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Private Pleasures: Illuminated Manuscripts from Persia to Paris: The Collection of Denys Spittle
by Marrow, James; Panayotova, Stella; Sutton, Kay; van Ruymbeke, Christine
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- 1st
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- 2007
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- 9780904454789
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Cambridge: The Fitzwilliam Museum, 2007. 1st edition. Hardback. Issued in pictorial boards without a jacket. Quarto. 77 pages. Illustrated in full colour throughout. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, between October 2007 and January 2008. Very Good. Page edges a bit tanned. Previous owner has written the date in the top left-hand corner of the front… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Emblem: The Arms & The Motto of the University of Cambridge: notes on their use by University printers
by Stokes, H. P.
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- 2009
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Cambridge: The University Press, 2009. Hardback. Purple cloth with gold armorial decoration to front and gold lettering to spine. Octavo. 54 pages. 37 b&w line illustrations within the text. Number 133 in a limited edition of 800 copies, published to mark the 800th anniversary of the founding of the University of Cambridge. Very Good. Corners of the boards a little… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Short History of the Principal London Antiquarian Booksellers and Book-Auctioneers
by Block, Andrew
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- 1st
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- 1933
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London: Denis Archer, 1933. 1st edition. Hardback. Original red cloth with black lettering to spine; publisher's emblem in gold to the front. No jacket. Octavo. 67 pages. Revised and enlarged printing of the Second Appendix from Block's previous work, "The Book Collector's Vade Mecum". Good. Boards dull and rubbed with wear to their edges, spine ends and corners; spine faded.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The romance of the printing type and of the men who in its creation and use have become famous: Wynkyn de Worde, assistant, friend & successor of William Caxton, England's first printer
by Jones, George W.
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- 1936
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Birmingham: City of Birmingham School of Printing, 1936. Booklet of 16 pages sewn into yapped card covers. Octavo. pp. [2], title page, [1], 3-(11), colophon, [2]. 1 b&w and 3 coloured illustrations, from woodcuts in the collection of the author, within the text. (Other coloured elements are a device on the title page and the first three lines of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Bookplate Designs of Austin Osman Spare
by Ansell, Robert
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- Used - Very Good
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- Good
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- 1st
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- 1988
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- 9780951417607
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Billingshurst: The Bookplate Society in association with The Keridwen Press, 1988. 1st edition. Paperback. Octavo (21 x 15 cm). 35 pages, 23 of which are b&w reproductions of the bookplates. (Also a b&w photograph of the artist as a frontispiece.) Part of a limited run of 500 copies, 140 of which were numbered and signed by the author. This is… Read more about this item Item Price
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Matthias Corvinus und die Bildung der Renaissance
by Gamillscheg, Ernst; Mersich, Brigitte; Mazal, Otto
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- 1994
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- 9783010000154
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Wien: Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, 1994. Paperback. Quarto. 93 pages of text; 48 pages of colour and b&w plates. Catalogue of handwritten manuscript books from the library and personal effects of Matthias I Corvinus, King of Hungary (1458-1490). Part of an exhibition by the National Library of Austria, Vienna, held between 27 May and 26 October 1994. Text in German. Good. Page… Read more about this item Item Price
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Freeman Keith: Maker of Books
by Hitchings, Sinclair
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- 2003
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Lunenburg, VT: Stinehour Press, 2003. Paperback. Octavo. 28 pages. Several b&w photographs within the text. Preface by Garrett Keizer. Very Good. Item Price
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