Search Results: Bibliography and Reference from Zetetic Books

London: Bertram Dobell 40pp, n.d. but 1913. Original paper wrappers. Staples rusted, covers browned to edges, otherwise fairly clean. The dispersal of the collection of Pen Browning (at Sotheby's in 1913), the breaking up of which was described by the Browning Institute as "one of the most melancholy events in modern literary history". Dobell bought 143 lots at the sale, leading to this catalogue issued later the same year. The Browning Institute goes on to note that the "special value of Dobell's catalogue lies in the fact that the better known Sotheby's catalogue, 'The Browning Collections' ... frequently offers vague or partial descriptions of heterogeneous material in large lots; only by consulting the Dobell catalogue... can one actually find the items - which were concealed among the Sotheby lots - separately listed" (See Browning Institute Studies, Vol.2 (1974) - where this catalogue was reprinted in full). First Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

London: S. T. Prideaux and K. Adams, 1900. 20pp. With twenty-six monochrome photographic plates. Original quarter cloth and printed boards. Cloth spine all but absent, rubbed to board edges and corners, small water stain to upper cover, covers generally slightly soiled, small remnants of paper to the gutter edge of the two ffeps, otherwise internally fairly bright and clean. Number twelve of two hundred copies, of which one hundred and seventy were for sale. Avery 104; Brenni 910; Schmidt-Kunsemuller 5466. First Edition. Hardback. Fair. 8vo. Limited Edition.

Torino: Centro Studi Piemontesi, 1995. [13], 12-170pp, [6], plates. Original cloth, author and title in gilt to spine and upper cover. Spine slightly faded and a little creased, board edges bumped, otherwise quite bright and clean. With sixteen colour photographic plates and sixty-three monochrome photographic plates. The first in a series on bookbinding in the Piedmont region of northern Italy, this one about the Canavese area. Italian text. First Edition. Hardback. Good+/No Jacket (as Issued). 8vo.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company, 1895. Two volumes, 1895 and 1896 - 'English Bookbindings in the British Museum - Illustrations of Sixty-Three Examples Selected on Account of Their Beauty or Historical Interest With Introduction and Descriptions' WITH 'Foreign Bookbindings in the British Museum Illustrations of Sixty-Three Examples Selected on Account of Their Beauty or Historical Interest With Introduction and Descriptions'. English Bookbindings - xvii, [1], sixty-six chromolithographic plates by Griggs with accompanying text leaves. Original cloth, later reback, title and author in gilt to spine and upper cover, t.e.g. Plates II, XVII (particularly so), XLI and LI with remnants of tissue guard still adhered or with slight loss to surface, lacking a couple of tissue guards, one with a hole, closed tear to text leaf of plate LX, a couple of the text leaves chipped to fore edge. Title in red and black. One of five hundred copies, this being number 369. See Nixon… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1902. Two volumes complete - Volume One - Biography and Bibliography - [8], ix-xi, [2], 3-239pp, [1] and Volume Two - Journals and Letters - [4], v-xi, [3], 3-234pp, [2]. Original half Japon vellum and boards, paper title label to spine. Spines browned and rubbed, scrape to head of volume two catching label with small amount of loss, corners bumped, boards lightly soiled. Internally quite bright and clean. Folding facsimile letter frontispiece to volume two. This is one of thirty copies on Imperial Japan paper (with a further three hundred and fifty copies bound in cloth and printed on deckle edged paper). Gaine was a printer and bookseller, born in Belfast, who arrived at New York in 1745. BAL 6231. First Edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket (as Issued?). 4to. Limited Edition.

New York: Burr Brothers, 1893. [3], iv-x, [3], 14-210pp. Half-morocco and marbled paper over boards, raised bands, spine in six panels, title lettered directly to second panel, author to fourth, remaining panels with central fleuron device, t.e.g., marbled endpapers. Rubbed to extremities, internally quite bright and clean. One of seven hundred and twenty-five copies, this being number thirty-three, signed by the author. Anderson (1775-1870) was an American physician and wood engraver / illustrator, sometimes called the father of wood engraving in America, and is the subject of a significant bibliography by Jane Pomeroy. Signed by Author. First Edition (US). Half Morocco and Boards. Good+. Illus. by Anderson, Alexander. 4to.

London: Ernest Benn, 1926. [6], vii-xvi, 178pp, plates. Original cloth, title, author and publisher in gilt to spine. Small tear to head, corners bumped, cloth worn through in a couple of places to bottom edges. Internally the page corners are lightly bumped, text slightly browned, but generally clean. With sixty-four plates (six in colour and tissue guarded, and fifty-eight monochrome). Breslauer, 'The Uses of Bookbinding Literature', page 28; Hobson, 'The Literature of Bookbinding', page 6; Middleton, 'The Binders Art' 37, "an important work"; Appleton, page 81; Brenni 568 and 1036; Mejer-Herbst 378; Schmidt-Kunsemuller 4068. First Edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 4to.

