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(Bowyer, William). Nichols, John.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND LITERARY ANECDOTES OF WILLIAM BOWYER. 1782 WITH TWO MEMOIRS OF JOHN NICHOLS.

New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. 1974. thick tall 8vo. cloth. (viii), viii, 666, 11, 16 pages. Reprint of the 1782 first edition. (Bigmore & Wyman II,74). Written by his partner and successor, John Nichols, this is a collection of anecdotes pertaining to the life and times of Bowyer, regarded as one of England's most learned 18th-century printers. Nichols was also an antiquarian who published many articles on topics relating to history, and this often-plagiarized volume... READ MORE

Price: $250.00 other currencies Order nr. 103064

Carter, John, Nicolas Barker & Simran Thadani.

ABC FOR BOOK COLLECTORS 9TH ED.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 5 x 8 inches. Cloth, dust jacket. 264 pages. Ninth edition, completely revised and re-set, with additional information and illustrated with line drawings and color photographs. Shaken, Unsophisticated, Harleian Style, Fingerprint, E-book, Dentelle. Can you define these terms? If not, this is the book for you! John Carter's ABC for Book Collectors has long been established as the most enjoyable as well as the most informative reference book... READ MORE

Price: $29.95 other currencies Order nr. 120362

(Delaware). Beers, D.G.

NORTH MURDERKILL, KENT CO. DEL., SOUTH MURDERKILL, KENT CO., DEL.

Philadelphia: Pomeroy & Beers, 1868. 15 5/8" x 27 1/4" double sheet behind clear plastic mylar. B1-100. Double page map of this area of Kent Co., Delaware. Map contains a directory of businesses and small inserted maps of Plymouth, Willow Grove, Wyoming, Lebanon, Canterbury Station, Canterbury and Magnolia. Scale 1 inch to the mile. This map has been removed from a incomplete copy of Beers' 1868 Atlas of the State of Delaware (page 65), which... READ MORE

Price: $195.00 other currencies Order nr. 122728

Dunning, John.

THAT SUMMER WITH MICHAEL.

Santa Barbara: Santa Teresa Press, 2004. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 24 + (2). Edition limited to 535 copies of which this is one of 35 specially printed on blue paper, numbered in Roman numerals and signed by the author. Printed as a benefit publication for the Antiquarian Booksellers' Benevolent Fund; a non-profit charity. This is a recollection of Dunning's friendship with Michael Shaara (The Killer Angels) over one summer and, simultaneously, a meditation on... READ MORE

Price: $125.00 other currencies Order nr. 79269

Franklin, Benjamin.

A LETTER FROM BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TO A YOUNG FRIEND ON THE CHOICE OF A MISTRESS.

(Valparaiso, IN): Sandlin's Books and Bindery, 1993. miniature book (6.9 x 5.3 cm). leather, spine and covers gilt-decorated, five raised bands on spine, marbled endpapers. (x), 21+(1) pages. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by the printer and publisher on colophon (Not in Bradbury). Originally published 1745. READ MORE

Price: $150.00 other currencies Order nr. 118123

Glick, William J.

IN THE SERVICE OF SCHOLARSHIP: HAROLD HUGO & THE MERIDEN GRAVURE COMPANY.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. 7.375 x 10.5 inches. Cloth with dust jacket. 208 pages. In the Service of Scholarship is a history of one of the leading printing firms of the twentieth century. It is also a character study and biography of Harold Hugo (1910-1985), whose career at Meriden Gravure began at the age of fourteen and continued until his retirement as president in 1975. During his tenure, Hugo brought the company... READ MORE

Price: $75.00 other currencies Order nr. 128978

Greenfield, Jane and Jenny Hille.

