New York: Dodd, Mead, 1902. Edition: 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. More
Cambridge, Mass.: Dunster House Bookshop, 1931. Edition: First edition, number 42 of 250 numbered copies. Signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson on the half-title. More
London: Printed for Thomas Rodd, 1832. Edition: First edition in English. Bibliographical References: 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... More
(Notasulga and Fairhope, Alabama: The Armstrong Press and the Slow Loris Press, 1988.), Edition: 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... More
London: Robert Jennings and John Major, 1829. Edition: Second edition. Bibliographical References: Windle A38b; Jackson 49. More
(San Francisco): The Book Club of California, 1983. Edition: First edition, one of 550 copies printed by Harold Berliner. ¶ A history and bibliography of San Francisco's pioneering and important fin de siècle publisher and bookseller, William Doxey. The text is an augmented and revised version of an earlier article... More
London: Printed for John Hartley, 1703. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL II, 1700; Lowndes 1022. ¶ Over 200 letters from Thomas Bodley (1545-1613) to the his first librarian, Thomas James (1572-1629), on matters pertaining to the establishment, plan, design and mission of the library, including methods of cataloging, types... More
[Southbury, Conn.:] Chiswick Book Shop, 1990. Edition: First edition, one of 285 copies. From the library of David and Valerie Belch. Prospectus laid in. More
Verona: Edizioni Valdonega, (1980). Edition: First edition, one of 1500 copies. ¶ From the library of David & Valerie Belch. More
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1880. Edition: First edition. ¶ An essay on bibliographic descriptions and preparing catalogues, with a list of 151 works purportedly by “A Lady,” which Ralph Thomas, writing under the pseudonym Olphar Hamst could not identify when compiling his Handbook of Fictitious Names of Authors of the Nineteenth... More
Cleveland: Printed for the Rowfant Club by the De Vinne Press of New York, 1894. Edition: First edition, number 53 of 90 numbered copies. Bibliographical References: BAL volume 8, page 283. The first bibliography of Thoreau, compiled by Thoreau enthusiast Samuel Arthur Jones, a resident of Detroit and author of... More
Newtown, Pa.: Bird & Bull Press, 1983. Edition: First separate edition, one of 350 numbered copies. ¶ From the library of David & Valerie Belch. More