Books on Book History
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Die Katharinen-Passie. Ein Druck von Ulrich Zell. In Nachbildung herausgegeben und untersucht von Hermann Degering und Max Joseph Husung.
20 pages of facsimiles 57p, illustrations, grey card cover, library markings, well preserved
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Geschriebene Sprache: Untersuchungen zu ihrer Herausbildung und Grundlegung ihrer Theorie.
452p large format hardback, red cloth with white lettering to front and spine, binding very well ...
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£240.00
Bewick Memento: Catalogue with Purchasers' Names and Prices Realised of the Scarce and Curious Collection of Books, Silver Plate, Prints, Pictures, Wood Blocks, Copper Plates, and Bewick Relics, etc., Sold by Auction at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1884.
large format hardback, original full grey cloth with lettering to spine, iv 13p, iv 40p, ...
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The Bewick Collector. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Thomas and John Bewick. Supplement Volume.
xxxii 353p single volume in original burgundy cloth, Edward Hunter bookplate, many reproductions of ...
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The Bewick Collector. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Thomas and John Bewick.
xxiii 562p; xxxii 353p two volume set in burgundy cloth, includes the supplement volume, many ...
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From Old Stencils to Silk Screening.
239p original cloth, fresh clean copy, illustrated throughout
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Price Alteration.
This is a copy of Scottish Short Stories edited by T & J F Hendry with a somewhat creased price ...
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Street Corner. A Study to Mark the Thirteenth Anniversary of the Founding of the Caxton Press.
56p slim hardback, dustjacket edge a bit worn, firm binding, clean pages, a well preserved copy, ...
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Curious Objects.
36p stapled booklet, exhibition catalogue, colour illustrated throughout, very good indeed
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Procedures for Salvage of Water-Damaged Library Materials.
30p stapled pamphlet, cover in good condition, clean pages, early price marking to title page, a ...
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'Japonisme' and Whistler. Essay in Burlington Magazine, November 1964.
4p essay, for sale is the entire issue which also includes 'Gaetano Giulio Zumbo: The Florentine ...
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Hindu Scriptures. Hymns from the Rigveda. Five Upanishads. The Bhagavadgita.
xxiv 293p hardback with yellow dustjacket, extremely well preserved copy, the jacket with Ravilious ...
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Bookbinding. With Numerous Engravings and Diagrams.
160p small paperback with white spine and red front cover with black and white photograph of a ...
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The Biography and Typography of William Caxton, England's first Printer.
xii 387p original terracotta cloth, new spine, new endpapers, illustrated throughout, bright and ...
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Crawhall’s Chap-Book Chaplets.
242p large format original hardback with illustrated boards, spine with slanted lettering, 8 parts ...
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Old Aunt Elspa's ABC.
approx 30p, stapled, colour printed throughout, reprint of the 1888 edition, with private paper ...
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£560.00
Bewick Memento: Catalogue with Purchasers' Names and Prices Realised of the Scarce and Curious Collection of Books, Silver Plate, Prints, Pictures, Wood Blocks, Copper Plates, and Bewick Relics, etc., Sold by Auction at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1884.
large format hardback, half cloth with decorative title label to front, iv 13p, iv 40p, two ...
£560.00
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The Writing on the Wall, 1813 - 1943.
slim hardback, illustrated throughout, dustjacket present, a little dusty
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Little Red Riding Hood.
8p blue booklet, 1966 facsimile of the 1852 edition attractivelyprinted by John Foreman, the ...
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Les Richesses de la Librairie Française, des Origines à nos Jours.
125p paperback, well preserved copy, many plates illustrating bindings in the back, excellent and ...
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Studien zum städtischen Bildungswesen des späten Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit: Bericht über Kolloquien der Kommission zur Erforschung der Kultur des Spätmittelalters 1978 bis 1981.
637p very thick large paperback tome, excellent fresh copy without name without stamps and without ...
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La Veuve Berton et Jean Portau, 1573 - 1589.
