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La Suisse Divisée en ses Treze cantons, Ses Alliez & Ses Sujets
Paris Hubert Jaillot 1695 Engraving 48.5 x 61 cm, old color in outline (minor spotting and creasing). Title at the top in Latin: Nova Helvetiae, Foederatarumque cum ea, nec non Subditarum Regionum Tabula. Fine map of Switzerland decorated at the left and right margins by coats of arms of the Swiss cantons and at the top rigt with are the coats of arms of the subjects of the Swiss. The map was published by French cartographer Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (1632-1712) and dedicated to the Duke of Burgundy.
No Binding Near Fine
La Scandinavie et les Environs, ou sont les Royaumes de Suede, de Denemark. et de Norwege, divisese en leurs principales
Amsterdam Peter Schenk 1700 Engraving 49 x 59 cm, old color in outline (minor spotting and creasing). Fine map of Scandinavia by French cartographer Nicolas Sanson (1660-1667) in edition of Amsterdam map publisher Peter Schenk the Elder (1660-1711).
No Binding Near Fine
Regnum Hungariae in Omnes suos Comitatus
Amsterdam Nicolaes Visscher 1700 Engraving 49 x 59 cm, old color in outline (minor spotting and creasing). Fine map of Hungary by Dutch cartographer and publisher Nicolaes Visscher (1618-1709).
No Binding Near Fine
Antiquae Urbis Romae Imago Accuratiss: ex vetustis monumentis, ex vestigiis videlicet aedificior, moenium, ruinis, ...
Cologne 1590 Engraving on 2 sheets (33 x 50 cm, 35.5 x 50 cm), not joined. Verso Latin text. Bird's-eye view plan of ancient Rome by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg from Civitates Orbis Terrarum. Second state (with the three supplementary lines of text after the title) of three. Paper little toned and frayed at extremities, upper sheet split at the centerfold at bottom, bottom sheet slightly darkened at the centerfold.
No Binding Very Good
Statua di Flora, trovata nelle Terme di Tito, gia conservata nel palazzo Farnese, e ora nel Museo di Napoli
1780 Engraving 33 x 20.5 cm (plate-mark), 57.5 x 40.5 cm (paper). Beautiful engraving of the Flora Farnese, a gigantic sculpture of the Roman goddess, which was found at the Baths of Caracalla, was once in the Farenese collection and now is preserved at the Naples National Archaeological Museum. Engraving is unsigned but definitely made in the second half of the 18th century for a grand-tour visitors. Paper little toned, remnants of centerfold and traces of binding in the left margin.
No Binding Very Good
Printing press and office
1976 Two typographic prints 50 x 70 cm both signed in pencil by René Treumann, no. 53/ 75 and 61/75. With the accompanying letterpress leaf stating that these prints were published on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the "Koninklijk Nederlands Verbond van Drukkerijen".
No Binding Fine
Letterproef Drukkerij Verweij, Mijdrecht
Mijdrecht Drukkerij Verweij 1972 Two booklets 8vo (24 cm), 32, 48 pp. Printed wrappers. Type specimens of the Drukkerij Verweij in Mijdrecht.
Soft cover Near Fine
Handleiding Boekbinden ten gebruike bij het onderwijs in het boekbinden
Amsterdamsche Grafische School 1939 8vo (21 cm), [4], 238 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding stained, paper little toned inside, bookplate). Inscribed by the author? on the front free end-paper.
Hardcover Very Good
Experiment Bucheinband aktuell. Eine Ausstellung in der Galerie Handwerk München in Zusammenarbeit mit der Typographischen Gesellschaft München anläßlich ihres hundertjährigen Bestehens und der Buchbinder-Innung München-Oberbayern
1990 8vo (24.5 cm), 56 pp, folding plate. Publisher's wrappers in blue envelope cover. Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition "Experimental book covers" held at the Galerie Handwerk, Munich 18 October - 14 November 1990.
Soft cover Near Fine
Regards sur les manuscrits d'Autun: VIe-XVIIIe siècle (French Edition)
Ville d'Autun 1995 4to (26 cm), 150, [2] pp. Laminated wrappers with flaps (last page little stained, collector's blind stamp on the title). Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition Les manuscrits d'Autun, une redécouverte, held at the Autun municipal library 17 July - 21 octobre 1995.
Soft cover Near Fine
Polskie pismiennictwo kartograficzne (1659-1939)
Ossolineum 1977 8vo (24 cm), 256 pp. Printed wrappers (wrappers little creased and rubbed at extremities). A study of Polish cartographic literature (1659-1939). Included bibliography (1310 entries). In Polish with 3 page summary in English.
Soft cover Near Fine
Znaki wodne w księgach Archiwum Miasta Lwowa 1382 - 1600 r.
