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Anastatic Drawing Society, for the years 1855-57, and 1860. The Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society, for 1862, Vol. XI (1871), Vol. XII (1872), edited by Rev. G.R. Mackarness. [AND] Anastatic Drawing Society, for the years 1876, 1877, Vol. XX (1882), Vol. XXI (1883), Vol. XXII (1884-86), and Vol. XXIII (1887-89), edited by Llewellyn Jewitt

Anastatic Drawing Society, for the years 1855-57, and 1860. The Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society, for 1862, Vol. XI (1871), Vol...

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

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A Dissertation Concerning the Origin of Printing in England. Shewing, that it was first introduced and practised by our countryman William Caxton, at Westminster: And not, as is commonly believed, by a Foreign Printer at Oxford. William Caxton, Conyer Middleton.

A Dissertation Concerning the Origin of Printing in England. Shewing, that it was first introduced and practised by our countryman...

Cambridge: printed for W. Thurlbourn, over-against the Senate-House, 1735. First edition. "Against the popular notion at the time that William Caxton had been preceded by a printer at Oxford, Middleton published A Dissertation Concerning the Origin of Printing in England (1734–5), which argued vigorously that Caxton had introduced the printing... Read More

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Cancels. R. W. Chapman.

Cancels.

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

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A collection of flyers, broadsides, handbills, booklets and other ephemera printed at the gay anarchist collective print-shop, Come!Unity Press. COME!UNITY PRESS.

A collection of flyers, broadsides, handbills, booklets and other ephemera printed at the gay anarchist collective print-shop, Come!Unity Press.

New York: 1971-1977. Come!Unity Press was a gay anarchist collective print shop on East 17th Street in New York City in the 1970s. Founded with an initial measure of support from the Quaker Project on Community Conflict, from January 1972 the press operated as a 24-hour shared working/living space, and... Read More

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Printers Devices. Being a Partial reprint of the Fifth and Sixth Days Delectable Discourses Thereon from the Bibliographical Decameron of the Rev. T.F. Dibdin. Thomas Frognall Dibdin.

Printers Devices. Being a Partial reprint of the Fifth and Sixth Days Delectable Discourses Thereon from the Bibliographical Decameron of...

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

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The Minor Encyclopedia, being a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Polite Literature. In four volumes. Thaddeus M.ason Harris, compiler.

Inscribed by Isaiah Thomas

The Minor Encyclopedia, being a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Polite Literature. In four volumes.

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

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Nachrichten von Künstlern und Kunst-Sache [and] … Zweyter Theil. Mit vielen Kupfern. History of Printing, Karl-Heinrich von Heinecken.

Nachrichten von Künstlern und Kunst-Sache [and] … Zweyter Theil. Mit vielen Kupfern.

Leipzig; Wien: Johan Paul Krauss, 1768; 1769. First Edition. Includes notices of Berlin artists, graphic arts (engravers, early woodcuts & woodcut books), history of printing, and account of a journey through Lower Saxony, Westphalia & and Holland. Part Two, with striking images from early printed books such as the “Eagle... Read More

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An Apology for the Book of Psalms, in Five Letters; addressed to the Friends of Union in the Church of God. Gilbert McMaster.

Early Doubleday Imprint, Bound by the French Bindery

An Apology for the Book of Psalms, in Five Letters; addressed to the Friends of Union in the Church of...

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

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Printed certificate, completed in ink, certifying the renting of 118 Fulton Street, New York City, as a composing room, to James Gordon Bennett, founder of the New York Herald, by Joseph Heill, dated April 1836. Newspapers.

James Gordon Bennett Builds the New York Herald, 1836

Printed certificate, completed in ink, certifying the renting of 118 Fulton Street, New York City, as a composing room, to...

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

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Caracteres et Alphabets de langues mortes et vivantes, Contenant vingt-cinq Planches. [Extracted from: DIDEROT, Denis, & Jean Le Rond d'ALEMBERT, editors. Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers. Recueil de Planches, sur les Sciences, les Arts Libéraux, et les Arts Mechaniques, avec leur Explication]. Printing.

Exotic Typography in the Encyclopédie

Caracteres et Alphabets de langues mortes et vivantes, Contenant vingt-cinq Planches. [Extracted from: DIDEROT, Denis, & Jean Le Rond d'ALEMBERT...

[Paris: 1762-1772]. Exotic Typography in the Encyclopédie. An elegant and visually appealing selection of plates from the Récueil de Planches, that extraordinary illustrated supplement to the magnificent Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert. The plates depict alphabets and characters of more than 40 languages, from Assyrian and Hebrew to Chinese, Tibetan... Read More

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Fonderie en Caracteres d'Imprimerie, Précédée de la Gravure des Poinçons, les deux Arts contenant huit Planches. [and] Caracteres et Alphabets de langues mortes et vivantes, Contenant vingt-cinq Planches. [Extracted from: DIDEROT, Denis, & Jean Le Rond d'ALEMBERT, editors. Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers. Recueil de Planches, sur les Sciences, les Arts Libéraux, et les Arts Mechaniques, avec leur Explication]. Printing.

Fonderie en Caracteres d'Imprimerie, Précédée de la Gravure des Poinçons, les deux Arts contenant huit Planches. [and] Caracteres et Alphabets...

[Paris: 1762-1772]. 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, from Assyrian and Hebrew to Chinese, Tibetan, Japanese... Read More

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Imprimérie en Caractères. Contenant dix-neuf Planches. [Extracted from: DIDEROT, Denis, & Jean Le Rond d'ALEMBERT, editors. Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers. Recueil de Planches, sur les Sciences, les Arts Libéraux, et les Arts Mécaniques, avec leur Explication]. Printing.

Imprimérie en Caractères. Contenant dix-neuf Planches. [Extracted from: DIDEROT, Denis, & Jean Le Rond d'ALEMBERT, editors. Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné...

[Paris: 1762-1772]. Beautiful 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. Printing and... Read More

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The Protestant Song. "Thanks Royal York ..."

Printers to His Majesty for Prevention of Forgery

The Protestant Song. "Thanks Royal York ..."

London, Beaufort House, Strand: Published by Edward Dixon Pouchée, at the Office of "The English Gentleman". Whiting & Branston, Engravers and Printers to His Majesty for the Prevention of Forgery, 1825. Printers to His Majesty for Prevention of Forgery. The elaborate covers provide a fine demonstration of mid-1820s printing by... Read More

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The Windmill: Stories, Essays, Poems & Pictures by Authors & Artists whose Works are published at the Sign of the Windmill. Arthur Rackham, L. Callender.

Heinemann Authors

The Windmill: Stories, Essays, Poems & Pictures by Authors & Artists whose Works are published at the Sign of the...

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

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