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.
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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,
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.
John Murray,London, 2008. 8vo.pp.xiv+370 index, illustrations, very good hardcover in very Good dust wrapper. ISBN 9780719565328 For more than 200 years John Murray has published challenging and innovative books This is the gripping history of the venerable publishing housenand behind its scenes from Byrons memoirs to Jane Austens clipped manner.....
TOWARDS TODAYS BOOK,
Farrand Press, London, 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.
A BOOK FOR COOKS. 101 Classic Cookbooks.
Merrell, London & New York, 2012. 4to.pp.224. profusely illustrated throughout in colour and black and white,index.bibliography. Original decorated, pictorial hardcover, no dust wrapper as issued. A gorgeous collection of 101 cook books selected by the author and illustrated and described. At the end there are a number of cooks who.....
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.
SLIP-SHOD SIBYLS. Recognition, Rejection and The Woman Poet.
Viking,London, 1995. 8vo.pp.xxiv + 517. Illustrations. a small mark on the foredge.else Very Good hardcover in Very Good protected dust jacket. In this provoctative collection Greer argues that the problem is not that women who wrote poetry before 1900 were ignored but that, when most women were unable to express.....
THE FORGERS SHADOW.How forgery changed the course of literature.
Picador,London,2002. 8vo.pp.x + 351.some pale foredge foxing 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. William.....
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.....
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DR ROBERT HOOKE.
Oxford ,The Clarendon Press, 1960. 4to.pp.xxiv + 116+ 12 plates and other illustrations.original cloth boards and red title label on spine.A Very Good hardcover in Very Good dust wrapper.
THE MARK TWAIN ENCYCLOPEDIA.
Garland, New York & London, 1993. 4to.pp.xxx + 848.original quarter cloth hardcover,no dust wrapper as issued spine a little rubbed.
RANDOLPH CALDECOTT. The Man Who Could Not Stop Drawing.
Francis Foster Books, New York,2013. 4to.pp.64.bibliograpy, Profusely illustrated . Fine in Fine dust wrapper.
THE BOOK OF LOVE . In Search of Kamasutra.
Atlantic Books, London,, 2007. 8vo.pp.xvi + 267 + 8p.illustrations. Very Good hardcover in Vey Good dust wrapper. ISBN 9781843543732 This is the story of the West's discovery of the Kamasutra: how the last surviving manuscripts were tracked down in India by visionary Victorian scholars and painstakingly translated The Kamasutra was.....
OBELISK A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press.
Liverpool University Press , Liverpool , 2007. First Edition ,8vo.pp.xiv + 494..illustrations. Complete Bibliography of The Obelisk Press.,biography of each of their Authos and an extensive biographical essay on Jack Kahane. Fine hardcover in Fine dust wrapper. ISBN 9781846311017 Any book banned in the UK or the USA coulfd be.....
GRAPHIC INK. The DC Comics Art of Frank Quitely.
DC Comics, New York, 2014. 4to.pp.350 Contains dozens of never before reprinted works plus many others.Original hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. A Fine Copy in the publishers shrink wrap. ISBN 9781401248406.
MARK TWAIN. A TO Z.The Essential Reference to His Life and Writings.
Published by Facts on File, New York, 1995. 4to.pp.xxiv + 552 + over 130 photographs and drawings and a map of his travels. original black cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper.Some very mild foxing of the prelims else a very good copy.
A COMPANION TO CRIME FICTION.
Wiley Blackwell, 2010. Large thick 8vo.pp.xviii + 629 Original laminated pictorial hardcover. ISBN 978-1-4051-6765-9.
BABOO ENGLISH AS TIS WRIT Being Curiousities of Indian Journals.
T.Fisher Unwin, London,1891. Small square 8vo.pp.108 + 5p. ads.Original black simulated animal skin binding with gilt device on upper board.Some foxing to the half title page else Very Good. Indian newspapers with background into their development.
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