Item 323052Royal English Bookbindings.
Price: $375
London: Seeley and Co. Limited, 1896. First edition. Read More Item Details for Royal English Bookbindings Add to Wish List
Item #323052
A specialty of James Cummins Bookseller - Rare and sought after books on book-collecting, publishing history, incunabula, book-plates, fore-edge painting, bookbinding, auction and trade catalogues, bibliographies and the history of printing.
Price: $375
London: Seeley and Co. Limited, 1896. First edition. Read More Item Details for Royal English Bookbindings Add to Wish List
Item #323052
Price: $300
[London?]: 9 January 1766. Farneworth's Machiavelli was first published in 1762, and again in 1775, by Davies, Dodsley, and others. Read More Item Details for Autograph Document, signed, "Rec'd of Mr. James Dodsley Twenty one pounds for half share of Farneworth's Translation of the Works of Machiavel" Add to Wish List
Item #244682
Price: $750
London: Printed for W. Davis, 1821. First edition. Large paper. Scarce memoir of bibliographical excursions by the famed English bookseller. Read More Item Details for A Journey Round the Library of a Bibliomaniac: Or, Cento of Notes and Reminiscences concerning Rare, Curious and Valuable Books ... [With:] A Second Journey Round .. Add to Wish List
Item #323630
Price: $75
Los Angeles: Magpie Press, 1963. Printed on the occasion of the California International Antiquarian Book Fair, 1963. Read More Item Details for A Plea for Books Add to Wish List
Item #339552
Price: $300
Boston: David Godine, [1981]. First edition, one of 50 numbered copies for James Cummins Bookseller. Signed by the author and binder. Read More Item Details for Slave to Beauty. The Eccentric Life and Controversial Career of F. Holland Day Add to Wish List
Item #3878
Price: $1,250
Paris: René Kieffer, [1932]. First edition, one of 500 copies. Read More Item Details for Reliure Française de 1900 à 1925 Add to Wish List
Item #322343
Price: $750
Original artwork for the bookplate of collector and bookseller Henry Siegel. Read More Item Details for Original ink drawing of a leaping salmon within a border of waves, for the bookplate of bookseller and bibliographer Col. Henry A. Siegel Add to Wish List
Item #263657
Price: $75
[New York]: Deluxe Editions: Illustrated Editions [Printed by J. J. Little & Ives Company], [co. 1932]. Read More Item Details for The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Add to Wish List
Item #35273
Price: $250
New York: The Century Co, 1901. First edition. With tipped in photo of DeVinne and an inset note reading " I want to prepare copy so that the work can be done without delays. I wish you would specify some good title pages either ours or those done of-other printers..... Read More Item Details for Correct Composition Add to Wish List
Item #261914
Price: $300
1902, [November], 1901. Inscribed in each to Mr. W.H. H. Beebe on a tipped in sheet. Read More Item Details for A Treatise on Title-Pages; Correct Composition; Modern Methods of Book Coimposition & The Practice of Typography Add to Wish List
Item #345746
Price: $200
Brussels: 1958. First edition. Read More Item Details for Medieval Illuminations, from the Library of Burgundy to the Department of Manuscripts of the Royal Library of Belgium. Foreword by H. Liebaers and F. Masia Add to Wish List
Item #215304
Price: $300
Paris: Éditions du la Librairie Ancienne et Moderne Édouard Rouveyre, 1879. Large paper, Number 71 of an edition of 100, of which this one of 50 porinted in color (green). Read More Item Details for Le Luxe des Livres Add to Wish List
Item #222649
Price: $625
Paris: Édouard Rouveye, Éditeur, 12 Rue Jacob, 1888. #7 of 60 copies on Imperial Japan paper, of a total edition of 960 copies. ONE OF 60. Read More Item Details for La Reliure de luxe. Le Livre et L'Amateur... Illustraions inédites, reproduction d'après les types originaux par Aron Frères et Dessins de G. Fairpont, C. Kurner, M. Perret. Frontispiece reliure paine de J. Adeline Add to Wish List
Item #323154
Price: $150
Paris et Bruxelles: Les Éditions G. Van Oest, 1930; 1931. First edition. A useful and well illustrated survey of French binding from its origins through the 19th century. Read More Item Details for La Reliure Française Add to Wish List
Item #315172
Price: $1,500
