New York: Dodd, Mead, 1902. First edition, one of 146 copies. A handsomely produced collection of articles on American books, their bindings and binders by the American book collector par excellence, William Loring Andrews (1837-1920). From the library of Charles Walker Andrews, with his bookplate on the front paste-down...
London: Printed for Thomas Rodd, 1832. First edition in English. Lowndes, page 330. "The first treatise on bibliography by an English writer" - Lowndes. The original Latin text by Richard de Bury (1287-1345), the Bishop of Durham, was translated by John Bellingham Inglis. W. J. Courtenay in the DNB writes.....
(Notasulga and Fairhope, Alabama: The Armstrong Press and the Slow Loris Press, 1988.), First edition, number 80 of 125 numbered copies, signed by the compilers. A handsome type specimen book of 19th century American wood types, with an introduction by Ian Robertson on the history of American wood types and.....
Chillicothe, Ohio: Mountain House Press, 1950. First edition, number 49 of 210 numbered copies (of which 180 were completed). The magisterial treatise by Dard Hunter on early American papermaking, from the establishment of the first paper mill in 1691 in Pennsylvania to the introduction of papermaking by machine in 1817.....