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Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing.
xvi 182p original cloth with private white jacket, excellent fresh copy, with plates, as new, first ...
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Printers' Supplies.
54p stapled booklet, brown card cover, some prices corrected in ink, well preserved, many ...
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The Origin of Printing in Europe.
xv 155p hardback, black cloth very fresh and bright, sharp corners, gilt lettering to spine, ...
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The Contributors. Being the Paper of a Talk delivered to the Wynkyn de Worde Society at Stationers' Hall on 16 May 1974.
31p hardback with plain green dustjacket, illustrations, Curwen Press etc, includes samples of ...
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Letters from a Newspaperman in Prison: James Montgomery to John Pye Smith, 1796.
36p stapled booklet with illustrations, well preserved a little creased = History of the Book Trade ...
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Joseph Crawhall: The Newcastle Wood Engraver (1821 - 1896)
viii 144p hardback with dustjacket under transparent sleeve, many illustrations, a clean copy with ...
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Catalogue No 16: Illustrated Books. Spring 1983.
approx 48p stapled booklet, some illustrations, from typescript, 787 titles listed plus Bargain ...
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Catalogue No 17: Illustrated Books. Spring 1984.
approx 48p stapled booklet, some illustrations, from typescript, 884 titles listed
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Catalogue No 14: Illustrated Books. Spring 1982.
approx 60p stapled booklet, some illustrations, from typescript addendum inserted, 955 titles ...
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Treatise on Lithography. Reprinted from the 1813 and 1816 Editions.
xl 28p 28p bound in publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, many illustrations, very good ...
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Invention of Printing in China and Its Spread Westward. Second Edition.
xxiv 293p hardback, blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, very good condition, a few light marks ...
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Johann Gutenberg: The Inventor of Printing.
31p 18 plates, hardback with fresh dustjacket, excellent
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Olde Ffrendes wyth Newe Faces. Adorn'd with Sutable Sculptures.
approx 240p colour illustrated throughout, printed on variously tinted paper, paper covered boards ...
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Alphabets and Ornaments: A Treasury of Letters and Alphabets, Scripts, Title Pages, Ornaments, Decorative Forms, Fleurons and Border Designs.
256p large format hardback, fresh dustjacket, transparent protective jacket, first editon, ...
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Eesti Ajakirjanduse Ajalugu.
269p small format paperback, a few pages a little loose, text clean, uncommon title: Newspaper ...
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The Illustration of Books.
160p paperback with fresh dustjacket, many illustrations, colour frontispiece, excellent, first ...
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Wolffgang Fugger's Handwriting Manual Entitled A Practical and Well-Grounded Formulary for Divers Fair Hands. Compiled by Wolffgang Fugger, Citizen of Nuremburg, 1553.
oblong hardback, paper covered boards with gilt design to front, spine a hint dull only, book in ...
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Incunabula from the Court Library at Donaueschingen.
323p large format paperback, plates throughout, excellent copy, in a simple private slipcase, sale ...
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Christopher Plantin.
xv 301p hardback with fresh dustjacket, large format, many illustrations throughout, jacket ...
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Italian Book Illustrations. Chiefly of the Fifteenth Century.
80p tall format, hardback, frontispiece and illustrations throughout, original cloth with gilt ...
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The Monotype Recorder. Number Seven, New Series 1988.
32p stapled booklet, in colour, very well preserved: Korean Calligraphy, New Typeface Releases, The ...
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The Paper Maker. Volume 34, Number 1, 1965.
44p spiral bound large format, multi-coloured paper, very good
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Der Text im musikalischen Werk: Editionsprobleme aus musikwissenschaftlicher und literaturwissenschaftlicher Sicht.
415p large paperback, black cover with blue lettering, very well preserved, includes musical ...
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Gedruckt zu Franckfurt am Mayn. 100 Bücher aus der Frankfurter Druck- und Verlagsgeschichte 1511 - 1930. Eine Auswahl aus der Sammlung Frankfurt der Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main.
A4 format, yellow card cover, black spine, 100 items, well preserved, grey paper
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The Life and Times of James Catnach (Late of Seven Dials), Ballad Monger.
xvi 432p original hardback green cloth, title label to spine, many illustrations throughout, some ...
