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Private Libraries Association, Pinner, first edition, 1998. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. 253 pp, ills. An account of the externals of the book, its production and sale over the past two centuries. Contents include: Introduction; 1 The Book Trade; 2 Words into Type; 3 Paper; 4 Design; 5 Bookbindings; 6 Book-Jackets; 7 Book Illustration; 8 The Three-Decker; 9 Part-issues and Serials; 10 Series Publishing & the Yellow-Back; Further Reading; Index. Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper with a mark to the spine-panel.

Private Libraries Association, Pinner, first edition, 1998. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. 253 pp, ills. An account of the externals of the book, its production and sale over the past two centuries. Contents include: Introduction; 1 The Book Trade; 2 Words into Type; 3 Paper; 4 Design; 5 Bookbindings; 6 Book-Jackets; 7 Book Illustration; 8 The Three-Decker; 9 Part-issues and Serials; 10 Series Publishing & the Yellow-Back; Further Reading; Index. Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper.

Private Libraries Association, Pinner, first edition, 1998. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. 253 pp, ills. An account of the externals of the book, its production and sale over the past two centuries. Contents include: Introduction; 1 The Book Trade; 2 Words into Type; 3 Paper; 4 Design; 5 Bookbindings; 6 Book-Jackets; 7 Book Illustration; 8 The Three-Decker; 9 Part-issues and Serials; 10 Series Publishing & the Yellow-Back; Further Reading; Index. Fine in Fine dustwrapper.

Arcadian Library in association with Oxford University Press, London ;first edition, 2011. Cloth, 4to, 32 cm,. 408 pp, (some folded) : colour ills. From the blurb: "The Arcadian Library is unique in Europe. Its 10,000 volumes record the encounter between two cultures and show how the civilization of the Arab and Islamic worlds was appreciated in the Christian West from the earliest times to the present. This richly illustrated survey summarizes the variety of works, documents and images which the library holds in different domains.The works of travellers - including pilgrims, missionaries, merchants, diplomats, scientists, soldiers, antiquarians, tourists and women - form an important part of the collection. Their reports reflect the impressions made on Europeans by the vast region centred on Arabia and the Levant and stretching from Spain and the Maghreb to South and Central Asia, and their publication in Europe had in turn a profound effect on western sensibilities. The section on travellers… Read More

National Library of Australia, Canberra, [first edition, 2011. Stiff pictorial wrappers, 4to,. 120 pp, colour ills. Very Good.

Ateneo Veneto, [Venezia], first edition, 1996. Printed wrappers, 8vo, 25 cm,. 398 pp, plates, 13 ills. Of particular interest for the substantial article on Consul Smith, which includes the following: 'Sommario: Introduzione. 1. Il testamento. 2. Giuseppe Smith, Giovanni Jersin e Francesco Guardi. 3. Smith editore e libraio. 4. Gli esordi di Giambattista Pasquali. 5. Smith e Pasquali. 6. La fine della società fra Smith e Pasquali. 7. La vendita di libri a Carnboli c Pompeati. 8. Il palazzo sul Canal Grande. 9. Vertenza fra i NN.HU. Michiel ed il console Smith per la ricostruzione del palazzo. 10. Notizie sulla villa di Mogliano Veneto. 11. Vendita della villa di Mogliano. Il contratto di nozze di Smith. 12. Ciò che resta della villa di Mogliano. 13. Liquidazione del patrimonio. 14. Intorno alla cosiddetta 'seconda collezione' di Smith. 15. L'affare" Dannenberger. 16. L'eredità Smith. 17. Postilla.Appendice - Bibliografia.' Contents generally include:… Read More

Mansell Information / Publishing Ltd, London, first edition, 1976. Cloth, 4to, 26 cm,. xiii, 153 pp. From the introduction: "In 1961 I began work on a study of the literary 'little magazines' published in Great Britain during the period 1930 to 1939. After a very short time it became apparent that a finding list would be needed for the many important contributions scattered throughout their pages, particularly since almost none of the titles was included in any of the standard indexes to periodicals. So I began to compile my own index and it is this which is presented here…This is an author index to the magazines listed on p. xi, and it contains about 11,000 entries. Each entry gives first the author's name and then the title of his contribution. Where there is no title a brief title is supplied, e.g. Review, Poem, Play, and, in the case of reviews, this is usually followed in square brackets by the author and title of the work reviewed. … These details are then followed… Read More

Oxford University Press, London, ninth edition (twelfth impression), 1948. Cloth, small 8vo,. xvi, 428 pp. Good.

