SPECIMENS OF BOOK FACES AVAILABLE AT BALDING & MANSELL PRINTERS.
Pp. [12]; printed stiff paper wrappers, stapled; outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Park Works, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, n.d.[195-?]. More
Books about Books
THE GOLDEN YEARS OF GINGER MEGGS.
Edited by John Horgan. Introduction by John Ryan. Pp. 192, illustrated throughout in colour and occasional black & white; med. 4to; brown papered boards, lettered in yellow; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled and tape marked, with a couple of short edge tears; outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Souvenir/Brolga Books..... More
THE NEW ENQUIRY: A Preview. Parts 1, 2 and 3.
Contained in three issues of The Book Collector. Volume 31, No. 4, Winter 1982. Pp. 405-544(including advertisements), text illustrations; Volume 32, No. 1, Spring 1983. Pp. 128(including advertisements), text illustrations; Volume 32, No. 2, Summer 1983. Pp. 129-256(including advertisements), text illustrations; each demy 8vo; different coloured printed stiff paper wrappers..... More
THE PLEASURES OF BIBLIOPHILY: Fifty years of The Book Collector. An anthology.
Pp. x+310, text illustrations; roy. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; The British Library/Oak Knoll Press, London & New Castle, 2003. First edition. *Articles chosen from the first fifty years of The Book Collector to convey 'the multifarious forms in which the joys of book collecting can..... More
THE BOOK COLLECTOR. Volume 06, No. 2, Summer 1957.
Pp. 109-216(including advertisements), 12 plates; demy 8vo; printed paper wrappers; The Shenval Press, London, 1957. *Includes The Harmsworth Collection and the Folger Library, by Louis B. Wright; The Library of George Thackeray, by A. N. L. Munby; Scottish-American bookbindings, by Hannard D. French. More
THE BOOK COLLECTOR. Volume 06, No. 3, Autumn 1957.
Pp. 217-328(including advertisements), 10 plates; demy 8vo; printed paper wrappers, backstrip lightly faded, edges slightly worn; The Shenval Press, London, 1957. *Includes George Eliot's 'Agatha'-1869 and after by John Carter; Who printed the Constance Missal by Curt F. Buhler; Contemporary Collectors XIV: J. K. Lilly by David A. Randall. More
THE BOOK COLLECTOR. Volume 07, No. 1, Spring 1958.
Pp. 1-112(including advertisements), 12 plates; demy 8vo; printed paper wrappers, lightly foxed and creased, backstrip worn with head and tail lightly split; light foxing; The Shenval Press, London, 1958. *Includes Early printed books in Hungary by Gedeon Borsa; Michael Sadleir: a valediction by John Carter; Without benefit of bibliography by..... More
THE BOOK COLLECTOR. Volume 07, No. 4, Winter 1958.
Pp. 345-464(including advertisements), 16 plates (1 loosening); demy 8vo; printed paper wrappers; The Shenval Press, London, 1958. *Includes Portrait of a bibliophile I by P. H. Hardacre; On collecting Japanese MS scrolls by Philip Hofer; Contemporary Collectors XIX Bibliotheca Bodmeriana I by Arthur Rau. More
THE BOOK COLLECTOR. Volume 08, No. 4, Winter 1959.
Pp. 353-472(including advertisements), 10 plates; demy 8vo; printed paper wrappers, slightly worn; The Shenval Press, London, 1959. *Includes Portrait of a bibliophile III Richard Jennings by C. H. B. Kitchin; Specimens of printing types in the typographical library at the University Press, Oxford by J. S. G. Simmons; Further Reminiscences..... More
THE BOOK COLLECTOR. Volume 13, No. 3, Autumn 1964.
Pp. 281-424(including advertisements), 16 plates, text illustrations; demy 8vo; printed paper wrappers, tiny indent in upper wrapper; The Shenval Press, London, 1964 *Includes Portrait of a bibliophile XII Joannes Gennadius by Francis R. Walton; Contemporary Collectors XXXVIII Early Parisian Printing &c by Otto L. Shaw; John Ruskin's bookplates by James..... More
THE BOOK COLLECTOR. Volume 15, No. 4, Winter 1966.
Pp. 413-540, 9 plates, numerous advertisements; demy 8vo; printed paper wrappers; The Collector Ltd., London, 1966. *Includes Firma Tauchnitz 1837-1900, by Simon Nowell-Smith; The Bibliography of Beatrix Potter, by Laurie Deval; and English Bookbindings LIX. More
THE BOOK COLLECTOR. Volume 15, No. 4, Winter 1966.
Pp. 413-540, 9 plates, numerous advertisements; demy 8vo; printed paper wrappers, edges slightly worn; The Collector Ltd., London, 1966. *Includes Firma Tauchnitz 1837-1900, by Simon Nowell-Smith; The Bibliography of Beatrix Potter, by Laurie Deval; and English Bookbindings LIX. More
THE BOOK COLLECTOR. Volume 18, No. 1, Spring 1969.
Pp. 1-144(including advertisements), 22 plates, text illustrations; demy 8vo; printed paper wrappers, backstrip slightly faded; The Collector Ltd, London, 1969 *Includes Contemporary Collectors XLIV The Henry Davis Collection I by Mirjam M. Romme; Wise and Ruskin I by James S. Dearden; An unsolicited review by John Carter. More
THE BOOK COLLECTOR. Volume 18, No. 2, Summer 1969.
