Paris: Maison Quantin, n.d. (circa 1886). 8vo. contemporary quarter cloth over marbled paper-covered boards. 320 pages. First edition. The history of the book and its printing, illustration and binding. Over 100 illustrations. Printed on cheaper paper. Covers rubbed along edges. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about LE LIVRE, L'ILLUSTRATION - LA RELIURE, ETUDE HISTORIQUE SOMMAIRE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 22529
New York: Hafner Publishing Co., 1971. 8vo. cloth. xvii, 303 pages. Second edition. The appendix gives breakdowns of technical dictionaries and general bibliography. READ MORE about DICTIONARIES OF ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO BOTH GENERAL AND...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 40893
Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg, various. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 37 pages. Reprint of the first edition. With a directory of leatherworkers in the back. Illustrated. READ MORE about LEATHERWORKER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WILLIAMSBURG, BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE NATURE OF LEATHER,...
Price: $6.00 Order nr. 102959
Third (revised and enlarged) edition.
(London): Longman, (1980). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. Third (revised and enlarged) edition. Only volume published in this attempt to revise the original John Horden was general editor. This volume contains fully-documented evidence about the authorship of some 4,000 anonymous and pseudonymous publications in English, including translations from other languages, up to 1640. READ MORE about DICTIONARY OF ANONYMOUS AND PSEUDONYMOUS ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 102766
Berlin: Veb Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1958. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 582, (2) pages. Second edition. Well-illustrated history of writing. Over 500 tables and illustrations. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about SCHRIFT IN VERGANGENHEIT UND GEGENWART
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 32783
Worcester: AAS, 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 social history..... READ MORE about PRINTING AND SOCIETY IN EARLY AMERICA
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 63362
Publiée pour la première fois d'après l'inventaire original.
Paris: Typographie de Firmin Didot Frères, 1843. 8vo. contemporary quarter calf, red leather spine label, marbled paper covered boards. 57 pages. Publiée pour la première fois d'après l'inventaire original. Extract from the Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes. Description of the library of this 14th century French poet. Minor rubbing of covers. READ MORE about LA BIBLIOTH'EQUE DE CHARLES D'ORLÉANS A SON CHATEAU DE BLOIS EN 1427
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 104265
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (xx), 179, (3) pages. A book describing and showing some illustrations from older printed books that were used to illustrate the works of Chaucer. Back paper wrapper soiled. READ MORE about A MIRROR OF CHAUCER'S WORLD
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 104876
Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870. 8vo. original green cloth, beveled edges. (viii), 380 pages. First edition. (BAL 13136). Covers rubbed with spotting. Wear at spine ends. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about AMONG MY BOOKS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 9522
Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1882. 8vo. original green cloth, beveled edges. (viii), 380 pages. Reprint of 1870 first edition. (See BAL 13136). Covers rubbed. Ink inscription on first blank page. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about AMONG MY BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 102776
London: Andre Deutsch, (1975). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 336 pages. Fifth edition. This fifth edition was completely revised and partly re-written by Arthur Maltby. Jacket rubbed. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about SAYERS' MANUAL OF CLASSIFICATION FOR LIBRARIANS
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 102726
New York: Oxford University Press, (1972). thick tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxxi, 676 pages. Reprint of revised edition. Contains hundreds of illustrations. Has a 15-page chapter devoted to the history of bookbinding. Jacket shows soiling. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about THE BOOK, THE STORY OF PRINTING & BOOKMAKING
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 21087
Brighton: Central Bookbinding Works, n.d. (20th century). 8vo. cloth. 26, (4) pages with 3 plates showing bookbindings executed by this firm. Short history followed by advertising for the firm. Not in Brenni. Covers spotted. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ART AND CRAFT OF BOOKBINDING
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 102623
Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, (1986). 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. (iv), 17, (3) pages. Limited to 250 copies. Designed by Allan Kornblum and printed by Kent Aldrich at Coffee House Press. These remarks were delivered by John Parker, Curator of the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota, on February 13, 1986 to celebrate an exhibit of manuscripts loaned to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts by several collectors and libraries of the..... READ MORE about A LONG CHAIN OF WORDS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 98530
Woodstock: The Elm Tree Press, 1910. 8vo. cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards. (viii), 87 pages. Number Two in The Librarian Series edited by John Cotton Dana and Henry W. Kent. Spine is spotted. READ MORE about THE LIBRARY AND THE LIBRARIAN; A SELECTION OF ARTICLES FROM THE BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT AND...
