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ALLISON, A.F. (Antony Francis), 1916-1996 & GOLDSMITH, V.F. (Valentine Fernande) : TITLES OF ENGLISH BOOKS (AND OF FOREIGN BOOKS PRINTED IN ENGLAND) : AN ALPHABETICAL FINDING-LIST BY TITLE OF BOOKS PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUTHOR’S NAME, PSEUDONYM OR INITIALS. Folkestone : William Dawson & Sons, (1976-1977). First edition. A useful supplement to STC and Wing, adding a full title-index to books sometimes otherwise difficult to locate. The first volume covers the STC period 1475-1640, the second the Wing period 1641-1700. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26441 – or simply click on the button
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ASHTON, John, 1834-1911 : CHAP-BOOKS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY : WITH FACSIMILES, NOTES, AND INTRODUCTION. 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. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 31241 – or simply click on the button
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AVERY, Gillian (Gillian Elise), 1926-2016 & BRIGGS, Julia (Julia Ruth), 1943-2007 – editors : CHILDREN AND THEIR BOOKS : A CELEBRATION OF THE WORK OF IONA AND PETER OPIE. Oxford : Oxford University Press, (1990). First paperback edition. An excellent collection of twenty essays – Brian Alderson on Collecting Children’s Books, Julia Briggs on Women Writers, Humphrey Carpenter on Beatrix Potter, Hugh Brogan on Tolkien, etc. With a foreword by Iona Opie. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 34570 – or simply click on the button
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AVIS, F.C. (Frederick Compton), 1908-1999 : THE 16 . CENTURY LONG SHOP PRINTING OFFICE IN THE POULTRY. London : F.C.Avis, (1982). First edition : limited to 250 numbered copies. A history of the celebrated Long Shop in the Poultry – home in turn to the early London printers and booksellers Richard Banks, Richard Kele, John Kele, John Allde, Edward Allde, Margaret Allde, and William Wright. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25362 – or simply click on the button
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BALLANTYNE, R.M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894 : AN AUTHOR’S ADVENTURES OR PERSONAL REMINISCENCES IN BOOK-MAKING. London : James Nisbet & Co., [ca.1905]. A reprint of the 1893 "Personal Reminiscences in Book-Making" under a slightly livelier title, and with a galleon in full sail on the cover rather than the the original small boat. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 20765 – or simply click on the button
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BENNETT, H.S. (Henry Stanley), 1889-1972 : ENGLISH BOOKS & READERS 1603 TO 1640 : BEING A STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK TRADE IN THE REIGNS OF JAMES I AND CHARLES I. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, (1970). First edition. The third and final volume of Stanley’s masterly analysis of supply and demand in the early English book trade, continuing the story from the death of Elizabeth I to the outbreak of the Civil War. An account of the total output of the press, irrespective of quality – “the nature of the subject matter and the demand it set out to meet”. With chapters on inception; patronage; regulation; piracy; translation; literacy; variety (religion, law, education, medicine, information, arithmetic and science, geography and travel, history, news, literature); printers, booksellers and readers. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43446 – or simply click on the button
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BENT, Robert / HODGSON, Thomas – publishers : THE LONDON CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, WITH THEIR SIZES, PRICES, AND PUBLISHERS. CONTAINING THE BOOKS PUBLISHED IN LONDON, AND THOSE ALTERED IN SIZE OR PRICE, SINCE THE YEAR MDCCCXIV TO MDCCCXXXIX. London : Robert Bent / Thomas Hodgson, 1839-1844. First edition. A fascinating record of London publishing from 1814-1839, arranged under broad subject headings, and here bound together with Hodgson’s “Supplement to the London Catalogue of Books, Edition Dated 1839. Containing the New Works and New Editions Published in London from January 1839 to January 1844, with their Sizes, Prices, and Publishers’ Names”. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 20798 – or simply click on the button
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BLACKIE, Walter W. (Walter Wilfred), 1860-1953 : JOHN BLACKIE, SENIOR (1782-1874) : SOME NOTES COLLECTED BY HIS GRANDSON. London & Glasgow : Printed for Private Circulation only by Blackie & Son, 1933. First edition. A life of the founder of the famous Scottish publishing house. Loosely inserted is a typed compliments slip from the author at his Hill House, Helensburgh, address – the famous house built for him by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21452 – or simply click on the button
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BLOOMFIELD, B.C. (Barry Cambray), 1931-2002 : AN AUTHOR INDEX TO SELECTED BRITISH “LITTLE MAGAZINES” 1930-1939. London : Mansell, 1976. First edition. An exhaustive finding list to the wealth of material – some 11,000 entries – poems, prose, reviews and illustrations – hidden in the “little magazines” of the pre-war period. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 20346 – or simply click on the button
