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London : by W. Faden, and sold by J. Robinson, 1749. First edition. The first serious study of early printing in the British Isles - and the basis all subsequent work in this field. Ames was Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries and here provides a chronological account of the early London printers, with such biographical information as he could garner, a list of known works, transcriptions of title-pages, etc., and follows on with the printers of Oxford, Cambridge, York, and other towns across the British Isles. He concludes with a general history of printing in the British Isles, with extensive quotation from contemporary records. Ames was the first to use typographic identification for dating early books and has been followed by all subsequent exponents.
Post 4to (250 x 192mm). [xii],440,451-598,[xxviii]pp - pagination irregular as always. Eight engraved plates, facsimiles, etc. (engraved by George Bickham, John Blundell, Edward Thorowgood, etc.). Portraits, facsimiles, etc., in text. Bound in an elegant recent full sprinkled calf, banded and gilt, and retaining a nineteenth-century morocco title-label; occasional mild spotting or browning; a few slight creases, but a very good copy. With the reinserted armorial book plates of the Canterbury solicitor and antiquary Charles Sandys (1786-1859), and of Maurice Edward Wingfield (1869-1937). ESTC T142956.

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London : Chatto & Windus, 1882. First edition. A ground-breaking compilation, giving the text and illustrations of many of the famous chap-books in an accessible and convenient form for the first time and illuminating their history with real scholarship.
Crown 8vo. xvi,486,[ii]pp. Numerous illustrations and facsimiles. Original pictorial cloth gilt; a very good and bright copy.

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London : Oxford University Press, 1964. First edition. An admirable account of the London book trade and resale price maintenance question, from its nineteenth century origins to the Restrictive Practices Court decision of 1962. With much on Richard Bentley, Henry Bickers, John Chapman, Charles Knight, William Longman, John Murray, John William Parker, William Tegg and other notable booksellers and publishers.
Demy 8vo. (xiv),(200)pp. Original cloth; very good in a lightly sunned and very faintly spotted dust-jacket.

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London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., (1948). First edition in English of a remarkable sociological study of three of the earliest English professional authors - John Dryden, Joseph Addison and Alexander Pope. Originally published in French in 1881. Translated by E.O.Lorimer. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Bonamy Dobrée.
Demy 8vo. xxiv,492,(12)pp. Original cloth; tiny nick at head of spine; a touch sunned; but a nice copy. With the ownership inscription of the late B.C.Bloomfield.

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London & Glasgow : Blackie & Son, [1959]. First edition. A history of the publishing firm founded by John Blackie (1782-1874).
Post 8vo. (xii),(68),[ii]pp. Plates, portraits, etc. Original cloth gilt; cloth very faintly marked, but still a nice copy.

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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (1957). First edition. Essays by various hands on aspects of the early and mid eighteenth-century periodical: on Richard Steele: The British Apollo; The Free-Thinker; The Prompter; The Female Spectator; and The World.
Foolscap 4to. [x],206pp. Original cloth; very good in a lightly used dust-jacket.

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London : Longman Group, (1974). First edition. Essays by Brian Alderson (Tracts, Rewards and Fairies: the Victorian Contribution to Children's Literature), David Daiches (Presenting Shakespeare), Hans Schmoller (The Paperback Revolution), etc. Edited, and with a historical introduction on the Longman firm, by Lord Briggs.
Imperial 8vo. viii,468pp. Illustrations, some in colour. Original cloth; very good in lightly marked and slightly spotted dust-jacket.

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London : Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [1873]. First edition. A whimsically written account of the production of a book, yet invaluable for its detail and illustration of Victorian workshop practice. With chapters on the history of printing; the art of printing - stereotyping; engraving; electrotyping - photography; paper-making; the press room; the machine room; the newspaper press; the binding shop; history of bookbinding, etc.
Foolscap 4to (23cm). 176,[iv]pp. Illustrations. Original decorative cloth gilt; short split to lower hinge; endpapers a little strained at joints, but a nice, bright copy nonetheless. Pencilled gift inscription to Russell Goddard Hunt (b. 1863 at Weymouth, Massachusetts) dated 1877 from his Aunt Rebecca.

