London: Alison & Busby, (1986), First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. 232pp. Alison & Busby, The pre- eminent publisher of Victorian times, and founder of The Dictionary of National Biography, Smith was friend and publisher of Thackeray, Mrs. Gaskell, George Eliot, John Ruskin and many others. Very fine copy..... More

Denver: Hermitage Antiquarian Bookshop, 2006, First Edition. quarto, boards in dust jacket. xii, (200) pp. Hermitage Antiquarian Bookshop, Illustrated, with 24 color plates. Yellowbacks were an important branch of fiction publishing in Victorian England, inexpensive books designed to be sold in railway stalls. This ninth and final volume focuses on..... More

London / New Castle: British Library / Oak Knoll Press, 2012, First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. 224 pp. British Library / Oak Knoll Press, Next in the Publishing Pathways series, Publishing the Fine and Applied Arts examines aspects of the relationship between the business of print and the..... More

(Liverpool): Liverpool University Press, (2007), First Edition. octavo, black boards in dust jacket. 360 pp. Liverpool University Press, Obelisk: A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press details the history of one of the most extraordinary—and controversial—publishing enterprises of the twentieth century. Publisher simultaneously of the infamous novels of..... More

(East Linton): Tuckwell Press, (2001), First Edition. small octavo, pictorial wrappers. (xxiv), 130pp. Tuckwell Press, A book about the experiences of four men who worked at Thomas Nelson and Sons, one of the largest printing and publishing houses in Edinburgh. They speak of their work practices, techniques, customs and traditions..... More

Denver: Hermitage Antiquarian Bookshop, 2005, First Edition. quarto, boards in dust jacket. xii, 480 pp. Hermitage Antiquarian Bookshop, Illustrated, with 26 color plates. Yellowbacks were an important branch of fiction publishing in Victorian England, inexpensive books designed to be sold in railway stalls. This eighth and penultimate volume focuses on..... More

Denver: Hermitage Bookshop, 2003, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (xii), (464) pp. Hermitage Bookshop, Illustrated, with 32 color plates. Yellowbacks were an important branch of fiction publishing in Victorian England, inexpensive books designed to be sold in railway stalls. This first volume focuses on George Routledge. Topp's multi-volume..... More

Denver: Hermitage Bookshop, 2003, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 414 pp. Hermitage Bookshop, Illustrated, with 32 color plates. Yellowbacks were an important branch of fiction publishing in Victorian England, inexpensive books designed to be sold in railway stalls. This sixth volume focuses on Longmans, Green & Co., C...... 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

Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press, (1989), First Edition. octavo, wrappers. 125pp. Univ of Chicago Press, "In this sophisticated application of modern Marxist thought, N. N. Feltes demonstrates the determining influence of nineteenth-century publishing practices on the Victorian novel. His dialectical analysis leads to a comprehensive explanation of the development of..... More

Edinburgh: University Press, (1987), First Edition. small octavo, cloth in dust jacket. x, 154pp. University Press, "The 1829/33 version of the Waverley Novels made publishing history. Here, for the first time, Professor Jane Millgate gives a full account of the genesis, preparation, publication and subsequent influence of what Scott called..... More

Denver: Hermitage Bookshop, 1999, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (xiv), 469 pp. Hermitage Bookshop, Illustrated, with 32 color plates. Yellowbacks were an important branch of fiction publishing in Victorian England, inexpensive books designed to be sold in railway stalls. This fourth volume focuses on Frederick Warne and Sampson..... More