New York: The Grolier Club, 1998. 6 x 9 inches. paperback. 120 pages. This catalogue, made to accompany the exhibition held at the Grolier Club from March 11 to May 2, 1998, expresses the voices of American women writers through their books. The catalogue explores the movement of women writers in America, beginning with the homespun verse of Ann Bradstreet (the first volume of poetry published by any American) and closing with the appearance of..... READ MORE about EMERGING VOICES: AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS, 1650-1920

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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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Sydney: Hordern House, 2008. 9.5" x 6.5" hardcover. 327 pages. First edition. This book traces the genesis of the Barrington books in rich and evocative detail, offering a compelling account of publishing history in England and on the continent, and displaying the subtle machinations of the book trade in a world without copyright laws. Throughout, The Celebrated George Barrington combines the rigour of book history and bibliographical research with a fresh and engaging style. Of..... READ MORE about THE CELEBRATED GEORGE BARRINGTON: A SPURIOUS AUTHOR; THE BOOK TRADE, AND BOTANY BAY

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2 volumes.
Chestertown: Chester River Press, 2009. 12.5 x 14.5 inches. cloth, dust jackets, slipcase. 550; 434 pages. 2 volumes. Acclaimed by Samuel Johnson as "a performance which no age or nation could hope to equal," Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad and Odyssey stands as one of the glories of English Literature. The Chester River Press edition of the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer has been designed and printed to reflect the epic proportions of this..... READ MORE about THE ILIAD AND ODYSSEY OF HOMER AS TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER POPE, IN GREEK AND ENGLISH. WITH AN...

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A History of the Florentine Firm and a Catalogue of the Editions
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2012. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover. 1096 pages. A History of the Florentine Firm and a Catalogue of the Editions. This ambitious project explores in detail the history and output of the Giunti Press in Florence, covering the firm from its beginnings in 1497 to its end in 1625, and providing descriptions of each Giunti book published with extensive indication of the libraries holding copies of each edition. In..... READ MORE about THE GIUNTI OF FLORENCE: A RENAISSANCE PRINTING AND PUBLISHING FAMILY

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. 8vo. cloth, 624 pages. illustrated. This is the first book-length presentation of the life and works of James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, the eminent Shakespearean scholar. Halliwell was a man of prodigious energy and wide interests. His six hundred or so publications deal, not only with Shakespeare and early modern literature, but also cover mathematics, lexicography, the history of science, archaeology, and many other important subjects of his day. This..... READ MORE about JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS: THE LIFE AND WORKS

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Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2014. 6 x 9 inches. paperback pamphlet. 27 pages. David L. Vander Meulen's Where Angels Fear to Tread: Descriptive Bibliography and Alexander Pope has come to be regarded as a classic statement of the purposes and methods of descriptive bibliography. Initially presented as the 1987 Engelhard Lecture and subsequently published by the Library of Congress, Where Angels Fear to Tread is now published in a new edition..... READ MORE about WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD: DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ALEXANDER POPE

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New York: The Grolier Club, 1995. 6 x 9 inches. paperback. 35 pages. Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage was published on September 27, 1895. This exhibition celebrates the centennial of The Red Badge of Courage and intends to demonstrate the full range of Crane's achievements as an author and poet. From the collection of Stanley Wertheim, the exhibition displays a collection that was brought together in the last quarter century. While not a...... READ MORE about STEPHEN CRANE. AN EXHIBITION FROM THE COLLECTION OF STANLEY WERTHEIM

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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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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2011. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, dust jacket, with DVD. 644 pages, plus 112 on DVD. Edgar Grissom's Ernest Hemingway: A Descriptive Bibliography can succinctly be described as the culmination of all previous endeavors in Hemingway bibliography. Grissom corrects the work of previous bibliographers, adding numerous editions and printings to the periods they covered and addressing the years 1975-2009, which had previously been left untouched. This is the only..... READ MORE about ERNEST HEMINGWAY: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY

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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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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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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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