HUNTINGTON LIBRARY.

The Huntington Library Bulletin. Number 2. November 1931. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA,, 1931. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original printed wrappers, a remarkably bright, clean copy. Contents includes Check List of English Newspapers and Periodicals before 1801 (Gabler), Some Explorations in San Marino (Beveridge), Elizabethan Proof Corrections in 'The First Part of the Contention' (1600) with facsimiles (Brooke); Four Scarce Poems of George Wither (French); Letters and Accounts of Sir James Brydges 1705-1713 (Harvey); Coleridge Marginalia in Henry Brooke's 'The Fool of Quality' (Dike).

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Book number: 12966

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HURLIMANN Bettina

Three Centuries of Children's Books in Europe. Translated and edited by Brian W. Alderson. [First English Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Oxford University Press,, 1967. 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured and monochrome plates, and illustrations anf facsimiles in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 42905

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Keywords: bibliography, children's books, childens books, hurlimann, bettina hurlimann

HUTCHINS Michael

Printing at Gregynog. Aspects of a great Private Press. Translated by David Jenkins. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

Welsh Arts Council,, 1976. Sm. 4to., First Edition, text in English and Welsh, with coloured and monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) throughout; original printed wrappers, small mark on lower wrapper else a very good, bright, clean copy. Published on the occasion of the 1976 Gregynog Press Exhibition.

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Book number: 42661

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Keywords: bibliography, printing and typography, private press, gregynog press, michael hutchins, wales, printing

HUTNER Martin

A Century for the Century. Fine Printed Books from 1900 to 1999. [Revised Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

The Grolier Club & David R Godine, [Jaffrey NH],, 2004. Sm. folio, with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations in the text;blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published to accompany the exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York.

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Book number: 41653

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Keywords: mstock, bibliography, grolier club, martin hutner, jerry kelly

HYETT F. A.

County Bibliographies. A Paper read before the Bibliographical Society. With the Suggestions and Recommendations approvd by the Society. IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

Bibliographical Society,, 1896. 4to., on laid paper; wrappers, as issued, uncut, covers lightly marked else a near fine copy of a very scarce work. This important essay by one of the foremost topographical bibliographers is introduced by A.W. Pollard. SCARCE.

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Book number: 241

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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS.

The Faber Library of Illuminated Manuscripts. [Complete set]. [General Editor: Walter Oakeshott]. NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS

Faber,, [1959-62]. 8 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous fine coloured reproductions throughout; cloth, upper boards and backstrips lettered in gilt, a near fine set in dustwrapper, one wrapper with small loss at upper edge of front panel. The set comprises: The Great Lambeth Bible (ed. Dodwell), 1959; The Parisian Miniaturist Honore (ed. Millar), 1959; The Rohan Book of Hours (ed. Porcher), 1959; The Benedictional of St. Ethelwold (ed. Wormald), 1959; The Vienna Genesis (ed. Wellesz), 1960; A Fifteenth Century Italian Plutarch (ed. Mitchell), 1961; The Douce Apocalypse (ed. Hassall), 1961; The York Psalter (ed. Boase), 1962. Two further volumes - The Book of Durrow (ed. Bruce-Mitford) and The Book of Kells (ed. Henry) were projected but never published in this series. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 49192

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Keywords: palaeography, mss, manuscripts, illuminated manuscripts, faber library of illuminated manuscripts

IPEX 80

Catalogue of Exhibitions of British Coloured Books 1738-1898. Including a Selection from the Royal Library at Windsor. [With a useful and extensive introductory essay by Ruari McLean].

IPEX 80,, 1980. 8vo., with numerous high quality coloured plates; original pictorial wrappers in red and gilt, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. The exhibitions accompanied the 13th International Printing Machinery Exhibition st the NEC Birmingham.

