16726 ALLAN. David. A NATION
OF READERS. The lending library in Georgian England. London:
British Library, 2008. 4to, (244x172mm), 288p. 12 illustrations. Hardback, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK) £45.00
This study explores the origins, organisation
and impact of book clubs, reading societies, subscription libraries and circulating libraries, together with the opportunities
increasingly offered to readers by a variety of other collections, including those provided by religious, educational and
recreational institutions.
16027 ARTMONSKY, Ruth. ART
FOR EVERYONE: CONTEMPORARY LITHOGRAPHS Ltd. London:
Artmonsky Arts, 2007. Oblong 8vo, (175x215mm), 118p. 30 colour plates and 6 monochrome illustrations. An excellent
copy in original jacketed wrappers.
£25.00
A well-designed (by Brian Webb) and beautifully
produced account of the series of auto-lithographs commissioned by Robert Wellington and John Piper just prior to World War
II and intended primarily for sale to schools and other educational institutions. The illustrations show the both series of
25 prints and includes the work of Edward Ardizzone, Edward Bawden, Vanessa Bell, Barnett Freedman, Duncan
Grant, Ivon Hitchens, John Nash, Paul Nash, Eric Ravilious, Graham Sutherland and others.
15090 BAKER, Colin F. QUR'AN
[KORAN] MANUSCRIPTS. Calligraphy, illumination, design. London:
British Library, 2007. 4to, (244x172mm), 128p. 80 colour illustrations. Hardback, dustjacket (NEW BOOK). £20.00
Arabic manuscript authority Colin Baker
explores the central place of the Qur'an in Islamic society and looks at the manuscripts as physical objects, including the
celebrated calligraphy and the masterful artists who developed it. Full-colour images display the breadth of illumination
styles and production materials used. This book is a concise and readable overview of the long history of these manuscripts
from across the wide Islamic world, from the eighth to the nineteenth centuries, and from Spain
to Southeast Asia.
15098 BARKER-BENFIELD, B.C. Editor.
CORPUS OF BRITISH MEDIEVAL LIBRARY CATALOGUES. Volume 13 St AUGUSTINE'S ABBEY, CANTERBURY. 3 volumes. London:
British Library, 2007. 2007. 8vo, (234x156mm), 2256p. Hardback. (NEW BOOK)
£175.00
To be published in September
2008. By the end of the Middle Ages, The abbey that St Augustine founded In Canterbury possessed on of the largest
and richest libraries in Britain. The wealth of evidence for the library is reflected in this work. The mediaeval collections
are visible today in an unusually large number of surviving books, one of the highest rates of survival for any mediaeval
English abbey. What also survives is a remarkably sophisticated catalogue that provides detailed entries of over 1,800 volumes,
reporting for each press-mark, a listing of its contents and where appropriate the name of its donor, each entry internally
cross-referenced, entered in a locations register and separately indexed. This work presents the first fully annotated edition
of this extraordinary catalogue, which is shown here to be about a century older than previously assumed, dating probably
from the late fourteenth century. After a century of additions the catalogue was recopied in the late fifteenth century, but
by a considerable effort of textual scholarship it has been possible to tease out which of the books belonged to the earlier
collections before the accessions of the fifteenth century were entered into the text. The picture that emerges is the clearest
one that it is possible to gain of one of the great libraries of mediaeval Britain.
15683 BARTRAM, Alan. TYPEFORMS:
A HISTORY. London: British Library, 2007.
Sm.4to, (150x249mm), 128p. 200 illustrations. Hardback, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK)
£25.00
The long-awaited successor to the classic
Atlas of Typeforms, the great visually-led history of type which Alan Bartram and James Sutton produced in 1968. Much
has changed in the intervening forty years, not least in the teaching of typography and the means by which it is created.
Some 75 different types are shown here in their original metal form, but for this book the author has attempted to place the
types in their historical background. By including photographs of architectural and vernacular forms of lettering, the author
explores the correlation (or lack thereof) between the printed letterform and its parallel form in sculpture, engraving and
other public spaces.