Lwów Zakł. Graf. Piller - Neumanna 1928 4to (34 cm), 22 pp, 21 plates. In publisher’s folder (folder little frayed at extremities, old stamp on the title, bookplate). In Polish. Watermarks from the Lviv chancery books 1382-1600. Limited to 350 copies, this is no. 65.
Soft cover Near Fine
Właściciele rękopisów i starodruków zbiorów wielkopolskich Z. Czarneckiego mieszczących się obecnie w "Baworowianum" we Lwowie
Lwów Wyd. sumptem Fundacji W. Baworowskiego 1929 8vo (23.5 cm), XV, 139, [3] pp, 18 plates. Printed wrappers. (wrappers little frayed at extremities). In Polish. A study of provenance of manuscript and printed books from the Czarnecki’s collection in the former Baworowianum library in L'viv. Limited 550 copies, this is no. 198. Illustrations mostly of bindings with supralibros.
Soft cover Near Fine
James Scott and William Scott, Bookbinders
London Scholar Press 1980 4to (27 cm), XVI, 414 pp. Publisher's cloth & dust jacket. "The output of the Edinburgh binders James and William Scott stands out in the work of eighteenth-century Scottish bookbinders. Though few William Scott bindings are known today, a substantial number of James's bindings have survived: his work was characterized by its clean break from the Scottish geometrical style of binding ornamentation towards a style aimed at the kind of people who would be patrons of Chippendale or Adam and might be expected to want to own bookbindings which would fittingly adorn their houses. Thus the history of eighteenth-century bookbinding can be seen to relate to wider concerns of aesthetics and design in the visual arts. Mr Loudon's book, the first detailed examination of the Scotts, gives detailed descriptions of all known Scott bindings and includes full-page reproductions of all but a few. It also examines in detail (and reproduces) the tools and rolls employed." (from the publisher's description)
Hardcover Near Fine
Hitler's Mein Kampf in Britain and America: A Publishing History 1930-39
Cambridge University Press 1980 8vo (22 cm), XIV, 158 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (ownership signature on the front free end-paper). “English-language translations of Hitler's Mein Kampf during the 1930s raise a number of perplexing questions. Why did a translation not appear in Britain and America until October 1933, seven years after it had first been published in Germany and nine months after Hitler had come to power? When it appeared, why was it only an abridgment rather than the full text? Was it true, as some alleged, that the Nazis severely censored this version? Who was the translator, and why was his name absent from the English edition? When the complete text finally appeared in March 1939, why were there not only two American editions but a separate English edition as well? Did Hitler oppose publishing the entire text in foreign editions, or was its appearance delayed because the publishers felt that such a long and tedious autobiography was of limited public interest? These are the kinds of puzzling queries that intrigued the authors of this book.” (from the publisher’s synopsis)
Hardcover Fine
The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. Seventh Series. Volume 12. Number 1 - 4
The Bibliographical Soceiety and Oxford University Press 2011 4 volumes 8vo (23.5 cm), IV, 456 pp. Printed wrappers, cloth backed publisher's folder, contents loosely inserted. For contents see the scan.
Soft cover Fine
The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. Seventh Series. Volume 13. Number 1 - 4
The Bibliographical Soceiety and Oxford University Press 2012 4 volumes 8vo (23.5 cm), IV, 510 pp. Printed wrappers, cloth backed publisher's folder, contents loosely inserted.
Soft cover Fine
The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. Seventh Series. Volume 14. Number 1 - 4
The Bibliographical Soceiety and Oxford University Press 2013 4 volumes 8vo (23.5 cm), 498 pp. Printed wrappers.
Soft cover Fine
Immortality
Grove Weidenfeld 1991 8vo (24 cm), VI, 345 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket.
Hardcover Fine
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia
London Bernard Quaritch 2009 8vo (22 cm), XIII, 21 pp. Printed wrappers. A facsimile reprint of 1859 edition published to mark 150th anniversary of the original edition and presented at a Grolier gathering in London.
Soft cover Fine
Jean de Gonet, relieur: Une premiere retrospective (French Edition)
Bibliotheca Wittockiana 1989 8vo (25 cm), 96 pp. Printed wrappers and dust jacket. Catalogue of an exhibition of Jean de Gonet's bindings held at the Bibliotheca Wittockiana in Brussels. 116 items.
Soft cover New
Ocho siglos de encuadernación española = Huit siecles de reliure en Espagne = Spaanse Boekbanden uit Acht Eeuwen
Brussels Bibliotheca Wittockiana 1985 4to (29.5 cm), 171 pp, errata loosely inserted. Laminated wrappers with flaps. In Spanish, Dutch and French. Catalogue of an exhibition of Spanish bindings held in the Bibliotheca Wittockiana in Brussels. 42 items.
Soft cover New
Reliures de création 1998-2008
Faton 2008 4to (28.5 cm), 143 pp. Laminated wrappers with flaps.
