH BOOKTRADE BIBLIOGRAPHY, AN ESSAY ON THE BEGINNINGS OF BOOKTRADE BIBLIOGRAPHY SINCE THE INTRODUCTION OF PRINTING AND IN ENGLAND SINCE 1595. Also a List of the Catalogues, &c., Published for the English Booktrade from 1595-1902 by Wilberforce Eames.
New York The Dibdin Club 1903 8vo. original quarter leather, over green cloth, top edge gilt. xv, 195, (3) pages.
First edition, limited to 550 numbered copies, this copy is out of series. With illustrations, foldout plates and bibliographical descriptions. Cracked along hinges and covers close to becoming loose. .
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 38684

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