15924 (BAWDEN, Edward) SKIPWITH,
Peyton. ENTERTAINING A LA CARTE: EDWARD BAWDEN AT FORTNUM & MASON. Norwich:
Mainstone Press, 2007. 1,000 copies, 4to, (346x251mm), 126p. over 200 colour illustrations. Cloth, (NEW BOOK) £90.00
Designed by Brian Webb, this elegant book features the many illustrations Bawden produced for Fortnum's, from the catalogues
pioneered by advertising guru H. Stuart Menzies in the 1930s to the Christmas Catalogues produced post-war by Colman, Prentis
and Varley. Fortnum & Mason and Edward Bawden were an unlikely double act:
one a firm devoted to luxury provisions and lavish entertaining, the other a shy, retiring artist, who once proposed to offer
charcoal biscuits and water to guests at a 'gloom party'. Yet the relationship inspired Bawden to produce some of his finest
work, and today his vivid, fanciful illustrations are widely appreciated. Not only are his original drawings for the firm
highly desirable; all the printed ephemera which resulted from them - catalogues, invitations, order forms and envelopes -
are collectors' items in their own right. As Fortnum and Mason celebrates its
tercentenary, this new book from The Mainstone Press presents a body of work rarely surpassed either in draughtsmanship or
in joie de vivre - the advertising material brilliantly illustrated by Edward Bawden (1903-1989) on either side of World War
II. Throughout, Bawden combines a remarkable versatility with an intelligent, sometimes wicked humour. Inspired by Edward
Lear, he continually delights and surprises, with City Turtles banqueting on South
Sea missionary soup and Lady wasps comparing waists to advertise the
benefits of slimming foods.
14862 BEAL, Peter & Grace IOPOLLO,
Editors. ELIZABETH I AND THE CULTURE OF WRITING.
London: British Library, 2007. Roy.8vo,
(244x172mm), 240p. 40 illustrations. Hardback. (NEW BOOK)
£45.00
A collection of authoritative essays
by H.R. Woodhuysen, Katherine Duncan-Jones, Grace Ioppolo, Blair Worden, Gabriel
Henton, Joshua Eckhardt, Jane Lawson, Peter Beal and Steven W. May that pursue aspects of the culture of writing which formed
such an essential part of the life and reign of 'Gloriana.'
16712 BIBLE 1526 FACSIMILE New
Testament Tyndale Translation. THE NEW TESTAMENT 1526 EDITION. Translated by William Tyndale. A facsimile. London: British Library, 2008. 8vo, (152x100mm), 700p including 670
colour facsimile pages. Hardback (NEW BOOK) £30.00
To be published in September
2008. The publication in 1526 of a modestly-priced pocket edition of the New Testament in English was arguably the
most important single event in the history of the English Reformation. Between 1525 and 1535 William Tyndale gave us the English
Bible , translating the whole of the New Testament and half of the Old Testament. His pocket-sized Bibles were smuggled into
England, ruthlessly sought out by the
Church, confiscated and destroyed. Tyndale himself was condemned as a heretic, strangled and burned outside Brussels in 1536. This volume is a complete facsimile of Tyndale's pioneering translation
from the Greek and reproduced from one of only two surviving copies of the complete text and is complemented by an authoritative
introduction by David Daniell on the history and importance of the book.
16722 BRADLEY, Sue Editor.
THE BRITISH BOOK TRADE: AN ORAL HISTORY. London:
British Library, 2008. 8vo, (244x172mm), 304p. Hardback, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK) £25.00
To be published in September
2008. This book contains recollections of the experiences of people involved in the British book trade from shop
assistants to publishing executives, through a large part of the twentieth century.
15682 BROWN, Michelle P. THE
HOLKHAM BIBLE. A facsimile. London: British Library,
2007. 4to, (292x216mm), 180p. including 84 pages of full-colour facsimile. Hardback, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK) £50.00
This celebrated mediaeval picture-book
tells the biblical story, focusing upon the Creation to the Flood, the Life of Christ, and the Apocalypse, with the help of
illustrations of everyday 14th-century England.
This distinctive manuscript has now been carefully photographed and reproduced on special paper designed to replicate the
look and feel of the original vellum and includes a full transcript and translation of the text and a commentary based on
the editors unrivalled knowledge of the period.
15096 BROWN, Michelle P. MANUSCRIPTS
FROM THE ANGLO SAXON AGE, London: British Library,
2007. 4to, (255x186mm), 176p. 140 colour illustrations. Hardback, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK). £25.00
By the time of the Norman Conquest in
1066, Anglo-Saxon England was one of the most sophisticated states in the mediaeval west, renowned for its ecclesiastical
and cultural achievements. The written word was of tremendous importance and within a century of the introduction of Christianity
and literacy, the book had become a central element of Anglo-Saxon society, and a rich vehicle for cultural and artistic expression.
This new book provides an authoritative introduction to the art of book production in the Anglo-Saxon period and an historical
overview of the period by means of its book culture.