ENDBANDS FROM EAST TO WEST: HOW TO WORK THEM.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. 6 x 9 inches. paperback. [iv], 100 pages. "Since it was first published in 1986, Jane Greenfield and Jenny Hille's book on endbands has been for me and most, if not all, book conservators and bookbinders the foundation of our knowledge of endbands, of how to distinguish them and how to make them." - from the Foreword to the third edition by Georgios Boudalis ________________ Most manuals on... READ MORE

Price: $18.00 other currencies Order nr. 129195

Grossman, Carol Porter.

THE HISTORY OF THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, cloth spine over paper-covered boards. xii, 276 pages. George Macy started the Limited Editions Club with backing from investors in the heyday of the stock market of 1929. After enlisting founding subscribers and collaborators and preparing the initial series of 12 titles, the first book shipped during the week of the stock market collapse. The story of how the Limited Editions Club survived... READ MORE

Price: $125.00 other currencies Order nr. 114346

Haberly, Loyd.

JOHN APOSTATE AN IDYL OF THE QUAYS.

Long Crendon: Seven Acres Press, 1927. 8vo. modern quarter calf, decorated paper-covered boards. (ii), 10, (2) pages. Limited to 125 copies of which this one is out of series. First two words of text in red, rest in black. Woodcut illustrations throughout. Some capitals are woodcuts made to look like illuminated letters although in black only. Author is also illustrator and printer. READ MORE

Price: $185.00 other currencies Order nr. 78529

Hess, Lynn.

WHERE TIGERS ROAR IN SILENCE, A BOOK OF RIDDLE POEMS.

(Salisbury, CT: Lime Rock Press, 1980). miniature (7.3 x 6.6 cm). stiff paper wrappers, enclosed in red cloth clamshell box with paper cover label. Not paginated. Limited to 999 copies (Bradbury, Lime Rock, 2). Illustrations by Catryna Ten Eyck, one of the owners of this private press. Signed by the author on the colophon page. Each riddle is printed on a sheet that folds out to reveal an illustration and the answer to the riddle. READ MORE

Price: $100.00 other currencies Order nr. 117543

Hindley, Charles.

THE HISTORY OF THE CATNACH PRESS, AT BERWICK-UPON-TWEED, ALNWICK AND NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.

London: Charles Hindley, 1886. 8vo. original cloth, paper cover and spine labels. xlii, 308 pages. First edition. The Catnach Press published books for children in large quantities. In addition to the history of the press, Hindley reproduces a number of the illustrations taken from various books. Includes some use of color in the illustrations. Spine label mostly rubbed off and covers rubbed along hinges. Bookplate and former owner John Douglas Riddell has signed his name... READ MORE

Price: $100.00 other currencies Order nr. 9115

Jamieson, Alexander.

A DICTIONARY OF MECHANICAL SCIENCE, ARTS, MANUFACTURERS AND MISCELLANEOUS KNOWLEDGE. COMPRISING THE PURE SCIENCES OF MATHEMATICS, GEOMETRY, ARITHMETIC, ALGEBRA, & THE MIXED SCIENCES OF MECHANICS, HYDROSTATICS, PNEUMATICS, OPTICS AND ASTRONOMY; EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY; THE FINE ARTS, AGRICULTURE AND ITS IMPLEMENTS; MANUFACTURERS AND THEIR VARIOUS PROCESSES; COMMERCE AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY; NATURAL HISTORY; WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTICES OF EMINENT MEN, WHO HAVE ADORNED SCIENCE BY THEIR INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES. ILLUSTRATED WITH MANY HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS.

London: Henry Fisher, Son & Co. 1830. small 4to. contemporary half calf. iv, 1066 pages. Seventh edition. Over 70 plates. With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. Bridson has inserted a printed slip describing the sections of this book which concern the important topics of aquatint, engraving, etching, ink making, mezzotint, bank note printing, printing, tereotype and wood engraving. Binding very worn, front joint repaired with cloth, title page and two other preliminary leaves repaired with... READ MORE

Price: $250.00 other currencies Order nr. 98271

(Limited Editions Club). Hardy, Thomas.

