BIBLIOGRAPHY & TYPOGRAPHY
A. & C. BLACK: Adam & Charles Black 1807-1957. Some Chapters in the
History of a Publishing House.
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1959.
Reprint. Coloured frontispiece and plates. 8vo,
pp.ix:115, original cloth; a very good copy.
Quote Item No. 2941
Price: £10.00
ALDINE PRESS - CHRISTIES AUCTION CATALOGUE: Fine Books from the Aldine Press.
Venice 1495-1566.
London: Christies, 1995.
Auction catalogue of 86 lots. Illustrated in colour and black
& white. 4to, pp.119, softcover; generally very good. Auction
results loosely inserted.
Quote Item No. 6613
Price: £12.00
ARLOTT, JOHN - CHRISTIES AUCTION CATALOGUE: Printed Books and Manuscripts from the Library of
the Late John Arlott ..... and other properties.
Christie's South Kensington, 11 September 1992.
Auction catalogue of 439 lots.
Illustrations. Softcover. 4to, pp.56, original glazed
wrappers. Very good.
Quote Item No. 10168
Price: £20.00
ARMITAGE, DR. P.T: A Bibliography of George Brannon's
Vectis Scenery 1820 - 1857.
Privately printed for the author by the Isle of Wight County Press,
1974.
Plates. Oblong folio, pp.62, original cloth gilt; very good in
torn & incomplete d.w.
Quote Item No. 5913
Price: £25.00
AUCTION CATALOGUE: The Mercator Atlas of Europe. To
be sold as a single lot in the sale of Valuable Autograph Letters
....... London, 13th March, 1979.
London: Sotheby's, 1979.
Eight coloured illustration and three b&w illustrations. 4to,
pp.[20], original pictorial paper wrappers.
Quote Item No. 2522
Price: £12.00
BARBER, MAJOR R.H.: A Supplementary Bibliography of
Hawking.
Westminster: Privately Printed (1,000 copies) for the Author, 1943.
Illustrated title-page. Small 8vo, pp.(14), original printed
wrappers, wire stitched as issued.
Quote Item No. 6051
Price: £10.00
BERKELEY, EDMUND [Edit.]: Autographs and Manuscripts:
a Collector's Manual.
New York: Scribner's, 1978.
First edition. Plates. Large 8vo, pp.xviii:565, original
cloth in dustwrapper. Puncture to cloth of backstrip, else
binding very good; dustwrapper with identical puncture and
with a number of creased tears to edges (minor loss);
internally excellent.
Quote Item No. 880
Price: £12.00
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
The Private Library - Quarterly Journal of the Private Libraries
Association.
London: Private Libraries Association, Spring 1971 - Winter
1991.
A broken run of this illustrated quarterly periodical; each
8vo, original printed wrappers in generally excellent condition.
Fifty-eight issues comprising:-
Second Series Volume 4, No.1 to Fourth Series, Volume 4, No.4
but lacking:
Second Series, Volume 5, Nos.1 and 4;
Volume 9, No.1;
Volume10, Nos. 3 and 4;
Third Series, Volume 2, Nos. 1, 2 and 4;
Volume 3, Nos. 1-4;
Volume 4, Nos. 1 and 2;
Volume 5, No. 2;
Volume 6, Nos. 1 and 4;
Volume 7, Nos. 2-4;
Volume 8, Nos. 1 and 2;
and
Volume 10, Nos. 1 and 3;
Fourth Series, Volume 2, No. 1;
and
Volume 4, No. 2.
With indexes for First and Third Series.
Quote Item No. 1965
Price: £120.00
BIRCH,
WALTER DE GRAY: Seals. With autograph letter signed from the author.
London: Methuen, 1907.
First edition. Plates. Large 8vo (10¼
x 7½
inches), pages: xxviii:321. Original red cloth blocked in gilt; 2
inch split to lower joint; endpapers foxed, otherwise good.
With a 2-page autograph letter signed from the author dated
British Museum, 4th Sept. 1900 loosely inserted.
Quote Item No. 10913
Price: £20.00
BLAND, DAVID: The Book Number Four: A Bibliography of
Book Illustration.
London: Published for the National Book League by the
Cambridge University Press, 1955.
8vo, pp.16, original decorative wrappers; excellent.
Quote Item No. 3605
Price: £5.00
BLAND, DAVID: A History of Book Illustration. The Illuminated
Manuscript and the Printed Book.
London: Faber & Faber, 1959.
