Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994. 8vo. cloth. xiv, 636, (3) pages. First edition. Covers criticism from 1916 through 1990. With author, journal, subject indices. READ MORE about WALLACE STEVENS, AN ANNOTATED SECONDARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
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WITH SYNOPSIS OF THE GUTENBERG DOCUMENTS
New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1972. 7 x 9.5 inches. hardcover. 140 pages. WITH SYNOPSIS OF THE GUTENBERG DOCUMENTS. According to the Preface, for a hundred years or more, the bibliographical scholars of the world have sought to identify the man of genius who, in the mid-fifteenth century, changed the course of civilization by introducing the art of printing into the Western World. Our knowledge of Gutenberg and his claim rests upon two..... READ MORE about THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD OF BOOKS, 1450 TO 1470: A CHRONOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TEXTS CHOSEN...
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An Introduction to the Seminal Anglo-American Literature and Laws of Domestic Relations up to the Year 1900, with Supporting Bibliography and Comments
Berkeley, CA: Lawrence H. Stotter, 2011. 8.25 x 10 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 416 pages. An Introduction to the Seminal Anglo-American Literature and Laws of Domestic Relations up to the Year 1900, with Supporting Bibliography and Comments. Taking its cue from Matthew 19:6, "What, therefore, God hath joined together, let not man put asunder," this book describes humankind's actions in doing just that. A readable selected history of family law, To Put Asunder traverses more..... READ MORE about TO PUT ASUNDER: THE LAWS OF MATRIMONIAL STRIFE
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New Castle, Delaware and Oxford: Oak Knoll Press and The Bodleian Library, 2010. 6 x 9 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 160 pages. Set up in 1968, John Fuller's Sycamore Press published some of the most influential and critically acclaimed writers of the past half-century. Operating from a garage, the press published established authors, such as W. H. Auden, Philip Larkin and Peter Porter, as well as promoting young poets, including James Fenton and Alan Hollinghurst..... READ MORE about JOHN FULLER & THE SYCAMORE PRESS: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC HISTORY
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Winchester and New Castle, Delaware: St. Paul's Bibliographies and Oak Knoll Press, 1996. 8vo. cloth. 340 pages. First edition. Preface by H.R.F. Keating. The sixth volume of the Winchester Bibliographies of Twentieth Century Writers series. This is the first and only bibliography of Julian Symons to include a personal memoir and commentaries by Symons himself. According to Keating, a frequent motif of Symons's fiction is his use of the mask, whether as a disguise or..... READ MORE about JULIAN SYMONS, A BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2020. 6.125 x 9.25 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 630 pages plus 8 pages of illustrations. "A masterwork. ...Tanselle has gathered his own fact-rich essays from a lifetime's worth of reflection on the physical nature of books. The result is a true summa of bibliographical insight, information and guidance. There are, for example, chapters about paper, typography and layout, typesetting and presswork, bindings, endpapers and dust jackets. Throughout..... READ MORE about DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2013. 6 x 9.25 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 546 pages. In this new collection of essays, G. Thomas Tanselle illustrates the importance of bibliographical scholarship as an integral part of intellectual and cultural history. The first section's six broad retrospective pieces, which cover bibliographical history from the vantage point of several institutional anniversaries, provide context for the sixteen essays in the second section, each of which is..... READ MORE about ESSAYS IN BIBLIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
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Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2020. 6.125 x 9.35 inches. wrappers. 40 pages. "A masterwork. ...Tanselle emphasizes the bibliographer's paramount obligation to study and compare multiple copies of any book before drawing conclusions about its makeup or publication history. ...Not least, Tanselle closes by presenting and commenting on a sample bibliographical description, using Herman Melvilles novel Redburn as a test case." - Michael Dirda, The Washington Post This pamphlet reprints an appendix..... READ MORE about A SAMPLE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION WITH COMMENTARY
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Charlottesville, VA: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2005. 8vo. cloth. xiii, (iii), 373 pages. Expanded edition. The second half of the twentieth century was one of the most active and provocative periods in the long history of textual criticism. This series of six critical essays surveys theoretical writings in the field from 1950 to 2000 and more than doubles the size of the 1987 edition. The eminent textual scholar G. Thomas Tanselle here..... READ MORE about TEXTUAL CRITICISM SINCE GREG, A CHRONICLE, 1950-2000
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N.P. Chapin Library, Williams College, 1997. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 42, (2) pages. Limited to 400 copies. Introduction by Robert L. Volz. 29 books described in detail. Illustrated in black-and-white with a full-color frontispiece. READ MORE about LONDON, HIGH LIFE & LOW LIFE AS SEEN BY ROWLANDSON, CRUIKSHANK & OTHERS
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Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, (1988). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 228 pages. First edition. Describes all the works of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer, including appearances in periodicals, interviews, and published quotes and comments. READ MORE about PETER TAYLOR, A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1934-87
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Winterthur and New Castle DE: Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2003. 8.5 x 11 inches. paperback. 100 pages. First edition. Accompanying an exhibition of the same name at the Grolier Club in New York and at Winterthur, this beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue includes essays and entries largely from the private library of Henry Francis du Pont, encompassing more than 87,000 volumes and 500,000 manuscripts and images. With essays and entries about..... READ MORE about THE WINTERTHUR LIBRARY REVEALED: FIVE CENTURIES OF DESIGN AND INSPIRATION
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Winterthur and New Castle DE: Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2003. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 100 pages. First edition. Accompanying an exhibition of the same name at the Grolier Club in New York and at Winterthur, this beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue includes essays and entries largely from the private library of Henry Francis du Pont, encompassing more than 87,000 volumes and 500,000 manuscripts and images. With essays and..... READ MORE about THE WINTERTHUR LIBRARY REVEALED: FIVE CENTURIES OF DESIGN AND INSPIRATION
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London: Ian Hodgkins & Co. Ltd., 2012. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover. 228 pages. This is an essential guide for any devotee of Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit and of illustrators of childrens books during this period. Illustrated with eight pages of color photographs, this bibliography contains over 300 entries published between 1904 and 1980. It seeks to describe all titles published in the United States that are versions of The Tale of Peter Rabbit..... READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF UNAUTHORISED AMERICAN EDITIONS OF THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT BY BEATRIX POTTER...