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Edinburgh & London : W. & R. Chambers, 1882. First edition. The autobiography of the distinguished Scottish publisher William Chambers, partner with his brother Robert in "W. & R. Chambers", founder of "Chambers's Journal", "Chambers's Encyopaedia", etc. Contains material on many of the leading writers and public figures of the day.
Crown 8vo. (118)pp. Portrait frontispiece. Original armorial cloth gilt; slightly rubbed and a little sunned; rear endpaper slightly strained; a few creases, but a good copy.

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London : Thames and Hudson, 1985. First edition. A personal account of a long association with the distinctive and determined publishing house. Craker joined Walter Neurath as sales manager almost at the outset.
Demy 8vo. 192pp. Original boards; slight spotting of edges, but a very good copy in the dust-jacket.

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New York : University Books, (1965). First American edition. Bibliographical studies of libertine literature, and especially Aretino, Nicolas Chorier, John Cleland, etc.
Royal 8vo. (xii),70pp. Plates. Original cloth; a very good and bright copy indeed in a very lightly rubbed dust-jacket.

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New York : Pierpont Morgan Library / Toronto : Oxford University Press, (1975). First edition. A lavishly produced exploration of 225 treasures from the Pierpont Morgan Library, with bibliographical notes and short discussions of each. With a preface by Charles Ryskamp and an interesting essay by the historian by J. H. Plumb on "The First Flourishing of Children's Books".
Royal 4to (31cm). [2],(xxx),(266),[ii]pp. Colour plates. Over 300 monochrome illustrations. Original cloth; very good in a just lightly rubbed dust-jacket.

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Newton Abbot : David & Charles, [1971]. First British edition. A valuable study of the interaction between the shape, form and content of fiction and the demands of the libraries and publishers, with material on George Bentley, John Blackwood, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, George Gissing, William Heinemann, Charles Edward Mudie, Anthony Trollope, etc. First published in the USA in 1970.
Demy 8vo. (xiv),272,[ii]pp. Illustrations. Original boards; a little bruised; some spotting of edges; but a very good copy in a sunned and price-clipped dust-jacket.

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New York : R.R.Bowker Co., 1967. First edition. An absorbing study of the American best-seller, with lists and sales figures, analysis by subject, a chronological treatment with notes on themes and events, an additional list of pre-1895 publications, a bibliography, etc. An amplification of the author's "Fifty Years of Best Sellers" (1946).
Medium 8vo. (xiv),280,[ii]pp. Original cloth; slight spotting of edges, but a very good copy.

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London : George G. Harrap & Co., (1935). First edition. A brisk and businesslike account - with some interesting material on printers and illustrators as well as the Harrap authors.
Foolscap 4to. (174),[ii]pp. Plates. Portraits. Original cloth; a few faint marks; old inked price on fly; but a very good copy in a tanned, nicked and slightly stained dust-jacket.

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London : United Society for Christian Literature (Lutterworth Press), (1949). First edition. An illustrated history of the Religious Tract Society (1799), the Christian Literature Society for India and Africa (1858), etc.
Demy 8vo. (100)pp. Colour frontispiece. Plates. Illustrations by Richard Kennedy. Original cloth; spine lettering faded; some spotting of edges and endpapers; a good and sound copy in worn, chipped and frayed dust-jacket.

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London : John Murray, (1988). First edition. The autobiography of the founder of Heinemann Educational, with incidental material on Chinua Achebe (who provides a foreword), Graham Greene, W. Somerset Maugham, J.B.Priestley, and Heinemann's overseas publishing ventures.
Medium 8vo. (xvi),390,[ii]pp. Plates. Portraits. Original boards; very good in dust-jacket.

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Lawrence : University of Kansas Libraries, 1958. First edition. A lecture on John Dunton (1659-1733) and on Pope's "unspeakable Curll" (1675-1747), five hundred of whose publications were acquired by Kanas from Murray Hill in 1955. University of Kansas Publications Library Series No. 3.
Foolscap 4to. [iv],30,[ii]pp. Facsimile. Original wraps; a touch tanned; few slight marks; slight abrasion to upper wrap, but otherwise a very good copy.