Hardcover New
The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production
Faber & Faber 1967 4to (26.5 cm), 514 pp, plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little rubbed at extremities, flaps and end-papers little stained). New edition revised and augmented with the assistance of Dr. Reinhold Regensburger.
Hardcover Near Fine
Katalog druków cyrylickich XV-XVIII wieku w zbiorach Zakładu Narodowego im. Ossolińskich
Ossolineum 2022 8vo (24.5 cm), 247 pp. Laminated boards, silk bookmarks. In Polish. A catalogue of books printed in Cyrillic in the Ossolineum library in Wrocław. 65 items including books printed in "civil scrip" (items 49-65).
Hardcover New
Le livre arménien de la Renaissance aux Lumières : une culture en diaspora
Bibliothèque Mazarine / Ed. des Cendres 2012 4to (27 cm), 190 pp. Publisher's board (minimal shelf-wear, collector's blind stamp on the title). Catalogue of an exhibition of Armenian books held in the Bibliothèque Mazarine on 26 October - 30 November, 2012. Une histoire de l'importante production d'ouvrages en langue arménienne du premier imprimé à Venise en 1512 aux grands ateliers du XVIIIe siècle. Elle relate la dispersion géographique des imprimeries (Paris, Amsterdam, Madras, Constantinople, etc.) et la manière dont la culture et la langue arménienne ont pu se maintenir et se diffuser par ce biais.
Hardcover Fine
Compendiosa Bibliografia di Edizioni Bodoniane
Florence Tipografia Barbera 1927 4o (30 cm), front. portrait, xvi, 357, [3] pp., 59 facsimiles. Untrimmed in cont. blue cloth (binding little stained, corners slightly bumped, bookplate of L. Gonnelli & Fi., Editori, Firenze & Blundell's School Library, inscribed on the verso of title-page "Author's copy". One of 50 copies on Fabriano paper from the edition limited to 750 copies.
Hardcover Near Fine
De Gulden Passer: Bulletijn van de "Vereeniging der Antwerpsche Bibliophielen". 50e Jaargang - 1972
Antwerpen De Nederlandse Boekhandel 0 8vo (25 cm), 182 pp. Uncut and untrimmed in printed wrappers. For contents see the scan.
Soft cover New
Book Handbook: An Illustrated Quarterly for Discriminating Book-Lovers. 1951. Volume 2 No 1
London The Dropmore Press Limited 1951 12mo (19 cm), 50 pp. Printed wrappers (wrappers slightly darkened at edges). For contents see the scan.
Soft cover Near Fine
The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. Seventh Series. Volume 1 Number 3 September 2000
The Bibliographical Soceiety and Oxford University Press 2000 4 volumes 8vo (23.5 cm), 498 pp. Printed wrappers.
Soft cover Fine
The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. Sixth Series. Volume 6 Number 4 December 1984
The Bibliographical Soceiety and Oxford University Press 1984 8vo (23.5 cm), PP. 333-444. Printed wrappers (wrappers slightly discolored). For contents see the scan.
Soft cover Fine
The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. Sixth Series. Volume 15 Number 4 December 1993
The Bibliographical Soceiety and Oxford University Press 1993 8vo (23.5 cm), PP. 259-360. Printed wrappers. For contents see the scan.
Soft cover Fine
The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. Sixth Series. Volume 12 Number 3 September 1990
The Bibliographical Soceiety and Oxford University Press 1990 8vo (23.5 cm), PP. 185-272. Printed wrappers. For contents see the scan.
Soft cover Fine
The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. Sixth Series. Volume 12 Number 2 June 1990
The Bibliographical Soceiety and Oxford University Press 1990 8vo (23.5 cm), PP. 89-183. Printed wrappers (wrappers slightly discolored). For contents see the scan.
Soft cover Fine
The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. Sixth Series. Volume 9 Number 2 June 1987
The Bibliographical Soceiety and Oxford University Press 1987 8vo (23.5 cm), XVI pp, PP. 105-223. Printed wrappers (wrappers slightly discolored). For contents see the scan.
Soft cover Fine
The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. Sixth Series. Volume 6 Number 3 September 1984
The Bibliographical Soceiety and Oxford University Press 1984 8vo (23.5 cm), XVI pp, PP. 217-331. Printed wrappers (wrappers slightly discolored). For contents see the scan.
Soft cover Fine
The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. Sixth Series. Volume 4 Number 3 September 1982
The Bibliographical Soceiety and Oxford University Press 1982 8vo (23.5 cm), XVI pp, PP. 219-368. Printed wrappers (wrappers slightly discolored). For contents see the scan.
Soft cover Fine
A History of Chromolithography: Printed Colour for All
The British Library / Oak Knoll Press 2013 4to (31 cm), 728 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little rubbed at extremities). This major new book (illustrated with 850 colour illustrations) traces the evolution of chromolithography (lithographic colour printing) from its tentative beginnings in the early nineteenth century to its dominant industrial position in the fifty years before World War 1.
