DANCY John

Walter Oakeshott. A Diversity of Gifts. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Michael Russell,, [1995]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates; terracotta cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The standard biography of the eminent palaeographer whose many achievements include the identification of the sole extant manuscript of Malory's Morte d'Arthur, and the distinguishing and naming of the artists of the Winchester Bible.

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Book number: 2128

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DAVENPORT Cyril

Beautiful Books.

Methuen,, [1929]. Sm. 4to. First Edition with mounted coloured frontispiece title and text in brown a mounted coloured plate and 17 plates in monochrome; red wrappers printed in black covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good clean copy.

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Book number: 27776

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DAVENPORT Cyril

English Heraldic Book-Stamps. Figured and Described. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING

Archibald Constable,, 1909. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations throughout, free endpapers lightly browned; original dark red buckram, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy with virtually no trace of the usual foxing. Bright, firm copy of the standard reference, seldom found without institutional markings. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 31873

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DAVENPORT Cyril

Royal English Bookbindings.

Seeley & Co.,, 1896. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a fine coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 7 fine coloured plates, and 27 monochrome illustrations in the text;, free endpapers faintly browned; original plum cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, covers unevenly faded at backstrip else a very good, bright, clean copy. A very nice, bright copy of a standard reference. Uncommon in this condition.

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Book number: 16536

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DAVIDSON James

Bibliotheca Devoniensis. A Catalogue of Printed Books relating to the County of Devon. THE ORIGINAL EDITION WITH SUPPLEMENT IN CONTEMPORARY HALF CALF

William Roberts, Exeter,, 1852. Sm. 4to., First Edition, title and preliminaries very lightly spotted; attractively bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, back with raised bands, second compartment with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt, marbled edges, county coloured map sections as paste-downs, marbled free endpapers, a very good, bright, crisp copy. With the list of subscribers and [first] Supplement bound in. EXTREMELY SCARCE.

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Book number: 38568

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Keywords: bibliography, topography, devonshire, devon, james davidson, bibliotheca devoniensis

DAVIES John Humphreys

Catalogue of Manuscripts. Volume I. Additional Manuscripts in the Collections of Sir John Williams. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED; NEAR FINE COPY

National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth,, 1921. Roy. 8vo., ALL PUBLISHED; navy buckram, gilt back, gilt top, UNCUT AND UNOPENED, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES.

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Book number: 27231

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Keywords: bibliography, palaeography, mss, manuscripts, national library of wales, sir john williams, john humphreys davies

DAVIS George W.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Some new bibliographical Discoveries. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Marks & Co.,, 1928. 8vo., original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, wrappers a little age-marked else a very good copy. With the holograph presentation inscription of V. Marks of Marks and Co., booksellers, who issued the work.

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Book number: 227

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Keywords: bibliography, dickens, charles dickens, pickwick, pickwickiana, george davis

DAWES C. R.

Restif de la Bretonne, 1734-1806. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED

Privately Printed,, 1946. 8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. This, the first work in English on Bretonne, includes two bibliographies.

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Book number: 64

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Keywords: bibliography, bretonne, erotica, pornography, c.r. dawes, bibliography, general, restif, de, la, bretonne, 1734-1806

DE WAAL Ronald Burt

The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. A Classified and Annotated List of Materials relating to their Lives and Adventures. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Bramhall House, New York NY,, [1974]. Sm. folio, with frontispiece; brown tweed cloth, black back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of an invaluable standard reference.

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Book number: 42937

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Keywords: bibliography, holmes, sherlock holmes, watson, doctor watson, de waal, detective fiction, crime fiction

DEACON Richard

A Biography of William Caxton. The First English Editor, Printer, Merchant and Translator. EDITOR'S WORKING COPY WITH A.L.s

Muller,, [1976]. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations and plans (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, a very good, clean copy. EDITOR'S WORKING COPY, WITH NUMEROUS ANNOTATIONS AND REVISIONS IN A NEAT HAND THROUGHOUT; PAGES 97-98 CUT TO EXCLUDE ONE ILLUSTRATION ('Caxton and his Press from a painting by Vivian Forbes). SOLD WITH TWO A.L.s. FROM THE AUTHOR TO HIS EDITOR AUDREY WILLIAMSON (AT FREDERICK MULLER) DISCUSSING WORKS IN PROGRESS (IN PARTICULAR THE AUTHOR'S 'THE HISTORY OF THE JAPANESE SECRET SERViCE' ALSO PUBLISHED BY MULLER IN 1982) AND A RELEVANT CUTTING.

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Book number: 2434

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Keywords: bibliography, printing, caxton, richard deacon, donald mccormick, bibliography, printing, typography, biography, william, caxton

DICKSON Robert

Introduction of the Art of Printing into Scotland. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED

Edmond & Spark, Aberdeen,, 1885. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title-vignette and numerous full-page facsimiles (all original tissue guards present) in the text; blue cloth, upper board lettered in gilt and blocked in black, gilt back, bevelled boards, uncut, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 352).

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Book number: 43064

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Keywords: bibliography, printing, typography, scotland, robert dickson

DNB

The [Concise] Dictionary of National Biography. Founded in 1882 by George Smith. The Concise Dictionary. Part 1. From the Beginnings to 1900. Being an Epitome of the Main Wotrk and its Supplement [with] Part II. 1901-1970 [complete set].

Oxford University Press,, [1983-1982]. 2 vols., cloth, gilt backs, a fine set in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 7349

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DOBELL Bertram

Catalogue of a Collection of Privately Printed Books; compiled and annotated by Bertram Dobell. Part III. [THIS PART ONLY]. FIRM COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

Privately Printed,, 1893. 8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, uncut, covers a trifle dusty else a good, clean copy. As much a scholar as a bookdealer, Dobell sought to distinguish his catalogues in the scope and quality of his editing. His remarkable five-part Catalogue of Privately Printed Books was issued between 1892 and ?1895; this part contains alphabetical sequence Napier-Why.

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Book number: 68

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DORNBUSCH C.E.

Unit Histories of the United States Air Forces , including Privately Printed Personal Narratives. Compiled by C.E. Dornbusch. GOOD, CLEAN COPY

Hampton Books, Hampton Bays NY,, 1958. 8vo., First Edition; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers mildly age-faded else a good, clean copy.

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Book number: 40886

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Keywords: aviation, usaf, us air force, unit history, unit histories, bibliography

DRAKE QUATERCENTENARY

Drake 400. [Catalogue of] An Exhibition of Historic Maps and Printed Books from the Robert H. Power Collection. 6 August - 11 September 1977. City Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth. NEAR FINE COPY

Plymouth City Council,, 1977. 8vo., First Edition, with facsimiles in the text, some very minor occasional annotation; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 45230

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