Arabic Calligraphy in Manuscripts
Published by King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Riyadh, 1986. Tall 4to.pp 267.English text, 151 Full page colour plates.Some very minor bumping to corners.Quality softcover. Very Good copy.
BOOK ARTS
Asia: a Bibliography for Secondary Schools. Volume II. East Asia; China & Japan
Canberra, Australian Government Printing Service, 1976. Original card cover. pp.x + 80. spine sunned else very good.
COLLECTING THE NEW NATURALISTS.
William Collins,London, 2015. 4to.pp.352, many colour illustrations.Pictoial laminated boards, no dust wrapper as issued. Fine New hardcover,
CAXTON: England's First Publisher
London, Published by Osprey, 1976. 8vo. pp. xii+220, frontispiece, with black & white illustrations notes, index lower front bottom corner bumped. Original pale green cloth, hardcover the spine blocked in red titled in gilt.In very good dustwrapper.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMIC BOOKS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS
California, Published by Greenwood, 2010. 4to Two Volumes. Volume One;xxii + 375 with black & white illustrations. Volume Two; pp.xix +377 with black & white illustrations. original laminated pictorial hardcovers, no dust wrappers as issued. A Fine Set.
A HISTORY OF LONGMANS AND THEIR BOOKS 1724-1990. Longevity in Publishing.
The British Library & Oak Knoll Press , London, 2008. 4to.pp.xii+ 587. Very Good hardcover in Very Good dust wrapper. ISBN 9780712348737 'Early nineteenth-century Longman authors included William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, and Sir Walter Scott, and by the middle of the century they had become a publishing "Leviathan." Late Victorian.....
THE LIBRARY. A World History.
London, Thames & Hudson, 2013. 4to. pp.320 + 392 Illustrations,mostly in colour. Black cloth hardcover, blocked in gilt, in pictorial dustrapper. Fine Copy, As new in original publishers shrink wrap.
THE SEVEN LIVES OF JOHN MURRAY. The Story of a Publishing Diary.
London, Published by John Murray, 2008. 8vo.pp.xiv+370 index, illustrations, very good hardcover in very Good dust wrapper. For more than 200 years John Murray has published challenging and innovative books This is the gripping history of the venerable publishing house and behind its scenes from Byron's Memoirs to Jane Austen's.....
THE HISTORY OF JAPANESE PRINTING AND BOOK ILLUSTRATION.
Tokyo. Published by Kodansha International, 1977. 4to.pp.264 with colour and black & white illustrations.There is a small booksellers label on dustwrapper turn in. Quarter cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper Near fine copy. Heavy Book will require extra postage.
TOWARDS TODAYS BOOK, Progress in 19th Century Britain.
London, Published by Farrand Press, 1997. 4to.pp.xi + 233 + 82 illustrations, Original red cloth in pictorial dust wrapper, tipped in errata slips.A fine copy in fine dust wrapper.
BOOK TYPES FROM CLOWES.
London. Published by William Clowes & Sons, 1950. Second Edition. 4to. pp.li +622. dark red cloth hardcover with gilt lettering and embossed to upper board. decorated end papers.Cloth is a little rubbed and marked. Internally very good.
BIBLIOTHECA CORVINIANA. The Library of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary.
Hungary, Published by Corvina Kiado, 1981. Tall 4to. pp. 334 with colour and black & white illustrations. Blind stamped upper board gilt titles to spine. small sticker removed from front endpaper else a very good hardcover copy in pictorial dust wrapper. Very Good. Matthias I, King of Hungary 1443-1490.
FIFTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH BOOKS: A Bibliography of Books and Documents Printed in England and of Books for the English Market Printed Abroad.
Printed for The Bibliographical Society,at Oxford University Press, 1964. Bibliographical Society Illustrated Monographs No. XVIII. Royal 8vo.pp.ix + 136. dark blue buckram hardcover,a couple of minor marks to upper board else near fine copy,
The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Quest for this Storied City and the Race to Save Its Treasures
London, . Published by William Collins. 2017. Royal 8vo. pp.xiv + 401 illustrations and maps in black & white, index. Black hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. Fine copy. ' The search for this 'African El Dorado' cost the lives of many explorers but Timbuktu is rich beyond its legends. Home.....
