Worcestershire: B.T. Batsford Ltd., (1944), Second Impression with corrections. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (x), 148pp. B.T. Batsford Ltd., T.e.g. "In 1843, Bradley Thomas Batsford opened a secondhand bookshop and in 1943, Batsford, Limited published this record of the "Batsford Century'. . .for a limited world, the world of printers..... 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
Boston: G. K. Hall, (1980), First Edition. octavo, tan and purplce cloth. xii, 546pp. G. K. Hall, "This volume documents the first 160 years of printing and publishing...by providing professional histories of every person known to have appeared in a Boston (including Cambridge) imprint through the year 1800." Very fine..... More
New York: The Book Publishers' Bureau, 1945, First Edition. octavo, brown cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (x), (62)pp. The Book Publishers' Bureau, With two portraits.With a Preface by Christopher Morley. With 12 essays on Melcher's many contributions to the book trade. From the library and with the bookplate of E...... More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, (1996), First Edition. octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. xvi, (211) pp. University of Pennsylvania, An important phase in the American book trade's shift from colonial craft work to nineteenth-century big business took place in the early national period, as printers began to take on the..... More
(London): The British Library, 2010, First Edition. large octavo, blue boards in dust jacket. xviii, 314 pp. The British Library, "Book Makers" explores how publishing companies and their owners and staffs were organised and how their output responded to the wider social, economic and cultural trends of the period. It..... More
New York: The Typophiles, 1965, First Edition, one of 2,000 copies printed. small octavo, cloth in dust jackets, in slipcase with printed spine label. (xvi), (300)pp.; (xvi), (304) pp. The Typophiles, Typography and binding designed by George Salter. The jackets and slipcase labels were designed by Warren Chappell. Eight page..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1967), First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. x, 326pp. Harper & Row, Illustrated. Perhaps the leading American publisher of the 19th century, Harpers first success was Dana's Two Years Before the Mast, and from Melville to Twain they maintained their position through "Harper's Weekly."..... More
Ann Arbor: The Legacy Press, 2020, First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. 340 pp. The Legacy Press, Juliana Castro Varon — Cita: A Feminist Open-Access Digital Library and Print-on-Demand; E. Haven Hawley — Women’s Work in the 19th-Century Economy of Pornography; Karen Holmberg — Case Studies: How a Generation of Women..... More
Philadelphia: MacManus, 1979, First Edition, Limited to 500 copies. octavo, green cloth. xii, 179pp. MacManus, Fully illustrated. A fine bibliography of this important American publisher. With title page design by Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press. Very minor foxing to top edge, else a fine copy. More
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
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1987), First Edition. octavo, green cloth. (x), 234pp. Little, Brown and Company, An informal account of Little, Brown and Company that records the highlights of their 150 years of publishing books and materials in the United States. Illustrated in black and white. Very fine... 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
(Garant, 2010) , First Edition. octavo, pictorial wrappers. 233 pp. (Garant, A collection of articles on this Dutch poet, printer and editor. Text in Dutch. Extensively illustrated in black and white and in color. Fine. 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
(New Castle/London): Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, 2010, First Edition. large octavo, dark green cloth in dust jacket. (viii), 144 pp. Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, This book is the first comprehensive (and long-overdue) bibliographic study of the London partnership of Field & Tuer and their publishing imprint, Leadenhall Press..... 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
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1987), First Edition. octavo, green cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (x), 234pp. Little, Brown and Company, An informal account of Little, Brown and Company that records the highlights of their 150 years of publishing books and materials in the United States. Illustrated in black and..... 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
University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, (1996), Reprint of earlier edition. octavo, black cloth. (xxxvi), 347pp. The Pennsylvania State University Press, One in a series in Penn State Reprints in Book History giving second life to classic works in the field of publishing history. This reprint, with a new..... 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
New York: The Grolier Club, 2000, First Edition, Limited to 250 numbered copies. octavo, linen-backed boards. 82pp., 11 plates. The Grolier Club, 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..... 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
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
(West New York, NJ): Mark Batty Publisher, 2002, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (xxii), 383pp. Mark Batty Publisher, 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..... More