Books on Book History
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500 Jahre Buch und Zeitung in Köln. Ausstellung.
168p card cover, nice copy. 80p scholarly essay, with illustrations & index and notes on printers, ...
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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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Scherzi poetici e pittorici.
61 scherzi plus 40 plates, partly printed on lightly tinted paper, xii 181p, 224p small marbled ...
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Deutsche Buchmalerei: Part 1: Vorgotische Zeit, Part 2: Gotische Buchmalerei.
80p 80p cloth with transparent film, from a Cambridge college library, mostly plates, some in ...
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A Batsford Century.
viii 148p blue cloth with gilt lettering, binding firm, rough cut edges, top edge gilt, many b&w ...
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A Batsford Century.
viii 148p blue cloth with gilt lettering, pink dustjacket present, binding firm, rough cut edges, ...
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Almanaco Letterario Bompiani 1965. L'Industria della Narrativa. Societa Americana e Romanzo. Dai Quaresimalisti della Cultura di Massa al Pelegrinaggio sui Piselli dell'Avanguardia.
198p plus approx 80p of advertisement, some advertisement inserted, large format (A4), a fresh and ...
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Bonhams Printed Books and Maps, Tuesday 17 September 2002.
157p large format paperback, penguin illustration to front, well preserved, clean and tight copy, ...
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£56.00
Culture, Censorship and the State in Twentieth-Century Italy.
viii 206p hardback, dark red and blue cover, like new condition, no noticeable wear, binding tight, ...
£56.00
Introduction to Book Publishing.
64p stapled pamphlet with illustrated cover, corners slightly scuffed but pages clean and unmarked, ...
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Books from India. Catalogues of Maps, Guides, Children's Books and A Select List of Punjabi Non-fiction Titles.
4 stapled booklets, in original envolope, very good condition
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Eugène Süe. Le Roi du Roman Populaire.
448p hardback, orange cloth with colour portrait, transparent glassine jacket, good condition, ...
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Bottega Apulja di Mario Somma. Libri Rari, Autunno 1995.
176p large paperback, illustrated cover, 622 items, with illustrations, a fresh copy, very good
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Catalogo 28, Nuova Serie. Natale 1967.
121p large paperback, illustrated cover, ink note to front, with illustrations, early listing, a ...
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Bottega Apulja di Mario Somma. Libri Rari, Autunno 1994.
231p large paperback, illustrated cover, 769 items, with illustrations, a nice fresh copy, very good
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Les Manuscrits Franciscains de la Bibliothèque de Troyes.
20 393p large format paperback, grey card cover, tight and clean volume, author inscription to ...
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Mysteries. Detective Fiction. Science Fiction and Fantasy. Catalogue 15.
stapled booklet with yellow cover, from typescript, very good
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Arabic for Designers.
224p hardback with yellow dustjacket, excellent copy, name blacked out to endpaper, otherwise as ...
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£14.00
Visual Recognition of Words.
166p white card cover, illustrations, bibliography, includes an historical account of Reading ...
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£96.00
Vindolanda: The Latin Writing Tablets.
very large format, light blue cardcover with illustration, excellent copy, traces of shelfmark, no ...
£96.00
Architecture 1900 - 1985. Catalogue 52.
144p paperback with ghost-printed design in silver, book catalogue, plates throughout, publisher's ...
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Chaucer and the Medieval Book.
xi 165p hardback with fresh dustjacket, frontispiece, a nice and clean copy, very little used, ...
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Information, Freedom and Censorship: Article 19 World Report.
xii 352p white paperback, binding firm, many b&w illustrations, near fine condition, errata inserted
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£36.00
Vox Paginae. An Oral Dimension of Texts.
73p large format paperback with ivory cover, portrait frontispiece, colour plate, excellent fresh ...
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£120.00
Pour une Histoire du Livre Manuscrit au Moyen-Âge.
361p purple paperback, large format, inscribed by both editiors, card cover with faint creases, ...
