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(Aldine Press). Renouard, Antoine-Augustin.

ANNALES DE L'IMPRIMERIE DES ALDE OU HISTOIRE DES TROIS MANUCE ET DE LEURS ÉDITIONS.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Books, 1991. thick 8vo. cloth. 688 pages. Third edition, originally published in Paris in 1834 in only 350 copies. (Besterman p.5153; Breslauer and Folter no.115 for first edition). This famous bibliography of the output of the Manutius family and their Aldine Press, 1494-1598, has remained the standard work on the subject and has been praised as a classic of its kind. Over 1500 entries given. READ MORE about ANNALES DE L'IMPRIMERIE DES ALDE OU HISTOIRE DES TROIS MANUCE ET DE LEURS ÉDITIONS

Price: $95.00 Order nr. 137289

(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

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 54057

Balsamo, Luigi.

BIBLIOGRAPHY, HISTORY OF TRADITION.

Translated by William A. Pettas.
Berkeley, CA: Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1990. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. iii, 209 pages. Translated by William A. Pettas. First U.S. edition. Originally published in Italian as LA BIBLIOGRAFIA, STORIA DI UNA TRADIZIONE IN 1984. Explains the circumstances and objectives behind the evolution of bibliographies. Includes chapters on books and book distribution in the Middle Ages, the introduction of printing, seventeenth century libraries, and the bibliography of librarians and historians in the nineteenth century. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY, HISTORY OF TRADITION

Price: $30.00 Order nr. 30553

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

Price: $50.00 Order nr. 73443

Belanger, Terry.

LUNACY AND THE ARRANGEMENT OF BOOKS.

New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 2003. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 24 pages. First edition, third printing. A humorous and poignant essay on the idiosyncrasies of book arrangements by collectors over the centuries. Professor Belanger treats the reader to some of the idiotic methods of categorizing and shelving books. One gem from an etiquette book of 1863 decreed that a perfect hostess will see to it that the works of male and female authors be..... READ MORE about LUNACY AND THE ARRANGEMENT OF BOOKS

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 14014

(Bird & Bull Press). Pfeiffer, Gordon (editor).

AN ANTHOLOGY OF DELAWARE PAPERMAKING.

With an introduction by Gordon A. Pfeiffer and four wood engravings by John DePol.
New Castle, DE: Delaware Bibliophiles and Oak Knoll Books, 1991. 8vo. quarter cloth, printed paper over boards, leather spine label. 81, (3) pages. With an introduction by Gordon A. Pfeiffer and four wood engravings by John DePol. Limited to 200 numbered copies; this copy is out of series (Berger B40). Set in Bell and printed on mouldmade paper by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press. This work is based on an original article..... READ MORE about AN ANTHOLOGY OF DELAWARE PAPERMAKING

Price: $175.00 Order nr. 52522

(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

Price: $120.00 Order nr. 104824

(British Museum). Ellis, Edward F.

THE BRITISH MUSEUM IN FICTION; A CHECKLIST.

Buffalo: Privately printed, 1981. 8vo. cloth. xiv, 193, (2) pages. First edition, one of 500 copies. This is an incredible bibliography listing fictional works in which the British Museum is mentioned. Entries are arranged alphabetically by author with an index by title. Each book is accompanied by a short statement or quote from the book as to its reference to the British Museum. Printed at The Anthoensen Press. READ MORE about THE BRITISH MUSEUM IN FICTION; A CHECKLIST

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 3509

(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

Price: $59.95 Order nr. 68991

Carter, John & Nicolas Barker.

ABC FOR BOOK COLLECTORS.

Eighth US Edition With Corrections, Additions and an Introduction by Nicolas Barker.
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, (2013). tall 12mo. cloth, dust jacket. 232 pages. Eighth US Edition With Corrections, Additions and an Introduction by Nicolas Barker. Eighth edition, completely revised and re-set, with additional information and an Introduction by Nicolas Barker. Shaken, Unsophisticated, Harleian Style, Fingerprint, E-book, Dentelle. Can you define these terms? If not, this is the book for you! John Carter's ABC for Book Collectors has long been established as the most enjoyable..... READ MORE about ABC FOR BOOK COLLECTORS

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 75338

(Children's Books). Roscoe, S.

JOHN NEWBERY AND HIS SUCCESSORS 1740-1814, A BIBLIOGRAPHY.

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

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

Price: $125.00 Order nr. 95870

(Colines, Simon De). Schreiber, Fred.

SIMON DE COLINES, AN ANNOTATED CATALOGUE OF 230 EXAMPLES OF HIS PRESS 1520-1546.

Provo: Friends of the Brigham Young University Library, 1995. small 4to. sewn unbound sheets. lxxxiv, 242, (4) pages. First edition, limited to 750 copies. Unbound in sheets. READ MORE about SIMON DE COLINES, AN ANNOTATED CATALOGUE OF 230 EXAMPLES OF HIS PRESS 1520-1546

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 45505

(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

Price: $70.00 Order nr. 57058

(Emerson, Ralph Waldo). Burkholder, Robert E. and Joel Myerson.

