JOHN BASKERVILLE. Art and Industry of the Enlightenment. Foreword by Jenny Uglow. Liverpool University Press 2017.
1st Ed. [xviii] + 269pp. + [i]. 34 figures. Very good in original coloured pictorial laminated boards.
Eighteenth-Century Worlds.
£30.00 [ref: 281660]
EDWARD BAWDEN. Art and Technics 1950.
1st Ed. Tall Slim 8vo. 104pp. Illus. throughout. F.e.ps. lightly browned, sm. piece cut from upper leading corner of front f.e.p., good in lightly soiled and chipped d/w. lightly faded and sl. torn to spine with head and tail repaired to verso.
£35.00 [ref: 285135]
THE HOUSE OF BEMROSE 1826-1926. Derby: Bemrose Press 1926.
1st Ed. 4to. xiv + [ii] + 160pp. Collotype port. frontis., 53 plates with 16 in colour. Dec. e.ps., original beige cloth backed beige boards with paper title label to upper board and spine, some minor soiling, spine and label lightly browned, fore and lower edge uncut.
Author’s Presentation Copy, inscribed - ‘Mr. Ormerod with the author’s Compliments.’
£75.00 [ref: 290732]
THE CLOISTERS APOCALYPSE. I. An early fourteenth-century manuscript in facsimile. II. Commentaries on an early fourteenth-century manuscript by Florens Deuchler Jeffrey M. Hoffeld Helmut Nickel. Foreword by Thomas Hoving. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1971.
2 vols. Tall Slim 4to. 104pp. text. Colour facsimile reproduction of an early fourteenth-century Apocalypse ms., many b/w. figures and ills. Original gilt lettered pale oatmeal hessian cloth, spines very lightly browned, together in sl. rubbed and chipped white lettered red colour pictorial slipcase.
£25.00 [ref: 293441]
1st UK Ed. Royal 8vo. [xviii] + 160pp. Illustrated by reproductions of drawings, specimens of types, lettering and bookwork. Some very light marginal age toning, f.e.ps. very lightly browned, original cloth sl. faded at head and tail of spine, in chipped d/w. with loss at corners and head and tail of spine.
From the Library of Glyn Tegai Hughes (1923–2017) Welsh scholar, writer and literary critic. He was a Liberal Party politician and Welsh nationalist. From 1964 to 1989 he was warden of the Gregynog Centre, University of Wales. In 2000 he was made a fellow of the University of Wales Aberystwyth. In 2004 he was made an honorary fellow of the University of Wales Bangor.
Ex.-libris Jackson Burke, (1908–1975) American type and book designe
£40.00 [ref: 294235]
REYNOLDS STONE Engravings. With an Introduction by the Artist and an Appreciation by ... John Murray 1977.
1st Trade Ed. Royal 8vo. xli + [iii] blank + 151 pages of engravings + [ii]. Ex.-libris Paul Latcham, sm. selotape mark at head and tail of f.e.ps., light light spotting to boards, good in price-clipped d/w.
£50.00 [ref: 283040]
1st Ed. Thin large 8vo. v + 56pp. Portrait. E.ps. browned in part, title page sl. marked, gilt lettered navy blue cloth, lower board sl. marked.
With a printed compliment slip of Mrs Marcus P. Knowlton.
From the Library of Glyn Tegai Hughes (1923–2017) Welsh scholar, writer and literary critic. He was a Liberal Party politician and Welsh nationalist. From 1964 to 1989 he was warden of the Gregynog Centre, University of Wales. In 2000 he was made a fellow of the University of Wales Aberystwyth. In 2004 he was made an honorary fellow of the University of Wales Bangor.
£25.00 [ref: 294231]
THE LIBRARY OF ANTHONY WOOD. Oxford Bibliographical Society, Oxford 2002.
1st Ed. Royal 8vo. lviii + 758pp. Good in original black lettered light olive green cloth backed green boards, sm. biro mark to lower board.
Oxford Bibliographical Society Publications, Third Series Volume V.
£25.00 [ref: 292688]
CATALOGO DE LOS IMPRESOS DEL SIGLO XVI de la Biblioteca Publica del Estado, Toledo. Madrid Ministerio de Cultura/Castilla-la Mancha, Toledo 1993-2010.
Royal 8vo. 7 vols. Dec. title pages, many full page ills. Spanish text. From the Library of Professor David Davies University College London, very good in original gilt lettered green cloth, some very minor rubbing to spines..
£100.00 [ref: 284820]
ST. AUGUSTINE’S ABBEY, CANTERBURY. Introduction. The Catalogue. Other Sources. Appendices and Indexes. British Library/British Academy 2008.
1st Ed. 3 vols. Large 8vo. 8 plates, dec. tail piece. Good in original gilt lettered maroon cloth.
Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues 13.
‘The present work provides detailed entries for nearly 2,000 volumes and reports press-marks, contents and the names of donors.’
£90.00 [ref: 290401]