The Making of a News Empire in Washington. Pp. xii+308, frontispiece portrait, notes, index; med. 8vo; qr. tan cloth, spine lettered in black and ruled in gilt, beige papered boards; price-clipped dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split; edges of leaves a trifle foxed; W. W. Norton &... More about THE PILLARS OF THE POST
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A Comprehensive Bibliography with annotations. Pp. [vi]+56(last blank), processed, frontispiece portrait plus 1 plate; post 4to; cloth backed printed paper wrappers, slightly soiled, bookseller's sticker on verso of upper wrapper; text block faintly browned; The Stone Copying Company, Cremorne, 1959. Edition limited to 150 copies. Studies in Australian Bibliography - No. 9. More about CHRISTOPHER JOHN BRENNAN
Catalogue by B. H. Breslauer, Introduction (in French) by J. Toulet. Pp. 170(last blank), folding coloured frontispiece, coloured and black & white plates, index; narrow med. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, French folds; Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Brussels, 1986. *Exhibition catalogue of 75 bindings from the Breslauer collection. More about HISTORIC & ARTISTIC BOOKBINDINGS FROM THE BIBLIOTHECA BIBLIOGRAPHICA: BRESLAUERINANA
Pp. xii+216(last blank), frontispiece portrait, indices; spine a trifle faded, top fore-corner of boards faintly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly worn; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, lower hinge tender, a little light foxing and browning; Oxford University Press, London, 1933. First edition, being one of 500 numbered copies of... More about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT BRIDGES
A COMPANION TO THE FRAGMENTS OF PARMENIDES. Pp. 142(last colophon, blank), printed in light brown & black, text illustrations, notes; printed stiff paper wrappers, the lower wrapper faintly soiled; bottom fore-corner of upper wrapper a trifle creased, backstrip slightly faded; bottom fore-corner of first couple of leaves faintly creased; Editions... More about CARVING THE ELEMENTS:
Pp. 48, 8 coloured plates, black & white text illustrations, short bibliography; f'cap. 4to; printed papered boards, edges a trifle rubbed, corners faintly bruised; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, with a few tiny chips, the back panel slightly soiled; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Collins, London, 1946. Carney 95. More about ENGLISH PRINTED BOOKS
Autographs and documents illustrative chiefly of English history and literature. Exhibited in the Manuscript Saloon. Pp. 100(last colophon, blank), 20 plates; printed papered boards, edges and spine browned, the spine slightly chipped, and split vertically at a couple of points; a little light foxing; The Trustees, London, 1928. *From the... More about GUIDE TO THE EXHIBITED MANUSCRIPTS. PART 1
Pp. 68(excluding several blank interleaves and binder's blanks at end), index; rebound [for Mr. J. R. Barr?] in later red cloth; the original printed paper upper wrapper (slightly soiled) bound in at front; [another owner's] bookplate on upper pastedown, inked annotations to lower free endpaper, small initial stamp at foot... More about RULES FOR COMPILING THE CATALOGUES OF PRINTED BOOKS, MAPS AND MUSIC IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
Illustrating the history of printing, music-printing and bookbinding. Pp. 180 (with pp. 117-134 excised from this edition due to a rearrangement of a portion of the exhibits), text illustrations (several full page); printed papered boards, a trifle soiled, corners lightly rubbed, the spine faded; a little light foxing and offsetting;... More about A GUIDE TO THE EXHIBITION IN THE KING'S LIBRARY:
Illustrating the history of printing, music-printing and bookbinding. Pp. viii+164(last blank), frontispiece plus 15 plates, text illustrations (some full page); printed papered boards, corners slightly rubbed; a little light foxing and pencilling; The Trustees, British Museum, 1939. *From the library of Australian bibliophile Claude Prance, with his small book label... More about A GUIDE TO THE EXHIBITION IN THE KING'S LIBRARY:
A loan exhibition, 23 September-31 October 1965. Pp. xx+78, coloured frontispiece plus 139 black & white plates at end, index; light brown art. leather, lettered and decorated in gilt; hinge tender at a couple of points, outer leaves and edges a trifle foxed; The Trustees, London, 1965. *From the library... More about BOOKBINDINGS FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN GROLIER