Second impression. Profusely illustrated including tipped-in
coloured plates. Small folio, pp.448, original cloth in
dustwrapper; binding excellent; dustwrapper chipped and rubbed along
edges (some small loss at top of spine), some shelf-wear;
internally, endpapers lightly browned, else an excellent copy.
Bookplate to front pastedown. This is a very heavy book and will
incur extra postage, please enquire.
Quote Item No. 2947
Price: £22.00
BLYTHE, R.C: The Nelson Lee Library. A Complete Guide and
Bibliography of the Writings of Edwy Searles Brooks.
For the author, 1964.
Second edition. Illustrated in black & white. 4to,
pp.72, original yellow paper wrappers; cover slightly marked.
Quote Item No. 6623
Price: £25.00
BOHN, HENRY G: Catalogue of Books. Volume 1
containing Natural History, Books of Prints, Science, Language,
Bibliography, Oriental and Northern Literature, Old English
Histor'ns, Early Voyages, etc. Games etc.
London: H.G. Bohn, 1848.
Engraved frontispiece and title. 8vo, pp.467:112 ("New,
Valuable, and most important books offered at very reduced prices' -
including Hooker's 'Exotic Flora' reduced to £6.6.0"!), contemporary
half red calf; boards detached, backstrip chipped rubbed and
creased.
Quote Item No. 209
Price: £30.00
BONHAM-CARTER, VICTOR: Authors by Profession. Two Volumes.
SIGNED BY AUTHOR and with FOUR TYPED, SIGNED LETTERS.
London: The Bodley Head and The Society of Authors, 1978 and
1984.
Volume 1: From the Introduction of Printing to the Copyright Act
1911, 8vo, pp.252, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding excellent;
dustwrapper spine very slightly browned, else good; internally, very
good, with a presentation inscription from the author on the front
free-endpaper.
Volume 2: From the Copyright Act 1911 until the end of 1981, 8vo,
pp.336, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding excellent;
dustwrapper spine very slightly faded, else good; internally, very
good with presentation inscription from the author on the front
free-endpaper.
With four interesting typed, signed letters loosely inserted.
Quote Item No. 707
Price: £25.00
BOWOOD HOUSE ARCHIVES - CHRISTIES AUCTION CATALOGUE: Important Autograph letters from the
Historical Archives at Bowood House.
London: Christie's, 1994.
Black & white illustrations. 4to, pp.137:[11], softcover;
tiny crease to one corner of cover, else generally very good.
This sale comprised 89 lots and Christie's price list is loosely
inserted.
Quote Item No. 2528
Price: £10.00
BUTE LIBRARY - CHRISTIES AUCTION CATALOGUE: Valuable English and Continental Books from
the Bute Library. London, 15 March, 1995.
London: Christie's, 1995.
A number of coloured plates and numerous black & white
illustrations. 4to, pp.254:[15], softcover; generally very good. The
sale comprised 411 lots.
Quote Item No. 2478
Price: £10.00
CATCHPOLE, P.A.:
Fifty Years with the Cambridge University Press 1882-1932.
Cambridge: Printed for
private circulation at the University Press, 1932. First edition.
8vo, pp.[6]:34, original boards, no dustwrapper; binding with
two faint stains to back cover, else good; internally, bookplated to
front pastedown, ink ownership name on front free-endpaper; signed
by the author. With a typed letter signed by the author loosely
inserted.
Quote Item No. 8991
Price: £12.00
London: Sotheby's, 1993.
Numerous illustrations in black & white. 4to, pp.115:[9],
softcover; crease to lower corner of back cover with a couple of
tiny marks otherwise very good. This sale comprised 519 lots.
Quote Item No. 2531
Price: £7.00
CHAMBERS, C.E.S: A List of Works containing Illustrations
by John Leech.
Edinburgh: William Brown, 1892.
One of 285 copies printed. 8vo, pp.22, interleaved throughout;
original wrappers now detached and chipped.
Quote Item No. 3554
Price: £8.00
CHAPMAN, GUY: A Bibliography of William Beckford of Fonthill.
Part of "Bibliographia. Studies in Book History and Book
Structure 1750-1900. Edited by Michael Sadleir" series.
London: Constable, 1930.
4to, PHOTOCOPY of original volume, two pages per sheet, bound in
green buckram with printed label pasted to cover; corners
slightly bumped and rubbed; a faint ring mark to upper cover
and slight round stain to lower cover; spine slightly faded.
Quote Item No. 6617
Price: £14.00
CHARLES RICKETTS: A Collection of Books Designed by Charles
Rickets.
