London: Merrell Holberton and The Natural history Museum, (1999), First Edition. quarto, blue boards in dust jacket. 128 pp. Merrell Holberton and The Natural history Museum, In 1830 MacGillivary met John James Audubon who was looking for an assistant to transcribe his notes. "The two men formed a friendship that... More about William MacGillivray. Creatures of Air, Land and Sea
London: Batsford, (1987), Reprint. large octavo, boards in dust jacket. (xvi), 250pp. Batsford, A concise presentation of information on bookbinders working in major centers, in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Each section covers principal directories consulted, list of localities and binders, including full addresses and information on business relations, apprenticeships... More about Bookbinders of the United Kingdom (outside London) 1780-1840
Chicago: Committee on the Invention of Printing, 1941, quarto, wrappers. 18pp. Committee on the Invention of Printing, Introduction by McMurtrie (in English), text in French. More about Proposal in 1855 for a Typographic Council to meet in Brussels to determine the facts regarding...
Princeton: Princeton Univ Press, 1986, First Edition. octavo, wrappers. viii, 189 pp. Princeton Univ Press, Illustrated with 136 black and white illustrations and 17 color plates. An exhibition catalogue surveying the holdings of the Princeton Department of Graphic Arts, from the advent of printing in the fifteenth century to the... More about European Graphic Arts. The Art of the Book from Gutenberg to Picasso
(Los Angeles, CA): The Getty Research Institute, (1997), First Edition. octavo, printed heavy paper wrappers. (x), 110pp. The Getty Research Institute, A catalogue of an exhibition of Incendiary Art at the Getty Research Institute in 1997. The material assembled includes illustrated books, prints, manuscripts, drawings, and optical devices. Includes a.... More about Incendiary Art: The Representation of Fireworks in Early Modern Europe
London: Bloomsbury Books, (1988), quarto, boards in dust jacket. (103)pp. Bloomsbury Books, Reprint of the 1979 edition. An extensively illustrated pictorial biography. With 110 illustrations, 8 in full color. More about Edith Sitwell
Durham: Duke University Press, 1953, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (xii), 337pp. Duke University Press, The Lytton Strachey of Eminent Victorians and Bloomsbury associations came from a prominent English family who owned Sutton Court, helped to colonize Virginia, edit "The Spectator", and govern in India. A history of... More about The Strachey Family, 1588-1932. Their Writings and Literary Associations
London: Cygnus Arts, (1997), First Edition. large 8vo, boards in dust jacket. xii, 133pp. Cygnus Arts, From the author's introduction: "Since my primary purpose is the focus upon the Rowlandson drawings rather than Combe's lengthy narrative text, I have provided just enough of a summary of his narration, including selected... More about Thomas Rowlandson's Doctor Syntax Drawings. An introduction and Guide for Collectors
New Castle: Oak Knoll, 989), Reprint. octavo, boards in dust jacket. xviii, (126) pp. Oak Knoll, With many rare photos andnewfacts added, based on recent discoveries. With an introduction by Elizabeth Harris. Inside back cover is a pocket holding a reproduction of "Newspaper page with first linotype stories" as issued. Illustrated. New. More about The Biography of Ottmar Mergenthaler, Inventor of the Linotype
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., (copyright 1958) [circa 1990], Second edition. tall octavo, pictorial heavy wrappers. (xii), 8pp., 3-14pp., illustrations unpaginated. Dover Publications, Inc., Part of the Dover Pictorial Archive Series. An unabridged republication of Calligraphia Latina with the introduction translated into English. Minor scuffing to edges of wrappers, else fine. More about Calligraphy. Calligraphia Latina
London: The Athlone Press, (1999), First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. xii, 206pp. The Athlone Press, The letters collected in this book comprise an important chaper in the life of Waler Pater's literary career. They record in great detail the relations between The Victorian man of letters and his... More about The Book Beautiful. Walter Pater and the House of Macmillan
National Gallery of Australia, 2009, First Edition. square octavo, pictorial wrappers. 121 pp. National Gallery of Australia, Respected Melbourne-based poet and architect Alex Selenitsch has pieced together an informative examination of the entire collection of artist books held by the National Gallery of Australia. Selenitsch highlights 20 books from the... More about Australian Artists Books
