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We offer below a series of links to our recent catalogues and to a series of subject listings.
These links take you to our secure ordering site at books at pbfa, if you experience any problems please do not hesitate to email us at barry.mckay@virgin.net or phone us on 017683 52282
(INT+)44 17683 52282 if calling from outside the UK.
These links are gradually being added to, and updated as required, so please keep calling back to see any additions and changes.
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Recent & Forthcoming Books on Print Culture & the Arts & History of Print

 


Print Culture & History of the Book

Book Trade History - General monographs &c.

Bookselling & Booksellers - Histories & monographs.

Libraries - Largely library history monographs.

Newspapers & Serials - Studies of the Fourth Estate.

Publishing & Publishers - Histories & monographs.

Print Culture - Dissemination & reception of texts

Provincial Book Trade History The book trades outside London.


The Arts & Crafts of the Book

Bookbinding - Technical manuals and histories of the craft.

Calligraphy - Handwriting & letterforms.

Illustration - Monographs on the history of book illustration
                    & printmaking.

Illustration - Techniques of printmaking.

Illustrators - Monographs on book illustrators, engravers, &c.

Paper - history, and techniques of papermaking.

Printers & Typographers - Studies of individual printers &c.
Printing - General histories.
Printing - Techniques & practicalities.
Printing Type - Founders' & printers' type specimens
                               & monographs on type.


Antiquarian Books

Almanacs - Mainly of the 18th century.
Antiquarian Books - A selection from our stock of 17th &18th century books

Early Printed Books - Printed pre-1700, including a few incunable leaves.

Eighteenth Century - Books printed in the 18th century in Great Britain.

English Literature - The Eighteenth century.
English Literature - The Nineteenth century.

Juvenile Drama - Playscripts, scenery and character prints for toy theatres.

Provincial Printing - Mainly of the 18th & 19th Centuries.
Travel & Topography - Without the bounds of these Sceptred Isles


Other Subject Lists

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Private Presses - Works, including many minor pieces

                           from UK private, college and bibliographical presses.


Serials

Monotype Recorder  - Individual issues.

Penrose Annuals - The international review of the graphic arts.


Recent Catalogues

Catalogue 93
Catalogue 92

Catalogue 91

Barry McKay Rare Books
Kingstone House Battlebarrow
Appleby-in-Westmorland Cumbria CA16 6XT ENGLAND
tel: 017683 52282 or (int+)44 17683 52282
barry.mckay@virgin.net