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
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
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
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
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900, Second Edition, "ordinary issue" octavo, publisher's marbled boards and half green morocco with decorative gilt stamping within the spine panels. T.e.g. Houghton Mifflin, Matching marbled endpapers. A few minor revisions were made in the text of the second edition. The preface is new and the note..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900, Second Edition, "ordinary issue" octavo, publisher's marbled boards and half green morocco with decorative gilt stamping within the spine panels. T.e.g. Houghton Mifflin, Matching marbled endpapers. A few minor revisions were made in the text of the second edition. The preface is new and the note..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1884, First American Edition. octavo, brown cloth. James R. Osgood, One of 1,500 copies printed from the Macmillan (English) plates. E & L A21 b. BAL 10563. Issued in five different color cloths; no precedence. Cloth slightly dust soiled and cloth with minor scuffing at edges... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1888, Second Edition, American issue. small octavo, blue cloth with decorative gilt stamp along top of spine and front cover. Macmillan and Co., Back coated endpapers. Edel and Laurence A31b. Water spot on back cover, else a fine, bright copy. The corner of the front endpaper... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1888, Second Edition, American issue. small octavo, blue cloth with decorative gilt stamp along top of spine and front cover. Macmillan and Co., Back coated endpapers. Edel and Laurence A31b. Light silverfishing to front cover and spine, one inch of front cover faded. Two names inked... More
London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., (1917), First Edition. octavo, blue cloth with gilt titles. (362)pp. W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., Portrait photograph by A. L. Coburn. Edited by Percy Lubbock. Edel & Laurence A178a; BAL 10695. Two small water spots on front cover, several short tears to... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1885, Second Edition. octavo, dark blue fine-bead-grain cloth, decorative embossed bands in gilt and black across front cover and spine and in blind across back cover. Macmillan and Co., Brown coated endpapers. Edel & Laurence A27b. This two volume second edition had a 1,000 copy press... More
London: Macmillan, 1890, Colonial Issue. small octavo, dark green smooth cloth. Macmillan, Edel and Laurence F53. With a letterpress book label, signature, place and date on front endpaper of Mary C. F. Stuart, East London, July 25th '99." 4 pp. of ads at end. Hinge weak at title page. Light... More
London: William Heinemann, 1898, First Edition, Colonial Issue. octavo, red pebbled cloth. William Heinemann, Front pastedown + (ii) pp. front endpaper Heinemann's Colonial Library ads; (14) pp. + (i) rear pastedown endpaper Heinemann catalogue at end. Publisher's device stamped in black on back cover. Title page printed in black only... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1903, First American Edition. octavo, dark green cloth. T.e.g. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Edel and Laurence A59b; BAL 10655. A very fine, clean, bright copy. Gilt stamping on spines and gilt rule along top edges of covers very bright with just a small crinkle to..... More
London: George Allen, 1891 (1890?), First Combined Edition. small octavo, light blue cloth. George Allen, With printed Erratum slip tipped to front free endpaper. "Cory's poetry, popularized by the two printings at the beginning of the last decade of the nineteenth century and by A. C. Benson's further edition in... More
Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, May, 1917, First Edition. octavo, printed paper wrappers. (64)pp., sewn. Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Edited by Harriet Monroe. Poems on pages 72-75. The poems were later included in Poems Penyeach, (1927). The foot of the front wrapper is rubber-stamped "T. Oliver Jenkins." Jenkins edited the poetry magazine... More
London: Harvey Miller, 2002, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 400 pp. Harvey Miller, This study covers the whole of the Middle Ages from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the Reformation and concentrates on the relationship "Text - Image and Viewer." Each section is firmly grounded in its historical context... More
Rochester: Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2009, First Edition, Limited to 100 copies. quarto, Fabriano paper and vellum spine. 24 pp. Cary Graphic Arts Press, Manuale Zapficum, the new limited edition book, commemorates the ninetieth birthdays of typographers Hermann Zapf and Gudrun Zapf von Hesse through beautiful typeface specimens set in... More
Brepols, 2005, First Edition. large octavo, printed boards. 254 pp. Brepols, Collectively, the contributors to Imagining the Book offer a snapshot of current research in English manuscript study in the pre-modern period on the inter-related topics of patrons and collectors, compilers, editors and readers, and identities beyond the book. This... More
Worcester [Mass]: Achille J. St. Onge, [1961], Unnumbered "Limited Edition" 6.7 x 4.7 cm, full navy blue calf stamped in gilt. A.e.g. (32) pp. Achille J. St. Onge, Photographic portrait of Kennedy tipped-in as frontispiece. Printed from Lutetia type on 'Old Kentucky Linen' paper by Joh. Enschede en Zonen Haarlem... More
Arc Humanities Press, 2018, First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. 304 pp. Arc Humanities Press, This beautifully illustrated book provides an accessible introduction to the medieval manuscript and what it can tell us about the world in which it was made and used. Books Before Print explores how manuscripts can act... More
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale (and) Librarie Henri Leclerc, 1902, 1911 and 1903, First Edition. large octavo, original printed paper wrappers. (vii), xxxviii. 510pp., 1 leaf; (xxiv), (88)pp; (iv), (92)pp. Imprimerie Nationale (and) Librarie Henri Leclerc, Volume 1 contains an engraved frontispiece portrait of Delisle. Delisle was curator of manuscripts and later... More
Bruxelles: de l'Imprimerie de A. J. D. de Braeckenier, 1809, First Edition, Large Paper copy printed on laid paper. octavo, rebound in red marbled boards and red leather spine. [ii], iv, 216 pp. de l'Imprimerie de A. J. D. de Braeckenier, About ten leaves with water stain along edges, including... More
Leiden: Brill, 2016, First Edition. quarto, printed boards. vi, 175 pp. With 428 illustrations. Brill, The knowledge of papermaking spread slowly over Italy from the start of the thirteenth century. Scholarly interest in the history of Italian paper manufacture has concentrated especially on the earliest period. Research into paper from... More
York Medieval Press, 2010, First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. 252 pp. York Medieval Press, The transition from medieval manuscript to early printed book is currently a major topic of academic interest, but has received very little attention in terms of women's involvement, a gap which the essays in... More
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