Vienna: Alfred Hölder, 1908. 8vo. paper wrappers. 24 pages. Wrappers spotted. READ MORE about KLOSTERDRUCKEREI IM PRAMONSTRATENSERSTIFTE BRUCK A.D. THAYA (MAHREN), 1595-1608
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 48867
Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1923. folio. original cloth, gilt on cover and spine, leather spine label. [vi], 446 pages. First edition. Front hinge starting. Rubbing along the edges of the boards and spine ends. Bump to fore-edge of the front cover with minor loss. Corners rubbed. Over 480 illustrations / facsimiles, footnotes & references, chronological survey, chronologial table, index persons. Very scarce. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely..... READ MORE about GESCHICHTE DES SPANISCHEN FRUHDRUCKES IN STAMMBAUMEN
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 136394
Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1978. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. vii, 39 pages. First edition. Introduction by Neal Harlow. Some soiling of covers. READ MORE about THE COLONIAL PRINTER, TWO VIEWS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 19693
Mainz: Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 1931. 8vo. paper wrappers. 36, (4) pages and (8) pages of plates. An account of the birth and spread of newspapers with special reference to the AVISA first printed in Augsburg in 1609. Illustrated. Printed as the 16th Kleiner Druck of the Gutenberg-Gesellschaft. READ MORE about DIE ALTESTE GEDRUCKTE ZEITUNG
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 43544
Mainz: Gutenberg Gesellschaft, 1990. 8vo. boards. 83+(1) pages. Kleiner Druck no.108. With contributions by Dr. Anton M. Keim, Dr. Severin Corsten, and others. READ MORE about GUTENBERG-PREIS DER STADT MAINZ UND DER GUTENBERG-GESELLSCHAFT VERLIEHEN AN LOTTE...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 38253
Menlo Park, CA: The Herity Press, 1957. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (12) pages. Limited to 50 copies. An excerpt from Moxon's MECHANICK EXERCISES, London, 1683, the first manual in English on printing. Printed by Ben Lieberman at the Herity Press. READ MORE about ANCIENT CUSTOMS USED IN A PRINTING-HOUSE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 116516
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
Delivered at the Twenty-second Conference on the History of the British Book Trade Birmingham, July 2005
New Castle, Delaware and London, England: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2008. 6 x 9 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 281 pages. Delivered at the Twenty-second Conference on the History of the British Book Trade Birmingham, July 2005. First edition. This ninth volume of the Print Networks series contains twelve exciting chapters from scholars working on the connections between the parties involved in the production of print artifacts; from author to printer, publisher, bookseller..... READ MORE about BOOK TRADE CONNECTIONS FROM THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURIES
Price: $49.95 Order nr. 96655
Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1978. thick 8vo. cloth. xxii, 813 pages. First edition. Minor soiling to covers, else near fine. This scholarly work contains biographies and bibliographies of imprints of 25 women printers as well as a listing of other women printers from the period covered. Included in the list of 25 printers are Elizabeth Glover, who was responsible for the first imprint struck off on American soil and the BAY PSALM BOOK and Mary Goddard who..... READ MORE about EARLY AMERICAN WOMEN PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS, 1639-1820
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 4324
Milano: Associazione Editoriale Libraria Italiana, 1927. 4to. later cloth. Not paginated. Exhibition catalogue showing highlights of Italian printing and design. 290 books described in detail accompanied by 52 full-page plates. Original paper front cover bound-in at the end. READ MORE about DAL QUATTROCENTO AL NOVECENTO, PRIMA MOSTRA DEL LIBRO ITALIANO A BUENO AIRES SOTTO L'ALTO...
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 33070
Milano: Associazione Editoriale Libraria Italiana, 1927. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. Exhibition catalogue showing highlights of Italian printing and design. 290 books described in detail accompanied by 52 full-page plates. Wrappers chipped with tear in spine covering. READ MORE about DAL QUATTROCENTO AL NOVECENTO, PRIMA MOSTRA DEL LIBRO ITALIANO A BUENO AIRES SOTTO L'ALTO...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 49049
Groningen: Wolters-Noordhoff Publishing, 1970. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiii, 296 pages. First edition. Biography of this Philadelphia printer followed by a bibiographical catalogue of Jansen imprints. Fine condition. READ MORE about REYNIER JANSEN OF PHILADELPHIA, EARLY AMERICAN PRINTER. A CHAPTER IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 22827
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xviii, 753 pages. Reprint of the first edition. The author traces the evolution of publishing, printing, and authorship, in London but also elsewhere, from the later 16th century to the early 18th, with attention to the social and legal organization of booksellers and printers, the growing awareness of the political implications of publishing and the problems of licensing, the problem of uncontrolled proliferation (piracy)..... READ MORE about THE NATURE OF THE BOOK. PRINT AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE MAKING
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 126316
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1983. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 322 pages. First edition. These essays have been written by leading scholars on early bookselling, reading habits and the impact of printing in early America. Printing history in its broadest context may be viewed as a distinct form of cultural history, a synthesis combining the attention to ideas that is central to intellectual history with the emphasis on patterns of behavior and organization characteristic of..... READ MORE about PRINTING AND SOCIETY IN EARLY AMERICA
Price: $37.50 Order nr. 14220
London: The Bibliographical Society, 1975. 4to. cloth. xii, 188 pages. First edition. Chapters on Successor to Steele, Politics of the Music Patents, Psalm Books, Song Books, Engravings, etc. READ MORE about ENGLISH MUSIC PRINTING, 1553-1700
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 4387
London: The Bibliographical Society, 1975. 4to. cloth. xii, 188 pages. First edition. This study examines the printing of music in Britain from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with chapters on music patents, Psalm books, part books, song books, and broadsides. It includes many black-and-white illustrations, a chronological synopsis, a bibliography, and an index. Distributed for the Bibliographial Society, London. READ MORE about ENGLISH MUSIC PRINTING, 1553-1700
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 60367
London: Philip Allan, 1922. tall 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, leather spine label. (xviii), 125, (7) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 275 copies. Introduction by Campbell Dodgson, Keeper of Prints at the British Museum. Careful study of how Pierre Lombart (1613-1682) lifted the horse and rider from Van Dyck's painting of King Charles I. Under an Archway for his famous engraving of Cromwell on Horseback. Illustrated. With a short summary of the..... READ MORE about THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN, PIERRE LOMBART'S ENGRAVING, CHARLES OR CROMWELL?
