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1.             ALMACK, Edward, (editor). Eikon Basilike, or the King’s Book. London : Alexander Moring Limited, The De la More Press, 1904, small octavo, pale blue boards and white boards with printed spine label. T.e.g. (xxiv), (314) pp. First Printing of this edition. Purportedly written by Charles I of Scotland in the years prior to his execution. The text is followed by Contemporary Customs and Figures of Speech (and) Proverbial Phrases. Part of the King’s Classics Under the General Editorship of Professor Gollancz. Frontispiece engraving of Charles I. With an With a 14 page introduction by Almack. Spine slightly sunned with small scuff to label. (18218) $45.00

2.             ALTICK, Richard D. The Scholar Adventurers. Columbus : Ohio State University , (1987), octavo, printed wrappers. (xii), 338pp. Second Edition, originally published in 1950. “This book is a delightful detective story exposing frauds, making discoveries, and calling on the aid of science to clear up baffling mysteries. Included among the stories are the forgeries of Thomas J. Wise, uncovering Boswell’s papers in Malahide Castle and how the gaps in this discovery were later filled in, and the use of astronomical data and scientific apparatus used in modern research.” This edition with a new Preface by the author. Very fine. (16777) $26.95

3.             ( AMERICANA ). GEPHART, Ronald M. Revolutionary America 1763-1789. A Bibliography. Two volumes. Washington , D.C. : Library of Congress, 1984, quarto, black cloth. xl, 780; xl, (893) pp. First Edition. A bibliography revealing the breadth of its resources for the study of the American revolution. A guide to the more important printed primary and secondary works int he Library’s collections. Compiled over a ten-year period, the bibliography represents a comprehensive review of monographs, doctoral dissertations, collected works, festschriften, pamphlets, and serial publications in both general and special collections. Very fine. (18265) $95.00

4.             (ASHBURNHAM SALE ). Catalogue of the Magnificent Collection of Printed Books in the property of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Ashburnham. London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, June 25 and following days, December 6 and following days, 1897; May 9 and following days, 1898, large octavo, all parts bound in one volume with vellum spine and green cloth boards with black gilt-stamped leather spine label. T.e.g. In slipcase with marbled paper sides. . The complete sale of 4,075 lots followed by the printed prices realized with buyer’s names bound at back. This is the illustrated issue containing 22 magnificent color plates. “[Ashburnham’s] library of printed books was hardly of less importance. He had a wonderful collection of incunabula including some thirty Caxtons and two copies of the Mazarin Bible, one on vellum and one on paper, an exceptional quantity of books printed on vellum, a splendid series of English Bibles and liturgies, and a large number of the handsomest old bindings.” De Ricci, English Collectors of Books and Manuscripts (1530-1930), p. 132. “For a period of about thirty to forty years there was no more ardent book collector in England, nor one that brought more taste, judgment, knowledge and good wit to bear upon the subject than Bertram, Fourth Earl of Ashburnham...His series of books from the press of Caxton he reckoned as second only to that at Althorp among private libraries. Of old English Bibles he never failed to secure any important edition of the earlier versions that came under his notice, especially if it chanced to be in its original binding. Book printed on vellum he was always eager to purchase, and considered that he had put the copingstone to the fabric when he acquired at the sale of their Perkins Library, in 1873, the Gutenberg Bible on vellum, to range with the magnificent copy he already possessed on paper.” F. S. Ellis, Contributions Towards a Dictionary of English Book-Collectors, edited by Quaritch, Part X. Ashburnham’s magnificent library of manuscripts was sold privately and is of special interest for a number had been purchased from Guglielmo Libri and later proven to be stolen. For a detailed history of the library, both printed books and manuscripts, see F. S. Ellis’ eleven page contribution to the Quaritch edited, Contributions Towards a Dictionary of English Book Collectors, Part X. Although this copy contains the lovely color illustrations, the leaf forming pages 44/45 has been damaged do to sticking to the colorplate following. Large chips at top and bottom of the leaf causing some loss to the top-most entries. The leaf has been professionally encapsulated in mylar and hinged and can be easily read and turned. Original wrappers bound in at end. (17722) $950.00

5.             BARKER, Nicolas. Form and Meaning in the History of the Book. London : British Library, 2003, large 8vo, cloth in dust jacket. 521pp. First Edition. Nicolas Barker, OBE, FBA has made many distinguished contributions to the study of the book over the past forty years. In celebration of his seventieth birthday the British Library is publishing a selection of his occasional essays that show the range of his interests in a number of related fields: books and texts, books and people, typography and early printing, the history of the book, bookselling, and forgery. None of these essays has previously been reprinted and collectively they offer a series of authoritative insights into fascinating and complex questions raised by various aspects of the book as physical and cultural artefact. The collection is prefaced by an Introduction by Alan Bell, former librarian of the London Library. New. (11880) $93.00

6.             BARKER, Nicolas, (editor). A Potencie of Life. Books in Society. New Castle : Oak Knoll Press, 2001, octavo, wrappers. 216pp. Reprint. Essays include John Bidwell on “American Papermakers and the Panic of 1819” ; “Bookbinding and the History of Books” by Mirjam M. Foot; “A New Model for the Study of the Book” by Thomas R. Adams and Nicolas Barker; Lotte Hellinga on “The Codex in the Fifteenth Century: A Manuscript and Print”; “ The ‘Trade of Authorship’ in Eighteenth Century Britain by W. B. Carnochan; and “Libraries and the Mind of Man” by Nicolas Barker. New. (10755) $29.95

7.             BAUDIN, Fernand. From Mechanical to Cybernetic Exercises. New York : TheTypophiles, 1997, octavo, wrappers. (22)pp. First Edition. Limited to 500 copies. A talk by the author of L’Effet Gutenberg (the Gutenberg Effect) reflecting on the art of not only typography but of the design of the page and, with the introduction of the computer generated design, the passing on of that knowledge and skill. Printed and bound at Golgonooza Letter Foundry & Press. New. (10566) $25.00

8.             BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. Letters from Aubrey Beardsley to Leonard Smithers. ( London ): The First Edition Club, 1937, octavo, black cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition. The design used for the title page reproduces a drawing by Aubrey Beardsley never before published. The portraits of Beardsley and Leonard Smithers are also published for the first time. With a detailed index which reflects multiple mentions of Max Beerbohm, Ernest Dowson, John Gray, Vincent O’Sullivan, Andre Raffalovich, and Arthur Symons. The 24th publication of the First Edition Club. Handsomely designed and produced including being printed on laid hand made paper. Pictorial endpapers reproduce some of the letters. Binding scuffed, especially at top and bottom of spine, bookplate removed from verso of front endpaper leaving a shadow on the blank page. (14488) $50.00

9.             BECKWITH, Alice H. R. H. Victorian Bibliomania. The Illuminated Book in 19th-Century Britain . Providence , RI : Museum of Art , Rhode Island School of Design, 1987, large quarto, pictorial wrappers. 83 pp. First Edition. An exhibition catalogue of 66 items described in detail all represented with at least one illustration. The art of Henry Noel Humphreys, William Morris, Lucien Pissarro, Owen Jones, Henry Shaw, John Ruskin, William Morris, William Pickering, William Blake, and others. A few illustrations in full color. Very fine. (18238) $25.00

10.           BEERBOHM, Max. Original drawing of a portly gentleman with an umbrella under his left arm. The caricature was done using pencil, ink and watercolor on paper in 1908. Signed “Max” and dated “1908.” Image dimensions are 13” x 8”. Matted and framed. (13144) $2,500.00

11.           BELL , Hazel K. From Flock Beds to Professionalism. A History of Index-Makers. ( New Castle , DE ): Oak Knoll Press, 2008, octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. xiv, 333 pp. First Edition. From the Preface by David Crystal, “Indexing is an anonymous profession. An index may be praised or blamed, but rarely is the indexer named, lauded or shamed,” laments Professor David Crystal in his preface to From Flock Beds to Professionalism. This book, however, initiates a change. Hazel Bell presents here brief biographies of 65 individual practitioners, the makers of indexes, from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, considering their working methods, techniques, training, remuneration, their lives and their personalities. Crystal observes, “Although it is the history of indexing which governs the structure of the book, it is the personalities of the indexers themselves which shine through it ... I was unprepared for the range, diversity and sheer brilliance of the personalities lying behind the names.” After the biographical section on the “Lone Workers,” Bell outlines in “Banding Together” the history of groups and societies of indexers world-wide up to 1995, the year she sees as entailing the end of print-only indexing. The book includes photographs of indexers and of their tokens of recognition. Very fine. (18177) $95.00

12.           BENNETT, H. S. English Books & Readers 1475 to 1557. Being a Study in the History of the Book Trade from Caxton to the Incorporation of the Stationers’ Company. Three volumes. Cambridge : Cambridge Univ Press, (1989), octavo, printed wrappers in slipcase. (xiv), 337; (xviii), (320); xiv, 253 pp.. 956pp. Second Edition, paperback issue. Since its publication in 1952, this three-volume history of the book trade in Britain , which encompasses Caxton to the eve of the Civil War, has achieved classic status. The first volume addresses the invention of printing and its impact on the growth of European civilization. It traces the early development of the book trade to the incorporation of the Stationers’ Company. An account of the numerous and diverse pamphlets produced in Britain during the reign of Elizabeth I is provided in the second volume. In the third volume, which covers the reigns of Charles I and James I, the rich variety of publications in areas such as religion, popular science, law, travel, literature, astronomy, and history are examined. Each volume presents a vivid picture of the book trade and its part in the intellectual and cultural life of the age, including relations among authors, printers, and booksellers. Former owner’s name and inscription on first leaf of each volume, else fine in fine slipcase. (18167) $95.00

13.           BERGER, Sid. Anatomy of a Literary Hoax. New Castle , DE : Oak Knoll Press, 1994, octavo, wrappers. 20pp. First Edition. Limited to 250 copies in wrappers. This strange but true tale started in 197 9 when Henry Morris added a fictitious reference book to the lengthy list of works cited in the bibliography of Nagashizuki, a book authored by Timothy Barrett and printed by Henry Morris. It took five years for the author and Sid Berger to finally notice this bit of Morris humor. The conspiracy began! Morris was shown a Xerox of a title page for the fictitious reference book to show that it actually existed. In reality the conspirators had the title page created by Paul Duensing. New. (12269) $35.00

14.           (BEWICK, John). TATTERSFIELD, Nigel. John Bewick. Engraver on Wood 1760-1795. London : British Library, 2001, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 192pp. First Edition. A biography followed by a comprehensive, annotated bibliography of Thomas Bewick’s younger brother. Thomas made his living producing illustrations and engravings for 60 books, mostly children’s books. Extensively illustrated. “...John Bewick, Thomas’s less famous, but greatly gifted, younger brother.” Percy Muir, English Children’s Books. New. (10771) $75.00

15.           BLOCKSON, Charles L. A Commented Bibliography of One Hundred and One Influential Books By and About people of African Descent (1556-1982). Amsterdam : A. Gerits & Sons, 1989, large quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 74pp. First Edition. A record of books by and about people of African descent who have influenced world literature and history. Provides collations and literary, historical and bibliographical information. The author has spent more than forty years amassing one of America ’s largest private collections concerning Black history. In 1984 he donated his collection to Temple University in Philadelphia and he now serves as curator to this spectacular collection. When the bibliophile Lessing J. Rosenwald was asked his opinion about publishing a Black History Hundred he replied that “a book of this nature would no doubt be an exciting task, it would be the first of its kind and it would immediately become a much sought after item. “ Well-illustrated with over sixty black and white reproductions of title pages. New. (9885) $60.00

16.           (BLOOMSBURY GROUP). BRADSHAW, Tony. The Bloomsbury Artists: Prints and Book Design. A Catalogue. Aldershot : Scolar Press, 1999, quarto, cloth. 96pp. First Edition. Introduction of James Beechey. Foreword by Angelica Garnett. A comprehensive catalogue of all the woodcuts, lithographs, etchings and other prints created by Vanessa Bell, Dora Carrington, Roger Fry and Duncan grant, accompanied by over 100 color and black and white illustrations. The less well-known graphic works such as trade cards, invitations, catalogue covers and book plates are also included. Extensively illustrated with full page color plates of dust jackets deisgned for the Hogarth Press. New. (7724) $60.00

17.           (BLOOMSBURY GROUP). BRADSHAW, Tony, (editor). A Bloomsbury Canvas. Reflections on the Bloomsbury Group. London : Lund Humphries, 2001, quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 112pp. First Edition. Essayists include Hermione Lee, noted biographer of Virginia Woolf, art historians Richard Shone and Frances Spalding; Nigel Nicolson, author of Portrait of a Marriage (a groundbreaking study of his parents Vita Sackville West and Harold Nicolson); and the last survivors of those closely connected to the Bloomsbury Group: Frances Partridge, Quentin Bell and Angelica Garnett. The essays are edited and introduced by Tony Bradshaw, author of The Bloomsbury Artists: Prints and Book Design (Scolar Press 1999) and owner of the Bloomsbury Workshop, the internationally renown art gallery and bookshop specializing in the work of the Group. Bradshaw also contributes a chapter on The Hogarth Press. Representing what is best and most typical of Bloomsbury art, the book is excitingly illustrated with many previously unpublished works. With 90 illustrations, of which 60 are in color. New. (12198) $60.00

18.           (BODLEIAN LIBRARY). HASSALL, A. G. and Dr. W. O. Treasures from The Bodleian Library. New York : Columbia Univ Press, 1976, large quarto, cloth in slipcase. 160pp. First American Edition. Introduction by Dr. R. W. Hunt, Keeper of Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library. Thirty-six manuscripts described, each accompanied by a full page, color illustration. The manuscripts range in date from the MacRegol Gospels c.800, Ireland , to the Codex Mendoza, c. 1540, Mexico . Slipcase very slightly scuffed. Very fine copy. (7377) $75.00

19.           (BODLEIAN LIBRARY). Wonderful Things from 400 Years of Collecting: The Bodleian Library 1602-2002. ( Oxford ): Bodleian Library, 2002, quarto, pictorial wrappers. (172)pp. First Edition. A timeless selection of Wonderful Things, this book highlights the tremendous range of the Bodleian Library’s collections. From the sixth-century Laudian Acts—a manuscript probably used by Bede himself—to modern treasures such as one of Tolkein’s own illustrations for The Hobbit, the objects chosen show the extent, variety, and quality of the Library’s holdings and how they came to the Bodleian. Each work is sumptuously displayed in full-page color with facing-page descriptions. Collectively, they offer a fascinating glimpse into the principles, history, and future of collecting by a world-class institution. (16617) $45.00

20.           BOND, William H. and Hugh Amory (editors). The Printed Catalogues of the Harvard College Library 1723-1790. Colonial Society of Mass., 1996, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 738pp. First Edition. “The 1723 Catalogue is the first printed public or university library catalogue of an American collection. Though almost all the books it describes were destroyed by fire in 1764, it remains an incomparable record of New England books of the 17th and 18th centuries. It describes about 3,000 volumes arranged alphabetically by author and title. Though the strength of the collection is in divinity and classical philology, the subjects of law, medicine and science are also prominent. The 1773 Catalogue is a brief undergraduate reading list, mainly of interest for the history of the College and its curriculum. The 1790 Catalogue describes the roughly 9,000 volumes acquired between 1764 and 1790, categorized by subjects which range much more widely than those of the earlier library due to the intellectual interests of its chief donor, Thomas Hollis. An index of authors and titles allows the user to locate the catalogue entries in modern references such as the British Museum Catalogue or the pre-1956 National Union Catalogue and conversely, to check Harvard’s 18th-century holdings of particular titles. The facsimiles and index have been prepared by William H. Bond, Librarian Emeritus of The Houghton Library and authority on Thomas Hollis, along with the help of Hugh Amory, Senior Rare Book Cataloguer at the Harvard College Library.” The catalogues are reproduced in digitized facsimile with enhanced legibility. New. (7531) $75.00

21.           (BOOKBINDING). FOOT, Mirjam. Bookbinders at Work. Their Roles and Methods. London : The British Library, 2005, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 162pp. First Edition. The role of the bookbinder in the production of saleable books and the significance of the binding in all its details, both structural and decorative, have often been disregarded or marginalized by bibliographers. The author sets out to reverse the trend by establishing working binders, and their materials and tools as an essential part of the production cycle. She reveals the inadequacy of bibliographical descriptions that lack essential binding information. Numerous illustrations are taken from actual examples of bound books and from manuals on bookbinding practices of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. New. (14382) $59.95

22.           (BOOKBINDING). FOOT, Mirjam. The History of Bookbinding as a Mirror of Society. Volume 13 in the Panizzi Lectures. London : British Library, 1998, octavo, wrappers. 144pp. First Edition. The British Library holds a superb collection of fine and historic bookbindings. Some were acquired by accident, some came as part of a specific collection, and some have been deliberately acquired as historical or art historical specimens. In this highly illustrated text of the 1997 Panizzi Lectures Dr. Mirjam Foot explores the use and purpose of bookbindings and, by implication, the purpose of the study of the book as a physical object. She shows how the techniques of binding and decorating books reflect developments in the book trade itself, and how the production of the binding links with questions of authorship, publishing, reading and collecting; how it relates to the spread of literacy and learning, to education, and to religion, but also to economic and political circumstances and social attitudes. For anyone with an interest in the art and history of the book, this is a fascinating and authoritative study which sheds new light on many aspects of bookbinding in a broad historical context. With 8 color and 75 black and white illustrations. New. (9841) $40.00

23.           (BOOKBINDING). FOOT, Mirjam, (editor). Eloquent Witnesses - Bookbindings and Their History. London : British Library, 2004, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 328pp. First Edition. This collection of essays demonstrates the change in direction the study of bookbinding history has taken. Much of the work published here is based on minute observation of details of techniques and materials, as well as on close study of decorative tools and the ways in which these were used to reflect the styles and fashions of the day. Contributors include Giles Barber, Carmen Blacker, Christian Coppens, Mirjam Foot, David Pearson, Nicholas Pickwoad, Nicholas Poole-Wilson, Esther Potter, Jan Storm van Leeuwen, and Marianne Tidcombe. 8 color illustrations and 101 black and white illustrations. Very fine. New. (12792) $65.00

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24.           (BOOKBINDING). FOOT, Mirjam M. Studies in the History of Bookbinding. Brookfield , VT : Scolar Press, (1994), quarto, cloth. (xvi), 467pp. First American Edition, second printing. Illustrated. As a Director of the British Library, Foot has had access to an incredible variety of bindings from the earliest efforts in the Western tradition to the latest in modern “design binding”. Sixty-four essays collect Foot’s work of the last twelve years, organized under seven headings: modern bindings, late medieval tradition in binding, gold-tooled bindings, unusual materials, collectors and collecting, preserving books and their history. A few essays are general overviews, such as English Decorated Bookbindings of the Fifteenth Century, and The Binding Historian and the Book Conservator, but most use a specific book by a specific binder to chronicle the development of binding: An Oxford Binding, c. 1480; A Binding by Roger Payne, 1796; A Spanish Mudjar Binding, etc. With footnotes and references at the end of each essay, and final indices of binders and owners. Several articles have been updated and two have been substantially re-written. New. (7535) $165.00

25.           (BOOKBINDING). FRENCH, Hannah D. Bookbinding in Early America . Seven Essays on Masters and Methods. Worcester : American Antiquarian Society, 1986, quarto, cloth. (xxvi), 230pp. First Edition. Illustrated. With catalogues of bookbinding tools prepared by Willman Spawn. In her preface, French traces her work in the study of American bindings, essay by essay, binder by binder. Included are Scottish-American Bookbindings (1957); The Amazing Career of Andrew Barclay (1961); Caleb Buglass, Binder of the Proposed Book of Common Prayer (1970); John Roulstone’s Harvard Bindings (1970); Full Gilt and Extra Gilt (1973); Jefferson’s Last Bookbinder: Frederick August Mayo (a final work taking five years of research, tracing his 45 bindings for Jefferson). New. (7415) $49.95

26.           (BOOKBINDING). GREENFIELD, Jane. Notable Bindings. ( New Haven ): Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 2002, octavo, printed wrappers. 94 pp. First Edition. Detailed descriptions of twenty-five bindings, dating from the incunabula period to the late nineteenth century. Very fine. (18215) $30.00

27.           (BOOKBINDING). KRUPP, Andrea. Bookcloth in England and America , 1823-1850. London/New Castle: British Library/Oak Knoll, 2008, octavo, printed wrappers. 102 pp. First Separate Edition, enlarged. This volume offers a new edition of Andrea Krupp’s groundbreaking article, which first appeared in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and includes an expanded Catalogue of Bookcloth Grains, with illustrations in a larger format and, for the first time, in color. Sue Allen has written the preface for the book. Ms. Krupp’s three-part essay, with several illustrations, covers the introduction of bookcloth and the early decades of its use, discusses bookcloth grain nomenclature and concludes with detailed observations on several cloth grain patterns. The first of three appendices is an information-dense table that lists each grain pattern with date range and frequency and provides cross references to previous nomenclature. Appendices 2 and 3, which together comprise the Catalogue of Nineteenth-Century Bookcloth Grains, include images of the various grains, reproduced at actual size. In this edition, the number of catalogue entries has been expanded from 222 to 248. The swatches are printed in color, and many of the ribbon-embossed patterns in Appendix 3 are formatted to represent the patterns more completely than when first published. (17736) $35.00

28.           (BOOKBINDING). LEWIS, Roy Harley. Fine Bookbinding In the Twentieth Century. London : David & Charles, (1984), large octavo, grey boards in dust jacket. 151pp. First Edition. This is a look at this century’s leading binders, their work and their varied approaches to it - often described in their own works. It includes a chapter on collecting bindings. Extensively illustrated with a fine selection of photographs, in color and black and white, it shows the very varied approaches of the different personalities, their superb craftsmanship and beautiful, stimulating, sometimes controversial designs. Jacket slightly discolored from sun, else fine and clean. (197) $45.00

29.           (BOOKBINDING). McDONNELL, Joseph and Patrick Healy. Gold-Tooled Bookbindings Commissioned by Trinity College in the Eighteenth Century. ( Ireland ): Irish Georgian Society, (1987), quarto, cloth in dust jacket. xvii, 340pp. First Edition. A documented study of the bookbindings commissioned by Trinity College , Dublin , in the eighteenth century. This represents the first in a series of Studies in the History of Irish Bookbinding. Illustrated with 102 bindings and over 500 rubbings of binders tools. “[The authors] rightly see binding as an adjunct to local printing and publishing on this occasion, and so include an extensive series of printing records, for example, incidentally documenting Berkeley ’s interest in Greek.” David McKitterick, “The Book Collector”, Spring, 1989. Fine. (12) $150.00

30.           (BOOKBINDING). MIDDLETON, Bernard C. The Restoration of Leather Bindings. ( New Castle , DE ): Oak Knoll Press, 2003, quarto, boards in dust jacket. (xvi), 309pp. Fourth Edition, Revised and Expanded. A classic text. With chapters on Cleaning the Bindings, Removing the Original Spine, Resewing, Headbanding, Rebacking, Straightening Warped Boards, Repairing Corners and so much more. Extensively illustrated. New. (4457) $45.00

31.           (BOOKBINDING). MORRIS, Ellen K. and Edward S. Levin. The Art of Publishers’ Bookbindings 1815 - 1915. Los Angeles : William Dailey Rare Books, n.d. (2000), small quarto, wrappers. 127pp. First Edition. In May of 2000 the Grolier Club mounted the most comprehensive exhibition ever produced of nineteenth-century publishers’ bookbindings, showcasing the imaginative design, rich materials, and skilled artistry of these “mass-produced” objects. Two hundred and fifty examples from America , England and Europe have been chosen to highlight the period bounded by Waterloo and World War I, during which books became elaborate vehicles for the visual arts and technical innovation. Bindings from all industrialized countries have been included, making it possible to see stylistic and technical interchanges, compare national differences, and assess the varied roles of publishers and artists in nineteenth-century book design. Materials and techniques employed in bookbinding were extensive and diverse. Early experiments with materials included printed paper boards, silk, and what would prove to be the most practical, cotton cloth. Indeed, almost from the beginning, cloth was the preferred material for casing popular books. Leather bindings, however, continued to be produced, and, with a greatly expanding market, the use of leather was explored as imaginatively as cloth. With full- color illustrations and descriptions of all 254 books in the exhibition. With a foreword by Ruari McLean and an afterword by Sue Allen. Very fine. (9662) $95.00

32.           (BOOKBINDING). PEARSON, David. English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800. New Castle , DE ; London : Oak Knoll Press; British Library, 2005, quarto, pictorial boards. 224pp. First Edition. This new book provides guidance on recognizing and dating English bindings of the handpress period. It deals not only with the luxury end of the market, but also with the whole spectrum of binding options - plain and middling as well as fine. In addition to providing practical help in placing particular bindings within their time and place, the book encourages a new approach to historic bindings, concentrating on what a binding can tell us about previous owners and their approach to books. Illustrated. An as new copy. New. (13490) $65.00