Hardcover Fine
The rise and fall of the man of letters: Aspects of English literary life since 1800
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1969 8vo (22 cm), XIV, 322 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little creased and frayed at extremities).
Hardcover Near Fine
Bizarre Books
Macmillan 1985 8vo (24 cm), X, 180 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (clipped dj frayed at extremities, paper slightly browned). Peculiar book titles.
Hardcover Very Good
Antiquarian books: An insider's account
David & Charles 1978 8vo (22.5 cm), 200 pp, plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "In this book Roy Harley Lewis takes us on a guided tour of the realm of antiquarian books. With a wealth of intriguing information and often hilarious anecdotes, he introduces us to the literary forger and the great names of antiquarian bookselling, both past and present, and invites us into the auction room and the workshop of the craftsman-binder. He shows us the many rôles played by the detectives of the book world and recaptures for us some of the great moments when a rare or a unique manuscript has at last been run to earth." (from the publisher's synopsis)
Hardcover Fine
John Baskerville: Art and Industry of the Englightenment (Eighteenth Century Worlds LUP)
Liverpool University Press 2018 8vo (24.5 cm), XVII, 269 pp. Laminated boards. This book is concerned with the eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville (1707-75). The last major, but inadequate publication of Baskerville dates from 1975. Now, forty years on, the time is ripe for a new book. This interdisciplinary approach provides an original contribution to printing history, eighteenth-century studies and the dissemination of ideas." (from the publisher’s synopsis)
Hardcover New
Leonardo's Library: The World of a Renaissance Reader
The Stanford Libraries 2019 4to (30.5 cm), X, 198 pp. Printed wrappers (minor shelf-wear). Illustrated catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition "Leonardo's Library: The World of a Renaissance Reader," Stanford University Libraries, Green Library, May 2-October 13, 2019.
Soft cover As New
Edward Johnston: Master Calligrapher
The British Library & Oak Knoll Press 2007 8vo (22.5 cm), XX, 389 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). "This study is intended to place Edward Johnston in the context of the ideas and people who helped shape his thought and work. In no sense is it a biography. Nevertheless, the chronology of Johnston's life is one of the structures of this study as is the pattern of his life among his fellow artist-craftsmen." (from the Preface)
Hardcover New
Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford 2014 4to (29 cm), 360 pp. Publisher's boards and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). "Marks of Genius pays tribute to some of the most remarkable testaments to genius throughout human history, from ancient texts on papyrus and the extraordinary medieval manuscript "The Douce Apocalypse" to the renowned children's work "The Wind in the Willows". Bringing together some of the most impressive treasures from the collections of the Bodleian Libraries, it tells the story of the creation of each work and its afterlife, offering insight into the breadth and depth of its influence as well as its power to fascinate. Illustrating works from Euclid, Dante and Handel to Einstein, Austen and Gandhi, Marks of Genius showcases over 100 books and manuscripts that constitute the pinnacle of human creativity and which we continue to revere and revisit." (from the publisher's synopsis) Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York and at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Hardcover As New
Thomas Frognall Dibdin: Bibliographer & Bibliomaniac Extraordinary 1776-1847
Private Libraries Association 1967 8vo (22 cm), 45 pp. Publisher's boards and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear).
Hardcover Near Fine
The Bodleian Library and its Friends: Catalogue of an Exhibition held 1969-1970
Oxford Bodleian Library 1969 8vo (21.5 cm), 88 pp. Printed wrappers. 156 entries.
Soft cover Fine
Collection of Whitmaniana in the Reference Library Bolton
Bolton The Libraries Committee 1931 8vo (23 cm), front., 38 pp. Printed wrappers (wrappers little frayed at extremities, some foxing and pencil marks inside).
Soft cover Very Good
The Records and Collections of the College of Arms
Burkes Peerage 1952 8vo (21.5 cm), 84, [4] pp. Printed wrappers (minor shelf-wear).
Soft cover Fine
The English Novel 1740-1850 : A Catalogue Including Prose Romances, Short Stories, and Translations of Foreign Fiction
London Grafton & Co 1939 8vo (25 cm), XI, 367 pp. Publisher's two-tone cloth, gilt-lettered spine (biding little rubbed at extremities, minor browning of paper inside).
Hardcover Near Fine
A Bookbinder's Miscellany: Essays on fine binding with an introduction by Sam Ellenport
Oxford Alan Isaac Rare Books 2015 8vo (23.5 cm), XVII, 114 pp, plates. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered front board and spine. Signed by the authot on the front free end-paper. "The object of this book is to make available in an easily accessible form some splendid articles on key elements essential to fine bookbinding, the majority of which have lain hidden in obscure publications for too long, and two specifically written for this book." (from the Preface)
Hardcover Fine Signed by Author(s)
Sir Walter Scott 1771-1971: A Bicentenary Exhibition
Edinburgh The National Library of Scotland 1971 4to (29.5 cm), 60, [2] pp. Printed wrappers. Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition held at the Parliament House, Edinburgh 15 August - 11 September, 1971.