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BRIGGS, Asa (Asa, Lord Briggs), 1921-2016 – editor : ESSAYS IN THE HISTORY OF PUBLISHING IN CELEBRATION OF THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HOUSE OF LONGMAN 1724-1974. London : Longman Group, (1974). First edition. Eleven essays on the history of publishing – by Brian Alderson (Tracts, Rewards and Fairies : the Victorian Contribution to Children’s Literature); David Daiches (Presenting Shakespeare); Annabel Jones (Disraeli’s Endymion); Hans Schmoller (The Paperback Revolution), etc. Edited, and with a historical introduction on the Longman firm, by Lord Briggs. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26043 – or simply click on the button
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“CARROLL, Lewis” – [DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge, 1832-1898] : LEWIS CARROLL AND THE HOUSE OF MACMILLAN. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, (1987). First edition. A sequence of over 350 letters from Lewis Carroll to his publishers, indicating the extent to which Dodgson thought about (and insisted upon) the physical format of his productions – also illustrating many facets of Victorian publishing. Edited and introduced, the notes quoting extensively from the Macmillan replies, by Morton N. Cohen and Anita Gandolfo. A volume in the Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History series. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21459 – or simply click on the button
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CHAMBERS, William, 1800-1883 : STORY OF A LONG AND BUSY LIFE. 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. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 20517 – or simply click on the button
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CRAKER, Trevor, 1918-2007 : OPENING ACCOUNTS AND CLOSING MEMORIES : THIRTY YEARS WITH THAMES AND HUDSON. 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. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21119 – or simply click on the button
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DOOLEY, Allan C. (Allan Charles), 1943- : AUTHOR AND PRINTER IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, (1992). First edition. An absorbing study of the impact of new printing technology on the handling and shaping of texts – with chapters on composition, proofing, printing, reprinting, authors, authorial control – and much on Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, George Eliot, Alfred Tennyson, Anthony Trollope, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 34653 – or simply click on the button
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DROTNER, Kirsten : ENGLISH CHILDREN AND THEIR MAGAZINES, 1751-1945. New Haven : Yale University Press, (1988). First edition. A full-scale history of periodical publishing for children in England, drawing on her doctoral thesis, with special emphasis on readership and perception. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30594 – or simply click on the button
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EDWARDS, Ruth Dudley, 1944- : VICTOR GOLLANCZ : A BIOGRAPHY. London : Victor Gollancz, 1987. First edition. A weighty biography of one of the most influential publishers and public campaigners of the twentieth century, Victor Gollancz (1893-1967) – “I hate everything that is pro and anti (different peoples). I am only one thing: I am pro-humanity”. With much passing reference to Clement Attlee, Violet Bonham Carter, Winston Churchill, Communism, Daphne du Maurier, Adolf Hitler, the Labour Party, Harold Laski, the Left Book Club, Stanley Morison, George Orwell, Frank Pakenham, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41332 – or simply click on the button
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FORD, John (John Alan), 1936- : ACKERMANN 1783-1983 : THE BUSINESS OF ART. London : Ackermann, 1983. First edition. A richly illustrated and meticulously researched history of the celebrated art publishing and art dealing concern founded by Rudolph Ackermann (1764-1834). With much incidental material on Henry Alken, William Combe, John Buonarotti Papworth, Augustus Pugin, Thomas Rowlandson, George Stubbs, and other authors and artists; a checklist of the Ackermann books, games, and music; a bibliography, etc. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25880 – or simply click on the button
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GIFFORD, Denis, 1927-2000 : VICTORIAN COMICS. London : George Allen & Unwin, (1976). First edition. A lavishly illustrated survey, with chapters on the Comic Paper, the Comic Hero, the Comic Kid, the Comic Animal, the Comic Age, the Comic World, the Comic War, and the Comic Artist. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26110 – or simply click on the button
