London: Pharmaceutical Press, (1968). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 167 pages. First edition. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Covers rubbed. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PHARMACEUTICAL REFERENCE LITERATURE
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 100232
![PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS. ABRIDGMENTS OF SPECIFICATIONS. [ILLUSTRATED SERIES.] CLASS 101. PRINTING...](/pictures/thumb/098447.jpg?v=1412267291)
London: Patent Office, 1905. thick tall 8vo. cloth. xvii, 229;. Bound with six following items. Ex Blackburn Public Library with their stamps. ___. 1904. ___, Period A.D. 1867-76. London, Commissioners of Patents. xvi, 208 pages. bound with the preceding item. Ex Blackburn Public Library with their stamps. ___. 1893. ___, Period A.D. 1877-83. London, Patent Office Sale Branch. xiv, 170 pages. bound with the preceding two items. Ex Blackburn Public Library with their stamps. ___..... READ MORE about PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS. ABRIDGMENTS OF SPECIFICATIONS. [ILLUSTRATED SERIES.] CLASS 101. PRINTING...
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 98447
Images of the Agricultural Landscape in England, 1780-1890
New Haven: Yale University Press, (1994). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 219+(1) pages. Images of the Agricultural Landscape in England, 1780-1890. This book discusses the ideological uses of agricultural imagery during this period, exploring how and why the myth of rural contentment was perpetuated by these images and how images contrast with actual features of nineteenth-century rural life. Many black-and-white and color images. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about TOIL AND PLENTY
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 98989
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1951. 8vo. cloth. xi, 239 pages. First edition. Includes sections on library facilities and kinds of geologic literature. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Label on spine and embossed library stamp on title page, card pocket removed from rear pastedown. READ MORE about GUIDE TO GEOLOGIC LITERATURE
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 100172
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. 4to. cloth. xxxv, 343 pages. Fourth edition. Issued after Pennell's death and containing his various introductions to the different editions and a new introduction to this edition by Elizabeth Pennell. Filled with illustrations. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Covers soiled. READ MORE about ETCHERS AND ETCHING, CHAPTERS IN THE HISTORY OF THE ART TOGETHER WITH TECHNICAL EXPLANATIONS OF...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 30804
2004. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. pp.248-265. An article in Print Quarterly, Volume XXI, Number 3, September 2004. Illustrated. READ MORE about " JOSEPH PENNELL AND THE ART OF TRANSFER LITHGRAPHY."
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 107363
Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1957. thick 8vo. cloth. xxx, 826 pages. Second edition. 9198 items listed. Some rubbing and slightly shaken. Name in ink. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PENNSYLVANIA HISTORY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 7315
1969. 4to. later pamphlet binder. pp.2534-292. Removed from the Penrose Annual, Vol. 62, 1969. With the ink signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about A CHECKLIST OF PENROSE ARTICLES 1895-1968
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 100083
Reading: University of Reading, 1993. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 64 pages. Ninth Annual Seminar devoted to the British Book Trade Index. Includes papers by Twyman, Hunnisett, Foot, Isaac and others. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about ILLUSTRATION PROCESSES AND BINDING IN THE PROVINCES: ASPECTS OF THE PROVINCIAL BOOK TRADE IN...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 98183
London: Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1911. 8vo. printed linen wrappers. 560 pages. Tenth edition. Catalogue of the library of the society which was founded in 1843. Includes rules of the library. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN, IN LONDON
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 98550
1991. 8vo. later pamphlet binder. pp.99-169. Removed from Allionia 30. A bibliography of 857 works. Inscribed by the author. With the ink signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about ITALIAN LICHENOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY: 1568-1989
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 100067
London: Private Library Association, (1969). 8vo. cloth. 160 pages. Limited to 1000 copies. Includes a list of his publications. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Also has the bookplate of Piroze K. Randeria. Minor cover rubbing. READ MORE about JOHN PITTS, BALLAD PRINTER OF SEVEN DIALS, LONDON 1765-1844
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 98186
Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Bibliophiles, 1995. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 43, (3) pages. Limited to 200 copies. With report of the Chairman, the constitution and a list of member, and a summary of the meetings. READ MORE about THE PITTSBURGH BIBLIOPHILES, MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY AND REPORT (1987-1995
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 98677
Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Bibliophiles, n.d. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 37, (3) pages. Limited to 250copies. Designed by Jack W. Stauffacher. With report of the Chairman, the constitution and a list of member, and a summary of the meetings. READ MORE about PITTSBURGH BIBLIOPHILES, REPORT FOR 1982-1986
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 98676
New Castle, DE and Kidlington, England: Plough Press, 1993. 8vo. cloth, leather spine label. 96 pages with six tipped-in handmade facsimile samples of cloth bindings and 31 other illustrations in black and white. Limited to 180 numbered copies of which this is one of the 125 cloth-bound copies. Printed by hand by Paul Wakeman, the son of Geoffrey Wakeman, at the Plough Press. Three separate essays provide a fascinating study of English trade binding from..... READ MORE about FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN BOOKBINDING
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 98809
Marseille: Laffite Reprints, 1983. 8vo. cloth. (x), xiv, 270, 270i-270iv, 271-280, (2) pages. Written in French. A facsimile of his 1862 edition (See Roosens & Luc Salo 8164), Traité de l'impression photographique sans sels d'argent contenant: l'histoire, la théorie et la pratique des méthodes et procédés de l'impression au charbon, de l'hélioplastie, de la photolithographie, de la gravure photochimique. Avec une introduction par M. Ernest Lacan. Paris, Leiber. Seven black-and-white plates on six leaves. Page..... READ MORE about TRAITÉ DES IMPRESSIONS PHOTOGRAPHIQUES, EDITION DE 1883 PAR LÉON VIDAL AUGMENTÉE DES...
