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stiff paper wrappers. Morris, William (illustrator). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 318 pages with 113 illustrations. Paperback edition. Reprint of the first edition with additional illustrations and new introduction. With his Kelmscott Press and associations with the Arts & Crafts Movement, William Morris helped raise the public's awareness of fine books to new heights. Morris inspired and influenced a generation of other designers and those working in American typography and book design, including Updike, Rogers, Goudy, Bradley, Cleland, Dwiggins, Ransom, Nash and Collins. This landmark study documents the true extent of Morris's influence on American bookmaking. Now republished by Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, this edition comes with a new Foreword by Jean-François Vilain and contains 111 illustrations of bindings, title pages, type and decorations reproduced from the originals, as well as an extensive bibliography. This book is a vital contribution to the history of American design, intellectualism and culture, appealing not only to those interested in the history of book design, art, graphic art and typography, but also to librarians, book collectors and those studying the literature of the period.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 2002 corrected and enlarged edition. New Castle, Delaware / London: Oak Knoll Press / The British Library, 2002. The latest (2002) and best edition of the standard Thomas Hardy bibliography. Corrected and updated. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. Perfect condition (just removed from the publisher's shrinkwrap so we could write this description). NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. 439 total pages. New Edition, with all information from the original edition (1954) and its reprints (1968/1978/1979) plus a new historical introduction and supplement/corrigenda. Illustrated with 7 plates. Six appendices. Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped blue cloth. From the dust jacket: [This corrected and enlarged edition] "draws upon the contributions of a number of Hardy scholars in identifying errors in the book as originally published and significant bibliographical information that has become available since that time [In addition it] guides the reader through the mass of material published on Hardy in recent decades by providing an annotated bibliography of key works that expand or update the information supplied by Purdy An introduction describes the compilation of A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDY and evaluates its key attributes, its place in the evolution of single-author bibliography, and its influence on Hardy studies.". 2002 corrected and enlarged edition. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo. viii, 30pp., (vi), 388pp.+ 7 plates. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New DJ (still in shrinkwrap). First Edition. New Castle, Delaware / London: Oak Knoll Press / The British Library, 2006. A gorgeous copy. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. Perfect condition. STILL SEALED in the publisher's clear plastic SHRINKWRAP. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. Hinges are perfect. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. NOT a library discard. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. 2000. First Edition. The standard William Morris bibliography, correcting errors in Forman and Temple Scott. This is a full dress, fully descriptive bibliography in the Soho and Pittsburgh style. 100 illustrations. Two appendices (interviews and ephemera). Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped blue cloth. Complete with pristine dust jacket. Oversize Hardcover. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall. This large, heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. . First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. New/New DJ (still in shrinkwrap). lxi, 386pp. [447 total pages]. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New DJ (still in shrinkwrap). First Edition (so stated). New Castle, Delaware / London: Oak Knoll Press / The British Library, 1999. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. Perfect condition. STILL SEALED in the publisher's clear plastic SHRINKWRAP. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. 1999. First Edition (so stated). Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped blue cloth. From the dust jacket: "The writing career of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ('Lewis Carroll') began and ended with his contributions to periodicals. Between 1843, when he wrote a story for his grammar school magazine, until his death in 1898, he published over 300 items in magazines, journals, and newspapers. For the first time these writings are fully listed, described, annotated, and indexed by Carroll scholar Charles Lovett in LEWIS CARROLL & THE PRESS. This comprehensive new work not only provides bibliographical details lacking from previous studies, it describes Dodgson's letters, articles, games, mathematical problems, and stories in such a way that the scholar without access to these rare items will gain an understanding of where Dodgson stood on various subjects and of the nature of his relationship with the public through the press. Previously unknown Dodgson items are brought to light in this listing, and numerous early reprints are recorded for the first time. Dodgson's word puzzles 'Doublets' and 'Syzygies,' which were published on a continuing basis in VANITY FAIR and THE LADY, are fully described