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Book number: 3846

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JAMES TREGASKIS AND SON

The One Thousandth Caxton Head Catalogue. Containing a Selection of Books from the Stock of James Tregaskis and Son. With a Prolegomenon by A. Edward Newton. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

James Tregaskis and Son,, 1931. 4to., First Edition, text in red and black, with coloured portrait frontispiece, 11 plates in monochrome and several illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, some occasional light spotting; original printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Lists 164 outstanding items including bindings, English literature, manuscripts, science and books illustrating the history and development of printing. Tregaskis, 'at the sign of the Caxton Head', was one of Newton's favourite booksellers

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Book number: 5056

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JAY L.

Letters of the famous 18th Century Printer John Baskerville of Birmingham. Together with a Bibliography of Works printed by him at Birmingham. Collected, compiled & printed under the Direction of Leonard Jay.

Birmingham School of Printing, Central School of Arts & Crafts,, 1932. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece; cloth, gilt back, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the separately printed corrigenda slip loosely inserted. The wood-engraved frontispiece is by Joyce Francis. The works collects fifteen Baskerville letters followed by the first substantial bibliography of Baskverville's Birmingham editions. Scarce.

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Book number: 9654

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JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY, Manchester

[Exhibition Catalogue] Caxton in the Context of European Printing. A Quincentennial Exhibition [1476-1976]. [Introduction by M.M.W, Dept. Of Printed Books]. NEAR FINE COPY

John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Manchester,, 1976. Roy. 8vo., duplicated typescript; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. The catalogue lists 79 exhibits, from a fifteenth-century 'Theologia' to the Gregynog 'Aesop' of 1932. As the exhibition title implies, the valuable descriptions are contextual rather than bibliographical. SCARCE.

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Book number: 7232

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Keywords: bibliography, rylands, caxton, incunabula, exhibition catalogues, john rylands library manchester

KEHR Helen

The Nazi Era 1919-1945. A Select Bibliography of Published Works from the Early Roots to 1980. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Mansell,, [1982]. 8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 42982

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Keywords: bibliography, ww2, wwii, third reich, nazi party, nsdap, national socialism, hitler, helen kehr, janet langmaid

KEITH W.J.

Regions of the Imagination. The Development of British Rural Fiction.

University of Toronto Press, Toronto,, [1988]. 8vo., Sole Edition; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A valuable study in which the author identifies the roots of the regional tradition in the success of the Waverley novels and in the profound changes forced by the Industrial Revolution

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Book number: 5217

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Keywords: bibliography, literary criticism, rural literature, novels, literature, hardy, powys, williamson, lawrence, w.j. keith, bibliography, general, regions, the, imagination

KEMP Ivor

Laurence Housman, 1865 -1959. A brief Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts and Drawings, presented to the Street Library by the Family of Roger and Sarah Bancroft Clark, to mark the Centenary of Laurence Housman's Birth, 1965. NEAR FINE COPY WITH SCARCE SUPPLEMENT

Trustees of Street Library, Somerset,, [1965]. 8vo., with a frontispiece, and an illustration and a facsimile in the text; original wrappers, a fine copy. WITH THE SCARCE TWO-LEAF SUPPLEMENT LOOSELY INSERTED.

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Book number: 118

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Keywords: bibliography, housman, laurence housman, ivor kemp

KERR Alison

Bernard Shaw. An Exhibition of Books and Manuscripts from the Collection presented by Mr. Bernard Burgunder, Cornell 1918. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Cornell University Library,, 1963. 4to., First Edition, with title in blue and black; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, yapped edges, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy.

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Book number: 11495

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Keywords: bibliography, shaw, bernard shaw, burgunder, bernard burgunder, cornell, exhibition catalogues, alison kerr

KEYNES (rev.) Geoffrey

Bibliography of William Hazlitt. Second Edition revised by Geoffrey Keynes. 750 COPIES WERE PRINTED

St. Paul's Bibliographies, [Winchester,, 1981]. 8vo., BEST EDITION, with a portrait frontispiece, and 6 full-page illustrations and 32 title-pages in facsimile in the text; cloth, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 750 COPIES. 'St Paul's Bibliographies' 4. The first edition was published by the Nonesuch Press in 1931.

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Book number: 114

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