Anton Hiersemann, Stuttgart, second edition, 1968. 2 volumes, cloth, 8vo, 25 cm,. [4], 271, [2] + 612, [2] pp. Bd. 1. Vom Altertum bis zur Renaissance. -Bd. 2. Vom Barock bis zur Gegenwart. Booklabel of the bibliophile A R A Hobson on front pastedown endpapers, covers slightly fingersoiled, otherwise Very Good.

The Woodstock Press, and to be sold by Denis Archer, London, new and revised edition, 1933,. Limited edition of 750 copies, of which 720 were for sale. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. 288 pp. ;. An unnumbered copy. Worn at spine ends, spine-titles faded, boards scuffed, contents slightly agetoned, otherwise Good.

The Printing House of Leo Hart, Rochester, first edition, 1933. Cloth over bevelled boards, gilt spine-title, 8vo,. xi, 142 pp. From the blurb to a later reprint: "Everyone interested in books, whatever his particular point of contact may be, finds in Bibliotheca Typographica a handy guide to reference material. Taken as a whole, it supplies a general understanding of books in all their phases, from materials and processes of manufacture to collecting and bibliography. In detail, each subject is covered by a representative selection of books which provide both specific information and indications of where to search for further data. It is interesting and informative, pleasant and profitable, useful and usable." Compiled while Hart was still a Harvard undergraduate, this volume has remained one of the essential guides to anyone forming a collection of books about books. Very Good.

The Trianon Press, London, first edition, 1964. Limited edition of 500 copies. Original two-toned cloth, large 8vo,. xxiii, 444 pp, 45 collotype plates. 4,313 entries. A splendid catalogue of the collection formed by the bibliographer Geoffrey Keynes, especially strong in the subjects of his bibliographies: Jane Austen, William Blake, Rupert Brooke, Thomas Browne, John Donne, John Evelyn, William Harvey, Wiliam Hazlitt, William Petty, John Ray, Siegfried Sassoon, etc Bent Juel-Jensen, reviewqing the catalogue, acclaimed it as "this splendid catalogue of the most distinguished private English library of today...The book is beautifully printed by the Curwen Press, and lavishly illustrated with forty-five plates done by the Trianon Press. The subjects chosen are delightful, not the obvious, hackneyed 'highspots' which are known to all and sundry, but the unique, the unusual, the amusing. Endpapers somewhat foxed with some spotting also to the margins of the first few pages (up to page 4),… Read More

The Printing House of Leo Hart, Rochester, first edition, 1933. Cloth over bevelled boards, gilt spine-title, 8vo,. xi, 142 pp. From the blurb to a later reprint: "Everyone interested in books, whatever his particular point of contact may be, finds in Bibliotheca Typographica a handy guide to reference material. Taken as a whole, it supplies a general understanding of books in all their phases, from materials and processes of manufacture to collecting and bibliography. In detail, each subject is covered by a representative selection of books which provide both specific information and indications of where to search for further data. It is interesting and informative, pleasant and profitable, useful and usable." Compiled while Hart was still a Harvard undergraduate, this volume has remained one of the essential guides to anyone forming a collection of books about books. Good in a torn and heavily smokestained dustwrapper.