for the first time, and dozens of previously unknown Doublet and Syzygy problems are reprinted. The annotations, too, are replete with previously unpublished information. Lovett's introductory essay discusses Dodgson's career as both a reader of periodicals and a contributor to them, and quotes extensively from some of the 'lost' periodical contributions -- Dodgson material which has not been reprinted since its original appearance. The essay also identifies a previously unknown Lewis Carroll parody and suggests a possible inspiration for THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. Its wealth of new material and its full and proper description of what has so often been neglected in the past make LEWIS CARROLL AND THE PRESS an invaluable reference for librarians, scholars, students, professors, collectors , and booksellers.". First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. New/New DJ (still in shrinkwrap). 8vo. vi, 117pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. Second Edition, Revised & Enlarged. London / New Castle, Delaware: The British Library / Oak Knoll Press, 2002. A gorgeous copy. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. NOT a library discard. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. 2002. First Edition. The standard Philip Larkin bibliography. This is a full dress, fully descriptive bibliography in the Soho and Pittsburgh style. Index. Bound in the original black boards, stamped in bright gold on the spine. From the dust jacket: "The first edition of Barry Bloomfield's extensive bibliography of Philip Larkin (Faber 1979) covered the years 1933-1976. It went out of print several years ago and has since been difficult to obtain. This second revised and enlarged edition covers all Larkin's published work to the end of 1994 -- including SELECTED LETTERS and COLLECTED POEMS. The listing of critical material is much extended owing to the explosion of interest in Larkin's poetry after his death. Every section has been brought up to date and the few omissions from the first edition repaired, making this the only comprehensive bibliography available of Philip Larkin. Barry Bloomfield was a professional librarian and retired in 1990 as Director of Collection Development at the British Library. He has been President of the Bibliographical Society, President of the Private Libraries Association President of the Association of Independent Libraries Honorary Vice President of the Philip Larkin Society, the author of numerous articles in bibliographical and other journals, and joint author, with Edward Mendelson, of the bibliography of W.H. Auden.". Second Edition, Revised & Enlarged. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo. xix, 226pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 248 pages with 40 b/w illustrations. with The Publishing Pathways Series Cumulative Index. Part of the Publishing Pathways Series. Reading, and the manifold signs of reading, have become one of the most dynamic areas of research in book history. The reader as consumer and owner, as well as participant in the construction of new meanings, is the subject of these original essays. Specialists in literature, art history and book history investigate the annotations, marginal marks, extra-illustration and other forms of evidence left by readers. Through an examination of the book as a physical object, the contributors provide a range of intriguing insights into the ways in which this internalized and ephemeral activity can be understood in the context of book-trade history.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New jacket in shrinkwrap. First Edition (so stated). New Castle, Delaware / London: Oak Knoll Press / The British Library, 2002. A gorgeous copy. PERFECT condition. STILL SEALED in the publisher's clear plastic SHRINKWRAP. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. 2002. First Edition (so stated). The standard George Eliot bibliography. This is a full dress, fully descriptive bibliography in the Soho and Pittsburgh style. Fully described here are Eliot's writings - British and American first editions, first and later impressions, variants, later editions -- including collation, contents, binding, typography, publication history (including number of copies printed where known), notes, translations, reviews, library locations, cross references to other standard authorities, etc. Appendices. Indexes. Bound in the original gilt-stamped blue cloth. From the pristine dust jacket: "This bibliography is the most comprehensive reference work on the prolific 19th century British writer Mary Ann (Evans) Cross, a/k/a George Eliot (1819-1880), [who] dominated the British literary scene during the height of the Victorian Age This well-annotated and carefully organized work documents all of Eliot's major novels in English as well as other languages. Additional sections in the book list all her minor fictions, articles, poetry, and miscellaneous writings. The 700-page work is also well-illustrated with over 145 photographs of rare bindings and title pages. The authors have spent 35 years in research to make this bibliography the most definitive on the subject.". First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. New/New jacket in shrinkwrap. 8vo. xxxix, 676pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