15680 BURY, Stephen. BREAKING
THE RULES. The printed face of the European Avant Garde 1900 – 1937. London:
British Library, 2007. Sm.4to, (244x172mm), 160p. 90 illustrations in colour & monochrome. Hardback, dustjacket.
(NEW BOOK) £25.00
Between 1900 and 1937 the avant garde
consisted of a series of overlapping artistic movements which, because of its very nature was denied traditional modes of
communication and exhibition, and so participants became adept at finding alternative outlets, publishing their own manifestos,
poetry, magazines and books, and creating new genres such as the artist's book
and the photo-book. These frequently employed innovative design and typography that is till influential today. This book focuses
on the printed work of avant garde participants, demonstrating its importance to the various groups and the ay in which printed
works helped to disseminate information and idea internationally.
15681 BURY, Stephen. BREAKING
THE RULES. The printed face of the European Avant Garde 1900 – 1937. London:
British Library, 2007. Sm.4to, (244x172mm), 160p. 90 illustrations in colour & monochrome. Paperback. (NEW
BOOK) £15.95
Between 1900 and 1937 the avant garde
consisted of a series of overlapping artistic movements which, because of its very nature was denied traditional modes of
communication and exhibition, and so participants became adept at finding alternative outlets, publishing their own manifestos,
poetry, magazines and books, and creating new genres such as the artist's book
and the photo-book. These frequently employed innovative design and typography that is till influential today. This book focuses
on the printed work of avant garde participants, demonstrating its importance to the various groups and the ay in which printed
works helped to disseminate information and idea internationally.
16354 (CAMDEN,
William) HERENDEEN, Wyman H. WILLIAM CAMDEN A LIFE IN
CONTEXT. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2008.
8vo, (234x156mm), 522p, portrait. Hardback, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK)
£55.00
William Camden (1551-1623) was one of
the most notable historians of the Elizabethan period; his works include Britannia the first description of Britain county by county. A herald by profession, he moved
in the literary and political circles of London in an age
when history and the study of the past interacted with present politics, and was well-connected with many leading figures
of the time; his involvement with the precursor of what is now the Society of Antiquaries of London is of especial importance.
This book provides the first major analytical biography of Camden's
life and career since that of Thomas Smith in 1691. It offers a comprehensive analysis of Camden's life and of the context
in which he lived, including in its great scope a wide range of aspects of English and European learned culture during the
sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries; and examines the nature of his extraordinary impact on writers both of his own
and later generations.
15962 CASPER, Scott E. & others Editors. A HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN AMERICA,
Volumes 3: The industrial book, 1840-1880. Chapel Hill, University
of North Carolina Press, 2007. 8vo, (`242x160mm), xx,539p.
43 illustrations, Cloth, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK)
£45.00
A volume that traces the emergence of
a national book trade in nineteenth America, detailing changes in manufacturing, distribution and publishing practice, in
tandem with rising literacy. Please allow and additional four weeks for delivery of this title.
16727 CAVE, Roderick. IMPRESSIONS
OF NATURE. A history of nature printing. London:
British Library, 2008. 4to, (280x220mm), 304p. 200 colour illustrations. Hardback, Dustjacket. (NEW BOOK) £60.00
To be published in September
2008. Nature printing is the name given to the print-making technique in which natural objects provide the surface
from which prints are taken - without the interpolation of artist's interpretation. This technique was developed in the Middle
Ages to assist those gathering medicinal plants using relatively simple impressions taken from leaves and fruit. By the Seventeenth
and Eighteenth centuries, nature printing had developed into a serious scientific process of reproducing plants and was used
in building up systematised collections made by and for botanists. During the nineteenth century the technique drew on the
new photographic technology and there was a great revival later in the twentieth century.
15051 CLEGG, Susan. PRESS CENSORSHIP
IN JACOBEAN ENGLAND. Cambridge:
Cambridge University
Press, 2007. 8vo, (228x152mm), 298p. Paperback. (NEW BOOK)
£25.99
This book examines the ways in which
books were produced, read, and received during the reign of James I, and challenges the attitudes that press censorship in
Jacobean England differed little from either the 'whole machinery of control' enacted by the Court of Star Chamber under Elizabeth
or the draconian campaign implemented by Archbishop Laud, during the reign of Charles I.
16355 (COGHLAN, James Peter) KORSTEN,
Frans, &c., Editors THE CORRESPONDENCE OF JAMES PETE COGHLAN (1731-1800). Woodbridge:
Boydell and Brewer, 2007 8vo, (216x138mm), 516p. 12 illustrations. Hardback (NEW BOOK) £50.00
James Peter Coghlan was the chief English
Catholic printer, publisher and bookseller of the second half of the eighteenth century. It was mainly through him that the
English Catholics were provided with an extensive polemical, catechetical, pastoral and devotional literature of their own.