Soft cover Near Fine
Eton, 1440-1990: Portrait, programme and catalogue
Eton College 1990 4to (28 cm), 128 pp. Laminated wrappers.
Soft cover Fine
Catalogue of the Luttrell Psalter and the Bedford Horae, two superb English Manuscripts, from the Library at Lulworth Castle, Dorset, and belonging to the Weld Family, and of Nine Very fine Illuminated Manuscripts, the property of Lt.-Col. Sir George Holford
London Sotheby & Co. 1929 4to (28.5 cm), 35 pp, 2 color and 24 b&w plates. Printed wrappers (wrappers slightly discolored and frayed top of the spine). Auction catalogue of a sale held in London on 29 July, 1929.
Soft cover Very Good
The Present State of the Morea, Called Anciently Pelopnnesus: Together with a Description of the City of Athens, Islands of Zani, Strafades, and Serigo
Athens 1966 4to (25.5 cm), [4], 26 pp, 2 folding maps at the back pocket. Printed wrappers. Facsimile reprint of the third edition published in in London in 1689.
Soft cover Very Good
A Catalogue of British Family Histories
Edward O. Beck 1935 12mo (19.5 cm), 202 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine (binding rubbed at extremities, end-papers little spotted). Second edition. With an introduction by Lord Farrer.
Hardcover Very Good
Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain: A Short Catalogue
Longmans, Green & Company 1958 8vo (22.5 cm), XXI, 182 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj frayed and rubbed at the top, some browning of edges of end-papers).
Hardcover Very Good
A Short History of the Libraries and List of Manuscripts And Original Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History)
London The British Museum (Natural History) 1971 8vo (24.5 cm), [4] pp, PP. 79-204. Printed wrappers (spine sunned). Offprint from the "Bulletin of the British Museum Natural History Historical", Vol. 4, No. 2.
Soft cover Near Fine
Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth: A Bibliographical Catalogue of the First Appearance of His Writings in Book Form in England with Facsimilies of the Bindings and Titlepages. Part One: The Novels with Sketches by Boz
Los Angeles Heritage Book Shop 1982 4to (28 cm), XX, 120, [4] pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little sunned, stained and frayed at extremities). "The purpose of this bibliographical catalogue is to provide book collectors, dealers, and librarians with descriptions of Dickens's novels and "Sketches by Boz" in their original cloth bindings. I compiled the descriptions from an examination of as many first editions as I could review, and I included in each entry pertinent information obtained from most of the major bibliographies, catalogues, and other published material on Dickens's original works." (from the Preface)
Hardcover Near Fine
Bibliophilia scholastica floreat: Fifty Years of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of Toronto
Thomas Fischer Rare Book Library 2005 4to (29 cm), 132 pp. Printed wrappers. Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 26 September - 21 December 2005.
Soft cover As New
One Of Us: A Biography Of Mrs Thatcher: Life of Margaret Thatcher
Macmillan 1989 8vo (24 cm), IX, 570 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear, few pencil marks inside). Written to coincide with Channel 4 series on Thatcher, this biography is based on intimate conversations between the Prime Minister and the major politicians of the period and Hugo Young. It traces her life from being an apprentice under Harold Macmillan and her participation in the government of Edward Heath, to her unquestioning destruction of the Conservatism of the 1950s and 1960s and her emergence as the senior statesperson of the western world.
Hardcover Near Fine
The haunted study: A social history of the English novel, 1875-1914
London Secker & Warburg 1989 8vo (24 cm), IX, 533 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). This study aims to place English fiction in the context of a culture in the throes of dynamic change. The period that produced Trollope, Stevenson, Wilde, Henry James and Virginia Woolf also encompassed Rider Haggard, Conan Doyle, Ethel M.Dell, H.de Vere Stacpole, "Boys' Own Paper" and the Religious Tract Society, and ran from the heyday of the triple-decker to the birth of the cheap reprint, and the commercial devices for selling books ran in harness with the developing profession of authorship. The author sets this flowering of literacy firmly in the social context of the developing attitudes that shaped a society in transition. While late Victorian notions were subject to traumatic change under the impact of post-Darwinian social theory, new approaches to economics, radical concepts of religion, the family, empire, there were parallel forces in play in the business of authorship and the trade of publishing.
