New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2003. small 4to. cloth. xix, 534 pages. Reprint of volume two. A necessary reference set for any student of American literature. This set is being brought back in print with the permission of the Bibliographical Society of America. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE VOL 2. GEORGE W. CABLE TO TIMOTHY DWIGHT
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New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2003. small 4to. cloth. xix, 534 pages. Reprint of volume three. A necessary reference set for any student of American literature. This set is being brought back in print with the permission of the Bibliographical Society of America. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE VOL 3. EDWARD EGGLESTON TO BRET HARTE
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New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2003. small 4to. cloth. xxvi, 495 pages. Reprint of volume four. A necessary reference set for any student of American literature. This set is being brought back in print with the permission of the Bibliographical Society of America. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE VOL 4. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE TO JOSEPH HOLT INGRAHAM
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New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2003. small 4to. cloth. xxvi, 643 pages. Reprint of volume five. A necessary reference set for any student of American literature. This set is being brought back in print with the permission of the Bibliographical Society of America. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE VOL 5. WASHINGTON IRVING TO HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
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New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2003. small 4to. cloth. xxvi, 594 pages. Reprint of volume six. A necessary reference set for any student of American literature. This set is being brought back in print with the permission of the Bibliographical Society of America. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE VOL 6. AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET TO THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS
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Edited and Completed by Michael Winship.
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2003. 4to. cloth. xxii, (iv), 519 pages. Edited and Completed by Michael Winship. Reprint of volume eight. A necessary reference set for any student of American literature. This set is being brought back in print with the permission of the Bibliographical Society of America. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE VOL 8. CHARLES WARREN STODDARD THROUGH SUSAN BOGERT WARNER
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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2008. 8.5 x 11 inches. Hardcover. 276 pages. First edition. This work is a new bibliography on the Delaware River and Bay by Ben Cohen, the author of similar bibliographies on the Thames and the Clyde. The author first became interested in the Delaware River when he read D.B. Tyler's The Bay and River Delaware, which refers to the Delaware as the "American Clyde." Tyler writes poetically of the..... READ MORE about THE DELAWARE RIVER AND BAY 1600-1999: A SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2008. 8.5 x 11 inches. cloth. 290 pages. Reprint of the out-of-print 1995 first edition, with index revised to include place names. This bibliography of the River Clyde and Firth of Clyde covers a period of over four centuries. The material derives from collections in libraries and institutions in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Clydeside and on the Firth. All items are collated in full, illustrations are itemized and engravings are..... READ MORE about THE RIVER AND FIRTH OF CLYDE 1549-1993: A SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
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2 volumes
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2003. large 8vo. cloth. 302, 950. 2 volumes. First edition, second printing. A comprehensive catalogue of the separately printed English poems of the first half of the eighteenth century. Volume 1 contains some ten thousand entries, giving full bibliographical details and information on first lines, subject and the location of copies; many of the works listed are very rare and exist only in little-known collections. The author has personally..... READ MORE about ENGLISH VERSE, 1701-1750, A CATALOGUE OF SEPARATELY PRINTED POEMS WITH NOTES ON CONTEMPORARY...
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New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2004. 5.5 x 8.75 inches. Paperback. 94 pages. This 96-page booklet was reprinted from the pages of The Book Collector. The work begins with a detailed history of the eclectic British publishing firm founded in 1946 by Rupert Hart-Davis. From each title they published to the company's finances, this book tells the story of Rupert Hart-Davis, revealing much about the man as well as..... READ MORE about RUPERT HART-DAVIS LIMITED A BRIEF HISTORY WITH A CHECKLIST OF PUBLICATIONS
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New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. 8.5 x 11 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 397 pages. First Edition. To research and photograph the practically invisible requires a unique technology and a curious intellect. A half century ago Thomas Gravell began a life-long study by collecting examples of early American watermarks. In 1979, he and George Miller published an interim edition which illustrated over 700 examples together with some thumbnail histories of the paper mills that..... READ MORE about AMERICAN WATERMARKS 1690-1835
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New Castle, Delaware and Folkestone, England: Oak Knoll Press and St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1999. small 8vo. Hardback printed covers. x, 228 pages. First edition. These thirteen scholarly essays on the history of the book trade are the third volume in the PRINT NETWORKS series of publications. The original papers were presented at the annual "Seminars on the British Book Trade." The essays covered include Paul Morgan's "Henry Cotton and W. H. Allnutt: Two Pioneer Book-Trade..... READ MORE about HUMAN FACE OF THE BOOK TRADE: PRINT CULTURE AND ITS CREATORS
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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. 8vo. Hardback printed covers. 218 pages. This fourth volume in the Print Networks series salutes the impact of the printing press. Taken from the proceedings of the Seventeenth Seminar on the British Book Trade held in Aberystwyth in July 1999, this collection of scholarly essays covers the regulation of printed matter and its distribution, the preservation of Welsh language and culture in print, and various aspects of printing..... READ MORE about THE MIGHTY ENGINE: THE PRINTING PRESS AND ITS IMPACT
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New Castle, Delaware & Winchester, England: Oak Knoll Press & St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1998. small 8vo. Hardback printed covers. 230 pages. First edition. Second volume of the series PRINT NETWORKS. More than a century has passed since W. H. Allnut's paper on provincial printing was presented at the meeting of the Library Association in 1878. This topic has now moved to the forefront of investigating the history of the book. The annual Seminar on the..... READ MORE about THE REACH OF PRINT, MAKING, SELLING AND USING BOOKS
