Mansfield Center: Martino Publishing, 1999. Facsimile. Hardcover. Octavo. 2 Volumes, Green cloth, gilt spine lettering on a black-stamped panel, pp. 768; [795]. As New. More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1976. First Edition. Cloth. Thick Quarto. Pp. [viii], 615. Lavishly illustrated in colour and black & white. Original cloth, gilt spine, d/w. In fine condition. More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1961. Hardcover. Octavo. Pp. viii, 163. Original cloth, gilt spine, no d/w, neat ink signature on flyleaf, otherwise a near fine copy. More
New York & Boston: The Pierpont Morgan Library & David R. Godine, 1978. Third Printing. Hardcover. Large Quarto. Pp. xiv, 192. With a 125 full-page black & white illustrations, one folding. Original gilt-stamped cloth binding, with dustwrapper, both in fine condition. More
London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1962. Hardcover. Stout Octavo. Pp. 1224. Navy blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. Interior clean and crisp. Dust jacket dust soiled with closed splits at joints and some creasing on front panel, otherwise quite good. More
London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1958. Hardcover. Stout Octavo. Pp. 992. Navy blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. Interior clean and crisp. Covers gently faded with spine faded to almost tan, otherwise a very good, clean copy. More
London: By Order of the Trustees, British Museum; Bernard Quaritch, Humphrey Milford, 1924. Hardcover. Stout Octavo. Navy blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. Slightly cocked, covers along fore-edge show damp staining not affecting interior which is clean and crisp. More
Paris: Chez Silvestre, Libraire, 1842-44. Quatrième Édition. Hardcover. Thick Octavo. Five volumes. Pp. xxv, 823, [1]; [iv], 786; [iv], 896; [iv], 835; [iv], 846. Textual figures. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers. Moderate wear to extremities, corners rubbed and exposed, inner hinges of first volume reinforced with..... More
New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1971. First US Edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. Pp. 376. Frontispiece and 72 black & white plates, plus 83 textual figures. Original orange cloth, gilt spine, d/w. In fine condition. The definitive study of the history of the private press, the printers and their products, from the..... More
Mansfield Center, CT: Martino Publishing, N.d. [1997]. Limited Edition Facsimile. Hardcover. Stout Octavo. Pp. xxvi, 1247. Grey cloth, gilt spine lettering on a green panel. Limited edition facsimile of the original and best edition of the Bibliography of 18th-century illustrated French books, published in Paris by A. Rouquette in 1912..... More
London: Published for The British Association for American Studies By the Oxford University Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. Pp. xxxvi, 667. Blue cloth with gilt lettered spine, in the dust jacket. Dust jacket with minor edgewear. Neat ink signature on flyleaf. Edges of boards and spine a bit..... More
London: Methuen and Co., 1901. First Trade Edition. Cloth. Quarto. Pp. xiii, 359, illustrated throughout by Sir J.E. Millais, Sir. E. J. Poynter, Holman Hunt, Dante G. Rossetti, Sir John Tenniel, Sir E. Burne-Jones, John Ruskin, Arthur Hughes, Birket Foster, and many others. Navy-coloured cloth with gilt cover and spine..... More
Hutchinson, 1994. Hardcover. 8vo. Black boards with slver lettering to spine. Two small bumps otherwise a a very good copy in a very good dust jacket. More
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Brown linen with black cloth backstrip, gilt lettering to cover and spine. Lightly scuffed and shaken, spine faded; hinges cracked. Internally fine. Housed in a scuffed and worn houndstooth patterned slipcase..... More
London: The Bibliographical Society, 1948. Reprint of 1905 Edition. Hardcover. Square Octavo. Pp. xxxv, 200. Original beige cloth backed taupe boards, black lettered spine, no d/w. Large ink signature on flyleaf, otherwise a fine copy. Contains, according to the subtitle: Short Notices of All Printers, Stationers, Book-Binders, and Others Connected..... More
Germany: Hain, Meisenheim, 1964. Reprint. Cloth. Small Quarto. Reprinted from original edition of the Bibliographical Society, Oxford University Press, 1917. Pp. ix, 136. Title in red and black, with 53 facsimile plates printed in red and black. Original blue cloth, gilt spine, no d/w (as issued). Ink signature on flyleaf..... More
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1965. 1st Edition. Cloth. Octavo. GIlt lettered quarter black cloth over green cloth boards in decorative price-intact, chipped dust jacket. Illustrated Retrrospective collection of Knopf publishing history. Nice copy. More
New York: Grastorf & Lang, 1979. Hardcover. 8vo. 303pp. Blue/grey cloth with red spine label lettered in gilt, black and white illustrations, no dust jacket. Good, clean copy. More
London: T. Cadell, Jun. And W. Davies, 1802. 8vo. xv, 187, [1]pp. Recent rebind in half green leather over marbled boards, with gilt lettering to the spine. Small hole in the first blank, half title present. Very little foxing throughout. A good clean copy. More
Rome: Pontificum Institutum Biblicum, 1955. Hardcover. Quarto. Three parts in one volume. Pp. xv, 361. Bound in quarter leather over cloth boards, gilt-titled spine, original front card cover and section titles bound in. Minor wear to extremities, spine rubbed with a couple of small chips out of head of spine..... More
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. Limited Edition, First Thus. Hardcover. 12 mo. Limited edition of 400 copies, printed under the direction of Frederic Warde. Pp. [85]. Gilt-stamped black cloth spine over plain grey paper boards. Very lightly soiled and scuffed, bit of sunning to top edge of rear panel, spine..... More
New York: New York University Press, 1971. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pp. xi, 240. With 76 black and white illustrations. Blue cloth with gilt lettered spine. Minor edgewear to dustwrapper but overall a near fine copy. More
London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1912. Second Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Pp. xiii, [1] errata, 356. Colour frontispiece and 50 black & white plates, with tissue guards. Bound in contemporary half crimson crushed levant over red cloth boards, spine divided into six panels with simple gilt-ruled compartments between raised bands, titled..... More
London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1973. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Thick Octavo. Pp. 554. With 209 mainly black & white illustrations. Original grey cloth with gilt lettering on blue spine labels, d/w. In fine condition. A comprehensive and generously illustrated survey of the printing, binding, and design of books. More
New York: The Typophiles, 1965. Limited, First Edition. Cloth in Slipcase. 12 mo. Both volumes signed by Knopf to David J.E. Scrivens (a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Programme Representative, English Network, out of New York): "Signed with please & my signature (yes it is my name) for David J.E. Scrivens, Esq..... More