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Fry's Metal Foundries, Ltd., London, third edition, 1959. Cloth, gilt cover-device, 8vo, 19 cm,. vii, 93, [1] pp, 15 ills. From the introduction "Our book Printing Metals published in 1936 immediately became and has remained the standard work on the subject throughout the world. Nevertheless, much new material has been accumulated in the meantime, principally through our own research work and investigation. Our Technical Director, Mr. R. G. Harper, has now recast the work of his predecessor, Mr. A. H. Mundey, embodying the new material. An attempt has been made to present an outline of the metallurgy of Printing Alloys in the simplest and briefest form which will provide a sufficient understanding of the use of these alloys in a printing works. Fuller consideration of the metallurgy has been made available for the serious student in the appendixes. To those who work with printing metals this is therefore presented as a textbook on one of the most important materials of their trade, in which… Read More

Book Club Associates, London, reprint edition, 1979. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. 288 pp. From the blurb - " 'In Bloomsbury' Leon Edel once told himself lightheartedly, 'there are nine characters in search of an author.’ Those nine characters are Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes, Desmond MacCarthy, Roger Fry, Clive Bell, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant - representing among them the arts and crafts of politics, economics, fiction, biography, criticism and painting. Mr Edel sees them as, in Virginia Woolf’s words, ‘dangerous animals, rather suspicious of each other, and full of fascination and mystery*, but also as forming a group of rational and liberal individuals, characterized by intelligence and charm, an arduous work ethic and *a certain high and gentry view of civilization’. While telling their story as if it were a novel, Mr Edel is aware that a biographer may allow himself imagination of form but never imagination of fact. He has chosen… Read More

Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, first edition, 1989. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 8vo, 25 cm,. 71, [1] pp, colour ills. Tippex stains to rear wrapper, otherwise near Very Good.

British Library, London, first edition, 2007. Laminated illustrated wrappers with flaps, small 4to, 24 cm,. 224 pp, colour ills, maps. The catalogue of the exhibition 'Sacred' held at the British Library, 27 April-23 September 2007. Contents include: The idea of a sacred text, by Karen Armstrong; Living with sacred Jewish texts, by Everett Fox; The poet in performance : the composition of the Qur'an, by F.E. Peters; The sacred texts; Dissemination, division and difference; Establishing the sacred texts; Illuminating the word in colours and gold; Religious life : encountering the sacred; Judaism glossary; Christianity glossary; Islam glossary. Wrappers slightly scuffed, otherwise Very Good.

Futura Publications Ltd, London, reprint edition, 1990. Laminated illustrated wrappers, small 8vo,. 220, [4] pp. Correspondence chiefly between Helene Hanff and Frank Doel. Contents agetoned, otherwise Good.

Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, first edition, 1963. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. 246, [1] pp. From the preface : "This is the second of a series of reference works published by the MuseumÂ' compiled by the Keeper of the Department of Geology, and designed to help both amateur and professional geologists to trace the sources of geological facts on Wales and the Borders. The first was an attempt to bring together references to the widely scattered literature on geology, geomorphology, soil science, etc., published during the present [ie twentieth] century, and to supply comprehensive subject and author indexes. The present volume is a continuation of this work and deals with the literature published in the preceding four centuries. Very Good.

Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna, Bologna, original journal, 1994. Printed wrappers, 8vo, 22 cm,. 19, [1] pp. Contents include: Luigi Balsamo: Bibliologia e filologia umanistica; Leonardo Quaquarelli: Verìfiche su Baldassarre Azzoguidi: un tratto di storia incunabolistìca rivisitato da bibliologia, filologia e informatica; Luisa Avellini: Promozione libraria nel Quattrocento Bolognese; Paola Vecchi Galli: La stampa a Bologna nel Rinascimento fra corte, università e città. Rassegna del libro di rime; Pierangelo Bellettini: Sugli inizi dell'attività tipografica di Anseimo Giaccarelli a Bologna; Indice dei nomi; Indice dei manoscritti e dei documenti d'archivio. Wrappers a trifle rubbed, otherwise Very Good.

Dawson / Archon Books, Folkestone, first edition, 1978. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. viii, 194 pp. The best primary bibliography of the poet George Crabbe (1754-1832), including full bibliographic descriptions for first editions and briefer descriptions for subsequent British and American editions up to the 1970s. Entries for first editions include title-page transcriptions, physical descriptions, publishing histories, and copy locations. Also includes annotated descriptions of some 350 secondary works including contemporary reviews, bibliographies and bibliographical studies, and biographical and critical studies. Appendixes list Crabbe's works in translations, foreign language criticisms, and Crabbe's apocryphal works. Top edge slightly dust-stained, covers slightly rubbed, otherwise Good.

Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Limited, London, 1958 reprint with minor amendments of 1957 fifth edition. Cloth, gilt cover-device, folio, 26 cm,. xi, 367 pp, frontispiece and 1 plate. From the introduction - "Many books have been written on the subject of the Stock Exchange. In some the historic side has been prominent, in others the legal side has been uppermost. For these reasons students may find such works too advanced. The examination papers of the Universities, the Royal Society of Arts, the London Chamber of Commerce, the Institute of Bankers, and the Chartered and Incorporated Accountants on Stock Exchange subjects reveal the need for information written from the standpoint of the student; and the expressed need for such a work led to the publication of this book. In the pages that follow the author has endeavoured to draw aside the curtain which surrounds the carrying out of Stock Exchange transactions, and enable students to master the somewhat intricate details. Effort has also been made… Read More

Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, London, first edition, 1964. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. [5], 232 pp, ills. Good in used dustwrapper.

