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Birmingham Polytechnic, Department of Librarianship, Birmingham, first edition. 1979. Tape-backed printed wrappers, folio,. [48] pp. 412 entries. From the introduction: "Charles Knight was born in 1791 in Windsor, which at that time was an exclusive court town with a virtually closed society. His father and namesake was a printer, publisher and bookseller who was a most respected tradesman and mayor of Windsor in 1806 and 1817. Knight was at school until the age of fourteen when, against his own wishes and the advice of his headmaster, he was removed and indentured to his father to learn the printing trade. The interest fostered in type, methods of printing, and in the history of all aspects of the book trade remained with him all his life and explains the care that he took to ensure maximum quality in his publications consistent with the selling price.. In addition to selling new books in the shop, Knight attended auctions and gained a knowledge of rare books and their description which he used… Leer más

G. K. Hall, Boston, first edition, 1980. Two-tone cloth, 8vo, 25 cm,. xxii, 358 pp, ills. Aims "to provide an encylopedic assemblage of detailed information not readily available elsewhere concerning those publishing houses that shaped popular literary taste in nineteenth-century America." Contents include: Introduction; 1 John B. Alden; 2 W. L. Allison and Company; 3 Altemus & Co.; 4 D. Appleton & Company; 5 Maturin Murray Ballou; 6 Beadle & Co.; 7 Irwin P. Beadle; 8 Belford, Clarke & Company; 9 A. L. Burt Company; 10 Carey & Lea; 11 G. W. Carleton; 12 T. R, Dawley; 13 Robert M. DeWitt; 14 DeWolfe, Fiske, & Company; 15 Dick & Fitzgerald; 16 Donnelley, Loyd & Co.; 17 Donohue & Henneberry; 18 Elliott, Thomes & Talbot; 19 Samuel French; 20 Gleason's Publishing Hall; 21 An Introductory Review of Harper Highlights; 22 Harper & Bros.; 23 Henry Holt and Company; 24 Hurst and Company; 25 M. J. Ivers and Company; 26 Laird and Lee; 27 The Frank Leslie… Leer más

Osprey Publishing, London, first edition, 1976. Cloth, 8vo, 25 cm,. xi, 220 pp, ills, facs. From the blurb: "The popular image of Caxton is that of the first English printer. But this new book by Professor Blake sets out to show Caxton in all his dimensions - firstly as merchant and businessman, then as diplomatic negotiator in Europe for Edward IV (and later Henry VII), and finally as printer, bookseller and publisher. In the latter function, in particular, this book shows the debt modern publishing owes him. Caxton began his working life as an apprentice with the Mercers' Company, and was involved in business dealings on their behalf - and later his own - between England and the Low Countries. Books were already part of the wealthy merchant's trade before he decided to extend his business to include the publishing of them. To this purpose Caxton learnt the trade of printing in Bruges and Cologne; then returned to England and set up business in Westminster, where he worked until his… Leer más

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1956. Cloth,gilt and coloured arms on front board, 4to, 26 cm,. 66, [1] pp, [14] pp of plates, facs. From the blurb: "The Master of Pembroke's Sandars Lectures for 1954 are here given permanent form. The first lecture, on The Bentley Revival, gives new information about the Press's first experiment in Publishing, and the general increase of activity under Bentley's direction in the early eighteenth Century. Recently discovered minutes and accounts of the period are illustrated, and their contents analysed: and Mr Roberts gives an entertaining account of the progress of the Suidas Lexicon through the press. After The Royal Commission shows the beginnings in nineteenth-century Cambridge of a publishing firm as it is understood to-day ; the development of a London publishing-house, the beginnings of advertising, the growth of a 'back list'. The Twentieth Century begins with the publication of the 11th edition of the… Leer más

Francke, [Bern, edition, 1957. Quarter cloth and patterned boards, 8vo, 24 cm,. xlvii, 182, [1] pp, 24 pp of plates, Supplements: 24, 27, 20 pp. Publisher's 1-page notice tipped -in to front free endpaper. Stickerr taped around spine, stamp on verso of the title-page, slighty agetoned, otherwise Near Very Good. First -third suppleents laid in.