Hardcover Near Fine
Further requirements: Interviews, broadcasts, statements, and book reviews
Faber and Faber 2001 8vo (24 cm), XVI, 377 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear and toning of paper). Larkin's "Required Writing", his selection from his miscellaneous prose 1953-82, was highly praised and enjoyed when it appeared in 1983. It was the last book to be published by him during his lifetime and won the W. H. Smith Award. It was also chosen by many critics and reviewers as one of their books of the year. Larkin died in December 1985. "Further Requirements" gathers together many other interviews, broadcasts, statements and reviews.
Hardcover Near Fine
Our age: Portrait of a generation
London Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1990 8vo (24 cm), X, 479 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear, few pencil notes inside). A portrait of a generation - men and women who created postwar Britain.
Hardcover Near Fine
High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain
Random House 2013 8vo (24 cm), XVII, 878 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Britain in the 1840s was a country wracked by poverty, unrest and uncertainty, where there were attempts to assassinate the Queen and her prime minister, and the ruling class lived in fear of riot and revolution. By the 1880s it was a confident nation of progress and prosperity, transformed not just by industrialisation but by new attitudes to politics, education, women and the working class. Simon Heffer's first major new book since the success of “Strictly English” explores this process of transformation. Drawing heavily on previously unpublished documents, he offers a superbly nuanced insight into life in an extraordinary era, populated by extraordinary people - and how our forebears’ pursuit of perfection gave birth to modern Britain." (from the publisher's synopsis)
Hardcover Fine
William Henry Pyne and His Microcosm
Sutton Publishing 1996 4to (30.5 cm), IX, 302 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little rubbed at extremities). A survey of the life and work of English artist William Henry Pyne, who first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1790, and in 1803 began to publish his work Microcosm, in which he recorded groups of figures, among them workers, villagers, and 18th-century life in general. Foreword by Brian Allen.
Hardcover Fine
Map of Roman Britain: Scale 16 Miles to One Inch
Southampton Ordnance Survey Office 1931 8vo (22 cm), 16 pp, folding linen backed map. Publisher's wrappers (wrappers little frayed at extremities, top edge stained).
Hardcover Near Fine
Map of Roman Britain: Scale 16 Miles to One Inch
Chessington Ordance Survey 1956 4to (28 cm), 44 pp, folding map. Publisher's wrappers (wrappers little rubbed at extremities). Third edition.
Hardcover Near Fine
Map Of Monastic Britain: South Sheet
Chessington Ordance Survey 1954 8vo (21.5 cm), 26 pp, folding linen backed map. Publisher's wrappers (wrappers rubbed at extremities, top edge stained).
Hardcover Near Fine
Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale)
Oxford Clarendon Press 1941 8vo (23.5 cm), front., XIX, 492 pp, plates. Later cloth, black gilt-lettered label (deckled fore- and bottom-edge). Second printing. Probably the author’s copy. The author's name pasted over with a strip of paper with the author’s complete name, a printed note bellow: “Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in the Faculty of Philosophy, Columbia University”. Inscribed on half-title to John and Teryll Edwards (1966).
Hardcover Near Fine
History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century. Vol. I.
London Smith, Elder & Co. 1902 8vo (22.5 cm), XVII, 466 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding rubbed, ex-library copy with usual marks and stamps but solid and firm).
Hardcover Good
Victorian Thorney: The story of the remodelling of the Duke of Bedford's Fenland village by Samuel Sanders Teulon
Moulton, Northampton Jema Publications 2001 8vo (21 cm), 75 pp. Laminated wrappers (bookplate). Illustrated by Sian Catherine Teulon.
Soft cover Fine
Epigrams
Oxford Basil Blackwell 1946 12mo (19 cm), 31 pp. Printed wrappers and dust jacket (dj little rubbed at extremities and dusted).
Soft cover Very Good
Charles Dickens: An Exhibition to Commemorate the Centenary of His Death
Victoria & Albert Museum 1970 4to (27.5 cm), [14], 126 pp, 89 illustrations on 60 plates. Laminated wrappers (wrappers little rubbed at extremities and stained, some blemishes to lamination). Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition held in the Victoria & Albert Museum June-September. 1970.
Soft cover Very Good
The Private Library. Sixth Series Volume 8:1 - 8:4
The Private Libraries Association 2015 4 volumes 8vo (21.5 cm), 192 pp. Printed wrappers.
Soft cover Near Fine
The Private Library. Sixth Series Volume 10:1 - 10:4
The Private Libraries Association 2017 4 volumes 8vo (21.5 cm), 208 pp. Printed wrappers.
Soft cover Fine
The Private Library. Seventh Series Volume 1:1 - 1:4
The Private Libraries Association 2018 4 volumes 8vo (21.5 cm), 202, 6 pp. Printed wrappers.
Soft cover Fine
The Private Library. Seventh Series Volume 2:1 - 2:4
The Private Libraries Association 2019 4 volumes 8vo (21.5 cm), 224 pp. Printed wrappers.
