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Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1981 One of 1,000 copies. Full red cloth with gilt-decorated front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. . Large octavo. Nine full-page and two half-page color illustrations, plus numerous black and white photographic reproductions. Printed on heavy cream-colored paper at the Oxford University Press A fine copy in natural linen slipcase. Slipcase a bit soiled This is a detailed analysis of the making of the Winchester Bibles, two of the great twelfth century English illuminated Bibles. The author (1903–1987), who was a schoolmaster and eventually vice-chancellor of Oxford University, examined these Bibles closely over a period of forty-seven years. His earlier work, The Artists of the Winchester Bible (1945), was regarded as a pioneering effort, and both works are "authoritative and influential" (DNB).

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1970] First edition. Boards. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

New York: Macmillan, [1965] First U.S. ed. Cloth. Octavo. A little shelfwear. Very good in very good dust jacket. Jacket has a couple of small tears and a small notch along the top edge.

New York: Abbeville Press, [1990] First edition. Oblong quarto. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Fine in fine d.j.

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1899 First edition. This work was preceded by a ninety-one page pamphlet, published the same year. This is a fuller explication of the ideas discussed there. Rebound in quarter calf over marbled boards. Octavo. Numerous text illustrations. A very good, clean copy The use of graphic schemes for computation goes back to antiquity. The graphic solution of spherical triangles was in use in the time of Hipparchus, 150 B.C., and simple charts were signed by the mathematicians of the Middle Ages. The publication of René Descartes's Discours de la méthode (1637), which introduced analytic geometry to the world, gave a powerful impetus to graphical methods and provided their analytical background. However, the construction of nomograms remained an art, more than a science, until the pioneering work of Maurice d'Ocagne (1862-1938) of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. "He developed the subject in many papers and books and particularly in his treatise of 1899, Traité de nomographie,… Read More

Dublin and London: Maunsel & Co., Ltd., 1919 First edition of O'Casey's scarce first book. O'Casey used the Irish form of his name (O'Cathasaigh) for his early work (the initial "P" in this booklet is a misprint). This is an account of the formation of the Irish army during the Dublin strike of 1913-14, and of the part it played during World War I. Original gray printed wrappers. . Small octavo. Bottom corner of front wrapper torn. A very good copy in a specially made clothfolding case.

New York: Knopf, 1993 First edition. Clothbacked boards. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. First American edition. A London edition was published in the same year. The present edition is uncommon with only eight copies on OCLC (seven in the Northeast and one in Ohio). . Publisher's olive-green pictorial cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on upper board and spine. Some rubbing to extremities and spine. Black coated endpapers. Ownership signature of Alice Jones Willock (1867 – 1939) and armorial bookplate of her son Franklin Jones Willock (1891 – 1952), members of a family of skilled American steeplechase riders and hunters. With frontispiece of the author, 13 plates, and 55 illustrations (most half-page). Pages 346 to 378 are richly illustrated ads for equestrian gear like saddles, boots, habits, and hats; books on hunting and the care of horses; and books on the food, culture, and wildlife of India. Binding a bit loose but sound, a couple leaves coming loose at beginning of book. Some marginal toning. A very good, bright copy. Nannie Lambert Power… Read More

n.p., France: n.d., ca. 1880], Full dark brown crushed morocco, title in gilt on spine, front cover with onlaid gilt metal device. Gilt decorated turn-ins, plum colored silk doublures and endleaves. All edges gilt, multi-colored silk ribbon market. . 7" x 5 5/8." . Text in gothic style letters, with elaborate borders, initials, and miniatures in watercolor and gold, in a style reminiscent of the late Middle Ages. A fine and very interesting manuscript, featuring very delicate work of a rather varied nature. Pencil presentation inscription in French to a woman named Marie, in memory of the presenter's mother, who had once owned the book. We know nothing about either the donor or the donee, and can only guess whether they had a relation to the producer(s) of this manuscript.

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1893 Cloth. Quarto. Minor stains to covers, one plate torn but intact. Very good. Contains Garrick Mallery's report, "Picture-Writing of the American Indians", with color plates.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1932 First edition. The Psyche Miniatures Series. Clothbacked boards. Small octavo. Spine faded, light soiling to boards. Very good.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1942 First edition. The Psyche Miniatures Series. Clothbacked boards. Small octavo. Former owner's ink signature, boards lightly soiled. Very good.

London: Field & Tuer, 1880 First edition. Vellum boards. with title in black on front cover. Square octavo. Facsimile signatures in text. Publisher's slip with the headings "Note" tipped in. Boards a bit warped, as usual, some browning to edges of pages. Overall very good.

London: John Oldcastle's Guide for Literary Beginners. [1884] Tan boards with light blue board backstrip, title in black on front cover. 4 1/2" x 5 5/8." . Vignettes and facsimiles in text. Boards lightly soiled, head and foot of spine lightly chipped, lacks front free endpaper. Otherwise a good, clean copy of a fragile book.

London: Printed for T. Osborne, 1738 First edition. Old calf, rebacked and recornered in sheep, edges stained red. Octavo. Chip at foot of spine, front hinge starting to crack, occasional light foxing. A good, clean copy. The first English periodical devoted to rare books. In 1737 William Oldys, who was later librarian to the Earl of Oxford, published anonymously The British Librarian, in six monthly numbers from January to June, 1737. Among the works discussed are Hakluyt's Voyages, Froissart's Chronicles, Caxton's translation of Virgil's Aeneid, Sir Thomas More's English works.

London: Macmillan, 1888 First edition of an uncommon title. OCLC lists twelve copies in North America. Publisher's taupe cloth with spine and covers stamped in gilt. . Three volumes, twelvemo. Spines cocked, binding extremities lightly rubbed, but still a fine, bright copy. Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897) was born in Scotland. Her first novel, Passages in the Life of Margaret Maitland (1849) attracted the attention of both Charles Dickens and Charlotte Brontë. She worked extensively for the publishing firm of Blackwood's, becoming as she described it the "general utility woman," sometimes contributing as much as one third of their periodical. In later life she became the friend of Thomas Carlyle. As the sole breadwinner responsible for an alcoholic brother and several children, she wrote constantly to make ends meet, and her publications numbered around ninety. At the end of her life, she regarded her work as generally a failure. Her tales of the supernatural, however, have recently been republished… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1892 First edition of a scarce book. This title eluded Sadleir, and OCLC lists six copies in American libraries. Publisher's green diaper cloth. Spine and covers stamped in gilt. . Three volumes, twelvemo. Spines cocked, endpapers foxed, back hinge of Volume III cracked. A very good copy. Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897) was born in Scotland. Her first novel, Passages in the Life of Margaret Maitland (1849) attracted the attention of both Charles Dickens and Charlotte Brontë. She worked extensively for the publishing firm of Blackwood's, becoming as she described it the "general utility woman," sometimes contributing as much as one third of their periodical. In later life she became the friend of Thomas Carlyle. As the sole breadwinner responsible for an alcoholic brother and several children, she wrote constantly to make ends meet, and her publications numbered around ninety. At the end of her life, she regarded her work as generally a failure. Her tales of the supernatural,… Read More

Iowa City: Windhover Press, [1978] One of 300 copies, printed in honor of the Charles Olsen Festival at the University of Iowa. Quarter black cloth over fawn boards, title in gilt on spine. Small quarto. A fine copy.

New York: Norton, [1976] First U.S. edition. Author's second novel. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in clipped, but otherwise fine d.j.

London: Marion Boyars 1981 First U.K. edition. Boards. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.