33.           (BOOKBINDING). PEARSON, David. For the Love of the Binding: Studies in Historical Bookbinding Presented to Mirjam Foot. ( London ): The British Library, 2000, quarto, boards in cloth in acetate wrapper. 392pp. First Edition. A festschrift in honor of Mirjam Foot focusing on her research interests. A magnificent collection of scholars and subjects: Robin Myers; Christopher de Hamel; Lotte Hellinga on fragments found in bindings and their role as bibliographical evidence; plaquette and medallion bindings by Anthony Hobson; Nicolas Barker on some unrecorded sixteenth-century French bookbindings; Nicholas Pickwoad; David Pearson; Bryan Maggs; John Collins; Marianne Tidcombe on de Sauty; Dorothy A. Harrop, and many more. This magnificent book ends with a bibliography of the writings of Mirjam Foot. With 44 color and 220 black and white illustrations. New. (10251) $135.00

34.           (BOOKBINDING). RHODES, Dennis E., (editor). Bookbindings & Other Bibliophily. Essays in honour of Anthony Hobson. Verona : Edizioni Valdonega, 1994, quarto, cloth. 368pp. First Edition. Foreword by Frederick B. Adams. On the occasion of Anthony Hobson’s seventieth birthday, twelve contributors provided essays on bookbinding and the history of books. The subjects range from great collectors like Grolier, Mahieu, Anne de Montmorency, to bookbinding techniques and the book trade. This book itself is a notable contribution to the history of books, bookbinding, and the book trade. With 72 illustrations. New. (7417) $125.00

35.           (BOOKBINDING). SPAWN, Willman and Thomas E. Kinsella. American Signed Bindings Through 1876. New Castle and Bryn Mawr: Oak Knoll Press & Bryn Mawr College Library, 2007, quarto, cloth. 300pp. First Edition. In this the first major study of American signed bookbindings, Willman Spawn and Thomas E. Kinsella describe and illustrate 315 bookbinder’s tickets, stamps, and engraved designations dating from the 1750s through 1876. The details of the study reveal a vibrant segment of the book trade, deeply enmeshed with the related trades of booksellers, stationers and publishers. Two hundred and thirty-three binders are represented, many with multiple designations. Locations of binders cluster up and down the east coast from Maine to Virginia , with tickets as far south as New Orleans and as far west as Little Rock. The study identifies binders from 19 states and 84 cities and towns. Brief descriptions of bindings are provided, along with explanatory notes for many binders, especially in the binding centers of Boston , New York and Philadelphia . The strength of the study is in its attention to nineteenth-century trade binders such as Benjamin Bradley and Peter Low of Boston , George W. Alexander and Colton & Jenkins of New York , and Benjamin Gaskill and Joseph T. Altemus of Philadelphia . The volume has two introductory essays and is well indexed. New. (16647) $85.00

36.           (BOOKBINDING). SZIRMAI, J. A. The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding. ( London ): Ashgate, (2007), quarto, cloth. xvi, 352pp. Reprint. In the past, studies of the history of bookbinding were mainly concerned with the exterior decoration. This book focuses attention primarily on the physical aspects of the binding and its construction principles. It is an expanded version of a series of lectures delivered by the author while Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam in 1987, supplemented with the results of ten years of intensive research in major libraries on the Continent, the United Kingdom and the USA. It surveys the evolution of the binding structures from the introduction of the codex two millennia ago to the close of the Middle Ages. Part I reviews the scanty physical evidence from the Mediterranean heritage, the early Coptic, Islamic and Ethiopian binding structures and their interrelation with those of the Byzantine realm. Part II is devoted to a detailed analysis of Western binding techniques, distinguishing the Carolingian, Romanesque and Gothic wooden-board bindings as the main typographical entities; their structure and function is compared with those of the contemporary limp bindings. The book is illustrated with over 200 drawings and photographs and contains a comprehensive bibliography. New. (12839) $190.00

37.           (BOOKBINDING). TIDCOMBE, Marianne. Women Bookbinders 1880-1920. ( New Castle ): Oak Knoll Press, (1996), octavo, boards & cloth. (240)pp. First Edition. From the author’s Preface: “The main focus is on the three most famous women binders of the period, Sarah Prideaux, Katharine Adams, and Sybil Pye, and the Guild of Women Binders, but almost all the other women who exhibited bindings from about 1880 to 1920 are also included. Some of the less usual styles of binding, such as those utilizing embroidery, painting on vellum, and modelled leather, were revived by women binders in the late 19th century, and these are covered separately. Since it would be unforgivable to omit from a book on women binders the thousands of women who laboured in the bookbinding trade, another chapter is devoted to their work.” Extensively illustrated in black and white and with 32pp. of color plates. With a detailed index. New. (6084) $58.00

38.           (BOOKPLATES). TATTERSFIELD, Nigel. Bookplates by Beilby & Bewick. ( London ): The British Library, (1999), quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (xii), (354)pp. First Edition. A Biographical Dictionary of Bookplates from the Workshop of Ralph Beilby, Thomas Bewick & Robert Bewick 1760-1849. From the dust jacket: “Though seldom acknowledged, the spare-time production by Thomas Bewick of his celebrated natural histories was supported by the vigorous activity of a general engraving business involving Bewick, his partner Ralph Beilby and their numerous apprentices, Revealing a vast range of work, from banknotes and inscriptions on silver, to the making of type punches and bottle moulds, the workshop’s surviving records are unique in their diversity and quantity. In recent years these records have been used in the study of engraved silver, pottery transfers and the preparatory studies foor Bewick’ s wood engravings. But Nigel Tattersfield’s account of the several hundred bookplates engraved on copper and wood, executed and printed in the workshop over a period of 89 years, is quite the most extensive and thorough in its use of the primary sources.” With over 300 illustrations. New. (7557) $95.00

39.           (BOOKSELLING). MATZ, Jenni (editor). Reminiscences & Remembrances of Herman and Aveve Cohen and the Chiswick Bookshop. New York : The Typophiles, 2002, octavo, wrappers. 32pp. First Edition. Herman and Aveve Cohen opened the Chiswick Bookshop in 1935, and it soon became a success. Herman was popular among many Typophiles and was elected one of the original 13-member Governing Committee of the ABAA. He was an early member of the AIGA, ILAB and many other societies associated with books and bookmaking. Their shop, active until 2001, specialized in books about books, the book arts, and private press publications. This book details the history and development of the Chiswick Bookshop and its booksellers and is also a chronicle of the life-long journey of two ardent bookworms, and best of friends. Illustrated. New. (12442) $30.00

40.           (BOON, Edward P., Sale ). Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets Principally Relating to America . New York : (Leavitt, Strebeigh & Co), May 16, 1870 , large octavo, printed blue wrappers. 597pp. 3,126 items, indexed. A fine auction catalogue of this comprehensive Americana collection. Each lot neatly priced in ink. Spine mended with tape, last several pages with waterstaining, internally a fine, clean copy. (16667) $65.00

41.           (BOSWELL, James). Collecting and Recollecting James Boswell 1740-1795. A Bicentenary Exhibition from the Collections of Yale University and Four Oaks Farm. New York : The Grolier Club, 1995, octavo, printed wrappers. (xviii), 44pp. First Edition. A bicentenary exhibition of Boswell as collector and diarist held at the Grolier Club September 12 - November 17, 1995 . Printed at the Ascensius Press. New. (14935) $20.00

42.           BRAGDON, Claude. The Frozen Fountain. Being Essays on Architecture and the Art of Design in Space. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1932, octavo, black cloth. (138)pp. First Edition. Chapters on Foundation Stones, Retrospect, The Skyscraper, Regulating Lines, Isometric Perspective, Ornament, and Color. Illustrated. Pages wavy from damp, jacket scuffed and stained. (16751) $50.00

43.           (BRITISH POETRY MAGAZINES). MILLER, David and Richard Price, (compilers). British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000. A History and Bibliography of “Little Magazines.” London : British Library, 2006, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. viii, 452pp. First Edition. Documenting thousands of British poetry magazines from the last century, British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000 records the remarkable world of the ‘little magazine’: a world where now famous authors are first found as unknowns. Many go on to use the little magazine as a testing ground for their writing for the rest of their lives. Here is the work of T.S. Eliot, Robert Graves, James Joyce, Laura Riding, Dylan Thomas, Samuel Beckett, Muriel Spark, Harold Pinter, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Angela Carter, Irvine Welsh, and many others. Although these magazines played a key part in the lives of so many British and American authors, they often had small print-runs and short lives: many are now extremely rare. This book lists the holdings of key libraries where the magazines can still be found. Each entry gives the editors involved, the dates of publication, and other information (such as documented interviews with editors, and details of any published index). Thousands of descriptions outline the magazines while short essays discuss the literary trends of the day in the context of these important periodicals. A name index identifies well over 5,000 authors and artists involved in the little magazine scene; a geographical index allows readers to locate the birthplaces of magazines across the British Isles . The book includes grayscale images of 32 little magazine covers. (15990) $95.00

44.           (BROOKE, Rupert). SCHRODER, John. Collecting Rupert Brooke. ( Cambridge ): Rampant Lions Press, 1992, octavo, boards. 25pp. First Edition. Limited to 250 copies. “In 1970 the Rampant Lions Press published John Schroder’s Catalogue of his extensive collection of material associated with Rupert Brooke, Edward Marsh and Christopher Hassall. This has been out of print for some years. Now he has told the story of the collection, how his interest in Brooke was ignited and fuelled, and how it has still not burned itself out. It is full of insights into how to cajole material out of reluctant vendors, and presents a nostalgic picture of a kind of collection by enthusiastic individuals which is becoming ever rarer.” In a Publisher’s Note, Sebastian Carter reflects with regret the unexpected death of John Schroder after he passed the proofs of this book but before its completion. A typically lovely production from this important Press, printed on Zerkell laid paper, with 4pp. of reproductions of manuscript material. New. (3755) $60.00

45.           BROWN, Michelle. The Lindisfarne Gospels. Society, Spirituality, and the Scribe. London : British Library, 2003, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 304 pp. First Edition. The eighth-century Latin Gospel book known as the Lindisfarne Gospels, with its tenth-century gloss (the earliest surviving translation of the Gospels into the English language), is one of the great landmarks of human cultural achievement. This book sets the Lindisfarne Gospels within its socio-historical context, during one of the world’s formative periods of transition -- from the Greco-Roman world to that of the early Middle Ages. The melting-pot of the multi-ethnic British Isles , with its international Christian context stretching from Frisia to the near-East, is reflected in the pages of the Lindisfarne Gospels, as part of an attempt to achieve a cultural synthesis in which all peoples could find a place - a visual reflection of the international Oecumen. In Northumbria the rallying point for this new identity was the figure of St. Cuthbert, his cult and the church of Lindisfarne (originally a Celtic mission to the Anglo-Saxons) all of which played a vial role in the faith, power, and politics of the region. The questions of where and when the Lindisfarne Gospels were made are addressed, but just as importantly the “why” is explored, in the context of new research concerning the technical innovation of its maker, his spiritual motivation, and the needs of the society in which he worked. 80 b&w and 32 color illustrations. New. (12029) $85.00

46.           (BROWNING, Robert & Elizabeth Barrett). KELLEY, Philip & Betty A. Coley. The Browning Collections. A Reconstruction with Other Memorabilia. The Library, First Works, Presentation Volumes, Manuscripts, Likenesses, Works of Art, Household and Personal Effects, and Other Association Items of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. ( Winfield , KS ): Armstrong Browning Library of Baylor University, (1984), large octavo, ivory printed cloth. (lviii), 708pp. First Edition. A check-list style reconstruction of Sotheby’s 1913 catalogue, The Browning Collections, for the sale of the works and collections of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Pen Browning, the only child of the Brownings, died intestate and the administrators of the estate ordered his effects sold. Illustrated. Very fine. (16682) $75.00

47.           BURNETT, T. A. J. Catalogue of the Ashley Manuscripts in the British Library. Two vols. London : British Library, 1999, octavo, cloth. 650pp. First Edition. From the prospectus: “The Ashley manuscripts form one of the most important collections of 19th-century English literary manuscripts in existence. Spanning the period from Coleridge to Conrad, with the emphasis on poetical manuscripts and the correspondence of writers, critics, collectors and bibliographers, the manuscripts were formerly part of the outstanding library assembled by Thomas James Wise (1859-1937), forger, pirate, book-thief and President of the Bibliographical Society. The collection is particularly strong in manuscripts of the Younger Romantics and of the Pre-Raphaelites, together with their ally Swinburne. Wise really started the practice of collecting the manuscripts of contemporary authors and was adept in seeking out the widows, widowers, children, and step-children of the preceding generation. The lack of an accurate and trustworthy catalogue has prevented this marvellous collection from being exploited as it ought. Wise’s lack of scholarship and of honesty, and his practice of dispersing related manuscripts throughout the collection, have made it impossible to identify the contents accurately. In this new catalogue T.A.J. Burnett has described and indexed the collection in great detail and with meticulous scholarship, and has thereby made it more readily available to students of one of the greatest periods in English Literature.” New. (9669) $130.00

48.           (CALLIGRAPHY). ANDERSCH, Martin. Symbols, Signs, Letters. About handwriting, experimenting with alphabets and the interpretation of texts. New York : Design Press, (1989), folio, cloth in dust jacket. 256pp. First American Edition. A beautifully produced book with color photographs from the work of German students in handwriting seminars at the University of Hamburg . The book “ makes visible the process of teaching and learning” the various scripts, with Prof Andersch’s philosophy and methods expounded in italic side-notes. With a glossary of terms and a brief photographic essay on preparing nibs and inks. The bibliography features German books on book-arts, some with English editions. (206) $75.00

49.           (CALLIGRAPHY). Calligraphy & Handwriting in America 1710-1962. Assembled and Shown by The Peabody Institute Library Baltimore , Maryland . November, 1961 - January, 1962. Caledonia , NY : Italimuse, Inc., 1963, quarto, wrappers. (84)pp. First Edition. The catalogue is divided into two parts: I. 1710-1957, in chronological sequence; II. Contemporary Calligraphy, in alphabetical sequence. Title page and headings calligraphed by Raymond F. DaBoll. Wrappers very lightly soiled. (18189) $30.00

50.           (CALLIGRAPHY). GAUR, Albertine. A History of Calligraphy. ( London ): The British Library, (1994), quarto, boards in dust jacket. 232pp. First Edition. From the jacket: “The history of calligraphy spans over five thousand years. It is intimately connected with the history of writing - the earliest examples of a coherent writing system, found in China inscribed on bones, have been dated to 3000-2500 BC - and yet it is more that simply ‘beautiful writing’...True calligraphy can be said to have developed among only three of the world’s major civilizations: the Arabs...the Chinese... and the Europeans...Albertine Gaur provides the first full-scale exploration of the history of calligraphy, and the place of calligraphers, from the earliest times to the present day, within all three of these very different cultures. In addition she discusses the tools for writing and the development of calligraphy in relation to printing and typography, and examines current trends and the work of contemporary calligraphers.” With over 180 illustrations in color and black and white. Very fine copy. (7575) $35.00

51.           (CALLIGRAPHY). HARRIS, David. Calligraphy. Modern Masters - Art, Inspiration, and Technique. New York : Crescent Books, (1991), tall octavo, red boards in dust jacket. 128pp. First Edition. This stunning book features the work of 20 modern calligraphers with Harris explaining the technical innovations and experiments that have made this work possible and examining their sources of inspiration. With 72 color and 237 black and white illustrations. (15516) $30.00

52.           (CALLIGRAPHY). HEWITT, Graily. Lettering. For Students and Craftsmen. London : Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd., 1930, quarto, white cloth. 336pp. First Edition. Limited to 380 numbered and signed copies. T.e.g. Part of The New Art Library edited by M. H. Spielmann and P. G. Konody. In his introduction Hewitt sets out to help the student improve his use of lettering commercially by grounding it in classic standards. With chapters on the history fo the classic alphabets, techniques and methods, design of pages and books, ornaments, materials and the process of gilding. Illustrated. This limited edition is printed on Arnold ’s Unbleached Hand- Made paper, each copy is signed by Graily Hewitt and contains two specially designed and hitherto unpublished alphabets by the author. Extensively illustrated, including tipped-in plates. Cloth soiled, front and back endpapers, both pastedown and free, are heavily foxed. Remarkably, the interior of the book is free of foxing, clean and bright. (13129) $250.00

53.           (CALLIGRAPHY). NASH, Ray. American Penmanship 1800-1850. A History of Writing and a Bibliography of Copybooks from Jenkins to Spencer. Worcester : American Antiquarian Society, 1969, octavo, cloth. xii, 303pp. First Edition. “The half-century under review witnessed the organization of the teaching of handwriting as a regular subject in the system of universal public instruction, together with the rise of commercial schools or business colleges independently maintained in which penmanship was one of the main subjects of attention.” With numerous illustrations and a detailed index. New. (7421) $35.00

Translated into English by A. F. Johnson, with an Introduction by Stanley Morison

54.           (CALLIGRAPHY). VERINI, Giovam Baptista. Luminario, or the Third Chapter of the Liber Elementorum Litterarum on the Construction of Roman Capitals. Cambridge : Harvard College Library, 1947, quarto, grey cloth in original glassine and slipcase. (33) pp. First Edition, Limited to 510 copies. Translated into English by A. F. Johnson, with an Introduction by Stanley Morison. Part of the Studies in the History of Calligraphy edited by Philip Hofer and Stanley Pargellis. Illustrated. Handsomely printed in black, red and green. Book very fine, slipcase lightly scuffed. (18213) $175.00

55.           (CARICATURE). LAMBOURNE, Lionel. An Introduction to Caricature. London : V & A Museum , (1983), octavo, boards. 48pp. First Edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs. From its beginning in the Baroque era, when humorous art began to distort the individual man, “and thus reveal the very essence of a personality” pictorially, caricature has had a splendid career in England : Hogarth, Rowlandson, Granville are all here along with examples from the Italian and French traditions. Very fine. (21) $15.00

56.           CARLEY, James P. The Books of King Henry VIII and his Wives. London : British Library, 2004, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 160pp. First Edition. King Henry VIII was one of the most intelligent and widely read monarchs of the renaissance. From surviving catalogues, which tell us what books he had, it is clear he was deeply involved in theological debate and monastic history, especially when moving to the break with Rome . At the same time, he was a Humanist scholar ahead of his time in all the liberal arts, especially music and poetry. Equally, most of his wives were also avid readers who collected a variety of books. In this important new workk, leading scholar James P. Carley describes Henry VIII’s books and their significance for a deeper understanding of this seemingly familiar monarch and his wives. The extensive illustrations allow us to examine the binding and content of the collection, as well as providing some examples of marginalia in Henry’s own hand. New. (13543) $39.95

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57.           (CARROLL, Lewis). GOODACRE, Selwyn H. and Justin G. Schiller. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: An 1865 Printing Re-Described and Newly Identified. New York : Battledore Ltd., 1990, octavo, decorated boards. 111pp. First Edition. Collectors and those interested in children’s books will find this work fascinating as it unearths information about the first actual printing of Alice in Wonderland. Encouraged by his friends, Rev. Charles Dodgson, otherwise known as Lewis Carroll, first had Alice published by Macmillan & Co. and printed by the Clarendon Press in June 1865. However, several weeks after that, John Tenniel, the illustrator, wrote to Dodgson complaining of his dissatisfaction with the printing of his illustrations. Macmillan examined one of the unbound copies of the book and agreed to fully reprint the book using a better printer from London , Richard Clay. Illustrated. New. (12262) $75.00

58.           CARTER, John. ABC for Book Collectors. New Castle , DE : Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2004, octavo, boards in dust jacket. (233)pp. Eighth Edition. Revised by Nicolas Barker. This classic has long been established as the most enjoyable as well as the most informative reference book on the subject. Here, in over 450 alphabetical entries, may be found definition and analysis of the technical terms of book collecting and bibliography, interspersed with many interesting comments. This seventh edition has been revised by Nicolas Barker, editor of The Book Collector, and incorporates additions and amendments that he has accumulated since the last edition was updated fourteen years ago. New. (13347) $29.95

59.           (CARTER, John). DICKINSON, Donald. John Carter. The Taste and Technique of a Bookman. New Castle : Oak Knoll Press, 2004, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 422pp. First Edition. Preface by Sebastian Carter. Author, bookseller, and bibliographer, John Carter’s writings touched the book trade in many ways. His co-authoring with Graham Pollard of An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets brought to light the forgeries of T. J. Wise. His contributions to many book collecting periodicals and scholarly journals demonstrated his knowledge and sly humor. Two of his publications, Taste and Technique in Book Collecting and ABC for Book Collectors are cornerstone reference books for any collection no matter the subject. Illustrated. As new. New. (12973) $49.95

60.           CARTER, Thomas Francis. The Invention of Printing in China and Its Spread Westward. ( Peking , China ): Publisher not stated, (1941), octavo, wrappers. xviii, 282pp. A Reprint of the 1925 first edition. With numerous illustrations and plates (two of which are folding). A fascinating and scholarly history of the spread of paper from China to Europe . In fine condition without tears or chips to the wrappers. (11269) $225.00

“Origin of the Serif is a work of Genius.” Philip Hofer

61.           CATICH, Edward M. The Origin of the Serif. Brush Writing & Roman Letters. Davenport , IA : St. Ambrose University, (1991), quarto, boards in dust jacket. (xii), 310pp. Second edition. Edited by Mary W. Gilroy. Illustrated and printed with accents and capitals and headlines in green or rust or both. The serif originated with Roman inscription letters, its history and development here detailed in letter cutting in stone, and the use of the brush in shaping the Roman letterform. The author “questions accepted theories as to the serif’s origin, and advances his own theory with skillful reasoning, detailed illustration, and epigraphic proof.” Very fine. “Origin of the Serif is a work of Genius.” Philip Hofer. New. (11620) $75.00

 

62.           (CAXTON, William). BLADES, William. The Biography and Typography of William Caxton, England’s First Printer. London : Trubner & Co., 1877, octav, maroon cloth. viii, 383 pp. First Edition. From Blades’ Preface, “The ‘Caxton Celebration’ is in full progress, and many persons are requiring information about our first Printer, his life and works. To supply that demand the present Volume is issued. In 1861-63, two volumes quarto were published, entitled, “The Life and Typography of William Caxton,’ in which the most full information then obtainable was afforded; but being both costly and cumbersome, it has been thought desirable to issue a new ‘Life’ in a more handy form...The bibliography has been necessarily curtailed, the account of the old manuscripts of Caxton’s printed books having been omitted...On the other hand, some new works...have been added to the Catalogue of Caxton’s productions, and described in full. It has also been thought necessary to retain the full Collation of each work...The Woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces, and initials are from the hand of Noel Humphreys, Esq., who on this occasion kindly resumed his pencil for the subject’s sake.” Illustrated with line drawings and full page plates. Bookplate removed from front pastedown, inner hinges very weak with front inner hinge roughly repaired. Title page soiled as are about a dozen pages. Pencil notations by former owner (mostly a vertical line noting a particular paragraph). Binding scuffed. Noel Humphrey’s head-pieces and tail-pieces are utterly charming. (18220) $125.00

63.           (CHAINED LIBRARIES). GLENN, John and David Walsh. Catalogue of the Francis Trigge Chained Library. St. Wulfram’s Church, Grantham. ( Cambridge ): Brewer, (1988), quarto, boards in dust jacket. xii, 82pp. First Edition. With nine plates of illustrations. In 1598 Francis Trigge, Rector of Welbourne in Lincolnshire, arranged for a library to be provided in St. Wulfram’s church, Grantham, for the use of the clergy and inhabitants of the town and the Soke: Trigge undertook to supply books to the value of ‘ one hundredth poundes or thereaboutes”, and the library that came into being was the first English library to be endowed outside an institution. The library is here catalogued for the first time; catalogue entries include collations for all books, details of bindings, dimensions, notes on waste sheets used as endpapers, and references for each volume to standard catalogues when possible. Four very small spots at bottom of front panel of jacket. (7422) $75.00

65.           (CHILDREN’S BOOKS). COOPER, John and Jonathan Cooper. Children’s Fiction 1900-1950. Aldershot : Ashgate, (1998), octavo, boards in dust jacket. (xii), 228pp. First Edition. In this comprehensive volume, John and Jonathan Cooper examine each decade in turn, with alphabetically arranged entries on popular children’s writers that published works in English during that period. 206 different authors are covered, many from the United States and Canada . Each entry provides information on the author’s pseudonyms, date of birth, nationality, titles of works, place and date of publicaiton and the publisher’s name. The artist responsible for a book’s illustrations is also identified where possible. With over 200 illustrations of binding designs and dust jackets. New. (6238) $130.00

66.           (CHILDREN’S BOOKS). SCHILLER, Justin G. Pioneering Collectible Children’s Books: The First One Hundred Years. Charlottesville : Book Arts Press, 2002, octavo, printed wrappers. (47) pp. First Edition. The Ninth Annual Sol. M. Malkin Lecture in Bibliography. The history of antiquarian children’s bookselling and book collecting. Illustrated. Very fine. (18170) $10.00

