The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, English literature, 1475-1700 by Unger, Emma V. And William A. Jackson - 1997

Heritage/Oak Knoll. Used - Very Good. 1997. Hardcover. Cloth. 4to. Three volume set. 1320 pp. Mild shelf wear, otherwise very sound. Very Good. (Subject: Books on Books).

Heritage/Oak Knoll. New. 1997. illustrated edition. Hardcover. Cloth. Quarto. Three volume set. 1320 pp. Reprint of the 1940 edition. New. (Subject: Books on Books).

Delaware / California: The Knoll Oak Press / Heritage Book Shop Inc, 1997. Hardcover. VG+. top sections of spines spongy; textblocks firm, attached. textblock edges have light scuffs/scratches.. maroon boards w/ gilt emblem & gilt spine printing. marbled pastedowns & flyleafs. vol 1, vol 2, vol 3: total 1320 pgs w/ bw plates. A very nice set. Volumes appear to be clean.

New Castle, Delaware / Los Angeles, CA: Oak Knoll Press / Heritage Book Shop, 1997. Brand New in perfect condition. Still sealed in the publisher's original shipping box. 3 volumes, complete. 1997. Expanded reprint of the scarce 1940 original, with a new foreword (by John B. Thomas III, Curator of the Collection), table of contents, and a 13-page list of books added to the collection in 1986. Limited to 700 sets. 3 volumes: xli, 378 + [iii]-v, 379-791, [1] + [iii]-v,793-1320, [1] pp. 150 illustrations, including 65 plates. A landmark reference that fully describes Pforzheimer's legendary collection of the best books of the period, including Chaucer, Shakepeare, Bacon, Spenser, Milton, Donne, Locke, Chapman, Gascoigne, Jonson and many others; plus letters of Queen Elizabeth I, John Locke, John Evelyn (including six holograph letters to Pepys); the Bulstrode Papers and Marprelate Tracts; in total 1,105 printed books and 169 autographs and manuscripts. The original 1940 printing, limited… Read More

New Castle, Delaware and Los Angeles: Oak Knoll Press & Heritage Book Shop Inc, 1997. cloth. Pforzheimer, Carl H.. small 4to. cloth. 1350 pages. 3 volumes. Limited to 700 copies. Originally printed and limited to only 150 copies, this legendary three-volume work describes over 1,300 English literary rare books and manuscripts in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, one of the foremost American collections of early English literature, now housed at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. The original catalogue, extremely difficult and expensive to find on the antiquarian market (normally priced around the $8,000 mark), fully describes all the books and manuscripts in Pforzheimer's collection of English literature, making it a most valuable reference for the scholar, researcher, librarian, book collector and bookseller. This work puts each description into various contexts: authorship, textual authority, sequence of editions and publishing history, reference concordance and rarity. The collection also… Read More

New Castle-Los Angeles, Oak Knoll Press-Heritage Book Shop Inc. 1997. Original publisher's red-brown cloth hardback, gilt lettering spine, gilt ornament frontcover, revised & enlarged edition [1940], thick large 4to: I: frontispiece portrait, xlij, 378pp., [4]pp., 13 plates, introduction, list all plates, abbreviations, appendix, catalogue entries 1 - 393. II: frontispiece, vi, 379-792pp., 25 plates, catalogue entries 394 - 782. III: frontispiece, vi, 793-1320pp., 28 plates, catalogue entries 783 - 1105, manuscripts, addenda & corrigenda, index anonymous books, index provenance, index bibliographica, addenda: 50 books in the Pfortheimer collection not in the original catalogue - with notes & references, colophon. Very fine copies - as new., Facsimile of the original edition of 1940 with addition & corrigenda.