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Pitman's Practical Journalism. An Introduction to Every Description of Literary Effort in Association with Newspaper Production.
viii 171p rebound in plain green library cloth with gilt lettering to spine, light library ...
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An Unrecognized Actor in Greek Comedy.
25p offprint bound in a slim blue cloth volume, author signed, ex library with "Harvard Shakespeare ...
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Selections from the Greek Papyri.
xxxii 152p original cloth firm, author inscription to endpaper, light library markings, ...
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Front Page Story. The Drama of Newspapers.
124p red boards fresh with white lettering to spine, frontispiece, addtl plates, a fresh clean copy ...
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Linage. How to Make Money from News. A Guide for Young Journalists and Beginners.
136p blue cloth with black lettering fresh, light markings from a London library, very good, first ...
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A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions of the End of the Fifth Century BC. Second Edition.
xx 266p light blue cloth, library bookplate and shelfnumbers, dustjacket present but aged, a clean ...
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The Miracle of Fleet Street: The Story of the Daily Herald.
166p library rebound in plain burgundy cloth, with illustrations, a well used copy, still clean and ...
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A History of the Cries of London, Ancient and Modern. Second Edition, Greatly Enlarged and Carefully Revised.
[xxx?] 390p original hardback, title label to front and spine, many illustrations throughout, a ...
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The History of the Catnach Press, at Berwick upon Tweed, Alnwick and Newcastle upon Tyne in Northumberland and Seven Dials, London.
xlii 308p original hardback, title label to front and spine, many illustrations throughout, some in ...
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Catalogue of Limited Editions and Books on the Fine Arts, Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Publishing Firm.
20p stapled booklet, illustrated throughout, nice clean copy, excellent
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On the Text and Interpretation of Certain Passages in the Agamemnon of Aeschylus.
this is a 20p offprint bound in a slim hardback volume, burgundy cloth, with library markings, ...
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Echtheitsfragen Antik-Griechischer Literatur. Rettungen des Theognis, Phokylides, Hekataios, Choirilos.
88p library rebound as hardback, very good, never used, excellent
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Die Neue Zürcher Zeitung im Zeitalter des Zweiten Weltkrieges 1930 - 1955.
350p large format, paper covered boards, vellum spine, light library markings, well preserved
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Die Neuen Zeitungen in Deutschand im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert.
86p large format paperback, ex library, well preserved, hinges a little soft
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Towards a Text of Cicero: Ad Atticum.
viii 104p hardback, blue cloth fresh, excellent clean copy, first edition = = Transactions of the ...
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Northcliffe in History: An Intimate Study of Press Power.
216p red cloth fresh copy from a London library, very little used, fresh and clean
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Printing in London from 1476 to Modern Times. Competitive Practice and Technical Invention in the Trade of Book and Bible Printing, Periodical Production, Jobbing, etc.
224p hardback with well preserved dustjacket, light library markings, very good, first edition
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Die Musikbibliothek des Ludwig Freiherrn von Pretlack (1716-1781). Inaugural-Dissertation.
330p paperback, from typescript, with tables, a fresh copy without name or stamps, uncommon title, ...
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What are Writers Worth? Survey of Authorship.
30p stapled booklet, well preserved, pencil mark to one page
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A General History of Quadrupeds. The Figures Engraved on Wood. Seventh Printing.
x 528p in a defective full calf binding which has seen a crude attempt at repairing the binding, ...
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Emily Dickinson: A Letter.
facsimile and transcription, slim sewn pamphlet, pale magenta wrapper with black lettering, with a ...
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English and International Studies in the Literature, Art, and Patronage of Medieval England.
xiv 377p hardback, a fresh copy, clean, firm binding, in excellent condition overall
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Gwen Raverat. Friends, Family and Affections.
438p large hardback with illustrated purple dustjacket, damage to corner of dustjacket, otherwise ...
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The Story of Writing.
176p hardback with illustrated dustjacket, beautifully signed by the author to front endpaper in a ...
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Désir d'Envol. Une Vie en Calligraphie.
large format hardback, laminated boards, text in French, illustrated throughout in colour, ...
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