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 about A Little Tour in France
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 about A Little Tour in France
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 about Portraits of Places
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 about The Reverberator
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 about The Reverberator
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 about The Sense of the Past
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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 about Stories Revived. First Series. [With] Stories Revived. Second Series. Two volumes
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 about The Tragic Muse. Macmillan's Colonial Library
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 about The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw, Covering End
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 about William Wetmore Story and His Friends. From Letters, Diaries, and Recollections. Two volumes
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 about "Simples", "Tutto e Sciolto", "Flood", "A Flower Given to My...
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 about Biblical Imagery in Medieval England, 700-1550
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 about Manuale Zapficum. Typographic arrangements of the words by and about the work of Hermann Zapf...
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 about Imagining the Book
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 about Books Before Print
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 about Bibliographie des Travaux de M. Leopold Delisle. (with) Supplement 1902-1910. (with) Jubile de M....
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 about Mémoire historique sur la bibliothèque dite de Bourgogne, présentement Bibliothèque publique...
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 about Italian Watermarks 1750-1860
Brepols, 2012, First Edition. large octavo, printed wrappers. xx, 564 pp. Brepols, Glossing was a scribal practice in use since antiquity, but it was in the Middle Ages that it acquired a wider meaning and a different role, becoming one of the most widespread forms of literacy in the Germanic... More about Rethinking and Recontextualizing Glosses. New Perspectives in the Study of Late Anglo-Saxon...
(New Castle, DE): Oak Knoll Press, 2015, First English language edition. large octavo, red boards in dust jacket. 336 pp. Oak Knoll Press, Bound to Be Modern is the most comprehensive study to date on the emergence and function of publishers' cloth bindings. It brings together issues of aesthetics, technique... More about Bound to be Modern. Publishers' Cloth Bindings and the Material Culture of the Book, 1840-1914
Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1962, Second Edition, Revised and "full of new matter." octavo, printed wrappers. 231 pp. Rosenkilde and Bagger, Includes a Glossary of Proper Names. Very minor soiling to wrappers. With the blindstamp of Philip Cronenwett, former Special Collections Librarian at Dartmouth College. Fine. More about Widsith
(London): Sheila Markham Rare Books, (2014), First Edition Limited to 500 copies. octavo, boards in pictorial dust jacket. 256pp. Sheila Markham Rare Books, The antiquarian book trade-- the last resort of the English eccentric--is rich in colorful and entertaining characters. Since 1991, Sheila Markham has been interviewing some of its... More about A Second Book of Booksellers: Conversations with the Antiquarian Book Trade
New Rochelle, NY: The Myriade Press, 1986, "Preliminary Edition" quarto, printed wrappers. xvi, 395 pp. The Myriade Press, A history of approximately 300 typefaces which are shown in upper and lower cases with numerals and punctuation. The history, aims, and purpose behind many of these typefaces are also described, along... More about American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century
Ann Arbor: Legacy Press, 2013, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 534 pp. Legacy Press, Nine authors writing on nine topics. This collection of essays, published as the first volume of a series of studies on the history of bookbinding, sets a high standard for interesting and groundbreaking scholarship... More about Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding. Volume 1
Ann Arbor: Legacy Press, 2015, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 454 pp. Legacy Press, Cathleen A. Baker on "Examination and Image-Capturing Techniques"; "Binding at Midcentury: The Rivers of America Competition of 1946" by Thomas E. Conroy; "Bio-Bibliographical List of Individual Bookbinders" (on DVD) by Thomas E. Conroy; "Finding... More about Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding. Volume 2