67.           (CHILDREN’S BOOKS). YOUNG, Timothy. Drawn to Enchant. Original Children’s Book Art in the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007, quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 196 pp. First Edition. Betsy Beinecke Shirley, one of the great collectors of American children’s literature, gathered a peerless collection of books, original illustrations, manuscripts, and ephemera. This gorgeously illustrated book presents over 200 selected original artworks from the enchanting collection she bequeathed to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University. Guiding the reader on a lively tour through the stages of childhood reading, this volume begins with ABCs and nursery books. It continues through adventure stories, magazines, and more, then concludes with a miscellany section of wonderful odds and ends. The delightfully varied images demonstrate how children’s books evolved, from the nation’s first days of independence to our own times. Artists whose works are represented include many beloved favorites, among them Ludwig Bemelmans, Maurice Sendak, A. B. Frost, Wanda Gag, Peter Newell, N. C. Wyeth, Tony Sarg, Robert Lawson, and Johnny Gruelle. From variant illustrations for Goodnight Moon and Where the Wild Things Are to little-known sketches for nineteenth-century periodicals that delighted generations of children, Drawn to Enchant offers a unique opportunity to study the reading lives of children throughout American history. Just as important, it invites each reader to recollect favorite images from the treasured books of his or her own childhood. With 250 illustrations. (18174) $45.00

68.           CLAIR, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. London : Cassell, (1969), quarto, green cloth in dust jacket. 228pp. First Edition. A compendium of information on matters connected with printing, its first introduction into Europe and its spread throughout the world; setting in chronological order those matters judged most important in the history of the printed book, its manufacture, design and dissemination. The entries are short and factual to provide the widest range of information rather than to study any one factor in depth. A comprehensive index of over 10,000 entries has been compiled. Fine. (18183) $65.00

69.           COLLISON, Robert L. Book Collecting. An Introduction to Modern Methods of Literary and Bibliographical Detection. Fair Lawn , NJ : Essential Books, 1957, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 244pp. First American Edition. With chapters on Bibliography, Bookbindings, Paper and Watermarks, Printers and Printing, Illustrations, Publishers and Bookselling, and more. Illustrated. Wear to jacket. (16634) $20.00

70.           (COOK BOOKS). LOWENSTEIN, Eleanor. Bibliography of American Cookery Books 1742-1860. Worcester , MA : American Antiquarian Society, 1972, octavo, green cloth in glassine dust jacket. (xii), 132pp. Third edition. Based on Waldo Lincoln’s “American Cookery Books, 1742-1860.” This current edition lists over 800 cookery books. With an Index of Authors and Index of Titles. Edges of text block lightly foxed, else fine. (17237) $45.00

71.           (COPPARD, A. E.). SCHWARTZ, Jacob. The Writings of Alfred Edgar Coppard. London : The Ulysses Bookshop, 1931, octavo, pink boards and tan cloth. (100)pp. First Edition, Limited to 660 numbered copies signed by Coppard. Foreword and notes by A.E. Coppard. A collection of 17 of Coppard’s writings detailed and with personal notes for each. Includes Anthologies in which his work has appeared, Translations, Reviewing, Unreprinted Tales, Uncollected Tales, Introductions (Prefaces and Articles), Journalism, and Epilogue. Also signed by Coppard on the front endpaper where he has added the Byron quote, “A book’s a book, although there’s nothing in’t.” Endpapers offset from glue used in binding, else a fine, clean copy. (17186) $65.00

72.           CURLE, Richard. Collecting American First Editions. its Pitfalls and Pleasures. Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, (1930), octavo, cloth in slipcase. (xx), 221pp. First Edition. Limited to 1,250 numbered and signed copies. Illustrated. A thorough classic on the fine points of collecting America ’s great authors, each chapter focusing on a bibliographic principle such as “typographical defects,” which is then illustrated by specific books: Holme’s The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table, Emerson’s Representative Men. With an Index of Authors and Books discussed in the text. Slipcase chipped at edges, book with light foxing to inner hinges, else fine, in original glassine which is chipped. (10233) $85.00

73.           DAVIS, William. A Journey Round the Library of A Bibliomaniac: or, Cento of Notes and Reminiscences concerning Rare, Curious, and Valuable Books. London : W. Davis , Bookseller, 1821, small octavo, original boards. viii, 96pp. First Edition. Along with: A SECOND JOURNEY ROUND THE LIBRARY OF A BIBLIOMANIAC; OR, CENTO OF NOTES AND REMINISCENCES CONCERNING RARE, CURIOUS, AND VALUABLE BOOKS. London : W. Davis , Bookseller, 1825, small octavo, original boards. 1 20pp. First Edition. Complete in the two volumes. Bibliographical and anecdotal descriptions of early, important books: the Vulgate Bible; the first book printed on paper made in England, Bartholomaeus de Proprietatibus Rerum, trans and printed by Wynkyn de Worde; Shakespeare’s folio editions; etc. Interesting commentary including auction prices from important sales. Both volumes in their original boards enclosed in later protective wrap-around cloth jackets and folding case. Spines flaking and spine label of volume one is chipped, no spine label on volume two. Bindings solid. (12832) $850.00

74.           (DE POL, John). BRODY, Catherine Tyler. John De Pol and The Typophiles. A Memoir and Record of Friendships. New York : The Typophiles, 1998, octavo, boards & cloth. (104)pp. First Edition. Limited to 500 copies. Such stellar names: John De Pol, Arthur Rushmore, John Anderson, John Fass; and the marvelous examples of book design and illustration that came from their collaborations. Many of the illustrations of De Pol’s work were pulled from the blocks. A very handsome production printed at the Golgonooza Letter Foundry & Press. New. (10568) $65.00

75.           (DETECTIVE FICTION). KESTNER, Joseph A. The Edwardian Detective, 1901-1915. Aldershot : Ashgate, 2000, large 8vo, cloth in dust jacket. 424pp. First Edition. The Edwardian Detective examines the range of detective literature produced between 1901 and 1915 in Britain , during the reign of Edward VII and the early reign of George V. It assesses Edwardian detective literature as cultrual history, with a focus on such issues as legal reform, marital reform, surveillance, international diplomacy, the arms race, Germanophobia, masculinity/femininity, the “best-seller”, and the concept of “popular” literature. This book is the first major study to investigate many of the “canonical” and less-canonical writers of detective literature, focusing on such major figures as Coanan Doyle, Chesterton, Bennett, Conrad, and Buchan, but also reinvestigating writers such as Bramah, Mason, Barr, Bentley, Prichard , and Childers. Important women writers of the genre are also discussed, including Lowndes, Orczy, and Meade. New. (9676) $130.00

76.           (DICKENS, Charles). HATTON, Thomas and Arthur H. Cleaver. A Bibliography of the Periodical Works of Charles Dickens. ( Cambridge , Mass): Maurizio Martino, no date (1992), octavo, cloth. (xxii), (384)p. Reprint of the 1933 edition. This reprint is limited to 350 copies. With 31 illustrations and facsimiles. “...every bibliographical detail... relating to the first issue of the first ediitons of the thirteen important books written by...Dickens, and published in periodical form.” An excellent reprint. New. (9923) $75.00

77.           (DICKENS, Charles). MILLER, William (compiler). The Dickens Student and Collector. A List of Writings Relating to Charles Dickens and His Works 1836-1945. London : Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1946, octavo, blue cloth . (xii), 351pp. First Edition. This volume is not a bibliography of the works of Dickens but one devoted exclusively to the Ana concerning or connected with his life and works. It presents a complete list of all Dickensiana, arranged by subjects and comprising books devoted to the novelist, books containing chapters of his life and works, magazine articles, plays, poems, songs. plagiarisms, music, etc. Errata slip tipped-in. Gilt stamping on spine very bright, light foxing to endpapers, unobtrusive wrinkle to cloth on back cover due to binding flaw, not to bend in board. (14492) $65.00

78.           DINGMAN, Larry. Booksellers Marks. ( Minneapolis ): Dinkytown Antiquarian Bookstore, (1986), tall octavo, orange cloth with title on label on front cover. (112)pp. First Edition, Limited to 447 numbered copies. The author has reproduced 444 booksellers marks in black and white. Three original marks have been tipped-in. New. (17179) $200.00

79.           DOOLEY, Allan C. Author and Printer in Victorian England . Charlottesville , VA : University of California Press , (1992), octavo, cloth in dust jacket. xii, 192pp. First Edition. A title in the Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Dooley claims that the “printing technology” of nineteenth century England “influenced the texts of classic works of English Literature as we read them today.” The interaction of author, printer and publisher affected the writing of texts, the printer’s efforts to make his work “easier and more profitable by bending the author to [his] own needs.” (250) $30.00

80.           DREW, Ned and Paul Sternberger. By Its Cover. Modern American Book Cover Design. New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2005, quarto, printed wrappers. 176pp. First Edition. By Its Cover traces the story of the American book cover from its inception as a means of utilitarian protection for the book to its current status as an elaborately produced form of communication art. It is, at once, the intertwined story of American graphic design and American literature, and features the work of such legendary figures as Rockwell Kent, E. McKnight Kauffer, Paul Rand, Alvin Lustig, Rudy deHarak, and Roy Kuhlman along with more recent and contemporary innovators including Push Pin Studios, Chermayeff & Geismar, Karen Goldberg, Chip Kidd, and John Gall. With 200 full color illustrations. New. (15218) $29.95

81.           (DREXEL INSTITUTE SALE ). Literary and Historical Autograph Manuscripts and Letters, Many of the Utmost Importance including Edgar Allan Poe’s Murders in the Rue Morgue, Charles Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend, and Others Including Andre, Hawthorne, Lamb, Scott, Thackeray, Lincoln and Grant. Property of the Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia . New York : Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, Oct 17 - 18, 1944, octavo, printed wrappers. 117pp. 269 items described in detail. Illustrated. Each lot with the price realized noted in pencil in the margin. Some lots with the buyer noted. Lower right corner bumped. (14496) $25.00

82.           DU BOIS, Henri Pene. Four Private Libraries of New-York. A Contribution to the History of Bibliophilism in America . First Series. New York : Duprat & Co., 1892, octavo, orange silk boards, rebacked. 119pp. First Edition. Of the 1,000 copies printed, this is one of 800 numbered copies printed on Holland paper. Preface by Octave Uzanne. Printed at The De Vinne Press. With a frontispiece and twelve photogravure plates reproducing the bindings of famous craftsmen as well as bookplates and book illustrations. With chapters on The Art of Bookbinding, Historical Book-Covers, The Elzevirs, and more. “The text of this book...offers more thought-provoking material tot he bibliophile than any half dozen other titles in the field of books about books, old or modern, that the writer can recall.” Webber, Books about Books, p.62. Rebacked, cloth soiled and scuffed at edges, bookplate. Unattractive but a solid copy. (18259) $50.00

83.           DU BOIS, Henri Pene. Four Private Libraries of New-York. A Contribution to the History of Bibliophilism in America . First Series. New York : Duprat & Co., 1892, octavo, wrappers. 119pp. First Edition. Of the 1,000 copies printed, this is one of 200 numbered copies printed on Japanese paper. Preface by Octave Uzanne. Printed at The De Vinne Press. With a frontispiece and twelve photogravure plates reproducing the bindings of famous craftsmen as well as bookplates and book illustrations. With chapters on The Art of Bookbinding, Historical Book-Covers, The Elzevirs, and more. “The text of this book...offers more thought-provoking material tot he bibliophile than any half dozen other titles in the field of books about books, old or modern, that the writer can recall.” Webber, Books about Books, p.62. Tipped-in bookplate (?) removed from front endpaper, else a fine, solid copy without wear to spine. In original orange cloth folding chemise with ties. Chemise worn and partially separated at hinges, with ties intact. (12830) $250.00

84.           ECHARD, Sian and Stephen Partridge, (editors). The Book Unbound. Editing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts and Texts. Toronto : Univ of Toronto Press, 2004, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. x, 260pp. First Edition. In The Book Unbound, scholars and editors examine how best to use new technological tools and new methodologies with artefacts of medieval literature and culture. Taking into consideration English, French, Anglo-Norman, and Latin texts from several periods, the contributors examine and re-evaluate traditional approaches to and conclusions about medieval books and the cultural texts they contain – literary, dramatic, legal, historical, and musical. The essays range from detailed examinations of specific codices to broader theoretical discussions on past and present editorial practices, from the benefits and disadvantages of digital editions versus print editions to the importance of including ‘extratextual’ material such as variant texts, illustrations, intertexts, and other information about a work’s cultural contexts, history, and use. The Book Unbound presents important contributions to the discussions surrounding the editing of medieval texts, including the use of digital technology with historical and literary documents, while offering practical ideas on editing print and hypertext. Illustrated with 12 halftones and 10 color illustrations. New. New. (13540) $50.00

85.           (EPHEMERA). HUDSON, Graham. The Design and Printing of Ephemera in Britain and America, 1720-1920. London/New Castle: British Library/Oak Knoll Press, 2008, large octavo, pictorial boards. 160 pp. First Edition. Ephemera has been collected for many years, but only recently has it become widely accepted as material for academic study. This is the first book to discuss ephemera as an aspect of design history, showing how function, production process and period have affected the changing appearance of billheads, trade cards, flyers, playbills and other ephemera. This book explores the closely interwoven printing histories of Britain and America . American colonial printers and engravers imported British type and equipment, took instruction from the same manuals and were guided by the same exemplars as their British counterparts, a relationship that continued through the first half of the nineteenth century. Following the Civil War, American graphic design and typography began to establish distinctive identities, with developments in color printing bringing an efflorescence of color-rich trade cards, cigar-box labels and other chromolithographed ephemera that was essentially American. Nevertheless, ideas continued to be shared across the Atlantic . American foundries devised entirely original typefaces that were imported into Britain , yet the development of expertise in designing with these new faces depended on printers learning from one another, and the scheme of specimen exchange that successfully achieved this was wholly devised and administered from London . Richly illustrated with letterforms, engravings, drawings and the reproduction of over 200 items of ephemera, many in full color, this is a book for collectors, students, design historians and all with an interest in the visual arts. Very fine. (17737) $65.00

86.           (EPHEMERA). RICKARDS, Maurice. Collecting Printed Ephemera. New York : Abbeville, (1988), quarto, boards in dust jacket. 224pp. First American Edition. Written by a Leading authority and collector - and the moving spirit behind the founding of the Ephemera Society - this is the first comprehensive introduction to all aspects of this emerging field. The book is divided into two parts. In the first part, the author discusses the appear of ephemera to the collector and its relevance as historical evidence. He then examines the numerous sources for written ephemera of the past - and also discusses what to collect now, presenting information on prices and market trends, Rickards also covers the technical points of watermarks and paper, as well as repair and conservation. He discusses problems of dating, classification, storage, and cataloguing. The second part of the book is organized in four sections: the basic printing processes used in producing ephemera, common categories of ephemera, typical themes, and general information. This last section provides a glossary of commonly used terms, as well as information on papers, watermarks, conservation materials, and ephemera societies. 750 items of ephemeral illustrated, 300 of them in full color. Very fine in jacket. (17469) $35.00

87.           (ERAGNY PRESS). BECKWITH, Alice H.R.H. Illustrating the Good Life: The Pissarros’ Eragny Press, 1894-1914. A Catalogue of an Exhibition of Books, Prints & Drawings Related to the Work of the Press. New York : Grolier Club, 2007, quarto, printed wrappers. (x), (70)pp. First Edition, Limited to 400 copies. Preface by Alan Fern. Frontispiece and 38 color and duotone illustrations. An illustrated history and survey of the work of the Eragny Press by Alice H. R. H. Beckwith, followed by detailed descriptions of 104 items on display at the Grolier Club, February 20-April 28, 2007. Designed by Jerry Kelly. Beautifully illustrated in black and white and in color. Very fine. (16576) $40.00

88.           ERDMANN, Axel. My Gracious Silence. Women in the Mirror of 16th Century Printing in Western Europe . Luzern: (Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 1999), quarto, cloth. (xxx), 319pp. First Edition. Examples of books on and for women of the sixteenth-century are catalogued and annotated. This section is followed by Part II: Triumph Over Silence giving examples of women writers, books illustrated by women, and women in the book business. The final section is a short title bibliography of books by women of the period. Illustrated. New. (9979) $90.00

89.           FAHY, Conor, (editor). Printing A Book at Verona in 1622, The Account Book of Francesco Calzolari. Paris : Foundation Custodia, 1993, quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 204pp. First Edition. This book is an account of the production details concerning the printing and distribution of the Musaeum Francisci Calceolarii, a large illustrated volume containing a Latin description of two Veronese doctors, Benedetto Ceruti and Andrea Chiocco, of some of the Calzolari family’s natural history collection. Contains a photographic reproduction of the Musaeum, an Italian-English glossary, extensive appendices and indices. Includes 58 black and white plates. Handsomely printed at The Stinehour Press. New. (12281) $75.00

90.           (FLEMING, Ian). CAMPBELL, Iain. Ian Fleming: A Catalogue of a Collection. A preliminary to a bibliography. Liverpool : Iain Campbell, (1978), octavo, pictorial wrappers. (viii), 71pp. First Edition. A catalogue of bibliographical descriptions of the major Fleming first editions. Includes other books periodicals, and biographies with references to Fleming. With Appendices, Indexes, and Notes. A fine copy. (17188) $75.00

91.           (FORGERY). BAINES, Paul. The House of Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain . ( Aldershot ): Ashgate, (1999), quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 204pp. First Edition. From the prospectus: “The House of Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain offers a balanced interdisciplinary account of literary and criminal forgery as they were practiced, constructed and theorized int he 18th century as a corollary of the new documents of the financial revolution: banknotes, bills of exchange and promissory notes. The book surveys forgery and its mythology, placing well-known cases such as that of Dr. William Dodd within the pattern of 400 prosecutions from the period 1715-17 80. In parallel, accounts of some major instances of literary forgery are rooted in a more pervasive culture in which “forgery” was discovered in many developing areas of literary practice: scholarly editing, historiography and antiquarianism. One surprising aspect of this study is the extent to which literary figures were involved in matters of criminal as well as literary forgery. It is suggested that the two kinds of forgery have unexpected connections with each other through the economy of literature which, following the development of copyright, regarded the signature of authorship as the legal site of literary authenticity, and through the economic and legal culture of forgery prosecutions, in which bogus “writing” came to signify a whole range of problems of personal and literary character.” Contents: An age of forgery; Script and scripture; Ward, Crook and company; “Man’s first disobedience”; Lauder, Johnson, and literary crime; Johnson, Ossian and the highland tour; The many lives of New. (7698) $130.00

"...a splendid work of reference."

92.           (FORGERY). FREEMAN, Arthur and Janet Ing Freeman. John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. Two volumes. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2004, octavo, cloth . 1,532pp. First Edition. John Payne Collier (1789–1883), one of the most controversial figures in the history of literary scholarship, pursued a double career. A prolific and highly influential writer on the drama, poetry, and popular prose of Shakespeare’s age, Collier was at the same time the promulgator of a great body of forgeries and false evidence, seriously affecting the text and biography of Shakespeare and many others. This monumental two-volume work for the first time addresses the whole of Collier’s activity, systematically sorting out his genuine achievements from his impostures. Arthur and Janet Freeman reassess the scholar-forger’s long life, milieu, and relations with a large circle of associates and rivals while presenting a chronological bibliography of his extensive publications, all fully annotated with regard to their creditability. The authors also survey the broader history of literary forgery in Great Britain and consider why so talented a man not only yielded to its temptations but also persisted in it throughout his life. With 31 black and white illustrations. “In their definitive account of Collier’s life, works, and his forgeries and fabrications, Arthur and Janet Ing Freeman have provided a splendid work of reference.”—R.A. Foakes, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America . Very fine.
 New. (14516) $160.00

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93.           (FORGERY). GILREATH, James. The Judgment of Experts: Essays and Documents about the Investigation of the Forging of the Oath of a Freeman. Worcester : American Antiquarian Society, 1991, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. x, 271pp. First Edition. An anthology of essays and documents by Marcus McCorison, Justin Schiller, Robert Mathiesen, and the many others who found themselves caught up in the Mark Hoffmann forgery, “Oath of a Freeman.” Illustrated. New. (10147) $35.00

94.           (FORGERY). RENDELL, Kenneth. Forging History: The Detection of Fake Letters & Documents. Norman : Univ of Oklahoma , 1994, quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 184pp. First Edition. A detailed analysis of forgery detection in the field of historical letters and documents. Based on Kenneth Rendell’s 35 years of experience in buying, selling, and authenticating letters and documents, the book shows in clear explanation and in over 400 illustrations, the factors that lead to uncovering forgeries. With historical examinations or forgeries of Joseph Cosey (of Ben Franklin and Lincoln), Robert Smith (of Washington ), and A. H. “Antique” Smith (of Robert Burns). Final chapters cover the more contemporary forgeries of the Hitler diaries, the Mormon forgeries, and the Jack the Ripper diary hoax. Includes a very detailed analysis of the materials: paper, ink and writing instruments. New. (7426) $35.00

95.           FOXON, D.F. English Verse 1701-1750. New Castle : Oak Knoll Press, 2003, large octavo, cloth. 302, 950pp. First Edition, Second Printing. Two Volumes. A comprehensive catalog of the separately printed English poems of the first half of the eighteenth century. Volume 1 contains some ten thousand entries, giving full bibliographical details and information on first lines, subject and the location of copies; many of the works listed are very rare and exist only in little known collections. A great deal of important new bibliographical information is provided. Many unknown works have been discovered, and new issues or editions, even of Swift and Pope, are identified. Volume 2 comprises a full series of indexes of subjects and first lines, a chronological index listing the poems in their order of publication, indexes of bibliographical notabilia and descriptive epithets, and an index of printers and booksellers. New. (12454) $245.00

96.           FRANCIS, Sir Frank. A Bibliographical Ghost Revisits His Old Haunts. Austin : HRC, (1972), octavo, ochre cloth. 28pp. First Edition, Limited to 750 copies. Bibliographical Monograph Series No. 5. A discussion of what bibliography is and what is the proper field for bibliographical studies. Design and typography by William R. Holman. Very fine. (18260) $20.00

97.           (FRASER, Eric). BACKEMEYER, Sylvia. Eric Fraser. Designer and Illustrator. Brokfield , VT : Scolar Press, 1998, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 160pp. First Edition. Eric Fraser (1902-83) was one of the most prolific and versatile illustrators of his time and has made a major contribution to the art of illustration. This is the first full-length publication on Fraser and is fully illustrated with examples of his work covering the entire range of his output: illustrations and covers for Harpers Bazaar and Radio Times; cartoons and caricatures, including a number for Punch; book illustrations and book jackets; and posters, advertising material and Christmas cards. The author provides an overview of Fraser’s childhood and student days, his work as a designer for advertising and his book and magazine illustration. An essay by Wendy Coates-Smith explores the inspiration and genius of some of his most important work, placing Fraser in the wider context of British illustration this century. Includes 45 color and 63 b/w illustrations. New. (12205) $90.00

98.           GERITS, Anton. Books, Friends, and Bibliophilia. Reminiscences of an Antiquarian Bookseller. New Castle : Oak Knoll Press, 2004, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 402pp. First English language Edition. A memoir by this Dutch antiquarian bookseller viewing the European trade from 1950 to the present. Illustrated. New. (12974) $65.00

99.           GILL, Eric. Art and Manufacture. London : New Handworkers’ Gallery, (1929), octavo, wrappers. (12)pp. First Edition. With frontispiece wood engraving of puppets “after designs by the author.” Printed in London at The Fanfare Press. “In this essay the existing organization of industry is not criticized as being socially or morally bad but simply as being destructive of intellectual responsibility and therefore inimical to Art.” Evan Gill notes “this essay must not be confused with a lecture bearing the same title which was...published as the first of a series of three lectures under the title Work and Leisure.” Gill 19. Wrappers soiled. (5686) $200.00

100.         (GILL, Eric). The Monotype Recorder Commemorating an Exhibition of Lettering and Type Designs by Eric Gill Held at Monotype House, London in October, 1958. Monotype Corporation, 1958, quarto, printed wrappers. (22)pp. First Edition. An article comprising the entire issue of “The Monotype Recorder,” Autumn, 1958, Volume XLI, No. 3. Extensively illustrated. Very fine. (14409) $45.00

101.         (GILL, Eric). SKELTON, Christopher, (editor). Eric Gill: The Engravings. Boston : Godine, (1990), small folio, cloth in dust jacket. 478pp. First Trade Edition, American Issue. “This monumental book, compiled by Gill’s nephew, Christopher Skelton, and based on the limited edition, contains Gill’s complete oeuvre - from his religious subjects to his erotic fantasies, from his designs for the sumptuous editions of THE FOUR GOSPELS and THE CANTERBURY TALES to his tiny pressmark for the Curwen Press. Most are reproduced in their original dimensions, with examples in both color and black and white.” Fine. (43) $75.00

