Pp. 20(last colophon); post 8vo; grey/brown paper wrappers, stabbed & tied with cord, upper wrapper printed in black, the wrapper edges slightly creased and browned; uncut; pages 9/10 slightly creased; printed for private circulation, Edinburgh, 1929. Edition limited to thirty copies, printed for M. Buxton Forman, Pretoria. *Ten letters, written..... More
Part I, March 1897. Pp. 32; small f'cap. 4to; printed brown paper wrappers, slightly soiled and quite brittle, edges chipped and split; bound within later plain burgundy paper wrappers over card, upper wrapper a trifle marked; uncut and unopened, the outer leaves browned, edges slightly foxed; printed for subscribers only..... More
Pp. 16(last colophon); small demy 8vo; printed paper wrappers, stabbed and tied (the thread loosening), slightly soiled, edges a trifle creased, backstrip fold lightly worn and split; housed in a cloth portfolio within a qr. navy morocco and matching navy cloth slipcase, spine lettered and decorated in gilt compartments, slipcase..... More
Compiled by Warner Barnes. Pp. 120, pictorial double title page and pictorial endpapers (repeating the title illustration) printed in brown & black, full page black & white illustrations, index; narrow roy. 8vo; white cloth, lettered in brown; dust wrapper; a couple of faint spots of foxing to edges of leaves;..... More
A catalogue of printed books, manuscripts and autograph letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning collected by Thomas James Wise. Pp. xxxii+128(last colophon), frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, plus 110 plates, several facsimiles in text, 3 decorative headpieces, tailpiece; cr. 4to; red cloth over bevelled boards, lettered and decorated..... More
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
Part Two: West to East, l786-l930. Describing first editions of American authors whose books were published in England before their publication in America. Pp. xxxii+132, l6 plates, index; qr. parchment, spine lettered in gilt, marbled papered boards, joints cracking, edges and spine rubbed; uncut; inked inscription on upper free endpaper..... More
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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
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
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
The first type cutter and caster in English America. A review ... of Abel Buell of Connecticut. Pp. [24]; med. 16mo; cloth backed patterned papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; uncut, partly unopened; privately printed, William Edwin Rudge, Mount Vernon, New York, 1930. One of forty copies, printed by William..... More
With an Introduction by Harrison E. Salisbury. Pp. x+342(last blank), index; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, lightly foxed on reverse, edges a trifle rubbed and split, the back panel slightly scuffed; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Macmillan, Melbourne, 1981. First Australian edition. *Memoirs of the..... More
Pp. xvi+202, index; demy 8vo; top fore-corner of lower board a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, backstrip faintly faded; text block browned; Faber & Faber, London, 1989. First edition. *Contains the author's T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures delivered in the poet's centenary year, plus eight essays on various aspects of lexicography..... More
Pp. [viii]+x+102(last blank); f'cap. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, faintly marked, edges a trifle rubbed; Australian Book Auction Records, Canberra, 1988. More
Pp. [viii]+x+96(last blank); f'cap. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed, backstrip faintly faded; Australian Book Auction Records, Canberra, 1992. More
Pp.[vi]+ x+138(last blank); f'cap. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Australian Book Auction Records, Canberra, 1996. More
Pp. xii+104(last blank); f'cap. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, lightly soiled; Australian Book Auction Records, Canberra, 1986. More
Totalling approximately 960 pages (including advertisements); all small cr. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, some volumes slightly marked, backstrip of Volumes 4 & 7 faintly faded, wrappers of Volumes 3, 5 & 8 creased or lightly worn; edges of some leaves a little marked or browned; Australian Book Auction Records..... More
From Melbourne to Myth. [Exhibition catalogue]. Pp. [vi]+50(last blank), illustrated in colour and black & white, map, notes, exhibition list of works; square 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers with flap folds; National Library of Australia, Canberra, 2002. First edition. More
In two volumes, Part I: Descriptions. Part II: Index. Foreword by Ann Payne. Pp. xvi+440+[ii]+[441]-726(last blank), 8 plates; med. 8vo; green cloth, spines lettered and ruled in gilt; The British Library, London, 1999. First edition. *New catalogue of the manuscript portions of the Ashley Library of Thomas. J. Wise, which..... More
A bibliography of the William R. Smith Collection in the Library of the Supreme Council, 33°, S. J. With a Foreword by Akram Elias, Grand Master of Free and Accepted Masons, Washington, D.C. Pp. lxvi+172(last blank), frontispiece, title page vignette, numerous text illustrations, indices; demy 4to; dark green cloth, lettered..... More
Pp. viii+284, title within decorative border, decorative head & tailpieces and initials, publisher's slip (about the limited large paper edition) tipped-in at front; later (but not recent) brown cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt; fore and bottom edges uncut; later endpapers, the hinges repaired with cloth tape, paper repair..... More
Edited by J. Herbert Slater. Pp. viii+260, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard; maroon cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the boards heavily flecked, spine faded; t.e.g.; text block faintly browned, hinges starting at a couple of points, edges of leaves slightly damp stained; GeorgeRoutledge & Sons, London, n.d.[1908?]. The London..... More
Pp. [viii]+136, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, references, index; square 4to; qr. maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dark green cloth boards; dust wrapper, faintly soiled; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 2002. First edition. *Virginia Lee Burton (1909-1968) wrote and illustrated several children's books, including the 1943 Caldecott..... More