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 70039
With a discussion of the German woodcut broadsides of the seventeenth century by Ingeborg Lehmann-Haupt.
New York: Abaris books, (1977). 4to. cloth. 282 pages. With a discussion of the German woodcut broadsides of the seventeenth century by Ingeborg Lehmann-Haupt. First edition. A good introduction to this vast, neglected area of study. Mainly concentrates on the Netherlands where most of the interesting work in this area was being produced at the time. Well-illustrated. Covers and spine faded. READ MORE about AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WOODCUT OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 75991
San Marino, California: Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2016. 8 x 11.875 inches. Hardcover, three-piece case binding with debossed and tipped-on title. 176 pages. A catalogue issued in conjunction with "Gardens, Art, and Commerce in Chinese Woodblock Prints" at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, September 17, 2016-January 9, 2017. The exhibition and catalogue explore the art, craft, and cultural significance of Chinese woodblock prints made during their golden age, from..... READ MORE about GARDENS, ART, AND COMMERCE IN CHINESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS
Price: $49.95 Order nr. 129157
London: W. Adlard and J. Browne, 1770. 8vo. later half leather with marbled paper-covered boards, leather spine label, gilt ruling on spine. Frontispiece; (xii), 502, (4) pages. First edition. (Bigmore & Wyman I, 447). The practical instructions are the best part of the book. In addition to the Caslon type specimens there are 23 pages of flowers and other types of ornaments. Pages 133-168 are a Caslon specimen of type faces with foreign types, music..... READ MORE about CONCISE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF PRINTING WITH PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS TO THE TRADE...
Price: $1,250.00 Order nr. 2224
Two volumes bound in one.
New York: Burt Franklin, (1970). small 8vo. cloth. xvi,(iv),160; (viii),161 pages. Two volumes bound in one. Text in Latin. Reprint of the 1717 first edition. (See Bigmore & Wyman II,14). With two plates showing seven printer's marks. Bibliographical and biographical accounts of the lives and works of the Parisian printers Simon de Colines, Michel Vascosan, G. Morel, A. Turnebo, F. Morel and Jean Bienne. Contains about 1500 titles printed by these printers. READ MORE about HISTORIA TYPOGRAPHORUM ALIQUOT PARISIENSIUM VITAS ET LIBROS COMPLECTENS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 4464
(Valletta, Malta): National Library of Malta, (1992). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 38 pages. Foreword by the librarian, Essay by William Zammit. Catalogue of an exhibition commemmorating the 350th anniversary of the introduction of printing to Malta. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout text. READ MORE about PRINTING IN MALTA DURING THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 130570
Chicago: privately printed, 1942. square 8vo. paper wrappers. 6 pages followed by facsimile. A partial facsimile of one of the earliest and scarcest accounts of printing by hand. READ MORE about AN INTEGRAL FACSIMILE OF ANNALES TYPOGRAPHIQUES DE BOURGES. BY NICOLAS CATHERINOT, PRINTED AND...
Price: $11.00 Order nr. 11187
Amsterdame: N. Israel, 1964. small 4to. cloth. (vi),lii,823,(3) pages. "First facsimile editions" of bibliographies of imprints in the State of Puebla de los Angeles (now Puebla). The first, by J.T. Medina (1852-1930) first appeared in 1908, for which edition see Besterman 5158. The second, by Teixidor (not in Besterman), was first published in 1961. Medina contains 1,928 numbered entries (not counting subentries) for 1640-1821; the Teixidor "additions," based on the collection of Florencio Gavito, run..... READ MORE about LA IMPRENTA EN LA PUEBLA DE LOS ANGELES
Price: $70.00 Order nr. 136051
