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
Denver: Hermitage Bookshop, 1995, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (xii), 456 pp. Hermitage Bookshop, Illustrated, with 32 color plates. Yellowbacks were an important branch of fiction publishing in Victorian England, inexpensive books designed to be sold in railway stalls. This second volume focuses on Ward & Lock. Topp's..... More
Denver: Hermitage Bookshop, 1999, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (xiv), 469 pp. Hermitage Bookshop, Illustrated, with 32 color plates. Yellowbacks were an important branch of fiction publishing in Victorian England, inexpensive books designed to be sold in railway stalls. This fourth volume focuses on Frederick Warne and Sampson..... More
Denver: Hermitage Bookshop, 2003, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 414 pp. Hermitage Bookshop, Illustrated, with 32 color plates. Yellowbacks were an important branch of fiction publishing in Victorian England, inexpensive books designed to be sold in railway stalls. This sixth volume focuses on Longmans, Green & Co., C...... More
Denver: Hermitage Antiquarian Bookshop, 2005, First Edition. quarto, boards in dust jacket. xii, 480 pp. Hermitage Antiquarian Bookshop, Illustrated, with 26 color plates. Yellowbacks were an important branch of fiction publishing in Victorian England, inexpensive books designed to be sold in railway stalls. This eighth and penultimate volume focuses on..... 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
New York: Burt Franklin, (1969), Reprint of the 1818 edition. octavo, cloth. 773 pp. Burt Franklin, A most important work of this 17th and 18th century bookseller, publisher, and writer. Fine. More
Denver: Hermitage Bookshop, 2003, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (xii), (464) pp. Hermitage Bookshop, Illustrated, with 32 color plates. Yellowbacks were an important branch of fiction publishing in Victorian England, inexpensive books designed to be sold in railway stalls. This first volume focuses on George Routledge. Topp's multi-volume..... 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
(Liverpool): Liverpool University Press, (2007), First Edition. octavo, black boards in dust jacket. 360 pp. Liverpool University Press, Obelisk: A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press details the history of one of the most extraordinary—and controversial—publishing enterprises of the twentieth century. Publisher simultaneously of the infamous novels of..... 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
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 fine copy. More
Denver: Hermitage Antiquarian Bookshop, 2006, First Edition. quarto, boards in dust jacket. xii, (200) pp. Hermitage Antiquarian Bookshop, Illustrated, with 24 color plates. Yellowbacks were an important branch of fiction publishing in Victorian England, inexpensive books designed to be sold in railway stalls. This ninth and final volume focuses on..... 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
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
London / New Castle: British Library / Oak Knoll Press, 2012, First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. 224 pp. British Library / Oak Knoll Press, Next in the Publishing Pathways series, Publishing the Fine and Applied Arts examines aspects of the relationship between the business of print and the..... 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
(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
Boston: Godine, 1998, 36pp. of text and 16pp. of color plates. First Trade Edition. octavo, cloth. Godine, "John Fass and his work at the Hammer Creek Press are practically unknown today except to a small group of devoted cognoscenti. Unlike Rogers, Updike, or Dwiggins, Fass was essentially a private printer..... 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
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
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
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: 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