New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2022. 7 x 10 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 360 pages. "The book is thoroughly researched, making available a wealth of new information, and is well produced and illustrated... both Yale Libraries and the author are to be congratulated on the provision within a single volume of a history extending over 366 years of one of America's finest libraries." - Stephen Clarke, The Book Collector, Volume 72 No. 4 "The.....

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2021. 7 x 10 inches. cloth with dust jacket. xii, 540 pages. First edition, third printing with corrections. Books About Books Book of the Year Award winner, 2023 "From the get-go, two things are obvious: one, Reid Byers has done his research, and two, Reid Byers loves books and having books in the home... the book is never a dry read. Its contents are sliced and chunked so nicely.....

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Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2023. 10 x 7 in. hardcover, sewn, dust jacket. 224 pages. Foreword by Sidney E. Berger 92 full-color images. When one sees a book covered in a particular paper, the question often arises: Who made that paper? This book helps us recognize certain kinds of marbled-paper decoration created by Edward Webster Morris (1842-1919), an Oxford printer. Morris was adept at the art of marbling, and, as Isaac shows, his.....

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Athens, Greece: AdVenture SA, 2023. 24.5 x 17.5 cm. cloth. 255 pages. Select papers of the 4th International Scientific Conference of the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation. "... a more than welcome addition to the study of travel literature, especially in relation to the history and culture of Cyprus over the centuries. The whole package is enticing... and all the contributions are of high quality." - Konstantinos Chryssogelos, Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Vol.....

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Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2021. 6.125 x 9.25 inches. cloth with dust jacket. xiii, 367 pages. "Books in My Life is a testament to an important scholarly career and a life well lived in the republic of books, but it also advocates for the book as a physical object that reveals so much about our shared past, as well as the joy of acquiring, accumulating, organizing, and studying them." - Geoffrey.....

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Berkeley, CA: CODEX Foundation, The, 2021. 6.75 x 8.5 inches. Smythe sewn, Letterpress printed wrapper. 120 pages. This issue features: - An Interview With In Cahoots Director Macy Chadwick. - Mastery and Making: craft in support of concept the third stream, with essays by Veronika Schäpers, Russell Maret, Tobias Lange, and Didier Mutel [Transcripts from the talks at the CODEX Effect Symposium panel] - Excavation, Metamorphosis, and Eternity: Artists as Global Ambassadors of the Book.....

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