Risbury, Herefordshire: The Whittington Press, 1992. [8], 3-222pp. Original card covers in DJ. DJ spine faded, otherwise bright and clean. One of 825 copies bound thus, with the order form for the reprint of Matrix 2 laid in loosely. Includes articles by Simon Lawrence, Fiona MacCarthy, John Randle, and David Butcher. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good/Good+. 4to.

Andoversford, Gloucester: The Whittington Press, 1990. [6], 237pp, [1]. Original card covers in DJ. Bright and clean. One of 820 copies bound thus, with the order form for Matrix 11 laid in loosely. Includes articles by Enid Marx, Gaylord Shanilec, Roderick Cave, and Sebastian Carter. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Risbury, Herefordshire: The Whittington Press, 1991. [6], 207pp, [1]. Original card covers in DJ. DJ spine lightly faded, corners lightly bumped otherwise bright and clean. One of 850 copies bound thus. Includes articles by John Dreyfus, Sebastian Carter, John O'Connor, and Enid Marx. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good/Good+. 4to.

Andoversford, Gloucester: The Whittington Press, 1990. [6], 237pp, [1]. Original card covers in DJ. DJ spine slightly faded, a couple of small nicks to bottom edge and bottom corner. Book with an inch split to foot of lower joint, but holding well. One of 820 copies bound thus. Includes articles by Enid Marx, Gaylord Shanilec, Roderick Cave, and Sebastian Carter. First Edition. Card Covers. Good/Good. 4to.

Risbury, Herefordshire: The Whittington Press, 1998. [6], 236pp, [2]. Original card covers in DJ. Bright and clean. One of 745 copies bound thus, with order form for Matrix 19 laid in loosely. With articles by Ruari McLean, Roderick Cave, Sebastian Carter, and John Randle. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Risbury, Herefordshire: The Whittington Press, 1994. [6], 236pp, [2]. Original card covers in DJ. DJ spine lightly faded, slightly rubbed lower panel of DJ and to extremities, but generally bright and clean. One of 880 copies bound thus, with the order form for Matrix 15 laid in loosely. With articles by Ruari McLean, John Dreyfus, Sebastian Carter, and William S. Peterson. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good/Good+. 4to.

Risbury, Herefordshire: The Whittington Press, 1993. [6], 234pp. Original card covers in DJ. Bright and clean. One of 835 copies bound thus, with the order form for Matrix 14 and Whittington newsletter laid in loosely. With articles by John Dreyfus, Roderick Cave, Sebastian Carter, and David Chambers. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Risbury, Herefordshire: The Whittington Press, 1997. [6], 195pp, [3]. Original card covers in DJ. Bright and clean. One of 770 copies bound thus. Includes articles by John Dreyfus, Sebastian Carter, Ruari McLean, and Roderick Cave. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Risbury, Herefordshire: The Whittington Press, 2005. [6], 196pp, [2]. Original card covers in DJ. Bright and clean. One of 680 copies bound thus, with the order form for Matrix 26 laid in loosely. With articles by George Ramsden, Nicolas Barker, Simon Lawrence, and Ruari McLean. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Andoversford, Gloucester: The Whittington Press, 1987. [6], 166pp, [2]. Original card covers in DJ. DJ spine very slightly faded, couple of tiny nicks to edges, otherwise bright and clean. One of 850 card bound copies, with the order form for Matrix 8 laid in loosely. Includes articles by Simon Lawrence, Douglas Cleverdon, Michael Taylor, and Enid Marx. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Andoversford, Gloucester: The Whittington Press, 1989. [6], 200pp, [2]. Original card covers in DJ. DJ spine faded, otherwise bright and clean. One of eight hundred and twenty copies bound in card covers, with the order form for Matrix 10 laid in loosely. Includes articles by Robert Gibbings, Fiona MacCarthy, Sebastian Carter, and Roderick Cave. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good/Good+. 4to.

London: Archibald Constable and Co., 1906. x, [3], 4-131pp, [1]. Original cloth, with title, author, publisher and place in gilt to spine, and Prideaux's monogram in gilt to upper cover, t.e.g. Upper cover slightly faded at head, fore edge of text block foxed, light foxing to a few text leaves, one plate slightly loose. Former owner's name to ffep. With forty monochrome photographic plates, showing fifty-eight bindings. Appleton, page 84; Brenni 411; Mejer 952; Schmidt-Kunsemuller 5660. First Edition. Hardback. Good+/No Jacket (as Issued?). 8vo.

London: The Studio, 1899. 3-82pp. Later cloth, with title in gilt to upper cover. Well illustrated, with five full page illustrations in colour. Bound from The Studio Special Winter Number 1899-1900, with several pictures of Guild of Women Binders books. British bookbindings by Esther Wood, American bookbindings by Edward Strange, French bookbindings by Octave Uzanne, Dutch bookbindings by Gabriel Mourey, Belgian bookbinding by Fernand Khnopff, Danish bookbinding by Georg Brochner and Bookbinding in Sweden, Norway and Finland by Sunny Frykholm. Mejer 676; Schmidt-Kunsemuller 5214. First Edition. Hardback. Good+. 4to.