Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 336 pp. University of Toronto Press, The Spanish romance Cárcel de amor blossomed into a transnational and multilingual phenomenon that captivated audiences throughout Europe at a time when literacy was expanding and print production was changing the... More about The Prison of Love: Romance, Translation, and the Book in the Sixteenth Century

Cambridge: Printed for his Friends by the University Printer, 1961, First Edition, Limited to 500 copies. oblong large octavo, bound into green cloth folding case with flaps, in slipcase. Printed for his Friends by the University Printer, Nine drawings of bridge by David Gentleman, six of which are fold-out. One... More about Bridges on the Backs: A Series of Drawings

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 about Bookbindings. Theoretical Approaches and Practical Solutions

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 about The Green Family of Papermakers and Hayle Mill

Manchester: Manchester University Press, (1952), First Edition. octavo, blue cloth in printed dust jacket. xxii, 604pp. Manchester University Press, Frontispiece and two plates. 120 Anglo-Saxon Writs translated by Miss Harmer. With full notes. A fine, clean copy, More about Anglo-Saxon Writs. The Ward Bequest

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 about The bookshop of the world. The role of the Low Countries in the booktrade 1473-1941

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 about Texts in Transit. Manuscript to Proof and Print in the Fifteenth Century

(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 about The Book Trade in Early Modern England. Practices, Perceptions, Connections

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 about Jan Moretus and the Continuation of the Plantin Press. A Bibliography of the Works published and...

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 about The Ambassadors

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 about The Awkward Age

London: Macmillan and Co., 1879, First Edition. small octavo, cream cloth with printed spine label. Macmillan and Co., According to Edel & Laurence this is binding "c" of three, although there is no precedence. This is the first state of the ads with "Hawthorne" listed as being "In Preparation." Edel... More about Hawthorne

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900, Second Edition, ordinary issue. octavo, dark green cloth, lettering and multi-ruled panels in cream-green and castle ornament blocked in gilt, cream-green, and orange-brown on front cover. T.e.g. Houghton Mifflin, A few minor revisions were made in the text of the second edition. The preface is new..... More about A Little Tour in France