New Haven: Beinecke Rare Book Library, 2016, First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. 420 pp. Beinecke Rare Book Library, Uniting eighteen leading critics in early modern literary studies, this volume explores book history and the material text. The essays incorporate a broad range of subjects, such as gender and sexuality, religion..... More
New York: Sotheby's, 11.9-10.89, large quarto, cloth. (444)pp, 308 items listed. Sotheby's, This magnificent sale has a 4pp. Foreword by Nicolas Barker followed by a 10pp. Preface by the book collector (as he liked to be addressed), Haven O' More. A fantastic [auto]biographical statement, written in the third person, ends..... More
Exeter, NH: The Colophon Book Shop, 1996, First Edition. octavo, wrappers. 144 pp. The Colophon Book Shop, The Colophon Book Shop Catalogue No. 44 with 565 items listed and described in detail: Kelmscott Press publications; Books about the Kelmscott Press and Printing; Writings of William Morris; Books devoted to William..... More
(Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Fine Books, no date, circa 2000, Facsimile reprint. octavo, grey cloth. CCLIX, 607 pp. Martino Fine Books, The reprint includes the two Berghman supplements. Very fine and clean. More
(Amsterdam: Pepin Press, 1997), Second edition. quarto, printed wrappers. 240 pp. Pepin Press, Text in English, Italian, French, German, and Spanish. Second edition. Brief introductory comments. Thousands of examples from the early days of printing to the 1930s. Curl to upper corner, else fine and clean. More
New York: Holiday House, (2001), First Edition. large octavo, white boards in dust jacket. (x), 126 pp. Holiday House, A young readers biography. Illustrated. New in new dust jacket. More
The Legacy Press, 2018, First Edition. large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 466 pp. The Legacy Press, Pablo Alvarez offers the first complete English translation of Alonso Víctor de Paredes’ Institucion, y origen del arte de la imprenta, y reglas generales para los componedores [Institution, and Origin of the Art..... More
Baltimore: Maran Publishing Co., (1977), First Edition. quarto, decorated cloth. 720pp. Maran Publishing Co., Illustrated with facsimiles of every extant type foundry's specimens of their newest types. Some of these type faces never again appeared in any publication or type catalogue. Reprints of the stories from the Inland Printer magazine..... More
Ann Arbor: The Legacy Press, 2020, First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. 340 pp. The Legacy Press, Juliana Castro Varon — Cita: A Feminist Open-Access Digital Library and Print-on-Demand; E. Haven Hawley — Women’s Work in the 19th-Century Economy of Pornography; Karen Holmberg — Case Studies: How a Generation of Women..... More
London: Printing Historical Society, 1976, octavo, green cloth. (102)pp. Printing Historical Society, Reprinted from the 1813 and 1816 editions with an introduction and notes by Michael Twyman. From the introduction, "The value of Bankes's treatise today is as an historical record of attitudes to the process in England in the..... More
Los Angeles: Department of Special Collections, University of California, 1991, First Edition. octavo, blue wrappers with gilt printing and decoration. (xvi), (162)pp. Department of Special Collections, University of California, The Publications of Aldus the Elder's Heirs 1515-1529. Illustrations in black and white. Fine. More
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina/Hanes Foundation, 1996, First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. 29 pp. University of North Carolina/Hanes Foundation, A lecture delivered in 1989. New, without flaw. More
New York: Burt Franklin, (1968), Reprint. octavo, red cloth. 78 pp. Burt Franklin, A fine introduction to this great English type-founder and printer, with a short-title list of the Baskerville editions in Benton's collection. Fine. More
Oxford: Plough Press, 1984, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 250 pp. Plough Press, A bibliography of the history and technic of printmaking and picture printing for both book illustration and single issue prints. Each chapter is preceded by an historical introduction. With a detailed, useful index. Very fine..... More
New York: New York Public Library, 1958, First Edition. octavo, wrappers. 211pp. New York Public Library, Printers, publishers, booksellers, auctioneers who sold books, binders, paper and press manufacturers are included. Very fine copy. More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902, octavo, maroon cloth. lxxii, 393. Longmans, Green, and Co., Christie was an enthusiastic book collector, and bequeathed to Owens College his library of about 15,000 volumes, rich in a very complete set of the books printed by Étienne Dolet, a series of Aldine Press..... More
Winchester: St. Paul's, 1998, octavo, wrappers. xvi, 315pp. St. Paul's, First wrappers edition, originally published in 1992. "An important feature of these essays is that each makes proposals for future research by scholars and students, ensuring the vitality of bibliography in the next century. This collection provides a landmark, taking..... More
No place: no date (1984), Offprint. quarto, printed wrappers, stapled. 10 leaves, printed recto only. Offprint from the Gutenberg Yearbook, 1984. Illustrated. Upper right-hand corner lightly bumped. More
New York: Burt Franklin, 1968, Facsimile reprint of the Caxton Club edition of 1911 which was limited to 300 copies. large quarto, red boards and cloth. xviii, 204 pp. Burt Franklin, Edited with historical Introduction and with the original Latin text with English translation on opposite pages and with notes..... More
London: Verso Books, (1990), Reprint of the first English edition of 1976. octavo, printed wrappers. 378 pp. Verso Books, Edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and David Wooton. Translated by David Gerard. "Febvre's aim was to reveal not only the technical preconditions, but also the social pressres which shaped the epoch-making transition..... More
New York: Pushcart Press, (1981), Second Pushcart Press printing. octavo, printed wrappers. (xviii), 453pp. Pushcart Press, Foreword by Janet Flanner. "Here is the full and fascinating story behind the efforts...of dedicated men and women, among whom were Sylvia Beach, Robert McAlmon, Bill Bird, Harry and Caresse Crosby, Nancy Cunard, Samuel..... 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
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; Belknap Press, 2020, First Edition. large octavo, boards in dust jacket. 392 pp. Harvard University Press; Belknap Press, From Francis Bacon to Barack Obama, thinkers and political leaders have denounced humanists as obsessively bookish and allergic to labor. In this celebration of bookmaking in all..... More
London: The British Library, 2005, First Edition. octavo, cloth in pictorial dust jacket. 240pp. The British Library, This Print Networks volume is a collection of essays presented at the 2002 Conference on the History of the Book Trade. The theme reinforces the importance of studying specific local factors along side..... More
(Prague: 1968), First Edition. oblong octavo, white cloth stamped in black and red, in dust jacket. (252) pp. Text in Czech, Russian, German and English. The history is followed by 94 examples of Czech printing, each with one illustration and briefly described. Dust jacket with tear at back panel repaired..... More