Coghlan was also a pivotal figure in the infrastructure and logistics of the Catholic community, acting as a middleman between
the various layers and segments of that community. In the turbulent days of the Catholic Committee after 1785, he found himself
uneasily in the midst of the fray. He corresponded with dozens of British Catholics, at home and abroad, and his letters,
pious, shrewd, dedicated, garrulous and eminently practical, yield a fascinating insight into the day-to-day working of Catholic
book production as well as the behind-the-scenes life of the English Catholic community.
14896 (CURLL Edmund) BAINES, Paul
& Pat ROGERS. EDMUND CURLL, BOOKSELLER. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 8vo,
(240x160mm), x,388p. map & 9 illustrations. Cloth, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK)
£30.00
Edmund Curll ('The unspeakable Curll')
was notorious among publishers of the early eighteenth century for his lack of scruple in publishing works without the author's
consent – particularly that of Alexander Pope whose books he pirated whenever he could and who responded with direct
physical revenge. Curll's taste for the seditious, blasphemous, and obscene also brought him into conflict with his peers
and the law. Described by Robin Myers as 'one of the most diverting rogues of the eighteenth-century book trade,' Curll has
come to be celebrated as something of a literary freedom-fighter and in this new biography, the first since Straus's biography
of 1928, the full story of this strange, often difficult figure is authoritatively told.
16733 (DAY, John) EVENDEN, Elizabeth.
PATENTS, PICTURES AND PATRONAGE. John Day and the Tudor book trade. Aldershot:
Asghate, 2008. 8vo, 270p. Hardback. (NEW BOOK) £55.00
Day is generally acknowledged to be the
foremost English printer of the later Sixteenth-century. As well as printing some of the most important books of his day,
most notably Foxe's 'Book of martyrs', he also pioneered enormous advances in English typography and book illustration, this
is the first comprehensive study of his contribution to English print culture.
16732 DUNAN-PAGE, Anne & Beth
LYNCH EditorS. ROGER L'ESTRANGE AND THE MAKING OF RESTORATION CULTURE. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2008. 8vo, 264p. Hardback. (NEW BOOK)
£55.00
Taking an interdisciplinery approach,
this collection of essays by leading scholars of the period highlights the instrumental role L'Estrange played in the shaping
of the political, literary, and print cultures of the Restoration period.
16728 EDWARDS, A.S.G. Editor.
ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT STUDIES 1100-1700. Volume 14: Regional manuscripts 1200-1700. London:
British Library, 2008. 8vo, (229x150mm), 368p. 20 illustrations. Hardback, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK) £50.00
This volume in a prestigious series is
chiefly concerned with the production and circulation of regional manuscripts and includes studies on the charters of Bury
St Edmunds Abbey, a 17th century ballad manuscript, the Tabula medicien, Speculum Christiani, Anglo-Norman prose chronicles,
and the scribe Robert Bale.
14872 ELIOT, Simon, Andrew NASH
& Ian WILLISON Editors. LITERARY CULTURES AND THE MATERIAL BOOK. London:
British Library, 2007. 8vo, (235x158mm), xx,444p. 63 illustrations, Hardback, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK) £45.00
The thirty contributors to this book,
from China and Russia to South America and New Zealand, is evidence of growing international interest in book history –
almost inevitably when the book trade itself now has to respond to pressures of globalization, and the promise (or threat?)
of promiscuous textual availability on the internet. The contributions focus on the vital relationship between he material
book itself (including the way in which it is created and sold); and the study of literary cultures.
15276 FERGUS, Jan. PROVINCIAL
READERS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 8vo, (216x138mm), 326p. maps, figures & tables.
Hardback, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK)
£60.00
Many scholars have written about eighteenth-century
English novels, but no one really knows who read them. This study provides historical data on the provincial reading publics
for various forms of fiction - novels, plays, chapbooks, children's books, and magazines. Archival records of Midland booksellers
based in five market towns and selling printed matter to over thirty-three hundred customers between 1744 and 1807 form the
basis for new information about who actually bought and borrowed different kinds of fiction in eighteenth-century provincial
England. This book thus offers the first solid demographic information about
actual readership in eighteenth-century provincial England,
not only about the class, profession, age, and sex of readers but also about the market of available fiction from which they
made their choices - and some speculation about why they made the choices they did. Contrary to received ideas, men in the
provinces were the principal customers for eighteenth-century novels, including those written by women. Provincial customers
preferred to buy rather than borrow fiction, and women preferred plays and novels written by women - women's works would have
done better had women been the principal consumers. That is, demand for fiction (written by both men and women) was about
equal for the first five years, but afterward the demand for women's works declined. Both men and women preferred novels with
identifiable authors to anonymous ones, however, and both boys and men were able to cross gender lines in their reading. Goody
Two-Shoes was one of the more popular children's books among Rugby schoolboys, and men
read the Lady's Magazine. These and other findings will alter the way scholars look at the fiction of the period, the
questions asked, and the histories told of it.