Zurich: L'Art Ancien, 1972.
Bulletin 25. Number 361 of 500 copies printed. A
catalogue of 74 books designed by Ricketts, with a list of works not
included, a bibliography, and introduction. Large 8vo, pp.38 and
with 4 pages of illustrations. Original wrappers with printed
paper label. Wrappers unevenly faded. With
corrigenda/addenda loosely inserted.
Quote Item No. 3641
Price: £10.00
COWDEN-CLARKE, MARY: Centennial Biographic Sketch of
Charles Cowden-Clarke by Her whom he made his Second Self.
London: Novello, 1887.
8vo, pp.54:(4), original printed wrappers; stitching slack, lacking
backstrip, wrappers stained and with small piece chipped away on
lower fore-corner of upper wrapper.
Quote Item No. 3703
Price: £21.00
CRUTCHLEY, BROOKE: A
Printer's Christmas Books.
Cambridge: Privately
Printed at the University Press, 1974.
Illustrated. 4to, pp.42,
original cloth-backed boards lettered in gilt on the spine;
tiny pieces of rubbing on some corners, else
an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 8997
Price: £18.00
CRUTCHLEY, BROOKE: Two
Men.
Walter Lewis and Stanley Morison at Cambridge.
Cambridge: Printed for
His Friends by the University Printer, Christmas 1968.
First edition.
Illustrated in black & white and with specimens of different styles
of typography tipped-on to blue leaves at the back.
Tall 8vo, pp.vi:48:[7 specimens], original cloth-backed
decorative boards lettered in gilt on spine in slip-case;
an excellent copy in a very good slip-case.
Quote Item No. 9002
Price: £40.00
DAVISON, C. ST. C. B: Historic Books on Machines.
Special Exhibition Catalogue.
London: Science Museum, 1953.
Square 8vo, pp.28, original illustrated wrappers.
Quote Item No. 3603
Price: £10.00
DAY, KENNETH [Editor]: Book Design and Production.
Vol. 6, No. 3.
London: Thames Publishing Co. 1963.
Illustrations throughout. 4to, pp.137-208, original laminated
wrappers; very good.
Includes "The Private Press in the North American Continent" by
Roderick Cave, and the "Technique of the Book Jacket" by B.S.
Biro.
Quote Item No. 3089
Price: £10.00
DIBDIN, T.F.: Printers Devices. Being a partial
reprint of the Fifth and Sixth Days Delectable Discourses thereon
from the Bibliographical Decameron of the Rev. T.F. Dibdin.
London: The Imprint, n.d.
Illustrations throughout. 4to (10½
x 8¼
inches) 80-pages. Spiral bound plain boards. Boards and text
browned.
Quote Item No. 10916
Price: £25.00
Dreweatts, 2008.
Auction catalogue to accompany the sale on 22nd & 23rd April, 2008.
Profusely illustrated in colour.
4to, pp.96, softcover;
generally a very good copy.
Quote
Item No.12102
Price: £10.00
DREYFUS, JOHN: Italic
Quartet.
A Record of the Collaboration between Harry
Kessler, Edward Johnston, Emery Walker and Edward Prince in Making
the Cranach Press Italic.
Cambridge: At the
University Press, 1966.
Special edition of 500 copies.
Black & white illustrations.
Folio, pp.vii:50, original decorative boards
lettered in gilt on spine in matching slip-case;
an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 9000
Price: £70.00
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE: Sherlock Holmes. Catalogue of
an Exhibition held at Abbey House, Baker Street, London
May-September 1951.
London: for the Festival of Britain by the Public Library of
St. Marylebone, 1951.
Frontispiece. 8vo, pp.60, original pictorial wrappers.
Quote Item No. 3597
Price: £6.00
FAWCETT, TREVOR & PHILLPOT, CLIVE [Editors]: The Art Press,
Two Centuries of Art Magazines. Essays published for the Art
Libraries Society on the occasion of the International Conference on
Art Periodicals and the exhibition The Art Press at the Victoria and
Albert Museum.
London: The Art Book Co. 1976.
Plates. Folio, pp.61, original cloth; a little marked.
Quote Item No. 721
Price: £18.00
FIFOOT, RICHARD: A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and
Sacheverell Sitwell. Second edition, revised.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971.
8vo, pp.432, original cloth in price-clipped dustwrapper;
binding very good; dustwrapper with tear to side and partially
across spine, ends of spine slightly chipped, spine browned;
internally, excellent.
