SOME THINGS CHILDISH.
London: Maggs Bros. 1979. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 100 pages and 20 plates. Catalogue 993. Illustrated. READ MORE about SOME THINGS CHILDISH
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 27654
London: Maggs Bros. 1979. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 100 pages and 20 plates. Catalogue 993. Illustrated. READ MORE about SOME THINGS CHILDISH
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Winchester: St Paul's Bibliographies, 1990. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvii, 180 pages. First edition. Bumped at tail of spine, else near fine. In the early nineteenth century the prevailing influence in children's books was the promotion of morality, coupled with instruction, and fairy-tales and such-like improper subjects were widely discouraged. So Benjamin Tabart showed no little courage when, within three years of opening his Juvenile Library in Bond Street, he launched out into the publication..... READ MORE about BENJAMIN TABART'S JUVENILE LIBRARY, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS FOR CHILDREN PUBLISHED, WRITTEN,...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 96242
Wormley: Five Owls Press Ltd., (1973). thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxxi, 461 pages. First edition. A fine copy. John Newbery is famous among 18th-century publishers for the manner in which he exploited the new market for children's books. Both in the creation of a "list" of successful titles and in his very individual approach to the designing, publicizing, and selling of his "little books," he shows himself to be an important forerunner of the..... READ MORE about JOHN NEWBERY AND HIS SUCCESSORS 1740-1814, A BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 27211
York: Picaflow, 1985. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. vi, 241 pages. Describes 1600 booksellers arranged in separate sections alphabetically and regionally. READ MORE about COLE'S REGISTER OF BRITISH ANTIQUARIAN & SECONDHAND BOOKDEALERS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 70285
Kent, England: Dawson UK LTD., 1992-1993. 8vo. paper wrappers. variously paginated. The three catalogues are: 39, 142 (Back Issues Service), and the 1992/1993 Agency & Reprint Journals catalogue (Back Issues Service). READ MORE about Three catalogues issued by Dawson UK LTD
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135164
London: Dulau & Co., 1845. disbound, all edges marbled. liv, 955 pages. Sales catalogue for Dulau & Co. listing 19,956 Foreign books, mostly in French. A special section is devoted to illustrated works and contains 25 plates of black-and-white illustrations. Works are organized into sections by topic (Illustrated editions, Theology, Medicine, etc.), followed by an alphabetical table of all works. Index pages significantly chipped around edges with text loss and one page entirely lacking. Minor..... READ MORE about A CATALOGUE OF FOREIGN BOOKS, COMPRISING POPULAR & STANDARD WORKS
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 56597
London: Maggs Bros. 1938. square 8vo. later cloth with original stiff paper wrappers bound-in. 99, (7) pages. Catalogue no.658. 834 items described. Index. READ MORE about ECONOMICS, THE HISTORY & GROWTH OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 15220
London: Francis Edwards Ltd., 1975. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 79 pages. Illustrated. With a three page history of the firm by A.K. Russell and a reproduction of the first page of their first catalogue, issued in 1855. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about CATALOGUE ONE THOUSAND PUBLISHED DECEMBER 1975
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 2591
London: The Bibliographical Society, 1989. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 42 pages. Occasional Papers Number 4. Covers rubbed. READ MORE about THE LOAN BOOK OF THE STATIONERS' COMPANY, WITH A LIST OF TRANSACTIONS 1592 - 1692
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 37205
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, Books of Kells, and Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 2012. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 296 pages. Reminiscences of an author, bookseller, and publisher, written at the age of eighty-eight, Colin Franklin's newest book is perhaps his most entertaining. It wanders freely through themes which have absorbed him - a lost world of publishing, adventures in bookselling, and the irreplaceable scholarly eccentrics who dominated that world a generation ago..... READ MORE about OBSESSIONS AND CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK LIFE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 134570
7 volumes.
Birmingham: Birmingham Bibliographica Society, various dates (1975-1987). 4to. stapled stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. 7 volumes. Volumes: No. 1 To 1779; No. 2 1780-1789; No. 3 1790-1799 with addenda to Working Papers 1 and 2; No. 4 1800-1809; No. 5 1810-1819; No. 6 1820-1829; No. 7 1830-1839. Light creasing and wear along edges. Volume one faded towards edges as though placed by a smaller book. Gavin Bridson's invoice laid-in. "West Midlands Book Trade Project, an..... READ MORE about WORKING PAPERS FOR AN HISTORICAL DIRECTORY OF THE WEST MIDLANDS BOOK TRADE TO 1850, COMPILED BY...