15678 FISHER, Celia. THE MEDIEVAL
FLOWER BOOK. London: British Library, 2007.
4to, (280x216mm), 144p. 140 colour illustrations. Hardback, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK)
£20.00
This well-illustrated title focuses on
one hundred major varieties of flowers and plants that appear in mediaeval manuscripts and provides intriguing explanations
of their uses, history and symbolism.
16734 FLYNN, Christopher. AMERICANS
IN BRITISH LITERATURE 1770-1832. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. 8vo, 162p.
Hardback. (NEW BOOK) £50.00
This book examines how British writers
portrayed America and Americans in the
decades following the colonial rebellion. In sentimental novels of the 1780s and 1790s, prose and poetry, and novels and travel
accounts, American were depicted as a breed apart, separated both geographically and temporarily from the 'Mother Country.'
16405 GAMESON, Richard. THE
EARLIEST BOOKS OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. Manuscripts and fragments
to c.1200. London: Bibliographical Society; [&]
British Library, 2008. 8vo, (250x165mm), 414p. 61 colour plates. An excellent copy in original buckram, dustjacket.
(NEW BOOK) £60.00
This book catalogues all the pre-thirteenth
century manuscripts in Canterbury Cathedral, illustrating each manuscript - occasionally with several images - with lucid
detailed descriptions and discussions of each book and its significance.
6357 GARLAND, Ken. MR BECK'S UNDERGROUND MAP. Fourth impression. London:
Capital Transport, 2008. Square sm.4to, (250x185mm), 80p. 47 colour & 33 monochrome illustrations. A fine copy in original colour printed hardback boards.(NEW BOOK)
£12.95
A well-illustrated and closely researched
history of the conception and evolution of Harry Beck's diagrammatic map of the London Underground system, a piece of work
which has rightly come to be regarded as one of the classic examples of graphic design.
16735 HARRIS, Jason Marc. FOLKLORE
AND THE FANTASTIC IN NINETENTH-CENTURY BRITISH FICTION. Aldershot: Ashgate,
2008. 8vo, 248p. Hardback, (NEW BOOK) £50.00
Arguing that the tensions between folk
metaphysics and Enlightenment values produce the literary fantastic, the author suggests that a negotiation with folklore
was central to the canon of British literature.
14891 HIGGIT, J. Editor.
CORPUS OF BRITISH MEDIEVAL LIBRARY CATALOGUES. Volume 12: SCOTTISH LIBRARIES. With an introductory essay by J. Durkan. London: British Library, 2007. 8vo, (234x156mm),
496p. Hardback. (NEW BOOK) £85.00
In this work of the first importance
for the history of the book in Scotland, the mediaeval institutions brought
together here range from abbeys, priories and cathedral churches to the universities of Aberdeen,
Glasgow and St Andrews, Edinburgh castle and the royal palace of Holyrood.
The earliest document listed is a mid twelfth century booklist from Loch Leven Priory and amongst the latest are lists of
books owned by Mary Queen of Scots.
16723 HINKS, John & Catherine
ARMSTRONG Editors. BOOK TRADE CONNECTIONS from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth centuries. London: British Library, 2008. 8vo, (208x149mm), 282p. Hardback, dustjacket.
(NEW BOOK) £25.00
This ninth volume in the Print Networks
series of papers from the annual seminar on British book trade history contains twelve essays, mainly on the theme of cheap
print, including newspapers and journals, from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth centuries. The social, cultural, political
and economic significance of these artefacts of a literate society is highlighted by examination of the lives of those men
and women who participated in the book trade.
15053 HOLLIS, Richard. SWISS
GRAPHIC DESIGN 1920 – 1965. London: Laurence
King, 2007. 4to, (270x210mm), 272p. illustrated. Paperback. (NEW BOOK)
£19.95
Originating in Russia,
Germany and The Netherlands in the 1920s, Modernist graphic design and
typography found a firm foothold in Switzerland.