102.         (GOELET, Ogden , Sale ). The Library of the Late Ogden Goelet of New York. Two parts. New York : American Art/Anderson Galleries, Jan 3-4, 24-25, 1935, large octavo, printed wrappers with Goelet’s bookplate affixed to front wrapper of each part. . (x), 216pp.; ( vi), (198)pp. . American Art/Anderson Galleries Sale #4140. 848 items listed. Contains an extensive Cruikshank collection and a superb Dickens collection. In the first volume the Dickens collections lists just over 100 letters, most quoted in part, and it also contains several series of drawings done by Hablot K. Browne (“Phiz”) for various Dickens titles. The second volume of the sale contains the first editions of Dickens’ works including a presentation copy to George Cruikshank, and many more letters. The two volumes contain a total of 90 lots of Dickensian interest. This library also contained many literary American highspots. Illustrated. Spines lightly foxed, else a fine, clean set. (16691) $75.00

103.         (GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS). CAVE, Roderick and Sarah Manson. A History of the Golden Cockerel Press 1920-1960. London : British Library, (2003), quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 288pp. First Edition. The Golden Cockerel Press was founded in 1920 by Harold Midgely Taylor, at Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire and purchased by Robert Gibbings in 1924. This is the first in-depth study of the press which has become known for its use of some of the finest wood engravers of its day: Robert Gibbings, Eric Gill, David Jones, Agnes Miller Parker, Eric Ravilious, and others. Includes a bibliography of all books printed by the Golden Cockerel Press. With 16 pages of color illustrations and with 150 black and white illustrations. New. (11834) $110.00

104.         GOLDSCHMIDT, E. P. The Printed Book of the Renaissance. Three Lectures on Type, Illustration, Ornament. Amsterdam : Gerard Th. van Heusden, 1966, quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (xii), 93pp. followed by viii plates. . Second Edition, with corrections. “EPG discourses about the Renaissance movement as it expresses itself in the Book, and the important part which the Book must have played, both with regard to the type in which it was printed and to its illustrations and ornament, in propagating the appreciation of the new art forms among the European public.” Illustrated by 32 facsimile cuts in the text, and at the end by eight double page plates of openings of early printed books. Small name and date on front pastedown, else a fine copy. (18196) $135.00

105.         GORDAN, John D. Letters to an Editor. Georgian Poetry, 1912-1922. An Exhibition from the Berg Collection. New York : New York Public Library, 1967, octavo, wrappers. 36pp. An exhibition of letters written to Sir Edward Howard Marsh, an editor who helped bring such poets as W. H. Davies, Walter De La Mare, Robert Graves, D. H. Lawrence and John Masefield to public attention through his series of anthologies of Georgian poets. With a biography of Marsh and biographies of the poets he helped define as Georgian. Very fine, clean. (333) $12.50

106.         (GRABHORN PRESS). HELLER, Elinor Raas and David Magee. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press 1915-1940 [along with] Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press 1940-1956. San Francisco : Alan Wofsy, 1975, large quarto, cloth. (440)pp. Reprint (Limited to 500 copies) of the editions of 1940 and 1957. Printed throughout in black and red and with numerous facsimile title pages and other in-text illustrations. A handsome production. New. (9922) $150.00

107.         GREEN, Julian. The Pilgrim on the Earth. London : Blackmore Press, 1929, quarto, blue cloth and vellum spine. T.e.g. (121) pp. Numbered copy 266 of a limited 350 copies published on Rives vellum watermarked Blackamore. With 12 color wood engravings by Rene Ben Sussan. Except for the years from 1918 to 1922 and from 1940 to 1945, Green lived in France . His 18 novels, written in French, are somber psychological tales concerning vice and near-madness. This novel takes place in Charlottesville , Virginia . Vellum spine soiled, name and addresson front endpaper, light foxing to preliminary leaves. (13503) $65.00

108.         (GREENAWAY, Kate). ENGEN, Rodney. Kate Greenaway. A Biography. London : Macdonald Futura, (1981), quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 240pp. First Edition. The author worked for over five years on researching this biography, using much unpublished correspondence and interviews with surviving friends and relations. He has also uncovered many unpublished illustrations. Includes an annotated list of Greenaway books. With 121 illustrations in black-and- white and 15 in color. New. (9889) $45.00

109.         GRIFFITHS, Jeremy and Derek Pearsall. Book Production and Publishing in Britain 1375–1475. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, (1989), octavo, brown cloth in dust jacket. (xx), 463 pp. First Edition. This series of studies, by experts in the relevant fields, comprehensively and systematically examines British book production and publishing in the hundred years before the introduction of printing. The terms ‘book’ and ‘publishing’ are usually employed in reference to the products of the printing press. This collection of essays, however, deals with the manuscript book, its materials and make-up, the people who made, commissioned and read such books, the kinds of reading matter they wanted, and the way books catered for - and created - the reading and book-buying public. Special attention is paid to the increasing systemization and commercialization of production. These essays constitute a valuable work of reference for scholars and students in a wide range of disciplines. Contents: List of illustrations and figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; List of works cited in short form; Introduction Derek Pearsall; Part I. The Book: 1. Materials: the paper revolution R. J. Lyall; 2. Design, decoration and illustration Kathleen L. Scott; 3. English decorated bookbindings Miriam M. Foot; Part II. Book Production: 4. Evidence for the study of London’s late medieval manuscript-book trade C. Paul Christianson; 5. Publication by members of the religious orders A. I. Doyle; 6. Lollard book production Anne Hudson; 7. The production of books of liturgical polyphony Andrew Wathey; Part III. Patrons, Buyers and Owners: 8. Patrons, buyers and owners: the evidence for ownership, and the rôle of book owners in book production and the book trade Kate Harris; 9. Patrons, buyers and owners: book production and social status Carol Meale; 10. Books and book owners in fifteenth-century Scotland R. J. Lyall; Part IV. The Contents of Books: 11. The manuscripts of the major English poetic texts A. S. G. Edwards and Derek Pearsall; 12. Anthologies and miscellanies: production and choice of texts Julia Boffey and John J. Thompson; 13. Vernacular books of religion Vincent Gillespie; 14. Scientific and medical books Linda Ehrsam Voigts; Part V. Aftermath: 15. Manuscript to print N. F. Blake; Appendices; Index of manuscripts; General index. Illustrated. A two inch closed cut to back panel of jacket, else a fine, clean copy.
 (18263) $85.00

110.         GRIFFITHS, Jeremy and Derek Pearsall. Book Production and Publishing in Britain 1375–1475. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, (2007), octavo, printed wrappers. (xx), 463 pp. First Edition, wrappers issue of the above title. (18264) $55.00

112.         (GROLIER CLUB). KRAUS, T. Peter & Eric Holzenberg; edited by Carol Z. Rothkopf. The Grolier Club Collects: Books, Manuscripts, & Works on Paper From The Collections of Grolier Club Members. New York : The Grolier Club, 2002, quarto, ochre cloth. 192pp. First Edition, one of 1,000 copies printed. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Club December 11, 2002 through February 1, 2003. A survey of modern collecting, from incunabula to artists’ books, from Dürer to Al Capp, from the third century AD to the present, from Saint Thomas Aquinas to Oscar Wilde, each of the 130 objects described and celebrated in the collector’s own words. 39 color and 96 duotone illustrations. Designed by Jerry Kelly, and printed by Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega. New. (14937) $50.00

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113.         (GUTENBERG, Johann). THEVET, Andre. Jean Guttemberg, Inventor of Printing. A Translation by Douglas C. McMurtrie of the Essay in Andre Thevet’s “Vies des Hommes Illustres,” Paris , 1589. No place: Privately Printed by Douglas C. McMurtrie, 1926, quarto, black boards in matching slipcase. (9) pp. First Edition, Limited to 190 numbered copies. . Typography and calligraphy by Frank E. Powers. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by McMurtrie on the from endpaper to John Frank Connor and dated 1926. With Connor’s printing press bookplate tipped to front pastedown. The very fragile spine has seven small nicks, boards fine. The slipcase has a few nicks to the black paper covering the boards. (18191) $150.00

114.         (HAGGARD, H. Rider). SITES, Kriston. In and Out of Africa: The Adventures of H. Rider Haggard. Bloomington , Indiana : the Lilly Library, 1995, quarto, printed wrappers. 74pp. First Edition. An exhibition catalogue of 71 items. Well illustrated. Fine (13376) $25.00

115.         (HAMMER CREEK PRESS). BURKE, Jackson and Eugene M. Ettenberg. John S. Fass and the Hammer Creek Press. With a bibliography by Herman Cohen. Boston : Godine, 1998, octavo, cloth. 36pp. of text and 16pp. of color plates. First Trade Edition. “John Fass and his work at the Hammer Creek Press are practically unknown today except to a small group of devoted cognoscenti. Unlike Rogers, Updike, or Dwiggins, Fass was essentially a private printer, working alone at his own pace. What he did was done for his own pleasure. But his work, small in size and issued in minuscule editions, was exquisite and executed with impeccable taste. He was a genius at the arrangement of type, ornaments, and wood engravings. Every piece he produced was a small gem, for Fass had the time, skill, and materials to print everything by hand patiently and perfectly. No wonder the emblem he chose for his press was a turtle. In this lovely little volume, with its text printed letterpress and its plates in four solid colors, we can discover not only Fass’s life and work, but through the efforts of the late, beloved Herman Cohen, a complete checklist of his output.” Foreword by Aveve Cohen. New. (6955) $35.00

116.         HANSEN, Thomas. Classic Book Jackets. The Design Legacy of George Salter. New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2004, large octavo, printed wrappers. 200pp. First Edition. Foreword by Milton Glaser. Salter had the rare ability to reduce the illustrated dust jacket -- a new part of the book package -- to its essential elements. He could visually evoke -- with typography, calligraphy, and pictorial imagery -- the contents of any given book. For more than forty years, his beautifully drawn and lettered covers served as elegant windows onto the works of such revered authors as Albert Camus, John Dos Passos, Jack London, and Thomas Mann. Includes more than 200 reproductions of his finest works, and a complete catalog of his jackets, designs, layouts, and lettering jobs for the book trade. New. (15219) $35.00

117.         (HENTY, G. A.). KENNEDY, R. S. & B. J. Farmer. Bibliography of G. A. Henty & Hentyana. [ London : B.J. Farmer, c. 1955-56], quarto, green cloth. 92pp. First Edition. A complete check list containing about 220 items. The bibliography is presented in alphabetical order with title, year published, size, binding, publisher, and value of fine copies (as of this book’s publication date). Mimeographed copy of original typescript reproduced on recto only. Corrigenda et Addenda loose in back of book. Signed and dated 18-4-56 by Farmer at end of introduction. Fine. (16672) $85.00

118.         HINKS, John and Catherine Armstrong. Worlds of Print. Diversity in the Booktrade. New Castle : Oak Knoll Press, 2006, octavo, boards in dust jacket. 224 pp. First Edition. Volume 8 in the Print Networks series. Presented at the 2004 Conference on the History of the British Book Trade, these papers focus on the infinite variety of people and places in the British Isles and the wider colonial world whose lives revolved around the book trade. They reflect these complex networks, focusing on the people involved in the creation of the book, from author to agent, publisher to printer, bookseller to reader. Topics range from Scotland ’s earliest printers to late 20th century global marketing strategies, and explores books in and about central America, New Zealand , Australia , and the UK , among other diverse locations. Illustrated in black and white. New. (15322) $45.00

119.         (HUNTER, Dard). PREISSIG, Vojtech. Dear Mr Hunter. The letters of Vojtech to Dard Hunter 1920-1925. Buffalo : P22 Editions, 2000, small octavo, printed wrappers. (xii), (65) pp. First Edition. The name Dard Hunter has become synonymous with handmade paper as an art form. Hunter spent his life researching techniques that had almost become lost and writing about his discoveries. His expertise was not limited to paper but encompassed the entire scope of bookmaking, type design, type cutting, casting and printing. Vojtech Preissig was a Czech artist with strikingly similar aspirations and sensibilities to those of Hunter. Although his work is less widely known, Preissig was prolific and dedicated to the book arts to the point of self-sacrifice. In 1920 Vojtech Preissig contacted Dard Hunter to inquire about having a custom handmade paper produced for a book project. This initial contact led to a lengthy correspondence and friendship that demonstrated a shared passion for all aspects of the book arts. Dear Mr. Hunter comprises Preissig’s letters to Dard Hunter. The ultimate fate of Dard Hunter’s letters in reply is unknown, but Preissig’s side of the correspondence offers many insights in its matter-of-fact unveiling of the process of artistic development. Very fine. (18237) $14.95

120.         HUNTER, Michael, Giles Mandelbrote, Richard Ovenden and Nigel Smith, (editors). A Radical’s Books: The Library Catalogue of Samuel Jeake of Rye , 1623-90. Woodbridge , Eng: D. S. Brewer, 1999, octavo, boards without jacket, as issued. lxxiv, 364pp. First Edition. The library owned by Samuel Jeake of Rye , nonconformist and local activist, was one of the most remarkable of its time. It is of particular importance in that relatively little information has hitherto been available about the ownership of books in the English provinces, or the reading habits of intellectuals who - like Jeake -were outside London and university circles from which most surviving libraries have come down to us. The collection of some 1500 volumes includes an extraordinary assemblage of radical pamphlets from the English Revolution alongside works of theology, literature, scholarship and science. Other books reflect astrological and magical interests, and the collection also includes a medical library. Jeake’s library catalogue, published here, gives much information about titles that are now lost, about the penetration of foreign books into provincial England , and about book prices. The introduction places Jeake’s collection in context, and makes a significant contribution to the history of the book in the early modern period; appendices list surviving volumes from the library and give a complete list of the Jeake manuscripts now in Rye Museum . “The generous introduction [to A Radical’s Books] is, in its own right, a substantial essay deserving the attention of historians of seventeenth-century book culture.” Maureen Bell, SHARP News, Vol. 10, No.1. New. (10250) $95.00

121.         HUSSEIN, Mohamed A. Origins of the Book. Egypt’s Contribution to the Development of the Book from Papyrus to Codex. Edition Leipzig , (1970), small quarto, white cloth in dust jacket. (135)pp. First Edition. Egypt ’s contribution to the development of the book from papyrus to codex. Numerous illustrations in black and white and in color. Very minor shelf wear to jacket, book very fine. (18201) $75.00

122.         (HYDE, Donald & Mary, Colle). AUSTIN, Gabriel (editor). Four Oaks Library [and] Four Oaks Farm. Two volumes. Somerville , NJ : [Privately Published], 1967, octavo, boards & cloth in slipcase. xxii, (136)pp.; (viii), (114)pp. . First Edition. Four Oaks Library limited to 1, 250 copies; Four Oaks Farm limited to 1,000 copies. Both volumes designed by P. J. Conkwright and printed at the Thistle Press. A series of scholars and collectors reflect on the Hydes magnificent collections: “Samuel Johnson” by Robert F. Metzdorf, Charles Ryskamp on “James Boswell,” “Hester Lynch Salusbury Thrale Piozzi” by James L. Clifford, “Henry Fielding” by Hugh Amory, Robert F. Metzdorf on “Other 18th Century Authors,” Geoffrey W. G. Agnew on “18th Century Pictures,” “Miscellaneous Autographs” by Gabriel Austin, “Japanese Books and Manuscripts” by Shigeo Sorimachi, H. Montgomery Hyde on “Oscar Wilde,” Dan H. Laurence by “Geore Bernard Shaw,” John F. Fleming on “Elizabethan Books and Early Drama,” and Frederick B. Adams, Jr. on English and Other Bindings,” “Other Collections by Gabriel Austin, and a closing chapter, “The Visiting Scholar” by L. F. Powell. With a Bibliography by Herbert Cahoon. The hospitality and elegance of the Hydes are displayed in the volume on the Four Oaks Farm. Visits by Ralph Isham, A. S. W. Rosenbach, Arthur Houghton, Robert Metzdorf, Frederick Adams, R. W. Chapman, Major J. R. Abbey, and many, many other collectors and scholars. Both volumes extensively illustrated. A very fine set. (17412) $150.00

123.         (ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS). BROWN, Michelle P. and Scot McKendrick, (editors). Illuminating the Book. Makers and Interpreters. Essays in Honor of Janet Backhouse. London : British Library, 1998, small 4to, cloth in dust jacket. 314pp. First Edition. Many eminent scholars and colleagues have contributed essays reflecting Janet Backhouse’s own research interests, particularly in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance, and in the interaction between English collectors and continental book producers. The essays are grouped in three main themes: Interpreters, in which the manuscripts are explored through issues of iconography and style; Makers, in which patrons, named artists or schools and their relationships are discussed; and Owners, in which the authors consider aspects of provenance and collecting history. With a list of Janet Backhouse’s writings and 160 black and white illustrations. New. (9668) $78.00

124.         (ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS). HINDMAN, Sandra. Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age. Recovery and Reconstruction. Evanston , IL : Block Museum of Art, 2001, quarto, wrappers. 359pp. First Edition. This book examines attitudes toward and treatments of medieval manuscript illumination in France and England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and in early twentieth-century America . Each chapter takes as its title a word used in a particular period to define manuscript illumination: Curiosities, Specimens, Reproductions, Revivals, and Reconstructions. Trends and developments examined include the Enlightenment assessment of medieval miniatures as barbaric playthings, the nineteenth-century growth of a market for medieval art, the impact of reproductive technology on taste for illumination and the early twentieth- century importation of medieval manuscripts to the United States as a means through which to appropriate the history and culture of a European past. New. (10934) $45.00

125.         (ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS). WEITZMAN, Kurt. Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination. New York : Braziller, (1977), quarto, wrappers. 128pp. First Edition. With 48 full page color plates. Each plate has specific commentary opposite, which analyzes it in terms of technique, and its place in illumination and medieval art history. The introduction traces the changes in illumination in relation to the development of the codex. Bottom of spine bumped. (12461) $20.00

126.         (ILLUSTRATED BOOKS). GOSSOP, R. P. Book Illustration. A Review of the Art As It Is Today. London : Dent, (1937), 12mo, marbled boards in dust jacket. 44pp. First Edition. The Seventh Dent Memorial Lecture delivered at the London School of Printing on 1st October 1937. A review of modern methods of illustration printing: process engraving, half-tone blocks, Photogravure, color reproduction as they relate to book production in the late thirties. A few short tears and small chips to jacket, else near fine. (18190) $25.00

127.         (ILLUSTRATED BOOKS). LAMBOURNE, Maureen. The Art of Bird Illustration. (Hertfordshire): Eagle Editions Ltd, (2002), quarto, wrappers. 192pp. First printing of this edition. This book takes us through the changing art of bird illustration. The author traces the varying inspirations behind the artists -- from the tomb painters of ancient Egypt , whose wildfowl were painted to sustain the dead, to the scientific curiosity of the nineteenth-century explorers. At the same time, she explains the impact of ornithological discoveries and the development of materials and printing techniques on the art. Over 100 plates reproduced in their original color. Bibliography and Index on Print Collecting. Very fine copy. (12200) $35.00

128.         (ILLUSTRATED BOOKS). SELBORNE, Joanna. British Wood-Engraved Book Illustration 1904-1940: A Break with Tradition. New Castle : Oak Knoll Press, 2001, quarto, wrappers. 458pp. Reprint of the 1998 Oxford University Press edition. Book illustration by British wood-engravers from 1904 to the beginning of the Second World War was among the most versatile and inventive of the graphic arts. In a climate of typographical renaissance, various wood-engravers made dynamic impact on the appearance of the printed page, transforming good books into works of art and influencing modern standards of book production. This extraordinary book reveals the methods by which these pioneering artists broke with nineteenth-century illustrative practices. Detailed studies of unpublished material, including art school records, publishers’ and print societies’ archives, and artists’ correspondence, throw new light on the work and practices of these innovative artists. New. (10837) $59.95

129.         (ILLUSTRATION). DRIVER, Martha W. The Image in Print. Book Illustration in Late Medieval England and its Sources. London : The British Library, 2004, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 290pp. First Edition. Woodcuts are a unique resource in the study of late medieval and early modern books: they have much to tell us about how books were produced and for what purposes, about reading habits and developments in literacy, and about the part that books played in social, political, and religious change. The central focus of this volume is on the physical evidence – pictures and texts – provided by books produced during the pre- and early Reformation periods, ranging from the products of the earliest English printers such as William Caxton, Richard Pynson, and Wynkyn de Words, through woodcut images of holy women and black people, to books that were censored, defaced, and glossed by Protestant reformers. With180 illustrations. New. New. (13541) $80.00

130.         (ILLUSTRATION). HUNNISETT, Basil. Engraved on Steel. The History of Picture Production using Steel Plates. ( Aldershot ): Ashgate, (1998), octavo, boards in dust jacket. (xvii), 387pp. First Edition. From the dust jacket: “Steel engraving, in which extremely fine lines and subtle tones are possible, is an ancient art. This study, which is illustrated with over 150 pictures, recounts the history of steel engraving from its beginnings in the decorative arts to its heyday with the rapid development of the print industry in the 19th century...Engraved on Steel focuses on engraving and engravers, exploring the use of steel engraving in both the decorative arts and in printing, but Basil Hunnisett also describes the context of the steel engraver’s work. The processes by which steel engraving became one of the most widely used forms of printing in the 19th century are described in detail as are the developments in the print industry, paper manufacture and publishing that determined its history. The activities of print publishers are also examined, including those of the Art Unions. A companion volume to Steel Engraved Book Illustration in England (Scolar 1980). Engraved on Steel explores areas such as note, map, stamp, and book plate engraving, etching, mezzotint and aquatint, the casing of books and most present day usage.” Extensively, and beautifully, illustrated in black and white and in color. New. (5688) $165.00

131.         (INCUNABULA). MONGAN, Elizabeth and Edwin Wolf, II. The First Printers and Their Books. A Catalogue of An Exhibition Commemorating the Five Hundredth Anniversary of the Invention of Printing. Philadelphia : The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1940, large octavo, printed wrappers. 94 pp. First Edition. Illustrated. This simple and well-designed catalogue claims not to be the result of original research, but “rather a culling of information from already published sources.” Borrowing the Widener copy of Gutenberg’s Bible, the exhibit contains the works of the major early printers: German, Italian, French, Dutch, Spanish and English. Wrappers sunned at edges, else fine. (18234) $30.00

132.         JACKSON, William A. and Emma Unger (editors). The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, English Literature, 1475-1700. Three volumes. Los Angeles/New Castle: Heritage Book Shop/Oak Knoll Press, 1997, quarto, cloth. 1, 350pp. Reprint. This legendary three-volume work fully describes over 1,300 English literary rare books and manuscripts in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, one of the foremost American collections of early English literature. A valuable reference for the scholar, researcher, librarian, book collector and bookseller, the bibliography also puts each description into various contexts: authorship, textual authority, sequence of editions and publishing history, reference concordance and rarity. The illustrated catalog is primarily arranged in alphabetical order by author. The works in the Library are the finest examples of the plays, poems, novels, essays, polemical writings, and translations of the best, most influential, and most representative English writers of the period 1475 to 1700. All major writers (Shakespeare, Milton, Marvell, Donne, Congreve, Marlowe, and Bacon, for example) are available in first and important editions. The Milton holdings are enhanced by a copy of Comus with the author’s manuscript annotations. The Shakespeare plays and poems include several quarto editions of plays and all four of the folio editions of his works; and the Marlowe books include great rarities. This collection is now housed at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin . New. (12129) $350.00

133.         JAMES, Henry. The American Scene. London : Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1907, octavo, maroon buckram. T.e.g . (viii), (466), 3-6pp. First Edition. BAL 10663, Edel and Laurence A63. Light shelfwear to cloth at bottom of spine. Near fine. (17196) $100.00

134.         JAMES, Henry. English Hours. London : William Heinemann, October 1905, octavo, grey cloth lettered in black . T.e.g. 315pp. First Edition. With ninety-two Illustrations by Joseph Pennell. Blanck’s first binding. The following stories appear in book form for the first time: Winchelsea; Rye ; Denis Duval. BAL 10661; Edel and Laurence A62. Endpapers lightly foxed, front inner hinge weak. Lower right corner scuffed. Name written in pencil in small script on edge of title page. (17191) $125.00

135.         JAMES, Henry. The Golden Bowl. London : Methuen & Co., (1905), octavo, blue cloth with gilt ornamental corner brackets. First English Edition. Catalogue at end dated February 1905 (some having March 1905 date). Edel & Laurence A60b. Edges of text block foxed as are the preliminary pages. Front cover very bright, spine slightly dull. (13443) $250.00

136.         JAMES, Henry. The Restless Analyst. Twelve Essays. Edited and with an Introduction by Peter Buitenhuis. Toronto : Roger Ascham Press, 1979, quarto, First Edition. Oasis Niger Goatskin and batiked fabric designs, in the original cloth book box. (258)pp. First Edition, Limited to 100 numbered copies. “The essays of Henry James that are presented in this book all first appeared in periodicals such as ‘The Nation, ‘ ‘North American Review,’ ‘Galaxy,’ ‘ Harper’s Weekly,’ from 1868 to 1907. With one exception (‘The Question of Our Speech’), all these essays and reviews have not before been gathered into permanent book form. This therefore is a collection of otherwise inaccessible pieces which deserve a place in the Jamesian canon.” Beautifully printed on hand-made paper. Faint foxing to edges of book box, else as new, with original prospectus booklet laid in. (11572) $225.00

