2.

(Bookbinding).

BIBLIOTHÈQUE HENRI BERALDI.

5 volumes, complete.
Paris: Me. Étienne Ader & Leopold Carteret, 1934 - 1935. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv),iii,39,(5) with 47 plates of bindings, 5 spread page and 6 in color; (viii),152,(4) pages with 91 plates, 51 of bindings and 3 in color; (iv),iv,252,(4) pages with 143 plates, 101 of bindings and 5 in color; (iv),iv,112,(4) pages with 69 plates, 21 of bindings and 1 in color; (iv),162,(4) pages with 40 plates of bindings. 5 volumes, complete. Auction..... READ MORE about BIBLIOTHÈQUE HENRI BERALDI

Price: $350.00  other currencies  Order nr. 25349

12.

BIBLIOPHILE, REVUE ARTISTIQUE ET DOCUMENTAIRE DU LIVRE ANCIEN ET MODERNE (LE).

Paris: Publications Papyrus, 1931. 4to. half leather over boards with original paper wrappers bound-in. Ulrich & Kup p.15. "Well printed, well illustrated, scholarly and most facinating. Contains everything concerning the book, old and new." Of the total 15 issues published, we have 9 including: 1931. Numbers 1, 2, 5. 1932. Numbers 1, 4. 1933. Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4. Well preserved with most having the original glassine wrapper. READ MORE about BIBLIOPHILE, REVUE ARTISTIQUE ET DOCUMENTAIRE DU LIVRE ANCIEN ET MODERNE (LE

Price: $180.00  other currencies  Order nr. 119875

37.

(Keepsake).

Volume containing the 140 steel-plate engravings used for the British Annual entitled The Keepsake.

N.P. n.p., circa 1827. folio. leather, marbled endpapers. unpaginated. A selection of proof engravings. Bookplate of Mr. Chas. T. Tallent Bateman on front pastedown. Written inscription on that bookplate notes that this volume includes 140 steel plate impressions. An apparently later notation notes that this volume is "unique," with "no copy in the British Museum." Consecutive dated engravings range from 1827 to 1835, showing title pages and illustrations of The Keepsake, (1828-1835) an illustrated anthology..... READ MORE about Volume containing the 140 steel-plate engravings used for the British Annual entitled The Keepsake

Price: $350.00  other currencies  Order nr. 118515

57.

(Fournier, Pierre Simon). Mosley, James.

MODELES DES CARACTERES DE L'IMPRIMERIE ET DES AUTRES CHOSES NECESSAIRES AUDIT ART. NOUVELLEMENT GRAVES. With an Introduction to Pierre Simon Fournier's MODELES ... by James Mosely.

2 volumes.
London, England: Eugrammia Press, 1965. oblong 4to. cloth, paper wrappers, both volumes enclosed in a slipcase. Facsimile of the 1742 manual accompanied by the 20 page introduction. 2 volumes. Printed in an edition limited to 600 copies. Reproduced from the copy in the Printing Library of the St. Bride Institute. Thirty-three plates depict samples of the types cut by Fournier c. 1742, which then appeared in his Manuel Typographique. A consummate artist and craftsman, Fournier..... READ MORE about MODELES DES CARACTERES DE L'IMPRIMERIE ET DES AUTRES CHOSES NECESSAIRES AUDIT ART. NOUVELLEMENT...

Price: $850.00  other currencies  Order nr. 4119

61.

Marshall, Harold.

THE FIRST PRESS IN THE CITY OF LONDON.

Wembly: Archibald Rose at The Wembly Press, 1929. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 29, (5) pages. Copy "10" of an unmentioned number of copies printed for private circulation. Presentation page completed by author. An historical account of the introduction of printing in London. Argues that John Lettou with Johannes Bulle, printing in Rome before typography appeared in London. Two appendices, one listing early documents printed in London, and the other showing facsimiles of J. Lettou and..... READ MORE about THE FIRST PRESS IN THE CITY OF LONDON

Price: $150.00  other currencies  Order nr. 116265

89.

(Book Club of California). Kurutz, Gary F.

THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH. A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS COVERING THE YEARS 1848-1853.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1997. large 8to. blue cloth with title on spine and gold design on front cover, plain paper dust jacket. xxvii, 771 pages, with 33 additional pages of plates. Limited to 1,000 unnumbered copies. A descriptive bibliography of publications in book or pamphlet form of a) accounts by eyewitnesses of the Gold Rush in the years 1848-1853, for example, diaries (actual date of publication irrelevant), and b) "contemporary" publications from..... READ MORE about THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH. A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS COVERING THE YEARS...

Price: $165.00  other currencies  Order nr. 49759

111.

(Offhand Press).

Collection of assorted printed works.

