Books on Book History
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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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£120.00
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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Désir d'Envol. Une Vie en Calligraphie.
large format hardback, laminated boards, text in French, illustrated throughout in colour, ...
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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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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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Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, of the Late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; with Some Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Mr. Tickell. - Volume 1 and 2 ONLY.
xxxv 267p 321p; 328p 304p two volumes with bright red morocco boards with gilt décor, spines in ...
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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 ...
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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 attractively printed 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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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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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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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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Graven Image. An Autobiographical Textbook.
388p hardback with very well preserved dustjacket, a tight and firm copy, excellent condition, ...
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