BODLEIAN LIBRARY, Oxford

First-Line Index of English Poetry 1500-1800 in Manuscripts of the Bodleian Library Oxford. Edited by Margaret Crum. NEAR FINE XL SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

Clarendon Press, Oxford,, 1969. 2 vols., roy. 4to., First Edition; original blue buckram, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-downs and neat accession data on title versos. The institutional marks notwithstanding, a lovely set in dustwrappers.

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Book number: 20654

Catalogue: Bibliography0

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BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD

Gold-Tooled Bookbindings. [Introduction by I. G. Philip.] NEAR FINE COPY

Bodleian Library, Oxford,, [1951]. 8vo., First Edition, with 24 plates; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy. Bodleian Picture Books, No. 2.

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Book number: 8661

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BONSER Wilfred

A Bibliography of Folklore as contained in the first eight Years of the Publications of the Folklore Society.

Glaisher,, 1961. 8vo., First Edition; cloth blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, a fine copy. Publications of the Folk-Lore Society, CXXI.

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Book number: 95

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BONSER Wilfrid

A Romano-British Bibliography (55 BC - AD 449). IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

Blackwell, Oxford,, 1964. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition; original blue buckram, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly age-browned. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-downs, neat accession data on title versos and small stamp on bottom edges. The original edition of this standard reference is scarce, especially in this condition.

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Book number: 20613

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BOOKPLATE SOCIETY.

A Brief History of Bookplates in Britain. with reference to Examples at the Victoria & Albert Museum BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN WRAPPERS

Bookplate Society and V&A Museum,, [1979]. Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy.

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Book number: 35357

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BOURDILLON F.W.

C'est Daucasi and De Nicolete. Reproduced in photo-facsimile and type-transliteration from the unique MS. in the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris, fronds francais, 2168. 165 COPIES WERE PRINTED

Oxford,, 1896. Roy. 8vo., on laid paper, title in red and black, with 22 plages of facsimile, the transliterated text printed in red and black, some slight browning to verso of front free endpaper; half vellum gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 165 COPIES. The work remains the sole facsimile of the Old French MS.

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Book number: 77

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Keywords: palaeography, aucassin, nicolete, facsimiles, manuscripts, mss, french literature, f.w. bourdillon, bibliography, palaeography, c'est, daucasi, de, nicolete

BRADSHAW Henry

Henry Bradshaw's Correspondence on Incunabula with J. Holtrop and M.F.A.G. Campbell. Edited by Wytze abd Lotte Hellinga. I. The Correspondence, 1864-1884 [Translated from the Dutch by D.A.S. Reid]. NEAR FINE COPY

Hertzberger, Amsterdam,, 1966 [1968]. Roy. 8vo., with a portrait frontispiece and 2 plates; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. With the publisher's slip explaining the mis-dating of the work loosely inserted.

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Book number: 48

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Keywords: bibliography, incunabula, incunables, bradshaw, henry bradshaw, holtrop,

BRITISH MUSEUM

[Catalogue of] An Exhibition of Early English Children's Books. NEAR FINE COPY

Trustees of the British Museum,, [1968]. 8vo., First Edition; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. The catalogue lists 107 entries.

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Book number: 45743

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BRITWELL COURT.

The Britwell Handlist. Or, Short-Title Catalogue of the Principal Volumes from the Time of Caxton to the Year 1800 formerly in the Library of Britwell Court, Buckinghamshire. [Compiled by Herbert Collmann. Introduction by Norah Christie-Miller]. 400 COPIES WERE PRINTED

Bernard Quaritch,, 1933. 2 vols., roy. 4to., First Edition, with portrait frontispieces (original tissue guards present) and 62 fine sepia-toned facsimiles (one double-page); original brown cloth, gilt backs, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 400 COPIES. This magnificent library, assembled principally by W.H. Miller, was dispersed by Sotheby between 1920 and 1927. The books registered in the 'Handlist' comprise some of the rarest and most interesting works both of English and of foreign authors. The catalogue was compiled by Herbert Collmann until his death in 1930 and thereafter to completion by G.A. Paternoster Brown. A standard reference. THE 'HANDLIST' IS UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION SINCE MANY SETS WENT STRAIGHT TO INSTITUTIONS NEVER TO EMERGE UNSCATHED.

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Book number: 11444

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BROCKMAN H.A.N.

The Caliph of Fonthill. [With a Foreword by Nikolaus Pevsner]. (William BECKFORD).

Werner Laurie,, [1956]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, 12 plates, 4 illustrations in the text, and endpaper maps in red and black; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The work includes a select bibliography. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 35844

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BROOKS Harold F.

A Bibliography of John Oldham, the Restoration Satirist. NEAR FINE COPY IN WRAPPERS

Oxford University Press [for] Oxford Bibliographical Society,, 1936. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper; original printed wrappers, yapped edges, uncut and largely unopened, covers a little dust-soiled else a near fine copy. Oxford Bibliographical Society, Proceedings & Papers, Vol. V Part I.

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Book number: 8785

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Keywords: bibliography, oldham, john oldham, brooks, harold brooks, restoration, oxford bibliographical society

BRUCCOLI M.J.

Joseph Heller. A Descriptive Bibliography.

Oak Knoll Press & University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh PA,, 2002. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and numerous facsimiles (many full-page) in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 20720

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Keywords: bibliography, joseph heller, catch-22, m.j. bruccoli, p. bucker, bibliography, general, joseph, heller

BRUSHFIELD T.N.

A Bibliography of Sir Walter Ralegh [sic; Raleigh] Knt. Second Edition, with Notes Revised and Enlarged. HANDSOMELY BOUND COPY

Commin, Exeter,, 1908. 4to., Best Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece (short closed tear), 14 plates and numerous full-page facsimiles in the text, partially unopened, one or two leaves poorly opened; strongly bound in contemporary maroon half roan gilt, maroon buckram boards, back gilt with five raised bands, leather label gilt, gilt top, marbled endpapers, uncut, covers lightly age-scuffed else a very good, bright, clean copy. Handsomely bound copy of the substantially rewritten and enlarged issue of the original edition of 1886. Lists around 330 works with discursive bibliographical notes. Scarce in this condition. Howard-Hill, 4484.

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Book number: 6249

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BUDAY George

The History of the Christmas Card. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Rockliff,, [1954]. 8vo., First Edition, with folding coloured frontispiece, coloured and monochrome plates, and illustrations in the text, wanting front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 49290

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Keywords: bibliography, printing & typography, christmas, christmas card, christmas cards, buday, george buday

BUHLER Curt F.

On the Horace printed in Rome by Wendelinus de Wila or Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck. NEAR FINE COPY

Leo S Olschki, Firenze,, 1935. Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with full-page facsimile in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy. This study of the undated Horace printed with the de Wila-Guldinbeck type 1: 108R (Proctor 3559) brings to light important points relating to the early history of printing in Rome. The study is based partly on the Pierpont Morgan copy. Offprinted from Bibliofilia, vol. XXXVII. VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 8573

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