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Adams, Thomas R. NON-CARTOGRAPHICAL MARITIME WORKS PUBLISHED BY MOUNT AND PAGE, A PRELIMINARY HANDLIST.
London The Bibliographical Society 1985 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xiv, 54 pages.
Study of this English publisher and their productions from the 17th century to the later part of the 18th century. Distributed for the Bibliographical Society.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 60379

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(Alembic Press) A TALE OF TWO BENCHES.
Marcham Alembic Press 2000 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. 19, (3) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 120 numbered copies. A reprint of a chapter from Robert Gibbings' book "Till I End my Song," along with his original wood engraving. Included is an introduction describing how Gibbings came to be in Marcham, a history of the Pointer family and Simon Brett's engraving of one of Bill Pointer's benches, who to this day still lives in Marcham and makes benches.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 60842

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(Allingham, William) Lasner, Mark Samuels WILLIAM ALLINGHAM, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDY.
Philadelphia Holmes Publishing Co. 1993 8vo. unbound signatures. 88 pages.
First edition, a set of unbound signatures. This book is the revised and illustrated bibliographical study of this English poet and man of letters. Included is a lengthy introductory comment on Allingham and his works, along with full collations of his first editions, a section of illustrations, and an index. Distributed for Holmes Publishing Co.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 54057

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Alston, R.C. HANDLIST OF LIBRARY CATALOGUES AND LISTS OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH LIBRARY DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS.
London The Bibliographical Society 1991 4to. stiff paper wrappers. iv, 87 pages.
Occasional Papers No.6. A handlist of this collection, with dates and a short description of the contents of each entry. Combined author/subject index. Distributed for the Bibliographical Society.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 60383

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Andersen, Jennifer and Elizabeth Sauer (editors) BOOKS AND READERS IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND, MATERIAL STUDIES.
With an Afterword by Stephen Orgel. Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press (2002) 8vo. cloth. vi, 305 pages.
First edition. Divided into major sections: Social Contexts for Writing (4 chapters); Traces of Reading: Margins, Libraries, Prefaces, and Bindings (4 chapters); and Print, Publishing, and Public Opinion (5 chapters). Illustrated.
Price: $ 59.95 other currencies Order nr. 90372

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(Angling) Manley, J.J. LITERATURE OF SEA & RIVER FISHING.
(Mansfield Centre Martino Publishing 2001) 8vo. cloth vi, (ii), 160 pages
Facsimile reprint of edition first printed in London by William Clowes in 1883. (Besterman 2206). A scarce title, this bibliography of sea and river fishing describes 500 works with some discussion of each title. Divided into chapters which include The Bibliography of Fishing Literature-Catalogues etc.; Authors on the Sea and River Fishing before the Introduction of Printing; Authors on the Sea and River Fishing from the Introduction of Printing into England; Izaak Walton-His Literary Contemporaries and Successors to the End of the Century XVII; Authors on Fish and Fishing in Century XVIII; Authors on Fish and Fishing in Century XIX; and The Periodical Literature of Sea and River Fishing, the book also outlines the history of the literature of the subject.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 69596

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(Angling) Wood, Arnold BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE COMPLETE ANGLER OF IZAAK WALTON AND CHARLES COTTON, BEING A CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED LIST OF THE SEVERAL EDITIONS AND REPRINTS, FROM THE FIRST EDITION MDCLIII UNTIL THE YEAR MCM.
Mansfield Centre Martino Publishing Co. (2001) 8vo. cloth. (vi), 204, (2) pages.
Facsimile edition of a volume originally published in New York in 1900 by Charles Scribner. (Besterman 6481; Coigney 384). Annotated descriptions of 140 editions with 86 of the title pages reproduced. The engraved title page was executed by E.D. French.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 70344

