Brooke Compiler (20 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Octavo (8vo); [42pp], 106 items described, several illustrated. Bound in blind-stamped brown paper wraps. One of 750 copies printed.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Slight bump to some outer corners. Tiny dent to the lower end of each spine edge. ; "Burma's 50th Year" label on front cover. ; 8.82 X 7.95 X 0.63 inches.

Original Wraps. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as issued. 1st Edition. Published on the occasion of the exhibition 8 July - 3 October in the King's Library. An exceptionally nice copy.

Condition: Very Good. Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. Original wrappers, some wear. One of 750 copies. Illustrated. 41 pages.

Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. Original printed wrappers. 27 pages. One pencilled notation, else fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. box spi edition. 370 pages. 6.75x6.00x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Quarter parchment gilt over boards, 8vo., xx, 117, (2) pages. With a biographical & typographical supplement and essays by Brooke Crutchley & John Dreyfus. One of 600 numbered copies printed by the Cambridge University Press. With Appletons business card, annotated by him, affixed to front pastedown, his Catalogue 22 " Writings of Stanley Morison", a Caxton Club lecture invitation and a prospectus for the Avalun-Verlag "Epochen der Buchdruckerkunst" laid in. Name and address on front flyleaf. A near fine copy in a very good DW, in archival mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. EXCELLENT CONDITION. THIS VOLUME IS RETIRED FROM A LIBRARY'S SPECIAL COLLECTION. THEREFORE, WHILE HAVING THE USUAL MARKINGS OF A RETIRED LIBRARY EDITION, IT WAS NOT IN GENERAL CIRCULATION. THERE IS LIGHT WEAR TO THE BOARDS. THE TEXT IS CLEAN AND THE BINDING IS STURDY.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 214 pages. 6.00x0.56x9.00 inches. In Stock.

SOFTCOVER. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 4to in colour printed stiff card covers, (designed by Reynolds Stone), 64pp text with facsimiles (some colour), plus 14pp plates on glossy art paper at rear. . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked and possibly unread copy (hint of tanning to spine). An excellent copy ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 300 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. One sheet folded to make [4]pp. Octavo. Fine. A checklist of the work of the English novelist and poet, along with some kind words about his writing, compiled by the venerable London bookman. Inscribed to a fellow bookseller at the bottom of page (4), "from the abashed compiler (see p.[ii]) Anthony Rota." On page (2), Mr. Rota has struck through an unnecessary word and initialed it. Mr. Rota passed away in 2009; his obituary mentions his family's friendship with Jocelyn Brooke. A charming piece of (very) English bookselling ephemera.

Original wrappers. Condition: Fair. Gloucester: F. J. Brooke, 1904. 4 7/8 x 7 1/2". [69]ff. Monochrome frontispiece, monochrome illustrations (many full-page). Original wrappers, chipping at edges and head and foot of backstrip. Fair copy.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Harry Clarke (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1-127 [1] pages, 24 plates : illustrations, some color ; 26.4 cm. Earlyi 20th century poetry with wonderful illustrations (some in color) by Harry Clarke. This copy is full embossed leather, but with a large chip (about 1 cm) to the top of the spine and wear to the bottom of the spine and the tips. Rare in any condition.

First Edition. Poor copy with wear, tear and dust-dulling as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 255 pages. Subjects; English Law. History of English Law. Earliest times to the reign of Edward III. General accounts. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Small 4to. Frontispiece portrait of Rupert Brooke by Joan Hassall; 11 b/w facsimile plates. Original green cloth stamped in gilt; green endpapers. Acetate dust jacket. Fine, fresh copy. 134 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Number 271 of 450 numbered copies. Designed and printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press.

First Edition. Poor copy with wear, tear and dust-dulling as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 255 pages. Subjects; English Law. History of English Law. Earliest times to the reign of Edward III. General accounts. 1 Kg.

cloth, dust jacket. Brooke, Rupert (illustrator). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 158 pages. Third edition, revised. Some minor corrections were made by Keynes to his 1959 second edition. Near fine in near fine price-clipped jacket. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Printed on fine paper by the Chiswick Press, half-titles, large double-page folding frontispiece to volume 2, vignette title pages, full-page illustrations, bookplates of George H Brooke to front pastedowns, spotting to preliminary and rear leaves, original brown paper over boards, red ink stain to rear board of volume 1, rubbed, 8vo Limited edition of 100 copies printed for private circulation. Brooke is best remembered for his purchase of the 164 volumes of Italian Renaissance bindings from the Pillone Library "collected at the close of the sixteenth century by Dr. Odorico Pillone of Casteldardo, and ornamented on the sides and edges with paintings, now preserved in an ebony bookcase.".

First edition, one of 100 copies, with six copies of large paper. Illus. with frontispiece portrait of Brooke, title-page vignettes, a ground plan of the house, a bookplate, 17 facsimile reproductions from manuscripts. Printed on fine paper by Chiswick Press, for private circulation only. vi, 318; [iv], 319-759,[ 5] pp. 2. An important library containing 170 volumes with fore-edge painting by Vecellio, from the famous Pillone library which are listed at pp.662-680 of Volume II, "Collected at the close of the sixteenth century by Dr. Odorico Pillone of Casteldardo, and ornamented on the sides and edges with paintings.now preserved in an ebony bookcase." With ALS presenting this copy. See The Book Collector, Spring 1958, on the history of the Pillone library. De Ricci, pg 167-68 Original art vellum paper over boards, printed in blue, uncut. Spines toned Illus. with frontispiece portrait of Brooke, title-page vignettes, a ground plan of the house, a bookplate, 17 facsimile reproductions from manuscripts. Printed on fine paper by Chiswick Press, for private circulation only. vi, 318; [iv], 319-759,[ 5] pp. 2 First edition, one of 100 copies, with six copies of large paper.