Quote Item No. 2955
Price: £5.00
FREEMAN, ARTHUR and FREEMAN, JANET ING: Anatomy of an
Auction. Rare Books at Ruxley Lodge, 1919. Part of a
series of Book Collector Occasional Publications.
London: The Book Collector, 1990.
First edition. Black & white frontispiece. 8vo, pp.169,
original brown cloth in dustwrapper; edges of dustwrapper
slightly rubbed; quite a large ring-mark to front of
dustwrapper, in all other respects an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 6753
Price: £25.00
GREEN, ROGER LANCELYN: Tellers of Tales. An Account
of children's favourite authors from 1839 to the present day, their
books and how they came to write them with an Appendix and Indexes
giving the titles and dates of these books; new, enlarged,
edition.
Leicester: Edmund Ward, 1953.
8vo, pp.288, original cloth; a very good copy in slightly
browned dustwrapper.
Quote Item No. 866
Price: £12.00
GREENWAY, JOHN: Bibliography of the Australian
Aborigines and the Native Peoples of Torres Strait to 1959.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1963.
First edition. 8vo, pp.xv:420, original cloth in price-clipped
dustwrapper. Very faint damp mark to lower edge of binding and lower
inner margins of text; dustwrapper bumped and rubbed along the edges
and with some shelf-wear, spine slightly darkened.
Quote Item No. 597
Price: £40.00
HANDOVER, P. M: A History of The London Gazette, 1665-1965.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1965.
Plates. Tall 8vo, pp.vii:95, original cloth; very good
in slightly edge chipped d.w.
Quote Item No. 3408
Price: £10.00
HARDING, JOAN P; SMITH, DAVID A; CRANE, EVA;
DURUZ, ROSAMUND M; and OTHERS: British Bee Books,
a Bibliography 1500 - 1976.
London: British Bee Research Association, 1979.
First edition. Black & white illustrations. 8vo, pp.270,
original cloth in dustwrapper; binding extremely good; dustwrapper
cockled and slightly soiled, spine and edges lightly browned;
internally, pp.119-121 not bound in but present, else very good.
Quote Item No. 2956
Price: £12.00
HARLING, ROBERT [Editor]: Alphabet and Image. No. 8 (the
last published).
London: Art & Tecnics, December 1948.
Illustrations thoughout. 4to, pp.100, original printed thin
card boards with remains of the dustwrapper loosely
inserted (dustwrapper lacking at backstrip leaving only the two
covers with chipped edges); binding very good internally, Ralph
Mabey's copy with his now detached bookplate. With the 8-page "Stop
Press" loosely inserted.
Quote Item No. 3114
Price: £10.00
HEATH, WENDY Y. (Editor):
Book Auction Records. A Priced and Annotated Annual Record of
International Book Auctions.
Volumes 86 - 94, 1988 - 1996. The last
9 volumes published.
Dawson, 1996.
The last 9 volumes published, 1988-1996. 4to, original cloth;
short split to one outer joint; generally very good.
Very heavy; extra postage
will apply; please request quote.
Quote Item No. 9102
Price: £30.00
HILL, JONATHAN A;
SILVEIRA DE BRAGANZA; CHARLOTTE OAKES: The Hill
Collection of Pacific Voyages.
San Diego: University of California, 1974.
Plates. Large 8vo (10½ x 7¼ inches), pages: xiv:433. Original
blue cloth gilt. Boards a little edge browned, generally good.
Inscribed by Jonathan Hill and signed on the title-page.
Quote Item No. 10922
Price: £28.00
HOBSON, A.R.A: The Book Number Two: The Literature
of Bookbinding.
London: Published for the National Book League by the
Cambridge University Press, 1954.
8vo, pp. 16, original decorative wrappers; very good.
Quote Item No. 3609
Price: £10.00
IRELAND, JOHN: Hogarth Illustrated from his own
manuscripts; compiled and arranged from the originals. The third
edition.
London: Printed by Bulmer for Boydell, 1812.
Two volumes. Engraved plates. 8vo, pp.cxxii:237 &
pp.(2):379, contemporary half calf, spines blocked in blind within
compartments, faint numeral on upper cover of Volume 1, lettering
and numbering pieces. Without the third volume, 'A Supplement
to Hogarth Illustrated'.
Quote Item No. 763
Price: £95.00
LEE, SIDNEY. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Shakespeare's Comedies,
Histories, & Tragedies. A Census of Extant Copies with some
account of their History and Condition. Being a supplement to the
Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Folio Edition (1623) from the
Chatsworth Copy .....