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Arber, Edward (editor) A TRANSCRIPT OF THE REGISTERS OF THE COMPANY OF STATIONERS OF LONDON; 1554-1640, A.D.
5 volumes bound in 3. Mansfield Centre, MA Martino Publishing 2007 8vo. and 4to. cloth. approximately 3100 pages.
Reprint of the first edition published in Birmingham during the period 1875-1894. The Stationers' Company has in its possession copyright registers from 1554 to 1842. The entries up to 1640 have been published in A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1660 ed. E Arber The Stationers' Company, which was founded in the fifteenth century to protect and regulate the London book trade, contains Court Book registers, records of the English Stock Company, and pension and apprentice register books, as well as "Entry Books of Copies." The Entry Books are of especial interest to scholars, since they record the names of authors and titles of books presented to the Company for printing.
Price: $ 395.00 other currencies Order nr. 94371

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Arbois de Jubainville, Henri D. ESSAI D`UN CATALOGUE DE LA LITTÉRATURE ÉPIQUE DE L`IRLANDE. PRÉCÉDÉ D`UNE ÉTUDE SUR LES MANUSCRITS EN LANGUE IRLANDAISE CONSERVÉS DANS LES ISLES BRITANNIQUES ET SUR LE CONTINENT.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1969 21.7x14 cm cloth clvi, 282 pages.
Reprint of the 1883 first edition which was published in Paris.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 103472

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(Architecture) Donovan, Shannon L. BRITISH ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE, FROM RECULVER ABBEY TO S. MARY-LE-STRAND.
N.P. Chapin Library 1994 oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 53+(1) pages.
Limited to 500 copies. Illustrated exhibition catalogue.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 42188

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(Architecture) Donovan, Shannon L. BRITISH ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE, FROM RECULVER ABBEY TO S. MARY-LE-STRAND.
N.P. Chapin Library 1994 oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 53+(1) pages.
Limited to 500 copies. Designed by Wayne Hammond. Illustrated exhibition catalogue with historical introduction followed by the catalogue with descriptions of 16 books.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 58054

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(Architecture) Middletown, Robin THE MARK J. MILLARD ARCHITECTURAL COLLECTION, VOL. II, BRITISH BOOKS.
Washington National Gallery of Art / New York: G. Braziller 1998 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xv, 392 pages.
First edition. catalogue of ninety-seven British books, many of them folios, on architecture from the 17th into the 19th centuries, all in the Millard Collection at the National Gallery of Art. Covers seventy-seven architects and one firm (Hepplewhite). Includes important English translations of non-English architects (Palladio et al.), and a few non-architectural items. Each numbered entry is actually an article, providing bibliographic and physical descriptions, references, provenance where applicable, and also a discussion of the architect, the architecture, and the publication of the book, along with short bibliographies. There are many black-and-white reproductions of drawings and engravings, and several color illustrations. Front of dust jack and endpapers are decorated with reproductions of engravings. Indexes.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 51974

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(Argentine, John) Rhodes, Dennis E. JOHN ARGENTINE, PROVOST OF KING`S (C.1442-1508). HIS LIFE AND HIS LIBRARY.
Amsterdam HES & DE GRAAF 1967 8vo boards 40 pages.
First edition. With 5 plates. A short study of John Argentine, provost of King's College, Cambridge, in the early 16th century, including a catalogue of his library and a transcription of his poems.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 37.50 other currencies Order nr. 103287

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(Austen, Jane) Roth, Barry ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JANE AUSTEN STUDIES, 1973-83.
Charlottesville Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (1985) 8vo. cloth. xxi, 359 pages.
Annotated entries for all books, essays, articles, doctoral dissertations of Austen, and critical matter appended to every edition of her works in England and in selected translations for this twenty-year period.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 53837

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(Bates, H.E.) Eads, Peter H.E. BATES: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDY.
New Castle and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2007 6 x 9 inches hardcover 240 pages
Reprint of the first edition. Back in print! As a schoolboy, H.E. Bates (1905-74) decided to devote his life to writing and at the age of twenty-one published his first novel. Thereafter he wrote steadily: short stories, novels and journal articles on gardening and country matters. His collections of essays were illustrated by leading contemporary wood engravers, including Agnes Miller Parker and John Nash. During World War Two, as "Flying Officer X," H.E. Bates' writings on the exploits of RAF pilots and other members of the Air Force were phenomenally successful in the UK and USA. The novel, Fair Stood the Wind for France published in 1943, was an immediate success; and again in 1958, The Darling Buds of May, the first of four novels about the Larkins family, was a bestseller. Peter Eads gives full details of first editions of all Bates' work and adds comments from reviews and the writer's autobiography. Short stories, poems, essays and articles are listed chronologically, with full details of the journals and collections in which they were published. Co-published with The British Library.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 94209

