Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. 294 pp. Cambridge University Press, Eighteenth-century fiction holds an unusual place in the history of modern print culture. The novel gained prominence largely because of advances in publishing, but, as a popular genre, it also helped shape those..... More
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Amherst, NH: Snail's Pace Press, 1923-1932, sextodecimo to duodecimo, printed wrappers. Snail's Pace Press, "Fobes is remembered for his texts of Aristotle and for his translations, which are still widely used. In his nearly 30 years at Amherst, he combined the demands of heavy teaching and rigorous scholarship while maintaining..... More
London: Edward Arnold, (1956), First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. Edward Arnold, Spine of jacket lightly faded with some soiling but no wear or chipping to jacket. Minor offsetting to endpapers. More
(New York): Cosmopolitan, March, 1949, First Edition. quarto, original printed paper wrappers. Cosmopolitan, The Cosmopolitan Book-Length Feature. The film "Beau James", starring Bob Hope, was based on this book. Hand written annotation on front wrapper. This copy is inscribed and signed by Fowler at the beginning of the article: "Unfortunately..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004, First Edition. octavo, cloth. 1,532pp. Yale University Press, John Payne Collier (1789–1883), one of the most controversial figures in the history of literary scholarship, pursued a double career. A prolific and highly influential writer on the drama, poetry, and popular prose of Shakespeare’s age..... 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
Paris: Techener, 1840, First Edition. octavo, rebound in contemporary plain blue paper wrappers with handwritten title label on spine. (ii), xiv, (ii), 232 pp. Techener, With a focus on ancient libraries. Contains a 4 page index. With the bookplate of Dr. Eugene S. Flamm, neurosurgeon, bibliophile and former president of..... More
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
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
Paris: Seuil, 1995, 1997, 1999, First Edition. large octavo, blue cloth in dust jackets. 382, (iii); 253 pp; (428) pp. Seuil, Minor wrinkle to jacket of volume one, else fine in dust jackets. 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
Stuttgart: Cottae, 1826, 1827, 1831,1838, First Edition. octavo, rebound in black cloth with spine labels. Cottae, An essential bibliography of incunabula. Each volume with the bookplate of Thomas Marston (1904-84) who was for many years Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Yale University. He was also an ardent collector..... More
[Aurora-on-Cayuga, N. Y. V. & J. Hammer, 1946], First Edition, Limited to 350 copies printed. large octavo, purple boards with linen spine, small printed label "v h" on front cover. V. & J. Hammer, This pamphlet was a keepsake created by Hammer for the Chicago based Society of Typographic Arts..... More
Boston: Godine, (1978), First Edition. quarto, wrappers in slipcase. 64 pp.; portfolio containing drawings and advice on construction. Godine, The first volume is a history and documentaion of the press with the portfolio containing drawings and advice on construction. Both volumes very fine, slipcase with several very small scuffs... 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
(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
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, (1973), First Edition. quarto, gray cloth. (xii), 307pp. University Press of Virginia, The facts assembled for this book were intended to present as complete a survey as possible of typesetting (composing) methods, irrespective of their practical success. The author's concern is with composing "systems," not..... More