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
D. S. Brewer, 2014, First Edition. octavo, pictorial boards. (xvi), 385 pp. D. S. Brewer, The history of the book is now recognized as a field of central importance for understanding the cultural changes that swept through Tudor England. This companion aims to provide a comprehensive guide to the issues... More
Brepols, 2017, First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. 320 pp. Brepols, Bookbindings: Theoretical Approaches and Practical Solutions is a collection of twelve studies encompassing considerations on bookbinding structures, practices of binders in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, as well as theoretical reflections on the cataloguing of bindings, and on the... More
Brill, 2019, First Edition. octavo, pictorial boards. xxiii, 559 pp. Brill, Buying and Selling explores the many facets of the business of books across and beyond Europe, adopting the viewpoints of printers, publishers, booksellers, and readers. Essays by twenty-five scholars from a range of disciplines seek to reconstruct the dynamics... More
New York: New York University, 1937, First Edition. octavo, plain wrappers with pattern tissue jacket stapled at spine. 35 pp. New York University, The text includes a 5 1/2 pp. biographical sketch of Ms Granniss and her time as Librarian to The Grolier Club, followed by 5 pp. of a.... 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
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2017, First Edition. quarto, pattern boards and cloth. xii, 276 pp. Oak Knoll Press, George Macy started the Limited Editions Club with backing from investors in the heyday of the stock market of 1929. After enlisting founding subscribers and collaborators and preparing the initial... More
Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016, First Edition. quarto, pictorial wrappers. 378 pp. McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, "Beyond Words" accompanies a collaborative exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Harvard University’s Houghton Library; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Featuring illuminated manuscripts from nineteen... More
HES & DE GRAAF, 2001, First Edition. octavo, cloth. 350 pp. HES & DE GRAAF, Proceedings of a Conference held in London, 15-17 september 1999, organized by The Association for Low Countries Studies, University College London, Centre for Dutch and Flemish Culture, The British Library, Dutch and Flemish section, Wellcome... More
Brill, 2018, First Edition. octavo, pictorial boards. xiv, 530 pp. Brill, Almost half a million books printed in the fifteenth century survive in collections worldwide. In Incunabula in Transit Lotte Hellinga explores how and where they were first disseminated. Propelled by the novel need to market hundreds of books, early... More
Brill, 2014, First Edition. octavo, pictorial boards. xiv, 452 pp. Brill, After Gutenberg’s Bible had appeared in print in 1455, other early printers found different ways to solve problems set by the new technique. Survival of printer’s copy or proofs permits rare views of compositors and printers manipulating a text..... 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
(New Castle, London: Oak Knoll Press; British Library, 2013, First Edition. octavo, black cloth in dust jacket. (xii), 267 pp. Oak Knoll Press; British Library, This twelfth volume in the Print Networks series comprises a range of papers from recent conferences on the early modern book trade. Collectively, they explore... More
Harvey Miller, 2008, First Edition. boards. 679 pp. Harvey Miller, Bibliography of James H. Marrow Abbreviations Alfred Acres, 'Elsewhere in Early Netherlandish Painting'; Jonathan J. Alexander, 'A Shepherdess on a Swing in a Netherlandish Book of Hours'; FranÇois Avril, 'Un nouveau manuscrit de Jean Bourdichon: Les Heures de Charles de... 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
Hes & De Graaf, 2014, First Edition. quarto, blue cloth. lxxxviii, 478; (533) pp. Hes & De Graaf, The Plantin Press was one of the best known printing-publishing enterprises in the sixteenth century. In many ways, this bibliography builds and expands upon Leon Voet’s well-known publication The Plantin Press. This... 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. Penciled on the front free endpaper in an unknown hand, "HJ's corrections marked in his copy (Houghton Library) pp. 132 / 183" "Only his Methuen copy has his name in it."... 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