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Alle Origini dell'Enciclopedismo Medioevale: Il "Liber de Auctoritate Divina" e il "Liber Deflorationum" di Werner di Sankt Blasien.
36p essay, offprint with blue card cover, staped, plate, a fresh and clean copy, large format
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Annales. Économies Sociétés Civilisations, Vol 36, No 2, 1981.
approx 220p, excellent copy, contains many essays, includes Chartier on the Ancien Regime ...
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Oral / Ecrit. (Annales. Économies Sociétés Civilisations, Vol 44, No 4, 1989)
approx 220p, large paperback with white card cover, excellent copy, contains special section Oral / ...
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Børnespejl (Bornespejl)
xi 45p fragile pamphlet, paper cover front and back missing, text clean, partly un-cut, colour ...
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Kritische Gesamtausgaben und Musikgeschichtliche Sammelwerke.
32p stapled booklet, very good
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Patriotism, Power and Print. National Consciousness in Tudor England.
160p hardback with black dustjacket, unused copy in excellent condition, as new
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Moral Amusements. (Encounter, April 1979, Volume 52, No 4)
96p journal with yellow card cover, for sale as a complete issue, little used, pages clean with ...
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Mittelalterliche Hermeneutik.
xv 439 large format hardback, cloth binding, a tight copy, seems unused, pencil notes to a half a ...
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Librarianship as a Career.
this is a stapled pamphlet cum application form, mimeographed, 12p, very good
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The British Library at St Pancras.
20p large format brochure in card folder, produced by St Pancras Publicity Office to herald the new ...
£16.00
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British Museum. Books in Print and Forthcoming Publications. 1963 - 1964.
56p stapled booklet with "Arthur Asleep" illustration to front. Conveniently arranged to enter the ...
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Subject Index of Modern Books aquired 1946 - 1950, Vols 1 - 4.
complete in 4 volumes, 1869p large format red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, firm binding, clean ...
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Proceedings. Number 2, 1937. (Conference Proceedings 1936, Fletcher: Survey of Local Societies)
48p stapled booklet, very good indeed, small stamp
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Proceedings. Number 3, 1938. (Conference Proceedings 1937, Exhibition: Notable Documents from Private Muniments)
54p stapled booklet, very good indeed, small stamp
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Proceedings. Number 4, 1939. (Conference Proceedings 1938, Loan Exhibition of Maps and Plans)
72p stapled booklet, very good indeed, small stamp
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Letter Symbols, Signs and Abbreviations. Part 1: General. B.S. 1991, Part 1, 1954.
45p grey card cover, black lettering 1960 printing, incorporating changed up to Feb 1957, fresh and ...
£18.00
Printers' and Authors' Proof Corrections. (British Standard 1219:1958)
27p plus large folding plate in back, stapled booklet, from a Cambridge college library, fitted ...
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Notes on the Preparing of Copy and the Correcting of Proofs.
11p fresh and clean, stapled, no year given
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When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861 - 1917.
xxii 450p hardback, fresh dustjacket, a clean copy, name to endpaper, (coffee?) soiling to margin ...
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The Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds. Its Contents Described with Illustrations of Fifty Books and Manuscripts.
xii 108p large format hardback, fresh dustjacket, frontispiece, many plates, excellent copy, no ...
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Opportunities for Research in the John Carter Brown Library.
88p booklet with illustrations, nice fresh copy
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The Irish Element in the Insular System of Scripts to a 850 AD.
24p offprint, very good, burgundy paper cover, some authorial corrections to the text
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The Oldest Irish Manuscripts and their late Antique Background.
24p offprint, very good, burgundy paper cover, some authorial corrections to the text, includes ...
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New Commentary on Matthew in Benevetan Script at Venosa.
22p plus plates, offprint, white card cover, excellent
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Manuscripts Containing English Decoration 871-1066, Catalogued and Illustrated: A Review.
25p offprint, clean and tight copy, numismatic illustration to cover
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