EMERSON, AN ANNOTATED SECONDARY BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985. thick 8vo. cloth. xiv, 842, (4) pages. First edition. A must for the Emerson scholar. READ MORE about EMERSON, AN ANNOTATED SECONDARY BIBLIOGRAPHY

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 53797

(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

Price: $400.00 Order nr. 134379

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

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 134570

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

Price: $30.00 Order nr. 76550

(Grolier Club). Edwards, George (editor).

THE GROLIER CLUB ITER GALLICO-HELVETICUM.

A Bibliophilic Tour of Paris & Alsace & Geneva
New York: The Grolier Club, 2013. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. hardcover. 210 pages. A Bibliophilic Tour of Paris & Alsace & Geneva. One of 26 lettered copies bound in leather by Don Etherington. This book contains thirty essays, about two hundred color photographs, and two poems, all by the travelers on the Grolier Club's Iter Gallico-Helveticum, a seven-day journey through France and Switzerland in 2012. This "Iter" was the latest in a long line of..... READ MORE about THE GROLIER CLUB ITER GALLICO-HELVETICUM

Price: $500.00 Order nr. 134365

(Hyde, Donald and Mary). Austin, Gabriel (editor).

FOUR OAKS LIBRARY.

Somerville: Privately printed, 1967. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. xiii,136 pages. Well-illustrated descriptions. The library has become a renowned source repository of material relating to English literature (especially Samuel Johnson) of the 18th century. READ MORE about FOUR OAKS LIBRARY

Price: $30.00 Order nr. 79759

(Illuminated Manuscripts). Hindman, Sandra and Michael Camille, Nina Rowe, Rowan Watson.

MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION IN THE MODERN AGE: RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION.

(Evanston, IL: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, 2001. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xxviii, 329+(1) pages in addition to 32 leaves of color plates. First edition. A fine copy. Three hundred years ago, now treasured medieval manuscripts were scorned, neglected and left to vandals. An exhibit held at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art early in 2001, sought to explore new ideas and perspectives on the destruction and reconstitution of illuminated..... READ MORE about MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION IN THE MODERN AGE: RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 136661

Kelly, Jerry (editor).

THE GAZETTE OF THE GROLIER CLUB, NEW SERIES, NUMBER 55.

New York: Grolier Club, The, 2004. 5.5 x 8.75 inches. paperback. 68 pages. Mary Hyde Eccles: A Tribute, by Carolyn L. Smith; "Dear Mary":An Address for the Memorial Service of Mary Hyde Eccles, by William Zachs; What Do You Specialize In? A Few Recollections from the Caribbean, by Jack W. C. Hagstrom; Living with Piranesi, by Richard Wendorf; To The Ends of the Earth: Voyaging with Rockwell Kent, by Robert H. Jackson. READ MORE about THE GAZETTE OF THE GROLIER CLUB, NEW SERIES, NUMBER 55

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 135671

Klein, Alan, Paul Muldoon, and Daniel Halpern.

TWO AMERICAN POETS: WALLACE STEVENS AND WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS.

New York: Grolier Club, The, 2019. 6 x 9 inches. Paperback. 256 pages. Catalogue of the exhibition at the Grolier Club, January 16-February 23, 2019, photographically illustrated and with essays by biographer Paul Mariani, poets Paul Muldoon and Daniel Halpern, and collector Alan Klein. Illuminating the parallel and overlapping careers and relationships of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, the exhibition juxtaposes the two poets with unique material on view for the first time. It..... READ MORE about TWO AMERICAN POETS: WALLACE STEVENS AND WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

Price: $35.00 Order nr. 134532

(Lawrence, D.H.). Ross, Charles L.

COMPOSITION OF THE RAINBOW AND WOMEN IN LOVE: A HISTORY.

Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, (1979). small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 168 pages. First edition. A study of the sequence of writing and revision of these two D.H. Lawrence novels. Includes the history of Lawrence's involvement with the drafts of each novel and the impact of literary agents and publishers on the novels. READ MORE about COMPOSITION OF THE RAINBOW AND WOMEN IN LOVE: A HISTORY

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 53825

(Libraries). Davis Jr, Donald G. and John Mark Tucker.

AMERICAN LIBRARY HISTORY, A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE.

Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, (1989). 4to. cloth. xxi, 473 pages. First edition. Spoting and foxing to boards and textblock. Ink stamp on front free endpaper. With foreword by Edward G. Holley. This is a bibliography of literature dealing with libraries in the United States and contains 15 chapters which deal extensively with topics such as private libraries, public libraries, academic libraries, school education for librarianship and library associations to name a few. This book was..... READ MORE about AMERICAN LIBRARY HISTORY, A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 33481

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