Clarendon Press, Oxford, first edition, 1978. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. xxviii, 303 pp, [12] leaves of plates, ills. From the blurb: "This history of the O.U.P. is published in the year in which the Press celebrates 500 years of printing in Oxford. Great names in the early history of the Press, like Laud, Fell, and Blackstone, laid sound foundations, but as late as 1870 it was thought necessary to remind the Delegates that publishing books was not 'entirely beside their function': as late as the 1890s there were still those prepared to censure the University for allowing its Press to publish the secular and profane literature of Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare. The transformation of the Press from a lucrative Bible house into a great national and international publishing business was rapid. Progress may have appeared at first to be stumbling and sporadic, but this book, despite its episodic approach and its concentration on a few outstanding individuals, is essentially a study of… Leer más

Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, first edition, 1978. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. 256 pp, [10] leaves of plates, ills. From the blurb - "Few publishers have made such an impact on the twentieth-century literary scene as Victor Gollancz, who fifty years ago started his own firm. Within a very little time it had revolutionized publishing methods in this country, flooding the bookshops with the black, yellow and magenta jackets which were one of its most striking hallmarks, and the newspapers with the bold advertisements that made the name of Gollancz famous within every household where books were read. The story of those fifty years is a varied, very human one, quite unlike the pious and arid sagas of so many publishing houses. To a far greater extent than would normally be the case it is as much the tale of a man as of the firm he created, since for thirty-eight of its fifty years 'V.G.', to all intents and purposes, was the firm. The list of authors whom it has at one time or another published… Leer más

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1956. Cloth,gilt and coloured arms on front board, 4to, 26 cm,. 66, [1] pp, [14] pp of plates, facs. From the blurb: "The Master of Pembroke's Sandars Lectures for 1954 are here given permanent form. The first lecture, on The Bentley Revival, gives new information about the Press's first experiment in Publishing, and the general increase of activity under Bentley's direction in the early eighteenth Century. Recently discovered minutes and accounts of the period are illustrated, and their contents analysed: and Mr Roberts gives an entertaining account of the progress of the Suidas Lexicon through the press. After The Royal Commission shows the beginnings in nineteenth-century Cambridge of a publishing firm as it is understood to-day ; the development of a London publishing-house, the beginnings of advertising, the growth of a 'back list'. The Twentieth Century begins with the publication of the 11th edition of the… Leer más

Clarendon Press, Oxford, first edition, 1978. Cloth, folio, gilt cover device, patterned endpapers, 31 cm,. xiii, 69 pp, 266 ills (including 4 in colour). 375 entries in catalogue. An informative and well-illustrated account of the history of OUP, the world's longest-established press, over its first 500 years. From the blurb: "This volume celebrates the quincentenary of the introduction of printing at Oxford with a pictorial history of its subsequent progress, illustrated by the books, documents, and pictures which are its tangible record. The story, although it properly begins with the arrival of Theodoric Rood and the first learned and educational books that he printed, stretches back to the early thirteenth çentury when scribes, illuminators, and binders of books were already fourd in Oxford; but it was not until the seventeenth Century that, at the initiative ot two great men, Archbishop Laud and Bishop Fell, the University Press in its present form was established. It is the… Leer más

Osprey Publishing, London, first edition, 1976. Cloth, 8vo, 25 cm,. xi, 220 pp, ills, facs. From the blurb: "The popular image of Caxton is that of the first English printer. But this new book by Professor Blake sets out to show Caxton in all his dimensions - firstly as merchant and businessman, then as diplomatic negotiator in Europe for Edward IV (and later Henry VII), and finally as printer, bookseller and publisher. In the latter function, in particular, this book shows the debt modern publishing owes him. Caxton began his working life as an apprentice with the Mercers' Company, and was involved in business dealings on their behalf - and later his own - between England and the Low Countries. Books were already part of the wealthy merchant's trade before he decided to extend his business to include the publishing of them. To this purpose Caxton learnt the trade of printing in Bruges and Cologne; then returned to England and set up business in Westminster, where he worked until his… Leer más

Hymns Ancient & Modern, Norwich, second edition, 1986. Cloth, 8vo, 22 cm,. 98 pp. A record of the publications of the Alcuin Club, formed in 1897 to promote and publish scholarly liturgical works. Very Good.

Clive Bingley, London, first edition, 1980. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. 168 pp, ills. A valuable study with the three-fold aims: " to examine the varied nature of private publishing and printing presses in England; to describe the way in which they have developed during the last thirty years; and to discuss what their relationships are with the commercial printing and publishing industries". Part 2 of the book considers these issues in relation to eight contemporary presses: The Cuckoo Hill Press, the Shoestring Press, the Keepsake Press, the Kit-Cat Press, the Poet & Printer, the Plough Press, the Mandeville Press, and the Basilisk Press and Bookshop. Includes a 13 page bibliography. Indexed. An ex-library copy with several stamps and labels to prelims and title-page, stamp to final text page, and small sticker on dustwrapper spine, otherwise Good in dustwrapper.

