Being Part Two of a Pictorial Record of the Antiquarian Book Trade: Portraits & Premises. Pp. 78(last blank), numerous photographic illustrations (many full page), corrigenda to Part I; oblong 4to; grey cloth, blocked in maroon and lettered & ruled in gilt, upper board a trifle flecked, bottom fore-corner of lower..... More
A bio-bibliographical note. Pp. 30(last blank)+[2]Ashley Library device, blank), frontispiece plus one plate; f'cap 4to; plain papered boards, spine lettered in gilt, spine and edges of boards lightly browned and rubbed, fore-corners a trifle bruised; endpapers faintly offset, a couple of tiny spots of foxing; privately printed, London, 1896. Edition..... More
With further records of Walter Savage Landor. Pp. 14+[2](colophon, verso blank); demy 8vo; printed pale orange paper wrappers, stabbed & tied, faintly soiled and creased; a couple of tiny edge splits and a little light creasing; printed for private circulation only by Richard Clay and Sons, Ltd., London, 1921. Edition..... More
A legend of Pornic. Pp. 16(last blank); f'cap. 8vo; no wrappers (as usual); unsewn and uncut; within a custom made red cloth portfolio, with typed paper title label (a trifle soiled) on the front cover and the bookplate of Warren Hiram Lowenhaupt on upper pastedown of portfolio; a little light..... More
A legend of Pornic. Pp. 16(last blank); f'cap. 8vo; no wrappers (as usual); unsewn and uncut; within a custom made brown cloth portfolio, spine lettered in gilt; a little faint foxing and creasing of sheets, with a couple of small edge splits and a longer split to the central fold..... More
Edited by Thomas J. Wise. In two volumes. Pp. xii+98+[2](Ashley Library device)+xii+98+[2](Ashley Library device), with a facsimile of a letter from Browning to Wise tipped-in as frontispiece to Volume I (with tissue guard); post 8vo; maroon cloth over bevelled boards, spines lettered in gilt, boards a trifle flecked, edges slightly..... More
Collected by Thomas J. Wise. Edited with an introduction and notes by Thurman L. Hood. Pp. xx+390(last blank), frontispiece portrait, plus 15 plates, notes, index; med. 8vo; dark green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, edges a trifle rubbed, scattered foxing; John Murray, London, 1933. First U.K. edition. Todd 102i..... More
Collected by Thomas J. Wise. Edited with an introduction and notes by Thurman L. Hood. Pp. xx+390(last blank), frontispiece portrait, plus 15 plates, notes, index; med. 8vo; red/brown cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled, with a couple of..... More
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
![THE ARTIST & THE TITLE PAGE. [cover title]. Friends of the Library Bryn Mawr College](/pictures/thumb/110027.jpg?v=1633429244)
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
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