New York: Privately Printed, (1947), First American printing of this edition. quarto, cloth. 166pp. Privately Printed, Evan Gill says that this volume was printed without permission, and poorly reproduces Gill's wood engravings from The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Cressida. Gill 396a. Scuffing to extremities. More about All the Love Poems of Shakespeare
New York: Harper & Row, (1989), First American Edition. octavo, pictorial wrappers. (xiv), 254pp. Harper & Row, Illustrated. Founding editor of "Horizon", Connolly presided over one of the most successful small magazines in British publishing history. Its success after WWII caused so much work that he discontinued publication so as... More about Friends of Promise. Cyril Connolly and the World of Horizon
New York: Macmillan, (1979), First edition. quarto, printed wrappers, plastic comb binding at top. Macmillan, Each month contains a different text calligraphed by Margaret Shepherd. Scuffing to front cover, else fine. More about The 1980 calligrapher's quote calendar. (Cover title
Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1990, First Edition. quarto, green cloth in dust jacket. (172)pp. J. Paul Getty Museum, This book includes almost two hundred of the earliest known English and Scottish photographs, most of which have never before been published. It also contains all the significant photographs of the... More about Disciples of Light. Photographs in the Brewster Album
London: British Library, 2004, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. xxxvii, 266pp. British Library, Benjamin Disraeli was of the opinion that he was born in a library. The library was reputed to have held about 25,000 tomes, and belonged to his father, Isaac D'Israeli, a prolific and popular author... More about Isaac D'Israeli on Books. Pre-Victorian Essays on the History of Literature
Secaucus, NJ: Lylse Stuart, (1980), Second Printing. octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. 319 pp. Lylse Stuart, Remainder mark on bottom edge of text block, else a fine copy in fine jacket which is not price clipped. More about Views From a Window. Conversations With Gore Vidal
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1926), First Edition. octavo, olive green cloth. (12), (152)pp. Cambridge University Press, Frontispiece portrait of Jenkinson. Tipped-in errata slip. With five portraits and three facsimiles. Slight shelf wear, spine a bit faded, text block dusty. More about Francis Jenkinson, Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge and University Librarian
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1980, First Edition. octavo, cloth. 154pp. Scarecrow Press, Containing a biographical introduction, excerpts from the works and a checklist of the writings of Sadleir. The fifth volume in The Great Bibliographers Series. Fine copy. More about Michael Sadleir 1888-1957
New York: Macmillan, 1934, First American Edition. octavo, blue cloth. (x), 293pp. Macmillan, This book contains considerable amount of up to then unpublished material by Rolfe. Spine stamping slightly dull. Corners bumped with dent to top edge of covers. More about The Quest for Corvo. An Experiment in Biography
(London): The British Library, (2007), First Edition. large octavo, black boards in dust jacket. 160 pp. The British Library, The written word holds sacred value to Jewish people and this means that books have always played a central role in the development and transmission of their religion and culture. During... More about Hebrew Manuscripts. The Power of Script and Image
New York: Weathervane Books, circa 1975, Reprint. octavo, boards in dust jacket. (xxii), 650pp. Weathervane Books, Edited by Marcus A. McCorison from the Second Edition. Originally published in 1810, this history was based on Thomas's own collection which became the foundation of the American Antiquarian Society library which Thomas founded... More about The History of Printing in America. With a Biography of Printers & an Account of Newspapers
New Haven: Yale University Press, (1996), First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. xiv, 248pp. Yale University Press, From the jacket - "Script emerged in the eighteenth century as a medium intimately associated with the self, in contrast to the impersonality of print. But thereafter, just what kind of self... More about Handwriting in America. A Cultural History
Haag (The Hague): Martinus Nijhoff, 1936, First Edition. small quarto, printed heavy paper wrappers. (222)pp. Martinus Nijhoff, A study of the cultural function of the library. Name inside front wrapper, slight wear to extremities of wrappers. More about Die Kulturfunktion der Bibliothek