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1902. Folio, pp.45:(1,
postscript), stitched, unbound. With the half-title. Some
light foxing or spotting to first & last leaves else very good.
The facsimile edition of the First Folio, to which this Census was a
supplement, was issued in a limited edition of 1000 copies.
Quote Item No. 5983
Price: £200.00
MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS - AUCTION CATALOGUE: The Archive of Macmillan Publishers Ltd
(1905-1969). London, 19th July, 1990.
London: Sotheby's, 1990.
Illustrated in black & white. 4to, pp.37, softcover;
generally very good.
This archive was Lot 192 in the Sale of English Literature and
History (in this, a separate catalogue to the main sale); the
lot comprised 26 parts which were to be sold individually if the
archive failed to sell as a whole.
Quote Item No. 2469
Price: £7.00
MADAN, FALCONER: Lewis Carroll Centenary Exhibition,
London 29th June - 31st July 1932. Catalogue with
Illustrations and Notes, and an Essay by Harold G Hartley on
Dodgson's Illustrators.
London: J. & E. Bumpus, 1932.
Portrait. 8vo, pp.116:(6), original printed wrappers; binding
browned.
Quote Item No. 824
Price: £15.00
London: for the Royal Geographical Society by John Murray,
1895.
8vo, pp.viii:833, original blue cloth gilt; headbands bumped,
corners rubbed in places, else good; internally, page edges lightly
browned and spotted, generally, a very good copy.
Quote Item No.3548
Price:
MINIATURE BOOKS - CHRISTIES AUCTION CATALOGUE: The Collection of Miniature Books formed
by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr.
London: Christie's, 1979.
Coloured frontispiece, 19 black & white plates.
4to, pp.95, softcover; generally very good. Price list
inserted, 351 lots.
Quote Item No. 2846
Price: £12.00
MORAN, JAMES [Editor]: Book design and production.
Vol.1, No. 1 to Vol. 2 No 4; lacking Vol.2, No. 2.
London: Printing News Ltd., 1958 - 1959.
Seven issues. Illustrations thoughout. 4to, original printed
wrappers; piece pulled from headband of last issue but still
attached, else all excellent.
A scarce periodical.
Quote Item No. 3083
Price: £75.00
MUIR, MARCIE: A Bibliography of Australian Children's
Books. Volumes 1 & 2.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1970.
Volume 2 published 1976. First editions. Two volumes. Plates, some
in colour. Thick 8vo (9½
x 6¼
inches), pages: 1038 & 554, original cloth; generally good in poor
marked and creased dustwrappers.
Quote Item No. 10928
Price: £35.00
NAPOLEON - SOTHEBYS AUCTION CATALOGUE: Collection Emile Brouwet. Napoleon et
son Temps. Autographes Documents et Souvenirs Napoleoniens.
Troisieme partie.
London: Sotheby & Co. 1936.
Frontispiece. 4to, pp.(6):296, softcover; binding poor and worn,
with front cover partially detached, a large piece chipped from the
top of the spine and two front corners, browned and soiled;
internally, some foxing, lower page corners thumbed, some creased.
358 lots fully described of which 221 relate to the Campaign in
Egypt.
Quote Item No. 1009
Price: £15.00
NELSON & HAMILTON & THEIR CIRCLE - EDWIN WOLF SECOND COLLECTION -
AUCTION CATALOGUE: Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts,
Valuable Printed Books, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts, including
the Edwin Wolf 2nd Collection of letters and memorabilia relating to
Nelson, Hamilton and their circle. London, 20th June, 1990.
London: Christie's, 1990.
A number of coloured illustrations and numerous black & white
illustrations. 4to, pp.168:[7], softcover. This sale comprised 388
lots. The Nelson Hamilton Collection comprised Lots 165 to 277.
Quote Item No. 2479
Price: £10.00
NEW GUINEA: An Ethnographic Bibliography of New
Guinea. Three volumes complete.
Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1968.
Volume 1: Author Index, pp.ix:318; Volume 2: District Index, pp.110;
Volume 3: Proper Names Index, pp.255. 4to, softcovers, generally,
very good copies.
Quote Item No. 697
Price: £170.00
NEWTON, SIR HARRY KOTTINGHAM: Your Books, My Son.
Being some account Bibliographical & Biographical contained in forty
letters written mainly during the earlier months of 1931, intended
to introduce to his eldest son a small collection of Esteemed Books
made for him......
Oxford: at the University Press, 1934.
One of only 101 copies printed. Etched frontispiece and tailpiece.
