(Blomefield, Francis). Stoker, David A.

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE REVEREND FRANCIS BLOMEFIELD (1705-52).

N.P. The Bibliographical Society, 1992. large 8vo. cloth. 276 pages. Francis Blomefield compiled and published the fascicles of what might have been the most comprehensive topographical history of any English county, when he died at the age of forty-seven. The 294 letters transcribed in this volume were written by, to, or (in a few cases) on behalf of Blomefield, historian and private printer. Indexed. Distributed for the Society. READ MORE about CORRESPONDENCE OF THE REVEREND FRANCIS BLOMEFIELD (1705-52

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(Center for Book Arts). Campos, Alexander and Heidi Neilson.

METADATA: SOURCE MATERIALS VISUALIZED.

New York, NY: Center for Book Arts, 2016. 8.5 x 5.25 inches. paperback. unpaginated. Metadata: Source Materials Visualized presents artists books, book-related artworks, and text-based new media that are visual interpretations, extrapolations, and recontextualizations of researched source materials such as data analysis, surveying, mapping, plotting, data mining, statistics, analytics, observations, and schemes. READ MORE about METADATA: SOURCE MATERIALS VISUALIZED

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(Center for Book Arts). Keene, John.

SEISMOSIS.

New York: Center for Book Arts, 2003. 8vo. blue Aurora covers with embossed design, hand sewn with inner edges of covers folded and caught inside between signatures. (16) pages. Edition of 150 numbered copies signed by the author and the illustrator. Printed from photopolymer plates on Permalin Dove Gray and Vanilla Antique papers with Aurora covers. The text was set in Lucida. Drawings are by Christopher Stackhouse; lithography of images by David Lantow; letterpress printing..... READ MORE about SEISMOSIS

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(Chesterfield, Lord). Gulick, Sidney L.

CHESTERFIELD BIBLIOGRAPHY TO 1800.

Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of America, (1979). 8vo. cloth. (ix), 225 pages. Second edition. Began as a supplement to the orginal edition published in 1935, Gulick decided to complete the work as a completely revised edition. The reputation of this English 18th-century author, who wrote such works as LETTERS TO HIS SON 1774, was openly abused after the publication of LETTERS. However, after the initial response, the outspoken appreciation of his readers and critics and the..... READ MORE about CHESTERFIELD BIBLIOGRAPHY TO 1800

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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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Glick, William J.

IN THE SERVICE OF SCHOLARSHIP: HAROLD HUGO & THE MERIDEN GRAVURE COMPANY.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. 7.375 x 10.5 inches. Cloth with dust jacket. 208 pages. "This work skillfully demonstrates that the aura of unsurpassed quality around the work of Harold and Meriden was both hard earned and richly deserved.... a handsome book that alludes in choice of type, layout, printing quality, and binding to a Meriden Gravure publication." - Paul M. Wright, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America "Throughout its nearly century-long..... READ MORE about IN THE SERVICE OF SCHOLARSHIP: HAROLD HUGO & THE MERIDEN GRAVURE COMPANY

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Hinks, John and Catherine Armstrong (editors).

BOOK TRADE CONNECTIONS FROM THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURIES.

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

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(Johnson, Samuel). Vander Meulen, David L. and G. Thomas Tanselle.

SAMUEL JOHNSON'S TRANSLATION OF SALLUST, A FACSIMILE AND TRANSCRIPTION OF THE HYDE MANUSCRIPT.

New York: The Johnsonians and Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1993. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. vi, 42 pages. Limited to 750 copies printed by The Stinehour Press. Facsimile and transcription of the surviving portion of Johnson's 1783 translation of Sallust's Conspiracy of Catiline. This is the first publication of this manuscript. READ MORE about SAMUEL JOHNSON'S TRANSLATION OF SALLUST, A FACSIMILE AND TRANSCRIPTION OF THE HYDE MANUSCRIPT

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(Lear, Edward). Schiller, Justin G.

NONSENSUS: CROSS-REFERENCING EDWARD LEAR'S ORIGINAL 116 LIMERICKS WITH EIGHT HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS AND COMPARING THEM TO PRINTED TEXTS FROM THE 1846,1855 AND 1861 VERSIONS; TOGETHER WITH A CENSUS OF KNOWN COPIES OF THE GENUINE FIRST EDITION.

With introductory remarks by Vivien Noakes.
Stroud: Catalpa Press, 1988. oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 119 pages. With introductory remarks by Vivien Noakes. A fascinating census of the limericks in Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense,which was first published in 1846 as two separate volumes with seventy-three limericks. A "new" (i.e. second) edition came out in 1855, and a third edition with forty-three additional verses was published in 1861. This third edition provides the first full text and also identifies Lear..... READ MORE about NONSENSUS: CROSS-REFERENCING EDWARD LEAR'S ORIGINAL 116 LIMERICKS WITH EIGHT HOLOGRAPH...

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(Pepys, Samuel). Wilson, Edward M. and Don W. Cruickshank.

SAMUEL PEPYS'S SPANISH PLAYS.

London: The Bibliographical Society, 1980. 8vo. cloth. (viii), 196 pages. First edition. A detailed study on the subject with much about printing and the book trade in Seville up to 1700. Distributed for the Bibliographical Society. READ MORE about SAMUEL PEPYS'S SPANISH PLAYS

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Pirie, James W.

WILLIAM STAFFORD: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY.

New Castle, Delaware and Portland, Oregon: Oak Knoll Press and Lewis & Clark College, 2013. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover with dust jacket. 544 pages. William Stafford (1914-1993) was one of the most prolific and important American poets of the last half of the twentieth century. Among his many awards, Stafford served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, and received the National Book Award in 1963 for his poetry collection Traveling through..... READ MORE about WILLIAM STAFFORD: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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(Powys, Llewelyn). Foss, Peter J.

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LLEWELYN POWYS.

New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2007. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 308 pages. First edition. The brothers John Cowper Powys, Theodore Francis Powys and Llewelyn Powys were members of a prolific and influential circle of writers and poets of the early twentieth century. In this, the first comprehensive bibliography of the writings of Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939), Peter Foss not only provides a complete description of every first..... READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LLEWELYN POWYS

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(Shakespeare, William). Evans, G. Blakemore (editor).

SHAKESPEAREAN PROMPT-BOOKS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Vol. VI. Part i INTRODUCTION TO THE SMOCK ALLEY OTHELLO and Part ii TEXT OF THE SMOCK ALLEY OTHELLO.

2 volumes bound in 1.
Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1980. 4to. quarter cloth, paper cover and spine labels. (iv),36; (1) page followed by a 23 page facsimile. 2 volumes bound in 1. From the Smock Alley Theatre of Dublin. Contains partial text illustrations, an introduction, and collations. READ MORE about SHAKESPEAREAN PROMPT-BOOKS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Vol. VI. Part i INTRODUCTION TO THE SMOCK...

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