Cambridge: MacMillan and Bowes, 1893, First Edition. octavo, light grey cloth with pictorial cover and gilt lettering on spine. (144)pp. MacMillan and Bowes, The story of a journey that led to the discovery of an early and important codex of ancient Syriac gospels, identification of the Codex, a Greek description..... More
New York: Devin-Adair Company, 1948, First Edition. octavo, red cloth. 480pp. Devin-Adair Company, Illustrated with twelve drawings. Gill was wonderfully opinionated about art, design and architecture and the letters are full of specific likes and dislikes. Many of the cards and letters to friends and family are calligraphic and whimsical..... More
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2019, First Edition. large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 360 pp. The Legacy Press, The new series, Papermaker's Tears: Essays on the Art and Craft of Paper encompasses all of the papermaking and paper arts, including decorated papers – historical and current. Authors and..... More
Bullnettle Press, 1990, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2" broadside. Bullnettle Press, Printed by Asa Peavy at his Bullnettle Press. A portion, in nine lines, of Fra Giovanni's well-known letter to Countess Allagia Aldobrandeschi on Christmas Eve, 1513. Printed in black, red and blue. Fine. More
New Castle; Pinner, Middlesex: Oak Knoll Press; Private Libraries Association, 2016, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 216 pp. Oak Knoll Press; Private Libraries Association, Nineteenth-Century Dust-Jackets is a comprehensive general history of publishers' dust jackets during the first century of their use. From the earliest known jacket issued..... More
New York: Pace/MacGill Gallery, (1986), First Edition. 11" x 14" plain white wrappers with rust brown dust jacket having a photographic paper label on front. [40] pp. Pace/MacGill Gallery, With an introduction by Gowin, an essay by Phillip C. Hammond, and 14 tritone examples of Gowin's work. Published in conjunction..... More
Maidstone, England: [J. Barcham Greem], 1967, First Edition, Limited to 1,000 numbered copies. small octavo, pictorial boards. (34) pp. [J. Barcham Greem], Printed on green paper. Illustrated with photographs and line drawings. Very tiny dent to front cover, else fine and clean. More
Ann Arbor: Legacy Press, 2018, First Edition. large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 292 pp. Legacy Press, Prior to the invention of the papermaking machine in the late-eighteenth century, all paper was manufactured by hand using relatively unchanged processes and techniques that originated in China more than 2000 years ago..... More
Milan: Gorlich, (1948 -1950), Reprint. octavo, pale green cloth. Gorlich, An essential bibliography of incunabula. This set complete with the Copinger supplement. Exlibrary from the Reading Public Libraries (UK) with their bookplate and copyright page rubber-stamp in each volume. Acidic paper used has browned, spines faded. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969, First Edition. large quarto, dark blue buckram in dust jackets. (xcii), (480)pp.; (vi), (566)pp.; (vi), 542pp. Yale University Press, Illustrated. With "Horace Walpole's Library" by W. S. Lewis in Volume I. Volume I: Introduction (including Collecting Methods, the Housing of the Books, Press-marks, Bookplates..... More
Recipient's name indecipherable. Regarding the sale of a Hewlett manuscript,"I don't particularly want to sell an MS. at all, but I can let you have that of Idylls of the Huntress, published in Artemision [1909] if you please. [Indecipherable] 66 foolscap pages, and I shall want L100...no copyright is included...."..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1926, First American Edition. quarto, blue cloth in dust jacket. 178 pp. including 64 plates of which 6 are colored. Little, Brown and Company, Monographs on Bookbinding No.1. This volume covers bindings decorated with plaquettes.- Sixteenth-century bindings with architectural decoration.- Thomae Maioli et amicorum.- Apollonio..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1935, First Edition. large quarto, tan boards and linen. T.e.g. xv, 483 pp. Oxford University Press, "The core of the work is a catalogue of cuts, covering all the books containing cuts printed by Caxton, Wynkyn de Worde, Richard Pynson and minor printers, preceded by an..... More
San Francisco: Jeremy Norman, 1991, First Edition. quarto, red and black cloth. (lxxx), (518); xvi, 513-(1012)pp. Jeremy Norman, With full collations, paginations, and plate counts for the first editions of the great classics of science and medicine from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. Descriptions of the 2,595 works collected..... More
(University Park): Penn State University Press, (2005), First Edition. quarto, grey cloth. (xxviii), 216pp., illustrations unpaginated. Penn State University Press, Fifteen essays written in honor of John Plummer that highlight some of the mysteries of the Index and the first book to focus exclusively on the manuscript. Iconography, the descriptive..... More
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, no date (circa 1910), large octavo, pictorial boards with red cloth spine. 72 pp. Raphael Tuck & Sons, Illustrated by T. Noyes Lewis, Hilda Cowham, M. F. Taylor, Mabel Lucie Attwell, and others. An anthology of children's stories, No. 808 in Father Tuck's Golden Gift"..... More
London: Methuen, (1946), First English edition. small octavo, purple boards stamped in green, in dust jacket. Methuen, Book fine and clean, Dust jacket lightly dust soiled with minimal wear at top and bottom of jacket spine. More
Los Angeles/New Castle: Heritage Book Shop/Oak Knoll Press, 1997, Reprint. quarto, cloth. 1,350pp. Heritage Book Shop/Oak Knoll Press, 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..... More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1892, Limited to 250 numbered copies, Second American edition, second impression. octavo, vellum with yapp fore-edges, stamped in gilt. Harper & Bros., BAL 10768; Edel A8c. Illustrated by Harry W. McVickar. Uncut and unopened. Vellum dust soiled but without wear, light foxing to yapp edges..... More
London: Macmillan, 1878, First Edition. octavo, cloth. Macmillan, Published February 19, 1878, the first (and only) printing consisting of 1, 250 copies. There was no American Edition. Edel & Laurence A5a; BAL 10534. Twelve essays on French writers: Alfred de Musset, Theophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Balzac, George Sand, Flaubert, and..... More
London: Methuen, 1903, First Edition. octavo, vertical ribbed red cloth. Methuen, Edel and Laurence A58a. Ads dated July 1903. Spine moderately faded, cloth worn at top and bottom of spine. Corners scuffed exposing board. Hinges broken at some point and poorly repaired resulting in the text block falling even with..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1899, First Edition. octavo, blue cloth with four irises in blind on front cover. William Heinemann, This copy with the publisher's device in blind on back cover, no precedence noted. Edel & Laurence A53a. Cloth color scuffed at extremities, especially along front outer hinge, but without tears..... More
London: Mehtuen, 1903, First Edition, English Issue, simultaneous with the New York Edition. octavo, bright blue cloth. Mehtuen, Edel & Laurence A57a. This blue cloth binding is believed to be a remainder; publisher's catalogue omitted. Short tear in cloth a front outer hinge, corners lightly scuffed just exposing board... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905, First American Edition. octavo, dark blue-green cloth stamped in yellow-green on front cover and in gilt on spine; illustration of sailboat on the Thames in gilt and grey on front cover. T.e.g. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Designed by Bruce Rogers and illustrated by Joseph..... More
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879, First American Edition, One of 1500 copies printed. octavo, terra cotta cloth with bevelled edges, dark brown coated endpapers. Houghton, Osgood and Company, BAL10537; Edel & Laurence A7b. Minor scuffing to top and bottom of spine which has lightened the color of the cloth..... More