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 102530
Oxford: n.p. (Printed for the Subscribers at the University Press), 1938. 8vo. cloth-backed, paper-covered boards. x, 69+(1) pages. One of 260 copies. A bibliography of the great English bibliographer. Pollard was educated at King's College School in London and St John's College at the University of Oxford. He edited the journal, The Library for thirty years, and was an excellent Shakespeare scholar. Bibliography is listed chronologically. Sunning around edges of boards. Light soiling on boards..... READ MORE about A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF ALFRED W. POLLARD
Price: $90.00 Order nr. 99247
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, n.d. (circa 1935). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 182 pages with 110 illustrations and 40 plates at the end. First U.S. edition. With a Chapter by Prof. Dr. Maurits Sabbe and a Foreword by C.H. StJ. Hornsby. Discussion of all facets of book history and production. The plates are printed on different kinds of paper with many in color. Includes tipped-in specimens of example printing. With the bookplate and pencil signature..... READ MORE about THE ART OF THE BOOK AND ITS ILLUSTRATION
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 98607
Berkeley & Los Angeles: The University of California, 1961. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 25 pages. Poynter was Librarian at the Wellcome Historical Medical Library of London. Foreword by LeRoy Charles Merritt and Lawrence Clark Powell. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY, SOME ACHIEVEMENTS & PROSPECTS
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 40277
London: Marion and Co., 1891. 8vo. original cloth. viii, 242, (iv), 38 pages. Author given as Marion and Co. States that this is the "Fifth Edition - fifteenth thousand, revised and enlarged." (But see Bridson and Wakeman no.E61 for second edition and E49 for first edition of a similar title Practical Guide to Photographic & photo-mechanical Printing - perhaps this is only the first part of that book). With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. Covers..... READ MORE about PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PHOTOGRAPHIC & PHOTO-MECHANICAL PRINTING
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 97839
London: Commissioners of Patents, 1880. 12mo. original front paper wrapper. 32 pages. A publications list issued by the Patent Office. Back wrapper missing; front wrapper detached with pieces missing. READ MORE about PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS. ABRIDGMENTS OF SPECIFICATIONS RELATING TO LETTERPRESS PRINTING AND...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 98126
London: Commissioners of Patents, 1880. thick 8vo. modern marbled paper covers with paper spine label. xii, 586 pages. First edition. (Bigmore & Wyman II, 146). Contains abridgments of patents granted between 1867 to 1876, a short preface by H. Reader Lack about the change in technology, an index of names and descriptions of the patents. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS. ABRIDGMENTS OF SPECIFICATIONS RELATING TO LETTERPRESS PRINTING AND...
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 98563
Leeds: The Electric Press, 1906. 8vo. green cloth stamped in black, light green and gilt, top edge gilt. (xi), 70, (2) pages. Program of the 6th annual meeting held in Leeds, May 25th to 29th, 1906, with essays on printing. With black-and-white illustrations. Inscribed "With the compliments of M. Pritchard (?), 20-11-54, The Campfield Press, St. Calbans (?)". Corners bumped, cover lightly soiled, edges soiled. With bookplate of British Federation of Master Printers, and the..... READ MORE about SOUVENIR OF THE SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE FEDERATION OF MASTER PRINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES OF...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 101866
Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1970. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 59 pages. A valuable reference tool in the study of library history. Occasional Publication no.6. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Ink stamp in corner of front cover. READ MORE about A CHECKLIST OF BOOKS, CATALOGUES AND PERIODICAL ARTICLES RELATING TO THE CATHEDRAL LIBRARIES OF...
Price: $13.00 Order nr. 98622
Philadelphia: The Keystone Publishing Co., 1909. 8vo. original cloth. 205, (5) pages. Third U.S. edition. A practical manual to engraving. The final five pages are advertisements. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Minor rubbing. READ MORE about THE ART OF ENGRAVING: A TEXT-BOOK AND PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE ENGRAVER'S ART, WITH SPECIAL...
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 98199
