Etude Biographique & Bibliographique sur Symphorien Champier.
Nieuwkoop: B. De Graaf, 1972, Facsimile of the 1859 edition. octavo , green cloth. XXIV, 431 pp. B. De Graaf, Very fine. More
Nieuwkoop: B. De Graaf, 1972, Facsimile of the 1859 edition. octavo , green cloth. XXIV, 431 pp. B. De Graaf, Very fine. More
New York: Garland Publishing, 1995, First Edition. small quarto, orange boards. xxvi, 735 pp. Garland Publishing, A very fine, clean copy. More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1944, First Edition. octavo, boards and cloth with a printed paper label on front cover, in dust jacket. (281) pp. Harvard University Press, "Strange information unearthed by a scholar turned sleuth." Edge wear to jacket, former owner's name and date on front endpaper. More
New York: Delano Greenidge Editions, (2002), First Edition. folio, boards in dust jacket. 388 pp. Delano Greenidge Editions, A chronicle defining the contributions to the history of twentieth-century page design by artists, architects, filmmakers and designers who participated in the major art movements of the age: Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dadism..... More
Brepols, 2023, quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 480 pp. Brepols, Text in English, French and Italian.This book presents new research by eminent and emerging scholars in honor of Lilian Armstrong, whose extraordinary research has elucidated a vast corpus of imagery previously hidden inside manuscripts and books produced in late medieval..... More
Bicester: Primrose Hill Press, 2003, First Edition. quarto, boards in dust jacket. 446pp. Primrose Hill Press, The first full-scale biography of Robert Gibbings -- private pressman, artist, wood engraver, book illustrator, journalist, television personality, traveler, adventurer, and raconteur. Martin Andrews treats the whole Gibbings, the milieu in which he lived..... More
Ardsley, NY: Haydn Foundation, 1996, First Edition. quarto, grey cloth. xxvii, (201) 517 pp. Haydn Foundation, With Indices of Publishers; Places; Copyright Holders; Titles; Languages, making this a most useful reference text. Very fine. More
Thaxted: The Workshop Press, (1992), First Edition Limited to 180 numbered copies signed by Arman. octavo, original patterned boards and cloth with printed babels on front cover and spine. vii, 35, (28)pp. The Workshop Press, Printed in numerous colors and with many folding, tipped-in specimens. With samples of over 350..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954, First Edition. quarto, blue cloth. (xxii), (310)pp. Cambridge University Press, A scholarly and readable biography of the most outstanding figure of the Paris book trade at that time. Extensively illustrated and with a bibliography and detailed index. Ex-library with Discarded stamp on endpapers and edges..... More
New York: Scribner's, 1923, First Edition. octavo, boards and cloth in dust jacket. 356pp. Scribner's, 3 1/2pp. foreword by T. J. Wise. Includes chapters on Arnold's Tennyson and Stevenson collections. With a chapter on "Letters of Notable Women." Illustrated. From the library and with the bookplate of children's books author..... More
New York: Scribner's, 1923, First Edition. octavo, boards and cloth in dust jacket. 356pp. Scribner's, 3 1/2pp. foreword by T. J. Wise. Includes chapters on Arnold's Tennyson and Stevenson collections. With a chapter on "Letters of Notable Women." Illustrated. Front flap not price clipped. Dust jacket sunned with shelf wear..... More
Pittsburgh: University Press, 1974, First Edition. octavo, cloth. (xiv), 410pp. University Press, Part of the Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography. A detailed, illustrated bibliography covering Books and Separate Publications; Contributions to Books; Contributions to Periodicals; Miscellany; Translations; Musical Settings; Recordings; Dedicatory Poems and Poems Referring to Stevens; Books about Stevens; Books..... More
London: Bodley Head, (1994), First Edition. quarto, boards in dust jacket. (xiv), 226pp. Bodley Head, Well illustrated, with bibliography. Written by an established authority on the history of children's literature, this is the first historical study to consider American children's books as a separate genre. This is an expertly researched..... More
Seattle: (1978), First Edition. octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. xxiv, 411pp. A detailed and comprehensive bibliography of O'Casey's published and unpublished writings. It lists his books and plays (with copious descriptive notes), essays, short stories and poems, his contributions to books by other writers, his more than six hundred..... More
Los Angeles: University of California Press, (2000), First Edition. quarto, boards in dust jacket. 240pp. University of California Press, This book represents the first account in the English language of the emergence of German graphic design between 1890 and 1945. This study examines a time in German design history marked..... More
(Waco, TX): Armstrong Browning Library, (1989), First Edition. oblong 8vo, wrappers. 54pp. Armstrong Browning Library, A most interesting exhibition guide; extensively illustrated. Printed by W. Thomas Taylor. More
(London): Allen Lane, (2010), First Edition. octavo, pictorial wrappers. 255 pp. Allen Lane, Looking back at seventy years of Puffin paperbacks, Phil Baines charts the development of Puffin and the role of illustrators and designers in creating and defining the identity of the Puffin list from the very first picture..... More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1990, First Edition. octavo, wrappers. 212pp. Oak Knoll Press, Originally published in Italian as La Bibliografia, Storia di una Tradizione in 1984, this work explains the circumstances and objectives behind the evolution of bibliographies. Balsamo suggests that when one looks at a bibliography as..... More
London: Printing Historical Society, 1976, octavo, green cloth. (102)pp. Printing Historical Society, Reprinted from the 1813 and 1816 editions with an introduction and notes by Michael Twyman. From the introduction, "The value of Bankes's treatise today is as an historical record of attitudes to the process in England in the..... More
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2001, Reprint. octavo, wrappers. 216pp. Oak Knoll Press, 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..... More
London: British Library, 1993, First Edition. octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. 206 pp. British Library, 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..... More
(Exeter): University of Exeter, 1972, First Edition. octavo, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. (viii), (56)pp. University of Exeter, Illustrated. Leofric was a medieval Bishop of Exeter. He was a bibliophile, and collected many manuscripts; some of these he gave to the cathedral library, including a famous manuscript of poetry, the Exeter..... More
Washington, D.C. The Folger Shakespeare Library, (2001), First Edition. small quarto, printed heavy paper wrappers. 158pp. The Folger Shakespeare Library, This volume was published in conjunction with the exhibition "The Reader Revealed" at The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. in 2001. Essays on the many ways books of the..... More
(London): The British Library, (1995), Reprint. octavo, pictorial wrappers. 80pp. The British Library, The period from the late 18th century to the 1920s was a 'golden age' for illustrated children's books. The author traces their development, from primitive Chap-book to sumptuously printed color gift book. Among the famous artists included..... More
(Boston: July 6, 1900, one octavo sheet folded once to make (4)pp, (2 1/2pp.). Charles Francis Richardson was born on May 29, 1851 in Hallowell, Me. He graduated from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in 1871 and an A.M. in 1874. After graduation, Richardson became engaged in newspaper work, working..... More