First American Edition. Quarto. 616pp. Illustrated. With bibliographies of English-language Prayer Books and 'Prayer Books in other languages'; and severla indexes (printers, publishers and booksellers; translators, editors, promotoers and deisgners; classical and vernacular short titles; and exotic types & scripts.) ... more

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The first printing f the new second edition. Stout quarto. xxiii, 551pp. Appendices. Illustrated throughout with numerous black & white reproductions. Gilt gray cloth, a Fine copy in dust jacket ... more

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First Edition. Octavo. 366pp. Index. Illustrations in color and black & white. Black cloth titled in gilt to spine and green pictorial dust jacket. As New. // In this new collection of essays, many published here for the first time, the author of the warmly reviewed Scholar-Librarian leads a series... more

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First Edition. Hardbound. Tall octavo. x + 247pp including appendices, glossary and index. Illustrated with black & white photo reproductions. Blue cloth with title stamped in gilt on spine. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. // This is an account of how Stephenson Blake became in its heyday the most... more

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Reprint of 1938 edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 205pp. including index + addenda / errata. In-text engraved vignettes. Blue cloth over boards, titles stamped in gilt. Fine in Fine printed jacket, As New. ... more

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First paperback of this expanded edition. Quarto. xxix, 258pp. Appendix, bibliography, index. One hundred eleven illustrations. Glossy pictorial wrappers, about Fine. ... more

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First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 216pp. Illustrated. Blue cloth. Fine in Fine dust jacket. ... more

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First Thus. Octavo. 359pp. Illustrated. Introduction by David McKitterick. Stiff glossy wrpas. Near Fine. ... more

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The first Oak Knoll Press edition, co-published with the British Library, and reprinting the 1968 original edition. Hardbound. Quarto. xix + 315pp including bibliography and index. Illustrated with one hundred seventy-six facsimile pages, "from books of unusual beauty or interest, many of them photographed especially for this volume." Gray cloth... more

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First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. viii, 175pp. Illustrations. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 'Account of postwar book buying abroad by the "Holmes and Watson" of antiquarian books' ... more

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Limited Edition of 300 copies. Octavo. 104 pp. With eighteen illustrations showing the methods and copies of correspondence from the Fancy Paper Company, and twenty tipped-in, original examples of their many fancy papers. Quarter leather binding with slipcase. Fine. // Errata slip laid in. "This book tells the story of... more

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Quarto. 160 pp. with color and black and white illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Fine in a Fine illustrated dust jacket. // "Ephemera has been collected for many years, but only recently has it become widely accepted as material for academic study. This is the... more

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Hardcover. Quarto. 179 pp. Index. Illustrated through out in color and black and white reproductions. Red cloth over boards with title in gilt stamped on front board and along spine. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.// "Conceived as a catalogue to an exhibition at the Library Company of Philadelphia to... more

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First Edition. Quarto. 352 pp., illustrated with full color reproductions of original documents, printed books, and artifacts. Includes index. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.// "Contributors to the volume include Michael Zuckerman, who argues that Franklin's vision of education was far more democratic than that of his counterpart Thomas Jefferson,... more

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First Edition. Quarto. 224 pp., illustrated with over 120 reproductions of engravings and preparatory drawings, most of them original size. Includes appendices, select bibliography and index. Purple cloth over boards. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.// "The 1860s are considered the "Golden Age" of illustrated periodicals, a time when the... more

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First Edition. Quarto. vii + 144 pp. illustrated with color plates. Includes appendices and index. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.// "This book is the first comprehensive (and long-overdue) bibliographic study of the London partnership of Field & Tuer and their publishing imprint, Leadenhall Press (later the Leadenhall Press, Ltd.).... more

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First Edition. Quarto. 1,876 pp. in 2 volumes, plus index on CD-ROM. Both volumes: Dark blue cloth over boards with gilt lattering stamped to spine. Fine.// "This superbly comprehensive and detailed bibliography of the British book trade, the product of research in over three hundred libraries in the UK and... more

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First Edition. Octavo. 251 pp. includes index. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. ... more

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