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1979 reprint of 1970 third edition. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. xi, [4], 930 pp. From the blurb - "The late F. P. Wilson’s interest in proverbs began more than fifty years ago and increased with his wide reading of Elizabethan and Jacobean literature. This third edition is enriched with the fruits of his scholarship and observation in these and other periods ; it has many earlier examples of citations and some new proverbs. The removal of those of dubious authenticity and the collation of others keep the volume to a manageable size, while the liberal entry of cross-references should prove useful. The proverbs vary from the cautious wisdom of our forefathers to ‘Take council of one’s pillow’, to the modern maxim: ‘If it works it’s obsolete.’ Top edge lightly spotted, otherwise Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.

Longmans Green & Co. Ltd. London, first edition, 1957. Cloth, gilt cover design, 4to,. 22, [1] pp, 63 plates. An ex-library copy with shelfnumbers on the spine (and dustwrapper spine-panel), label on the front pastedown endpaper (with some offsetting to the front free endpaper), small stamps on the title-page (recto and verso), otherwise Good in torn and soiled dustwrapper.

World Publishing Co., Cleveland, first edition, 1957. Cloth, gilt cover title and blindstamped cover device, 8vo,. 503 pp, [15] pp of plates (1 folded). An interesting collection of essays on a range of topics about children's books by a number of experts and enthusiasts. Contents include: John Newbery by F. J. Harvey Darton; Nursery Rhymes by Iona And Peter Opie; Little Women Forever by C. Waller Barrett; The Publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by W. H. Bond; The Moving Market or Cries of London Town by Elisabeth Ball; A Twentieth-Century Look at Nineteenth-Century Children's Books by Jacob Blanck; Milestones of the Nursery (abridged catalogue of Pierpont Morgan exhibition); Geoffrey Chaucer Goes to School by Marchette Chute; The World Republic of Childhood by Paul Hazard; Of Castaways and Islands by Vincent Starrett; In the Cradle by Mrs. E. M. Field; The McGuffey Readers by Henry Ford and D. Kenneth Laub; My First Meeting with Sherlock Holmes by Ellery Queen; and many… Read More

John Murray, London, first British edition, 1931. Later library cloth with contrasting spine-panel, 8vo,. viii, 355 pp, plates. From the preface: "The appearance of the definitive Bonchurch Edition of Swinburne's Works (London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; New York: Gabriel Wells) makes this an appropriate time to publish a new estimate of the poet's genius and achievement. The present study dates, however, in its original form from more than a decade ago. It was set aside deliberately to await the publication, long announced, of the definitive edition; and consequently, while I have, I hope, profited by the various estimates that have appeared in recent years, my impressions and opinions were formed independently of all critical studies of later date than Sir Edmund Gosse's biography, the primary source of information on the poet's life and character. That I have devoted so much space to the tragedies and prose writings is due to the fact that heretofore these departments of… Read More

Trustees of the British Museum, London, first edition, 1901. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. 149 pp. Manuscript title added to spine, browned otherwise Good.

Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 1988 reprint of 1982 first edition. Cloth, 8vo,. 279 pp, numerous plates,. Includes chapters on : The Language of Book-Collecting; The 'Art, Mystery and Manual Occupation' of Bookbinding; The Illustrated Book; Private Press and Press Books; The Cult of the First Edition; Association Copies; Provincial Presses; Bibles; Completeness and Condition; The Care of Books; Ephemera; Autograph Letters and Manuscripts; The Adventure of Collecting; Sources of Supply. Also among the Appendices are a glossary of book collecting terms and a quiz. Very Good in slightly creased dustwrapper.

Bibliographical Society, London, first edition, 1967. Cloth, 8vo,. vi, 54 pp, tables. This volume gives full bibliographic descriptions (title page transcriptions, collations, contents, locations of copies, and publishing histories) for the first editions of the works of John Cleveland. Bibliographical Society publication for1965. Near Fine.

Perpetua Press, Oxford, first edition, 1999. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. xv, 192 pp. From the blurb - "Oxford has inspired many poems, but it has waited a long time for this anthology to give a generous sampling of them. Glyn Pursglove and Alistair Ricketts offer a representative range of poetic responses to Oxford over a period of four hundred vears.Thev begin with Thomas Lodge’s vision of Christ Church Meadow peopled with dancing water nymphs, and end with Duncan Bush’s annotation of the 'draughty common sink, the crumbling edge of Cotswold sills, the old decrepit stair'. Their choice of poems naturally reflects Matthew Arnold’s famous description of Oxford as 'that sweet City with her dreaming spires,' but it also gives due attention to such places as 'the land of the canal', dearer to James Elroy Flecker than 'the antique town'. Space is found for critics as well as devotees. Oxford in Verse provides a highly readable collection of generally unfamiliar… Read More

Offprint, n.p., n.d. but c. 1965. Plain wrappers, stapled, 8vo,. pp [93]-98, printed on one side of the leaf only. Offprint of an esssay included in "Johnson, Boswell, and their circle : essays presented to Lawrence Fitzroy Powell, in honour of his eighty-fourth birthday. Very Good.

Constable and Company Limited, London, first edition, 1949. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. xvi, 342 pp, ills, facs. From the foreword by Tupper's grandson: "He was not quite the poet laureate that he would have liked to be, and that some would have made him, nor was he the futile foil of Laurence Housman's "Victoria Regina". We have had to wait until now to see him in true perspective. Mr Hudson, his first, and perhaps only, biographer, by dint of patient and thorough research, has shown us Martin Tupper as he was, and, at the same time, has made a notable contribution to the social history of the nineteenth century. It is not to be expected that this biography will call "Proverbial Philosophy" forth from the dusty recesses of Charing Cross Road and set it once more upon the bookshelves of the English-speaking world, for its religious idiom is of an age that is past. But I am deeply indebted to Mr Hudson for rescuing the name of Martin Tupper from obscurity and ignominy, and… Read More