Large 8vo, pp.324, original gray textured cloth with leather
lettering piece to spine, top edge gilt, others uncut; fine in
slipcase. With later inscription from his sons presenting this
volume to the Girdlers Company. Anonymous.
Quote Item No. 5511
Price: £300.00
OLDCASTLE, JOHN (W. Meynell): Journals and Journalism, with a
Guide for Literary Beginners by John Oldcastle.
London: Field & Tuer. 1880.
Square 8vo, pp.144 with tipped-in errata, contemporary fine-grained
cloth with roan label.
Armorial bookplate.
Includes an exhaustive "Dictionary of the Periodical Press"
(pp.106-141), "with an account of their history, an indication of
their scope, and the address of their offices".
Quote Item No. 232
Price: £25.00
PACKMAN, LEONARD [Editor]: Sexton Blake Catalogue.
TOGETHER WITH: Supplement to the Sexton Blake Catalogue.
East Dulwich: The Sexton Blake Circle, n.d.
Two volumes. Large 8vo, pp.91 and pp.17, original green paper
wrappers; slightly browned; corners bumped;
handwritten date "1971" on title-page.
Quote Item No. 6620
Price: £30.00
PARISER, SIR MAURICE - SOTHEBYS AUCTION CATALOGUE: Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of
Wiseiana formed by Sir Maurice Pariser.
London: Sotheby's, 1967.
Photographic portrait of Thomas Wise and a number of black & white
illustrations. Tall 8vo, pp.139, softcover; tiny chips at ends
of spine, else a very good copy.
This sale comprised 522 lots and with Sotheby's price and buyers'
list, loosely inserted.
Quote Item No. 2521
Price: £7.00
PENROSE, BOISE - SOTHEBYS AUCTION CATALOGUE: The Celebrated Library of Boies
Penrose. The First Portion: Travel & Exploration,
Navigation & Trade A-L.
London: Sotheby's, 1971.
Illustrated in black & white. Small 4to, pp.106:[4], softcover;
binding browned with small perforation to front cover, otherwise
good.
This sale comprised 152 lots.
Quote Item No. 2485
Price: £7.00
PENROSE, BOISE - SOTHEBYS AUCTION CATALOGUE: The Celebrated Library of Boies Penrose.
The Second Portion: Travel & Exploration, Navigation and
Trade: M-Z. Fourteen Georgraphical Manuscripts, English
and Continental Books of the 15th, 16th & 17th Centuries.
London: Sotheby's, 1971.
Illustrated in black & white. Small 4to, pp.161:[3], softcoer;
binding browned, otherwise good.
This sale comprised 366 lots.
Quote Item No. 2486
Price: £7.00
PENZER, NORMAN M: An Annotated Bibliography of Sir Richard
Francis Burton.
London: A. M. Philpot, 1923.
First edition. One of only 500 copies printed; this copy out of
series and un-numbered. Portrait. 4to, pp. xvi:351, original
brown cloth, top edge gilt others uncut. Head & tail of spine very
lightly rubbed, some spotting to lower cover; generally a very good
copy.
Quote Item No. 5473
Price: £150.00
PHILLIPS, EUAN and others:
Tributes to Brooke Crutchley on His Retirement as University
Printer.
Cambridge: At the
University Press, 1975.
First edition. Folio,
pp.viii:32, original boards lettered in gilt on spine, pages
untrimmed; a small chip
to the lower leading corner of the back cover, otherwise an
excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 8987
Price: £17.00
London: Bonhams, 1995.
Black & white illustrations. 4to, pp.110:[12], softcover;
generally very good. This sale comprised 615 lots.
Quote Item No. 2527
Price: £10.00
PUBLISHING: Faber Books 1925-75. Impressions of a
Publishing House & Faber Music, Notes of a Decade.
London: The National Book League, 1975.
Portrait, plates & decorations. 8vo, original wrappers printed
after a design by Edward Bawden.
Quote Item No. 3593
Price: £10.00
RENIER, ANNE: Friendship's Offering. An Essay on the
Annuals and Gift Books of the 19th Century. Author's Copy.
London: Private Libraries Association, 1964.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.26, original printed
wrappers; wrappers edge faded, title a trifle spotted. The
author's copy with her bookplate "From the Library of Anne Renier &
F.G.Renier" on inside of front wrapper.
Quote Item No. 3599
Price: £12.00
RICHARD CLAY & SONS: A Book of Printing Types and Ornaments
used by Richard Clay and Sons at the Chaucer Press, Bungay.
