Books on Book History
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Duke Humfrey and English Humanism in the Fifteenth Century: Catalogue of an Exhibition Held in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
77p grey paperback, many illustrations in the back, very good
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Paläographie 1981: Colloquium des Comité International de Paléographie, München, 15 - 18 September 1981. Referate.
x 270p hardback with white dustjacket (a little worn) 38 plates in the back, colour frontispiece, ...
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Paläographie des römischen Altertums und des abendländischen Mittelalters.
359p blue paperback, first edition, author inscription, very good indeed
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Ornament in Medieval Manuscripts: A Glossary.
108p hardback, very fresh dustjacket, illustrated throughout, very good vopy of the first edition
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Checklist of Editions of Greek Papyri and Ostraca. (Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists)
36p bright orange card cover, single issue of the Bulletin, very good, inserted some book reviews ...
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Frühe Schrift und Techniken der Wirtschaftsverwaltung im alten Vorderen Orient. Informationsspeicherung und -verarbeitung vor 5000 Jahren.
222p large format paperback, excellent illustrations throughout, related pamphlet inserted, very ...
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Manuscrits Enluminés de Dijon.
xv 388p large format hardback, taller than A4, black illustrated dustjacket present, colour ...
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Records of the Papal Right of Spoil, 1316 - 1412.
vii 254p large format paperback, larger than A4, green paper cover, reproduced from typescript, a ...
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Leonardo da Vinci: Studies for a Nativity and the "Mona Lisa Cartoon," with Drawings after Leonardo from the Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana. Exhibition in Honour of Elmer Belt, MD on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Catalogue.
50p oversized paperback, brown card cover, illustrations, excellent copy, "printed by Saul & ...
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Manufacture and Market in Parisian Book Illumination around 1300.
24p offprint, many plates, "with best wishes", two-page letter by the author inserted
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Lichtbildarchiv älterer Originalurkunden bis 1250: Geschichte, Bestände, Benutzung. Stand 1985.
24p slim pamphlet, stapled, red card cover, conference program inserted, very good copy
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Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy.
xxv 264p plys 64 b/w plates, large format paperback, illustrated cover, many plates, very well ...
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L'Examen des Écritures: L'œil et la Machine: Essai de Méthodologie.
91p 31 plates, A4 format, bright blue paperback with yellow lettering, text reproduced from ...
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Tibetan Calligraphy Copybook Exercise Set (?)
this is a somewhat worn box containing 13 sample plates with Tibetan script, printed in black and ...
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Four Soviet Scholars: T A Bykova + A D Lyublinskaya, M P Alekseev + E Laucevicius: Portraits and a few References.
14p stapled booklet with portraits, bibliography, Butler sonnet (Not on sad Stygian shore…) in ...
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Studies in Diplomatic History and Historiography in Honour of G P Gooch.
hardback with fresh dustjacket, a clean and tight copy, very little used, if at all, free front ...
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Higashiajia to koraiban daizokyo: shuki tokubetsuten kanren kokusai shinpojiumu: bukkyo daigaku kaigaku hyakushunen kikaku. East Asia and the Koryo Canon.
76p oversized paperback, colour illustrated cover, illustrations in the text, as new
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William Andrews Clark, Jr. His Cultural Legacy. Papers read at a Clark Library Seminar, 7 November 1981.
52p brown wrapper, frontispiece, very good copy, as new
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Homage to Yeats 1865 - 1965.
77p green wrapper, very good, excellent copy, clean and tight
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Some Aspects of Seventeenth Century English Printing with Special Reference to Joseph Moxon.
32p wrapper with green lettering, illustrations, very good, excellent copy
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Vernacular Voices: Language and Identity in Medieval French Jewish Communities.
xi 254p hardback, dustjacket, as new, excellent copy, never used, without flaws
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The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon.
xii 534p large format hardback, fresh dustjacket, unused copy, no name or stamp, tight and clean ...
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The Literary Underground of the Old Regime.
x 258p blue paperback very fresh, hardly used, very good, later impression
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Forgers and Critics. Creativity and Cuplicity in Western Scholarship.
x 157p hardback with fresh red dustjacket, as new, with illustrations, never used, excellent copy, ...
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Istorija Srpske Cirilice: Paleografsko-filoloski Prilozi.
533p large format hardback, dustjacket present with small flaws, illustrated throughout with ...
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Bartolomeo Pagello's Panegyric of Pietro Mocenigo: A Unique Recension.
56p large format paperback, brown card cover, colour illustrations of MS throughout, facsimiles ...
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BAPLA Directory.
60p stapled booklet, very good condition, b&w cover, some light wear to corners
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Word Processing and Publishing: Some Guidelines for Authors.
20p stapled pamphlet, blue card cover, very good condition
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The Book Collector. Vol 13, No 3 (1964).
143p numerous advertisements, paperback, binding and pages good condition
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A General History of Quadrupeds. The Figures Engraved on Wood. Seventh Printing.
x 528p in a full calf binding which has seen spine hinges repaired approx 1920ies, inner hinges ...
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Human Passion Delineated. An Exploration of the Work of Tim Bobbin.
37p hardback with private white paper jacket, illustrated throughout, limited edition of 120 ...
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Catalogue No 15: Illustrated Books. Autumn 1982.
approx 40p stapled booklet, some illustrations, from typescript, 711 titles listed, with index, a ...
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Catalogue No 12: Illustrated Books. Spring 1981.
approx 50p stapled booklet, some illustrations, from typescript, with Bargain Basement, 682 titles ...
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Catalogue No 13: Illustrated Books. Autumn 1981.
approx 60p stapled booklet, some illustrations, from typescript, 466 titles listed, with index, ...
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John Baskerville: Printer and Designer.
This is the issue for July 1952 of the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, cover a little ...
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Arab Paper (1887). Translated by Don Baker and Suzy Dittmar.
98p spiral bound paperback, grey cover, excellent fresh copy, some notes inserted
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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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Technical and Cultural Prerequisites for the Invention of Printing in China and the West.
79p hardback with fresh dustjacket
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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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Printing and Publishing in Mediaeval China.
94p paperback with private plain white paper jacket, excellent clean copy, very good
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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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Johann Gutenberg: The Inventor of Printing.
31p 18 plates, hardback with fresh dustjacket, excellent
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