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GILMOUR, Pat : ARTISTS AT CURWEN : A CELEBRATION OF THE GIFT OF ARTISTS’ PRINTS FROM THE CURWEN STUDIO. London : Tate Gallery, (1977). First edition : the hardback issue. An account of the Curwen Press, published to accompany the 1977 Tate exhibition. Includes a full catalogue of the exhibition (340 items), a checklist of the complete donation, a glossary of printing terms, etc. With colour plates by Edward Bawden, Claud Lovat Fraser, Barnett Freedman, David Hockney, McKnight Kauffer, John Nash, Paul Nash, John Piper, Eric Ravilious, Ceri Richards, etc. £30 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28105 – or simply click on the button
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GOTTLIEB, Gerald, 1923-2009 : EARLY CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND THEIR ILLUSTRATION. 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”. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30658 – or simply click on the button
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GRAVES, Charles L. (Charles Larcom), 1856-1944 : THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF ALEXANDER MACMILLAN. London : Macmillan & Co., 1910. First edition. A life of Alexander Macmillan (1818-1896) of the famed publishing house, with passing reference to Thomas Carlyle, Mrs Craik, W. E. Gladstone, Thomas Hughes, Charles Kingsley, Daniel Macmillan, Lord Tennyson, and many of the great and good, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 36303 – or simply click on the button
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HAMILTON, Hamish, 1900-1988 – publisher : SILVER JUBILEE 1931-1956 : A COMPLETE LIST OF BOOKS PUBLISHED BY HAMISH HAMILTON. London : Hamish Hamilton, [1957]. First edition. A full listing of the entire early output of the distinguished publishing house, listed initially by author, with dates, price, size, etc., and then by title and lastly by subject (fiction, plays, poetry, children’s books, foreign language editions, law, medicine, periodicals), etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21036 – or simply click on the button
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HEPBURN, James (James Gordon), 1922- : THE AUTHOR’S EMPTY PURSE AND THE RISE OF THE LITERARY AGENT. London : Oxford University Press, 1968. First edition. A pioneering study of the pre-history, rise and influence of the literary agent in England and America – with much on Arnold Bennett, Walter Besant, Curtis Brown, William Heinemann, J. B. Pinker, A. P. Watt, etc., and an extensive bibliography of material relating to the conditions of authorship. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 20247 – or simply click on the button
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KEYNES, Geoffrey (Sir Geoffrey Langdon), 1887-1982 : WILLIAM PICKERING, PUBLISHER : A MEMOIR AND A CHECK-LIST OF HIS PUBLICATIONS ... 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. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27278 – or simply click on the button
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KITCHIN, George : SIR ROGER L'ESTRANGE : A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF THE PRESS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. London : Kegan Paul, 1913. First edition. A full-scale life of the extraordinary Sir Roger l'Estrange (1616-1704), writer, cavalier, press censor, polemicist and rake – and in some sense our first political journalist. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21124 – or simply click on the button
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KNIGHT, Charles, 1791-1873 : PASSAGES OF A WORKING LIFE DURING HALF A CENTURY : WITH A PRELUDE OF EARLY REMINISCENCES. 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. £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21071 – or simply click on the button
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LAMBERT, J.W. (Jack Walter), 1917-1986 & RATCLIFFE, Michael : THE BODLEY HEAD 1887-1987. 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. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27352 – or simply click on the button
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LIVEING, Edward (Edward George Downing), 1895-1963 : ADVENTURE IN PUBLISHING : THE HOUSE OF WARD LOCK 1854-1954. 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. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21047 – or simply click on the button
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LOEWENSTEIN, F.E. (Fritz Erwin), 1901-1967 : [COVER TITLE] THE HISTORY OF A FAMOUS NOVEL. 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 (Loewenstein was founder of the Shaw Society). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 20470 – or simply click on the button
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McKENZIE, D.F. (Donald Francis), 1931-1999 : THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1696-1712 : A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDY. 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. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25881 – or simply click on the button
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MACLAGAN, P.J. (Patrick Johnston), 1865-1958 : SOME LITERARY PRODUCTIONS OF ENGLISH PRESBYTERIAN MISSIONARIES. Manchester : R. Aikman & Son for the Presbyterian Historical Society of England, [1947]. First edition. An absorbing account of missionary publishing – much of it concerned in the provision of vernacular texts in far-flung parts of the world. Includes a bibliography of publications. The Society’s Annual Lecture for 1947 and its Special Publication No.3. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21621 – or simply click on the button