By the 1950s Switzerland had developed
a uniquely clear graphic language, evident not just in posters but in pharmaceutical labelling, tourist brochures, train tickets,
timetables, passports and bank notes. Abroad, 'Neue Grafik' or 'Swiss' style, as it became known, was admired for its formal
discipline. Images and text were organized into geometrical grids used together with sans-serif typefaces such as Helvetica
and Univers. These chief components of the Swiss style spread across the world and their influence is still seen today. Swiss
Graphic Design gives a rich and fascinating account of this key period in graphic design history, setting the stylistic developments
into the social and cultural context of the times.
16714 HOLMAN, Valerie. PRINT
FOR VICTORY. Book publishing in England
1939-1945. London: British Library, 2008.
Sm.4to, (244x172mm), 304p. 4 pages of colour plates & 30 monochrome illustrations. Hardback, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK) £30.00
The first in-depth study on the role
of British publishing during World War Two, an aspect of the war that other books have not covered in any detail. Although
often regarded as a barren interlude stunted by the austerity of the times - paper rationing played a crucial role - the period
was also marked by innovation in book design, changes in the pattern of trade, and the advent of new readers both in the UK and elsewhere. This is the period when Penguin books became
hugely profitable, and also when a surprising number of shiploads of books were exported.
15684 HUDSON, Graham. THE DESIGN
AND PRINTING OF EPHEMERA IN BRITAIN AND AMERICA 1720-1920. London:
British Library, 2008. 4to, (276x219mm), 160p. 176 colour & monochrome illustrations. Original hardback, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK)
£30.00
This book is new in that it discuses
ephemera as an aspect of design history, showing how function, process and period have affected the changing appearance of
leaflets, tickets, posters, trade cards and other ephemera. The printing histories of Britain and America were closely woven
up to the years following the American Civil War when the two countries began to establish their own identities as developments
in colour printing brought an explosion of colourful ephemera, this book, richly illustrated with letterforms, engravings
and drawings, presents an excellent insight into the changing nature of typographic design for everyday use.
14858 (JOHNSTON, Edward) HOLLIDAY,
Peter. EDWARD JOHNSTON MASTER CALLIGRAPHER. London:
British Library, 2007. 4to, (286x220mm), xxii,389p. 185 illustrations. Original cloth, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK) £25.00
This detailed book looks at Johnson's
work and legacy. It considers his friendships and his philosophy, the people he worked with and the influence he had on them
and others. Importantly, it gives details of the setting up of the craft community at Ditchling, and the craftspeople such
as Eric Gill, Joseph Cribb, Hilary Peplar, Ethel Mairet, David Jones and Bernard Leach.
15685 KRUPP, Andrea. BOOKCLOTH
IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA,
1823 – 1850. London: British Library,
2008. 8vo, (240x156mm), 80p. 240 colour illustrations. Paperback. (NEW BOOK)
£20.00
This expanded version of the author's
ground-breaking article that appeared in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America includes a full catalogue of
some 240 bookcloth grains (with colour illustrations in actual size). The three-part essay covers the introduction of bookcloth
and the early decades of its use, bookcloth grain nomenclature, and detailed observations on several cloth grain patterns.
Included is an appendix that lists each grain pattern with its date range and cross-reference to previous classifications.
16721 (LONGMANS) BRIGGS, Asa.
A HISTORY OF LONGMANS AND THEIR BOOKS 1724-1990. Longevity in publishing. London: British Library, 2008. Sm.4to
(246x189mm), 624p. 100 colour & 200 monochrome illustrations. Hardback, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK) £45.00
To be published in October 2008.
This history of the oldest commercial publisher in the United Kingdom is told within the context not only of the book trade,
but also of the national and international social, economic, intellectual and cultural history of the period covered.
16356 LORING, Rosamond B. DECORATED
BOOK PAPERS. Being an account of their designs and fashions. New edition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.
8vo, 215p. 80 colour illustrations. Hardback (NEW BOOK)
£32.95
This new edition of Rosamond Loring's
classic text on decorated papers is more than merely a reprint for it not only contains her text, unchanged from the earlier
three editions, but also colour illustrations newly photographed from the actual papers, themselves from Loring's collection,
that were included in Philip Hofer's copy of the deluxe first edition of 1942. Furthermore, this edition includes memoirs
of Loring written by Walter Muir Whitehill, Dard Hunter, and Veronica Ruzicka (first published in the second edition of 1952),
together with a new account of Loring's life by Hope Mayo. The text includes the results of Loring's researches into early
decorated papers used in bookbinding: marbled, paste, Dutch gilt, publishers' and pictorial papers together with appendices
devoted to the art of marbling, preparation of paste papers and a list of some early makers of decorated papers.