137.         JENKINS, John H. Audubon and Other Capers. Confessions of a Texas Bookmaker. Austin : The Pemberton Press, 1976, quarto, boards in dust jacket. 120pp. First Edition. Illustrated. Jenkins’ autobiography, written when he was 35, focuses on the big-time accomplishments of his early career: Hoffman’s attempt to sell him the Union College Audubon Plates, the purchase of the Eberstadt Collection and his publishing ventures on Texas history. Fine. (268) $75.00

138.         JOHNSON, John and Strickland Gibson. Print and Privilege at Oxford to the Year 1700. London : Oxford University Press, 1946, large quarto, boards & cloth in dust jacket. xii, 212pp. First Edition. A study of the early years of Oxford printing: the rivalries and the collaboration. Illustrated with 20 plates. Several chips to edges of jacket. (7501) $185.00

139.         JOHNSON, Kevin. The Dark Page. Books that Inspired Film Noir (1940-1949). ( New Castle ): Oak Knoll Press, (2008), large quarto, pictorial boards in dust jacket. 378 pp. First edition, second printing, with corrections. The literary origins of the American film noir cycle are more convoluted than a plot contrived by Raymond Chandler after a too-long night at Musso and Frank. Kevin Johnson has paired his obsessions with film and literature to illuminate even the murkiest connections. Identifying every 1940s American film noir with a published literary source, The Dark Page provides concise but fact-filled accounts of the authors, books and filmmakers that came together-often in unlikely combinations-to create a unique and cherished period in film history. Tapping the wells of film historians, cinemanistas, rare booksellers, collectors and librarians around the world, Johnson has compiled an unprecedented dossier of rare first edition book images. Bibliophiles and film fans alike will delight in the voyeuristic pleasure of seeing the colorful images of these editions, often with lurid or surreal jacket art, many of which they are unlikely to ever see elsewhere. Complete with carefully researched and detailed bibliographical points for the first editions, The Dark Page is a highly entertaining resource that cuts across several disciplines, bringing the films and their literary sources into sharper focus for both the specialist and the casual reader. This is the first volume in a projected series that will cover the entire film noir cycle. Assuming the author escapes the gunplay that is almost sure to result from his revealing these long-held secrets of the rare book trade, the second volume will encompass American films noir between 1950-1965, and the third will explore the even more obscure world of British and European films noir. Very fine.
 (18180) $95.00

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140.         KEANE, Marguerite A. Finished by Hand - Decoration in Fifteenth-century Printed Books. No place: Chapin Library, 1995, octavo, wrappers. 48pp. First Edition. Beautifully printed exhibition catalogue from the renowned and distinguished Chapin Library, Williams College . Limited to 500 copies. Illustrated in color and b/w. New. (12271) $10.00

141.         (KENT, Rockwell). JOHNSON, Fridolf, (editor). Rockwell Kent : An Anthology of His Works. New York : Knopf, 1982, large quarto, brown boards and cloth in dust jacket. 358pp. First Edition. With an extensive biographical introduction by Johnson. With more than 400 illustrations in color and black and white. Erratum laid in. A remarkably, fine, clean, new copy. (16698) $100.00

142.         KERR, Donald Jackson. Amassing Treasures For All Times. Sir George Grey, Colonial Bookman and Collector. New Caste, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2006, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 352 pp. First Edition. Sir George Grey, governor of New Zealand , South Australia and the Cape Colony , was an outstanding British colonial statesman in the nineteenth century. Less well-known of Grey is that we he was also an obsessive collector of rare books and artifacts, which he selflessly bequeathed to the people he governed. It is through these items that we are given a look into Grey’s less publicized private life. There are actually two “Grey Collections” in the southern hemisphere, each with almost identical statues and similar collections. He assembled an extraordinary collection, then donated the entire assemblage to Cape Town in 1861. He then continued to purchase rarities and other manuscripts and donated his second collection from his private library to Auckland . Grey gathered items from classic European book culture as well as artifacts and items from the indigenous peoples of the southern continents and islands to preserve their culture. He had a very real hunger for knowledge in his pursuits of the rare, due to his Victorian upbringing. A timeline of Grey’s life is included after a lovely foreword by Christopher de Hamel and some Acknowledgements from the author. New. (15988) $49.95

143.         KINDERSLEY, David. Variations on the Theme of Twenty-Six Letters. (Wellingborough, Northamptonshire: Skelton’s Press, 1969), octavo, printed wrappers in dust jacket. First Edition, Limited to 500 copies. Eighteen alphabets influenced by many styles: calligraphic, engravers, versal capitals, flourish, ligature, and more. Very fine. (18242) $75.00

144.         (KISSAM, William Henry, Sale ). The Library, Prints and Autographs of the Late William Henry Kissam, Esq., of New York City with Addenda from other Collections. New York : Geo. A. Leavitt & Co., December 16-19, 1885, octavo, printed wrappers. 219pp. First Edition. 2,310 lots. (McKay 3265). “No finer collection of rare bibliography (than in the Kissam Library) has been offered at auction sale for a long time. The Cruikshankana, Sidneyana, Erasmusiana and Shakespeareana are particularly important. Numerous editions-de-luxe, large paper copies and bibliophilistic nuggets will be found in the catalogue, which will be one of the best issued this year by the old-established house of Leavitt.” (“The Book Mart,” for November, 1885). McKay location numbers inked on upper left-hand corner of front wrapper. Yapp edges of wrappers chipped, else a fine, clean copy. (14408) $50.00

 

"The great era of universal equality and redistribution has dawned at last. No one book shall any longer claim more shelf than another, no book shall be taller or thicker than another..."

145.         LE GALLIENNE, Richard. Anarchy in a Library. A Fable for Socialists. Chicago : The Black Cat Press, 1935, duodecimo, red boards. (22) pp. First printing of this edition, Limited to 100 copies printed. “Having occasion recently to re-arrange my books, they lay in bewildering jumbled heaps upon my study floor...Presently I seemed to hear small voices, like the fluttering of leaves, and listening I heard distinctly these words: -'The great era of universal equality and redistribution has dawned at last. No one book shall any longer claim more shelf than another, no book shall be taller or thicker than another...’“ A Christmas gift printed for private distribution by Norman W. Forgue, Sr., at The Black Cat Press. Frontispiece designed and hand-colored by Calvin Brazelton. Very minor scuffing to corners and top of spine. (18224) $75.00

146.         (LIBRARIES). BURLINGHAM, Cynthia and Bruce Whiteman (editors). The World from Here. Masterpieces from Los Angeles Libraries. San Marino : Getty Museum , 2001, octavo, cloth. 448pp. First Edition. Featuring more than 300 selections, this book explores the treasure trove of rare books and ephemera in Los Angeles libraries. Introduction by Bruce Whiteman. Essays by Nicholas Barker, Kenneth Breisch, Anthony Grafton. 300 color illustrations. New. (12054) $60.00

147.         (LIBRARIES). STAIKOS, Konstantinos. The Great Libraries. From Antiquity to the Renaissance. London : British Library, 2002, large quarto, cloth in dust jacket. xvi, (566)pp. First Edition in English. This monumental work chronicles the development of the library from 3000 B. C. to 1600 A.D. Beginning with the clay-tablet libraries of the ancient Sumerian and Assyro-Babylonian empires, to those inspired by the Italian Renaissance, Mr. Staikos reveals the majesty of western literature within these great depositories of human knowledge. Using over 400 illustrations ( 200 in full color) the reader is treated to hundreds of beautifully photographed interiors of these legendary libraries and their rare treasures. Chapter by chapter the stories of the fabled libraries of Alexandria , Greece and Rome unfold like an unbroken chain, connecting the wisdom of the ancients to the magnificent libraries of the European Renaissance. The author also shares with us the very personal stories of the founders and the un-sung librarians, who struggled during wars and countless disasters to preserve and protect their precious holdings. The chapters on the contributions of the Byzantine and Greek monastic libraries, the foundation of the Western Renaissance, are especially revealing. Mr. Staikos’ original scholarship and well-written prose makes a very readable work of surprising originality. He has created a literary masterpiece that captures the rich heritage of one of man’s greatest achievements. This is a very special, large format volume no bibliophile will want to be without. New. (9911) $125.00

148.         (LIBRARIES). WORMALD, Francis and C. E. Wright, (editors). The English Library before 1700. Studies in Its History. ( London ): University of London , 1958, octavo, brick red cloth in dust jacket. (xii), 273 pp. First Edition. A description of the English library and how it came into existence and what was accomplished in the early centuries of its development. Although the general plan of the work is historical, there are few aspects of library economy before 1700 that are not discussed. Chapters include The Monastic Library, The Universities and the Mediaeval Book, The Contents of the Mediaeval Library, The Private Collector and the Revival of Greek Learning, The Preservation of the Classics, The Dispersal of the Libraries in the Sixteenth Century, The Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries and the Formation of the Cottonian Library, The Libraries of Cambridge, 1570-1700, and Oxford Libraries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Illustrated. A very fine, clean copy. (18253) $65.00

149.         (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS). GOODRUM, Charles A. Treasures of the Library of Congress. New York : Harry N. Abrams, (1980), quarto, blue cloth in dust jacket. 318pp. First Edition. From the dust jacket, “The extraordinary range of objects housed in the Library of Congress in Washington , D.C. , is revealed for the first time in this sumptuous volume. Treasures of the Library of Congress tells about the marvelously eccentric, obsessed men who made the Library what it is - an awesomely beautiful building, bursting with unimaginable treasures. When, in 1800, Congress purchased the first volumes for five thousand dollars, no one expected its modest acquisition to grow into a treasure-trove of 76 million objects.” With a Foreword by Daniel J. Boorstin. With 439 illustrations, including 156 plates in full color and a detailed index. A very fine, clean copy. (18193) $95.00

150.         (LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB). The Dolphin. A Journal of the Making of Books. Number One. New York : The Limited Editions Club, 1933, quarto, green cloth in glassine in original slipcase. (vi), (364), (xviii)pp. First Edition, Limited to 1,200 copies. With chapters On Designing a Type Face by Frederic Goudy; The Making of Printing Types by Paul Koch; Alfred W. Pollard on Margins; Formats and Sizes by Lawrence C. Wroth; Porter Garnett on The Hand-Press; Dard Hunter on Hand-Made Paper and Its Relation to Modern Printing; Horace Hart and his Bibliotheca Typographica: A List of Books about Books, and much more. Illustrated. The glassine had at one time been taped to the pastedown endpapers resulting in stains, else book fine. Slipcase case worn and scuffed. (17356) $125.00

151.         (LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB). The Dolphin. A Journal of the Making of Books. Number Two. New York : The Limited Editions Club, 1935, quarto, black cloth. (330), (xx)pp. First Edition, Limited to 2,000 copies. Chapters by Beatrice Warde on cutting type; Christopher Sandford; Edith Diehl on bookbinding; Lawrence C. Wroth; D. B. Updike on liturgical printing; Joseph Blumenthal on fitting type; Paul A Bennett on type faces and much more. Illustrated. Title page and binding design by W. A. Dwiggins. Printed at The Yale University Press. Faint horizontal scuff on front cover, else a clean, bright copy. (17355) $95.00

152.         (LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB). WROTH, Lawrence C. (editor). A History of The Printed Book being the third number of The Dolphin. New York : The Limited Editions Club, 1938, quarto, black buckram in slipcase. (xvi), 508pp., Directory unpaginated. First Edition, Limited to 1,800 copies. Fifteen chapters present a readable account of the history of the printed book. Chapters include the origin and development of the book, a chronological statement; the printing house: tools and practices; the adornment of the book; and a summary of printing history. Approximately 200 illustrations, of which 96 full pages are reproduced by photogravure. With Index and Directory. Glassine jacket with a few short tears at back panel. Slipcase scuffed and worn. (17324) $175.00

153.         LINCOLN, Evelyn. The Invention of the Italian Renaissance Printmaker. New Haven : Yale Univ Press, (2000), folio, boards in dust jacket. 207pp. First Edition. In this groundbreaking book Evelyn Lincoln examines the formation of the new career of printmaking during the late fifteenth century and throughout the sixteenth century in Italy . Looking at the widely diverse prints issuing from early Italian presses, Lincoln knows how Italian social, religious, and educational practices are revealed in these printed images, demonstrating how a printmaker’s training and experience affected the look of the finished work. Extensively illustrated. Very fine. (12563) $40.00

154.         (LITERARY MAGAZINES). SULLIVAN, Alvin, (editor). British Literary Magazines. The Modern Age, 1914-1984. Westport , Conn : Greenwood Press, (1986), octavo, maroon cloth. (xxxii), (630). First Edition. Organized by literary period, this volume focuses on the most important literary magazines to appear since 1914. Selections were determined by the importance of editors and contributors as literary figures, and the influence of the magazine during publication. (271) $85.00

155.         (LITTLE MAGAZINE). CUMMINGS, Ridgely. Comprehension. A Literary Journal of Irregular Issue and Unpredictable Content. Parts One and Two. All Published. San Francisco : Spring, 1950; Summer, 1950, quarto, printed wrappers using a fibrous paper. Contributors include Henry Miller, Anthony Boucher, Bern Porter, James Schevill, et. al. This set, all published, of this interesting, short-lived, literary journal is remarkable for its condition: no soiling, no wear, without flaw. (16693) $100.00

156.         LOHF, Kenneth A. Poets in a War. British Writers on the Battlefronts and the Home Front of the Second World War. New York : The Grolier Club, 1995, octavo, tan cloth in dust jacket. (173)pp. First Edition, one of 1,000 copies printed. British Writers on the battlefronts and home front of WWII: Poets of the Great War; Western European Fronts; North African and Italian Campaigns; Southeast Asian Front; Poets on the Home Front. Exhibited at the Grolier Club, December 6, 1995 - February 17, 1996. With a Selected Bibliography. Designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona , Italy . Very fine. (16574) $20.00

157.         LYNCH, Jack. Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-Century Britain . Ashgate, 2008, large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 232 pp. First Edition. In the first extended treatment of the debates surrounding public deception in eighteenth-century Britain , Jack Lynch contends that forgery, fakery, and fraud make explicit the usually unspoken grounds on which Britons made sense of their world. Confrontations with inauthenticity, in other words, bring tacitly understood conceptions of reality to the surface. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary print and manuscript sources—not only books and pamphlets, but ballads, comic prints, legal proceedings, letters, and diaries—Lynch focuses on the debates they provoked, rather than the forgers themselves. He offers a comprehensive treatment of the criticism surrounding fraud in most of the noteworthy controversies of the long eighteenth century. To this end, his study is structured around topics related to the arguments over deception in Britain , whether they concerned George Psalmanazar’s Formosan hoax at the beginning of the eighteenth century or William Henry Ireland’s Shakespearean imposture at the end. Beginning with the question of what constitutes deception and ending with an illuminating chapter on what was at stake in these debates for eighteenth-century British thinkers, Lynch’s accessibly written study takes the reader through the means—whether simple, sophisticated, or tortuously argued—by which partisans on both sides struggled to define which of the apparent contradictions were sufficient to disqualify a claim to authenticity. Fakery, Lynch persuasively argues, transports us to the heart of eighteenth-century notions of the value of evidence, of the mechanisms of perception and memory, of the relationship between art and life, of historicism, and of human motivation. Contents: Preface; Introduction; Recognizing a fake when you see one; Conviction on the first view; The utmost evidence; Truth is uniform; All manner of experience and observation; The mention of posterior facts; False recollections; Motivated malignity; Different kinds of value; Bibliography; Index.  (17724) $89.95

158.         MAYOR, A Hyatt. Prints & People. A Social History of Printed Pictures. ( New York ): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1980), quarto, printed wrappers. First paperback printing. Why were prints made? Who bought them? How did print publishers attract new publics? This book will answer those and more questions while evaluating more than 700 prints as works of art. Illustrated throughout. Very good. (13534) $20.00

159.         McDADE, Travis. The Book Thief. The True Crimes of Daniel Spiegelman. Praeger, 2006, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. In the spring of 1994, Daniel Spiegelman shinnied up an abandoned book lift in Columbia University ’s Butler Library, dismantled a wall, stole books, reassembled the wall, and snuck back down the shaft. Over a three-month period he did this more than a dozen times. He eventually escaped to Europe with roughly $1.8 million in rare books, letters and manuscripts. When he was caught in the Netherlands , he tried to avoid extradition to the U.S. by telling the Dutch authorities he was a financier of the Oklahoma City bombing-- knowing they wouldn’t extradite someone facing the death penalty. Eventually, the FBI got him back to New York , where he finally stood trial for his crimes. Four years, four attorneys, one determined librarian, numerous court appearances, and one guilty plea after the initial crime took place, a federal judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York meted out a sentence that ran counter to the plea agreement, nearly doubling the ordinary sentence for a crime of that magnitude. In so doing, he created a new justification for departure from Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Basing his decision on the potential harm inflicted on society as a whole by the theft of “rare and unique elements of our cultural heritage,” Judge Kaplan redefined the value of such rare items and justified his sentencing by determining the value to be beyond the monetary realm. McDade recounts all the sordid elements of this true-crime caper in vivid detail, presenting readers with a retelling of the crimes, dialogue from the court transcripts, and explanations of the legal consequences and intricacies. In addition to the significant, overall legal themes, The Book Thief describes two prison escape attempts, one suicide attempt, a jailed defense lawyer, and the aftermath of this unique and interesting case. New. (17716) $49.95

160.         McKendrick, Scot. In a Monastery Library: Preserving Codex Sinaiticus and the Greek Written Heritage. ( London ): British Library, (2006), square octavo, pictorial wrappers. 48pp. First Edition. The discovery of the Codex Sinaiticus at the Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai in 1859 was a major archaeological event. Created 1600 years ago, it contains the earliest complete copy of the New Testament, and, arguably, the entire Bible, making it the direct ancestor of all subsequent editions of the Bible. How this priceless treasure came to be, how it managed to survive for so long, and what’s next for this cornerstone of Western civilization is the absorbing story Scot McKendrick spins in In a Monastery Library. The fabrication and binding of the Codex was, as McKendrick shows, a hugely ambitious project necessitating a complex, time-consuming, and costly production process. Separate leaves of the Codex now reside in Egypt , Russia , Germany , and England , and the history of its dispersal is as intriguing as the story of its origin. McKendrick ends with a look at the book’s future, detailing plans to bring the surviving pages back together and to make them available digitally. The only book to accessibly relate the dramatic tale of this rare artifact, In a Monastery Library is a bracing account of a critical piece of world history. Illustrated with 20 color plates. New. (16619) $13.00

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161.         MEADOR, Daniel J. Mr. Justice Black and His Books. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, (1974), quarto, blue and grey cloth. (xii), 200 pp. First Edition. The principal feature of this book is the catalogue of Mr. Justice Black’s personal library, compiled directly from the books which were in his home and Supreme Court chambers at his death in September, 1971. The catalogue, which excludes law books, contains 953 titles. Laid in is a copy of a review of this book written by Roy M. Mersky, Professor of Law, University of Texas . Illustrated. A very fine, clean copy. (18188) $200.00

162.         (MERKER, K. K.). BERGER, Sidney . Printing and the Mind of Merker: A Bibliographical Study. New York : The Grolier Club, 1997, quarto, printed wrappers. xviii, 142pp., 18 illustrations. First Edition, Limited to 400 copies. A comprehensive, detailed bibliography of the eminent printer and designer, with Merker’s personal commentary on each title. Printed at the Stinehour Press. (13290) $40.00

163.         (MERRYMOUNT PRESS). HUTNER, Martin. The Merrymount Press. Cambridge : Houghton Library, 1993, quarto, wrappers. 77pp. First Edition. Co-published with The Grolier Club. “The catalogue, prepared by Martin Hutner, designed by Jerry Kelly, and printed at the Stinehour Press, draws on the rich collections of the two institutions. It surveys the breadth of quality, beauty, and variety of the Press’s production over a period of 56 years, and follows the career of its founder, Daniel Berkeley Updike, from his early employment at the Houghton Mifflin Company to his development as the great ‘printer-scholar’ of his generation.” With 40 illustrations, many two-color. Very fine. (12340) $35.00

164.         (MERRYMOUNT PRESS). UPDIKE, D. B. and J. P. Smith and D. B. Bianchi. Notes on the Merrymount Press and its Work with a Bibliographical List of the Books Printed at the Press 1893-1933. San Francisco : Alan Wofsy, 1977, octavo, cloth. (400)pp. Limited to 500 copies. With descriptions of the 1,037 books produced by the Merrymount Press. Illustrated. New. (7504) $40.00

165.         MORGAN, Paul. Printing and Publishing at Oxford : the Growth of a Learned Press 1478 - 1978. Oxford : Bodleian Library, 1978, octavo, printed wrappers. xvi, 96 pp. First Edition. Catalogue of an Exhibition, predominantly, though not exclusively, books printed at Oxford University Press. Includes much on the Fell type. Illustrated. Very fine. (18233) $20.00

166.         MORISON, Stanley. The Typographic Arts. Two Lectures. London : The Sylvan Press, 1949, octavo, white cloth in dust jacket. 106 pp. plus 32 pp. of plates. First Edition. Two lectures, “The Typographic Arts” and “The Art of Printing”. Price-clipped dust jacket is lightly soiled with a few closed tears, book is fine and clean. (18243) $45.00

167.         MORISON, Stanley. Typographic Design in Relation to Photographic Composition. San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 1959, octavo, Cockerell marbled paper boards with white board spine stamped in gilt, in plain dust wrapper. (viii), 32 pp. First Edition, Limited to 400 copies. Introduction by John Carter. The text of a paper read to the Art Workers Guild. “Typographic and photographic composition are equally the means by which a page or a sheet is made, and made ready, for multiplication.” Printed at The Black Vine Press by Harold Seeger and Albert Sperisen. Prospectus laid in. Wrapper dust soiled, book very fine. (18240) $75.00

168.         (MORISON, Stanley). BARKER, Nicolas and Douglas Cleverdon, (editors). Stanley Morison 1889 - 1967. A Radio Portrait. Ipswich : W. S. Cowell, 1969, octavo, black cloth. 38 pp. First Edition, Limited to 800 numbered copies. . Compiled from recollections by T. F. Burns, John Carter, Arthur Crook, Brooke Crutchley, Francis Meynell, Graham Pollard, Janet & Reynolds Stone, and Beatrice Warde. Fine. (18230) $35.00

169.         MORTIMER, Ruth. Italian 16th Century Books. Two vols. San Francisco : Wittenborn Art Books, 1998, octavo, cloth in slipcase. xx, 384pp.; vi, 456pp. Reprint of the 1974 edition published by Harvard University in their Illustrated Books of the Renaissance series. 559 works catalogued, fully described and illustrated. With a General Index, Index of Artists, Index of Printers and Publishers, Index of Places, Index of Subjects and Chronological Index. New. (6087) $295.00

170.         MUIR, Percy H. Points 1874-1930. Being Extracts from a Bibliographer’s Notebook. London : Constable & Co., Ltd., 1931, octavo, marbled boards and vellum spine. (xviii), (168)pp. . First Edition, Limited to 500 copies. No. 5 in the “Bibliographia Series” edited by Michael Sadleir. Illustrated with four plates in collotype and six facsimiles in line. The first half of the book contains chapters covering definitions of terms and descriptions of bibliographical problems; the second section answers specific bibliographic questions of issue points for over one hundred titles - authors include James Barrie, Max Beerbohm, Edmund Blunden, Joseph Conrad, Norman Douglas, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Graves, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, Siegfried Sassoon, H. G. Wells, and others. Edges of boards scuffed, endpapers offset, spine dull. (18246) $110.00

171.         NASH, Ray. Durer’s 1511 Drawing of a Press and Printer. Cambridge , MA : Harvard College Library, 1947, oblong quarto, black cloth. (18)pp. First Edition. Illustrated with a reproduction of the print. Printed at the Anthoensen Press, Portland , Maine . With a foreword by Philip Hofer. “Durer’s faithful attention to realistic detail and his scientific interest, together with his thorough book-making and intimate knowledge of printing-office procedures, make even a sketch - hurried and unfinished he says, from the hand of a great artist the clearest picture which has come down to us from the sixteenth century.” Small name and date on front pastedown, else a fine copy. (18197) $65.00

172.         (NATURAL SCIENCE BOOKS). KNIGHT, David M. Natural Science Books in English 1600-1900. ( London ): Portman Books, (1989), octavo, boards in dust jacket. x, 262pp. Reprint. A comprehensive account of all the significant works which have appeared in English during these 300 years. 4 color illustrations, 56 black and white. Very fine. (278) $65.00

173.         NICKELL, Joe. Ambrose Bierce Is Missing. And Other Historical Mysteries. Lexington : Univ Press of Kentucky , (1992), octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (x), 180pp. First Edition. A former detective, Nickell uses modern investigation techniques to analyze important historical mysteries: the 1913 disappearance of Ambrose Bierce, the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, Lincoln ’s “Bixby Letter,” Cooke’s “Missing” edition, and Hawthorne ’s “Veiled Lady.” Each chapter ends with a list of recommended reading. (10882) $25.00