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 9893
New York: Fred. A. Hodgson, 1884. small 8vo. original cloth. 130, (16) pages. First edition. Includes sections on gilding and silvering. Covers spotted. Half-title torn away which has also left a tear along the gutter of the title page. READ MORE about HINTS AND PRACTICAL INFORMATION FOR CABINET-MAKERS, UPHOLSTERERS, AND FURNITURE MEN GENERALLY
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 102955
Boston: Richardson, Lord, and Holbrook, and Hillard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1829. small 8vo. contemporary full calf, red leather spine label. 276 pages. Reprint of the 1827 first U.S. edition (Shaw & Shoemaker 40085). Covers rubbed with wear at tips. Some contemporary writing in pencil on blank page. Foxing. READ MORE about NATIONAL READER; A SELECTION OF EXERCISES IN READING AND SPEAKING, DESIGNED TO FILL THE SAME...
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 102637
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1900. square 8vo. original green cloth, top edge gilt. xvi, 330 pages with 4 plates and 39 illustrations in the text. First edition. (Hart no.102). Part of the English Bookman's Library Series edited by Alfred Pollard. A fine guide to printing history. Covers are rubbed and spine faded. Some worn spots on spine. Bookseller's description taped to free endpaper. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH PRINTING, 1476-1898
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 30571
Detroit: Gale Research, 1968. thick 8vo. cloth. xv, 298 pages. Reprint of the 1911 first edition. With 12 illustrations and 35 plates. The making, collecting and use of books in England during the middle ages. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about OLD ENGLISH LIBRARIES
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 35937
New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc, (1970). thick 8vo. cloth. xv, 298 pages. Reprint of the 1911 first edition. With 12 illustrations and 35 plates. The making, collecting and use of books in England during the middle ages. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about OLD ENGLISH LIBRARIES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 102670
3 volumes. In The Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Vol. 52, Nos. 10, 11, and 12, 1948.
tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 3 volumes. In The Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Vol. 52, Nos. 10, 11, and 12, 1948. Excellent guide to the publishers, binders, booksellers, etc. active in Boston during this period. Gives addresses at corresponding dates. READ MORE about THE BOSTON BOOK TRADE, 1800-1825
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 7604
New York: Burt Franklin, (1970). 8vo. cloth. xxii, 368 pages. Reprint of this fine history of libraries in England. With 93 illustrations and plans of buildings. READ MORE about THE CHAINED LIBRARY, A SURVEY OF FOUR CENTURIES IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE ENGLISH LIBRARY
Price: $165.00 Order nr. 10535
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 163 pages. Over 2000 titles given. Name in ink on front cover. READ MORE about THE HARVARD LIST OF BOOKS ON ART
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 249
Bruxelles: Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier. 1975. thick small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xviii, 495, (3) pages. Avant-Propos by Martin Wittek. Filled with interesting text and illustrations (some in color). READ MORE about CINQ ANNÉES D'ACQUSITIONS, 1969-1973
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 106272
New York: American Art Association, 1938, 1938, 1938, 1939. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Very good set of this magnificent library catalogue. Many plates of bookbindings. A fifth volume that is not present was issued in 1948 and described Bishop's French books. Light cover wear. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about THE CORTLANDT F. BISHOP LIBRARY
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 102751