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London : Kegan Paul International / Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (1998). First edition. A scholarly history of the origins of the Kegan Paul publishing house, with much on Austin Dobson, Henry Samuel King, Charles Kingsley, Charles Kegan Paul, Arthur Pollard, Alfred Tennyson, and the wider social context of publishing.
Foolscap 4to. xxvi,218,[xii]pp. Illustrations. Portraits, Facsimiles. Original boards; very good indeed in the dust-jacket.

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Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1970. Second edition : with an important new supplement adding 137 new names to the dictionary, and over 200 amendments and additions to the approximate 2,200 names included in the original 1954 edition.
Royal 8vo. (viii),392pp. Plates. Facsimiles. Original cloth; very good indeed in a slightly mis-folded and very slightly nicked dust-jacket.

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London : British Library, 1998. First edition. A catalogue of over 700 items, with illustrations, and index of names and titles, an index of artists and engravers, etc.
Crown 4to. (xxii),(122)pp. Illustrations. Facsimiles. Original boards; just a touch bruised in transit, but a very good copy in the dust-jacket.

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London : Galahad Press, (1969). Second and best edition : the trade issue. A stylish monograph on William Pickering (1796-1854), originally published in a limited edition in 1924, but here in an extensively revised and augmented form.
Crown 4to. [ii],126pp. Facsimiles of title-pages and devices, some printed in an additional colour. Original cloth; a touch bowed, but a very good copy in a lightly marked, slightly creased dust-jacket, with two short tears on lower panel.

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London : Bradbury & Evans, 1864-1865. First edition. The absorbing memoirs of the redoubtable Charles Knight, author, pioneer of popular and populist publishing, and social reformer. With particular passing reference to Thomas Arnold of Rugby, Lord Brougham, Thomas de Quincey, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hood, Leigh Hunt, Lord Macaulay, Harriet Martineau, etc.
Three volumes. Post 8vo (21cm). 346; [iv],336; [iv],344pp. Original cloth; just lightly rubbed; a little string-marked; lower cover of vol.i a little spotted; some endpapers strained at joints; a few slight marks and small flaws, but overall a nice and clean set.

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London : Bodley Head, (1987). First edition. A centenary history of this distinguished publishing house, with much incidental material on Aubrey Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, Arnold Bennett, Jonathan Cape, John Davidson, George Egerton, Kenneth Grahame, Graham Greene, Allen Lane, John Lane, Richard le Gallienne, Elkin Mathews, Max Reinhardt, William Watson, Oscar Wilde, etc.
Demy 8vo. (viii),(366),[ii]pp. Plates. Facsimiles. Original boards; near fine in dust-jacket.

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London : Ward, Lock & Co., (1954). First edition. A centenary history of the publishing house founded by Ebenezer Ward and George Lock in 1854. With incidental material on Samuel and Isabella Beeton, Lord Tennyson, Anthony Trollope, etc., and a preface by Dornford Yates.
Demy 8vo. 108pp. Colour frontispiece. Plates. Portraits. Facsimiles. Original cloth; edges spotted, otherwise very good in a slightly dusty dust-jacket. With the contemporary ownership inscription of the late B.C.Bloomfield.

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London : Privately Printed, 1946. First edition : limited to 500 copies. A bibliographical monograph on the concept of rarity in collecting, combined with a case-study on the complex publishing history of George Bernard Shaw's "An Unsocial Socialist" (1887). With a short, even curt, introductory note by Shaw on Loewenstein's "abominable drudgery" in the field of Shaw biography and bibliography.
Demy 8vo. (20)pp. Original wrappers; lower wrap slightly dusty and nicked, but a nice copy of a scarce and fragile production.

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London : British Library of Political & Economic Science ... 1961. First edition: the wrappers issue. A subject catalogue of 3,704 items, arranged under the broad headings of paper; printing; binding; illustration; book trade; journals; copyright; libraries; employees, etc.
Crown 4to. [2],vi,186,[iv]pp. Original wrappers; very mild rubbing and slight sunning; a very good copy. Occasional pencilled annotation and with the pencilled ownership inscription of the late B. C. Bloomfield.