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174.         NUNBERG, Geoffrey, (editor). The Future of the Book. Berkeley : University of California Press , (1996), octavo, red cloth. 306pp. First Edition. Eleven chapters: “Books in time” by Carla Hesse; “The pragmatics of the new: Trithemius, McLuhan, Cassiodorus” by Geoffrey Nunberg; “The book as symbolic object” by Regis Debray, and more. The result of a conference held at the Center for Semiotic and Cognitive Studies at the University of San Marino . Very fine without jacket, as issued. New. (18250) $45.00

175.         ORCUTT, William Dana. In Quest of the Perfect Book. Reminiscences & Reflections of a Bookman. Boston : Little, Brown, 1926, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. T.e.g. (12), 316pp. First Trade Edition. “The reader is permitted to accompany the author, as an intimate friend, throughout the quest of the perfect book, to meet interesting people when off parade, and to become acquainted with the fascinations the book posseses as the product of an art.” A fine copy in a fine jacket. (17713) $50.00

176.         (PALAEOGRAPHY). BISCHOFF, Bernhard. Latin Palaeography. Translated by Daibhm O. Cronin and David Ganz. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, (2006), octavo, wrappers. 303pp. First Edition in English, ninth printing. This work, by the greatest living authority on medieval palaeography, offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account in any language of the history of Latin script. It also contains a detailed account of the role of the book in cultural history from antiquity to the Renaissance, which outlines the history of book illumination. Designed as a textbook, it contains a full and updated bibliography. Because the volume sets the development of Latin script in its cultural context, it also provides an unrivalled introduction to the nature of medieval Latin Culture. It will be used extensively in the teaching of Latin palaeography, and is unlikely to be superseded. New. (10842) $35.99

177.         (PALAEOGRAPHY). PARKES, M. B. English Cursive Book Hands 1250 - 1500. ( Aldershot ): Ashgate, 2008, quarto, printed boards. (xxxiv), 26pp. Reprint of the 1979 which contained minor revisions. First published in 1969, English Cursive Book Hands rapidly established itself as a key resource for the study and teaching of palaeography. It covers the changes in handwriting that arose from the mid-twelfth century, tracking the growth and development of the cursive script that came to dominate book production in medieval England . This reprint is a re-issue of the 1979 second edition published by Scolar Press. This study sets out the nature of the developments which took place in English book hands, from the mid-twelfth century, largely determined by two factors: the increasing demand for books, and the increase in the size of the works to be copied. The secularization of learning and the rise of the universities created a voracious demand for texts and commentaries. At the same time improving standards of literacy led to a demand from a wide range of patrons for books of a more general nature. In such circumstances speed and ease of writing became increasingly important. Scribes began to use different kinds of handwriting for different classes of books, and as a result a new ‘hierarchy’ of scripts arose, each with its own sequence of development. Towards the end of the thirteenth century the cursive script which had recently been evolved for the preparation of documents was introduced into books. A hierarchy also arose in the cursive script itself, as scribes began to devise more than one way of writing depending on the degree of formality they required. Eventually the varieties of cursive usurped the functions of other scripts in the copying of nearly all kinds of books and documents. English Cursive Book Hands illustrates the developments which took place in the cursive handwriting used in England for writing books. Very fine. (18247) $49.95

178.         (PAPERMAKING). An Anthology of Delaware Papermaking. ( New Castle ): The Delaware Bibliophiles, 1991, octavo, boards & cloth. (94)pp. First Edition. Limited to 200 numbered copies. Introduction by Gordon A. Pfeiffer, Dr. Barbara Benson contributes an article on the general history of papermaking in Delaware; H. B. Hancock and N. B. Wilkinson on “The Gilpins and their Endless Papermaking Machine”; “Papermaker Joshua Gilpin introduces the Chemical Approach to Papermaking in the U.S.” by Sidney M. Edelstein; and Patricia Brown on the history of the Curtis Paper Company in Neward, Delaware. With four wood engravings by John DePol. Set in Bell type by W. Thomas Taylor and printed on mouldmade paper by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press. New. (7720) $195.00

179.         (PAPERMAKING). MacFARLANE, Nigel. A Paper Journey. Travel Among the Village Papermakers of India and Nepal . New Castle : Oak Knoll, 1993, octavo, boards & cloth. (104)pp. First Edition. Limited to 210 numbered copies. Printed at the Bird & Bull Press. Illustrated with photographs. With 20 samples of handmade paper. Papermaking in India is associated with specific villages, modernized in some into village industry cooperatives. In Nepal , the tradition is “part of the natural cycle of living and working. The Papermakers are also farmers...builders, and fuel gatherers...” With a Papermaking Chronology and a Selected Bibliography. Very fine. (10646) $240.00

180.         (PAPERMAKING). SCHLOSSER, Leonard B. An Exhibition of Books on Papermaking. A Selection of Books from the Collection of Leonard B. Schlosser. Philadelphia : Free Library of Philadelphia, 1968, octavo, printed wrappers. (24) pp. First Edition. An exhibition catalogue of 75 items pulled from the Schlosser collection with these descriptions containing the collector’s erudite observations. A necessary reference in the field of papermaking. Fine. (18258) $35.00

181.         PARKES, M. B. Their Hands Before Our Eyes: A Closer Look at Scribes. Ashgate, 2008, quarto, boards in dust jacket. 278 pp. First Edition. This new book by Malcolm Parkes makes a fundamental contribution to the history of handwriting. Handwriting is a versatile medium that has always allowed individual scribes the opportunity for self-expression, despite the limitations of the pen and the finite number of possible movements. The purpose of this study is to focus on the writing of scribes from late antiquity to the beginning of the sixteenth century, and to identify those features which are a scribe’s personal contribution to the techniques and art of handwriting. The book opens with three chapters surveying the various environments in which scribes worked in the medieval West. The following five, based on the author’s Lyell Lectures at the University of Oxford , then examine different aspects of the subject, starting with the basic processes of handwriting and copying. Next come discussions of developments in rapid handwriting, with its consequent influence on new alphabets; on more formal ‘set hands’; and on the adaptation of movements of the pen to produce elements of style corresponding to changes in the prevailing sense of decorum. The final chapter looks at the significance of some customized images produced by handwriting on the page. The text is illustrated with 69 plates, and accompanied by a glossary of the technical terms applied to handwriting, which in itself makes a significant contribution to the subject. Contents: Preface; Part I Scribes and Their Environments: Before 1100; 1100–1540 Religious orders in England ; 1100–1500 Secular scribes in England : clergy, scholars, professional and commercial scribes. Part II Scribes at Work: Which came first reading or writing? The function and processes of handwriting and the problems of copying; The hasty scribe; cursive handwriting in antiquity and the Middle Ages; Set in their own ways: scribes and book hands c.800–1200; Features of fashion: scribes and style c1200–1500; Through the eyes of scribes and readers: handwriting as image; Part II Glossary, Indexes and Select List of Printed Works: Select glossary of technical terms applied to handwriting; Index of scribes referred to by name or pseudonym; Index of manuscripts cited; Select list of printed works cited; General index. With 73 black and white illustrations. Very fine. (18171) $124.95

182.         PEARSON, David. Books as History. ( London and New Castle ): British Library / Oak Knoll Press, 2008, large octavo, black boards in dust jacket. 208 pp. First Edition. Books have been hugely important in human civilization as instruments for communicating information and ideas. The digital age is challenging their ongoing existence - although the e-book has not yet taken over from print on paper, the landscape is constantly changing, with more and more of the traditional functions of books being performed electronically. People usually think of books in terms of their contents, their texts, with less thought for books as artifacts. In fact, books may possess all kinds of potentially interesting qualities beyond their texts, as designed or artistic objects, or because they have unique properties deriving from the ways they have been printed, bound, annotated, beautified or defaced. David Pearson explores these themes and uses many examples of books from the Middle Ages to the present day to show why books may be interesting beyond their texts. As the format of the book becomes history - as texts are increasingly communicated electronically - we can recognize that books are also history in another significant way. Books can develop their own individual histories, which provide important evidence about the way they were used and regarded in the past, which make them an indispensable part of the fabric of our cultural heritage. This book will raise awareness of an important aspect of the life of books in the context of the ongoing debate about their future. Extensively illustrated with a wide range of images, it will not only be approachable but also thought-provoking. Very fine. (18178) $49.95

183.         (PERKINS, Henry, Sale ). A Catalogue of the very valuable and important Library formed by the late Henry Perkins, Esq...at the beginning of the present century and comprising many splendid illuminated Manuscripts...Ancient Bibles, examples of printing on vellum...the Four Folio Editions of Shakespeare... [ London ]: Gadsen, Ellis & Co., June 3 [1873], octavo, rebound in three-quarter green cloth and boards. The small but very select library of Henry Perkins (1778-1855), a wealthy brewer, was begun at the Sykes sale of 1824 and augmented at the Dent sale of 1827. The 865 lots brought a total of nearly L26,000 having been sold at the time of the death of his son, Algernon Perkins. Illustrated with eleven litho plates (line drawings), one being folding. “There were two copies of Gutenberg’s Bible, one on vellum, bought by Lord Ashburnham for L3400 (subsequently in the Hoe and Huntington collections) and one on paper, bought by Quaritch for L2950 (afterwards in the Huth and Pierpont Morgan libraries).” De Ricci, English Collectors of Books & Manuscripts 1530 - 1930, p. 96. Twenty-three lots of interest to the previous owner have been noted in pencil on the front free endpaper. Each of those lots have the price realized, and often the buyer, noted in pencil in the margin. Water stain to edge of title-page, binding worn but tight. A newspaper clipping is bound in at the Evangelistarium Manuscript referring to its purchase by J. J. Astor from Quaritch for the sum of $10,000. A marginal pencil notation indicates that Quaritch purchased the manuscript at the Perkins sale for L565. (17721) $300.00

185.         (PLANTIN, Christopher). VOET, Leon. The Golden Compasses. A History and Evaluation of the Printing and Publishing Activites of the Officina Plantiniana at Antwerp . Two volumes. Amsterdam : Vangendt & Co, (1969), large quarto, grey cloth in dust jackets. xxii, 501 pp. plus 105 black and white plates; xxi , 632 pp. plus 77 black and white plates. First Edition. Volume I: Christophe Plantin and the Moretuses - Their Lives and Their World. This first volume outlines the life and work of Christophe Plantin and of his successors the Moretuses, and attempts to show these successive generations of masters of the Officina Plantiniana at work against the political, social and cultural background of their times. Volume II: The Management of a Printing and Publishing House in Renaissance and Baroque. The second volume consists of a short introductory chapter and five sections: The Printer’s Materials; The Printer’s Techniques and Methods; Publishing; Working Conditions and Industrial Relations; Sales and Finances. With a bibliography and detailed index. Front endpapers offset on volume one from the clipping of the TLS review by John Dreyfus. (18248) $450.00

186.         (PLANTIN, Christopher). BOWEN, Karen L. and Dirk Imhof. Christopher Plantin and Engraved Book Illustrations in Sixteenth-Century Europe . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008, large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 474 pp. First Edition. This is an interdisciplinary study of Christopher Plantin’s pioneering role in the production and distribution of books with engraved and etched illustrations in sixteenth-century Europe . Using the rich archival sources at the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Belgium , Karen Bowen and Dirk Imhof examine the artists that worked on these illustrations, the types of illustrations that appealed to specific markets, and the technological, cultural and economic constraints under which Christopher Plantin operated as he ventured into this new area of publishing. They demonstrate how Plantin’s innovations led to a revolutionary change in taste for book illustrations and place his work within the broader context of the European book trade of the late sixteenth-century and Antwerp’s political, economic, cultural and religious history. This is a major contribution to the history of the book, art history and the economic and social history of early modern Europe . Contents: introduction - precedents for Plantin’s work; 1. Printing with intaglio illustrations; 2. ‘L’excellente, and fameuse Cité d’Anvers’: Antwerp and its artists; 3. Plantin’s first projects with engravings (1559–1571); 4. Liturgical editions and the spread of engraved book illustrations; 5. The 1580s and Plantin’s etched book illustrations; 6. Plantin prints for others’ editions with intaglios. Illustrated with 114 half-tones. Very fine. (18262) $140.00

187.         (POETRY). CROFT, P. J., (editor). Autograph Poetry in the English Language. Facsimiles of Original Manuscripts from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Century. New York : McGraw-Hill, (1973), folio, boards & cloth in dust jacket. First American Edition. Two volumes. (xxvi), (200)pp.; (viii), (208)pp. First American Edition. 197 chronologically arranged plates representing 146 poets from the fourteenth century to the twentieth. Each facsimile plate shows the poet engaged in composing, revising, or establishing a final text of his work. Includes a Table of Manuscript Locations. A very fine, clean set in the original slipcase. (11712) $250.00

188.         (PORTER, Bern ). SCHEVILL, James. Where to Go, What To Do, When You Are Bern Porter. A Personal Biography. Gardiner , Maine : Tilbury House, (1992), octavo, silver cloth and black boards in pictorial dust jacket. (350)pp. First Edition. A complex man, Porter grew up in Maine , attended Colby College and Brown University (earning a degree in physics), was a physicist and engineer working on the Manhattan Project and the Saturn Moon Rocket Project, but was also a publisher, painter, sculptor, photographer, and a poet. Illustrated. (16750) $25.00

189.         (PRINTING). The Times Literary Supplement Printing Number. ( London ),: Oct 13, 1927, quarto, wrappers. (64)pp. With nine chapters: Modern Typography, Text and Illustration, The Beautiful Book, Continental Trade Printing, Commercial Printing, Types for English Books, On Bindings, Book Illustration, American Low-cost Volumes. Illustrated. Also of interest are the numerous ads by printers, publishers, booksellers, bookbinders, and papermakers. Wrappers dusty, two chips to corners of back wrapper. (18235) $35.00

190.         (PRIVATE PRESSES). RANSOM, Will. Private Presses and Their Books. New York : R. R. Bowker Company, 1929, octavo, brown cloth in dust jacket. (494)pp. First Edition, one of 1,200 copies printed. Designed and printed under the direction of Will Ransom at The Lakeside Press, Chicago. A classic introduction to the great private presses from those in England in the 1890s to the contemporary greats of the 1920s: Updike, Rogers Kelmscott Press, Doves, Daniel Press, Village Press, Ashendene, and others. With a check list of books and an index. Although there is no chipping to the jacket, there is a long closed tear at the back spine fold which has been carefully repaired by tape on the verso. Some fingerprint soiling to jacket, book very fine and clean. (16580) $175.00

191.         ( PROVIDENCE ATHENAEUM). LANCASTER, Jane. Inquire Within: A Social History of the Providence Athenaeum, Since 1753. Providence : Providence Athenaeum, 2003, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 256pp. First Edition, one of 250 hardbound copies. An outstanding history of this most important historical and influential library. The Providence Athenaeum, 250 years old in 2003, not only played a significant role in defining the cultural, intellectual, and social life of Rhode Island in its early years, but played a major part in shaping America itself. Having withstood numerous wars, depressions, and high times alike, this magnificent library is one of the oldest standing monuments this side of the Atlantic . And as historic as it may be, it still stands to be a growing, changing institution booming with exceptional people and especially, exceptional collections. Illustrated in black and white and color. New. (15989) $65.00

192.         (RAMPANT LIONS PRESS). CAREY, John. Vegetable Gardening. Cambridge England : Rampant Lions Press, 1989, octavo, boards & cloth. First Edition. Limited to 480 copies. “This is not a how-to-do-it book, but a why-to-do- it one. In his delightful essay John Carey, a dedicated vegetable gardener who in his spare time is Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford and chief book reviewer for ‘The Sunday Times,’ examines the blend of puritan work ethic and sensuous delight which drives otherwise sane people to horticultural toil. All of us who are vegetable gardeners will relish this book for its witty clarification of our ideas about why we do it; and those who are not may just be persuaded by John Carey’s lyrical description of the inside of a broad bean pod to pick up a spade. The essay is illustrated with four beautiful three-color lino-cuts by Clare Melinsky, showing the produce of the four seasons, plus a tailpiece. They are based on her own experience of running a small-holding in Dumgriesshire, and convey the same mixture of realism and pleasure as the text. The book was designed and printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. The text was set in Monotype Octavian; the illustrations were printed from the lino; and the paper is Arches Vélin. New. (7514) $75.00

193.         (RAMPANT LIONS PRESS). Twenty Two Lions. (Over, Cambridge , England ): Rampant Lions Press, (1999), duodecimo, wrappers. (ii), 10, (ii)pp. First Edition, Limited to 200 copies. A charming piece of ephemera by this fine press. It consists of eleven pressmarks used at The Rampants Lions Press since 1934. These pressmarks were designed by Will Carter, Sebastian Carter, Reynolds Stone, John Buckland Wright, Berthold Wolpe, and other fine artists who have created there own variation on the theme of the lions rampant. New. (7649) $30.00

194.         REEVE, John. Sacred: Exhibition Catalogue. British Library, 2007, octavo, wrappers. 208pp. First Edition. Sacred is the official catalogue of the groundbreaking British Library exhibition bearing the same name, which presents many of the world’s most beautiful religious texts for the first time. Illustrations from rare and exquisite examples of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim sacred texts from the Library’s collections, along with unique treasures on loan from other institutions, are showcased and accompanied by essays from three of today’s leading religious scholars that explore aspects of the three faiths, including their historical development and contemporary meaning. Stunning full-color illustrations of many previously unreproduced manuscripts from the shared history of the three major religions are paired are brought into compellingly modern context by perceptive writers on religion such as Karen Armstrong, Everett Fox, Frank Peters, and Kathleen Doyle. The manuscripts featured in Sacred include one of the earliest surviving Qur’ans, completed 160 years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, and a sixth-century Christian text that was suppressed by the church for failing to include the genealogy of Christ. Other fascinating manuscripts include an ancient Jewish text containing an illustration of God’s face—forbidden in Jewish tradition—and the Torah scroll used by the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng. Sacred pairs images of these remarkable works with commentary from scholars and critics that explores the relationship between these three major faiths. Accompanied by over 200 color illustrations, Sacred represents the first time that such remarkable and venerable manuscripts have been brought together in a single volume—illustrating the remarkable shared history of three of the world’s major religions. With 200 color illustrations. New. (17382) $25.00

195.         (RICE, John A., Sale ). Catalogue of Mr. John A. Rice’s Library. New York : J. Sabin & Sons, Mar 21, 1870, octavo, rebound in blue cloth. xvi, 536pp. Sold by Bangs, Merwin & Co., March 21-26, 1870. McKay 1534. An important Bangs sale which brought over $42,000 making it “one of the most profitable held in the United States up to that time.” Dickinson , Dictionary of American Book Collectors, p. 268. Containing many rare books in all departments of literature and Americana , H. H. Bancroft, William Menzies, and George Brinley made many important purchases at this sale. A sturdy, clean copy. (16680) $75.00

196.         ROLFE, Fr. (Baron Corvo). Don Tarquinio. A Kataleptic Phantasmatic Romance. London : Chatto & Windus, 1905, octavo, First Edition. violet cloth stamped in white, with 32pp. publisher’s catalogue at end. First Edition. 1011 copies printed, of which 650 were in this primary binding. Woolf A7. From the library and with the book label and bookplate of Geoffrey d’Offay. A strip of paper has been tipped at top and bottom to the front endpaper creating a pocket to hold a 4” x 3 1/4” envelope addressed in Rolfe’s hand. Marked “Private” and addressed to “The Lord Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh ”. With postage stamp and postmarked “JU 12 / ‘03” On the back of the envelope is Corvo’s wax seal depicting the Raven and with three Greek words. Spine faded with small ink splotch between the title stamping and the author’s name. Hinges solid, light foxing throughout. Philip C. Duschnes bookseller’s label on back pastedown. (11545) $2,750.00

197.         [ROLFE, Frederick and C.H.C. Pirie-Gordon]. PROSPERO and CALIBAN. The Weird of the Wanderer. Being the Papyrus Records of the Previous Lives of Mr. Nicholas Crabbe. London : William Rider & Son, 1912, octavo, blue cloth stamped in blind and lettered in gilt, in dust jacket that has been laid down onto a like-colored paper. First Edition. Woolf B9. The spine of the jacket had fragmented, hence the restoration, but fortunately all the lettering on the spine is intact. About 10% of the dust jacket spine paper is missing. The jacket is very elusive and has here protected the book quite well leaving this a very bright copy. (11820) $1,500.00

198.         (ROSENWALD, Lessing J). Vision of a Collector. The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress. Washington : Library of Congress, 1991, quarto, cloth. (xxxvi), 428pp. First Edition. Includes a tribute by William Matheson, “Lessing J. Rosenwald: ‘A Splendidly Generous Man’“. This volume celebrates the 100th anniversary of Rosenwald’s birth with 100 essays by noted scholars and historians. Eleven categories within this massive collection are reviewsed: Manuscripts with essays by J. J. G. Alexander, Ruth E. Fine, Roger S. Wieck, and Lilian M. C. Randall; Early Printing, Typography & Writing Books with essays by William Scheide, Janet Ing Freeman, John Bidwell, Peter M. VanWigen, Sheila Waters, Roderick Stinehour, William S. Peterson, and others; Illustrated Books with essays by Felix de Marez Oyens, Paul Needham, Lotte Hellinga, Arthur E. Vershbow, Nicolas Barker, Ruth Mortimer; Eighteenth- Century French Illustrated Books with essays by David P. Becker, Lucien Goldschmidt and others; William Blake with essays by David Bindman, Robert N. Essick, and others; Modern Illustrated Books with essays by Claire Van Vliet, Breon Mitchell, and others; Architecture with three essays; Bindings with essays by Mirjam M. Foot, Bernard H. Breslauer, John P. Chalmers, and more; Geography with five essays; Herbals with three essays; Science with nine essays. With an index and extensively illustrated. New. (3575) $75.00

199.         ROTA , Anthony. Books in the Blood. Memoirs of a Fourth Generation Bookseller. (Pinner): Private Libraries Association, 2002, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (314)pp. First Edition. Bookselling, bookbuying, book collectors, librarians, auctions, runners, virtually all aspects of the trade. Interesting and humorous, and definitely leaving one pining for pre-computer bookselling. Illustrated. New. (11714) $35.00

200.         (ROTHSCHILD LIBRARY). The Rothschild Library. A Catalogue of the Collection of Eighteen-Century Printed Books and Manuscripts. New York : James Cummins, 1993, octavo, cloth. (xxii), 400pp. Reprint, Limited to 350 copies, of the original edition of 1954. Illustrated. From the publisher’s preface: “Lord Rothschild, from his days as a student at Cambridge University through the following decade, assembled an incredible collection of eighteenth-century printed books and manuscripts, including first editions, Baskerville, Strawberry Hill and Foulis Press publications, and a multitude of fine English, Scottish and Irish bindings. In 1954, Lord Rothschild shared with the world the results of his diligence and passion by producing a comprehensive catalogue, detailing his extensive, and certainly unsurpassed, collection. We are now, with the kind permission of Lady Rothschild, reprinting The Rothschild Library. This is the second reprint of this valuable reference work, the original edition and first reprint having been practically unobtainable for years. Issued in an edition of 350 copies, this reprint is being reproduced in the format of the original. We are pleased to be able to make such an important work accessible for all bibliophiles.” New. (5687) $250.00

201.         RUMMONDS, Richard-Gabriel. Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress. Two volumes. London : British Library, 2004, large quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 1, 152 pp. First Edition. An encyclopedic examination of early printing techniques, from the early fifteenth-century wooden presses, to their culmination with the nineteenth- century iron presses. Gabriel Rummonds, one of the most celebrated fine press printers of the twentieth-century, has distilled a half millennium’s worth of printer’s wisdom and manuals into this very readable and important history of the iron handpress and the intrepid men who worked it. With almost five hundred rare and scarce wood cuts, engravings and photographs, and the most comprehensive bibliography on the subject ever printed, this two volue, monumental work stands alone in the annals of printing history. Foreword by Stephen O. Saxe. New. (12794) $150.00

202.         (RUSKIN, John). WISE, Thomas J. and James P. Smart. A Complete Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of John Ruskin, LL.D. With a List of the More Important Ruskiana. London : Dawsons of Pall Mall , 1974, large octavo, blue cloth in dust jackets. xxvii, 329pp; xi, 263pp. . Reprint of the 1893 edition. . Two volumes. Jackets price clipped, else a very fine, clean set. (17416) $125.00

203.         RYDER, John. Lines of the Alphabet in the Sixteenth Century. London: The Stellar Press & The Bodley Press, 1965, octavo, boards and cloth in dust jacket. (80) pp. Limited to 600 copies. Illustrated bibliographical notes concerning thirty writing masters including Vespasiano Amphiareo, Ludovico degli Arrighi, Felice Feliciano, Luca de Paciolo, Giovambattista Palatino, and others, with references to all facsimiles of their writing manuals. Small name on front pastedown else a fine copy of a handsome book. (18252) $75.00