Book Club Associates, London, reprint edition, 1979. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. 288 pp. From the blurb - " 'In Bloomsbury' Leon Edel once told himself lightheartedly, 'there are nine characters in search of an author.’ Those nine characters are Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes, Desmond MacCarthy, Roger Fry, Clive Bell, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant - representing among them the arts and crafts of politics, economics, fiction, biography, criticism and painting. Mr Edel sees them as, in Virginia Woolf’s words, ‘dangerous animals, rather suspicious of each other, and full of fascination and mystery*, but also as forming a group of rational and liberal individuals, characterized by intelligence and charm, an arduous work ethic and *a certain high and gentry view of civilization’. While telling their story as if it were a novel, Mr Edel is aware that a biographer may allow himself imagination of form but never imagination of fact. He has chosen… Read More

Oxford University Press, London, 1967 reprint of the 1943 third edition. Cloth, 8vo, 234 x 158 mm,. xxx, 676 pp, numerous illustrations. An excellent and highly readable general history of printing and everything to do with the making of a book, by an acknowledged expert. Extensively illustrated. From the blurb: "The Book tells the story of how books came into being and of those earliest books that were written and illustrated by hand. It tells of the invention of printing and of how that invention made it possible for books to be produced so cheaply and in such quantities that all men might have them. It tells further of the development of bookmaking into an art and of the ceaseless effort of craftsmen and artists to produce the book that shall be perfect - the golden book. No man was better qualified than Douglas C. McMurtrie to write of the age-long quest of the perfect book. Himself a well-known typographer and designer of books, he was also the author of a large number of authoritative… Read More

Oxford University Press, London, 1953 reprint of 1943 third edition. Cloth, 8vo, 234 x 158 mm,. xxx, 676 pp, numerous illustrations. An excellent and highly readable general history of printing and everything to do with the making of a book, by an acknowledged expert. Extensively illustrated. An ex-library copy with a bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper and small stamp on the verso of the title-page, docket on the rear pastedown endpaper, otherwise Good.

Bracken Books, London, 1989 reprint of 1943 third edition. Cloth-backed boards, 8vo, 24 cm,. xxx, 676 pp, numerous illustrations. An excellent and highly readable general history of printing and everything to do with the making of a book, by an acknowledged expert. Extensively illustrated. From the blurb: "Mr. McMurtrie's approach to his subject is historical. The Book covers the origin of writing and of the alphabet; the beginnings of printing in the Far East; writing materials; the genesis and early history of paper; books in manuscript and their scribes and illustrators; the European invention of printing and its dissemination; type design and its development; book illustration and decoration; bookbinding and the work of celebrated binders; the work of eminent printers, such as Jenson, Aldus, Plantin, Baskerville, Didot, Bodoni, Benjamin Franklin, William Morris, and their more recent successors; the private presses; and finally, contemporary book designing, typography, and illustration,… Read More

Oxford University Press, London, 1960 sixth printing of 1943 third edition. Cloth, 8vo, 234 x 158 mm,. xxx, 676 pp, numerous illustrations. An excellent and highly readable general history of printing and everything to do with the making of a book, by an acknowledged expert. Extensively illustrated. An ex-library copy with a label on the front pastedown endpaper and a security label on the rear pastedown endpaper, library markings on the verso of the title-page, a little rubbed, Good.

Bracken Books, London, 1989 reprint of 1943 third edition. Cloth-backed boards, 8vo, 24 cm,. xxx, 676 pp, numerous illustrations. An excellent and highly readable general history of printing and everything to do with the making of a book, by an acknowledged expert. Extensively illustrated. From the blurb: "Mr. McMurtrie's approach to his subject is historical. The Book covers the origin of writing and of the alphabet; the beginnings of printing in the Far East; writing materials; the genesis and early history of paper; books in manuscript and their scribes and illustrators; the European invention of printing and its dissemination; type design and its development; book illustration and decoration; bookbinding and the work of celebrated binders; the work of eminent printers, such as Jenson, Aldus, Plantin, Baskerville, Didot, Bodoni, Benjamin Franklin, William Morris, and their more recent successors; the private presses; and finally, contemporary book designing, typography, and illustration,… Read More

John Murray, London, first edition, 1943. Cloth, small 8vo, 20 cm,. viii, 264 pp, ills, 32 plates. Contents: I What Is a Book?; II Illuminated Books; III Scribes, Artists and Patrons; IV Paper, Binding and the Invention of Printing; V The First Printers in England; VI Libraries; VII Newspapers to 1702; VIII Newspapers from 1702 to the Present Day; IX The Beginnings of English Literature - I; X The Beginnings of English Literature - II; XI Modern Book Production; Index. Labels removed from both endpapers leaving some gluemarks, otherwise Good.