hardcover, dust jacket. Leadenhall Press (illustrator). 7 x 10 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 176 pages. With an Appreciation of Andrew White Tuer. This book is the first comprehensive (and long-overdue) bibliographic study of the London partnership of Field & Tuer and their publishing imprint, Leadenhall Press (later the Leadenhall Press, Ltd.). Matthew Young makes a convincing argument for Andrew W. Tuer (1838-1900) as one of the most imaginative and influential printers and publishers of the mid-to-late Victorian period. Known today primarily for old-style facsimile reprints and a few outstanding works such as Tuer's own History of the Horn-Book, the Leadenhall Press in fact published hundreds of titles in almost every subject area, from sixpenny pamphlets to vellum-bound limited editions dedicated by command to the Queen, as well as two important and long-running periodicals: The Paper & Printing Trades Journal and The Printers International Specimen Exchange. The remarkable range of the catalogue is evident in a small sample from 1885: Jerome K. Jerome's first book, On the Stage--and Off; Joseph Crawhall's hand-colored Izaak Walton: His Wallet Booke; The Owls of Olynn Belfry, illustrated by Randolph Caldecott; Sir Montague Shearman's Foot-Ball: Its History for Five Centuries; feminist Emily Jane Pfeiffer's Flying Leaves from East and West; and Songs of the North, illustrated by (among others) Edward Burne-Jones, Charles Keene, Albert Moore, Frederick Sandys, and J.M. Whistler. The book includes a revealing portrait of Andrew Tuer as a man of energy, curiosity, and wit: a successful businessman, inventor, advocate for fine printing, publisher, designer, collector, author, and correspondent. The annotated checklist describes nearly 450 publications issued by Field & Tuer and the Leadenhall Press from 1863 to 1913. Listing details include: month and year of publication, publisher's job number, listed price, brief description of format and cover design, important aspects of content and publication, and location of scarce and noteworthy copies. Appendices cover Andrew Tuer's writings, ephemera, series titles, and institutional collections of special interest. A color section and illustrations in the text complete the story of an important link in the development of printing between the Chiswick Press of Charles Whittingham II and the celebrated publishers of the 1890s. Matthew Young is a graphic designer and book collector. He was the recipient of a 2008 Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship award to examine the collection at the Lilly Library (Indiana University), and he has presented papers on the Leadenhall Press at conferences in England, Canada, and the United States. A previous article, "The Mystery of Walt Ruding: A Solution," was published in the Antiquarian Book Monthly in 2001. .

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. 16 preliminary pages, 224 pages, black and white illustrations, fine condition in glazed boards.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New DJ (still in shrinkwrap). First Edition (so stated). New Castle, Delaware / London: Oak Knoll Press / The British Library, 1998. A gorgeous copy in PERFECT condition. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket STILL SEALED in the publisher's clear plastic SHRINKWRAP. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. 1998. First Edition (so stated). The standard Sir Walter Scott bibliography. This is a full dress, fully descriptive bibliography in the Soho and Pittsburgh style. Fully described here are Scott's writings -- first editions, first and later impressions, variants, later editions and reprints -- with collation, pagination, cancels, binding, typography, illustrations/figures, publication history, watermarks, contents and notes, translations, library locations, etc. Includes cross references to other standard authorities. Illustrated. Four appendices. Two indexes. Bound in the original gilt-stamped maroon cloth. From the pristine dust jacket: "This bibliography of Sir Walter Scott describes not only the variants in his novels and verse, as published in English during his lifetime, but extends to his lesser known activities as advocate and sheriff, antiquarian, biographer, editor, historian, reviewer, casual commentator from his Abbotsford estate, and constant contributor to the work of his friends and associates. Primarily from these other concerns, some 115 issues have been identified as probable or certain instances of Scott's involvement, acknowledged or concealed, and attention occasionally directed to other possibilities as yet unrecognised. Quite unknown, and here documented at length, beginning with KENILWORTH, are frequent extracts from the novels in a Philadelphia journal, some of them far in advance of publication in Edinburgh. Apart from what is essentially Scott, this bibliography further discloses his often anonymous reappearance in 164 anthologies and again, now indirectly, in countless printings deriving from his original work - in shabby chapbooks, grand suites of illustrations, operas, plays, and endless reams of sheet music. Thus any one Scott performance may have numerous consequences, totaling 60 or more entries cited here for a popular novel (WAVERLEY, ROB ROY, IVANHOE, THE PIRATE); at least 100 or so for several of the poetic romances; 199 entries for MARMION, and a rather astonishing count of 435 for THE LADY OF THE LAKE. From this larger perspective it may be argued that Scott's influence, immediate and remote, exceeded that of all other writers in the Romantic Era." Oversize Hardcover. This heavy book (over 5 pounds) will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. . First Edition (so stated). Hardcover (heavy). New/New DJ (still in shrinkwrap). xx, 1,071pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

8vo, 22.5cm. Pp. xiv,265, few illustr., notes & refs., index. Hardbound, boards in pict. dust-jacket. Fine, as new.