204.         SAWYER, Charles J. and F. J. Harvey Darton. English Books 1475-1900. A Signpost for Collectors. Westminster : Chas. J. Sawyer, 1927, large 8vo, red buckram. First Edition. One of 2000 sets. xvi, (368)pp.; viii, 422pp.Two vols. Volume I: Caxton to Johnson; Volume II: Gray to Kipling. “This is one of the best guides ever written to the collecting of English books, and its title could hardly be more descriptive of the purpose which the authors had in mind...” Webber, Books about Books, p.117. With chapters on general book collecting, early English printers, chapbooks, private presses, etc. With one hundred illustrations. Very minor fading to spines and former owner’s name and date on endpapers, else a fine, clean set. (11875) $200.00

205.         SCHREIBER, Fred. Simon de Colines: An Annotated Catalogue of 230 Examples of his Press, 1520-1546. Salt Lake City ,: Brigham Young Univ Library, 1995, quarto, cloth. 320pp. First Trade Edition, one of 650 copies. With an Introduction by Jeanne Veyrin-Forrer. “Based on a unique collection at Brigham Young University assembled by the distinguished bookseller and scholar Fred Schreiber, this illustrated catalogue describes 230 editions published by the first true French Renaissance printer, Simon de Colines, active in Paris from 1520 to 1546. With the help of the finest French book decorators and type designers - artists such as Geoffrey Tory, Oronce Fine, and Claude Garamond - Colines virtually transformed the French book by wresting it from its medieval constraints and traditions. He accomplished this, in part, by copying from Aldus Manutius the small, handy format, which in turn allowed him to publish reasonably priced “pocket” classics affordable by students, and by popularizing italic and cursive types in France . Colines’s typographic innovations were eventually to be refined further by his successors in Paris, notably his stepson Robert Estienne, who apprenticed under him...The books described in this catalogue represent approximately one-third of Simon de Colines’s total production during the quarter century of his career. In forming this collection one objective was to select examples from every year of his production, from 1520 to 1546 , so that the natural progression of his art could be adequately observed and studied. An even more important objective was to include examples of all the typographic material at Colines’s disposal, in the form not only New. (7452) $150.00

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206.         SCOTT, Ronald McNair. Misogyny Over the Week-End. London : Macmillan, 1931, octavo, light blue patterned cloth over boards with medium blue cloth spine, in dust jacket. First Edition. Presentation Copy, Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper, “To Villiers from Ronald. 1931.” Villiers David is mentioned in J. R. Ackerley’s “Letters” (Duckworth, 1975); he wrote “Pleasures as Usual” (praised by Betjeman and Waugh) and “Love in London ,” among other books; and was a friend of James Kirkup, Augustus John, Paul Bowles (he suggested the title “The Delicate Prey”). Spine of book faded, dust jacket with very minor chipping at top of psine, else both book and jacket in near fine condition. We have recently acquired a large collection of T. H. White books, letters and ephemera. Please contact us with your wants. (14190) $350.00

207.         SEWELL, Father Brocard. My Dear Time’s Waste. Two typescripts, corrected in his hand, of Father Sewell’s autobiography. Sewell’s autobiography was published in 1966 at the Saint Albert ’s Press in Aylesford , Kent , titled My Dear Time’s Waste. The two typescripts show that title and also shows the titles of From a Friar’s Cell and After Fifty Years. Each complete typescript is held in two separate folders. The one noted “First Writing” showing holograph dates of 1962, with about 200 pages on paper 8” x 13” with about 120 pages on paper 8” x 10”. The smaller sheets seem to contain the portion covering the Ditching Commons and his relation with and observation of the Peplar family and his introduction to printing. There are numerous corrections, annotations and deletions to each page of this draft. The later draft is dated July 1965 and has the “author’s note: this draft, & the first which preceded it, of this book, bear comparatively little resemblance to the 3rd & final version, which incorporates new material & has been rewritten throughout in the interest of concision & readability. Brocard Sewell July 1965. On the other hand, this version does contain matter omitted in the final version.” Although this version has holograph corrections, it is not as heavily annotated as the first. This version has a typescript of the Colin Wilson Introduction but it is not signed nor are there corrections to it. Father Brocard Sewell (1912 - 2000) became a Carmelite friar in 1952. In a subsequent career as editor, publisher, printer and writer, he commemorated and wrote about a number of lesser literary lights: Arthur Machen, Frederick Rolfe, Montague Summers, André Raffalovitch, John Gray, Olive Custance, Henry Williamson. He also wrote on distributist figures and the Eric Gill and Ditchling circle. Although this text was published by the Saint Albert ’s Press, which Sewell founded and nurtured to print and publish small books and pamphlets on Carmelite topics, he apparently revised to the extent of nearly rewriting his autobiography from first to second to third and final (published) version. Wrinkling to the edges of the pages but intact save to one-third of one page which appears to have been scissored out. (16000) $4,500.00

208.         (SHAKESPEARE, William). Catalogue of an Exhibition Illustrative of the Text of Shakespeare’s Plays as published in edited editions; together with a large collection of engraved portraits of the poet. New York : The Grolier Club, 1916, octavo, gray boards with red leather spine label. (xvi), 115pp. First Edition, Limited to 207 copies. A catalogue and exhibition honoring the memory of William Shakespeare on the Tercentenary of his death. Illustrated. Boards dust soiled with minor scuffing to top and bottom of spine. A solid copy. (16676) $95.00

209.         (SHAKESPEARE, William). FLEAY, Frederick Gard. A Chronicle History of the Life and Work of William Shakespeare player, poet and Playmaker. London : John C. Nimmo, 1886, octavo, maroon cloth with black morocco spine. T.e.g. viii, 364 pp. First Edition. With chapters on Shakespeare’s public career, personal connections, copyrights, quarto editions, and more. With two etched illustrations. Lacking preliminary page with minor scuffing to corners. A solid copy. (17705) $100.00

210.         (SHAKESPEARE, William). WYMAN, W. H. Bibliography of the Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy with Note and Extracts. Cincinnati : Peter G. Thomson, 1884, octavo, three-quarter maroon morocco and marbled boards, all edges stained red. 124pp. First Edition. Contains a list of all books, pamphlets, and magazine articles on the controversy as well as a large portion of the reviews, the more important newspaper articles, etc., at the time this book was published. Each of the entries includes brief descriptions of the main facts and its author(s). Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by Wyman on a blank preliminary page. Morocco scuffed, front outer hinge weak. (16644) $95.00

211.         (SHAW, George Bernard). LAURENCE. Dan H. Bernard Shaw: A Bibliography. Two Volumes. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1983, octavo, red cloth in dust jackets. (xxiv), 513pp. First American Edition. Volume I presents descriptive text of Shaw’s books and ephemeral publications, rough proofs/rehearsal copies, contributions to books including unauthorized and posthumous publications, and works edited by Shaw. Illustrated. Volume II details his contributions to periodicals and newspapers, stereotyped postcards, blurbs, broadcasts, recordings, wraiths and strays, manuscripts, works on Shaw, and misattribution. Very fine. (16681) $250.00

212.         SHEPARD, Leslie. John Pitts. Ballad Printer of Seven Dials, London 1765-1844. London : Private Libraries Association, (1969), octavo, red cloth. 160pp. First Edition. With a short account of his predecessors in the Ballad & Chapbook Trade. With a checklist for further reading and an index and a short list of publications by John Pitts. Illustrated. Name and address on front endpaper. Very good. (13500) $30.00

213.         SHER, Richard B. The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain , Ireland , and America . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , (2006), octavo, boards and cloth in dust jacket. xxvi, 815pp. First Edition. The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, James Boswell, and Robert Burns. And the books written by these seminal thinkers made a significant mark during their time in almost every field of polite literature and higher learning throughout Britain , Europe, and the Americas . In this magisterial history, Richard B. Sher breaks new ground for our understanding of the Enlightenment and the forgotten role of publishing during that period. The Enlightenment and the Book seeks to remedy the common misperception that such classics as The Wealth of Nations and The Life of Samuel Johnson were written by authors who eyed their publishers as minor functionaries in their profession. To the contrary, Sher shows how the process of bookmaking during the late eighteenth-century involved a deeply complex partnership between authors and their publishers, one in which writers saw the book industry not only as pivotal in the dissemination of their ideas, but also as crucial to their dreams of fame and monetary gain. Similarly, Sher demonstrates that publishers were involved in the project of bookmaking in order to advance human knowledge as well as to accumulate profits. Illustrated with 45 halftones, 16 line drawings, 7 tables. New. New. (16615) $40.00

214.         (SHERLOCKIANA). ( GARLAND , Lawrence ). The Affair of the Unprincipled Publisher. By John H. Watson, M.D. As Discovered by Lawrence Garland . New Castle : Oak Knoll Books, 1983, octavo, printed wrappers. (22)pp. First Edition, Limited to 275 copies in wrappers. Printed by John Anderson at the Pickering Press. With a title page wood engraving embellishment by John DePol. The discovery of a manuscript by Dr. Watson “proving” that Sherlock Holmes and Thomas J. Wise crossed paths. Very fine. (18186) $45.00

215.         (SHERLOCKIANA). STERN, Madeline B. Sherlock Holmes: Rare-Book Collector. A Study in Book Detection. New York : Schulte Publishing Co., (1953), octavo, printed wrappers. (24)pp. First Separate Edition. An offprint from the “Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America.” Stern, a bookseller, finds “There are eight fine books plus a small collection of works on one subject that can be assigned without question to the Holmes bookshelf.” Spine fold slightly sunned, else a fine copy. (18256) $25.00

216.         (SHIRLEY, John). CONNOLLY, Margaret. John Shirley. Book Production and the Nobel Household in Fifteenth-Century England . ( London ): Ashgate, (1998), octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 264pp. First Edition. John Shirley’s importance as a scribe of late 14th- and early 15th-century vernacular poetry (in particular the works of Chaucer and Lydgate) has long been recognized. Not only did Shirley bring these works to the attention of a wider audience in his own time, but the survival of some of his manuscripts has perpetuated these texts for future generations of readers. Indeed, some of these poems are now only known through his manuscripts. In this meticulously researched survey, Margaret Connolly makes a thorough examination of all extant documents relating to Shirley’s life and carefully scrutinizes the physical characteristics of his manuscripts. In so doing she dispels many of the false interpretations that have arisen from speculation about the nature of Shirley’s scribal activities. The book concludes that there is no evidence to suggest that Shirley acted as a bookseller, but plenty to indicate that he lent his books extensively. Illustrated. New. (6994) $130.00

217.         SIMPSON, Percy. Proof-Reading in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. ( Oxford ): Oxford University Press, (1970), quarto, dark blue cloth in dust jacket. (xx), 251 pp. Reprint of the first edition of 1935. The existence of a professional proof-reader cannot be assumed before the middle of the eighteenth century, and most of Simpson’s evidence relates rather to correction by the author, by printers, or by a scholar who might be concerned as much to amend the copy as to mark printers’ errors. This edition contains a new forward by Harry Carter and includes a review by R. B. McKerrow of the original edition and critical notes on some passages in the book. With a detailed index. A one inch, closed tear to jacket, else a very fine, clean copy. (18239) $100.00

218.         (SITWELL, Sacheverell). RITCHIE, Neil. Sacheverell Sitwell: An Annotated and Descriptive Bibliography 1916-1986. [ Florence ]: The Giardo Press, 1987, large octavo, red cloth in dust jacket. 391pp. First Edition, Limited to 425 numbered copies signed by Ritchie. This bibliography records in full detail, with copius notes often quoting from Sitwell’s letters, the first and subsequent editions of his 135 books, his 91 contributions to the works of others and his 288 appearances in periodicals. Radio and television broadcasts are covered, a bibliography of biographical and critical writings about Sitwell is included and the work concludes with a complete index. The bibliography is profusely illsutrated with 12 color plates, a further 12 in monochrome and 8 half-tones on the text pages, depicting title-pages and dust wrappers by the leading artists with whom Sitwell collaborated, such as Rex Whistler, Gino Severini, Barnett Freedman, John Farleigh and Irene Hawkins. A very fine, clean copy. (16638) $95.00

219.         SLATER, J.H. Early Editions. A Bibliographical Survey of the Works of Some Popular Modern Authors. London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1894, octavo, rebound in brown cloth with borwn leather spine. T.e.g. (xviii), 339pp. First Edition. One of the earliest price guides to “modern” authors, this checklist by the founder and editor of Book Prices Current was a great influence on collectors of the day. Not only did Slater give values on the books included in the checklist but most include commentary as to the book’s importance or scarcity. The authors listed include: Ainsworth, the Brownings, Burns, Byron, Dickens, George Eliot, Gosse, William Morris, D.G. Rossetti, Ruskin, Shelley, R.L. Stevenson, Swinburne, Tennyson, Thackeray, and others. A sturdy, yet handsome, binding, with later endpapers having cloth reinforced hinges. (16633) $75.00

220.         (SMITHSONIAN). THOMAS, Mary Augusta. An Odyssey in Print. Adventures in The Smithsonian Libraries. Washington DC : Smithsonian Institution Press, (2000), small quarto, blue cloth in pictorial dust jacket. 179pp. First Edition. A catalogue published for the exhibit Voyages: A Smithsonian Libraries Exhibition. Presented in a three-part expedition through the collection. Part I: Journeys Over Land and Sea, Part II: Journeys of the Mind, and Part III: Journes of the Imagination. Numerous illustrations beautifully presented in color and black and white. Very fine. (14260) $25.00

221.         STEINBERG, S. H. Five Hundred Years of Printing. ( London ): British Library, 1996, large 8vo, cloth in dust jacket. (x), 262pp. Revised edn. Revised by John Trevitt. With a foreword by Beatrice Warde. A lucid history of printing organized around the period of incunabula and printing’ s creative beginnings, the essentially conservative refinements from 1550 - 1800, and the technological advances of modern times from 1800. The text emphasizes specific books and printers and their effect on the intellectual history of the West. New. (9648) $45.00

222.         STODDARD, Roger E. A Library-Keeper’s Business. New Castle : Oak Knoll Press, 2002, octavo, cloth . 498 pp. First Edition. Roger Stoddard is a highly respected librarian and author. As Head of Rare Books at Harvard University ’s famed Houghton Library, he has gained a lifetime of unique experiences. In a series of insightful essays and commentaries, this quiet scholar’s scholar shares his work of forty years at one of the great epicenters of power and learning. One will find his reaction to working with such giants as William A. Jackson and Lawrence C. Wroth and a host of other notables. The author shares his insights from the perspective of a young student evolving into one of the foremost librarians in America . Beautifully illustrated with many rare photos. New. (11973) $85.00

223.         (STONE, Reynolds). Reynolds Stone Engravings. Brattleboro , VT : Stephen Greene Press, (1977), quarto, cloth in dust jacket. xli; 151pp. First American Edition. Fully illustrated in colors. A fine study of this major wood engraver. Printed at the Curwen Press. The descriptive notes on the engravings provide a striking recapitulation of the last 40 years of private and public patronage, including several royal commissions. A fine copy. (10854) $85.00

224.         (SUMMERS, Montague). D’ARCH SMITH, Timothy. A Bibliography of the Works of Montague Summers. London : Nicholas Vane, 1964, tall octavo, black cloth in dust jacket. 164pp. First Edition. Foreword by Father Brocard Sewell of the Order of Carmelites. This volume gives details of collations and bindings, and information about the publishing history of Summers’s works on both sides of the Atlantic . The sections include: full descriptions of first, American and later editions; books edited by, or with contributions from Summers; a chronological catalog of articles and letters in periodicals, comprising no less than 260 entries; a conspectus of the author’s work; and an appendix devoted to The Phoenix and other theatrical societies closely associated with Summers. (17178) $50.00

225.         (SWIFT, Jonathan). HUBBARD, Lucius L. Contributions Towards A Bibliography of Gulliver’s Travels to Establish the Number and Order of Issue of the Motte Editions... New York : Burt Franklin, (1968), octavo, cloth. xiii, 189pp. Reprint. Reprint of the edition of 1922. Illustrated. With 25 facsimiles. Focusing on the Motte editions of 1726 and 1727, their relative accuracy and the Source of the Changes Made in the Faulkner edition of 1735 with A List of Editions in a private collection. Fine. (10890) $35.00

226.         TANSELLE, G. Thomas. Literature and Artifacts. Charlottesville : BSA, 1998, octavo, cloth. (xviii), 356pp. First Edition. Fifteen essays, previously published, here collected for the first time. I can’t think of a better description of content than to quote the last paragraph from Dr. Tanselle’s Preface, “The failure of perception attacked throughout this book is to some extent a manifestation of a wider tendency to substitute illusion for reality. In the words of Benjamin’s translator, the ‘bent’ of the ‘contemporary masses’ is ‘toward overcoming the uniqueness of every reality by accepting its reproduction.’ Ada Louise Huxtable, in a penetrating essay called ‘Inventing American Reality’ (‘New York Review of Books’, 3 December, 1992; now incorporated into her 1997 book The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion), deplores what she calls ‘the theming of America,’ in which the public rushes ‘down the yellow brick road from Williamsburg to Disneyland,’ increasingly preferring the reconstruction of past environments in theme parks to the actually surviving forms of those environments. Museums, as she points out, also cater to this urge by selling replicas of objects held in their collections. There is a fascinating contrast, however, between the way serious professionals view these activities and the way they regard the reproducing of verbal texts. Architectural historians, art historians, and anthropologists know that they cannot accept reproductions in their work; literary scholars and librarians, on the other hand, present no such unified front in recognizing the limitations of reproduced texts. The New. (6078) $60.00

227.         TAYLOR, Archer and Fredric J. Mosher. The Bibliographical History of Anonyma and Pseudonyma. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1951, octavo, green cloth in dust jacket. (x), 289pp. First Edition. A historical account of a field of bibliography and bibliographic techniques. With a classified guide to dictionaries and other lists of anonyma and pseudonyma arranged according to languages or geographical areas and subjects. Very minor shelfwear to jacket, else a fine, clean copy. (16678) $85.00

228.         (THEATRE). A Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Books Relating to The Stage in the Public Library of the City of Boston . New York : Kraus Reprint, 1970, octavo, cloth. viii, 952pp. Reprint of the 1919 edition. With full descriptions given under author and short-title given under listings by title and subject. (10827) $55.00

229.         TREDWELL, Daniel M. A Monograph on Privately-Illustrated Books. Brooklyn : Fred Tredwell, 1881, octavo, wrappers. (iv), 161pp. First Edition. A paper read before the Rembrandt Club of Brooklyn which is here published “somewhat extended both by additions to the text and by annotations.” One of the few sources for information on the practice of extra-illustration. Fine. (3845) $75.00

230.         (TYPOGRAPHY). ANNENBERG, Maurice. Type Foundries of America and their Catalogs. New Castle : Oak Knoll Press, 1994, quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (xxii), 286pp. This edition contains an appendix listing 73 type specimen books unknown at the time of the first edition, more than 10 percent of the former total. TYPE FOUNDRIES contains historical accounts of each foundry, a list of their specimen books with size and number of pages and countless tidbits of fascinating historical and typographical information. Oak Knoll’s edition has been updated and amended by the well-known printing historian, Stephen O. Saxe. He has added eight appendixes to the book, as well as a four-page introduction and a biographical sketch of the author. In addition, one new type foundry, Abraham Riggs of New York City , has been discovered and is described in a separate appendix. There are also listings of the complete type specimen holdings of the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian Institution and Stephen O. Saxe’s personal collection. The appendixes conclude with a list of errata, omissions and duplications in the first edition; and a select bibliography. Also, of the greatest importance, the much-lamented lack of an index has now been corrected through the efforts of Elizabeth Lieberman. New. (9888) $49.95

231.         (TYPOGRAPHY). Bert Clarke. Typographer. A. Colish, 1987, large octavo, printed wrappers. 84pp. First Edition. A catalogue of an exhibition of selected works at the New York Public Library with an introduction by John Dreyfus and catalogue notes by Mr. Clarke. Bert Clarke has had a long and distinguished career as a book designer, beginning in Baltimore in 1935. The decoration here reproduces four colophons most often associated with his work: Clarke & Way, The Thistle Press; The Limited Editions Club; The Bollingen Foundation; and A. Colish, where he worked from 1970 to his retirement in 1986. Forty-three of his books are described in this catalogue, and each is illustrated. The catalogue was also designed by Mr. Clarke. Two small spots on front cover, else fine. (14403) $15.00

232.         (TYPOGRAPHY). BURT, Sir Cyril. A Psychological Study of Typography. Cambridge : University Press, 1959, octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. (xx), (68) pp. First Edition. With an Introduction by Stanley Morison. From the dust jacket, “Sir Cyril Burt’s experimental and statistical survey of the mind’s capacity to take in a printed message has two main aspects. First, by tests of accuracy and speed of reading, he and his colleagues showed the legibility of various styles of printing...The second survey considers choice of typeface as it is affected by the reader’s personal reactions to the many faces now available...” Illustrated. With a detailed index. Jacket slightly soiled, name on front pastedown, else fine. (18249) $65.00

233.         (TYPOGRAPHY). CLOUSE, Doug. MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan. Typographic Tastemakers of the Late Nineteenth Century. ( New Castle ): Oak Knoll Press, 2008, quarto, (176) pp. First Edition. This is the first full-length study of the leading American type foundry of the nineteenth century. It is an interesting history of the foundry from both a business and a design point of view. The emphasis is on the design of the hundreds of typefaces that were produced by the foundry, from its inception in the 1860s until its merger with most other American foundries at the end of the century. The author describes (with many detailed photographic illustrations) how changing business conditions and technical improvements in typefounding interacted with changes in public taste to modify, over the decades, the appearance of the typefaces that Americans found in their publications. While this is a study of only one of many American foundries, in many ways MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan can stand as an exemplar of all the rest. It was the descendant of the first successful American type foundry, Binny and Ronaldson, started in Philadelphia in 1796. Extensive business records of the firm exist, as do scores of type specimen books and promotional publications of the foundry. All of these have been used extensively by the author. The scores of typefaces illustrated and described are considered as the ever-changing output of a corporation, with lesser emphasis on the individual creators of each typeface. At the turn of the twentieth century, taste turned away from the florid, ornamented style of the earlier decades. Mr. Clouse has shown in this well-written study that the earlier styles were very successful in their own time and should be judged on that basis. A completely illustrated appendix showing MS&J’s patented typefaces is extremely helpful. Very fine. (18179) $65.00

234.         (TYPOGRAPHY). LANE, John A. Early Type Specimens in the Plantin-Moretus Museum. ( London ): The British Library, 2004, large quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 344pp. First Edition. Annotated descriptions of the specimens to ca. 1850 (mostly from the Low Countries and France ) with preliminary notes on the typefoundries and printing offices. From the dust jacket, “The Plantin-Moretus Museum has one of the world’s richest collections of type specimens, many surviving nowhere else. They include types by Garamont, Granjon, Van den Keere, Briot, Van Dyck, Kis, Fournier, Rosart, Gille, didot and many other masters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century...This first detailed catalogue of the Museum’s speciments reports the styles and sizes of type shown, describes the structures and paper stocks, notes relations with other specimens int he collection and elsewhere, and provides references to literature on many of the individual types shown. With 15 illustrations and 4 facsimile specimen sheets inserted in pocket at back. New. New. (13111) $95.00

235.         (TYPOGRAPHY). MORISON, Stanley. On Type Designs Past and Present. London : Ernest Benn, 1962, octavo, boards in dust jacket. 79 pp. New Edition, Revised and Enlarged. With a Preface by P. M. Handover who also acted as the editor to this edition. Intended to be an introduction to the subject. Illustrated. A fine, clean copy. (18244) $35.00

236.         (TYPOGRAPHY). RE, Peggy. Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter. New York : Princeton Architectural Pres, 2003, large quarto, wrappers. 104pp. First Edition. In a career that has spanned more than forty years, Matthew Carter has designed many of the typefaces that we see every day in and on publications, books, signs, and screens. Carter’s celebrated typefaces include Galliard, Mantinia, and Verdana. In 1975, he created the now- pervasive Bell Centennial specifically for use in phone books. Publications including Sports Illustrated, the Daily News, Wired, and the Washington Post, along with cultrual institutions such as the Walker Arts Center and The Victoria - Albert Museum , have all commissioned Carter fonts. Essays discuss the form of his work, his position and use of typographic history, and his technological innovation. All of his fonts are reproduced in full for reference, and illustrations place his designs in context. With 14 black and white illustrations and 24 four color plates. Very fine. New. (12709) $35.00

237.         (TYPOGRAPHY). UPDIKE, Daniel Berkeley. Printing Types. Their History, Forms, and Use. New Castle : Oak Knoll Press, 2001, octavo, wrappers. 1,088pp. Third Edition. Two volumes. Extensively enlarged. With over 360 illustrations. With new introductions by Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press and by Martin Hutner. The seminal work on the subject. “The text supplies a survey of the development of movable type designs from their invention through the nineteenth century, in the important countries of Europe, together with some mention of America . These two volumes...are without a doubt the result of the most scholarly research that has been done in the history of the development of printing, and the numerous illustrations have been very carefully selected. The reproductions render it virtually a universal type-specimen book.” Hart, Bibliotheca Typographica (referencing the first edition) #25. New. (10836) $49.95

