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Click to enlarge Darton (F. J. Harvey) CHILDREN'S BOOKS IN ENGLAND. Five centuries of social life. Revised by Brian Alderson. Pp. xviii+398, title page vignette, text illustrations, appendices, notes, sources, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; British Library/Oak Knoll Press, London & New Castle, DE., 1999. Third edition, reprinted with corrections. *Originally published in 1932. The third edition includes new illustrations and a supplementary chapter by Alderson filling out Darton's original discussion of children's books during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.
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Click to enlarge Darton (Lawrence), Alderson (Brian, preface) THE DARTONS. An annotated check-list of children's books issued by two publishing houses, 1787-1876. With Editorial assistance and a preface by Brian Alderson. Pp. lx+730(last blank), 8 coloured plates, black & white frontispiece and text illustrations (some full page), appendix, indices; thick roy. 8vo; dust wrapper; The British Library/Oak Knoll Press, London & New Castle, 2004. First edition. *'In 1787 William Darton began engraving and printing books especially for children. Over the next 60 years his firm published more than 1,600 books for children and young people, and some 50 games and educational aids. A separate publishing house was set up in 1804 by his son, also named William.... The books published by the Dartons were especially significant in the evolution of Victorian book design.' [wrapper blurb].
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Click to enlarge Davies (W. H.), Harlow (Sylvia) W. H. DAVIES: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Pp. xii+260(last blank), frontispiece portrait, text illustrations, chronology, indices; med. 8vo; St. Paul's Bibliographies/Oak Knoll Books, Winchester & New Castle, 1993. First edition. Winchester Bibliographies of 20th Century Writers.
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Click to enlarge Davison (Peter, editor) THE BOOK ENCOMPASSED. Studies in Twentieth-Century bibliography. Pp. xvi+316(last blank), index; med. 8vo; pictorial glazed paper wrappers; Oak Knoll Press/St Paul Bibliographies, New Castle & Winchester, 1998. *Originally published in 1992. Essays on bibliographical and textual studies in various fields, including manuscript studies and the analysis of handwriting; incunabula; cartography; book illustration; developments in the theory and practice of editing texts; and the implications of the computer for bibliography.
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Click to enlarge Dickens (Charles), Hatton (Thomas), Cleaver (Arthur H.) A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PERIODICAL WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS: Bibliographical, analytical and statistical. [Facsimile edition]. Pp. xx+384, frontispiece plus 17 plates, 13 facsimile title pages; Maurizio Martino, Cambridge, Ma., 1992 . Edition limited to 350 copies. *Originally published by Chapman & Hall, in 1933.
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Click to enlarge Dictionary of National Biography, Fenwick (Gillian) CONTRIBUTORS' INDEX TO THE DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY 1885-1901. Pp. xlii+414(last blank); dust wrapper; St Paul's Bibliographies/Omnigraphics, Winchester & Detroit, 1989.
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Click to enlarge Doves Press, Tidcombe (Marianne) THE DOVES PRESS. Pp. xii+258, 8 coloured plates, numerous black & text white illustrations, select bibliography, appendices, index; demy 4to; dust wrapper; The British Library/Oak Knoll Press, London & New Castle, 2002.
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Click to enlarge Duret (Theodore) LIVRES & ALBUMS ILLUSTRES DU JAPON REUNIS ET CATALOGUES. [Facsimile edition, text in French]. Pp. [ii]+322, title page decoration, 14 full page illustrations, index; Martino Publishing, Mansfield Centre, CT, n.d.[2000]. *Originally published in Paris in 1900. Describes over 500 early Japanese books in the Bibliotheque Nationale, plus information on the history of engraving of Japanese books, and on individual artists.
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Click to enlarge Eco (Umberto), Contursi (James L.) UMBERTO ECO: An Annotated Bibliography of First and Important Editions. With a Preface by Umberto Eco. Pp. [ii]+352, index; printed glazed paper wrappers; The Minnesota Bookman Publications, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2005. First edition, paperback (being one of 250 copies thus, of a total edition of 300). *More than 1400 citations, in 40 languages, of books and pamphlets by and about Umberto Eco, including the bibliographic points which distinguish his English and Italian first editions.
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Click to enlarge Egmond (Dr. Marco van) COVENS & MORTIER. A Map Publishing House in Amsterdam 1685-1866. Pp. 600, plus 100 pages on CD-ROM at end, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, bibliographies, appendices (1 folding), index; roy. 4to; dust wrapper; last page slightly creased; Hes & De Graaf, Houten, 2009. First edition. Utrecht Studies in the History of Cartography, Volume 8. *From 1685 to 1866 the Dutch map publishing house of Covens & Mortier supplied the world with maps and atlases. Includes an extensive carto-bibliography of original and derivative maps published by Covens & Mortier, a genealogy of the families Covens & Mortier, estate inventories, catalogues of maps and copperplates, and references to Covens & Mortier in contemporary periodicals and booksellers' books.
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