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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT BURNS.
Edinburgh/London: Oliver and Boyd, 1964. 8vo., pp.xiii,396, teal cloth with stamped title-band, gilt; internally clean and very good, with dampstaining to boards, in unclipped dust-jacket which shows surface soil to pale paper, a good+ copy.
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT OWEN, THE SOCIALIST 1771-1858.
The National Library of Wales. Second edition, revised and enlarged.
Aberystwyth/London: Published by the National Library of Wales, in association with the Press Board of the University of Wales/Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1925. 8vo., pp.viii,90, uncut, quarter beige cloth, lettered in black, with pale blue paper-covered boards, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, dated 1926, review notice pasted in to front paste-down endpaper; toning to margins of boards and to endpapers, a little foxing within, else very good.
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF MAX BEERBOHM.
The Soho Bibliographies series.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952. Tall 8vo., pp.x,60, red cloth, gilt; very good, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has small closed tear and light rubbing to upper edge.
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A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER.
New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1934. 8vo., pp.xi,260, brown cloth, gilt, pictorial title, t.e.g.; light stain to lower edges/fore-edges at corner, else clean and very good.
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A HISTORY OF THE FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR.
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2007. 8vo.,pp. 280, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities.
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE CHURCH LIBRARIES AT TURTON AND GORTON, BEQUEATHED BY HUMPHREY CHETHAM.
Manchester, The Chetham Society. 8vo..pp.192, brown cloth, gilt; some pages uncut at upper margin, rubbed and sunned to spine and extremities, light wear to head and foot of spine and toning to marigns, o/w a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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BIBLIOTHEQUE ANDRE DESGUINE: LES INCUNABLES CATALOGUE.
Nanterre, Archives Departementales. 8vo.,pp. 159, paperback, b/w and colour illustrations; lightly toned to margins, light sunning to spine, a very good copy.
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BOOK CATALOGUES: THEIR VARIETIES AND USES.
St. Paul’s Bibliographies, 1986. 8vo., pp.xxxvii,284, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece; light creasing to headband, slight toning to edges, a very good copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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BOOKS FOR SALE.
The Advertising and Promotion of Print since the Fifteenth Century.
New Castle, DE/London: Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, 2009. 8vo., pp.xvi,191, black cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; a fine, fresh copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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BOOKS ON THE MOVE.
Tracking Copies through Collections and the Book Trade.
New Castle, DE/London: Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, 2007. 8vo., pp.xv,164, black cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; slight bruise to upper edge of front board, else fresh and fine, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.
A History, From the Beginnings to the Copyright Act of Queen Anne.
Cambridge University Press, 1986. 8vo., pp.xviii,510, navy cloth, gilt, top edges blue, 31 b/w illustrations; small mark to fore-edges, a very good copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is just lightly worn to edges.
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CATALOGUE OF THE FIRST PORTION OF THE EXTENSIVE AND VALUABLE LIBRARY OF THE LATE DAVID LAING, ESQ., LL.D.
Comprising an Extraordinary Collection of Works by Scottish Writers or Relating to Scotland, Many of Excessive Rarity and Several Unique, Including Complete Series of the Publications of the Abbotsford, Bannatyne, and other Literary Clubs; Transactions of Scotch and English Societies; Writings of Eminent Divines, Historians and Topographers; First Editions of Novelists, Poets and Dramatists; Early Voyages and Travels.
Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 1879. Auction catalogue, 8vo., pp.(ii),271, printed paper wrappers; surface soil and wear to wrappers, with some loss at extremities, internally clean, a good copy.
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EROTIC BOOKPLATES.
An Introduction.
Cambridge: Silent Books, 1990. 8vo., pp.59, pictorial hardcover, b/w plates, pictorial endpapers; slight tone to edges, a very good copy.
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IMAGES IN THE MARGINS OF GOTHIC MANUSCRIPTS.
University of California Press, 1966. 4to., pp.ix,738, pictorial hardcover backed in black cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece, numerous b/w illustrations (158 b/w plates to rear of volume); neat ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, a very good copy indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, with scotch-tape reinforcement to upper margin of jacket.
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Institute of Cornish Studies 7: VARIA; Miscellaneous papers by members of the staff: A GLOSSARY OF SPOKEN ENGLISH IN THE ISLES OF SCILLY.
Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, New Series, Volume VIII, Part 2, 1979.
The Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall. 8vo.,pp.109-147, printed wrappers; rubbed and sunned to extremities, some staining to rear, o/w a very good copy.
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IRELAND IN OFFICIAL PRINT CULTURE, 1800-1850.
A New Reading of the Poor Enquiry.
Oxford University Press, 2014. 8vo., pp.viii,191, navy hardcover, gilt; a fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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JOHN SHIRLEY.
Book Production and the Noble Household in Fifteenth-Century England.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998. 8vo., pp.xi,247, black hardcover, gilt, 17 b/w plates; light toning to margins, a very good copy indeed, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket, which is just lightly sunned to spine.
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NEW SCIENCE OUT OF OLD BOOKS.
Studies in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books in Honour of A.I. Doyle.
Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995. 8vo., pp.xi,455, black hardcover, gilt, 69 b/w plates and illustrations; slight tone to edges, a very good copy indeed, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH BIBLIOGRAPHICALLY AND BIOGRAPHICALLY CONSIDERED.
Based on the Collection of Material in the Library of W.M. Elkins, Esq.
New York: The Bowling Green Press, 1928. Limited edition, no 240 of 1,000 copies, small 4to., pp.xix,368, uncut, pictorial black cloth, gilt, t.e.g., colour frontispiece with tissue guard, b/w illustrations; neatly pencilled annotations and ticks to List of Illustrations, just occasional pencil markings within, engraved ownership bookplate plus publication notice to front paste-down endpaper, rubbing to extremities, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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PRINTING, WRITERS AND READERS IN RENAISSANCE ITALY.
Cambridge University Press, 1999. 8vo., pp.xii,220, paperback, 17 b/w illustrations; very good indeed.
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