Ashby-De-La-Zouch; (Vols. XXII & XXIII) Ipswich: S.H. Cowell, 1855-1889. “The object of the Society is to delineate remains of Antiquity; e.g. ancient Ecclesiastical, Military, and Domestic Edifices, Sepulchral Monuments, Fonts, Brasses, Stained Glass, Tiles, Armour, Dress, Jewellry, Plate Embroidery, Furniture, Carvings, Illuminstions of ancient MSS, Copies of rare Prints, Portraits..... Read More about Anastatic Drawing Society, for the years 1855-57, and 1860. The Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society,...

London: Constable & Co, 1930. First Edition, limited to 500 copies. Third volume in the influential series, Bibliographia Studies in Book History and Book Structure 1750-1900, edited by Michael Sadleir. Read More about Cancels

London: The Imprint, [1913]. First edition. This reprint of an extract from the Bibliographical Decameron appeard a few pages at a time as a separately paginated supplement to the typographical periodical "The Imprint," a title page being include in the first number. The work was left unfinished when The Imprint..... Read More about Printers Devices. Being a Partial reprint of the Fifth and Sixth Days Delectable Discourses...

Ditchling, Sussex: Printed and Published at S. Dominic's Press, 1921. Read More about Songs without Clothes. Being a Dissertation on the Song of Solomon and Such-like Songs ......

Boston: Printed for West & Greenleaf … by Manning & Loring, Sept. 1803. First edition. Inscribed by Isaiah Thomas. Inscribed by the publisher, historian of American printing, and co-founder of the American Antiquarian Society, Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831) on title-page of final volume:“Presented by I. Thomas, Esq.to E.J. Knox, May 21st..... Read More about The Minor Encyclopedia, being a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Polite Literature. In four volumes

La Haye: La Veuve Le Vier et Pierre Paupie, 1740. First edition. Printed by Prosper Marchand, a Huguenot publisher and journalist who fled France in 1709, the work appeared at the 300th anniversary of the invention of printing. Marchand writes that he produced the book “a la sollicitation de quelques..... Read More about Histoire de l'Origine et des Premiers Progrès de l'Imprimerie

Ballston-Spa: Printed by U.F. Doubleday, 1818. Early Doubleday Imprint, Bound by the French Bindery. With an inserted note from one C.A. Montgomery, 1900, conveying the book “found on a book-stall on Ann Street”, to Frank N. Doubleday.The publisher is Ulysses Freeman Doubleday (1792-1866), publisher, newspaperman, U.S. Representative and bookseller. Read More about An Apology for the Book of Psalms, in Five Letters; addressed to the Friends of Union in the...

New York: 1836. James Gordon Bennett Builds the New York Herald, 1836. James Gordon Bennett (1795-1872) a Scottish immigrant, worked in New York as a journalist and editor on several newspapers, and in May, 1835, established the New York Herald, a four-page daily newspaper which sold for a penny. Poverty..... Read More about Printed certificate, completed in ink, certifying the renting of 118 Fulton Street, New York...

Wymondham: Brewhouse Press, 1970. First edition, one of 250 copies printed. Finely printed history of the first commercially viable means of making facsimile reproductions of the printed page. Read More about Aspects of Victorian Lithography. Anastatic Printing and Photozincography

[Paris: 1762-1772]. From the Encylopédie, with superb plates and alphabets. An important selection of 33 printing-related plates from the Récueil de Planches, that extraordinary illustrated supplement to the magnificent Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert. The plates depict the typefounding process and the alphabets and characters of more than 40 languages..... Read More about Fonderie en Caracteres d'Imprimerie, Précédée de la Gravure des Poinçons, les deux Arts...

[Paris: 1762-1772]. An especially attractive selection of plates from the Récueil de Planches, that extraordinary illustrated supplement to the magnificent Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert. The plates depict every aspect of the art and craft of printing in the late 18th century; the explanatory text is concise yet fully detailed..... Read More about Imprimerie en Caracteres. Contenant dix-neuf Planches. [Extracted from: DIDEROT, Denis, &...

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1923. First edition. Heinemann Authors. This is a anthology of authors who had been published by William Heinemann over 30 years. They include Galsworthy, Gosse, Sassoon, Masefield, Baring, Beerbohm, Swinburne, Hearn, Sackville-West, Zangwill, Crane, Symons, Morley, Maugham, Jack London and others. Many of the pieces in..... Read More about The Windmill: Stories, Essays, Poems & Pictures by Authors & Artists whose Works are...

Ballston Spa: Printed by U.F. Doubleday, 1817. Early Doubleday Imprint, Bound by the French Bindery. Read More about A Treatise on Internal Navigation … To Which Is Annexed The Report of Albert Gallatin on Roads...