JOSEPH CRAWHALL. The newcastle Wood Engraver. 1892- 1896.
Newcastle Upn Tyne. Publshed by Frank Graham, nd [1973]. 8vo. pp.viii + 144 with black & white illustrations.Some pale foxing. Blue cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. Else a very good copy. "Newcastle has produced two of the greatest of English wood-engravers, Thomas Bewick and Joseph Crawhall'.
A BOOK FOR COOKS, 101 Classic Cookbooks.
London, Published by Merrell, 2012. 4to. pp.224.over 500 illustrations, showing covers and several inside pages of all featured books.Original illustrated hardcover no dust wrapper as issued.A fine copy. Leslie Geddes-Brown surveys 100 pioneering cookbooks, selected by her for their influence, for their unusual recipes or simply for their beauty.
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BOOK..
New Castle, Published by Oak Knoll Press. 1996. Second Edition. Royal 8vo. pp. xxiii + 551 with 8 colour plates and others illustrations in black & white.Grey cloth hardcover in mylar protected dust wrapper. Very good copy. 'Encyclopedia contains almost 4,000 terms and definitions used in bookbinding, printing, papermaking and.....
STEVENGRAPHS AND OTHER VICTORIAN SILK PICTURES.
London, Published by Barrie & Jenkins, 1971. 4to. pp. 492 with black & white and colour illustrations, Original cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. A very good copy.
PALM LEAF AND PAPER ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPTS OF INDIA AND SOUTH EAST ASIA.
Published by The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1982. 4to,pp.96 with black & white nd colour illustrations + a map,A Very Good Copy in a quality pictorial softcover binding. ISBN 0724100857.
THE FORGERS SHADOW.How forgery changed the course of literature.
Picador,London,2002. 8vo.pp.x + 351.some pale tanning to foredges else Very good in original hardcover in Very good dust jacket. James Macpherson constantly at war with Samuel Johnson,who described him as a "ruffian"and an imposter for editing (or writing or indeed forging) the lost epics of a third century celtic bard.....
84 CHARING CROSS ROAD.
London, Published by Andre Deutsch, 1971. 8vo. pp.viii + 96 Second Impression of the First English Edition. Original red cloth hardcover in pictorial price clipped dustwrapper. A Fine Copy. 84, Charing Cross Road is about the twenty-year correspondence between the author and Frank Doel, chief buyer of Marks.....
THE HEATH FAMILY OF ENGRAVERS 1779- 1878. Two Volumes.
Aldershot England. Published by The Scholar Press, Royal 8vo.Volume one. James Hearth A.R.A. pp.242 with black & white illustrations. Volume two; Charles Heath and his sons Frederick and Alfred. pp.351 with black & white illustrations. Black cloth hardcovers in pictorial dust wrapppers. Near fine set. "The Heath family engravers were.....
British Botanical & Horticultural Literature Before 1800. Comprising a History & Bibliography of Botanical & Horticultural Books Printed in England, Scotland and Ireland from The Earliest Times until 1800.
Oxford University Press, London, 1975. Three Volumes 4to. Colour & black & white plates and illustrations. A Very Good Set in a slightly scuffed slipcase. I Contains the original receipt from OUP for 70 pounds made out to the Dowager Countess of Crawford & Balcarres,Fife, Scotland. Very Heavy will require.....
BIBLIA PAUPERUM. A Facsimile Edition.
New York. Published by Cornell University Press. 1987. Small folio. pp. 178 with black & white and toned illustrations.. The dust wrapper has a small repair to the bottom corner.previous owners bookplate on the reverse of title page. Dark brown cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. Else Very good copy.....
A GUIDE TO THE HISTORY OF QUEENSLAND. A Bibliographic Survey Of Selected Resources In Queensland History.
Brisbane, Library Board of Queensland, 1985. 4to. pp.x + 241.Author,Title & Subject indexes. Original stiff quality pictorial wrappers. Very Good.