JUDE THE OBSCURE.

with an introduction by John Bayley and wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1969. 8vo. quarter leather, slipcase. xxi, 427, (3) pages. with an introduction by John Bayley and wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by Parker (LEC 418); this copy is not numbered and has the initials "g.c." (Gordon Carroll) written in and has an embossed stamp on the colophon page indicating that this is one of 25 Presentation Copies. The office copy retained by... READ MORE

Price: $110.00 other currencies Order nr. 125910

(Miniature Books).

THE SONG OF SONGS, WHICH IS SOLOMON'S.

Chicago: Black Cat Press, (1961). miniature book (5.2 x 6.5 cm). leather, title gilt-stamped on spine, gilt-stamped decoration on front board, marbled endpapers. 33+(1) pages. Limited to 350 copies. (Bradbury, Black Cat Press 6). Biblical literature attributed to Solomon, 10th century B.C. king of Israel. Decorated borders around chapter headings. Printed French-fold. READ MORE

Price: $100.00 other currencies Order nr. 116673

(Miniature Books). Webster, Daniel.

ON THE POWERS OF GOVERNMENT ASSIGNED TO IT BY THE CONSTITUTION FROM HIS ADDRESS IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE, MAY 7, 1834.

(Worcester: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1952). miniature book (8 x 5.5 cm). red cloth stamped in gilt. (iv), 25, (3) pages. Limited to 1000 copies published for the Society by Achille St. Onge, an early production by this publisher (Bradbury: St. Onge 9). READ MORE

Price: $175.00 other currencies Order nr. 16477

(Music).

BOUWSTENEN VOOR EEN GESCHIEDENIS DER TOONKUNST IN DE NEDERLANDEN.

3 volumes.
(Utrecht, Netherlands): Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 1965. 8vo. cloth, title and volume number gilt-stamped on spine. 344; 349+(1); 285+(1) pages. 3 volumes. Text in Dutch. A collection of primary sources, from the 14th through the 18th centuries, assembled with the objective of writing a history of musical works in the Netherlands. Each volume with a preface, list of credits, table of contents, and index. Each source included has reference to the primary document from which... READ MORE

Price: $250.00 save 50% $125.00 other currencies Order nr. 120817

Oakley, Maroussia.

THE BOOK AND PERIODICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF ARTHUR HUGHES: 'A SPARK OF GENIUS' 1832-1915.

New Castle, Delaware and Pinner, Middlesex, England: Oak Knoll Press & Private Libraries Association, 2016. 7.17 x 10.75. Cloth, dust jacket. 328 pp, plus 8 pp. color section. "A marvelous collection of Hughes's uniquely beautiful illustrations and an exceptional amount of information on their history." - Barbara Amell, Wingfold, Spring 2017 The Book and Periodical Illustrations of Arthur Hughes is the first detailed account of the work of this somewhat neglected Pre-Raphaelite artist between 1855... READ MORE

Price: $75.00 other currencies Order nr. 127219

Potter, Edward Tuckerman.

WORLD PICTURES IN CAPITALS.

Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott, 1869. 4to. original embossed cloth stamped in gilt and in blank, all edges gilt. 21 pages. First and only edition. Potter (1831-1904) was a noted architect and author, Mark Twain hired him in 1871 to build his home in Hartford, CT, which still stands today. This book takes the reader around the world by showing examples of decorated capitals of columns via photographic reproduction. Descriptive legend by Henry Coppée. Eight-toned plates, each... READ MORE

Price: $950.00 other currencies Order nr. 107119

SIX POEMS OF MVTABILITIE.

Shaker Heights, OH: Wind & Harlot, 1992. miniature book (5.6 x 4.7 cm). paper-covered boards, label on spine, marbled endpapers. unpaginated. Limited to 44 numbered copies (Bradbury, Wind & Harlot Press 13). Poetry by various authors, including Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Waller, and Ezra Pound. READ MORE

Price: $150.00 other currencies Order nr. 118685

Stock-Allen, Nancy.