Soft cover Fine
The Private Library. Fifth Series Volume 1:1 Spring 1998
The Private Libraries Association 1998 8vo (21.5 cm), 48 pp. Printed wrappers.
Soft cover Fine
The Private Library. Sixth Series Volume 9:4 Winter 2016
The Private Libraries Association 2016 8vo (21.5 cm), PP. 193-240. Printed wrappers.
Soft cover Fine
The Private Library. Sixth Series Volume 9:3 Autumn 2016
The Private Libraries Association 2016 8vo (21.5 cm), PP. 129-192. Printed wrappers. Included a bibliography of the Folio Society Limited Editions by Joe Whitlock Blundell.
Soft cover Fine
Book Handbook: An illustrated quarterly for owners and collectors of books. No. 1 - 4 (1947), 1947 Supplement, No. 6 (1948), Volume 2, No. 1, 3, 4 (1951-52)
London The Dropmore Press 1947 9 volumes 12mo (19 cm), 50 pp. Printed wrappers (bleeding of staples in early volumes causing the first and the last few leaves to be detached.). "The Book Handbook", a precursor of "The Book Collector", was published in 1947-52. It was edited by Reginald Horrox (together with Edward Shanks and Clarence Winchester for the vol. 2) and included articles on all aspects of book-collecting. Contributions by L. J. Lloyd, E. G. R. Taylor, R. C. Bald. K. Douglas Wilkinson, E. A. Osborne, J. V. B. Stewart Hunter, G. B. Shaw, C. Sandford, Sidney Cockerell, T. W. Hanson, M. Parenti, D. Flower. Profusely illustrated with facsimiles.
Soft cover Good
The Book-Collector's Quarterly. Numbers IV-X, XII-XVII, 1931-1935
London Cassell and Co. 1931 13 volumes 12mo (20 cm), printed wrappers. Good to very good conditions (please inquire for collations, conditions and additional scans). Overall 17 issues were published, here missing are no. 1-3 (1930) and 11 (1933).
Soft cover Very Good
The Dictionary Of National Biography: 1912 - 1921, With an Index covering the years 1901-1921 in one alphabetical series
Oxford University Press/Humphrey Milford 1927 8vo (24 cm), XXVI, 624 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding rubbed at extremities and lightly dusted, top edge and back end-papers little stained, internally fine).
Hardcover Very Good
The Dictionary of National Biography: 1951-1960, With an Index covering the years 1901-1960 in one alphabetical series
Oxford University Press 1971 8vo (24 cm), XXVI, 1150, [2] pp. Publisher's cloth & dust jacket (dj little rubbed at extremities and dusted). Loosely inserted DNB Supplement 1951-1960: Facts and Figures (8 pp).
Hardcover Near Fine
Dictionary of National Biography: 1961-1970, With an Index covering the years 1901-1970 in one alphabetical series
Oxford University Press 1981 8vo (24 cm), XVIII, 1178 pp. Publisher's cloth & dust jacket (clipped dj little rubbed at extremities, few pencil notes inside).
Hardcover Very Good
Dictionary of National Biography: 1981-1985, With an Index covering the years 1901-1985 in one alphabetical series
Oxford University Press 1990 8vo (24 cm), XIII, 518 pp. Publisher's cloth & dust jacket (dj little rubbed at extremities and stained).
Hardcover Near Fine
The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle
Amsterdam Nico Israel 1976 Folio (35 cm), 256 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear) "This is the first work in English on the entire production of an early illustrated book. The survival of page by page layouts for a book of the incunabula period, as well as the original contracts for its illustration,for its printing and for the allotment of profits and unsold books is unique to the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493. Furthermore, the astonishing discovery in 1972 of preliminary woodcut drawings and layouts reveals the first steps in how the book was planned. 'The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle', which gathers into one volume all these factors, is a landmark in the study of incunabula." (from the publisher's description).
Hardcover Fine
Incunabula in Dutch Libraries. Vol I - II [complete set] (Bibliotheca Bibliographica Neerlandica)
Brill | Hes & De Graaf 1983 2 volumes 8vo (24.5 cm), [6], VIII, 698 pp; [6], 374 pp. Publisher's clot, gilt-lettered spines. A census of 15th-century books in Dutch public collections. Volume I: The catalogue; Volume II: Indexes and concordances.
Hardcover Fine
De Vijfhonderdste Verjaring van de Boekdrukkunst in de Nederlanden
Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I 1973 4to (25.5 cm), XXIV, 585, [3] pp, plates. Printed wrappers (wrappers little rubbed at extremities, corners bumped). Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition held in Brussels 11 September 0 27 October 1973. 242 entries.
Soft cover Very Good
Gheraert Leeu: meesterprenter ter Goude, 1477-1484
Gouda Stedelijk Museum Het Catharina Gasthuis 1992 8vo (21 cm), 64 pp. Laminated wrappers. Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition held in Stedelijk Museum Gouda 19 December 1992 – 21 February 1993. 39 entries.
