London: British Library, 1993, First Edition. octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. 206 pp. British Library, Essays include John Bidwell on "American Papermakers and the Panic of 1819" ; "Bookbinding and the History of Books" by Mirjam M. Foot; "A New Model for the Study of the Book" by Thomas..... More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, (1996), First Edition. octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. xvi, (211) pp. University of Pennsylvania, An important phase in the American book trade's shift from colonial craft work to nineteenth-century big business took place in the early national period, as printers began to take on the..... More
(Garant, 2010) , First Edition. octavo, pictorial wrappers. 233 pp. (Garant, A collection of articles on this Dutch poet, printer and editor. Text in Dutch. Extensively illustrated in black and white and in color. Fine. More
(London): The British Library, 2010, First Edition. large octavo, blue boards in dust jacket. xviii, 314 pp. The British Library, "Book Makers" explores how publishing companies and their owners and staffs were organised and how their output responded to the wider social, economic and cultural trends of the period. It..... More
London: Calder Publications, (2001), First Edition. octavo, grey boards in dust jacket. 621 pp. Calder Publications, Publisher to Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Luigi Pirandello, Heinrich Boll, and so many others, with annecdotes involving Bertrand Russell, Alger Hiss, Graham Greene, J. B. Priestley, et. al. Signed by Calder on the front..... More
Worcestershire: B.T. Batsford Ltd., (1944), Second Impression with corrections. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (x), 148pp. B.T. Batsford Ltd., T.e.g. "In 1843, Bradley Thomas Batsford opened a secondhand bookshop and in 1943, Batsford, Limited published this record of the "Batsford Century'. . .for a limited world, the world of printers..... More
Philadelphia: MacManus, 1979, First Edition. octavo, green cloth. xii, 179pp. MacManus, Limited to 500 copies. Fully illustrated. A fine bibliography of this important American publisher. With title page design by Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press. Very minor foxing to top edge, else a fine copy. More
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1981, First Edition. octavo, cloth. (xxxii), (208). American Antiquarian Society, This checklist describes printed catalogues of books separately issued in America prior to 1801 by booksellers, publishers, book auctioneers, circulating libraries, social libraries, college libraries, and private libraries. Arranged chronologically, each entry gives collations and description..... More
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2001, Reprint. octavo, wrappers. 216pp. Oak Knoll Press, Essays include John Bidwell on "American Papermakers and the Panic of 1819" ; "Bookbinding and the History of Books" by Mirjam M. Foot; "A New Model for the Study of the Book" by Thomas R. Adams and..... More
(New Castle/London): Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, 2010, First Edition. large octavo, dark green cloth in dust jacket. (viii), 144 pp. Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, This book is the first comprehensive (and long-overdue) bibliographic study of the London partnership of Field & Tuer and their publishing imprint, Leadenhall Press..... More
London: The Bodley Head, (1947), First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. 62pp. The Bodley Head, A study of the post-war paper shortage and rising costs in book production. Slight shelf wear to jacket, a clean copy. Jacket not price clipped. More
London: George Allen & Unwin, (1982), First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. 150pp. George Allen & Unwin, An entertaining memoir concentrating on the changing and developing relationship between a father and a son whose lives overlapped for half a century. Sir Stanley Unwin, the distinguished publisher and book trade..... More
(West New York, NJ): Mark Batty Publisher, 2002, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (xxii), 383pp. Mark Batty Publisher, From the prospectus: " Daniel Berkley Updike (1860-1941) has been described as 'the most distinguished American printer.' He was one of a handful of highly successful and influential book designers..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1963, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 312PP. Atheneum, Within a few weeks of Dickson's arrival in London from Canada, he became editor of The Fortnightly Review. Two years later he assumed an additional post as editor of the Review of Reviews. He established his own..... More
London: Alison & Busby, (1986), First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. 232pp. Alison & Busby, The pre- eminent publisher of Victorian times, and founder of The Dictionary of National Biography, Smith was friend and publisher of Thackeray, Mrs. Gaskell, George Eliot, John Ruskin and many others. Very fine copy..... More
Madison, Wisc. Univ of Wisconsin Press, (1989), First Edition. octavo, maroon cloth. (300)pp. Univ of Wisconsin Press, Mathews' career in publishing "coincided with the transition from Victorian to modern literature, a period which literary historians date from about 1880 to 1920...what makes Mathews unique is the role he played in..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1987), First Edition. octavo, green cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (x), 234pp. Little, Brown and Company, An informal account of Little, Brown and Company that records the highlights of their 150 years of publishing books and materials in the United States. Illustrated in black and..... More
Toronto: Univ of Toronto Press, 1998, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 227pp. Univ of Toronto Press, The Kegan Paul imprint was created and its reputation for a distinguished list of titles established during a forty-year period from 1871 to 1911. Several publishers, and their firms, were involved in..... More
Edinburgh: University Press, (1987), First Edition. small octavo, cloth in dust jacket. x, 154pp. University Press, "The 1829/33 version of the Waverley Novels made publishing history. Here, for the first time, Professor Jane Millgate gives a full account of the genesis, preparation, publication and subsequent influence of what Scott called..... More
London: The Athlone Press, (1999), First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. xii, 206pp. The Athlone Press, The letters collected in this book comprise an important chaper in the life of Waler Pater's literary career. They record in great detail the relations between The Victorian man of letters and his..... More
New York: Random House, (1994), First American Edition. octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. xxii, (362)pp. Random House, "...the astonishing but true story of the flamboyant rogue publisher Maurice Girodias, whose Paris-based Olympia Press gave birth to a curious mixture of raffish pornography and some of the most significant..... More
London: The Bodley Head, (1987), First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. (vii), (366)pp. The Bodley Head, Illustrated with title pages and frontispieces from various publications by the firm, and with photographs. Founded by John Lane in the nineties, and publishing the notable figures of that time, The Bodley Head..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1987), First Edition. octavo, green cloth. (x), 234pp. Little, Brown and Company, An informal account of Little, Brown and Company that records the highlights of their 150 years of publishing books and materials in the United States. Illustrated in black and white. Very fine... More
New York: Random House, (1995), First Edition. octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. (xviii), (398). Random House, From the jacket: "Liveright was a man of puzzling contradictions - a self- professed socialist and a high-living Wall Street gambler, a deeply caring father and a compulsive philanderer. It was Liveright..... More
New York: NYPL, 1965, Second Printing. quarto, wrappers. (24)pp. NYPL, Twenty-first of the R. R. Bowker Memorial Lectures. An interesting memoir by this influential publisher. Very fine. More