New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2015. tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 208 pages. "Sumptuously illustrated, skillfully printed, and well documented." -- Jeffrey Mifflin, Printing History, Winter 2017 "Thompson describes this phenomenon in England, the United States and France; it is an account awash with quotations that reveal how varied and contradictory views of the subject were." -- Sebastian Carter, TLS "Thompson has managed to cover a vast amount of material in a fairly short space..... READ MORE about AESTHETIC TRACTS: INNOVATION IN LATE-NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOOK DESIGN

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2013. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 160 pages. Ethel Reed (1874-1912) is one of the most elusive figures in the history of American graphic design. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, she moved in the 1890s to Boston, where, while still in her early twenties, she achieved international recognition for her posters - and for her personal glamour. "The beautiful poster lady" is how newspapers of the day described..... READ MORE about THE BEAUTIFUL POSTER LADY: A LIFE OF ETHEL REED

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and American Antiquarian Society, 2014. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, slipcase. 688 pages in two volumes. This work for the first time presents the complete transcription of the diary of Alexander Anderson (1775-1870), the father of wood engraving in America. It starts at the beginning of his career and covers almost six years of daily entries. Comprehensive footnotes identify the books he illustrated during those years (included in a...... READ MORE about ALEXANDER ANDERSON'S NEW YORK CITY DIARY, 1793 TO 1799

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Washington, DC: Folger Shakespeare Library, 2007. 10.75 x 17 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 594 pages. 3. The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608 is one of the Folger Shakespeare Library's greatest treasures. Aside from Shakespeare's First Folio, it is the only book in the Folger collection to have an entire exhibition devoted to it, in 2004. Its 594 oversized pages depict life in Shakespeare's England in all of its brilliant complexities-from the mythical to the mundane, poetical..... READ MORE about THE TREVELYON MISCELLANY OF 1608: A FACSIMILE OF FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY MS V.B.232

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Riga: Neputns, 2014. 9 x 11 inches. paperback. 336 pages. Using over 700 color images of illustrated book covers and wrappers, this book presents a fascinating view of the remarkable, and as yet unheralded, creativity which characterized publishing and book design in Latvia between the World Wars. The majority of covers shown herein were made by artists or designers commissioned by publishers to attract potential buyers. It is through these illustrated covers and wrappers for..... READ MORE about PUBLISHING AND BOOK DESIGN IN LATVIA 1919 - 1940: A RE-DISCOVERY

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With the CD "Illustrations: Supplement to the Book"
New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press and the British Library, 2007. 7 x 10 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 230 pages plus 8 pages of plates. With the CD "Illustrations: Supplement to the Book" Jessie M. King (1875-1949) was the foremost Scottish book designer and illustrator of the 20th century. Her work reflected the mixture of Symbolism and Arts & Crafts practiced by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the others of "The Four" in Glasgow where..... READ MORE about A GUIDE TO THE PRINTED WORK OF JESSIE M. KING

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New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 1996. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 318 pages with 113 illustrations. Paperback edition. Reprint of the first edition with additional illustrations and new introduction. With his Kelmscott Press and associations with the Arts & Crafts Movement, William Morris helped raise the public's awareness of fine books to new heights. Morris inspired and influenced a generation of other designers and those working in American typography..... READ MORE about AMERICAN BOOK DESIGN AND WILLIAM MORRIS With a new Foreword by Jean-Francois Vilain

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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. "It was at heart Landon's hard work and connections that turned the Fisher Library into the world-class rare book and manuscript collection that it is today... These essays are exactly what polite essays should be: full of recondite information attractively expressed, and somehow..... READ MORE about A LONG WAY FROM THE ARMSTRONG BEER PARLOUR - A LIFE IN RARE BOOKS: ESSAYS BY RICHARD LANDON

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With an Introduction to the Reader by Robert D. Fleck
(New Castle, DE): Oak Knoll Press, 2006. 8vo. cloth, deckle edges, paper cover label. 52 pages. With an Introduction to the Reader by Robert D. Fleck. Limited to 900 numbered copies of which this is one of 700 printed by hand at the Kotinos Press in Athens, Greece. Issued in conjunction with the 30th Anniversary of Oak Knoll and containing a biographical introduction by its proprietor, Robert Fleck. Konstantinos Staikos has become more than an..... READ MORE about THE MIRROR OF THE LIBRARY

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and HES & DE GRAAF Publishers, 2013. 6.75 x 9.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 304 pages. This publication examines the papyrus books collected by Plato himself, a habit which began when he was still 'studying' under Socrates and continued throughout his years of teaching in the Academy. The book deals extensively with the works of the Ionian and Eleatic Natural Philosophers, as well as of the Pythagoreans, which informed..... READ MORE about BOOKS AND IDEAS: THE LIBRARY OF PLATO AND THE ACADEMY

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The Trade Set - Order all five volumes of The History of the Library in Western Civilization series at one time and get the Index volume (a $45 value) for free. Retail $450, now $375!
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and HES & DE GRAAF Publishers BV, 2004-2013. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 374, 364, 608, 532, 624, 216 pages. The Trade Set - Order all five volumes of The History of the Library in Western Civilization series at one time and get the Index volume (a $45 value) for free. Retail $450, now $375! This is the six-volume series addressing the unique role libraries have played in building..... READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION - THE COMPLETE SET

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and HES & DE GRAAF Publishers BV, 2005. 8.5 x 11.5 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 364 pages. II. This second volume continues Staikos' brilliant history of the library from the early days of the Roman Republic to the "Golden Age" of Imperial Rome and the Emperor Hadrian. Extensively researched and beautifully illustrated with many rare photographs and drawings. Printed in Athens with careful attention to detail. Co-published with HES..... READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION: THE ROMAN WORLD - FROM CICERO TO HADRIAN

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Volume IV
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and HES & DE GRAAF Publishers BV, 2010. 8.5 x 11.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 532 pages. Volume IV. This fourth volume discusses the publishing procedure for secular and religious writings of late antiquity and the factors that led to the impoverishment of the monumental libraries in Rome. New centers of learning grew up in the monasteries, where great libraries containing educational and instructive books and representative works of..... READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION: THE MEDIEVAL WORLD IN THE WEST - FROM...

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