Alden, John and Dennis C. Landis (editors).

EUROPEAN AMERICANA. VOLUME V: 1701 - 1725.

A CHRONOLOGICAL GUIDE TO WORKS PRINTED IN EUROPE RELATING TO THE AMERICAS, 1493-1750.
Providence and New York: The John Carter Brown Library and Readex Books, 1987. small 4to. cloth. 597 pages. A CHRONOLOGICAL GUIDE TO WORKS PRINTED IN EUROPE RELATING TO THE AMERICAS, 1493-1750. Fifth volume (of six volumes). Entirely superseding Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana, which appeared between 1868 and 1936, European Americana is now, first of all, the most comprehensive bibliographical guide to the entire printed record of European consciousness of the Americas. With more than 30,000..... READ MORE about EUROPEAN AMERICANA. VOLUME V: 1701 - 1725

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(Allingham, William). Lasner, Mark Samuels.

WILLIAM ALLINGHAM, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDY.

Philadelphia: Holmes Publishing Co., 1993. 8vo. unbound signatures. 88 pages. First edition, a set of unbound signatures. This book is the revised and illustrated bibliographical study of this English poet and man of letters. Included is a lengthy introductory comment on Allingham and his works, along with full collations of his first editions, a section of illustrations, and an index. Distributed for Holmes Publishing Co. READ MORE about WILLIAM ALLINGHAM, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDY

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Beckham, Stephen Dow.

THE LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION, A BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ESSAYS.

Portland, OR: Lewis & Clark College, (2003). 8 x 12 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 316 pages. Introduction and essays by the author; bibliography after the text by Doug Erickson, Jeremy Skinner and Paul Merchant. This first comprehensive bibliography of Lewis and Clark expedition publications in a century is based on the world-class collection of materials at the Aubrey R. Watzak Library of Lewis & Clark College. The book is divided into seven sections: the expedition's..... READ MORE about THE LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION, A BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ESSAYS

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(Bird & Bull Press). Atkyns, Richards and William Caslon.

A PAIR ON PRINTING.

Introductions by Carey S. Bliss.
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1982. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. 141 pages. Introductions by Carey S. Bliss. One of 500 copies (Heaney A33). This is the first reprinting in facsimile of two important first books on printing in English. The first is Atkyns' The Original and Growth of Printing(1664) which is the first book devoted to the subject of printing; the second is William Caslon's first type specimen book, also the first English..... READ MORE about A PAIR ON PRINTING

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(Bookbinding). Foot, Mirjam M.

THE HENRY DAVIS GIFT: A COLLECTION OF BOOKBINDINGS (VOL. II).

Volume II: A Catalogue of North-European Bindings.
London: The British Library, (1983). 8.5 x 10.75 inches. cloth with leather spine label. 368 pages. Volume II: A Catalogue of North-European Bindings. First edition. The Henry Davis Gift, A Collection of Bookbindings, Volume II covers bindings made in the British Isles, the Netherlands (including Belgium), Germany, Austria and Denmark. There are 368 entries, arranged by country of origin, as well as chronologically, with excellent bibliographical notes on each binding and the binders who executed..... READ MORE about THE HENRY DAVIS GIFT: A COLLECTION OF BOOKBINDINGS (VOL. II

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(Calligraphy). Henning, William E.

AN ELEGANT HAND, THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICAN PENMANSHIP & CALLIGRAPHY.

Edited by Paul Melzer
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, (2012). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 320 pages. Edited by Paul Melzer. This work chronicles the history of the Golden Age of American penmanship and calligraphy. The author guides the reader through the lives and careers of some of the most important American penmen, including Platt Rogers Spencer, the Father of American Handwriting, and Spencer's gifted student, George A. Gaskell, whose books and periodicals reached hundreds of thousands of students..... READ MORE about AN ELEGANT HAND, THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICAN PENMANSHIP & CALLIGRAPHY

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Chanin, Eileen.

BOOK LIFE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DAVID SCOTT MITCHELL.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2012. 6 x 9.25 inches. paperback. 496 pages. Australia's greatest book collector, David Scott Mitchell, gave his extraordinary library and a bequest for its development to the people of Sydney and the world. Book Life: The Life and Times of David Scott Mitchell, by Eileen Chanin, is the first comprehensive account of his life and collecting, told through books, readings, and contemporary correspondence. Mitchell was a man of astoundingly..... READ MORE about BOOK LIFE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DAVID SCOTT MITCHELL

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Cohen, Ben.

THE THAMES 1580-1980: A GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2008. 8.5 x 11 inches. cloth. 400 pages. Reprint of the out-of-print 1985 first edition with the addition of an index which was lacking from the first edition. This book represents the first bibliographic attempt to record the vast amount of literature on the River Thames written between 1580 and 1980. Annotations are grouped by topic and arranged alphabetically by author, when available. Topics include floods, bridges, fishing, frost..... READ MORE about THE THAMES 1580-1980: A GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

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(Connecticut). Parks, Roger (editor).

CONNECTICUT, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ITS HISTORY.

Hanover: University Press of New England for the Committee for a New England Bibliography, 1986. small 4to. cloth. xlii, 591 pages. First edition. Volume Six of the series entitled Bibliographies of New England History. Preface by John Borden Armstrong and Foreword by Roger Parks. 9,778 entries. READ MORE about CONNECTICUT, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ITS HISTORY

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(Doves Press). Tidcombe, Marianne.

THE DOVES PRESS.

New Castle, DE: The British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 2002. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 272 pages. First edition. Fine in near fine jacket. This highly-researched work is the most authoritative account of the first and most famous private press of the 20th century - The Doves Press. Starting its operation in the wake of William Morris, the Doves Press became a major influence in the development of modern book design. Marianne Tidcombe reveals..... READ MORE about THE DOVES PRESS

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(Etherington, Don). Landon, Richard; Marie E. Korey (editor).

A LONG WAY FROM THE ARMSTRONG BEER PARLOUR - A LIFE IN RARE BOOKS: ESSAYS BY RICHARD LANDON.

With an Introduction by Marie Elena Korey
New Castle, DE and Toronto: Oak Knoll Press and The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, 2014. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 440 pages. With an Introduction by Marie Elena Korey. First edition, with this particular copy is a full unsigned leather binding by Don Etherington. Full leather, with decorated leather onlays on the front panel. Leather spine label onlayed onto the spine with title in gilt. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Cloth covered clamshell..... READ MORE about A LONG WAY FROM THE ARMSTRONG BEER PARLOUR - A LIFE IN RARE BOOKS: ESSAYS BY RICHARD LANDON

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Franklin, Colin.

OBSESSIONS AND CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK LIFE.

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

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Goldman, Paul.

BEYOND DECORATION, THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS.

New Castle, Delaware & London, England & Middlesex, England: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library & Private Libraries Association, 2005. 7 x 12 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 337 pages. First edition. John Everett Millais is admired as one of the most celebrated of Pre-Raphaelite painters. Perhaps less known is the major contribution he made both to book and periodical illustration between 1852 and 1883. Many of these book illustrations remain little known today, largely..... READ MORE about BEYOND DECORATION, THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS

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