BUTTERFIELD L.H.

Anticipation. Reprinted from the First Edition, London 1778. With an Introduction, Notes & a Bibliography of [Richard] Tickell's Writings by L.H.Butterfield. [With a Foreword by Randolph Adams of the W.L. Clements Library].

King's Crown Press, New York,, 1942. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 9002

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Keywords: bibliography, richard tickell, eighteenth century, satire, l.h. butterfield, bibliography, general, anticipation

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

A List of Books printed in Cambridge at the University Press 1521-1800. FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS

University Press, Cambridge,, 1935. 8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette; gray boards printed in black, ivory cloth back lettered in black, a fine copy.

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Book number: 26813

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CARTER Harry

Orlando Jewitt.

Oxford University Press, Oxford,, 1962. Sm. 4to., First Edition, with a title-vignette and numerous reproductions of engravings (a number full-page) in the text; pictorial cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, patterned endpapers, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. Jewitt (1799-1869) was perhaps the finest wood-engraver specialising in Gothic architecture. Records of his life are, however, slight; this is the first attempt at a biographical essay

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Carter John

Taste and Technique in Book Collecting. A Study of Recent Developments in Great Britain and the United States. [The Sandars Lectures in Bibliography 1947. Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,, 1949. 8vo., Second Impression; original ochre cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean, crisp copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly soiled and browned at backstrip. A much-loved standard reference. Published a year after the first edition.

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Book number: 37545

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CAXTON] [William

The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers. A Facsimile Reproduction of the First Book printed in England by William Caxton, in 1477. [With a Preface by William Blades]. [Second facsimile re-issue].

Diploma Press,, 1974. 8vo., on laid paper, black-letter throughout, neat signature on front free endpaper; original buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. The first facsimile of Caxton's famous work was published by Elliot Stock in 1877.

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CHAMBERLAIN E.

Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge. Volume III. Prints and Drawings. Part ii: Portraits. FINE COPY

D S Brewer, [Woodbridge,, 1994]. Sm. folio First Edition; black cloth upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt a fine copy.

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Book number: 27304

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CHAPMAN George

The Works of George Chapman. Plays. Edited with Notes by Richard Herne Shepherd. New Edition THE CATALANI COPY WITH CAMERON BOOKPLATE

Chatto & Windus,, 1889. 8vo., with portrait frontispiece, text in double column; original green cloth, upper board framed in blind and blocked in gilt, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut, hinges starting (but binding entirely sound), a good, bright, firm copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF W D S CATALANI AND BEARS HIS FINE ART-NOUVEAU BOOKPLATE BY DAVID YOUNG CAMERON ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. A FINE EXAMPLE OF THIS SPLENDID PLATE. W D S Catalani was Counsellor to the Italian Embassy, Washington. With the trade ticket of Thornton of Oxford on front paste-down and 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Rinder 445.

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Book number: 28327

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CHILCOTT Tim

A Publisher and his Circle. The Life and Work of John Taylor, Keats's Publisher. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Routledge Kegan Paul,, [1972]. 8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. In addition to many of Keat's most famous editions, the well-known house of Taylor & Hessey also published for Carlyle, Clare, Coleridge, De Quincey, Hazlitt and Lamb among many others. A fascinating study incorporating much original material.

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Book number: 36837

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CLAPPERTON Robert Henderson

Modern Paper-Making. [Third Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Blackwell, Oxford,, [1952]. 8vo., Third Edition, with numerous photographs and charts (a number folding); blue buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 44895

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CLEVERDON Douglas

Stanley Morison and Eric Gill 1925-1933. 230 COPIES WERE PRINTED: MICHAEL HARVEY'S COPY

[Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge],, [1983]. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in brown and black, and plates; original marbled wrappers, uncut, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 230 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 108). THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF SUBSCRIBER MICHAEL HARVEY: LOOSELY INSERTED ARE A P.L.s FROM CLEVERDON AND A PROOF LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. Printed for the subscribers [list included] and for presentation to Cleverdon on his eightieth birthday. The text is based on a talk given to the Double Crown Club, the Wynkyn de Worde Society and on several other occasions.

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Book number: 43065

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COCHRANE James Aikman

Dr. Johnson's Printer. The Life of William Strahan. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Routledge & Kegan Paul,, [1964]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 39225

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Keywords: bibliography, printing, printers, publishing houses, william strahan, james cochrane, samuel johnson

COCKERELL Douglas

Some Notes on Bookbinding. Line Drawings by Doris Meyer. [Second Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Oxford University Press, Oxford,, [1948]. 8vo., Second Impression, with sepia-toned frontispiece and numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original red buckram, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1929. Now scarce in its own right, especially in the dustwrapper.

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Book number: 16819

Catalogue: Bibliography0

Keywords: bibliography, douglas cockerell, bookbinding, binding, douglas cockerell, bibliography, bookbinding, some, notes, bookbinding

CODEX EXONIENSIS.

Codex Exoniensis. A Collection of Anglo-Saxon Poetry from a Manuscript in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter. With an English Translation, Notes and Indexes by Benjamin Thorpe FSA. FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE EXETER BOOK IN ENGLISH

William Pickering [for] The Society of Antiquaries of London,, 1842. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with engraved title-vignette, parallel texts in Old English and English in double column; full burgundy crushed morocco, back with raised bands, second compartment lettered in gilt (slightly dulled but wholly legible), gilt doublures, uncut, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE EXETER BOOK IN ENGLISH. Exeter Cathedral Library MS 3501, familiarly known as the 'Exeter Book', is one of the four major Anglo-Saxon literature codices and the largest known collection of Old English literature still in existence. It comprises an anthology of poetry including 'The Seafarer', 'The Wanderer', 'The Phoenix', 'Guthlac', 'Widsith' and others, together with the famous Riddles. This is the first printing of the Old English text, with Thorpe providing the first English translation. EXTREMELY SCARCE.

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Book number: 43675

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COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA

A Descriptive List of the Incunabula in the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. [Introduction by Charles Perry Fisher]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

Paul B Hoeber, New York,, [1931]. Roy. 8vo., First and Sole Edition; original printed wrappers, lower wrapper with two closed tears and minor marginal loss, a very good, clean copy. A presentation copy from the British Medical Journal to the library of the British Medical Association with its stamps on front wrapper, title and first leaf of list (only). Originally published in the periodical 'Annals of Medical History', New Series, Vol. 3, Nos. 2,3,4, this is the third such list of the College's incunabula following those of 1919 and 1923. This, the best edition, reprints the entire list numbering 404 examples. VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 10552

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Keywords: bibliography, incunables, incunabula, philadelphia, college of physicians of philadelphia

COLLIE Michael

George Gissing. A bibliographical Study. [Second Edition]. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED

St. Pauls Bibliographies, [Winchester],, 1985. 8vo., Second Edition, with 5 plates; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. Published in the series 'St. Paul's Bibliographies', this is the extensively revised and extended edition of the original bibliography which appeared in 1976

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Book number: 102

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Keywords: bibliography, george gissing, st. pauls bibliographies, michael collie, bibliography, general, george, gissing