Catalogue Four.
York: Ken Spelman, n.d. oblong 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. 54 pages. Catalogue Four. A bookseller's catalogue describing 202 books for sale. Illustrated. Some notes in pencil on back cover. READ MORE
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 107973
Troisième édition revue. Traduit de l'anglais.
Paris: La Palme, (1950). 8vo. later cloth, original paper wrappers bound in. 95+(5) pages, with 12 plates. Troisième édition revue. Traduit de l'anglais. Third edition, translated from the English. (Besterman p.790). The best bibliographical guide to the study of the earliest bibliographies from the 16th and 17th centuries covers Tritheim, the earliest legal and medical bibliographies, Gesner, the beginnings of National bibliography and the history of bibliography in the 17th century. There are twelve black... READ MORE
Price: $45.00 other currencies Order nr. 104244
New York: American National Standards Institute, Inc. 1977. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 92 pages. Jerrold Orne, Chairman. With inkl signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 99858
Frauenfeld: Huber & Co. Aktiengesellschaft, (1964). 8vo. paper wrappers. 172, (2) pages. Second edition. An introduction to bibliography. READ MORE
Price: $10.00 other currencies Order nr. 48580
Chicago: American Library Association, 1949. large 8vo. cloth. xxi, 265+(1) pages. Revised from the 1908 edition. Corners bumped. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE
Price: $5.00 other currencies Order nr. 18647
With a new introduction by G. Thomas Tanselle.
Winchester and New Castle, Delaware: St Paul's Bibliographies and Oak Knoll Press, (2012). thick 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xvi, 505 pages. With a new introduction by G. Thomas Tanselle. Reprint of the first edition. One of the indisputable classics of 20th-century scholarship, Bowers's work is one of the standard guides on the subject, providing a comprehensive manual for the description of printed books as physical objects. Although there has been much activity in descriptive bibliography... READ MORE
Price: $39.95 other currencies Order nr. 40520
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1969). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 345 pages. First U.S. edition. Seventeen bibliographical essays. READ MORE
Price: $5.00 other currencies Order nr. 586
Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1949. 8vo. cloth. viii, 120 pages. First edition. Part of the Rosenbach Fellowship Lectures series. READ MORE
Price: $10.00 other currencies Order nr. 98377
Paris: Librairie Delagrave, 1950. tall 12mo. cloth. 278, (2) pages. Second edition, revised by Clement Duval. Ex library copy with markings. READ MORE
Price: $10.00 other currencies Order nr. 99703
Paris: Cercle de la Librairie de l'Imprimerie, 1894. tall 8vo. later three-quarter cloth, top edge gilt. xii, 233, (3) pages. Descriptions of over 1600 books that illustrated the technique of bibliographical description. With an introduction by Paul Delalain. Age darkened along top. Bookplate of private book-collector's club (stamped withdrawn). READ MORE
Price: $150.00 other currencies Order nr. 16512
London: Grafton & Co. 1949. 8vo. cloth. xi, 256 pages. Second impression. A manual of bibliography. Spine shows minor fading. READ MORE
Price: $11.00 other currencies Order nr. 12102
Urbana: Univ. of Chicago Press, (1969). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 611 pages. Second printing. Jacket chipped. READ MORE
Price: $5.00 other currencies Order nr. 587
New Castle, Delaware & Winchester: Oak Knoll Press & St. Paul's Bibliographies, (2015). 6 x 9 inches. paperback. 462 pages. Reprint of the 1995 Oak Knoll edition. Ronald B. McKerrow's An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students has been the classic manual on bibliography, showing how the transmission of texts might be affected by the processes of printing, but he concentrated almost exclusively on "Elizabethan" printing - the period from 1560 to 1660. However, in... READ MORE
Price: $39.95 other currencies Order nr. 42436
New Castle, Delaware & Winchester: Oak Knoll Press & St. Paul's Bibliographies, 2009. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover. 462 pages. Reprint of the 1995 Oak Knoll edition. Ronald B. McKerrow's An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students has been the classic manual on bibliography, showing how the transmission of texts might be affected by the processes of printing, but he concentrated almost exclusively on "Elizabethan" printing - the period from 1560 to 1660. However, in... READ MORE
Price: $65.00 other currencies Order nr. 60423
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, (1968). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xiv, 192, (2) pages. First edition. Designed as a textbook to introduce the history and organization of the world of books, the means of access to them, and the formal principles of describing them. Includes series of practice exercises for each chapter. Slight wear to edges of cover. READ MORE
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 64107
N.P. Bibliographical Society, 1935. square 8vo. cloth-backed boards. (vi), 67 pages. List of bibliographical tools in the library. With the bookplate of the bibliographer, George Charles Williamson, and the name and date in pencil of Rudolf Hirsch. Cloth along hinges split in places. READ MORE
Price: $9.00 other currencies Order nr. 30443
N.P. Bibliographical Society, 1935. square 8vo. cloth-backed boards. (vi), 67 pages. List of bibliographical tools in the library. With the bookplate of the bibliographer, Roy Bishop Stokes, who has also signed and dated this copy in corner of free endpaper. READ MORE
Price: $12.50 other currencies Order nr. 96939
Translated by Christian Hines.
Metuchen: Scarecrow Reprint Co. 1961. 8vo. cloth. (xii), 152 pages. Translated by Christian Hines. First edition. Gives a history of bibliography and a bibliography of bibliographies. Inscribed on title page from the translator "For a real bibliographer from Ted Hines." Spine faded. Ink ownership inscription on free endpaper. READ MORE
Price: $20.00 other currencies Order nr. 114813
Washington, D.C. The Library of Congress, 1966. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. vii, 133 pages. A reprint of the 1954 edition. The publication offers suggestions for planning and carrying through a bibliographical project, as well as provides the citation and reference style used by the General Reference and Bibliography Division of the Library of Congress. READ MORE
Price: $6.00 other currencies Order nr. 64468
Washington, D.C. The Library of Congress, 1966. large 8vo. cloth with original stiff paper wrappers bound-in. vii, 133 pages. A reprint of the 1954 edition and also including a list of abbreviations. The publication offers suggestions for planning and carrying through a bibliographical project, as well as provides the citation and reference style used by the General Reference and Bibliography Division of the Library of Congress. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Covers rubbed. READ MORE
Price: $20.00 other currencies Order nr. 98326
Oxford: Clarendon Press, (1951). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xv, 360 pages. Reprint of the 2nd corrected edition. Contains 23 illustrations. One of the best manuals written. Jacket chipped with small piece missing along top of back cover. Spine slightly sunned. Small bookplate on front free end paper. READ MORE
Price: $30.00 other currencies Order nr. 3286
Oxford: Clarendon Press, (1928). 8vo. cloth. xv, 360 pages. Second impression with corrections. Contains 23 illustrations. One of the best manuals written. Wear to head of spine. Previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown. READ MORE
Price: $10.00 other currencies Order nr. 104100
Oxford: Clarendon Press, (1928). 8vo. cloth. xv, 359+(1) pages. Second impression with corrections. Contains 23 illustrations. One of the best manuals written. Lacking jacket. Front and rear paste downs and free endpapers foxed. READ MORE
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 3206
Cambridge: James Clarke & Co. (1969). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 250 pages. First edition. Discusses the new advances in printing processes in addition to older methods. Bookplate on front pastedown. READ MORE
Price: $11.00 other currencies Order nr. 17267
Urbanna: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1952. 8vo. cloth. xiv, 88 pages. First edition. The third in the Windsor Lectures in Librarianship. READ MORE
Price: $5.00 other currencies Order nr. 6275