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Batterham, David AMONG BOOKSELLERS: TALES TOLD IN LETTERS TO HOWARD HODGKIN
York Stone Trough Books 2011 5.25 x 8.75 inches paperback 118 pages
First edition. For over thirty-five years bookseller David Batterham has been going on book buying trips abroad and describing his journeys in letters written to artist Howard Hodgkin. This book contains the letters he wrote that reveal his traveling adventures and his buying interest and history. The visitable bookseller, a fast disappearing breed, is immortalized in this text. Lighthearted, entertaining, and charming, this book is intended to amuse rather than instruct.

Travelling around France, Spain, Portugal, America, Denmark, Holland, and Finland, Batterham wrote letters to Hodgkin to keep himself occupied since he mostly traveled on his own. The letters presented in this book begin in August 1970 and continue until January 2006. Describing his daily activities, conversations he had with acquaintances along the way, his plans for seeing new shops and buying books, and much more, the letters encompass Batterham's entire travelling and book-buying experience. He wrote mostly during the evenings when book shops were closed, many times in a local café with a drink in hand. As he states, his mission was to collect books that "one can enjoy without having to read," including trade catalogues, fashion magazines, and other illustrated journals, typography, political caricatures, and architectural pattern books. As he didn't have a shop, he worked on the theory that if he only bought things he liked himself, he would eventually find enough catalogue customers who shared his tastes.

Filled with humorous and fun tales of the life of a bookseller, this book is an enjoyable and delightful read. "An extraordinary portrait of the strange, eccentric world of dealing and collecting, with its chance encounters, its crazed characters, its obsessions and its loneliness." -Margaret Drabble.

"For thirty five years bookseller David Batterham has been making buying trips abroad and describing his adventures in letters to artist Howard Hodgkin. He was looking for trade catalogues , fashion magazines and other illustrated journals but his colleagues interest him almost as much, seen in their homes and shops. The visitable bookseller, a vanishing breed, is here immortalised" Publishers blurb.
Part diary, part memoir, some anecdotes and reflections; intended to amuse rather than inform! Designed by typographer George Ramsden with cover from a painting by Howard Hodgkin - an elegant little bedside book or stocking filler .
"completely fascinating and totally enjoyable" Howard Hodgkin
"...a gallery of eccentrics with Batterham himself the most notable, drunk, often penniless... ...lucky Hodgkin to have received these letters " Alan Bennett in London Review of Books
"An extraordinary picture of the strange eccentric world of dealers with its chance encounters, crazed characters, its obsessions and its loneliness" Margaret Drabble
"wonderfully redolent, skirting Chatwin Country in favour of Simenon's Maigret" William Feaver
"beguiling. I couldn't put it down" Simon Hoggart in the Guardian
"It's addictive!" James Fergusson (he also chose it as one of his "books of the year " in TLS)
"this book is a cracking read!" Amazon reader's review
"the funniest book I have read in years" Richard Burton
"a considerable prose stylist who has cleverly hit on the perfect vehicle for his absurdist or farcical take on the world. The book is a delight" Christopher Reid
Price: $ 17.50 other currencies Order nr. 108660

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(Beardsley, Aubrey) Lasner, Mark Samuels A SELECTIVE CHECKLIST OF THE PUBLISHED WORK OF AUBREY BEARDSLEY.
Boston Thomas G. Boss Fine Books 1995 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 128 pages.
First edition. Well printed by the Stinehour Press. A new Beardsley reference book which "resolves longstanding ambiguities, corrects oft-repeated errors, and provides a wealth of new information." 224 items described in detail and well indexed. Includes a section on Beardsley forgeries.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 59788