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, (1997). First edition. An absorbing study of the complex network of relationships between writers, publishers, printers, distributors, reviewers and readers - especially in the making of the reputations of Arnold Bennett, Joseph Conrad and Arthur Conan Doyle.
Medium 8vo. (xii),230pp. Original boards; slight production flaw leading to darkening of endpapers at joints, but otherwise very good in the dust-jacket.

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London : Cambridge University Press, 1966. First edition. A monumental study of the Press in the time of Queen Anne - providing the first detailed study of a hand-press printing house and its workings. With a bibliography of items printed at the Press, lists of principal types and ornaments, etc. The second volume provides a transcript of all the original documents on which the study is based.
Two volumes. Imperial 8vo. (xvi),432; [2],(x),(382),[ii]pp. Plates. Illustrations. Facsimiles. Folding tables. Original cloth; a very good bright and sound set in just faintly rubbed and price-clipped dust-jackets.

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London : Faber & Faber, (1972). Second edition : a greatly enlarged version of the original 1963 edition, with numerous additional illustrations, including sixteen new colour plates. With chapters on Whittingham and Pickering, novels and gift books, colour printing, children's books to 1850, early lithography and Owen Jones, Henry Noel Humphreys, chromolithography, Joseph Cundall, yellow-backs, publishers' bindings, etc. "I do not see how any genuine book collector can do without this book" (Sir John Betjeman).
Demy 4to. xii,(242)pp. Colour plates. Numerous illustrations. Original cloth; a touch bowed; top edge a little marked, but a very good copy in a lightly used dust-jacket.

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[Glasgow] : W. & R. Holmes (Books), 1953. First edition. An expanded version of a paper given to the Glasgow Biblographical Society, etc. - a history of Scottish publishing, with a bibliography.
Demy 8vo. 28pp. Original stapled wrappers; just a touch sunned; staples very lightly rusted; small stamp of the British Library of Political & Economic Science Pamphlet Collection on verso of title-page (and with their accountant's receipt for the book's purchase loosely inserted); overall a very good copy of a scarce work.

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[Charlottesville] : Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, [1962]. First edition. A register of the printers to 1599, with geographical groupings, bibliography, etc.
Foolscap 4to. 20pp. Original stapled wraps; now lacks staples and loose, but a good and serviceable copy.

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London : Gerald Duckworth & Co., (1995). First edition. Essays in recollection and memory of the managing director of Duckworth's - by Beryl Bainbridge, Neville Braybrooke, John Haycraft, Francis King, A.L.Rowse, George Weidenfeld and others.
Demy 8vo. viii,152pp. Plates. Portraits. Illustrations. Original boards; very good in dust-jacket.

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London : Art & Technics, 1949. First edition. An absorbing sociological survey of British newspapers and their readers in the mid twentieth century - non-readers, who reads what, readers observed, readers tested, etc.
Demy 8vo. 128pp. Tables. Original cloth; slight tanning of endpapers; neat ownership inscriptions; very good in a lightly rubbed and slightly tanned dust-jacket.

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London : John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1924. First edition. Twenty essays - on best-sellers, first novels, publisher's readers, Byron and the Murrays, Mudie's, and other aspects of the world of books, from the journalist and novelist James Milne, literary editor of the "News Chronicle" and founder in 1903 of "Book Monthly".
Crown 8vo. xii,(196)pp. Original cloth; some spotting and browning, but otherwise a very good copy.

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London : John Murray, (1934). First edition. Inscribed, signed and dated (1934) by James Milne. Reminiscences of the journalist and novelist, literary editor of the "News Chronicle" and founder in 1903 of "Book Monthly". Includes mention of Edward Clodd, Thomas Hardy, George Meredith, R.L.Stevenson, Alfred Tennyson, H.G.Wells, etc.
Post 8vo. (xiv),316,[iv]pp. Plates. Portraits. Original cloth; a few very minor signs of age and use, but a very good copy.

