New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and HES & DE GRAAF Publishers BV, 2004. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 374 pages. This work is the first in an important, five-volume series addressing the unique role libraries have played in building and preserving Western culture. Mr. Staikos has become one of our foremost scholars on library history, writing such books as this, as well as works like "The Great Libraries," a classic in its field. This..... READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION: FROM MINOS TO CLEOPATRA

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Vol. III From Constantine the Great to Cardinal Bessarion: Imperial, Monastic, School and Private Libraries in the Byzantine World
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and HES & DE GRAAF Publishers BV, 2007. 8.5 x 11.5 inches. hardcover. 608 pages. Vol. III From Constantine the Great to Cardinal Bessarion: Imperial, Monastic, School and Private Libraries in the Byzantine World. The third volume of The History of the Library spans a period of more than a thousand years and covers an area stretching from Alexandria and Trebizond to Calabria and Sicily in the south of..... READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION: THE BYZANTINE WORLD - FROM CONSTANTINE THE...

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and HES & DE GRAAF Publishers BV, 2012. 8.5 x 11.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 624 pages. V. "For persons interested in libraries who wish to immerse themselves in lush detail, From Petrarch to Michelangelo shines in terms of sheer visual splendor. As is the case with the other four volumes, each chapter is lavishly illustrated with an abundance of glossy full color and black-and-white photographs that depict books..... READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION: THE RENAISSANCE - FROM PETRARCH TO MICHELANGELO

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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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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and HES & DE GRAAF, 2009. 8.75 x 12.25 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 254 pages. This book contains reproductions of the printers and publishers marks of all those - both Greeks and non-Greeks - who printed or published books for Greek readers from the dawn of typography until just before the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821. Their aim was to preserve the historical memory of..... READ MORE about PRINTERS' & PUBLISHERS' MARKS IN BOOKS FOR THE GREEK WORLD (1494-1821

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New Castle, DE and Worcester, MA: Oak Knoll Press and the American Antiquarian Society, 2005. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, slipcase. 2600 pages. First Edition. This three volume, comprehensive bibliography focuses on the important American wood engraver, Alexander Anderson (1775-1870). The author has selected over 1,000 of Anderson's engravings to illustrate this major bibliography. This work begins with a well written and researched biography of Anderson. There are over 2,322 entries. By the early nineteenth..... READ MORE about ALEXANDER ANDERSON, 1775-1870, WOOD ENGRAVER AND ILLUSTRATOR, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2013. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. hardcover. 256 pages. This book includes a preliminary update of Thom Gunn: A Bibliography, 1940-1978 that was originally published in the Bulletin of Bibliography, and it completes the listing of Gunn's published work, as well as lists additional translations, interviews, reviews of his work, critical material, and more. Each section of the update is divided into two sections: "emendations," the collective term for additions..... READ MORE about THOM GUNN, A BIBLIOGRAPHY: VOLUME II, 1979-2012

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New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press and Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 2013. 5.5 x 8.75 inches. paperback. 96 pages. Published in celebration of Nicolas Barker's eightieth birthday, this bibliography serves both as a collection of his writings and as a tribute to one who has inspired so wide and deep affection in so many. Nicolas Barker's first bibliographical articles and reviews appeared in 1959. John Hayward, then the Editor of The Book Collector, was quick..... READ MORE about NICOLAS BARKER AT EIGHTY: A LIST OF HIS PUBLICATIONS TO MARK HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY IN 2012

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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2013. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 616 pages. A Perfect Vision is a catalogue of the William Holland Wilmer Rare Book Collection, a collection of more than 400 volumes on astronomy, medicine, optics, and ophthalmology. The books in this collection trace the medical and scientific discoveries that ultimately led to the understanding of vision and the modern era of the treatment and prevention of eye diseases..... READ MORE about A PERFECT VISION: CATALOGUE OF THE WILLIAM HOLLAND WILMER RARE BOOK COLLECTION

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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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A bibliography by Ronald D. Patkus with commentary by the artist.
Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 2013. 8.5 x 11 inches. paperback. 80 pages. A bibliography by Ronald D. Patkus with commentary by the artist. Shirley Jones, printmaker, etcher, published poet, and self-taught letterpress printer, founded the Red Hen Press imprint in 1983, though she has been publishing artist's books to critical acclaim since 1975. This bibliography celebrates the Press's thirtieth anniversary, and serves as an accompaniment to exhibitions of Shirley Jones's books taking place at Vassar..... READ MORE about SHIRLEY JONES AND THE RED HEN PRESS

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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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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2012. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 160 pages. "Matthew Young's book showcases over 80 specimens (full size and in color), and gives a detailed account of the behind-the-scenes machinations that affected the course of the Specimen Exchange.... If you are interested in the history of graphic design, Young's book is a wonderful account of a lesser-known part of the story. It's handsome and lucidly presented and worth..... READ MORE about THE RISE AND FALL OF THE PRINTERS' INTERNATIONAL SPECIMEN EXCHANGE

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