Abbey, J.R.

SCENERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY 1770-1860. With LIFE IN ENGLAND. With TRAVEL.

4 volumes, complete set.
London: Privately printed at the Curwen Press, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1957. 4to. cloth, spine labels, top edges gilt, leather spine labels, dust jackets. xx,399; xxi,428; xiii,300; xiii,301-675 pages. 4 volumes, complete set. First editions, limited to 500, 400, and 400 copies respectively. Filled with bibliographical descriptions of the color plate books published in England during this period and containing many plates in color. The great reference set of the subject. Jacket of volume one is... READ MORE

Price: $2,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 15853

(Beerbohm, Max). Hart-Davis, Rupert.

A CATALOGUE OF THE CARICATURES OF MAX BEERBOHM.

(London): Macmillan, 1972. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 258 pages. First printing. A listing of more than 2000 of Beerbohm's caricatures, during the first quarter of the twentieth century, with their captions and a brief description of where the work was exhibited and its ownership as of 1972. The editor has also added explanatory notes for jokes which are now forgotten or obscure. With indexes of titles, books and periodicals, and owners. Self-caricature as frontispiece and... READ MORE

Price: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 64271

(Bewick, Thomas). Roscoe, S.

THOMAS BEWICK, A BIBLIOGRAPHY RAISONNÉ OF EDITIONS OF THE GENERAL HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS, THE HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS AND THE FABLES OF AESOP ISSUED IN HIS LIFETIME.

London: Oxford University Press, 1953. tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxx, 198 pages. First edition. Full bibliographical descriptions. Illustrated. Jacket is price clipped. READ MORE

Price: $55.00  other currencies  Order nr. 64343

Billington, James H.

BOOKS AND THE WORLD.

Washington: Library of Congress, 1988. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (x), 12, (2) pages. Preface by John Y. Cole and foreword by Richard C. Torbert. Center for the Book, Viewpoint Series, No.22. READ MORE

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 33536

(Birmingham School of Printing). Alexander, S.A.

SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN FROM THE BICENTENARY MEMORIAL VOLUME PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS.

(Birmingham, England): City of Birmingham School of Printing, 1935. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. 7, (3) pages. Originally published to commemorate the Wren bicentennial. With illustration of Wren's masterpiece, St. Paul's Cathedral. Printed under the direction of Leonard Jay. Wrappers lightly tanned and bent at edges. READ MORE

Price: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 121756

(Birmingham School of Printing). Browning, Robert.

RABBI BEN EZRA.

(Birmingham, England): Birmingham School of Printing, 1930. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, blue cord-tied. 9+(1) pages. Arranged and printed under the direction of Leonard Jay. Compositors work by G. Pym. Wrappers slightly bent at edges. READ MORE

Price: $40.00  other currencies  Order nr. 121753

(Birmingham School of Printing). Jay, Leonard (editor).

ELIZABETHAN SONNETS.

(Brimingham, England): Birmingham School of Printing, 1932. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. 13+(1) pages. Dedicated to and designed by George W. Jones. A selection of sonnets by Robert Greene, William Browne, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, and Sir Philip Sydney. Wrappers lightly tanned at edges. READ MORE

Price: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 121767

(Birmingham School of Printing). Rudland, E.M.

MRS. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN AND OTHER POEMS.

(Birmingham, England: Birmingham School of Printing), 1938. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. 8, (2) pages. Printed under the direction of Leonard Jay. Poetry dedicated to the wife of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (1937-1940). Geofroy Tory border on title from the George Jones Collection. Wrappers bent near edges and lightly tanned. READ MORE

Price: $30.00  other currencies  Order nr. 121757

Blumenthal, Joseph.

ART OF THE PRINTED BOOKS 1455-1955.

London: The Bodley Head, 1974. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 192 pages. First English edition. Profusely illustrated. Jacket spine slightly faded. READ MORE

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 15638

BOOKS IN OUR FUTURE, A REPORT FROM THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS TO THE CONGRESS.

Washington: Joint Committee on the Library, 1984. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 49+(1) pages. With introductory remarks by Daniel J. Boornstin, Librarian of Congress. READ MORE

Price: $5.00  other currencies  Order nr. 95550

(Botany). Lawrence, George H.M.

THE HUNT BOTANICAL LIBRARY, A DECENNIAL REPORT.

Pittsburgh: The Hunt Botanical Library, 1970. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 45, (3) pages. Illustrated. READ MORE

Price: $8.00  other currencies  Order nr. 17340

Boyle-Turner, Caroline.

THE PRINTS OF THE PONT-AVEN SCHOOL: GAUGUIN & HIS CIRCLE IN BRITTANY.

New York: Abbeville Press, 1986. 4to. cloth with gilt lettering on spine, pictoral dust jacket. 142, (2) pages. Exhibition catalogue for a show that traveled around the United States and Europe between 1986 and 1989. Forword by Douglas Druick. Profusely illustrated with 5 plates in color. READ MORE

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 79836

(Butler, Samuel).

CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF SAMUEL BUTLER IN THE CHAPIN LIBRARY WILLIAMS COLLEGE.

Foreword by Carroll A. Wilson.
Portland, ME: The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1945. 8vo. cloth, paper cover label. 35 pages. Foreword by Carroll A. Wilson. Frontispiece portrait by Charles Gogin. READ MORE

Price: $12.50  other currencies  Order nr. 1073