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Loughborough : Plough Press, (1976). First edition: one of 400 ordinary copies (of 500). Notes on the Rosemary, Twelve by Eight, Pandora, Brewhouse, Cog, Black Knight, Offcut, Plough, New Broom, Ashby Lane and thirteen other presses.
Post 4to. [iv],(56)pp. Original stapled wraps; very good in lightly sunned and slightly bruised dust-jacket.

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London : Cassell & Co., (1958). First edition. A full-length history of the celebrated publishing house by the celebrated book-collector and bibliographer - with much on John Cassell, Desmond Flower, Newman Flower, Thomas Dixon Galpin, Rider Haggard, W.E.Henley, George William Petter, Wemyss Reid, and much passing reference to the leading authors and illustrators of the period.
Royal 8vo. x,(300),[ii]pp. Illustrations. Portraits. Original buckram; faint tape-marks and tanning to endpapers, but otherwise a very good copy in a price-clipped dust-jacket.

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Oxford : Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1987. First edition. A facsimile of the long lost missing link in the seventeenth century records. Oxford Bibliographical Society Occasional Publication No.20.
Crown 4to. vi,(8)pp. Thirteen folding plates numbered 8-20. Original stapled wraps; very good.

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London : John Murray, (1932). First edition. An absorbing account of the celebrated publishing firm, with much incidental reference to the Murray family, Isabella Bird, George Borrow, Lord Byron, Charles Darwin, Benjamin Disraeli, William Ewart Gladstone, Sir Francis Bond Head, Elizabeth Rigby (Lady Eastlake) and many other nineteenth-century luminaries.
Medium 8vo. xvi,320pp. Plates. Portraits. Original cloth; mild spotting of edges, but a very good copy in a worn, torn and heavily sunned dust-jacket.

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London / Cambridge : Lutterworth Press, (1992-1996). First British edition. An extended study of the life and career of George Cruikshank (1792-1878), with much on the social, historical and publishing context.
Two volumes. Medium 8vo (25cm). [2],(xxvi),(496),[iv]; (xx),(658),[ii]pp. Numerous illustrations. Original cloth; very good in dust-jackets.

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London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1899. First edition. Recollections of the distinguished Victorian publisher, with much on Eton and Oxford in the mid-century, Charles Kingsley, etc.
Crown 8vo. [2],(vi),(392)pp. Original cloth gilt over bevelled boards; top edge gilt; spine tanned and splashed; label removed from front endpaper; some spotting; a serviceable copy. With the book-label of A. E. H. Swinstead and a later inscription.

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London : George Allen & Unwin, (1965). Second edition. A revised and slightly augmented version of the original 1939 edition of this much-admired history.
Demy 8vo. 500,[iv]pp. Plates. Original cloth; very good indeed in a sunned and slightly fingered dust-jacket.

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Leicester : Leicester University Press / New York : St. Martin's Press, 1982. First edition. Essays by Terry Belanger, John Valdimir Price, Isabel Rivers, etc., on various aspects of writing, publishing and reading in the eighteenth century.
Medium 8vo. (xii),(268)pp. Original boards; a little bumped at head; mild spotting of edges, but otherwise a very good copy in a lightly sunned dust-jacket.

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New York : Burt Franklin, 1963. First edition. Not yet replaced as the standard work on the early history of the London print and map trade. With a checklist of art and architectural books published during the period.
Elephant 8vo. (xii),(132)pp. Forty plates. A very good copy in the dust-jacket.

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London : Constable & Co., 1930. First edition. Entertaining thoughts on the honesty of blurbs, etc. Based on a series of articles first published in Constable's Monthly List.
Crown 8vo. [2],(vi),(56),[iv]pp. Original pale salmon wraps, lettered across upper wrap and up spine in black; wraps lightly worn, very slightly split, a little spotted and slightly discoloured at foot; edges a little spotted; a good copy of a fragile production.

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London : Routledge & Kegan Paul / Toronto: University of Toronto Press (1964). First edition. A study of the evolution of the professional author from Chaucer onwards - with much on Joseph Addison, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, John Dryden, T.S.Eliot, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, William Shakespeare, etc.
Demy 8vo. vi,266pp. Original cloth; top edge a shade dusty, but a very good, firm and bright copy in a lightly rubbed dust-jacket.