London: Richard Clay & Sons, 1930.
4to, pp.[36], original black cloth lettered in gilt on spine and
front cover, no dustwrapper; binding edge-rubbed, in places right
through cloth to board, and with splits to the cloth at side of top
headband (some fraying) and in several places along side of spine,
binding a trifle dusty; page edges browned; internally very good.
Quote Item No. 1039
Price: £15.00
RICKETS, CHARLES: A Collection of Books Designed by Charles
Rickets.
Zurich: L'Art Ancien, 1972.
Bulletin 25. Number 361 of 500 copies printed. A
catalogue of 74 books designed by Ricketts, with a list of works not
included, a bibliography, and introduction. Large 8vo, pp. 38 and
with 4 pages of illustrations. Original wrappers with printed paper
label. Wrappers unevenly faded.
Quote Item No. 4301
Price: £10.00
ROBERTS, S.C: A History of the Cambridge University Press,
1521 - 1921.
Cambridge: at the University Press, 1921.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.xv:190, original 2-tone
cloth gilt no dustwrapper; spine darkened, lettering piece rubbed at
edge, ends of spine bumped, some minor soiling to back cover;
internally, page edges foxed, some foxing throughout but generally a
very good copy.
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ROBINSON, LIONEL - SOTHEBY'S AUCTION CATALOGUE: The Collection of the late Lionel
Robinson. London, 26-27th June, 1986.
London: Sotheby's, 1986.
Some coloured plates and numerous black & white plates. 4to,
softcover; edge-rubbed and with small crease to front cover;
generally very good. The sale comprised 896 lots.
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ROLLINS, HYDER E. [Editor]: Cavalier and Puritan.
Ballads and Broadsides Illustrating the Period of the Great
Rebellion 1640 - 1660. Edited with an Introduction and Notes.
New York: New York University Press, 1923.
Illustrated throughout with facsimiles of the original often
illustrated broadsides & ballads, some double-page. 8vo,
pp.xv:532, original linen-backed boards with printed paper title
label to spine, uncut. Spine darkened, some minor spotting to
upper cover; generally very good.
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ROSCOE, S. and BRIMMELL, R.A: James Lumsden & Son of Glasgow.
Their Juvenile Books and Chapbooks.
Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1981.
One of 2000. Coloured frontispiece. Title vignette.
Illustrations throughout. Tall 8vo, original cloth gilt;
spine a little faded else excellent in the original plastic dustwrapper;
internally, excellent.
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SLATER, J. HERBERT: Illustrated Sporting Books. A
Descriptive Survey of a Collection of English Illustrated Works of a
Sporting and Racy Character. With an Appendix of prints
relating to Sports of the Field.
London: Upcott Gill, 1899.
First edition. 8vo, pp.203:13, original cloth-backed boards,
gilt; boards rubbed.
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SMITH, F. SEYMOUR: Pamphlet Bibliographies. A
Reader's Guide.
Published for the National Book League by the Cambridge University
Press, 1948.
8vo, pp.24, original illustrated wrappers; name on title else
very good.
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SPEED, JOHN [ALASDAIR HAWKYARD]: The Counties of Britain. A
Tudor Atlas by John Speed. Introduction by Nigel Nicolson.
County Commentaries by Alasdair Hawkyard.
London: Pavilion, 1988.
Profusely illustrated throughout in colour. 4to, pp.288,
original cloth; very good in price-clipped d.w.
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STRAUS, RALPH: The Unspeakable Curll. Being some
account of Edmund Curll, Bookseller; to which is added a full list
of his books.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1927.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.12:322, original
cloth, top edge gilt, no dustwrapper; spine faded, covers a little
rubbed, else good; internally, page edges browned, otherwise
excellent.
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Price: £40.00
SUMMERS,
MONTAGUE: The Gothic Quest, a History of the Gothic
Novel.
London: Fortune
Press, n.d.
First edition. No. 715
of an edition of 950 copies.
Frontispiece and plates.
Royal 8vo, pp.v:443, original red cloth, uncut;
backstrip unevenly faded and a little spotted.
Bookplate on front free endpaper.
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TARG, WILLIAM [Editor]: The Book Hunter's Guide. Rare
American Books valued from $50.00 to $25,000.00. A Checklist
of the Scarcest & Most Valuable American First Editions.
Chicago: Black Archer Press, 1935.
Narrow 8vo, pp.24, original printed light boards; a little
rubbed and lightly dusty.