Pp. 145-288(including advertisements), 24 plates, text illustrations; demy 8vo; printed paper wrappers, tiny indent in upper wrapper; The Collector Ltd, London, 1969 *Includes Portrait of a bibliophile XIV Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; Contemporary Collectors XLX Notes on the Philip Hofer Reference Collection by James E. Walsh; Wise and Ruskin..... More
THE BOOK COLLECTOR. Volume 18, No. 3, Autumn 1969.
Pp. 289-432, 12 plates, numerous advertisements; printed paper wrappers; top fore-corners slightly bruised; The Collector Ltd., London, 1969. *Includes Bibliotheca Parisina, by Arthur Rau; Wise and Ruskin III, by James S. Dearden; The Early American Editions of Jane Austen, by D. J. Gilson; English Bookbindings LXX; and Foreign Bookbindings III..... More
THE BOOK COLLECTOR. Volume 20, No. 1, Spring 1971.
Pp. 1-152, 18 plates, numerous advertisements; demy 8vo; printed paper wrappers, backstrip slightly faded; The Collector Ltd., London, 1971. *Includes The Caxton Ovid, by John Carter; Elliot Stock, by Sybille Pantazzi; Some Uncollected Authors XLV: Edward Young in Translation II, by Harold Forster; English Bookbindings LXXVI, by Howard M. Nixon;..... More
THE BOOK COLLECTOR. Volume 20, No. 3, Autumn 1971.
Pp. 305-440(including advertisements), 8 plates; demy 8vo; printed paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed, lower fore-corner of upper wrapper lighty creased; minor printing flaw to a couple of leaves, occasional faint creasing and a couple of spots of foxing; The Collector Ltd, London, 1971. *Includes articles on Ambrose Bierce and..... More
THE BOOK COLLECTOR. Volume 21, No. 2, Summer 1972.
Pp. 185-320, 14 plates, numerous advertisements; printed paper wrappers, backstrip slightly faded and a trifle worn at foot; The Collector Ltd., London, 1972. *Includes Giovanni Mardersteig and the Officina Bodoni, Portrait of a Bibliophile XVI, John Ruskin 1819-1900, by James S. Dearden; A Register of writs and the scales binder..... More
THE BOOK COLLECTOR. Volume 21, No. 3, Autumn 1972.
Pp. 321-464, 23 plates, numerous advertisements; demy 8vo; printed paper wrappers, backstrip slightly faded; The Collector Ltd., London, 1972. *Includes The case of the stolen Chaucer manuscript by A. S. G. Edwards; The Henry Davis Collection II, The Ulster Gift by H. A. Feisenberger; and A Register of writs and..... More
THE BOOK COLLECTOR. Volume 22, No. 1, Spring 1973.
Pp. 144(including advertisements), 14 plates; demy 8vo; printed paper wrappers; The Collector Ltd., London, 1973. *Includes Douglas Sladen (1856-1947) An Anatomy, by T. W. M. Jaine, Herbals in the Fry Collection at the Taylor Institution, by D. J. Gilson, Some London Booksellers, by David Low. More
THE BOOK COLLECTOR. Volume 22, No. 4, Winter 1973.
Pp. 433-584, 13 plates, numerous advertisements; demy 8vo; printed paper wrappers, slightly chipped at head & foot of backstrip, which is lightly faded and browned; The Collector Ltd., London, 1973. *Includes New poems by William Cowper, by Charles Ryskamp; Craft Binders at Work III, Roger Powell, by Dorothy A. Harrop;..... More
THE BOOK COLLECTOR. Volume 23, No. 2, Summer 1974.
Pp. 153-312, 10 plates, numerous advertisements; demy 8vo; printed paper wrappers, upper wrapper slightly creased; The Collector Ltd., London, 1974. *Includes Meeting a crisis: patron saints for bibliophiles, printers and bookbinders, by Robert Birley, The Booksellers and the plot: Luttrell pamphlets in the University of London Library, by David Knott;..... More
THE BOOK COLLECTOR. Volume 23, No. 3, Autumn 1974.
Pp. 313-472, 11 plates, numerous advertisements; demy 8vo; printed paper wrappers, backstrip lightly faded, upper wrapper slightly soiled and lower fore-corner a trifle creased; The Collector Ltd., London, 1974. *Includes The Story of Little Black Sambo, by Justin G. Schiller, Rudolph Ackermann and the English Dance of Death, by Allen..... More
THE BOOK COLLECTOR. Volume 23, No. 4, Winter 1974.
Pp. 473-632, 20 plates; demy 8vo; printed paper wrappers, backstrip slightly faded; The Collector Ltd, London, 1974. *Includes Percy Muir at eighty, by John Carter; Portrait of a bibliophile XVIII Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode II by Adina Davis; Harry Buxton Forman and his Shelley Reprints by John Collins; The Belle's Stratagem..... More
THE BOOK COLLECTOR. Volume 24, No. 2, Summer 1975.
Pp. 185-344, 14 plates, numerous advertisements; demy 8vo; printed paper wrappers, slightly frayed at head of backstrip; The Collector Ltd., London, 1975. *Includes John Newbery and his Successors, by Peter Opie; Lewis Carroll's Rejection of the 60th thousand of 'Through the Looking Glass', by Selwyn H. Goodacre; Craft binders at..... More