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Winchester : St. Paul’s Bibliographies ... / Detroit : Omnigraphics, 1990. First edition. A detailed bibliography, including the key works; instructional works on nature drawing and painting; pattern books; instructions on microscopical drawing; histories of nature in art and natural history illustration; works on nature photography; photomicrography; plant drawing; nature printing; plant photography; animal drawing; anatomical drawing; medical photography, etc., together with artist biographies; exhibition catalogues; periodicals; books on colour, etc.
Demy 4to (29cm). (xl),(452)pp. Facsimiles. Original boards; edges just a touch dusty, but otherwise a very good copy in a very good dust-jacket.

£40

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London : Library Association, (1982). First edition : limited to 1,000 copies, signed by the author. An exhaustive bibliography, with much interesting commentary.
Crown 4to (27cm). [2],xxxiv,474,[ii]pp. Illustrations. Facsimiles. Original cloth; a few faint marks and spots, but a very good copy in a lightly sunned and very slightly creased dust-jacket.

£25

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New York : Grolier Club, 1984. First edition : limited to 1,000 copies. Eleven papers by Robert Giroux (The Future of the Book), Frank Stella (An Artist’s View of Prints), G. Thomas Tanselle (The Evolving Role of Bibliography, 1884-1984), and others.
Royal 8vo (27cm). (xii),146pp. Original yellow cloth, lettered in black; a touch bowed, but otherwise very good.

£20

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New York & London : R. R. Bowker Co., 1978. First edition. Essays by various hands on the history and practice of indexing, with case histories, essays on copyright issues, typography, periodicals, etc.
Super royal 8vo (26cm). x,430pp. Original boards; mild spotting of top edge, but a very good copy.

£25

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Signal Mountain : Summertown Texts, 1998. First edition. A classified and detailed listing of 1,478 dissertations, theses, honours papers, final year projects and other technically unpublished writings relating to the British book trade – with sections on bibliographers and editors, bibliography by period, by region, book production and distribution, libraries, bookselling, paper, watermarks, printing, illustration, presses, publishing, typography, forms, genres, subjects, newspapers, periodicals, authors and much else.
Medium 8vo (24cm). (xx),314,[ii]pp. Original cloth; very good.

£40

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London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1920. Second edition : a revised and corrected version of the original 1893 publication. A clear and timeless guide to manuscript studies, with chapters on writing materials and forms of books; the history of writing; scribes; illuminations; scribal errors; famous libraries; famous manuscripts; literary forgeries; treatment and cataloguing; public and private records, etc., and with appendices on public collections, existing catalogues, bibliography, etc.
Demy 8vo (22cm). (xvi),208pp. Eight plates. Original buckram, paper label; some very minor wear and light scuffing; title-label a little rubbed; some spotting of edges; corner cut from front free endpaper, but a good, sound and serviceable copy.

£20

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London : J. & E. Bumpus, 1932. First edition : limited to 400 numbered copies. “Including a catalogue of the exhibition, with notes; an essay on Dodgson’s illustrators by Harold Hartley; and additional literary pieces (chiefly unpublished). With six illustrations”. A charming catalogue of the centenary exhibition, describing over six-hundred Carroll related items and rarities, together with the Hartley essay, and also including a number of previously unpublished (or unpublished in book form) short pieces by Carroll – juvenilia, articles, acrostics, extracts from letters, etc.
Crown 8vo (20cm). (xx),(140)pp. Frontispiece and five plates. Original cloth; cloth a little bubbled; edges slightly spotted, but a very good, bright and clean copy, in a just slightly nicked and dulled dust-jacket.

£40

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Winchester : St. Paul’s Bibliographies / Detroit : Omnigraphics, 1990. First edition. A full-scale bibliography of this enterprising figure, who took the genre of the children’s book away from the constricting mould of moral instruction and towards the publication of fairy-tales and nursery stories. Includes an essay by Brian Alderson on the illustration of Tabart’s books.
Royal 8vo (25cm). (xviii),180,[ii]pp. Illustrations. Original cloth; just faintly bruised, but a very good copy in the dust-jacket – also very good.

£20

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London : Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, (1983). Second edition. The standard work – a fully indexed, annotated listing of 7,950 works. A corrected text of the original 1965 edition.
Royal 8vo (26cm). (684)pp. Folding tables. Original boards; a very good copy in the dust-jacket – the jacket also very good.

£30

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Cleveland & New York : World Publishing Co., (1957). First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed, signed and dated (1957) by Bill Targ. Essays by Richard Altick, Jacob Blanck, Marchette Chute, F. J. Harvey Darton, August Derleth, Iona and Peter Opie, Ellery Queen, Vincent Starrett, and other cognoscenti on various aspects of children’s books and their collecting – “with emphasis on the great rarities, classics, and highspots”.
Medium 8vo (25cm). (508),[iv]pp. Plates. Facsimiles. Original cloth; very good in a sunned and lightly tanned, but otherwise good dust-jacket.

£40

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Austin : for Private Circulation, 1974. First edition : one of a small number of copies printed for Todd’s friends and colleagues. A presentation copy, inscribed to the late Barry Bloomfield and signed by Bill Todd. An amusing but appalling “bibliographical excursion” – a searching and forensic analysis of the Watergate transcripts, demonstrating patterns of typing and word deletions, how much material was altered or suppressed, etc.
Medium 8vo (24cm). 30,[ii]pp. Original stapled wrappers; staples slightly rusted; lightly bruised and slightly creased, but a good copy.

£25

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Metuchen & London : Scarecrow Press, 1987. First edition. A bibliography of fiction relating to the horse – suitable material for younger readers – picture-books, easy readers, juniors, young adults – and a final section on books for adults. Over 1,500 entries, with plot summaries, etc.
Demy 8vo (23cm). vi,(278),[ii]pp. Original green cloth, lettered in white; price sticker on front pastedown, but otherwise very good.

£25

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Mansfield (CT) : Maurizio Martino, [1993]. A convenient facsimile reprint in two smaller format volumes of the original five volume set published between 1981 and 1986 : limited to 325 copies. The full catalogue of one of the great collections of Victorian fiction, neatly complementing Sadleir, and similarly a standard and indispensable work.
Two volumes (24cm). Medium 8vo. xxxvi,(332), viii,(326),[ii]; viii,(300), viii,298, viii,(230)pp. Plates. Portrait. Facsimiles. Apology slip relating to a slight error in the lettering on the binding. Original cloth; a very good set.

£125

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