London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1893. 8vo. red cloth. xvi, 175 pages. First edition. Part of the Books About Books Series. (Fuller p.61). Covers rubbed with some spine fading. Two bookplates. First two leaves have stain in upper corner. READ MORE

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(London, England): The Bookplate Society, 2016. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 199+(1) pages. Table of contents, introduction, appendices, bibliography. This is the members' book of the Bookplate Society for 2016. Color frontispiece; black and white illustrations throughout text. READ MORE

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London: The Bookplate Society/Forlaget Exlibristen, 1987. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 28 pages. Trade edition. Limited to 650 numbered copies. This work contains a biographical essay and one-hundred sixty-eight descriptions of Hagreen's bookplates. Well-illustrated with reproductions of the bookplates in different colors. READ MORE

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London: Edward Arnold, (1898). 8vo. quarter cloth with decorated paper-covered boards. (x),+55 plates. A collection of 55 bookplates, each printed on a separate page (Fuller 90). In the following pages, some fresh combinations of the heraldic, view, and purely decorated plates have been aimed at, and the title "Composite" taken to indicate, generally, the character of the contents. Plates by T.S. Simson, Frank Bramley, and E.B. Ricketts, with a colophon engraved by the latter. Bookplates... READ MORE

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London and New Castle: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 1999. large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 384 pages. Forty years before the turn of the 18th century, a small, prestigious bookplate workshop was established, the likes of which were never to be seen again after its employment of one man: Thomas Bewick. To this day, the works of the bookplate shop of Beilby & Bewick are highly collectible and valued in the antiques world... READ MORE

Price: $85.00 save 15% $72.25  other currencies  Order nr. 90413

London: Archibald Constable & Co. 1909. small 4to. cloth, top edge gilt. vii, 451 pages. First edition. (Mejer no.294). History of the appearance of coats of arms and crests on English collectors' books. 39 pages of introductory text followed by discussions of the marks with each accompanied by an illustration. Minor cover rubbing; bumped lower front corner. Spine has been laid on top of a recased binding with new endpapers; spine sunned. Original boards. Previous... READ MORE

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Oldham: Incline Press, 1997. small 8vo. stiff paper-wrapper. (16) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 250 numbered copies of which this is one of a series of 100 that were "privately published. " Signed by author-printer, Graham Moss, on colophon. Text highlights the artistic bookplates created by Enid Marx. Bookplate illustrations are printed on special paper and tipped-in. Marx was a designer and artist who worked in many different media, including woodcuts, linocuts, engraving... READ MORE

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An Analytical Catalogeu of Books on Genealogy, Heraldry, Nobility, Knighthood, & Ceremonies; with a list of Provincial visitations, pedigrees, collections of arms, and other manuscripts; and a supplement enumerating the principal foreign genealogical works.
London: Printed for the author, 1822. tall thick 8vo. library buckram. (iii)-xxiv, 668 pages. An Analytical Catalogeu of Books on Genealogy, Heraldry, Nobility, Knighthood, & Ceremonies; with a list of Provincial visitations, pedigrees, collections of arms, and other manuscripts; and a supplement enumerating the principal foreign genealogical works. First edition. (Besterman 2110; Lowndes 21624; Graesse IV, 617). Describes 811 works published between 1469 and 1821. Includes lengthy annotations on each entry as well as useful... READ MORE

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