Quote Item No. 3700
Price: £10.00
TAUBERT, SIGFRED: Bibliopola. Pictures and Texts
about the Book Trade. Bilder und Texte aus der Welt des Buchhandels.
Images et Textes sur la Librairie.
Hamburg: Dr. Ernst Hauswedell; London: Allen Lane, 1966.
Two volumes. Profusely illustrated with coloured
tipped-in plates and plates in monochrome.. Folio, pp.xxv:123 &
ix:523, original linen with crimson gilt leather lettering pieces.
A handsome work in excellent condition.
Quote Item No. 5479
Price: £40.00
TAYLOR, C.R.H.: A Bibliography of Publications on
the New Zealand Maori and the Moriori of the Chatham Islands.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972.
First edition thus. 8vo, pp.xii:161, original cloth in
price-clipped dustwrapper; binding excellent; dustwrapper with three
tears and creasing to edges, some soiling; internally, excellent.
Quote Item No. 837
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TIDY, THE REV. GORDON: A Little about Leech.
London: Constable, 1931.
First edition. 14 mounted plates by John Leech. 4to. pp.92,
original cloth, no dustwrapper; binding edge-browned and some
marking, spine faded; internally, some browning to the text, else
good.
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TIMPERLEY, C.H.: Encyclopaedia of literary and
typographical anecdote : being a chronological digest of the most
interesting facts illustrative of the history of literature and
printing from the earliest period to the present time. Interspersed
with biographical sketches of eminent booksellers, printers,
type-founders, engravers, bookbinders and paper makers, of all ages
and countries, but especially of Great Britain. With bibliographical
and descriptive accounts of their principal productions and
occasional extracts from them. Including curious particulars of the
first introduction of printing into various countries, and of the
books then printed. Notices of early Bibles and liturgies of all
countries, especially those printed in England or in English. A
history of all the newspapers, periodicals, and almanacks published
in this country. An account of the origin and progress of language,
writing and writing-materials, the invention of paper, use of paper
marks, etc. / compiled and condensed from Nichols's Literary
anecdotes, and numerous other authorities, by C. H. Timperley.
Second edition, to which are added, a continuation to the present
time, comprising recent biographies, chiefly of booksellers, and a
practical manual of printing.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1842.
Large 8vo (10 x 6¼
inches), pages-vi:32:115(the Printers Manual with separate
title-page and frontispiece):(1):33-996:12(Nineteenth Century
continued). Original brown blindstamped cloth. Backstrip detached,
torn & worn, and loosely inserted. Stitching slack, foxing and some
dust marking. With frontispiece and 10 plates, one folding. A plate
listed in the directions to the binder, The Statue of Gutenberg, is
not present - called for? The British Library copy states that there
are 11 plates, as in this copy.
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TOOLEY,
R.V.: The Mapping of Australia.
London: Holland Press Cartographica,
1979.
First edition. 239 plates. 4to (10 x 7½
inches), xix:633 pages. Original green cloth, spine decorated and
gilt; a very good copy in slightly faded dustwrapper which has some
edgewear. The first volume in the Holland Press "Cartographica"
series.
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Price: £250.00
TYRRELL, JAMES R: Old Books, Old Friends, Old Sydney.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1952.
First edition. Plates. 4to, original cloth; binding a
little faded; dustwrapper poor, rubbed and with numerous tears
and much loss; internally very good.
Quote Item No. 666
Price: £15.00
NURNBERG, WALTER: Words in
Their Hands.
A Series of Photographs by Walter Nurnberg
with a Commentary by Beatrice Warde.
Cambridge: Privately
Printed at the University Press, Christmas 1964.
Special edition of 500 copies.
Illustrated with black & white photographic plates.
4to, pp.22:14 plates, original charcoal cloth lettered in
gilt on the spine and blocked in black on the upper cover;
bookplate adhered to the reverse of the front free-endpaper;
an excellent copy.
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Price: £40.00
ZAPPATERRA, YOLANDA: Typography. Electronic Workshop.
Switzerland: Rotovision, 1999.
Profusely illustrated in colour. Folio, pp.155, original
glazed paper wrappers; ink ownership name on f.f.e.;
lower corner very slightly bumped else excellent.
Quote Item No. 5852
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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: Catalogue of the Library of the
Zoological Society of London. Fifth Edition.
London: Printed by Taylor and Francis, 1902.
8vo, pp.856, original blue cloth; inner hinges cracked,
binding soiled or marked, some foxing or yellowing to the text.
Quote Item No. 3708
Price: £20.00
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