238.         UPDIKE, Daniel Berkeley. The Well-Made Book. Essays & Lectures. ( West New York , NJ ): Mark Batty Publisher, 2002, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (xxii), 383pp. First Edition. From the prospectus: “ Daniel Berkley Updike (1860-1941) has been described as ‘the most distinguished American printer.’ He was one of a handful of highly successful and influential book designers of the twentieth century and proprietor of the Merrymount Press in Boston . The Well-Made Book is a substantial collection of virtually all of Updike’s writings on the arts of the book. William S. Peterson has researched, unearthed and assembled this wealth of material - much of which will be new even to those readers who are familiar with Updike’s writings. While Updike himself reprinted some of these pieces, until the publication of The Well-Made Book, many of these important and revealing essays and lectures have remained buried in obscure period periodicals and pamphlets and some of Updike’s writing featured in this book appears here for the first time, having never been published before in any form.” With 31 full- page illustrations, many in two colors. Prof. Peterson has edited, annotated, and provided a scholarly introduction. New. (11840) $55.00

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240.         (VORTICISM). EDWARDS, Paul, (editor). Blast. Vorticism 1914-1918. With contributions by Jane Beckett and Deborah Cherry, Richard Cork, Karin Orchard and Andrew Wilson. ( Aldershot ): Ashgate, (2000), quarto, boards in dust jacket. 144pp. First English Language Edition. Vorticism was the only British avant-garde movement to make an original contribution to European Modernism. Founded in 1914 by Wyndham Lewis, and christened by Ezra Pound, the movement was a sustained act of aggression against the moribund and moderate Victorianism that Lewis and Pound saw as stifling the artistic energies of the new generation in England . Vorticism was itself disrupted and finally extinguished by the First World War, in which several of the group served as combatants and war artists. Two Vorticist exhibitions were held, showing work by Jessica Dismorr, Frederick Etchells, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Wyndham Lewis, William Roberts, Helen Saunders and Edward Wadsworth. David Bomberg and C.R. Nevinson, though not members of the group, also exhibited with them, while Jacob Epstein, whose work was reproduced in the Vorticists’ magazine, Blast, in many ways epitomised the Vorticist attitude to modernity in his masterpiece, The Rock Drill. This study is the first fully illustrated guide to the movement in English since Richard Cork’s definitive history, published in the early 1970s. Richard Cork contributes a chapter on Vorticist sculpture. Other chapters discuss painting, literary Vorticism, women in Vorticism and Vorticist aesthetics. This is an English-language adaptation of the publication which accompanied the exhibition held at the Sprengel Museum, Hanover and the Haus der Kunst, Munich . Very fine. New. (12711) $90.00

241.         (WAKEMAN, Stephen H., Sale ). The Stephen H. Wakeman Collection of Books of Nineteenth Century American Writers the Property of Mrs. Alice L. Wakeman. New York : American Art Association, (April 28-29, 1924), octavo, green cloth with printed spine label. 1,280 lots. First Editions, inscribed presentation and personal copies, original manuscripts and letters of nine American authors: Bryant, Emerson, Hawthorne, Holmes, Longfellow, Lowell, Poe, Thoreau, and Whittier. Illustrated. “The Wakeman sale had the effect of confirming American literature as a legitimate collecting area. “ Dickinson , Dictionary of American Book Collectors, p. 327. This is one of the clothbound copies issued by American Art Association in response to requests for the auction catalogue post-sale which reproduces the original auction catalogue with prices realized noted in the margins. (17714) $85.00

242.         WALLIS, Lawrence W. George W. Jones: Printer Laureate. West New York , NJ : Mark Batty Publisher, 2005, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 128pp. First American Edition. This book provides the first extensive review of the life and work of George W. Jones (1860-1942) and fills an important gap in the literature of graphic design and printing history. He was one of the most respected and celebrated fine printers of his generation, producing books for notable publishers such as the Limited Editions Club and the Nonesuch Press. Jones entered the printing industry as an apprentice in 1873, and became an independent printer and publisher in London in 1883. In 1911 he established the venture known famously as the Sign of the Dolphin. Jones was appointed the printing advisor to the Linotype organization in 1921, where he was directly responsible for the creation of a number of distinguished typefaces for linecasting, including Granjon, Estienne, Baskerville,a nd Georgian. Jones spent time in the United States and had close contact with leading contemporaries such as William Rudge, Bruce Rogers, W. A. Dwiggins, and others. With more than 40 illustrations, including 8 pages in color. New. New. (13536) $58.00

243.         ( WALTERS ART GALLERY ). JOHNSTON, William R. William and Henry Walters, the Reticent Collectors. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, (1999), octavo, black cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (xviii), 309pp. First Edition. The Walters Art Gallery excels in fields as diverse as Egyptian bronzes, Byzantine silver, illuminated manuscripts, medieval carved ivories, early Renaissance painting, Sevres porcelains, Islamic metalwork, and Chinese ceramics. The author recreates the life and world of the enigmatic father and son who assembled one of the finest private museum collections in the United States . With 85 black and white and color illustrations. Fine. (17224) $20.00

244.         WARDE, Beatrice. The Crystal Goblet. Sixteen Essays on Typography. Cleveland : The World Publishing Co., 1956, octavo, orange cloth in dust jacket. (222) pp. First Edition. Selected and Edited by Henry Jacob. With an introduction by Beatrice Warde. Chapters include Printing Should Be Invisible, The Design of Books, The Artist and Typography, Artists and Craftsmen, and Training in Taste. Price-clipped dust jacket soiled with chipping to bottom of spine and bottom of back panel. (18257) $65.00

245.         WARDE, Beatrice, et. al. Bookmaing & Kindred Amenities. Being a Collection of Essays. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 1942, large octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. (xiii), 147 pp. First Edition. Essays by Beatrice Warde, Richard Ellis, Carl Purlington Rollins, Bennett A. Cerf, George Stevens, Philip Van Doren Stern, Earl Schenck Miers, Lewis Gannett, Lawrence Thompson, Laurence Gomme, Arthur W. Rushmore on book history, book design, publishing, edition, private presswork, bookselling and curatorship. Dust jacket soiled, book with slight offsetting at inner gutters, else fine. (18231) $45.00

246.         WATSON, Andrew G. Medieval Manuscripts in Post-Medieval England . ( Aldershot ): Ashgate, 2004, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 396pp. First Edition. Two themes uniting the essays in this collection are the provenance and history of medieval manuscripts during the Middle Ages, and the fates that befell them in England in the period after the invention of printing and the 16th-century dissolution of the religious houses and visitations of the universities. The section ‘Libraries and collectors’ includes papers on seven major English collectors of the 16th and 17th centuries, and the section ‘Manuscripts’ concerns the fates of five manuscripts or groups of manuscripts from England, Belgium and Italy. Of the other chapters one is concerned with the post-medieval history of the library of All Souls College , Oxford , and another with the provenance of hundreds of manuscripts in the Harleian collection in the British Library. For this volume Andrew Watson has provided extensive additional notes and indexes. Includes 17 plates. New. (12551) $124.95

247.         WENDORF, Richard. The Scholar-Librarian: Books, Libraries, and the Visual Arts. Boston : The Boston Athenaeum, 2005, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 248pp. First Edition. Essays on about collecting, libraries, and librarianship. Richard Wendorf is an eighteenth-century scholar with a particular interest in English art, literature, and printing history. With 19 black and white illustrations. New. New. (13537) $34.95

248.         (WESTERN ILLUSTRATORS). DYKES, Jeff. Fifty Great Western Illustrators. A Bibliographic Checklist. Northland Press, (1975), quarto, blue cloth in dust jacket. xiv, 457pp. First Edition. This checklist of the published works of fifty significant western illustrators is the standard reference work for libraries, dealers and collectors. There are in excess of six thousand entries, more than fourteen hundred on Frederic Remington alone. Lower right corner lightly bumped, else a fine, clean copy. (16700) $100.00

249.         WHITE, T. H. An archive of 38 Autograph Letters, signed; 9 Typed Letters, signed, and 6 postcards, to Ronald McNair Scott, White’s friend and co-author of the 1931 publication, Dead Mr. Nixon. The letters range in date from January 17, 1926 to November 2, 1936. There are a total of 126 pages of often close-written content sometimes embellished with line drawings: writing projects, mutual friends, health, trips, difficulties with publishers, their work on Dead Mr Nixon, White’s attempts to earn money, etc., much, much content. Included in the lot are four typed poems by White which he had sent to Scott, a holograph map of a story location drawn by White, and an envelope noted, “My letters from Tim” penciled on the front in Scott’s hand. A selection from the early letters -
17.1.26: ALs, 4pp. “I have found a superb play for production…look through at the first appendix ‘St George & the Dragon.’ Isn’t it splendid?...”

17.2.26: TLs, 4pp. “I have not written, nor am writing, nor ever shall write anything worth spitting on. I have however failed not to produce about one poem p.d. which is instantly destroyed by burning, in a grievous fashion.”

20.3.26: TLs, 2pp. “I shouldn’t go to American if I were you. Sure, you’d be expatriated for moral turpitude.”

3.i.27: ALs, 8pp. “I’m feeling so frightfully conceited that I really must get rid of it on someone…the fact is I’m able to live a double life; I combine the Hearty with the Aesthete to perfection.”

22.ii.xxvii: ALs, 14pp. White reviews the physical set-up for a play that he and Scott plan to arrange, “I suggest that we get the village halls free and say (or by saying) that all profits will go to some Working Man’s Relief Fund; This will draw our village labour labourers and put us in high favour with the proletariat on whom we depend for patronage…to say the profits go to such a fund and we shall have had a magnificently amusing holiday quite free for a month…”

Undated: ALs, 4pp. “This, I suppose, leaves us with a choice of the National Gallery (for old masters & new mistresses)…or take a convenient drab to a flick and to tea in order to see how she responds to ordinary decency, and how long it takes her to realize we don’t want to poke her, and whether she has any joie de vivre, and what sort of company she is outside her trade…”

Undated: ALs, 1 p. “I am being x-rayed because they think I’ve got consumption…Can you smell mortality in this letter?” On the verso are four ink sketches by White: a cemetery plot, a casket, top hat, and gloves.

4.iv.xxvii: ALs, 1 p. “I have tuberculosis, slightly, curable…As they originally inferred that I might not be curable it has been rather unbalancing & decentralizing and I find I can’t work…P.S. What price Keats & James Flecker now?”

1.vi.xxvii: ALs, 4pp. This letter is embellished with a four-color initial letter with decoration trailing down the left margin. “I am determined, once at any rate, to demonstrate my mastery of the margin…I went off to Surrey with Alli for the week and had a pretty bitter time. For one thing he was…making love to a flat faced girl: for another he gave me a book by Kath Mansfield which contained an introduction all about how she died of T.B. at 32. I spent my birthday brooding over my approaching demise & reciting Job.” The paragraphs in this letter are separated by decorative spades, “Excuse the somewhat Pre-Raphaelite tendency of these blobs.”

 (16688) $14,000.00

250.         WHITE, T. H. The Book of Beasts being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary of the Twelfth Century. London : Jonathan Cape , (1954), large octavo, presentation binding of burgundy full morocco gilt stamped using the original design as used on the trade biinding. First Edition. Inscribed in Latin to White’s good friend Michael Howard, director of Jonathan Cape , and signed in full, “Terence Hanbury White” and dated Christmas day, December 25, 1954. White has made a correction to a date in the text and has added a four line annotation in the bottom margin of that page. A very fine, handsome copy. In 25 years of collecting T. H. White we have never seen another copy bound thus. (14199) $4,500.00

251.         WHITE, T. H. The Insolence of Man. [Unpublished carbon typescript]. 92 leaves, 8” x 10”, comprising title page, introductory quote, table of chapters, text pages 1 - 86. Contains over a hundred notes and corrections in White’s hand. Sent by White to David Garnett for a critique; Garnett has made several notes in the margins. Original carbon typescript to White’s unpublished “philosophical pamphlet” The Insolence of Man. “During the first half of this destitute year [1942], he wrote a treatise, never published, called ‘The Insolence of Man.’ Since ‘The Book of Merlyn’ was held up he compressed its non-Arthurian contents into a tract for the times. The Insolence, Importance, Ferocity, Ingenuity, Problems and Future of Man were severally dealt with as though he were lecturing to a class. The lectures are eloquent and convinced - for they are enlargements of his convictions; but the lecturer’s tone of voice is contemptuous and the Jack-of-All-Trades quality of White’s mind - which he gave England Have My Bones and The Sword in the Stone their flicker of learning lightly worn - shows as parade and arrogance.” Sylvia Townsend Warner, T. H. White, A Biography, p. 194. David Garnett’s letter to White regarding this manuscript was written January 31, 1943, and caused a short break in their friendship, “Dear Tim, I was very glad to get your letter and the M.S. Here I shall note down one or two criticisms of the matter which occur to me. (1) You are definite enough about not accepting a God in Man’s Image, or a God as judge of man’s importance, & I am glad to find it so. But you are still uncritically accepting an absolute ethic which happens to be vaguely Christian & 19th Century. For example you say: ‘You can be ingeniously cruel or ingeniously wicked...’ Chapter 4. But wickedness, like Justice & other such concepts varies according to place & time...” David Garnett, The White/Garnett Letters, p. 123. Although there is mention of an Appendix in the table of contents, there is none with this typescript. Small holes along left margin from removed staples else no wear or tears. Enclosed in a handsome cloth folding case with matching slipcase with blindstamped leather spine label. (16669) $12,500.00

252.         WHITE, T. H. Loved Helen. London : Chatto & Windus, (1929), octavo, black cloth. First Edition. White has written an eight line poem in green ink on the back pastedown endpaper entitled “Timothy.” “...Then Arthur made strange banqusts, and a knight from the four winds came in.” Dated “21st - 26th May xxix.” Very minor scuffing to extremities, a near fine copy. (13257) $1,500.00

253.         WHITE, T. H. Two Autograph letters, signed, from T. H. White to H. A. Rappaport, Brooklyn, New York . In the first letter, dated “5.11.54” White is returning two photographs and a copy of a drawing which Rappaport had sent requesting his autograph. Although White states in the letter that he has signed both photographs, he has not, having signed only thephotograph of himself and his dog, Brownie. He writes that the photographs were taken by the architect, Raymond McGrath, at Trim Castle , Ireland , and he requests a copy of the one with Brownie. On White’s personal Alderney stationary. With original envelope. The second letter, dated “22.1.55” finds White complaining about his lack of help with correspondence, “...I have to do my letters alone and by hand, earning my own living meanwhile, doing my own housekeeping and never paying less than 50% Income Tax - often 75%.” He thanks Rappaport for the copies of the photographs as requested and tells him that one was sent on to Putnams to be used in connection with “Book of Beasts.” White expresses great pleasure with that title’s sales. He is also appreciative of Rappaport sending the American edition of “They Winter Abroad” commenting that “I had actually forgotten it was ever published in America .” This letter also has a copy of the White and Brownie photograph. With original envelope. This letter is also on White’s personal Alderney stationery. We have recently acquired a large collection of T. H. White books, letters and ephemera. Please contact us with your wants. (14196) $1,250.00

254.         WHITE, T. H. Verses. Alderney : (Privately Printed for the Author at the Shenval Press, 1962, octavo, quarter vellum and cloth. T.e.g. First Edition, Limited to 100 numbered copies. The author’s own copy, No. 1 of 100 printed. With a holograph manuscript, 6 pp., oblong octavo, written on the verso of p. 43, two blank leaves, and the rear free endpaper, inscribed at the end, “--in a Restaurant in Rome, Christmas 1962.” of White’s poem “Buon Gusto Qui” or “Good Eating” written out in both Italian and English on alternating leaves. Together with seven autograph letters, signed, and a typed letter, signed, to White from other authors to whom he had sent a copy of “Verses”, thanking him for the book. A fine letter from Siegfried Sassoon, 2pp, closely written, 25 February 1963, signed with his monogram, begins, “...were you ever anything but brilliant and stimulating with your pen? You do write so well -- born ‘James player’ that you are. Not that most of the poems are Jamesome, but they hit the mark all right...”, and concludes, “Thank you for your beautiful book which so illustrates your giftedness of mind and wordcraft.” On 25 February 1962, in a letter signed “Bunny”, 2 pp, folio, David Garnett paints a picture of White’s future, “...when you & I are fleshless peachstones -- if that -- people will be moved by your Welsh crusaders & laugh at your pheasant & the feelings that came out of you like sparks from a log, racing up the chimney, will catch in unknown people & burn for a few moments as they burned in you.” An autograph letter, signed, 2pp., quarto, 26 February 1963, from Sylvia Townsend Warner, White’s future biographer, praises his poems, but notes the blank leaves at the end of the book, “There are five beautiful blank pages at the end of your book. Perhaps one day you will write a poem on one of them.”  John Betjeman, typed letter, signed, one page, 28 February 1963, affectionately writes, “I love your poems. Yes, old boy. I love them. And I am very proud to have a presentation copy of this rare Alderney publication.” H. E. Bates, 1 1/2pp, 11 March 1963, is humble, stating, “I was overwhelmed by what you said about my book. I have never been able to accept the fact that it was any good.” He then asks White to read his upcoming book on Ruskin and offer advice. Also present are letters to White by Siriol Hugh-Jones and Francis Legh, and a black-and-white photograph, approximately 3 1/2” x 5 1/2” depicting White smoking a cigarette beside the ocean. Very minor fading to the cloth of the book, else all in fine condition. (16683) $11,500.00

255.         (WHITTINGTON PRESS). RANDLE, John, John Dreyfus, & Mark Batty. Printing at The Whittington Press 1972 - 1994. An Exhibition at The Grolier Club. No place: ITC/The Typophiles, 1994, octavo, wrappers. 64pp. First Edition. Limited to 2,500 copies. Printed by The Stinehour Press. Designed by Jerry Kelly. Typophiles Monograph New Series Number 12. Essays on this fine press precede a well annotated catalogue of its productions. With a tipped- in wood engraving by Mary Macgregor. Illustrated. Very fine. (10542) $25.00

256.         WILLES, Margaret. Reading Matters. Five Centuries of Discovering Books. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2008, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 304 pp. First Edition. It is easy to forget in our own day of cheap paperbacks and mega-bookstores that, until very recently, books were luxury items. Those who could not afford to buy had to borrow, share, obtain secondhand, inherit, or listen to others reading. This book examines how people acquired and read books from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the personal relationships between readers and the volumes they owned. Margaret Willes considers a selection of private and public libraries across the period—most of which have survived—showing the diversity of book owners and borrowers, from country-house aristocrats to modest farmers, from Regency ladies of leisure to working men and women. Exploring the collections of avid readers such as Samuel Pepys, Thomas Jefferson, Sir John Soane, Thomas Bewick, and Denis and Edna Healey, Margaret Willes also investigates the means by which books were sold, lending fascinating insights into the ways booksellers and publishers marketed their wares. With 90 black and white illustrations. Very fine. (18172) $30.00

257.         WILLIAMS, George Walton. The Craft of Printing and the Publication of Shakespeare’s Works. Washington : Folger Shakespeare Library, (1985), octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 103pp. First Edition. This study examines the various techniques and developments of printing in Shakespeare’s day with particular emphasis on William Caxton. Contains publication dates of the plays and their reprints. Illustrated. (322) $35.00

258.         (WISE, T. J). CARTER, John and Graham Pollard. An Enquiry Into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets. London : Constable & Co., 1934, octavo, maroon cloth. T.e.g. xii, 400pp. First Edition. A stunning piece of bibliographical research and deduction. A fine, clean copy. (14431) $175.00

259.         (WISE, Thomas J.). CARTER, John and Graham Pollard. The Firm of Charles Ottley, Landon & Co. Footnote to an Enquiry. London : Rupert Hart-Davis, 1948, small octavo, printed wrappers with yapp edges. 95pp. First Edition. An investigation into four Richard Herne Shepherd pamphlets. A fine copy. (17554) $40.00

260.         (WISE, Thomas J.). CARTER, John and Graham Pollard; Nicolas Barker and John Collins. An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets. Second Edition with an Epilogue by John Carter and Graham Pollard.  [With] A Sequel to An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets by John Carter and Graham Pollard. The Forgeries of H. Buxton Forman & T.J. Wise Re-examined by Nicolas Barker & John Collins. London : Scolar Press; Scolar Press/Oak Knoll Press, (1983); 1992, octavo, red cloth; red boards, in printed dust jackets. (xii), 400pp, 11-41pp.; 394pp. Second edition; Reprint of the first edition. Two Volumes. In 1934, Carter and Pollard exposed Thomas J. Wise of literary forgery of 19th century works by Kipling, George Eliot, Tennyson and others on a grand and systematic scale. A later accusation was made of H. Buxton Forman as his accomplice. After the deaths of Carter and Pollard, Barker and Collins took their material and discovered a mass of new facts showing the forgeries began even earlier than suspected. These two volumes present an enthralling narrative in unravelling the complicated evidence of one of the most notorisous literary scandal of this century. This (second) edition of An Enquiry includes a new Preface, Corrections and notes, an Epilogue; and two additional plates. Both volumes illustrated. Very fine. (17555) $175.00

261.         (WISE, Thomas J). PARTINGTON, Wilfred. Thomas J. Wise in the Original cloth. The Life and Record of the Forger of the Nineteenth Century Pamphlets. Folkestone: Dawsons of Pall Mall , (1974), octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 372pp. Reprint of the edition of 1946. Illustrated. The edition of 1946 was enlarged over the earlier Forging Ahead first published in 1939. The United Kingdom edition of the work was held up by the war, and also by new material coming to the author’s hand. The book was considerably enlarged. Jacket price clipped, fine. (10800) $50.00

262.         (WISE, Thomas J). TODD, William B. Suppressed Commentaries on The Wiseian Forgeries. Addendum to an Enquiry. Austin : HRC, University of Texas , (1974), octavo, black cloth with printed labels on spine and front cover. 49pp. First Edition, one of 750 copies printed. Correspondence between Charles F. Heartmann and Wise and Gabriel Wells. Fine. (16641) $50.00

263.         (WOOD ENGRAVING). ENGEN, Rodney K. Dictionary of Victorian Wood Engravers. ( Teaneck , NJ ): Chadwyck-Healey, (1985), quarto, cloth. 297pp. First American Edition. This volume contains nearly 2,000 entries on wood engravers who worked from 1800-1900. The entries contain such details as the artist’s name and dates, a statement of the work’s significance, biographical details, a selection of the work, discussion of artistic methods, the form of the artist’s signature and bibliographic references. New. (7591) $154.95

264.         (WRIGHT, John Buckland). REID, Anthony. A Check-List of the Book Illustrations of John Buckland Wright together with a personal memoir by Anthony Reid. Pinner, Middlesex: Private Libraries Association, (1968), octavo, blue cloth in original glassine wrapper. 94pp.; plates unpaginated. First Edition, Limited to 1,400 copies. A biography of Wright with descriptive text of his illustrated published and unpublished books and dust-wrapper designs. Illustrations reproduced from 20 wood-engravings, 18 within the text and 16 copper-engravings and pen and ink drawings. Fine. (16679) $75.00

265.         (YEATS, William Butler). GATCH, Milton McC. The Yeats Family and the Book, ca. 1900. New York : The Grolier Club, 2000, octavo, linen-backed boards. 82pp., 11 plates. First Edition, Limited to 250 numbered copies. Catalogue of an exhibition of the author’s extensive collection of works by W. B. Yeats, his father John Butler Yeats, his sisters Lily and Lolly, and his brother, Jack. The materials displayed encompassed not only the expected first editions but also periodicals, anthologies, edited volumes, prints, and textiles. Particular attention is paid throughout to publishing history. The text and binding of the book designed by Jerry Kelly. Printed at the Stinehour Press. (13289) $95.00

266.         (ZAPF von HESSE, Gudrun). Gudrun Zapf von Hesse. Bindings, Handwritten Books, Typefaces, Examples of Lettering and Drawings. West New York , NJ : Mark Batty Publisher, 2002, quarto, cloth in plain board slipcase. (222)pp. First Edition, one of 900 copies. From the prospectus, “In 1991 the Rochester Institute of Technology honored her with the Frederic W. Goudy Award, the highest American Distinction in the field of printing and the book arts. Now this definite compilation records her accomplishments for posterity and makes a comprehensive cross section of her work available for broader review. This book explores the lifework of Gudrun Zapf von Hesse in over 150 color plates. There are more than 50 examples of lettering in various techniques and 20 plates of handwritten books; over 20 plates of typefaces; more than 30 illustrations showing her bookbinding expertise - including examples dating back to 1935 and her days with Professor Otto Dorfner in Weimar; 22 of Gudrun Zapf von Hesse’s seldom-seen drawings, monotypes and works in color.” This volume was designed by Hermann Zapf. New. (13568) $75.00

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