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(Beckford, William) Chapman, Guy A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BECKFORD OF FONTHILL.
(Mansfield Centre, CT Martino Publishing 2001) 8vo. cloth. xxii, 127+(1) pages
Reprint of the first edition which was limited to 500 copies and was published in London and New York in 1930. (Besterman 702). This extremely detailed and thorough bibliography was written in conjunction with John Hodgkin. Beckford, a strange and erratic dilettante who never truly realized his potential, is chiefly remembered for the Gothic romance, Vathek.
Price: $ 70.00 other currencies Order nr. 64512

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(Beckford, William) Millington, Jon. WILLIAM BECKFORD: A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
London The Beckford Soceity 2008 6 x 9 inches cloth, dust jacket 414 pages
First edition. William Beckford (1760-1844) is remembered as the author of Vathek and the creator of one of the most significant buildings of the Gothic Revival, Fonthill Abbey. He was a man of many facets: art collector, bibliophile, traveller, builder, and landscape gardener. Sensing his destiny, just before his coming of age celebrations, Beckford wrote, "I fear I shall never be half so sapient, not good for anything in this world, but composing airs, building towers, forming gardens, collecting old Japan, and writing a journey to China or the moon."

This volume provides an annotated listing of all known publications, scholarly writings, traceable contemporary reviews, and published works related to the life and achievements of patron and collector, William Beckford. It also follows his numerous and diverse appearances in periodic literature, providing an essential reference tool for cross-disciplinary studies of Beckford. This bibliographic collection includes over 5,000 references to material published before 2006.

Serious interest in William Beckford has developed dramatically since the first exhibitions devoted to him (British Museum and Yale University Library) almost fifty years ago. He is now widely appreciated and studied not only for Vathek, which has been published in some 165 editions and in twenty languages since the first unauthorized edition in 1786, but also for his significant contributions to the history of collecting, artistic patronage, landscape gardening, architecture, and music.

Among the areas covered are contemporary accounts of and references to the long and troubled building of his legendary edifice, Fonthill Abbey. There is also a section dealing with the creation and history of Lansdown Tower, located in close proximity to his final residence in Bath. The bibliography includes references to the Beckford family, particularly Alderman William Beckford, Lord Mayor of London, and Beckford's circle of friends and contemporaries.

William Beckford: A Bibliography is the result of over thirty years of research executed by Jon Millington, the founding editor of The Beckford Journal, and a Beckford scholar.

Distributed for the Beckford Society.
Price: $ 100.00 other currencies Order nr. 99735

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Bennett, Stuart THE PERFECT VISIT.
(Northampton, MA) Longbourn Press (2011) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers (ii), 343+(1) pages
The Perfect Visit tells the story of two bibliophiles who go back in time to rescue lost books and manuscripts. Vanessa Horwood decides on Regency England; Ned Marston goes to Shakespeare's.

The novel takes its title from Jane Austen's Emma: "it was a delightful visit -- perfect, in being much too short." This is what Vanessa and Ned plan for. Then things go wrong and their sojourns become longer and more dangerous than either had ever imagined.

Vanessa falls foul of the law, transported from Jane Austen's genteel world to the dark underbelly of a Regency prison. 1607 London shows an equally black side to Ned when he antagonizes one of Shakespeare's rivals, escaping with his life only to find that an accident of time takes him only halfway home.

First edition.
Price: $ 14.95 other currencies Order nr. 115100

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(Bewick, Thomas) Tattersfield, Nigel THOMAS BEWICK, THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATIVE WORK
3 volumes. New Castle, Delaware and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2011 7.5 x 10.75 inches Hardcover, slipcase 1580 pages
Thomas Bewick can be called one of the best English exponents of wood engraving. Born in 1753, he grew up on a small farm, where his chores came second to his interest in the countryside, fishing, and watching birds and animals. These early passions set the stage for his future endeavors.