CAROL TWOMBLY: HER BRIEF BUT BRILLIANT CAREER IN TYPE DESIGN.

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 6.625 x 9.875 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 176 pages. "The detailed research and design process behind all these fonts (as well as the evolving technology) is conveyed through the many half-tone illustrations in Nancy Stock-Allen's excellent study." - Nancy Campbell, TLS "Carol Twombly... has been billed as 'the first book on type design centered around the career of one woman.' I would argue that it is more important... READ MORE

Price: $49.95 other currencies Order nr. 125344

Thackeray, Albert Smith, Gilbert A. Beckett, and The Brothers Matthew.

COMIC ALMANACK: AN EPHEMERIS IN JEST CONTAINING MERRY TALES, HUMOROUS POETRY, QUIPS, AND ODDITIES.

4 Volumes.
London, England: Chatto and Windus, 1835-53. 12mo. half leather, marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers. (viii), 160; (ii), 161-388; (viii), 184; (ii), 185-428 pages. 4 Volumes. First volume with prefatory remarks. Illustrations by George Cruikshank (Cohn 184) and other illustrators. An assortment of humorous matter. Each volume with frontispiece (a foldout in the third volume). Black and white plates, and illustrations in text, throughout. According to Cohn, this is a complete run. Covers rubbed and scuffed... READ MORE

Price: $300.00 other currencies Order nr. 127369

Thake, Robert.

A PUBLISHING HISTORY OF A PROHIBITED BEST-SELLER:THE ABBÉ DE VERTOT AND HIS HISTOIRE DE MALTE.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Cloth with dust jacket. 408 pages. "Collectors, booksellers, cultural historians and librarians are the target audience of Robert Thake's scrupulous, meticulous, sumptuously produced and painstakingly researched biography of a book . . . Thake is omniscient and his lusciously illustrated book a model of scholarship. But he also triggers thoughts about the nature of censorship, not least by quoting Diderot, who laid down this... READ MORE

Price: $55.00 other currencies Order nr. 128977

(Trianon Press). Breuil, Abbé Henri.

THE TSISAB RAVINE AND OTHER BRANDBERG SITES.

France: The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation through Trianon Press, (1959). folio. cardboard slipcase. variously paginated. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. The Tsisab Ravine in the Brandberg Mountain range of South-West Africa, which is the site of the famous 'White Lady of the Brandberg," is also the site of a great number of painted rock shelters clustered together nearby. This volume is the outcome of the labors of Abbe Breuil and his companions who camped in... READ MORE

Price: $200.00 other currencies Order nr. 57802

Vervliet, Hendrik D.L.

GRANJON'S FLOWERS: AN ENQUIRY INTO GRANJON'S, GIOLITO'S, AND DE TOURNES' ORNAMENTS, 1542-1586.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 7.25 x 9.75 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 248 pages. Robert Granjon (1513-1590) was a younger contemporary of Claude Garamont (c.1510-1561) and with him one of the great names in the history of type-design. His typefaces have been studied in some depth, but except for a dozen combinable type-ornaments surveyed by the author previously, his printers' flowers, however elegant and innovative, have attracted only cursory attention in such broader... READ MORE

Price: $65.00 other currencies Order nr. 127576

Vincent, Francis.

A HISTORY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT UNTIL THE PRESENT TIME, CONTAINING A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST DUTCH AND SWEDISH SETTLEMENTS, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF ITS GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY.

Philadelphia: John Campbell, 1870. 8vo. later cloth. 478 pages. B1-1494. First edition. (Howes V-110). Made up from the original 15 parts with original paper wrappers bound-in. Spine slightly faded. Delaware history through the Swedish and Dutch settlements. The author intended to continue his work to the "present time", about 1870, but no further volumes were published. READ MORE

Price: $150.00 other currencies Order nr. 29719

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