Hardcover, dust jacket. 8.5 x 11 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 160 pages. First edition. Ephemera has been collected for many years, but only recently has it become widely accepted as material for academic study. This is the first book to discuss ephemera as an aspect of design history, showing how function, production process and period have affected the changing appearance of billheads, trade cards, flyers, playbills and other ephemera. This book explores the closely interwoven printing histories of Britain and America. American colonial printers and engravers imported British type and equipment, took instruction from the same manuals and were guided by the same exemplars as their British counterparts, a relationship that continued through the first half of the nineteenth century. Following the Civil War, American graphic design and typography began to establish distinctive identities, with developments in color printing bringing an efflorescence of color-rich trade cards, cigar-box labels and other chromolithographed ephemera that was essentially American. Nevertheless, ideas continued to be shared across the Atlantic. American foundries devised entirely original typefaces that were imported into Britain, yet the development of expertise in designing with these new faces depended on printers learning from one another, and the scheme of specimen exchange that successfully achieved this was wholly devised and administered from London. Richly illustrated with letterforms, engravings, drawings and the reproduction of over 200 items of ephemera, many in full color, this is a book for collectors, students, design historians and all with an interest in the visual arts. Graham Hudson is secretary and a founding member of the Ephemera Society and a member of the Ephemera Society of America. His published articles on aspects of ephemeral printing include contributions to the Journal of the Printing Historical Society, Art Libraries Journal, the Journal of the Writing Equipment Society, Industrial Archaeology and numerous articles in The Ephemerist.

Hardcover, dust jacket. 7 x 12 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 337 pages. First edition. John Everett Millais is admired as one of the most celebrated of Pre-Raphaelite painters. Perhaps less known is the major contribution he made both to book and periodical illustration between 1852 and 1883. Many of these book illustrations remain little known today, largely due to the fact that they are scattered in hundreds of 19th century books and periodicals. This important new work brings together over 300 examples of Millais illustrations, enabling this part of his work to be viewed and appreciated by new generations. This work will be an important reference to any scholar interested in Victorian book illustration. Paul Goldman was a curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. He is the author of Victorian Illustrated Books 1850-1870 - The Heyday of Wood-Engraving (British Museum Press, 1994) and Victorian Illustration - The Pre-Raphaelites, The Idyllic School and The High Victorians (Scolar Press, 1996).

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Cloth, in jacket. Includes disc (unplayed). A bright, clean copy. ; 8vo ; 446 pages.

Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Royal octavo in dust jacket, x, 360 pp., b/w photos, bibliography, index of Ancient Texts, general index Preface and Introduction by Herbert and Tov. Artilces are "The Crystallization of the 'Canon of Hebrew Scriptures' in the Light of Biblical Scrolls from Qumran," Shemaryahu Talmon, "The Status of the Biblical Texts in the Qumran Corpus and the Canonical Process," Armin Lange, "The Rewritten Law, Prophets and Psalms: Issues for Understanding the Text of the Bible," George J. Brooke, "The Wording of Biblical Citations in Some Rewritten Scriptural Works," James C. VanderKam, "The Enochic Literature and the Bible: Intertextuality and its Implication," Philip S. Alexander, "Biblical Quotations in the Pesharim and the Text of the Bible - Methodological Considerations," Timothy H. Lim, "Biblical Quotations in the Community Rule," Sarianna Metso, "The Cave 4 Damascus Document Manuscripts and the Text of the Bible," Eibert Tigchelaar, "Biblical Quotations and Allusions in 4QApocryphal Lamentations (4Q179)," Jesper Hogenhaven, "4Q Tales of the Persian Court (4Q550a-e) and its Relation to Biblical Royal Courtier Tales, espescially Esther, Daniel and Joseph," Sidnie White Crawford, "The Biblical Texts from the Judaean Desert - an Overview and Analysis of the Published Texts," Emanuel Tov, "The Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible before and after the Qumran Dsicoveris," Arie van der Kooij, "The Absence of 'Sectarian Variants' in the Jewish Scriptual Scrolls Found at Qumran," Eugene Ulrich, "The Kaige Recension of Samuel: Light from 4QSama," Edward D. Herbert, "Uniique Readings in 4QSama," Donald W. Parry, IQIsaa and IQIsab: a Rematch," Martin G. Abegg, Jr., "The Book of Isaiah in the Dead Sea Scrolls," Peter W. Flint, "Textual Influence of the Qumran Scrolls on English Bible Versions," Stephen C. Daley, "Text, Truth and Tradition: the Public's View of the Bible in the Light of the Dead Sea Scolls," Harold P. Scanlon.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New DJ (still in shrinkwrap). First Edition (so stated). New Castle, Delaware / London: Oak Knoll Press / The British Library, 2004. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. STILL SEALED in the publisher's clear plastic SHRINKWRAP. 2004. First edition (so stated). Foreword by Nicolas Barker. Well illustrated with 125 black & white reproductions and 36 in full color. Includes a 145-page fully descriptive bibliography of Vale Press publications and ephemera, modeled on W. S. Peterson's BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE KELMSCOTT PRESS. List of ornaments. Three appendices. List of sources. Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped brown cloth. From the dust jacket: "As a typographer, publisher, and wood engraver Charles Ricketts (1866-1931) was a versatile and innovative practitioner who exerted a powerful influence on the development of modern book design. THE VALE PRESS is the most extensive account of his quest to become 'a publisher in earnest.' Beginning with Ricketts's work as 'a designer of books and bindings' for Oscar Wilde, the story of the Vale Press reveals for the first time the nature of Ricketts's collaboration with the master printer Charles McCall of the Ballantyne Press and the degree to which Ricketts's success, both artistic and commercial, depended upon the transformation of his redundant skill as a wood engraver into a positive medium of artistic expression. This important work offers a fascinating, historic window into the world of Ricketts, his contemporaries, and the British fine press movement. Readers will also find this history well-illustrated in colour and black-and-white with a comprehensive bibliography of the works of the Vale Press and Ricketts." 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall. First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. New/New DJ (still in shrinkwrap). xxiv, 266pp. + color plates. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New DJ (still in shrinkwrap). First Edition (so stated). New Castle, Delaware / London: Oak Knoll Press / The British Library, 2003. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. Perfect condition. STILL SEALED in the publisher's clear plastic SHRINKWRAP. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. NOT a library discard. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. 2003. First Edition (so stated). Well illustrated with over 100 b/w reproductions as well as 42 in full color. Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped green cloth. From the pristine dust jacket: "CHAUCER ILLUSTRATED presents ten scholarly essays, specifically commissioned for this volume, that collectively trace pictorial renditions of THE CANTERBURY TALES from the Ellesmere Manuscript (c. 1410) to the 20th-century illustrations of Rockwell Kent and Eric Gill. The contributors address the way the illustrations illuminate the history of book production, marketing, and readership; and the writers also consider how artists have interpreted Chaucer's text. Supporting the original scholarship are over forty color reproductions, along with over a hundred in black and white. These include, in addition to a generous sampling of the oft-reproduced Ellesmere Pilgrims, all the other images from medieval manuscripts of the TALES, including the privately held Devonshire MS. Some of the pictures have never been reproduced before, notably nine by James Jefferys that accompany the essay by Betsy Bowden, who discovered these images, long thought to have [been] permanently lost, in Harvard's Houghton Library. Also appearing here for the first time since 1818 is William Paulet Carey's CRITICAL DESCRIPTION of Thomas Stothard's PROCESSION OF CHAUCER'S PILGRIMS TO CANTERBURY, edited with an introduction by Maria McGarrity (Appendix 2). Anyone interested in the Canterbury Tales or how artists through the centuries have struggled to use illustration to enhance text should find in this volume much to delight and inform." 