126p large format paperback, this copy largely un-cut, very good, with facsimiles of title pages
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Food Aid: A Selective Annotated Bibliography on Food Utilization for Economic Development.
vii 203p green paperback, one pen line to margin, otherwise a very well preserved copy
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The Royal Society Conference of Editors. Metrication in Scientific Journals.
8p pamphlet, well preserved, nice and clean item, related notice inserted
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The Biochemical Journal. Suggestions to Authors. Abbreviations and Symbols. 1949.
12p large format pamphlet, stapled, a little aged and dusty
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Report of a Joint Committee of the Chemical Society, the Faraday Society, and the Physical Society on Symbols for Thermodynamical and Physico-Chemical Quantities and Conventions Relating to their Use.
16p large format, a little fragile, well preserved
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The Journal of Physiology. Suggestions to Authors.
33p booklet, sewn booklet, salmon card cover, clean and tight, very good
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The Biochemical Journal. Policy of the Journal and Instruction to Authors. Revised 1969.
16p large format pamphlet, stapled, very good
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The Journal of Physiology. Suggestions to Authors.
18p bound interleaved with additional empty pages front and back, plain dark cloth with faint ...
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Rules for the Preparation of Manuscripts and Bibliographies, with a List of Abbreviations of Titles of Current Medical Periodicals. Third Edition.
17p stapled booklet, vier of publisher's premises on back cover, very good
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Cambridge Review. A Journal of University Life and Thought. 25 October 1969.
40p A4 format, white cover, stapled, Autumn Book Issue, very good condition
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£100.00
Olde Tayles Newlye Relayted: Enryched with all ye Ancyene Embellyshmentes.
approx 460p, pagination varies, large format hardback, green cloth with black and red lettering and ...
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Printers' Pie 1919. "Peace Pudding".
liv 66p large format paperback, colour cover, extensive period adverts, also in colour ("Give her ...
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£480.00
A Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevitch, his Young Body-Guard and the Valiant Merchant Kalashnikov. With Decorations by Paul Nash. Translated by John Cournos.
24p v large format, full morocco binding designed by Paul Nash, black and white inlays and blind ...
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W & G Foyle Ltd. Supplement to Catalogue of Dept No 1. Section 1a: English Literature: Secondhand.
56p A4 format, stapled, listing in two columns, includes extensive explanantions on how to order ...
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£68.00
Graven Image. An Autobiographical Textbook.
388p hardback with very well preserved dustjacket, a tight and firm copy, excellent condition, ...
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Die Stunde des Gerichts. Sonderausgabe der Fackel Nr. 730-731 Anfang Juli 1926.
32p stapled booklet, red paper cover, staples rusty, paper yellowing, well preserved for age, clean
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Zur Kulturgeschichte des Papiers.
105p large format paperback, title label to front, illustrated throughout, this is a very ...
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George Cruikshank: The Artist, the Humorist and the Man.
70p original paper cover bound in, period bound in a slim hardback volume, protected by simple ...
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Prayer Book Revision in England, 1800 - 1900.
140p hardback, with yellow dustjacket, fresh clean copy, very good indeed
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The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society.
x 493p paperback, tight copy, first dozen pages with faint pencil marks, very good
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Pulpit, Lectern and Study. A Guide to Preaching and Reading.
118p bright and clean paperback, red cover, very good, first published 1939
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Essaying Montaigne: A Study of the Renaissance Institution of Writing and Reading.
244p hardback with dustjacket, frontispiece, author inscription "with best wishes", author letter ...
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Peters-Nachrichten. September 1963.
two pages, stapled, reproduced from typescript, contributions about Gunther Becker, Mauricio Kagel, ...
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£14.00
The Sewers of Paris.
This is a 16p offprint / separatum of an essay published in Chicago Review (2014), single sheet, ...
£14.00
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Magic Casements.
48p booklet, pale blue printed paper-covered boards, foxing to endpapers and edges, otherwise clean ...
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Privacy and the Press: The Daily Mirror Press Photographer Libel Action.
v 250p hardback with cloth spine, first edition, portrait plates, very good indeed
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Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms.
305p hardback with dustjacket, clean copy from a public library, hardbly used, clean and tight, ...
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