Printing History & Typography (Bibliographies) from Wykeham Books

Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Chiswick Press, London, 1949 reprint of 1913 first edition. Quarter-cloth and boards, large 4to,. liv, 216 pp text, 140 pp of reproductions of 428 devices. From the preface: "The present volume is intended to contain an account of all marks and devices used by printers and publishers resident in England and… Read more about this item

H. P. Kraus, New York, bookseller's catalogue, 1954. Limited edition of 600 copies, 300 of these for distribution "to clients and friends", and 300 for sale. Cloth, paper cover-label, folio, 36 cm,. 99, [1] pp, 2 colour plates, 55 half-tone ills tipped-in. and 45 line ills (some in red and black). 100 items. In a later volume described as… Read more about this item

The Bibliographical Society, Oxford University Press, London, 1981. Cloth, 8vo, 25 cm,. xi, 249 pp, ills. From the introduction: "Once..the first printing-shop had opened there in 1772, just twenty years after the battle of Plassey, Calcutta rapidly developed into the largest centre of printing in the subcontinent during the last two decades of the eighteenth century, appropriate to… Read more about this item

H. P. Kraus, New York, bookseller's catalogue, n.d. but 1971. Limited edition of 1200 copies, 300 of these for distribution to clients and friends, and 800 for sale. Cloth, paper label, folio, 36 cm,. [2], 167, [4] pp, 14 colour plates, 86 halftones and line cuts. The first item in the catalogue is the largest paper copy in… Read more about this item

Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press, second issue, 1904. Contemporary half-calf and marbled boards (original printed wrappers bound in), leather spine-label, marbled endpapers, large 4to,. 50 pp, 7 plates, folding chart. Aims to exhibit the fluctuations in the output of the printing press at Oxford from its beginnings to 1900, illustrating the account… Read more about this item

Martino Fine Books, Mansfield Centre, undated reprint [c. 1999] of 1919 first edition. Limited edition reprint. Cloth, 8vo, . [iv]. xvi.999 pp. The institute was founded on April 8, 1891. One of the first matters dealt with was the purchase of the library of master printer William Blades (1824-1890). Blades' library eventually became the foundation for the collections… Read more about this item

H. P. Kraus, New York, bookseller's catalogue, 1954. Limited edition of 600 copies, 300 of these for distribution "to clients and friends", and 300 for sale. Cloth, paper cover-label, folio, 36 cm,. 99, [1] pp, 2 colour plates, 55 half-tone ills tipped-in. and 45 line ills (some in red and black). 100 items. In a later volume described as… Read more about this item

Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 1st and 2nd July, 1936. Green printed wrappers, small 4to,. 74 pp, 11 plates (some folding). 507 lots. From the introduction: "A library of this character has not been offered for sale since the dispersion of the William Morris Collection in 1898. Like that library, this was… Read more about this item

H.N. Werkman Foundation in co-operation with the Stedelijk (Municipal) Museum, Amsterdam, first edition, 1963. Laminated pictorial wrappers, 4to, 26 cm,. xx, 218 pp, profusely illustrated (some colour). Slightly agetoned, otherwise Good.

Oxford Bibliographical Society: Bodleian Library, Oxford, first edition, 1990. Printed wrappers, 4to,. ix, 97 pp. This study is designed to stand beside earlier records of the ornament usages of English printers of the hand-press period, following most nearly K. I. D. Maslen's account of the Bowyer ornament stock (1973). It is concerned with relief cuts, of wood or… Read more about this item

Whitbread, London, first edition, 1955. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. 98 pp, [14] pp of plates, ads. 140 items. Wrappers slightly rubbed and slightly fingermarked, Good.

Printed for the editor, and sold by Mr. T. Payne and Son, Mr. Benjamin White, Mr. L. Davis, Mr. Dodsley, Mr. Robson, Mr. Nichol, Mess. Leigh and Soleby [sic], Mr. Collins, and the rest of the booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland. London, second edition, 1785-1790. 3 vols, modern calf-backed marbled boards, 4to,. [8] xliv [=xliii], 684, [1], +… Read more about this item

Verlag von Rudolf Haupt, Leipzig, first edition, 1911-1912. 2 vols, later cloth (original wrappers not retained), gilt spine-titles, top edge gilt, 8vo, 24 cm,. .xxxii, 199, [1] + [3], 223 pp. The two text volumes, without the atlas of plates. From the preface: "Il nostro lavoro si compone di una parte storico-biografica e di una parte bibliografica. Di… Read more about this item

Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, London, first edition, 1877. Only "a very few" copies issued, according to Bigmore & Wyman. Moire cloth, gilt spine-title, 8vo, 18 cm,. 149, [3] pp, frontispiece of Hoe's high speed web perfecting press. Aproximately 1400 entries. The rarely-seen catalogue of the impressive "literature of printing" collection of the American printing machinery tycoon and… Read more about this item

Van Gendt & Co., Amsterdam, first edition, 1970 [ but actually 1971 ]. Cloth, 4to, 31 cm,. xi, 491 pp, ills, (2 folding). A collection of 40 essays, the majority concerned with aspects of Johnson's special interest : the history of books and printing in the 16th century. "[Johnson was] first and foremost a bibliographer who happened at… Read more about this item

British Library, London / Oak Knoll, New Castle, 2001 reprint in one volume of the 1880-86 first edition. Cloth, 8vo,. 1070 pp. From the blurb: "In the long and distinguished history of bibliographical scholarship, few works stand equal to E.C. Bigmore and C.W.H. Wyman's monumental classic, A Bibliography of Printing. The original three volumes were published from 1880… Read more about this item

Bibliographical Society, Oxford, first edition, 1932. Cloth-backed boards, small 4to, 23 x 18 cm,. xxi, 432 pp. The fourth in a series of dictionaries which together cover the period from 1557. With an introduction by A. W. Pollard. The contents of this volume are: (1) A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at work in England… Read more about this item

The Bibliographical Society, Oxford University Press, London, 1981. Cloth, 8vo, 25 cm,. xi, 249 pp, ills. From the introduction: "Once..the first printing-shop had opened there in 1772, just twenty years after the battle of Plassey, Calcutta rapidly developed into the largest centre of printing in the subcontinent during the last two decades of the eighteenth century, appropriate to… Read more about this item

Holland Press, London, 1969 reprint of 1880-86 first edition. [ 3 volumes in 1 ]. This reprint edition limited to 350 copies. Cloth, 8vo,. xii, 449, [v]-vii, 412, [v]-vi, 115 pp, ills. Approximately 7,500 entries. Rosenblum : " A pioneering effort and still very useful for students of printing through the nineteenth century. Entries are arranged in a single… Read more about this item

Oxford Bibliographical Society, Oxford, first edition, 1969. Printed wrappers, 8vo, 25 cm,. ix, 39 pp. From the preface: "The immediate aim of this Checklist is to enumerate printing manuals and other major texts up to 1900 which describe, in French, the process of letterpress printing and thus to forward the study of both the history of printing and… Read more about this item