Swarthmore, PA: The Offhand Press, 1959-62. 8vo. loose papers. variously paginated. A collection of publications by the Offhand Press of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Includes correspondence from publisher Charles B. Shaw and Ben Liebermann of the Herity Press of White Plains, New York. Included in this collection are: Alphabetic Arrangements I-XII--I and VIII missing, 2 of VII British Americana Series I, II, and III The Cass-Washburn Papers, I-VI Orthographic Oddments I-VI Ripost Series I-IV Typographic Series I-XXV..... READ MORE about Collection of assorted printed works

Price: $100.00  other currencies  Order nr. 119330

124.

Abbey, J.R.

SCENERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY 1770-1860. With LIFE IN ENGLAND. With TRAVEL.

4 volumes, complete set.
London: Privately printed at the Curwen Press, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1957. 4to. polished cloth, top edges gilt, leather spine labels. xx,399; xxi,428; xiii,300; xiii,301-675 pages. 4 volumes, complete set. First editions, limited to 500, 400, and 400 copies respectively. Filled with bibliographical descriptions of the color plate books published in England during this period and containing many plates in color. The printing by the Curwen Press of these first editions is far superior to the..... READ MORE about SCENERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY 1770-1860. With LIFE IN ENGLAND....

Price: $1,200.00  other currencies  Order nr. 71437

130.

Ashbee, Henry Spencer.

INDEX LIBRORUM PROHIBITORUM BEING NOTES BIO- BIBLIO- ICONO- GRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL ON CURIOUS AND UNCOMMON BOOKS. By Pisanus Fraxi. With CENTURIA LIBRORUM ABSCONDITORUM. With CATENA LIBRORUM TACENDORUM.

3 volumes.
(London: Charles Skilton Ltd, 1960). tall 8vo. blue cloth stamped in gilt, top edges blue. lxxvi,542,(4); lx,593,(3); lx,593,(3) pages. 3 volumes. Facsimile reprint of the extremely scarce first edition; this facsimile is limited to only 395 sets. Reprints of the first editions of 1877, 1879 and 1885; the complete set of this bibliography of erotic books. (Besterman p. 2055). READ MORE about INDEX LIBRORUM PROHIBITORUM BEING NOTES BIO- BIBLIO- ICONO- GRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL ON CURIOUS AND...

Price: $235.00  other currencies  Order nr. 91320

133.

(Bibles). Minor, Mark.

LITERARY-CRITICAL APPROACHES TO THE BIBLE: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY.

West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1992. 8vo. cloth. xxxii, 520 pages. Table of contents, introduction, guide for using the book, abbreviations, index of authors. A bibliography of works taking a literary-critical approach to the Bible, as opposed to the older historical-critical approach. Includes general works on the two testaments and works specific to books of the Bible or portions thereof. READ MORE about LITERARY-CRITICAL APPROACHES TO THE BIBLE: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Price: $125.00  other currencies  Order nr. 119799

142.

(Children's Books).

LES LIVRES DE L'ENFANCE DU XVE AU XIXE SIÈCLE.

Preface by Paul Gavault.
Paris: Gumuchian & Cie. n.d. (1930). 4to. later cloth. xxiv, 446, (4) pages. Preface by Paul Gavault. First edition, limited to 1,000 copies. The introduction is in English and French. A landmark bookseller's catalogue devoted to children's books; a total of 6,251 are described. The entries are not restricted to French titles. Lacks the second volume which contains the plates. READ MORE about LES LIVRES DE L'ENFANCE DU XVE AU XIXE SIÈCLE

Price: $125.00  other currencies  Order nr. 119448

145.

Clavel, Robert.

A CATALOGUE OF ALL THE BOOKS PRINTED IN ENGLAND.

4 volumes.
Westmead, Farnborough, Hants., England: Gregg Press, 1965. 4to. cloth. (vi), 32; (vi), 119+(1); (vi), 191+(1); (vi), 127+(1) pages. 4 volumes. Nos. 3-6 in the publisher's English Bibliographical Sources Series 2: Catalogues of Books in Circulation. Reprints of originals (London: S. Simmons, 1673-96. Original editions in Besterman 2007-8. Each volume with a prefatory note to the reader by Clavel. No. 3 includes books from the "dreadful fire of London" to Michaelmas 1672. No. 4 from the..... READ MORE about A CATALOGUE OF ALL THE BOOKS PRINTED IN ENGLAND

Price: $150.00  other currencies  Order nr. 119861

153.

(Dickens, Charles). Wilkins, William Glyde.

FIRST AND EARLY AMERICAN EDITIONS OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS.

Cedar Rapids: Privately printed at The Torch Press, 1910. tall 8vo. cloth-backed boards. 51 pages. First edition, limited to 200 copies. With a number of full page illustrations showing title pages of Dickens's American editions. Presentation on free endpaper "Dr. Dudley Tenney, with compliments of William Glyde Wilkins, July 23/10." Also with T.L.s. from Wilkins to Tenney dated the same date and meant to accompany this copy tipped-in. This copy has the usual illustrations but..... READ MORE about FIRST AND EARLY AMERICAN EDITIONS OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS

Price: $250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 119419