(Extracted from B.S. 1219 : 1945). Single card sheet, folded twice to comprise 6 pages; British Standards Institution, London, n.d.[1947]. More about TABLE OF SYMBOLS FOR PRINTERS' AND AUTHORS' PROOF CORRECTIONS
Seven miniature broadsides printed in red & black or blue & black; each 7 x 5 cm.; loosely contained in a pocket on the lower pastedown of a marbled papered portfolio with ribbon tie to fore-edge and full size horizontal title label on verso of upper board; Tabula Rasa Press... More about PORTFOLIO OF BROADSIDES
[Volume II, facsimile edition]. Pp. viii+1494(last blank); Martino Fine Books,Mansfield Centre, CT, n.d.[c. 1999]. *Originally printed by the Government Printing Office for the Smithsonian Institution, in 1921. 'This work covers the literature published from July 1, 1909, to December 31, 1916, and continues the work of the Smithsonian Institution issued... More about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AERONAUTICS, 1909-1916
[Facsimile edition]. Pp. xiv+940, appendix; Maurizio Martino Publisher, Staten Island,New York, n.d.[1997]. Edition limited to 150 copies. *Originally published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1910, as Volume 55 of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections series. 'The interest of the Smithsonian Institution in aeronautics dates almost from the beginning of its work... More about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AERONAUTICS
Pp. 144, numerous illustrations (one full page coloured), pictorial endpapers, 4-page tinted facsimile of Along the Castlereagh, references, bibliography, appendix, index; small cr. 4to; red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, bottom fore-corner of upper board slightly bruised, the lower board a trifle marked; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed, edges slightly... More about SYDNEY'S PHANTOM BOOK SHOPS
Pp. 108, appendices; brown cloth, upper board lettered and decorated in black, edges slightly rubbed, the fore-corners a trifle bruised; bookplate of Australian author Ina Watson on the upper pastedown, and her pencilled ownership inscription at head of half-title page, a little light foxing and occasional faint soiling; Bread &... More about THE AUSTRALIAN FREELANCE
A bibliographical catalogue of first and early editions 1846-1860, with photographic reproductions of bindings and title pages. Pp. xxviii+184, several full page illustrations, appendices; small demy 4to; dust wrapper; Heritage Book Shop, Los Angeles, 1991. One of 1,500 copies. First edition. *Contains not only bibliographical data, but comments on the... More about THE BRONTE SISTERS
Pp. xii+152, indices; narrow cr. 4to; gilt lettered navy buckram; t.e.g.;Ian Hodgkins, London, 1978. First U.K. edition. More about A BRONTE BIBLIOGRAPHY
Pp. 176(last blank), title page decoration, select bibliography, glossary, index; boards a trifle sprung; dust wrapper, backstrip faintly faded, edges slightly creased; tiny stain to upper pastedown, name in ink at head of upper free endpaper, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Andre Deutsch, London, 1980. First edition. More about BOOKS AND BOOK-COLLECTING
Pp. 48, frontispiece plus 42 plates; printed stiff paper wrappers, edges browned and a trifle rubbed, fore-edges uncut; Case, Lockwood & Brainard, Hartford, Conn., 1906. First edition. *The life and work of Richard Brunton, a counterfeiter of paper money printed from plates cut by himself. Brunton is known to have... More about AN EARLY CONNECTICUT ENGRAVER AND HIS WORK
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Pp. [20], illustrated (3 full page), one page printed in red & black; pictorial stiff paper wrappers printed on both sides, stapled, edges a trifle rubbed; [Friends of the Library, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 1974]. *Catalogue of an exhibition held in the Mariam Coffin Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr... More about THE ARTIST & THE TITLE PAGE. [cover title
Britain, France and Germany 1820-1860. Pp. 320, 8 coloured plates, numerous black & white text illustrations, appendices, select bibliography, indices; narrow cr. 4to; dust wrapper; The British Library/Oak Knoll Press, London & New Castle, 2005. First edition. More about EARLY VICTORIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS:
Together with a personal memoir. Pp. 96(last blank), frontispiece plus 16 plates, text illustrations (several full page), index; roy. 8vo; blue cloth, the spine blocked in red and lettered & decorated in gilt, the upper board featuring gilt device designed for the author by John Buckland Wright, the cloth slightly... More about A CHECKLIST OF THE BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS OF JOHN BUCKLAND WRIGHT