London: Printed for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, Finsbury-Square and J. Major, Fleet Street, 1824. Large paper copy of the first edition. LARGE PAPER COPY. Pagination not as called for in Pippin and Windle, who call for continuous pagination. Read More Item Details for The Library Companion; or, The Young Man's Guide, and the Old Man's Comfort, in the Choice of a Library Add to Wish List
Item #262161
Price: $200
Cheltenham: H. Ruff, 1803. First edition. Read More Item Details for The History of Cheltenham and its Environs: Including an Inquiry into the Nature and Properties of the Mineral Waters, &c. &c. &c. and A Concise View of the County of Glocester Add to Wish List
Item #306789
Price: $8,500
London: Printed for the Author by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press, 1821. First edition, Large paper copy. With 2 Original Drawings by George Lewis. First edition, large paper copy, of Dibdin's "amusing account of his travels, with descriptions of of the contents of several of the chief libraries..... Read More Item Details for A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany Add to Wish List
Item #302946
Price: $2,000
London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press, 1817. First edition, with half-titles and errata. Read More Item Details for The Bibliographical Decameron; Or Ten Days' Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts and subjects connected with early Engraving, Typography and Bibliography Add to Wish List
Item #261849
Price: $2,250
London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press, 1817. First edition. IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. Read More Item Details for The Bibliographical Decameron; Or Ten Days' Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts and subjects connected with early Engraving, Typography and Bibliography Add to Wish List
Item #306781
Price: $3,000
London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press, 1817. First edition, with half-titles and errata. Bound by Charles Smith. Dibdin's lavish work in an ornate binding by Charles Smith, one of the more active and competent binders in London of the 1810s-'30s, with his "13 Church..... Read More Item Details for The Bibliographical Decameron; Or Ten Days' Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts and subjects connected with early Engraving, Typography and Bibliography Add to Wish List
Item #306787
Price: $600
June 11. Reading in part: "...as I shall want £40 tomorrow at my banker's I am in full peparation for my farewell address on Friday..." Read More Item Details for ALS. To Collector William Upcott. About money, etc Add to Wish List
Item #304825
Price: $850
Kensington: Feb 14, 1820. Reading in part: "You will be pleased to make the subject itself only 3 inches in height; or 3 inches 1/4 at most. The breadth with the necessarily proportionate. For the sum of £10.10, I trust you will execute it in a brilliant and spirited manner..." Read More Item Details for ALS. To Mr. Alfred Robert Freebairn (1794-1846) about an engraving or painting to be produced with dimensions of 3 x 3-1/4 inches and cost of £10.10 Add to Wish List
Item #305561
Price: $650
London: for the author, by John And Arthur Arch, Cornhill; R. Triphook, Old Bond Street; and J. Major, Fleet Street, 1823. First edition. Lewis accompanied Dibdin and provided the illustrations for his "Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany" (1821). This volume collections the illustrations that were left..... Read More Item Details for A Series of Groups, Illustrating the Physiognomy, Manners, and Character of the People of France and Germany Add to Wish List
Item #306602
Price: $650
London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington; T. Payne; Wilkie and Robinson, etc, 1811. Now First Reprinted, and Systematically Arranged, one of 500 (according to Lowndes. Read More Item Details for The Pastime of People, or, The Chronicles of Divers Realms; Most Especially of the Realm of England. [Edited by Thomas Frognall Dibdin] Add to Wish List
Item #55999
Price: $3,000
[Edinburgh]: 1838. First and only edition. One of approximately 10 copies printed. Very rare. Jackson thought that "only six copies of this vicious and trivial attack on Dibdin were struck off," but Windle & Pippin correct that to an estimated ten copies. Read More Item Details for Notes, Chiefly Correctory, on Dr Dibdin's Tour through Scotland Add to Wish List
Item #306638