Soft cover Fine
La miniature française aux XVe et XVIe siècles
Paris G. Van Oest 1930 Folio (36.5 cm), front with tipped in facsimile, [8], 128, [4] pp, 100 plates. Publisher's wrappers and dust jacket (dj little stained and frayed at the spine, spine sunned). A study of French illumination in the 15th and 16th centuries. Preface by comte A. de Laborde. 173 illustrations.
Soft cover Very Good
Les Joyaux de l'enluminure à la Bibliothèque Nationale
Paris G. Van Oest 1928 Folio (36.5 cm), XII, 136 pp, 2 color and 100 halftone plates. Cont. sheep-backed boards with small corners, gilt-lettered spine with 4 raised bands (joints and extremities rubbed, inside fine). Printed on laid paper. Preface by comte A. de Laborde.
Hardcover Near Fine
The Life Of St Edmund King And Martyr: John Lydgate's Illustrated Verse Life Presented to Henry VI
The British Library 2004 8vo (25 cm), [6], 23, [3] pp, 120 ff of facsimile. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little rubbed at extremities, small tears bottom on fold and top of the spine). "On Christmas Eve 1433, the young King Henry VI arrived at the abbey at Bury St Edmunds, one of the largest religious foundations in fifteenth-century England. To cement the abbey's relationship with the king, abbot William Curteys conceived the idea of commemorating Henry's visit with a 'life' of the Anglo-Saxon king, St Edmond, the patron saint of the abbey. It is hard to overstate the importance of the resulting manuscript, both as a monument to the development of the English language, and for its illustrations - 120 images, forming narrative sequences integrated to form a coherent visual parallel to the text and with a careful fidelity to detail. The completed manuscript that was presented to the young king remained in his library until after his deposition, and although it left royal hands for a time, it reappears in the inventories of the library of Henry VIII. It was acquired by The British Library in 1742. In both the number and quality of its illustrations and in the degree of integration, The Life of St Edmond, King and Martyr is unsurpassed." (from the publisher's synopsis)
Hardcover Near Fine
The Benedictional of St Aethelwold: A Masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon Art
The British Library 2002 4to (29 cm), [4], 26, [2] pp, 119 ff of facsimile. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). "The Benedictional of St Aethelwold, a book of ceremonial blessings made for St Aethelwold, Bishop of Winchester from 963-984, is one of the most lavishly decorated manuscripts to have survived from Anglo-Saxon England. This beautifully produced facsimile reproduces the complete manuscript in full colour (with special gold), and to actual size, for the first time. In his introduction Andrew Prescott explores the historical and liturgical context of this remarkable manuscript, and provides translations of some of the blessings." (from the publisher's synopsis)
Hardcover Fine
Alphabetum romanum. Codex Vat lat. 6852 der Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Faksimile, Kommentar und Produktion [3 volumes, complete set]
Zürich Belser 1985 3 volumes 12mo (19.5 cm), 20 ff of facsimile in blue morocco binding, front board gilt; 28, [4] pp; 68, [4] pp in publisher's cloth. Slip-case (slipcase rubbed and little dusted). A facsimile of Felice Feliciano's alphabet from the Vatican Library accompanied by a commentary and a commentary on facsimile production. Limited to 200 copies, this is no. 49.
Hardcover Near Fine
Bibliografia russkoi revolyucii i grazhdanskoi voiny (1917-1921)
Prague 1938 8vo (23 cm), XV, 445, [3] pp. Cont. cloth backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, original wrappers bound in (paper slightly toned). A bibliography of Russian revolution and civil war (1917-21).
Hardcover Fine
The Pierpont Morgan Library Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts Held at the New York Public Library
Pierpont Morgan Library 1934 4to (31.5 cm), [12], XXII, [2], 85, [5] pp, 100 plates. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed at extremities, bttom corner scuffed, end-papers slightly toned). Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition held November 1933 - April 1934. 152 entries. Limited to 350 copies privately printed at the Plantin press.
Hardcover Near Fine
Das goldene Evangelienbuch Heinrichs III
Berlin Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft 1933 Folio (42.5 cm), 92, [2] pp, 3 color and 219 halftone illustrations on unnumbered plates. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered front board and spine (binding little rubbed, small defect of cloth bottom of the front joint, paper little toned inside).
Hardcover Near Fine
Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Museum: Miniatures, Borders, and Initials Reproduced in Gold and Colours. Second Series
Longmans and Co 1900 Folio (39 cm), [3] ff, 15 plates in color and 16 leaves of text with descriptions. In publisher's cloth backed folder (folder rubbed and stained inside, ties missing). Beautifully printed facsimiles (intended to be printed in their proper color) from illuminated manuscripts in the British museum. The first series was published in 1899.
Hardcover Very Good