16357 LORING, Rosamond B. MARBLED
AND PASTE PAPERS: ROSAMOND LORING'S RECIPE BOOK. Edited by Hope Mayo, with an essay on her materials and techniques by Sidney
Berger. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. 8vo, (256x170mm), 58p. including 16 pages in facsimile. Paperback.
(NEW BOOK) £16.95
Rosamond B. Loring, author of Decorated
Book Papers, was also a skilled maker of marbled and paste papers. Having trained as a bookbinder, Loring experimented
with making decorated papers for her own use and received early instruction in the art of marbling from Charles V. Saflund.
A distinguished teacher of marbling and paste paper techniques in her own right, she also produced papers for edition bindings
by publishers such as Houghton Mifflin, the Limited Editions Club, and the Merrymount Press. Loring's manuscript recipe book
for creating marbled and paste papers has been preserved in the Rosamond B. Loring Collection of Decorated Papers in the Department
of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library, Harvard University. This facsimile edition is accompanied by an essay by
Sidney E. Berger commenting on the recipes and analyzing Loring's materials and techniques.
15284 McKAY Barry, & Vivien
McKAY. APPLEBY-IN-WESTMORLAND An historic town guide. With Illustrations by Fenton MacRae and Jack Marshall, and from
other sources. Second, enlarged and corrected, edition, Appleby-in-Westmorland: Barry McKay Rare Books & Appleby Record
Society, 2007. Narrow 8vo, (210x08mm), 52p. Map & 41 line illustrations. A fine copy in original jacketed wrappers.
£3.50
A guided tour though the historic attractions
of the county town of Westmorland, full of fascinating snippets from the town's history including Lady Anne Clifford, John
Wesley (who did not preach under a tree which isn't there) the last public execution in Westmorland, and a postman who made
'May Goslings' of half the population.
15088 McKENDRICK, Scott & Kathleen
DOYLE. BIBLE MANUSCRIPTS. 1400 years of scribes and scripture. London: British Library, 2007. 4to, (244x172mm),
160p. 144 colour illustrations. Hardback, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK)
£20.00
Surviving manuscripts of the Christian
Bible not only reveal the remarkable history of a massively influential text, but also the development of the book prior to
the advent of printing. The British Library's collection of Bible manuscripts is incomparable in its depth and breadth, preserving
landmark editions from the second century up to modern times. Lavishly illustrated in full colour, this book shows how the
Bible was preserved and passed down over two millennia.
16725 MERITON, John & Carlo
DUMONTET Editors. SMALL BOOKS FOR THE COMMON MAN. A descriptive bibliography. London: British Library, 2008.
4to, (254x125mm), 1,008p. 500 colour & 300 monochrome illustrations. Hardback, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK) £65.00
To be published in October 2008. This book provides provides an analytical bibliography of the National Art Library's collection of
chapbooks; a fine collection of literary ephemera that includes entertaining histories, tales, verse and song collections,
primers and alphabets. Some 800 titles are included in sufficient detail to allow accurate comparison and verifications with
editions, variants and states in other collections. A long-needed contribution to the growing interest in British chapbook
production from the Seventeenth to late Nineteenth centuries and many from provincial printers, this book is a must-have for
all scholars of cheap print.
15954 MITCHELL, W.R. THE EDEN
VALLEY AND THE NORTH PENNINES. Chichester: Phillimore, 2007. Sm.4to, (255x175mm), xiv,162p. 148 illustrations.
Original cloth, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK) £15.99
An excellent collation of of history,
legend and life, compiled by the one-time editor of Cumbria magazine, in one of the most beautiful (and realtively
undiscovered) valleys in the most wonderful county in the land.
15094 MORRISON, Elizabeth.
BEASTS FACTUAL & FANTASTIC. London: British Library, 2007. 4to, (230x180mm), 112p. 80 colour illustrations.
Hardback, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK) £12.95
Manuscripts from the Middle Ages teem
with pictures of animals, ranging from fierce hunting hawks tied to their owner's wrists to proud lions added to the coats
of arms of noblemen, to terrifying monsters of the Apocalypse. The images in this volume provide a window onto a time when
animals both factual and fantastic played a leading role in the medieval imagination. Often artists depicted that which they
did not see or know, but which was nonetheless shaped by the prevailing beliefs, fears, and rudimentary science of the time.
In other cases, manuscript illuminators recorded what they indeed did see – which, centuries later, reveals much about
the world in which they lived.
