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Subject: Books about Books
Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of the Book of Common Prayer. Signed by Convocation December 20th, 1661, and attached to the Act of Uniformity, 1662 (13 & 14 Charles 2. Cap. 4)
Church Of England
/ London: Eyre & Spottiswoode / C. J. Clay 1891
thick folio, 544, [16] pp., original cloth, covers now exceptionally worn and lacking the spine covering, a few spots to the title page, else internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: church of england religion book of common prayer sjd office
Item #: 1183640
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$250.00
AUCTION PRICES OF AMERICAN BOOK-CLUB PUBLICATIONS, 1857-1901
THE ROWFANT CLUB
/ Cleveland: The Rowfant Club 1904
limited to 125 numbered copies, 70 pp., quarter leather & paper covered boards, very lightly rubbed, else fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books
Item #: 1181195
$68.00
CHECKLIST OF BOOKS PRINTED BY RICHARD-GABRIEL RUMMONDS & ALESSANDRO ZANELLA AT THE PLAIN WRAPPER PRESS, 1966-1980. With a note on the press
Pettit, Kenneth I.
/ Verona: Plain Wrapper Press 1980
31 pp., original paper wrappers, book plate inside the front cover, minor library markings, spine rubbed, else text clean & bindng tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books fbf
Item #: 1181230
$14.00
French Sixteenth Century Printing. With fifty illustrations. Periods of Typography
A. F. Johnson
/ London: Ernest Benn Ltd. 1928
32 (text) pp., 50 plates; original decorated boards, book plate and small hand stamp to the front paste down, small hand stamp to the title page, else very good in a good+ dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books typography fbf
Item #: 1181238
$35.00
The Italian Sixteenth Century. With fifty illustrations. Periods of Typography
A. F. Johnson
/ London: Ernest Benn Ltd. 1926
34 (text) pp., 50 plates; original decorated boards, book plate and small hand stamp to the front paste down, small hand stamp to the title page, else very good in a tattered dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books typography fbf
Item #: 1181237
$25.00
Ecce Mundus: Industrial Ideals and the Book Beautiful
Cobden-Sanderson, T. J.
/ Hammersmith Publishing Company, printed at The Chiswick Press 1902
[36] pp., original boards & vellum backstrip, remnants of a book plate to the front paste down, light discoloration to the bottom margin of the front cover, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books fbf
Item #: 1181232
$60.00
A Decade of American Sporting Books & Prints by the Derrydale Press, 1927-1937 with an introduction by Eugene V. Connett, III. A complete bibliography of the books and prints published including the privately printed items
Derrydale Press
/ NY: Derrydale Press 1937
xviii, 71 pp., original printed pink paper wrappers, minor library markings, else text clean & binding tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Derrydale Press, books about books, sporting prints fbf
Item #: 1181231
$16.00
A. Edward Newton on Books and Business
A. Edward Newton
/ Apellicon Press 1930
limited to 325 copies, signed by A. Edward Newton; 16, [1] pp., original boards & cloth backstrip, book plate to the front paste down, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books fbf
Item #: 1181233
$39.00
The Old Librarian's Almanack by (Philobiblos in Greek). A very rare pamphlet first published in New Haven, Connecticut in 1773 and now reprinted for the first time. The Librarian's Series, edited by John Cotton Dana and Henry W. Kent, Number One
Philobiblos, pseudonym of Edmund Lester Pearson
/ Woodstock, Vermont: The Elm Tree Press 1909
first printing of the hoax pamphlet; [36] pp., frontis., original marbled boards & cloth backstrip, library markings, bottom corner of the front cover worn, else text clean & binding tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: literary hoaxes, humor, books about books libraries fbf
Item #: 1181234
$12.00
The First Century of Printing at Basle. With fifty Illustrations. Periods of Typography
Johnson, A. F.
/ London: Ernest Benn Ltd. 1926
27 (text) pp., 50 plates, original decorated paper covered boards, head of spine chipped, book plate and small hand stamp to the front paste down, small hand stamp to the title page, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Basle, Switzerland, books about books fbf
Item #: 1181236
$32.00
The Past as Present: Selected thoughts & essays. Compiled and edited by Gordon M. Pradl & Samuel B. Ellenport. With an introduction by William H. Pritchard
Paul T. Ruxin
/ Caxton Club/Club of Odd Volumes/The Johnsonians/The Rowfant Club 2017
limited to 225 copies, 436, [1] pp., hardcover, NEW!!. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books fs9
Item #: 1178057
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$390.00
A Churchman's Reading: An Essay for Laymen
Charles Lewis Slattery
/ NY/London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1917
[vi], 39, [2] pp., hardcover, about very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: theology books about books sjd
Item #: 1177172
$25.58
The Fleuron. A journal of typography. No. VII
Stanley Morison, editor
/ Cambridge University Press 1930
limited to 1000 copies; xi, 253, 25 (ads), [1] (colophon) pp., all tipped-in graphics and specimens present; original brown cloth, lacks the jacket, a few white marks to the front cover, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books bibliography art printing history np9
Item #: 1176723
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$129.72
Annals of Scottish Printing from the Introduction of the Art in 1507 to the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century
Robert Dickson & John Philip Edmond
/ Cambridge: Macmilan & Bowes 1890
small paper edition, limited to 500 numbered copies; thick quarto, xv, 530 pp., original black cloth, edges worn, hinges neatly taped, book plate removed from the front paste down, perforation stamp to four early leaves, else internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books printing history sam19
Item #: 1176127
$44.04
Old Bibles: An account of the early versions of the English Bible. Second Edition
J. R Dore
/ Eyre and Spottiswoode 1888
2nd edition; xvi, 395 pp., 17 facsimiles of title pages, one folding, original cloth (hardcover), slightly subbed, edges tinted, joints partly split, else text clean & binding tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Christianity, Religion & Spirituality books about books rln
Item #: 1175696
$12.00
The Rowfant Club: A Register of Its Records, 1891-1973 in The Western Reserve Historical Society (mss. No. 3571)
Anthony W. C. Phelps
/ Cleveland: The Rowfant Club 1974
86 pp., hardcover, very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books cleveland ohio
Item #: 1175687
$19.96
The Carter-Pollard Disclosures
Wells, Gabriel
/ Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1934
13 pp., postscript tipped-in; original paper wrappers, very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books cps
Item #: 1174814
$15.72
A Guide to an Exhibition of the Arts of the Book. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
William Mills Ivins, Jr.
/ NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art 1924
"second printing, 1500 copies" 96 pp., illustrations, softcovers slightly frayed & soiled, interior very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: art design books about books
Item #: 1172812
$2.51
Manuscrits et livres precieux. Du Moyen-Age Au Cubisme.
Patrick et Elisabeth Sourget (firm)
/ Sourget 1989
hardcover, [549], [8], bookseller's catalogue, 223 items, illustrated throughout, mostly in color, price list inserted; hardcover, some wear to cover edges else text clean & binding tight in a chipped and worn dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 1399436341
Subject/Keywords: books about books, illuminated manuscripts, rare books, HTM
Item #: 1171495
$14.17
The First American Color Printer
Kirke Bryan
/ Norristown, Pennsylvania: Kirke Bryan 1957
16 pp., paperback, minor library markings, else text clean & binding tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: art books about books printing pm9
Item #: 1167490
$63.21