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Leicester : Leicester University Press / Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1982. First edition. Essays by various hands - on periodical literature; John Ruskin; John Stuart Mill; art exhibitions; literary criticism; radical opinion; Sunderland newspapers; serial publication; pressure groups; labour newspapers; scandalous journalism, etc.
Foolscap 4to. (xx),400pp. Original boards; very good in a slightly worn and used dust-jacket.

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Bolton & London : Tillotson & Son, 1950. First edition. A centenary history of the Lancashire printing, newspaper and carton manufacturing firm founded in Bolton by John Tillotson.
Demy 8vo. x,94pp. Plates. Portraits. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Very good in lightly used dust-jacket.

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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1986. First edition. A life of Alexander Stuart Strahan (1833-1918), with interesting material on George Macdonald, Alfred Tennyson, Anthony Trollope and other Strahan authors, as well as the other publishers of the day.
Crown 4to. (x),(270),[ii}pp. Portraits, etc. Original cloth; a very good copy in a just faintly spotted dust-jacket.

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London : Martin Secker & Warburg, (1986). First edition. An illustrated memoir of the distinguished publishing house - Martin Secker, Fred Warburg, Roger Senhouse, Tom Rosenthal et al.
Post 8vo. (88)pp. Illustrations. Original cloth gilt; fine.

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Edinburgh & London : William Blackwood & Sons, 1954. First edition. A history of the publishing house founded by William Blackwood I (1776-1834) - with much also on George Eliot, Ian Hay, James Hogg, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray II, Margaret Oliphant, Sir Walter Scott, John Wilson (Christopher North), etc.
Crown 4to. [2],(x),(284)pp. Plates. Portraits. Folding table. Original cloth gilt; just a hint of rubbing; mild spotting of edges, but a very good copy.

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London : Farrand Press & Private Libraries Association, 1990. First edition. A magisterial study of the application of lithography to book production, with chapters on lithographic incunabla; military manuals; the publications of Sir Thomas Phillipps; books on accounting; music; facsimile work, etc. With a descriptive catalogue of the known examples, etc.
Crown 4to. 374,[ii]pp. Illustrations. Facsimiles. Original cloth; a very good copy.

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London : Oxford University Press, 1970. First edition. A pioneering study of the earliest professional draughtsmen and the methods of drawing on stone evolved to suit their needs. With material on Rudolph Ackermann, Richard Parkes Bonington, Thomas Shotter Boys, William Day, Godefroy Engelmann, Louis Haghe, James Duffield Harding, Charles Joseph Hullmandel, Samuel Prout, and Alois Senefelder, as well as on acids, brushes, chalks, and techniques.
Imperial 8vo. [2],(xxii),(304)pp. Numerous plates. Original cloth; mild spotting of edges, but a very good, sound and unworn copy in a dust-jacket a little torn and slightly defective at foot of spine.

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London : Hutchinson & Co., (1973). First edition. Memoirs of the distinguished publisher, with much incidental material on authors and their work - in particular Thomas Mann, George Orwell and Angus Wilson.
Medium 8vo. (xvi),310,[ii]pp. Plates. Portraits. Original cloth; edges lightly spotted, but a very good copy in the original dust-jacket.

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Cambridge : Oleander Press, (1979). First edition. The case-studies include material on numerous small presses, including the Blackstaff, Centaur, Ceolfrith, Gaberbocchus, Gogmagog, Hippopotamus, Keepsake, Mandeville, Menard, Oxus and Taurus Presses.
Foolscap 4to. (x),268,[ii]pp. A few faint signs of use, but a very good copy in the dust-jacket.

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[Cardiff] : University of Wales Press, 1985. First trade edition. A study of Gwendoline Elizabeth Davies, Margaret Sidney Davies, Gregynog House and the famous Gregynog Press. Originally published in a limited edition of 105 copies by Gwasg Gregynog the previous year.
Post 8vo. (54),[ii]pp. Portraits. Original wraps; a very good copy.

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