JOHN NEWBERY AND HIS SUCCESSORS 1740-1814, A BIBLIOGRAPHY by Roscoe, S - 1973

Wormley, Godalming, UK: Five Owls Press Ltd, 1973. A beautiful copy the First Edition. BRAND NEW in a BRAND NEW dust jacket. NOT price clipped (£15.00 net). NO chips or tears. NO fading. Only minor rubbing to the jacket (like you sometimes find in any new book store). Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked, obviously never read. 1973. First Edition. Illustrated with 35 figures in the text and 35 plates. Tipped-in full color frontispiece. An indispensable reference that describes first and later editions in painstaking detail. Notes libraries where copies can be examined. Includes brief biographies and a history of the firm. Very useful as well for notes on bindings, printers, booksellers, other publishers, artists, woodcutters, engravers, details on newspaper ads, etc. Bound in the original beige cloth, stamped in bright gold over a maroon panel on the spine. From the dust jacket: "John Newbery is famous among eighteenth-century… Read More

Wormley, Hertfordshire: Five Owls Press, 1973. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 461 pages, indexed. Hardback in a tan dust jacket. Light wear to the jacket. The book is sound and clean.

Wormley, Hertfordshire, Five Owls Press, 1973. Octavo, xxxii+462 pages, original boards in dustwrapper, a very good copy. First edition

Wormley, Godalming, UK: Five Owls Press Ltd, 1973. A beautiful copy the First Edition. BRAND NEW in a BRAND NEW dust jacket. The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NOT price clipped (£15.00 net), but price partially blacked out NO chips or tears. NO fading. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked, obviously never read. 1973. First Edition. Illustrated with 35 figures in the text and 35 plates. Tipped-in full color frontispiece. An indispensable reference that describes first and later editions in painstaking detail. Notes libraries where copies can be examined. Includes brief biographies and a history of the firm. Very useful as well for notes on bindings, printers, booksellers, other publishers, artists, woodcutters, engravers, details on newspaper ads, etc. Bound in the original beige cloth, stamped in bright gold over a maroon panel on the spine. From the dust jacket: "John Newbery is famous among… Read More

(Wormley, Hertfordshire, England): Five Owls Press, 1973. cloth, cloth spine label. Newbery, John. 8vo. cloth, cloth spine label. xxxii, 459+(1) pages. Table of contents, acknowledgments. A very good copy. Lists of illustrations and abreviations, bibliographical references, introduction, three appendices, chronological list of dated and datable books, indices of publishers and artists, general index. Tipped in frontispiece, black and white illustrations in text, and 32 pages of plates. Detailed bibliographical information for each.

(NEWBERY) ROSCOE, S. JOHN NEWBERY AND HIS SUCCESSORS, 1740-1814. A BIBLIOGRAPHY. (Hertfordshire): Five Owls Press, (1973). 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Comprehensive annotated catalogue of more than six hundred and forty works published by John Newbery and the successors of his press. Fine.

Wormley: Five Owls Press Ltd, 1973. cloth, dust jacket. Children's Books. thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxxi, 461 pages. First edition. A fine copy. John Newbery is famous among 18th-century publishers for the manner in which he exploited the new market for children's books. Both in the creation of a "list" of successful titles and in his very individual approach to the designing, publicizing, and selling of his "little books," he shows himself to be an important forerunner of the specialist children's book publisher. In this bibliographical study of the publishing activity of Newbery and his successors, Sydney Roscoe takes pains to supply as complete a record as possible of these children's books in their various editions with notes on the locations of copies known today. He has also provided a detailed introduction, giving the background to the firm's work, together with three important appendices on special problems that have arisen in compiling the bibliography. A title checklist is included of… Read More