His early work of cutting soft wood for woodcuts eventually turned into fine detailed designs into hard wood. Beginning in the late 1700s onwards, Thomas illustrated many children's books with one of his most famous books, The History of British Birds. The book contained bird engravings and wood cuts and was an immediate success. Other major publications that helped solidify Bewick's success include The Chillingham Bull, Waiting for Death, A General History of Quadrupeds, and The Fables of Aesop and Others.

Bewick's celebrated histories of quadrupeds and birds of 1790, 1797, and 1804 have obscured the immense number of other books of all denominations illustrated in his modest workshop. From its inception in 1765 until its demise in 1849, the workshop provided illustrations to books, pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers. The range of illustrations encompassed natural histories, children's storybooks, cookery books, religious tracts, spelling books, mathematical treatises, Bibles, agricultural manuals, local town and county histories, joke books, and even a book of sermons.

Generously illustrated and arranged alphabetically, this book details some 750 titles, over 450 of which are unrecorded in earlier bibliographies. In addition it provides sections on newspaper mastheads, book cover designs, copy-book covers, maps, and large single prints. Whether appealing to the Bewick aficionado, book historian, art historian, provincial printing enthusiast, or admirer of engraving on wood or copper, this will be an indispensable work.

Nigel Tattersfield is the author of Bookplates by Beilby and Bewick, published by Oak Knoll Press and The British Library and John Bewick: Engraver on Wood, published by Oak Knoll Press.

Available outside North and South America from The British Library.
Price: $ 265.00 other currencies Order nr. 102274

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BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1998 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages.
VOLUME 3, NO.12, DEC., 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: J. Fawcett on Thomas Malthus, A.S. Earle on 19th-century illustrated flower books, N.H. Marshall on Clement Moore, and R. Armstrong on the "state of the art book." ALSO: M. Atwood discusses storytelling (excerpt), B. Strubble takes a bibliophile tour of England, and the Bill Gates Library Foundation commits $200 million over the next 5 years to give libraries access to the latest computer technology. AND MORE.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 53715

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(Bird & Bull Press) Atkyns, Richards and William Caslon A PAIR ON PRINTING.
Introductions by Carey S. Bliss. North Hills Bird & Bull Press 1982 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. 141 pages.
One of 500 copies. This is the first reprinting in facsimile of two important first books on printing in English. The first is Atkyns' The Original and Growth of Printing(1664) which is the first book devoted to the subject of printing; the second is William Caslon's first type specimen book, also the first English type specimen book. Carey Bliss, the curator of rare books at the Huntington Library, has written introductions for both books.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 1353

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Black, Michael A SHORT HISTORY OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
(Cambridge) Cambridge University Press (2000) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers viii, 84 pages
Revised second edition. This short, illustrated account of the world's oldest publishing house emphasizes the constitutional basis of the Press as an essential part of its parent university from the publication of the Press's first book in 1584 through to the present day. It highlights key moments of crisis and change including Richard Bentley's revival in the 1690s, the Victorian renaissance, the rise of modern university publishing, two world wars, the crisis of the 1970s which was resolved by Geoffrey Cass' bold reconstruction and the enterprising printing and publishing developments of the 1990s. Illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs.
Price: $ 17.95 other currencies Order nr. 62796

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(Blake, William) Bentley, G.E. BLAKE BOOKS, ANNOTATED CATALOGUES OF WILLIAM BLAKE'S WRITINGS IN ILLUMINATED PRINTING, IN CONVENTIONAL TYPOGRAPHY AND IN MANUSCRIPT AND REPRINTS THEREOF, REPRODUCTIONS OF HIS DESIGNS, BOOKS WITH HIS ENGRAVINGS, CATALOGUES, BOOKS HE OWNED AND SCHOLARLY AND CRITICAL WORKS ABOUT HIM.
(Mansfield Centre Martino Publishing 2000) thick small 4to. cloth. xii, 1079 pages.
Reprint of the 1977 revised and expanded second edition published at the Clarendon Press. This huge work is three times the length of the original. Includes the new preface and postscript by Bentley. Published by Arrangement with OUP.
Price: $ 81.00 other currencies Order nr. 60439

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