Bibliography, Proof Copies and Book Production

Henry James - The Standard Bibliography

Bibliography of Henry James, Third Edition, for sale

Leon Edel and Dan H. Laurence

A Bibliography of Henry James Third Edition

The Soho Bibliographies published by The Clarendon Press
  8vo. 428 pages.  Internally clean and crisp.  The top edge marked when the book closed.
 In the publisher’s cloth, very good.  The dust jacket clean, with a little wear and creasing around the edges.
 

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Price: £16.00
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Quaritch General Catalogue 1880, 2395 pages

Bernard Quaritch General Catalogue 1880, for sale

Quaritch, Bernard

A General Catalogue of Books, Offered At To The Public At The Affixed Prices By Bernard Quaritch

London, Bernard Quaritch, 1880

22 x 14.5 cm, 2,395 pages. The Sion Library copy, with a single ink stamp applied to the back of the title page. Clean internally, but the back cover detached and with it the last few pages, a couple of pages before these rather loose. Two gatherings standing rather proud when the book is closed. The binding of this extremely thick book (about 16cm) is rather dry and tight, so that the book +requires careful handling. Read more about Quaritch General Catalogue 1880, 2395 pages

Price: £125.00
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Les Supercheries Littéraires Dévoilées et Dictionnaire Des Ouvrages Anonymes

Les Supercheries Litté raires Dévoilées et Dictionnaire Des Ouvrages Anonymes

Les Supercheries Littéraires Dévoilées; 3 volumes with Dictionnaire Des Ouvrages Anonymes, suite de la seconde édition dé s Les Supercheries Littéraires Dé voilées, Volumes 1-4.

Price: £200.00
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Pre-publication Proof. Rupert Hart-Davis, publisher

Pre-publication Proof.  Rupert Hart-Davis, publisher

Cowper, William

Poetry and Prose.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968.

PUBLISHER'S PROOF. 8vo. 1020 pages. Bound in the publisher's printed paper wrappers. A few handwritten corrections to the introduction. Page numbers in the notes and the Index to 'Cowper's Circle' not inserted. Printed on much thicker paper than the published copies producing a book 10 cm thick. Read more about Pre-publication Proof. Rupert Hart-Davis, publisher

Price: £35.00
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George Baxter The Picture Printer

Courtney Lewis, C.T

George Baxter The Picture Printer

London; Sampson, Low, Marston, no date

Limited edition of 1,000 copies. 4to. (25x18.5cm), xxxvi+608 pages+ 80 pages of illustrations. Slight browning to the half title and title pages and to the edges of the pages when the book is closed. Slight marking to the endpapers. Read more about George Baxter The Picture Printer

Price: £25.00
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Wise, Thomas & Wheeler S. A Bibliography of ….Walter Savage Landor

London, for the Bibliophile Society, 1919
8vo. (cm), xxiv+422+(4) pages with 12 plates. Slight browning and very slight creasing to a few pages and half a dozen pages with a few small patches of foxing, in no way affecting legibility. Bound in the original binding, grey paper covering the boards and a tan cloth spine with the title etc. in black. Slight wear to the corners, but in very good .condition. £75 Read more about Wise, Thomas & Wheeler S. A Bibliography of ….Walter Savage Landor

Price: £50.00
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Catalogue of the Hindustani Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum.

London, British Museum, 1889.
4to. (29x23cm), (8)+ 230 pages (numbered in columns). A good clean copy internally, the title page slightly foxed, Two library bookplates inside the front cover, a ‘Withdrawn’ stamp on the front end paper and a small rubber stamp on the back of the title page. The front end paper split on the hinge, but the board firmly attached. Bound in purple cloth, the spine faded and a piece of cloth missing from the head of the spine. The title etc. in gilt on the spine and a library label at the base of the spine. Read more about Catalogue of the Hindustani Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum.

Price: £40.00
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Catalogue of the Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Assamese, Oriya, Pushtu and Sindhi Manuscripts in the Library of the British Museum.

London, The British Museum, 1905.
4to. (29x23cm) (8)+ 48+46+34+50 pages. A good clean, tight copy. Ex-library with a blind stamp on the title page, and bookplate and rubber stamp on the endpaper. In the publisher’s brown cloth binding with the title etc. in gilt on the spine, two paper labels at the base of the spine. Read more about Catalogue of the Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Assamese, Oriya, Pushtu and Sindhi Manuscripts in the Library of the British Museum.

Price: £40.00
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The Year-Boke of the Sett of Odd Volumes. 1906-7.

London, for private circulation, 1910. Small 8vo. (14.5x10.5cm), (ii)+xiv+206+(ii) pages, 12 illustrations. Generally very clean, but a crease to the blank corner of the last illustration. Bound in the original gray paper cover, worn on the spine and split for approximately 5cm along the front hinge. Very light marking on the fore-edge of the book penetrating as very small patches of foxing on the blank margins of a few leaves.
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Price: £45.00

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