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MACLEOD, R.D. (Robert Duncan), 1885-1973 : THE SCOTTISH PUBLISHING HOUSES. [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. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 31371 – or simply click on the button
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MARTIN, Stoddard, 1948- – editor : COLIN HAYCRAFT 1929-1994 : MAVERICK PUBLISHER. 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. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27224 – or simply click on the button
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MILNE, James, 1865-1951 : A LONDON BOOK WINDOW. London : John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1924. First edition. Twenty essays – on best-sellers, first novels, publishers’ 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”. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27216 – or simply click on the button
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MILNE, James, 1865-1951 : THE MEMOIRS OF A BOOKMAN. 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. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27217 – or simply click on the button
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MORRIS, Sally & HALLWOOD, Jan : LIVING WITH EAGLES : MARCUS MORRIS, PRIEST AND PUBLISHER. Cambridge : Lutterworth Press, (1998). First edition. A biography (by two of his daughters) of the colourful Marcus Morris (1915-1989), founder of the “Eagle” and its sister papers, “Girl”, “Swift” and “Robin”, with much on the artists and writers and on the publishing conditions of the mid twentieth century. With a foreword by Sir Tim Rice. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27215 – or simply click on the button
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[NEWTH, Jack Douglas, 1903-1973] : ADAM & CHARLES BLACK 1807-1957 : SOME CHAPTERS IN THE HISTORY OF A PUBLISHING HOUSE. London : Adam & Charles Black, 1957. First edition. An attractively produced history of the distinguished Scottish publishing house, compiled by an old A. & C. Black author. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21117 – or simply click on the button
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NICOLSON, Alexander, 1827-1893 – editor : MEMOIRS OF ADAM BLACK. Edinburgh : Adam & Charles Black, 1885. First edition. A life of the famous Edinburgh publisher Adam Black (1784-1874), worked up by Nicolson from autobiographical material left by Black himself. The present copy was presented to the Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution by Black’s son, Charles Bertram Black, in the year of publication. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21054 – or simply click on the button
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NOWELL-SMITH, Simon, 1909-1996 : THE HOUSE OF CASSELL : 1848-1958. 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. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28371 – or simply click on the button
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PLANT, Marjorie, 1903-1986 : THE ENGLISH BOOK TRADE : AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE MAKING AND SALE OF BOOKS. London : George Allen & Unwin, (1965). Second edition. A revised and slightly augmented version of the original 1939 edition of this much-admired and valuable history. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 24972 – or simply click on the button
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RIVERS, Isabel – editor : BOOKS AND THEIR READERS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND. 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. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 34275 – or simply click on the button
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SHEAVYN, Phoebe (Phoebe Anne Beale), 1865-1968 : THE LITERARY PROFESSION IN THE ELIZABETHAN AGE. Manchester : Manchester University Press / New York : Barnes & Noble, (1967). Second edition : revised throughout by J. W .Saunders. The best edition of this elegant study, first published in 1909. Authors, patrons, censors, publishers, theatre, etc. – with much incidental reference to Nicholas Breton, Thomas Dekker, Michael Drayton, Robert Greene, Gabriel Harvey, Thomas Heywood, Ben Jonson, Thomas Nashe, William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27194 – or simply click on the button
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SHILLINGSBURG, Peter L. (Peter LeRoy), 1943- : PEGASUS IN HARNESS : VICTORIAN PUBLISHING AND W. M. THACKERAY. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, (1992). First edition. A mine of material on Victorian publishing and the influence of the market-place on authorial ambition and choice. With much passing reference to Bradbury & Evans, Chapman & Hall, Charles Dickens, Harper & Brothers, Charles Lever, George Smith and Smith, Elder & Co., Anthony Trollope, etc. In the “Victorian Literature and Culture” series. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 35407 – or simply click on the button