Price: $105.00 Order nr. 99528
Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, & Co., 1889. small 8vo. cloth. 56 pages. First edition. A sales catalogue listing items published by George Bell and Sons with an appendix of volumes in Bohn's Libraries. Indexed. Ninteenth century Library markings. Small piece of spine lacking. Cover spotted. READ MORE about A COMPLETE CATALOGUE OF BOOKS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 56260
London: George Bell and Sons, 1887. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 54 pages. First edition. A sales catalogue listing items published by George Bell and Sons with an appendix of volumes in the Bohn's Libraries. Indexed. Ninteenth century library markings. Boards detached and spine lacking. Cover spotted. READ MORE about A COMPLETE CATALOGUE OF BOOKS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 56261
Westerham, England: Westerham Press, 1972. 8vo. cloth, paper cover label, slipcase. 55, (15) pages. First edition. This biography includes an eight page section in facsimile of one of his Cruikshank illustrated books, three sample pages from his Westerham Journal and other material. READ MORE about HENRY GEORGE, PRINTER, BOOKSELLER, STATIONER, AND BOOKBINDER WESTERHAM 1830 - c.1846
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 4548
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1900. small 4to. original paper-covered boards, paper cover and spine labels. xi, 119 pages. First edition (Hart no.75). With 56 illustrations. Contains many biographical sketches and reproductions of portraits of booksellers and printers. Chipped around edges with paper along hinges partially split. Covers soiled. Bumped corners. Spine cracked down the center. READ MORE about NOTES ON PRINTERS AND BOOKSELLERS WITH A CHAPTER ON CHAP BOOKS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 1534
Frankfurt: Buchhändler-Vereinigung, 1964. 8vo. paper wrappers. 142 pages. On price controls for books in England. READ MORE about PREISBINDUNG FUR BUCHER IN ENGLAND, DAS URTEIL DES BRITISCHEN KARTELL
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 51270
London: E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., (1938). large 8vo. stif paper wrappers. 120 pages plus 8 plates. Sales catalogue No. 50 from E.P. Goldschmidt & Co. (Blogie III, 442). 369 items. Includes many books mentioned by Chaucer and Italian novels by Boccaccio and his circle known to have been read by English poets and many incunable editions. Illustrated in black and white and red. Index. Covers soiled and chipped with tears. READ MORE about SOURCES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE BEFORE 1640
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 77530
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, (1967). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 286 pages with 5 illustrations. First edition. Biographical sketch of this English bookseller. READ MORE about HAROLD MONRO AND THE POETRY BOOKSHOP
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 8946
New York: The Dibdin Club, 1903. 8vo. original quarter leather, over green cloth, top edge gilt. xv, 195, (3) pages. First edition, limited to 550 numbered copies, this copy is out of series. With illustrations, foldout plates and bibliographical descriptions. Cracked along hinges and covers close to becoming loose. READ MORE about THREE CENTURIES OF ENGLISH BOOKTRADE BIBLIOGRAPHY, AN ESSAY ON THE BEGINNINGS OF BOOKTRADE...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 38684
London: Sotheby's, 1993. small 4to. paper-covered boards. 117, (11) pages. Rudolf von Gutmann's large collection of fine books and prints are offered for sale here. Among the items for sale are bound volumes of Canaletto prints, Calot's beggar series and Chinese landscape albums. Many examples of fine bindings. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. READ MORE about SAMMLUNG RUDOLF VON GUTMANN INCLUDING CHINESE SCHOOL WATERCOLOURS IN TWO ALBUMS CONTAINING FINE...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 61659
London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, (1935). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 232 pages. Second printing. A survey of the book world. Includes chapters on authorship by Swinnerton, the literary agent by Roberts, Bookselling by Wilson, Provincial Bookselling by Blackwell, second-hand bookselling by Thin, and others. Jacket chipped and faded on spine. READ MORE about THE BOOK WORLD
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 1286
New York: Burt Franklin, (1971). 8vo. cloth. xv, 126 pages. Reprint of the 1907 first edition. With a number of reproductions. READ MORE about THE BOOK MAKERS OF OLD BIRMINGHAM, AUTHORS, PRINTERS AND BOOKSELLERS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 4288
New York: Burt Franklin, (1971). 8vo. cloth. xv, 126 pages. Reprint of the 1907 first edition. With a number of reproductions. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about THE BOOK MAKERS OF OLD BIRMINGHAM, AUTHORS, PRINTERS AND BOOKSELLERS
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 97925
With an Introduction by Graham Pollard.
Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1972. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. ix, (xix), viii, 92, (6) pages. With an Introduction by Graham Pollard. Facsimile of one of the two known copies of this early English directory. A fine copy. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about HODSON'S BOOKSELLERS, PUBLISHERS AND STATIONERS DIRECTORY 1855
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 9121
London: Hookham's Library, n.d. (but circa 1854). 8vo. modern cloth, leather spine label. (ii), 49 pages, *50-*51 leaves, 51-54, 51-650 pages. An unusual catalogue with separatly issued supplements (within the same pagination but on slightly different papers and typography) for the years 1851, 1854, 1857, 1857-1862. Major catagories include history, voyages and travels, plays, poems, biography, romances and novels, divinity, and political tracts. Title page printed in red and blue. Some internal ninteenth century library..... READ MORE about ENGLISH CATALOGUE
Price: $135.00 Order nr. 56335