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New York: The Typophiles, 1992. 4.5 x 7 inches. cloth. 94+(1) pages. Chap Book 60. Describes over fifty books in "a list and brief history of small, well-made books which were created mostly out of love." Includes the handful of books issued before the chap book series. Various indices are of great help to the reader. Distributed for The Typophiles. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE TYPOPHILE CHAP BOOKS, 1935-1992
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(Toronto, Canada): Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 2011. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 102 pages. Preface by Richard Landon, introduction, select bibliography. An exhibition of works producte by Ukrainian emigré communities. Color and black and white illustrations. READ MORE about THROUGH FOREIGN LATITUDES & UNKNOWN TOMORROWS: THREE HUNDRED YEARS OF UKRAINIAN ÉMIGRÉ...
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 127002
New Castle and Kent State: Oak Knoll Press & Kent State University Libraries, 2006. 8.5" x 11" hardcover. 246 pages. First Edition. A catalogue of the B. George Ulizio Collection of English and American Literature in the Department of Special Collections, Kent State University Library. B. George Ulizio (1889-1969) was a distinguished bibliophile who saw the value of making these great works available to students and scholars. The catalogue contains fifteen hundred entries. Mr. Ulizio..... READ MORE about A CATALOGUE OF THE B. GEORGE ULIZIO COLLECTION IN THE KENT STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
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With "Foreword to my own Bibliography" by John Updike and a CD Supplement
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2007. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 624 pages (plus 359 pages on CD-ROM). With "Foreword to my own Bibliography" by John Updike and a CD Supplement. First Edition. John Updike is internationally renowned for his novels, short stories, poems, essays and criticism. He has won two Pulitzers, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and many other prizes. Updike has..... READ MORE about JOHN UPDIKE, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY MATERIALS, 1948-2007
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Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1998. 8vo. cloth. x, 272 pages. First edition. With a history of the Society by David Vander Meulen, a complete checklist of the Society's publications, also by Vander Meulen; a history of Studies in Bibliography by G. Thomas Tanselle; and an author index to the first fifty volumes of the Studies by David L. Gants and Elizabeth K. Lynch. Also contains William Todd's entertaining and informative anniversary..... READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS
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Foreword by Lotte Hellinga. Introduction by R.C. Alston.
London: The Bibliographical Society, 1992. 8.5 x 11.75 inches. stiff paper wrappers. 124 pages. Foreword by Lotte Hellinga. Introduction by R.C. Alston. Occasional Papers number 7. 185 entries described. Distributed for the Bibliographical Society. READ MORE about VERGIL, A CENSUS OF PRINTED EDITIONS 1469-1500
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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. 8.5 x 11 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket, with CD-ROM containing text and images. 516 pages plus 120 pages on CD-ROM. First edition. Gore Vidal, a twentieth-century Renaissance man, was described in the Citation for the 1993 National Book Award as "a masterly, learned, and percipient observer of an unparalleled range of subjects" which he addressed "with an artist's resonant appreciation, a scholar's conscience and the persuasive powers of..... READ MORE about GORE VIDAL: A BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1940-2009
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(Philadelphia, PA): Penn Libraries/Kislak Center, (2016). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 132, (2) pages. First edition. A catalogue issued in conjunction with "Across the Spectrum: Color in American Fine & Private Press Books 1890-2015," at the University of Pennsylvania Library. Table of contents, acknowledgments, essays by the authors and by Russell Maret, listing of fine and private presses in the Vilain-Wieck Collection at the Penn Library. Color illustrations throughout. READ MORE about COLOR IN AMERICAN FINE AND PRIVATE PRESS BOOKS 1890-2015
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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2012. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover. 384 pages. This book serves as a short-title catalogue of all the early printed editions of the Roman poet Virgil, from the first edition in 1469 up to and including books published in 1850. Virgil's three major poems, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid, have stood at the center of western civilization throughout the early modern and modern periods. As such they..... READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARLY PRINTED EDITIONS OF VIRGIL, 1469-1850
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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 544 pages. The Junius Spencer Morgan collection at Princeton University consists of over 700 titles (totaling around 900 volumes) of editions of the Roman poet Virgil (70-19 BC), in Latin and in various vernacular languages. Technically the collection includes items ranging from the first printed edition (Rome, 1469) to the present, but the focus is strongly on material published in the..... READ MORE about A CATALOGUE OF THE JUNIUS SPENCER MORGAN COLLECTION OF VIRGIL IN THE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
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2 volumes
Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 2003. small 4to. cloth. cxvi, (ii), 497+(1); vi, (ii), 499-1136 pages. 2 volumes. A comprehensive successor to earlier bibliographies of Masonic books printed in the United States, such as Richard Barthelmess's Bibliographie der Freimaurerei in Amerika (1856) and Enoch T. Carson's Bibliotheca Masonica Carsoniana (1874). Volume 1 contains Introductory Essays and Entries from 1734 to 1827; Volume 2, entries from 1827-1850 and Indexes. The author has compiled 5,560 annotated entries..... READ MORE about FREEMASONRY, ANTI-MASONRY AND ILLUMINISM IN THE UNITED STATES, 1734-1850, A BIBLIOGRAPHY
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