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Click to enlarge Franklin (Benjamin), Pollack (John H., editor) "THE GOOD EDUCATION OF YOUTH". Worlds of Learning in the age of Franklin. Pp. x+348, printed in red & black, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, pictorial endpapers, indices; demy 4to; dust wrapper; Oak Knoll Press/University of Pennsylvania Press, New Castle, DE., 2009. First edition. *'In 1749, Benjamin Franklin published his educational call to arms, Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsilvania. In it, Franklin set forth a radically new template for educating students, one that stressed social utility, secular independence, and an English language-based curriculum.... [The present book is a collection of essays] ... looking in detail at Franklin's projects of education alongside educational plans by and for Quakers, African Americans, women, German Americans, and other populations of Pennsylvania and the region from the colonial era through the early national period' [wrapper blurb].
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Click to enlarge Franklin (Colin) OBSESSIONS AND CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK LIFE. Pp. viii+262, frontispiece portrait, text illustrations (some coloured), index; dust wrapper; Oak Knoll Press/Books of Kells/Bernard Quaritch, New Castle, Melbourne & London, 2012. First edition. *Memoirs of the author, publisher and bookseller. 'Including serious essays on diverse characters who have fascinated him, the book discusses the Bowdlers and their "Family Shakespeare"; William Fowler of Winterton, who neglected his humble calling and privately produced books of the greatest magnificence on Roman Mosaic Floors...; a little-known Oxford Antiquary and print-maker Joseph Skelton; the once-so-popular Robert Surtees and John Leech...; on the neglected theme of Binders' Lettering; and on his lifelong hero William Morris. There is also a new assessment of the Italian printer Giambatista Bodoni' [wrapper blurb].
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Click to enlarge Fuller (John), Roberts (Ryan, editor), Sycamore Press. JOHN FULLER & THE SYCAMORE PRESS. A bibliographic history. Foreword by John Fuller. Pp. xii+148, text illustrations, index; dust wrapper; Bodleian Library/Oak Knoll Press, London & New Castle, 2010. First edition. *Established in 1968, John Fuller's Sycamore Press published some of the most critically acclaimed and influential writers of the late twentieth century, including W. H. Auden, Philip Larkin, Andrew Motion, and Peter Porter. The press ceased operations in 1992, and its archives were acquired by the Bodleian Library.
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Click to enlarge Gaskell (Philip) A NEW INTRODUCTION TO BIBLIOGRAPHY. Pp. xxiv+438, frontispiece, numerous text figures, index; med. 8vo; corners very slightly bruised; Oak Knoll Press/St. Paul's Bibliographies, New Castle & Winchester, 2000. *Reprint, with corrections, of the 1972 Oxford University Press first edition. Effectively a sequel to An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students, by R. B. McKerrow. It follows McKerrow in aiming to elucidate the transmission of texts by explaining the processes of book production, but in addition it incorporates work done since McKerrow's day on the history of the printing technology of the hand-press period, and it attempts for the first time to give a general description of the printing practice of the machine-press period. [Preface].
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Click to enlarge Gaskell (Philip) A NEW INTRODUCTION TO BIBLIOGRAPHY. Pp. xxiv+438, frontispiece, numerous text figures, index; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Oak Knoll Press/St. Paul's Bibliographies, New Castle & Winchester, 2000. *Paperback reprint, with corrections, of the 1972 Oxford University Press first edition. Effectively a sequel to An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students, by R. B. McKerrow. 'It follows McKerrow in aiming to elucidate the transmission of texts by explaining the processes of book production, but in addition it incorporates work done since McKerrow's day on the history of the printing technology of the hand-press period, and it attempts for the first time to give a general description of the printing practice of the machine-press period.' [Preface].
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Click to enlarge Gay (Jean) BIBLIOGRAPHIE DES OUVRAGES RELATIFS A L'AFRIQUE ET A L'ARABIE. Catalogue methodique de tous les ouvrages francais & des principaux en langues etrangeres traitant de la Geographie, de l'Histoire, du Commerce, des Lettres & des Arts de l'Afrique & de l'Arabie. [Facsimile edition, text in French]. Pp. viii+312, indices; Martino Fine Books, Mansfield Centre, CT, n.d.[1998]. *Originally published in 1875.
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Click to enlarge Gehl (Paul F., introduction) INLAND PRINTERS. The fine press movement in Chicago, 1920-45. Pp. 40, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, demy 4to; printed stiff paper wrappers; The Caxton Club of Chicago, Chicago, 2003. Edition limited to 1000 copies. *Exhibition catalogue, with contributors including John P. Chalmers, Frank J. Piehl, and James M. Wells.
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Click to enlarge Giunti (family), Pettas (William), Varesio (Juan Bautista, bibliography of) A HISTORY & BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GIUNTI (JUNTA) PRINTING FAMILY IN SPAIN, 1526-1628. This work covers the Junta (Giunti) Press and the Imprenta Real in Burgos, Salamanca & Madrid. With a brief history of the several Giunti presses in Venice, Florence and Lyon, and a bibliography of the press of Juan Bautista Varesio in Burgos, Valladolid & Lerma. Pp. xii+1048(last blank), illustrations, indices; thick demy 4to; green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the upper board slightly marked; Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, 2005. First edition.
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Click to enlarge Glaister (Geoffrey Ashall) ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BOOK. Second edition. With a new Introduction by Donald Farren. Pp. xxiv+552(last blank), 8 coloured plates, black & white text illustrations and figures, appendices; roy. 8vo; pictorial glazed paper wrappers; Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, New Castle, DE., 2001. Paperback edition. *Standard and comprehensive reference guide, containing over 3,000 alphabetically arranged definitions of the terms used in bookbinding, printing, papermaking, and the book trade; plus biographical details of printers, authors, bookbinders, bibliophiles; notes on machinery and equipment, famous books, printing societies, book-related organizations, customs of the trade, &c. Originally published in 1960 by Allen & Unwin, London, as Glossary of the Book. A second edition (of which this is a reprint, with a new Introduction) was published in 1979 as Glaister's Glossary of the Book.
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Click to enlarge Godwin (Mary Wollstonecraft), Windle (John), Pippin (Karma, editor) MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT GODWIN, 1759-1797. A bibliography of the first and early editions, with briefer notes on later editions and translations. Second edition, newly edited by Karma Pippin. Revised and greatly enlarged to include a bibliography of books about Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and a chronology of her life. Pp. xvi+72(last colophon), hand-tipped coloured frontispiece portrait, black & white full page illustrations, decorative initials, head & tailpiece decorations, chronology, index; Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, DE., 2000. *Originally published in 1988.
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