Longmans, London, first edition, 1974. Cloth, tall 8vo, 27 cm,. viii, 468 pp, ills (some colour). From the blurb: "To celebrate their two hundred and fiftieth anniversary as a commercial Publishing house, Longman have published this volume of essays on various aspects of the history of the trade. Some are concerned specifically with the House of Longman, and a number reflect those areas of Publishing which have been of particular interest to the House throughout its history. The essays taken together present a mixture of views, to do with situations, events and publications which have taken place during the long history of one Publishing house." Contents: Introduction: At the Sign of the Ship, by Asa Briggs; Copyright and Society, by Ian Parsons; Presenting Shakespeare, by David Daiches; The Edinburgh Review: the life and death of a periodical, by John Cuve; Disraeli's Endymen: a case study, by Annabel Jones; The View from Badminton, by Asa Briggs; Latin for Yesterday, by Robert… Leer más

B. T. Batsford Ltd., London, second impression with corrections, 1944. Cloth, 8vo, 26 cm,. viii, 147, pp, ills. plates. From the blurb: "The book is meant for a "a limited world, . . . the world of printers, booksellers, bookbinders and authors who ply their trade in association with the Batsford name.' But a very much wider world than that must be urged to see this finely got-up and illustrated record, and still more to read its high-hearted, workaday, counter- revolutionary pages. . Armorial bookplate of John Gretton of Stapleford on front pastedown endpaper, endpapers spotted, otherwise Good in heavily spotted and slightly torn dustwrapper.

Clarendon Press, Oxford, first edition, 1978. Cloth, folio, gilt cover device, patterned endpapers, 31 cm,. xiii, 69 pp, 266 ills (including 4 in colour). 375 entries in catalogue. An informative and well-illustrated account of the history of OUP, the world's longest-established press, over its first 500 years. From the blurb: "This volume celebrates the quincentenary of the introduction of printing at Oxford with a pictorial history of its subsequent progress, illustrated by the books, documents, and pictures which are its tangible record. The story, although it properly begins with the arrival of Theodoric Rood and the first learned and educational books that he printed, stretches back to the early thirteenth çentury when scribes, illuminators, and binders of books were already fourd in Oxford; but it was not until the seventeenth Century that, at the initiative ot two great men, Archbishop Laud and Bishop Fell, the University Press in its present form was established. It is the… Leer más

Clarendon Press, Oxford, first edition, 1978. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. xxviii, 303 pp, [12] leaves of plates, ills. From the blurb: "This history of the O.U.P. is published in the year in which the Press celebrates 500 years of printing in Oxford. Great names in the early history of the Press, like Laud, Fell, and Blackstone, laid sound foundations, but as late as 1870 it was thought necessary to remind the Delegates that publishing books was not 'entirely beside their function': as late as the 1890s there were still those prepared to censure the University for allowing its Press to publish the secular and profane literature of Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare. The transformation of the Press from a lucrative Bible house into a great national and international publishing business was rapid. Progress may have appeared at first to be stumbling and sporadic, but this book, despite its episodic approach and its concentration on a few outstanding individuals, is essentially a study of… Leer más

Longmans, London, first edition, 1974. Cloth, tall 8vo, 27 cm,. viii, 468 pp, ills (some colour). From the blurb: "To celebrate their two hundred and fiftieth anniversary as a commercial Publishing house, Longman have published this volume of essays on various aspects of the history of the trade. Some are concerned specifically with the House of Longman, and a number reflect those areas of Publishing which have been of particular interest to the House throughout its history. The essays taken together present a mixture of views, to do with situations, events and publications which have taken place during the long history of one Publishing house." Contents: Introduction: At the Sign of the Ship, by Asa Briggs; Copyright and Society, by Ian Parsons; Presenting Shakespeare, by David Daiches; The Edinburgh Review: the life and death of a periodical, by John Cuve; Disraeli's Endymen: a case study, by Annabel Jones; The View from Badminton, by Asa Briggs; Latin for Yesterday, by Robert… Leer más

Osprey Publishing, London, first edition, 1976. Cloth, 8vo, 25 cm,. xi, 220 pp, ills, facs. From the blurb: "The popular image of Caxton is that of the first English printer. But this new book by Professor Blake sets out to show Caxton in all his dimensions - firstly as merchant and businessman, then as diplomatic negotiator in Europe for Edward IV (and later Henry VII), and finally as printer, bookseller and publisher. In the latter function, in particular, this book shows the debt modern publishing owes him. Caxton began his working life as an apprentice with the Mercers' Company, and was involved in business dealings on their behalf - and later his own - between England and the Low Countries. Books were already part of the wealthy merchant's trade before he decided to extend his business to include the publishing of them. To this purpose Caxton learnt the trade of printing in Bruges and Cologne; then returned to England and set up business in Westminster, where he worked until his… Leer más

British Library, first edition, 1999. Printed wrappers, 8vo, 22 cm,. x, 73 pp, ills. As New.

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1955. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. 25, [3] pp, ills. Good.