7.25" wide by 10.25" tall. First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. New/New DJ (still in shrinkwrap). xxiii, 445pp. + color plates. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Quarto. 240 pp. Text illustrations. Cloth. Fine in fine d.j. First edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. First Edition. London / New Castle, Delaware: The British Library / Oak Knoll Press, 2004. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. Perfect condition. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. Hinges are perfect. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. NOT a library discard. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. 2004. First Edition. The standard John Masefield bibliography. This is a full dress, fully descriptive bibliography in the Soho and Pittsburgh style. Illustrated with 50 black-and-white illustrations. Index of Verse Titles. Index of Verse First Lines. General Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped maroon cloth. From the pristine dust jacket: "John Masefield (1878-1967) was a prolific and popular writer, whose longevity afforded him a publishing history spanning six decades. Poet Laureate of Great Britain from 1930 until his death, Masefield was only 23 years old when he wrote his best-remembered poem 'Sea-Fever.' He was admired by the most influential artists of the twentieth century: for his poetry, by W. B. Yeats, Thomas Hardy and Philip Larkin; for his novels by Graham Greene; and for his plays by George Bernard Shaw. Yet, Masefield was not only significant as a writer: his career and output are significantly linked with twentieth-century publishing concerns. For the first time in a Masefield bibliography, archives of agents and publishers have been included in order to detail the publishing history of his individual works. This added detail offers another dimension to a man who is representative of so many parts of literary life: a best-selling and popular author, a victim of publishing contracts, an early employer of a literary agency, a patron of private presses and a figure particularly active in the literary world. This comprehensive bibliography comes at a time of new interest and re-assessment." Oversize Hardcover. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall by 2" thick. This large, heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. New/New. xiv, 907pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Large 8°, publisher's cloth with dust jacket. Illustrations in text (including 9 full page color "plates"). As new. 328 pp., chapter endnotes, analytical index. *** FIRST EDITION. Essays by Mirjam M. Foot, Giles Barber, Carmen Blacker, Christian Coppens, David Pearson, Nicholas Pickwoad, Nicholas Poole-Wilson, Esther Potter, Jan Storm van Leeuwen, and Marianne Tidcombe. ***.

Hardback. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Navy blue cloth. Pictorial jacket. 280 x 215 mm. 238 pp. A clean, attractive copy. Book.

hardcover. 7 x 10 inches. hardcover. 1,008 pages. First edition. The hundred years prior to the mid-nineteenth century saw a flowering of ephemeral publishing often referred to by the shorthand "chapbooks." This book is an analytical bibliography of the National Art Library's collection of literary ephemera of the period. For the purposes of this book, this includes entertaining and broadly educational works, such as abridged novels, alphabets, ballads, cries, dreadful, fables and tales, nursery rhymes, fortune books, garlands, histories, and natural histories. The book excludes primarily proselytizing and moralizing texts, along with battledores, cabinet and miniature books, harlequinaids, tracts, panoramas, plays, primers, and propaganda pamphlets. Also excluded are more substantial and sumptuous publications with engravings on quality paper and bound in boards as they were considered insufficiently ephemeral. Nearly 800 titles are described here in significant bibliographical detail to allow accurate comparison and verification with editions, variants, and states in other collections. Examples of illustrations from all the books described are reproduced here, providing a visual feast and resource. The book will appeal to all librarians and owners of collections containing literary and educational ephemera. It will provide support for current research into literary studies and work on literacy and language development. John Meriton is Librarian of the National Art Library and Deputy Keeper of the Word and Image Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Carlo Dumontet is the National Art Library's Special Collections Bibliographer.

