Old Picture Books with Other Essays on Bookish Subjects by Alfred W Pollard - 2009-09-30

Methuen and Co, 1902. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. London, 1902; blue cloth covered boards; corner and spine edge wear; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; light interior notations; previous owner's book plate on front paste-down; 282 pages.

New York and London: Methuen and Co.. Good with no dust jacket; Library markings on spines, bookplates, pocket . scars and perforated library marks on title pages. Boards lightly worn at . corners and head and foot of spine.. 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Navy cloth binding with titles and illuminated letter O stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Top edges gilt. Many illustrations. 40 pages of publisher's ads at rear. Chapters include essays on Florentine rappresentazioni, two illustrated Italian Bibles, 15th and 16th century woodcuts, English books printed abroad, heraldic initials, the first English book sale, woodcuts in English plays pre-1660, printers' marks of the 15th and 16th centuries, the Franks collection of armorial book-stamps, and two concluding essays by Alice Pollard about a Queen Anne pocket-book and "Why Men Don't Marry". Chapters include essays on Florentine rappresentazioni, two illustrated Italian Bibles, 15th and 16th century woodcuts,… Read More

Lenox Hill Pub, 1970-06. Hardcover. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Methuen & Co, 36 Essex Street, 1902. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, G. [viii]+282pp+40pp publishers catalogue, b/w illustrations, cloth marked & worn, edges rubbed & bumped, occasional foxing. A collection of 18 essays ( 2 by Pollard's wife ) on books & book collecting. Alfred William Pollard [ 1859 - 1944 ] English bibliographer, widely credited for bringing a higher level of scholarly rigor to the study of Shakespearean texts. The essays are : Old Picture Books. - Florentine Rappresentazioni And Their Pictures. - Two Illustrated Italian Bibles. - A Book Of Hours. - The Transference Of Woodcuts In The Fifteenth And Sixteenth Centuries. - Es Tu Scholaris? - English Books Printed Abroad. - Some Pictorial And Heraldic Initials. - England And The Bookish Arts. - The First English Book Sale. - John Durie's "Reformed Librarie - Keeper." - Woodcuts In English Plays Printed Before 1660. - Herrick And His Friends. - A Poet's [Herrick's] Studies. -… Read More

Hardback. New.