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Foreword by Guy Maddin
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. 9 x 12 inches. cloth, slipcase. 272 pages. Foreword by Guy Maddin. Deluxe version, limited to 110 copies, with a slipcase and a colophon page signed by Guy Maddin and Kevin Johnson. Following up on his well-received bibliography of first edition sources for American film noir of the 1940s, Kevin Johnson's new bibliography The Dark Page II explores the second half of the classic American period, covering the..... READ MORE about THE DARK PAGE II: BOOKS THAT INSPIRED AMERICAN FILM NOIR, 1950-1965
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Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1991. 8vo. printed paper over boards. x, 181 pages. First edition. This is the sixth volume in the well-established and highly acclaimed series, which covers the history of libraries, librarianship and book collecting in Great Britain and Ireland from the earliest times to the present day. The entries are arranged under five main headings: Librarians, Librarianship, Libraries (with ten sub-headings such as National, Private, Public, Special, etc.), Reading and Study of..... READ MORE about BRITISH LIBRARY HISTORY: BIBLIOGRAPHY 1985-1988
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New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2003. 5.75 x 8.25 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 218 pages. First edition. This is the 22nd title in our Publishing Pathways series. Ten leading scholars focus on prominent printer/publishers and their contribution to printing history. Subjects covered include the works of John Nichols, John Foxe, Andrew Brice, John Wolfe, Shakespeare's Lives in Print, Interpreting Manuscript Evidence, The Dictionary of National Bibliography, and John Day's Book of Martyrs, etc. Co-published..... READ MORE about LIVES IN PRINT: BIOGRAPHY AND THE BOOK TRADE FROM THE MIDDLE AGE TO THE 21st CENTURY
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Edinburgh: Oak Knoll Press/Edinburgh Biblio. Soc. 1999. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. paperback. 128 pages. First edition. A comprehensive directory of Scotland's lithographic printers from 1820-1870. This scholarly reference work lists their locations and periods of activity. This work is also a valuable guide towards Scotland's contribution to this artistic period. READ MORE about DIRECTORY OF THE LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTERS OF SCOTLAND 1820-1870
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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. 8vo. cloth, 624 pages. illustrated. This is the first book-length presentation of the life and works of James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, the eminent Shakespearean scholar. Halliwell was a man of prodigious energy and wide interests. His six hundred or so publications deal, not only with Shakespeare and early modern literature, but also cover mathematics, lexicography, the history of science, archaeology, and many other important subjects of his day. This..... READ MORE about JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS: THE LIFE AND WORKS
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VI
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2013. 8.5 x 11.5 inches. leather, publisher's slipcase. 216 pages. VI. Deluxe full-leather edition. Limited to 100 copies. This extensive index on all five volumes will identify all proper names, places, and subjects covered in this comprehensive and scholarly series. Co-published with Kotinos Publications, Athens, Greece. Order all five volumes of The History of the Library in Western Civilization series at one time and get the Index volume for..... READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION - EPILOGUE AND GENERAL INDEX
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Vol. III From Constantine the Great to Cardinal Bessarion: Imperial, Monastic, School and Private Libraries in the Byzantine World
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2007. 8.5 x 11.5 inches. full leather, slipcase. 608 pages. Vol. III From Constantine the Great to Cardinal Bessarion: Imperial, Monastic, School and Private Libraries in the Byzantine World. Deluxe full-leather edition. Limited to 100 copies. The third volume of The History of the Library spans a period of more than a thousand years and covers an area stretching from Alexandria and Trebizond to Calabria and Sicily in the..... READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION: THE BYZANTINE WORLD - FROM CONSTANTINE THE...
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Volume IV
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2010. 8.5 x 11 inches. leather, publisher's slipcase. 532 pages. Volume IV. Deluxe full-leather edition. Limited to 100 copies. This fourth volume discusses the publishing procedure for secular and religious writings of late antiquity and the factors that led to the impoverishment of the monumental libraries in Rome. New centers of learning grew up in the monasteries, where great libraries containing educational and instructive books and representative works of..... READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION: THE MEDIEVAL WORLD IN THE WEST - FROM...
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V.
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2012. 8.5 x 11.5 inches. leather, publisher's slipcase. 624 pages. V. With the publication of Volume V, the last stage in the development of the library is revealed. Like the rest of the books in The History of the Library series, this volume is beautifully designed and fully illustrated in color. This fifth and final volume of The History of the Library in Western Civilization contains eight chapters giving..... READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION: THE RENAISSANCE - FROM PETRARCH TO MICHELANGELO
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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2005. 8.5 x 11.5 inches. full-leather, slipcase. 364 pages. II. Deluxe full-leather edition. Limited to 100 copies. This second volume continues Staikos' brilliant history of the library from the early days of the Roman Republic to the "Golden Age" of Imperial Rome and the Emperor Hadrian. Extensively researched and beautifully illustrated with many rare photographs and drawings. Printed in Athens with careful attention to detail. Co-published with Kotinos Publications..... READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION: THE ROMAN WORLD - FROM CICERO TO HADRIAN
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New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. large 8vo. paper-covered boards. 224 pages. This beautifully-printed and illustrated exhibition catalogue is a literary feast for the eye as well as for the mind. The reader is treated to a majestic array of rare, early Greek editions illustrated by their title pages and often with portraits of their authors. The exhibition was displayed at the International Conference on Greek Books held at the European Cultural Center of..... READ MORE about GREEK PHILOSOPHICAL EDITIONS IN THE FIRST CENTURY OF PRINTING
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