15015 MOSLEY, James. HANDMADE
TYPE. Thoughts on the preservation of typographic materials. Oldham: Printed at the Incline Press on behalf of the Justin
Howes Memorial Fund, 2007. 350 copies, tall narrow 4to, (268x155mm), [2],ii,25p. Original printed stiff wrappers.
£15.00
A slightly amended and corrected version
of the first Justin Howes memorial lecture.
15449 MOSS, Graham & Kathy
WHALEN. HUNG OUT TO DRY. A collation of specimens displaying the types & typography of broadsheets and some other
ephemeral printing. Oldham: Incline Press, 2007. 120 copies, 4to, 83p. 67 tipped-in examples of broadsides, keepsakes and other typographical experimentation from the press. Cloth-backed marbled paper
sides, slipcase. £175.00
'Here you will find our triumphs of design
and printing skills, as well as a few learning experiences, and even downright failures, with some explanation of what we
think went wrong or right. These pieces include our experiments with ink, both colour and transparency, and tentative forays
into the world of asymmetrical typography. They show some interesting borders and seldom-seen typefaces, and a fair number
of old favourites. Linocuts, electros, line blocks, type ornaments and wood engravings are used. We tried to make these sheets as interesting to read as to look at: as often a broadsheet allows us to share
a favourite poems, a pithy comments, or a humorous quotation. In our most successful broadsheets, readability and visual interest
should go hand in hand.' (Printer's announcement).
16474 MUIR, Ann. GLEANINGS.
Oldham: Incline Press, 2008. 200 copies, 8vo, (219x141mm), [3],17p. 2 mounted original samples of Ann Muir's
marbled paper. A fine copy in original wrappers.
£15.00
A New Year Book from Graham Moss and
Kathy Whalen which was largely distributed to the press's standing order customers. In this charming essay Anne Muir presents
an update on developments in her life and marbling career since the publication of Harvesting colour, 1999 also published
by the Incline Press.
16731 MYERS, Robin, Michael HARRIS
& Giles MANDELBROTE, Editors. BOOKS ON THE MOVE. Tracking copies through collections and the book trade. London:
British Library, 2007. 8vo, (208x149mm), 240p, Hardback, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK)
£25.00
This volume in the Publishing Pathways
series contains a series of essays that discuss books, both as individual volumes and as collections, that have sometimes
covered long distances across many centuries. Subject to the vagaries of war, shipwreck and personal ruin, the travels of
books often have an intricately detailed and compelling story to tell.
14863 MYERS, Robin, Michael HARRIS
& Giles MANDELBROTE Editors. FAIRS, MARKETS AND THE ITINERANT BOOK TRADE. London: British Library, 2007.
8vo, (208x149mm), xvi,223p. 12 illustrations, Hardback, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK)
£25.00
The paper presented in this volume of
the Publishing Pathways series demonstrate how fairs and markets have played a crucial role in the circulation of books from
the Frankfort book fairs of the 16th century to the Farringdon Road barrows of the 19th. Contents: John L. Flood 'Omnium
totius orbis emporiorum compendium': the Frankfurt Fair in the early modern period, Clive Griffin Itinerant booksellers,
printers, and pedlars in sixteenth-century Spain and Portugal, Ian Maclean Murder, debt and retribution in the Italico-Franco-Spanish
book trade: the Beraud-Michel-Ruiz affair, David Stoker 'To all booksellers, country chapmen, hawkers and others' how
the population of East Anglia obtained its printed materials, Joroen Salman Watching the pedlar's movements: itinerant
distribution in the urban Netherlands, John Morris Scottish chapmen and Michael Harris The book trade in public
spaces: London street booksellers 1690-1850.
16713 PEARSON, David. BOOKS
AS HISTORY. The importance of books beyond their texts. London: British Library, 2008. Roy.8vo, (246x189mm),
208p. 150 colour & 50 monochrome illustrations. Hardback, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK)
£25.00
People usually think of books in terms
of their contents, their texts, with less thought for books as artefacts. In fact books may possess all kinds of potentially
interesting qualities beyond their texts, as designed or artistic objects, or because they have unique properties deriving
from the ways they have been printed, bound, annotated, beautified or defaced. This publication explores books from the Middle
Ages to the present day and shows why books may be interesting beyond their texts.
15529 PEARSON, Neil. OBELISK:
A HISTORY OF JACK KAHANE AND THE OBELISK PRESS. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007. 8vo, (234x156mm),
xiv,494p. 31 colour & 1 monochome pages of plates. Original cloth, dustjacket (NEW BOOK)
£25.00
This book presents the history of
