London: [William Davy for] Henry Bohn 4, York Street, 1832. First edition, ordinary paper copy. "Where were ye, ye pains-taking, fiddle-faddling, indefatigable collectors of Franks-ye threaders of autographic scraps-ye 'Albumites' . . ." So writes Dibdin,writing as both "Cato Parvus" and "Mercurio Rusticus," the pseudonyms used in "Bibliomania," in his..... Read More about Bibliophobia. Remarks on the Present Languid and Depressed State of Literature and the Book...

With the symbolic bookplate of Afrikaans poet and pioneering ethologist Eugène Marais. The bookplate measures 4-3/4 x 6-1/4 inches, and was designed by James J. Guthrie (his monogram at lower left); printed: London, 1897. The motto, Dit of Dood, translates as “This or Death” ; in The Dark Stream. The..... Read More about Tractatus de prescriptionibus.] [Running title:] Tractatus prescriptionum. 35 leaf fragment

Los Angeles: 1930. Ernest Dawson (b.1882 - d.1947) was an antiquarian bookseller and founder of Los Angeles' legendary Dawson's Book Shop. Edwin Markham (b.1852 - d.1940) was a poet and was Poet Laureate of Oregon from 1923-1931, as well as an avid book collector. Read More about Edwin Markham and Ernest Dawson photograph [1930

1. Autograph Letter Signed ("Elgin"), 2 1/4 pp recto and verso, 8vo (conjoined leaves), Broom Hall [Dunfermline], January 17, 1831, to the antiquary James Skene, about pictures he was lending for an exhibition. 2. Report from the select committee of the House of Commons on the earl of Elgin's collection..... Read More about Collection

Paris: Imprimerie de E. Duverger, 1835. First edition. Among the areas his collection covered are roads, canals, history of finance and financiers, history of commerce, engineering, agriculture, customs, schools, hospitals, laws, medicine, mines, prisons, science and government. Read More about Traite de matériaux manuscripts de divers genres d'histoire

Paris: Veuve Adolphe Labitte: Maison Silvestre, 1883. Sales catalogue for the auction at Maison Silvestre the 18 Mai - 1st of June 1883 containing 2461 lots. The collector was the grandson of Antoine Dubois, Napoleon's celebrated surgeon. Read More about Catalogue des Livres Rares et Curieux Principalement sur l'Histoire de France composant la...

New York: Privately Printed, 1909. One of 100 on Imperial Japan paper, printed at the University Press, Cambridge. The 16th and last catalogue of the Robert Hoe library. Read More about A Catalogue of Manuscripts comprising a portion of the Library of Robert Hoe

London: 1968-1973. Nos. 1-60 (all published). A complete run of this engagingly written and informative British book trade periodical. Contains numerous bibliographical articles and studies. Indexed. Read More about Book Collecting & Library Monthly

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1909. Reprint. Read More about Talks in A Library with Laurence Hutton. Recorded by Isabel Moore

Somerville, New Jersey: [Privately printed at the Thistle Press], 1967. First edition, one of 1000 of the first volume and 1250 of the second. Lavishly produced set of volumes designed by P.J. Conkright documenting the residence of Donald and Mary Hyde, and the library, including the Johnson collection (now at..... Read More about Four Oaks Library [and] Four Oaks Farm

Boston: The Atlantic Montly Press, 1923. First trade edition. Read More about Doctor Johnson, A Play

Chicago: Caxton Club, 1927. First edition. Printed by Bruce Rogers at the press of William Henry Rudge in Mount Vernon, New York. Limited to 350 copies. Read More about Ancient Books and Modern Discoveries

London: Longmans, Green and Co. And New York, 1889. Number 90 of 113 copies of the Large Paper edition of the first edition. Large Paper Copy. Some of the topics covered in these essays are Modern English Poetry, Fielding, Longfellow, Plotinus, LucretiusRochefoucauld and Virgil. Read More about Letters on Literature