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..... READ MORE about INTERPRETIVE WOOD-ENGRAVING: THE STORY OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN WOOD-ENGRAVERS

Price: $85.00  other currencies  Order nr. 102011

(Clinker Press). Barlow Jr., William P.

ADVENTURES IN BOOK COLLECTING.

Pasadena, CA: Clinker Press, 2005. small folio. broadside. Privately designed and printed by hand by artist Andre Chaves. Printed for a talk by Barlow, with an introduction by Susan Allen. The talk took place at the University Club of Pasadena and was sponsored by the Zamorano Club. READ MORE about ADVENTURES IN BOOK COLLECTING

Price: $30.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134819

(Clinker Press). Henley, William Ernest.

ECHOES VIII.

(Tualatin, OR): The Clinker Press, n.d. broadside ( by 6 1/2 inches). A poetic work by Henley with ornaments. Right and bottom edges uncut. READ MORE about ECHOES VIII

Price: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134498

(Clinker Press). Morris, William.

FORSOOTH, BROTHERS, FELLOWSHIP IS HEAVEN.

(Pasadena, CA): Clinker Press, The, n.d. small 4to. broadside. Broadside with a quotation by Morris. Designed and printed by Andre Chaves of the Clinker Press in two colors. READ MORE about FORSOOTH, BROTHERS, FELLOWSHIP IS HEAVEN

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 137320

(Clinker Press). Morris, William.

LIFE IS A PROGRESSIVE SERIES OF EFFORTS.

(Tualatin, OR): Clinker Press, The, 2019. oblong 4to. braodside. This lovely broadside featuring a quote from William Morris is hand printed in two colors by Andre Chaves of Clinker Press. READ MORE about LIFE IS A PROGRESSIVE SERIES OF EFFORTS

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134032

(Clinker Press). Morris, William.

THERE WAS A KNIGHT.

n.p. (but Pasadena, CA): Clinker Press, The, n.d. large 4to. broadside. Privately designed and printed by hand by artist Andre Chaves. Features a poem by William Morris, the founder of the Kelmscott Press. READ MORE about THERE WAS A KNIGHT

Price: $30.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134792

(Clinker Press). Wordsworth, William.

MAN NOW PRESIDES IN POWER.

(Pasadena, CA): Clinker Press, The, n.d. 4to. broadside. Broadside with a quotation by William Wordsworth. With a decorative illustration. Designed and printed by Andre Chaves in three colors. READ MORE about MAN NOW PRESIDES IN POWER

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135690

Francis, William & Michael Hahn.

THE DUPONT HIGHWAY.

Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2009. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 128 pages. The original DuPont Highway, found on maps as Route 13 between Dover and Wilmington and as Route 113 between Dover and the southern border with Maryland, was the nationÂs first divided highway when its expansion between Dover and Wilmington was completed in 1934. It had been officially dedicated 10 years earlier as the Coleman DuPont Road. Thomas Coleman du Pont, a descendant of..... READ MORE about THE DUPONT HIGHWAY

Price: $21.99  other currencies  Order nr. 105307

(Furnivall, F.J.). Benzie, William.

DR. F. J. FURNIVALL, A VICTORIAN SCHOLAR ADVENTURER.

Oklahoma: Pilgrim Books Inc, (1983). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 302 pages. First edition. A biography of Dr. F. J. Furnivall, which traces his career as a Christian Socialist to his crucial involvement in the composition of the Oxford English Dictionary. It also covers the work of the various societies Furnivall founded and presided over, such as The Early English Text Society, and the New Shakespeare Society. Illustrated. Includes a bibliography and an index. READ MORE about DR. F. J. FURNIVALL, A VICTORIAN SCHOLAR ADVENTURER

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 55368

(Grew, Nehemiah). Lefanu, William R.

NEHEMIAH GREW, A STUDY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS WRITINGS.

Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1990. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvii, 182 pages. First edition. Nehemiah Grew was a pioneer in exploring the physiology of plants and the comparative anatomy of animals. He was an active Fellow of the Royal Society and one of its busiest officers in its first great period during the 1670s. Born in Warwickshire in 1641, he was educated at Cambridge and practiced as a physician in the City of London where..... READ MORE about NEHEMIAH GREW, A STUDY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS WRITINGS

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(Hawaii). Martin, William.

CATALOGUE D'OUVRAGES RELATIFS AUX ILES HAWAII, ESSAI DE BIBLIOGRAPHIE HAWAIIENNE.

Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing Co., (2002). 8vo. cloth. (iv), vi, (ii), 92, (2) pages. A facsimile of the original edition published in 1867, Challamel Aine, Paris, citing 650 early works on Hawaii and having the distinction of being the first bibliography on the islands listed in Besterman (2811). The author was chargé d'affaires de Hawaii for France. With a short essay after the text, chronological table, and index. READ MORE about CATALOGUE D'OUVRAGES RELATIFS AUX ILES HAWAII, ESSAI DE BIBLIOGRAPHIE HAWAIIENNE

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(Johnson, Samuel). Courtney, William Prideaux and David Nichol Smith.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SAMUEL JOHNSON WITH SUPPLEMENT with JOHNSON BIBLIOGRAPHY, A SUPPLEMENT TO COURTNEY.

By R.W. Chapman with the Collaboration of Allen T. Hazen.
New Castle: Oak Knoll Books and Gerald M. Goldberg, 1984. thick 8vo. cloth. (iv), vii-viii, v-viii, 186, 117-166 pages. By R.W. Chapman with the Collaboration of Allen T. Hazen. As any Johnsonian scholar or collector knows, Courtney and Smith's indispensable bibliography of Johnson is a hard book to find. Now it is readily available once again and in a new format which brings together, for the first time, the work of four distinguished Johnsonian bibliographers..... READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SAMUEL JOHNSON WITH SUPPLEMENT with JOHNSON BIBLIOGRAPHY, A SUPPLEMENT TO COURTNEY

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Joyce, William L., David D. Hall, and Richard D. Brown.

PRINTING AND SOCIETY IN EARLY AMERICA.

Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1983. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 322 pages. First edition. These essays have been written by leading scholars on early bookselling, reading habits and the impact of printing in early America. Printing history in its broadest context may be viewed as a distinct form of cultural history, a synthesis combining the attention to ideas that is central to intellectual history with the emphasis on patterns of behavior and organization characteristic of..... READ MORE about PRINTING AND SOCIETY IN EARLY AMERICA

Price: $37.50  other currencies  Order nr. 14220