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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Hardcover. 368 pages. (TDR). "A functional, comprehensive, postmodern approach... This reference source places clearly written, succinct explanations at the reader's fingertips." - Miriam, Kahn, SHARP News The Typographic Desk Reference (aka TDR) is an encyclopedic reference guide of typographic terms and classification with definitions of form and usage for Latin based writing systems. The second edition, in the works since 2010, has more than..... READ MORE about THE TYPOGRAPHIC DESK REFERENCE

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New Castle, Delaware and Pinner, Middlesex, England: Oak Knoll Press & Private Libraries Association, 2016. 7.17 x 10.75. cloth, dust jacket. 216 pages. "Quite simply, a revelation. Lucidly written, with useful illustrations, exploding the myth that dust jackets only came into use in the late nineteenth century." - James Murray, Adrian Harrington Rare Books, London "A fascinating, well-illustrated excursion into the evolution of dust-jackets and the sheaths and wrappers that preceded them." - Jeffrey Mifflin..... READ MORE about NINETEENTH-CENTURY DUST-JACKETS

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 8.27 x 11.69 inches. paperback. 128 pages. "Spellerberg has become an important new authority on implements designed to do controlled damage to paper. In the process, he's turned what most people thought they knew about these objects, particularly about page turners, on its head." - Ben Marks, Collector's Weekly "The book is illustrated with paper-knives and paper-folders of every design... There are cutters in the form of a...... READ MORE about READING & WRITING ACCESSORIES: A STUDY OF PAPER-KNIVES, PAPER FOLDERS, LETTER OPENERS AND...

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 6.7 x 9.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. Approx. 336 pages. The Library of Aristotle follows the adventures of Aristotle's book collection down to the edition of the corpus aristotelicum by Andronicus of Rhodes in the first century CE. Aristotle started to collect books in order to form his personal library even before he became a member of the Academy and a pupil of Plato (367 BCE). The kernel..... READ MORE about THE LIBRARY OF ARISTOTLE: THE MOST IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF BOOKS EVER FORMED

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The Trade Set - Order all five volumes of The History of the Library in Western Civilization series at one time and get the Index volume (a $45 value) for free. Retail $450, then-sale price $375: NEW SALE PRICE OF $295.00!
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and HES & DE GRAAF Publishers BV, 2004-2013. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 374, 364, 608, 532, 624, 216 pages. The Trade Set - Order all five volumes of The History of the Library in Western Civilization series at one time and get the Index volume (a $45 value) for free. Retail $450, then-sale price $375: NEW SALE PRICE OF $295.00! This is the six-volume series addressing the unique..... READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION - THE COMPLETE SET

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Including a story of the Great Omar, a jewelled binding of the Rub'iyat of Omar Kahyyam lost on the Titanic in 1912.
London and New Castle, DE: Shepherds and Oak Knoll Press, 2015. 275 x 210 mm. paperback. 200pp + 8pp. Including a story of the Great Omar, a jewelled binding of the Rub'iyat of Omar Kahyyam lost on the Titanic in 1912. This book charts the history of one of the most important craft bookbinding workshops of the twentieth century. Sangorski & Sutcliffe was founded in 1901. The founding partners, Francis Sangorski and George Sutcliffe, established..... READ MORE about THE CINDERELLA OF THE ARTS: A SHORT HISTORY OF SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFF, A LONDON BOOKBINDING...

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New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 556 pages. "A truly remarkable achievement. ... There is no student of Boswell or Johnson who will not take pleasure and heart in this large and impressive book." - Robert DeMaria, Jr., Johnsonian News Letter, March 2017 "The book is more than a bibliography... it is an example of how to reconstruct a disbursed or lost library or collection from extant..... READ MORE about BOSWELL'S BOOKS: FOUR GENERATIONS OF COLLECTING AND COLLECTORS

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New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 9 x 12 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 264 pages. Film Books: A Visual History covers cinema literature from 1895 until the present day. It comprises a 20-page introduction, 140 brief essays on major film books, 360 bibliographical descriptions, and more than 200 colour illustrations. The introduction presents a detailed historical analysis of cinema literature, emphasizing the importance of film books in the history of motion pictures. As the..... READ MORE about FILM BOOKS: A VISUAL HISTORY

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New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2015. 8.5 x 11 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 272 pp text plus 72 pp b/w images (repeated in color on CD). "A marvelously comprehensive bibliography of Jeffers that reads like a detective novel and makes me want to peek into every item mentioned and immerse myself in his poetry." - Charles Simic From the mid-1920s through the early 1930s, Robinson Jeffers was ranked by many critics as one of..... READ MORE about HIS PLACE FOR STORY: ROBINSON JEFFERS: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY

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With an introduction by William Ross and notes by Rod McDonald.
Toronto and New Castle, Delaware: Coach House Press with Sheridan College and Oak Knoll Press, 2015. 9 x 11.25. hardcover cloth with wrap-around paper cover label, DVD in pocket in back. 130 pages numbered from the half title. With an introduction by William Ross and notes by Rod McDonald. "These letters document the immense skill that was required to take a letter from a drawing to a piece of type." - Jon Bath, SHARP News..... READ MORE about EPISTLES TO THE TORONTONIANS. WITH ARTICLES FROM CANADIAN PRINTER & PUBLISHER

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2015. 7.5 x 9.7 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 336 pages. "This book caught the judges by surprise. No one expected a book about Swedish bookbinding between 1840 and 1914, no matter how excellent or well-researched, to fill an important disciplinary gap in the history of the book more broadly. Yet this is a ground-breaking study of the history of publishers bindings. Richly illustrated with hundreds of examples, this riveting..... READ MORE about BOUND TO BE MODERN: PUBLISHERS' CLOTHBINDINGS AND THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE BOOK, 1840 - 1914

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New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2015. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 176 pages. English collector James E. Matthew's The Literature of Music (1896) was one of the earliest attempts at identifying the most useful, interesting, and influential books on Western music. With the benefit of a historical perspective, Dr. Robert H. Cowden follows in Matthew's tradition, assembling a list of 122 significant works in music history, aesthetics, performance practice, instrument construction, theory..... READ MORE about A COLLECTOR'S JOURNEY: NOTABLE MUSIC BOOKS WRITTEN PRIOR TO 1800

Price: $75.00  other currencies  Order nr. 122024