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SINGLETON, Frank : TILLOTSONS 1850-1950 : CENTENARY OF A FAMILY BUSINESS. 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 (1821-1906). £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21066 – or simply click on the button
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SREBRNIK, Patricia Thomas, 1950- : ALEXANDER STRAHAN : VICTORIAN PUBLISHER. 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. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21134 – or simply click on the button
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TAYLOR, Barry, 1956- – editor : FOREIGN-LANGUAGE PRINTING IN LONDON 1500-1900. Boston Spa & London : British Library, 2002. First edition. Essays by various hands on aspects of the international press in London: German printing and bookselling in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; chapters on printing in Dutch, French, Italian, Greek, Russian, Polish, Hungarian and the Scandinavian languages, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41339 – or simply click on the button
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THOMSON, George Malcolm, 1899-1996 : MARTIN SECKER & WARBURG : THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS. A MEMOIR. London : Martin Secker & Warburg, (1986). First edition. An illustrated memoir of the distinguished publishing house – Martin Secker (1882-1978), Fred Warburg (1898-1981), Roger Senhouse, Tom Rosenthal et al. "They published what they liked and did their weeping in private" (Frank Swinnerton). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21497 – or simply click on the button
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THORNTON, John L. (John Leonard), 1913-1992 & TULLY, R.I.J. (Robert Ian James) : SCIENTIFIC BOOKS, LIBRARIES AND COLLECTORS : A STUDY OF BIBLIOGRAPHY AND THE BOOK TRADE IN RELATION TO SCIENCE. London : Library Association, (1975). A reprint (with minor corrections) of the 1971 third edition. A fine history of the production, distribution and accessibility of scientific literature – with chapters on scientific incunabula, scientific books before 1600, the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, the rise of scientific societies, scientific periodicals, scientific bibliographies and bibliographers, private libraries, science publishing, etc. With an extensive bibliography. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 20515 – or simply click on the button
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TREDREY, Frank D. (Frank Darker), 1908-1988 : THE HOUSE OF BLACKWOOD 1804-1954 : THE HISTORY OF A PUBLISHING FIRM. 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. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25584 – or simply click on the button
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TWYMAN, Michael, 1934- : LITHOGRAPHY 1800-1850 : THE TECHNIQUES OF DRAWING ON STONE IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE AND THEIR APPLICATION IN WORKS OF TOPOGRAPHY. London : Oxford University Press, 1970. First edition. A pioneering study of the earliest professional draughtsmen and the methods of drawing on stone which were devised 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. £30 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27285 – or simply click on the button
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WARBURG, Fredric (Frederic John), 1898-1981 : ALL AUTHORS ARE EQUAL : THE PUBLISHING LIFE OF FREDRIC WARBURG 1936-1971. 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. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21137 – or simply click on the button
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WARD, Audrey, (Audrey Joan) 1935-2013 & WARD, Philip, 1938- : THE SMALL PUBLISHER : A MANUAL & CASE HISTORIES. 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, Taurus, Trigram and Writers Forum Presses, as well as firms like Blond & Briggs, Marion Boyars, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 20229 – or simply click on the button
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WATSON, S.F. (Sydney Felgate), 1894-1976 : SOME MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF PRINTING AND PUBLISHING IN IPSWICH. Ipswich : W. E. Harrison & Sons, 1949. First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed to G. Bodley Scott and signed by S. F. Watson. A detailed and illustrated monograph, with material on Reginald Oliver, Anthony Scoloker, John Oswen, John Overton, William Prynne, William Weekly, John Daye, John Bagnall, Charles Punchard, John Bush, Alfred Piper, etc., etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42598 – or simply click on the button
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WILLIS, J.H. (John H.), 1929-2012 : LEONARD AND VIRGINIA WOOLF AS PUBLISHERS: THE HOGARTH PRESS, 1917-41. Charlottesville & London : University Press of Virginia, (1992). First edition. The full-length study of the extraordinary success as publishers of the central players in the Bloomsbury Group. With much passing reference to Clive Bell, Vanessa Bell, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Sigmund Freud, Duncan Grant, Robert Graves, John Lehmann, Vita Sackville-West, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 40841 – or simply click on the button
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