hardcover. 6 x 8.5 inches. hardcover. 240 pages. From the Frankfurt book fairs in the sixteenth century to the Farringdon Road barrows in the twentieth, fairs and markets have played a crucial role in the circulation of books. Traveling peddlers and itinerant printers have also acted as intermediaries in distributing books beyond the reach of conventional shops and in spreading trade practices. In this volume of the Publishing Pathways Series, leading book historians investigate the presence of the book trade in the streets and public spaces of Britain and continental Europe. The essays range across geographical as well as chronological frontiers to follow the movement of books, ideas and people. Contributors include John Flood, Clive Griffin, Michael Harris, Ian Maclean, John Morris, Jerome Salman and David Stoker.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: new. First edition. 191pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth over boards. From the Publisher- "Advertising and promotion have always underpinned the business of bookselling but are often difficult for the historian to reconstruct. Once books were being produced in multiple copies, the book trade invested time, money, and imagination in the attempt to stimulate demand, manipulate customer choice, and expand the market. The mixed uses of marketing, both as product information and as an expression of trade identity and commercial rivalries, offer a glimpse at trade practices and the circumstances of individual careers. This volume of eight original essays, with contributions by specialists in the promotion and marketing of print, as well as by leading historians of the book, explores themes that include the advertising and marketing techniques of booksellers and publishers across early modern Europe, the increasing use of newspaper and periodical advertisements in England and Ireland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the dramatic impact of online marketing on the book trade. Other promotional tools discussed here range from the illustrated trade cards of eighteenth-century Paris to the rise of the book jacket and the cult of literary prizes in the twentieth century.".

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New dust jacket. First Edition (so stated). New Castle, Delaware / London: Oak Knoll Press / The British Library, 2000. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. The jacket is protected by a Brodart clear plastic sleeve. Perfect condition (just removed from the publisher's shrinkwrap so we could write this description). NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. 2000. First Edition (so stated, but actually an updated and expanded edition). Foreword by Dr. Marianne Tidcombe. After his apprenticeship at the British Museum Bindery (1940-1948), the author managed the famed Zaehnsdorff's bindery before opening his own bookbinding establishment. Bibliography. Beautifully illustrated with many full color binding photos. Bound in the original gilt-stamped brown cloth. From the dust jacket: "This is the autobiography of one of the world's leading book restorers, binding scholars, and international lecturers on book conservation and binding. It is also the very warm story of a gangly teenager's rise from his first position at the British Library's bindery to the pinnacle of his craft. This important work is not only this gifted craftsman's personal story - in RECOLLECTIONS the reader is treated to a unique insight into Britain's strict trade school; and indentured apprenticeship of the early first half of the 20th century. Originally published as a fine press book by Henry Morris on his renowned Bird & Bull Press, this edition has an expanded text with many additional historical illustrations. This edition also features forty-six colour and forty-six black and white photographs of Bernard Middleton's finest binding designs." 7.25" wide by 10.25" tall. First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. New/New dust jacket. xii, 126pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

hardcover with dust jacket. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover with dust jacket. 240 pages. The history of music printing and publishing has generally formed a self-contained area of research within the study of book history. Bibliographers and book historians have tended to overlook the trade in printed music, partly because the means of production (reproducing notation rather than letter forms) and of distribution (often through the specialist sellers of musical instruments and equipment) were themselves distinct. On the other hand, musicologists have until recently paid less attention to the commercial aspects of printed music, concentrating more on the technicalities of composition and performance. The original contributions contained in this newest addition to the Publishing Pathways series map some of the common ground between music and other forms of print, exploring the ways in which the organization of production and the process of publication of printed music have developed over time. From the production and sale of missals in Renaissance Spain to the complexities of Gustav Mahlers copyrights in late nineteenth-century Vienna, these essays raise issues and demonstrate methods of approach that will be of wider relevance to many areas of book history. How composers and publishers worked out their respective financial interests is just one of the recurring themes which will strike a chord with those who study the business of print.

