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Five Owls Press, 1973. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Wormley: Five Owls Press Ltd, 1973. cloth hard cover is in fine condition as is the dust jacket. this volume is illustrated with 35 text figures and 32 pages of plates. this copy is unmarked and tightly bound. 461 pages includes general index.. Cloth Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Illustrated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Wormley, Hertfordshire: Five Owls Press, 1973. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 461 pages, indexed. Hardback in a tan dust jacket. Light wear to the jacket. The book is sound and clean.

Wormley, Hertfordshire, Five Owls Press, 1973. Octavo, xxxii+462 pages, original boards in dustwrapper, a very good copy. First edition

(Great Britain): Five Owls Press Ltd, 1973. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Corners a little bumped else near fine in modestly soiled, very good or better dustwrapper.

(Wormley, Hertfordshire, England): Five Owls Press, 1973. cloth, cloth spine label. Newbery, John. 8vo. cloth, cloth spine label. xxxii, 459+(1) pages. Table of contents, acknowledgments. A very good copy. Lists of illustrations and abreviations, bibliographical references, introduction, three appendices, chronological list of dated and datable books, indices of publishers and artists, general index. Tipped in frontispiece, black and white illustrations in text, and 32 pages of plates. Detailed bibliographical information for each.

(NEWBERY) ROSCOE, S. JOHN NEWBERY AND HIS SUCCESSORS, 1740-1814. A BIBLIOGRAPHY. (Hertfordshire): Five Owls Press, (1973). 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Comprehensive annotated catalogue of more than six hundred and forty works published by John Newbery and the successors of his press. Fine.

Hertfordshire: Five Owls Press Ltd, 1973. Cloth/dust jacket and mylar wrapped octavo. Hardcover. Very good/very good. brown cloth gilt lettering dust jacket 461 pp.

Hertfordshire: Five Owls Press, 1973. First edition. Fine in d.j.. First edition. xxxi, 461p. Illustrated. Tan cloth with gilt titles on a red ground.

Five Owls Press Ltd. 1973. First Edition, xxxii,461pp., coloured frontis., 32 plates, 35 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. John Newbery is famous among eighteenth century publishers for the manner in which he exploited the new market for children's books.

Wormley: Five Owls Press, 1973. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 460 pages, b&w illustrated plates. Small stain on dust jacket rear cover. Foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy. Record # 453971

(Great Britain): Five Owls Press Ltd, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Owner gift inscription to Helen Heinrich, a well-known Sherlock Holmes collector and historian, top corner of some pages dog-eared spine cocked, else very good in a very good lightly soiled and edgeworn dustwrapper.

1 . Hardbound. mint. A Bibliography. Illustrated. First edition. Wormley (Five Owls Press) 1973. Mint copy in dust wrapper.

Wormley: Five Owls Press Ltd, 1973. cloth, dust jacket. Children's Books. thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxxi, 461 pages. First edition. A fine copy. John Newbery is famous among 18th-century publishers for the manner in which he exploited the new market for children's books. Both in the creation of a "list" of successful titles and in his very individual approach to the designing, publicizing, and selling of his "little books," he shows himself to be an important forerunner of the specialist children's book publisher. In this bibliographical study of the publishing activity of Newbery and his successors, Sydney Roscoe takes pains to supply as complete a record as possible of these children's books in their various editions with notes on the locations of copies known today. He has also provided a detailed introduction, giving the background to the firm's work, together with three important appendices on special problems that have arisen in compiling the bibliography. A title checklist is included of… Read More

Wormley, Hertfordshire : Five Owls Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; xxxi, 461 p., 35 p. of plates : ill. (1 col.), facsims., map ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes index. Case binding of brown cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket with publisher's advertisements. Frontispiece of Dutch floral paper pasted onto page. Includes bibliographical references (p. xxvii-xxxi) and indexes. Contents; Frontispiece is a half-tone reproduction, printed in five colours, of a piece of Dutch floral paper in the possession of S. Roscoe. Includes author's preface, dated March 1973. Subjects; Newbery, John (1713-1767). Newbery family. Newbery, John bap. 1713, d. 1767 publisher. Newbery, Firm, Publisher, London. Children's literature - Bibliography - Catalogs. Children's literature,… Read More

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ROSCOE, S. John Newbery and His Successors 1740-1814. A Bibliography. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Wormely: 1973. First edition. Newbery was one of the greatest publishers of children's books of the 18th cent. in England. Fine in soiled d/j.

Five Owls Press Ltd.,, 1973.. 1973 xxxi, [1], 461 p. Colored frontispiece tipped in, plates. Dustwrapper with short edge tears at spine ends but now sleeved. Internally clean and crisp. A very good copy.

Five Owls Press, 1973-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hertfordshire England: Five Owls Press Ltd, 1973. xxxi + 460 pages; with a signed typed note tipped-on to the front endpaper: "The author sends his best wishes and greetings to a trans-Atlantic Newbery Enthusiast. (Signed) S. Roscoe 8th December 1975"; black and white illustrations of title pages of Newbery works and other pertinent titles, letters, more; chronological list of dated and datable books, index of publishers, printers and booksellers, separate index of artists, woodcutters and engravers for Newbery titles; general index; small previous owner bookplate of "Gardner" on front endpaper; cloth-bound with dustjacket; light wear to binding & jacket; very good condition, an excellent children's book reference work and especially interesting for the author's inscription . . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.