cloth, dust jacket. 6 x 9 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 180 pages. First edition. Movements of books, both as individual volumes and as collections, have sometimes covered long distances across many centuries. Subject to the vagaries of war, shipwreck and personal ruin, as well as the intervention of the book trade and of collectors, the travels of books often have an intricately detailed and compelling story to tell. One of the most active areas of current research in book history is concerned with interpreting the clues from individual copies and piecing together the documentary evidence to provide this narrative. In this volume of the Publishing Pathways series, leading specialists in book history consider examples from the sixteenth to the twentieth century to chart some of the paths followed by books through the European network of print. This may focus on the large collections accumulated by Renaissance scholars, but may equally involve tracking multiple copies of the same work through the marks of ownership left by unknown readers. Books on the Move represents an important contribution to an understanding of the shifting interactions over time between libraries, collectors and the book trade.

Hardcover, dust jacket. 6 x 9 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 281 pages. Delivered at the Twenty-second Conference on the History of the British Book Trade Birmingham, July 2005. First edition. This ninth volume of the Print Networks series contains twelve exciting chapters from scholars working on the connections between the parties involved in the production of print artifacts; from author to printer, publisher, bookseller and reader. Chronologically, the offerings range from the seventeenth to the twentieth century as they track the developing trade in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Publishers and readers who spent part of their lives in North America are also featured in several of the chapters. The main theme emerging from this volume is the significance of cheap print, including newspapers and journals. The social, cultural, political and economic significance of these artifacts is highlighted by an in-depth examination of the lives of those men and women who participated in the book trade.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New DJ (still in shrinkwrap). First Edition (so stated). New Castle, Delaware / London: Oak Knoll Press / The British Library, 1998. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. Perfect condition. STILL SEALED in the publisher's clear plastic SHRINKWRAP. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. 1998. First Edition (so stated). Introduction by William E. Fredeman. Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped brown cloth. From the dust jacket: "Anyone interested in the spread of British fine literature and book design through the private press movement must take Mosher into account. For American popular culture, he was a prime conduit disseminating the more exotic literary fruits of the Aesthetic, Pre-Raphaelite, and Arts and Crafts movements This exhaustive study not only provides abundant new primary research, including new evidence on royalties paid, but also presents its contents in a novel way. An overview with tables and graphs and a set of highly useful appendices neatly cross-reference with the primary bibliography, now newly augmented with two checklists of publications by Mosher's 'successors'. The opening section is particularly useful in clearly presenting the various series, privately printed books, and books printed on vellum. The full color illustrated section on bindings adds yet another dimension showing the respect Mosher' s imprints command. Acclaims and criticisms of Mosher's publishing balance the record. A descriptive index, and an annotated and cross-referenced bibliography on Mosher himself, round out this work's strengths." Full title: "Thomas Bird Mosher, Pirate Prince of Publishers : A Comprehensive Bibliography and Source Guide to The Mosher Books Reflecting England's National Literature & Design." Oversize Hardcover. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall. This large, heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. First Edition (so stated). Oversize Hardcover. New/New DJ (still in shrinkwrap). xvi, 536pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 128pp. Small square quarto [25.5 cm] Gray cloth-effect paper over boards. In a dust jacket. From the Publisher- "This book is the long-awaited successor to the classic An Atlas of Typeforms, the great visually-led history of type that Alan Bartram and James Sutton produced in 1968. Much has changed in the last 40 years, not least the teaching of typography and the means by which it is created. Because current design methods do not require the drawing and tracing of letterforms in order to produce layouts, we have lost our close connection with them. Few understand their history, their appearance, and how and why they have developed as they have. Nearly 75 different types are shown in their original metal forms, just as they were in An Atlas of Typeforms. But an entirely new feature is the author's attempt to place the types in their historical context. By including photographs of contemporary inscriptions on buildings and monuments, Alan Bartram explores the relationship between printed and architectural letterforms and their parallel course from the Renaissance until Victorian times. The opportunities offered for graphic and type designers in the digital age are greater than ever before. But without an understanding of the visual make-up of letterforms and some knowledge of their fascinating history, designers cannot fully exploit the potential of type. In this book, Alan Bartram educates us in these critical areas.".