Ian Willison (43 results)

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:0333606590.…

paper wrappers. 8vo. paper wrappers. (iv), 353-377 pages. The James Russell Wiggins lecture on the history of the book in American culture at the American Antiquarian Society. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society Volume 102, Part 2, October 1992.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Off Print. Outer portion of front cover is slightly faded. ; Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Volume 102, Part 2, October 1992. The 1992 James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture. ; 25 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Ex-library book. Four volumes bound in one. Good quality library binding. No dust jacket. Spine foot is lightly bumped. Nick on rear lower leading corner. Library sticker on front board. Library stamps on page block, front pastedown and front covers (preserved at the back of the book). Upper edges of pages 133-138 are lightly creased. Pages are clean, binding remains intact, contents are clear. T. Ex-Library.…

Hardcover. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. 444pp. Illustrations, index. Green cloth in dust jacket. Corners are somewhat bumped. Part of the Series The British Library Studies in the History of the Book. "This book deals with two major subjects in the fast-growing discipline of book history. One, the relationship between literary cultures of all sorts and the material nature of hte book on which those cultures ultimately depend. Two, the international, indeed global, nature of the book and the book trade which supports it. A range of 30 scholars of international standing explore the subject through studies which range in time from the earliest liteary cultures of Egypt, Greece and Rome to the international book market of the twentieth century." Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket is shelf-marked, upper panels creased, previous seller's price sticker on rear lower panel, unclipped; green cloth boards, gilt titling bright, corners sharp; binding is tight; pages are clean with black and white illustrations.; The British Library Studies In The History Of The Book; 6.25 X 1.6 X 9.25 inches; 444 pages.…

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains highlighter markings In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:9780333606599.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. green cloth, gilt lettering, mylar wrapped dust jacket, 444 pp Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Cloth/dust jacket and mylar wrapped Octavo.

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0333606590.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1999 Oak Knoll Press hardcover edition. Ex library copy with stamps and labels else good condition. Contents: 1. A Two-Edged Sword Out of the Mouth of Babes, or, A Book is Known by the Company it Keeps by J. McL. Emmerson; 2. Italian Presses and Printing Techniques in the Hand-Press Period: Some Notes by Conor Fahy; 3. A propos de Francois Juste, imprimeur lyonnais de la Renaissance by Henri-Jean Martin; 4. Simon Millanges, imprimeur humaniste a Bordeaux (1572-1623) by Louis Desgraves; 5. La Survie des editions anciennes de Calvin by Jean-Francois Gilmont; 6. The English Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue in the Context of the International Programmes for Universal Bibliographic Control and Universal Availability of Publications by Ian Willison; 7. Les Imprimeurs parisiens de la premiere moitie du dix-huitieme siecle: elements pour de nouvelles approches by Francoise Weil; 8. Projet d'un cours de bibliographie a Mons a la fin du XVIIIe siecle by Marie-Therese Isaac; 9. Les Caracteres typographiques "Didot". Hegemonie d'un style by Andre Jammes; 10. "La Collection des petits formats in-18, edition de Cazin": Some Preliminary Observations by B.J. McMullin; 11. Denis Veiras, Histoire des Sevarambes: A Preliminary Checklist of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Editions by Aubrey Rosenberg; 12. The Question of Authorship in Cyrano de Bergerac's Voyage dans la Lune: A Computer-Assisted Statistical Analysis by Margaret Sankey and Murna King; 13. Did Aphra Behn Write 'Caesar's Ghost'? by John Burrows and Harold Love; 14. The Editorial Principles of Martinus Scriblerus by David L. Vander Meulen; 15. The Authority of the Two Versions of Fielding's Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon by Hugh Amory; 16. The First Edition of Madame de Graffigny's Cenie by Jo-Ann McEachern and David Smith; 17. Litterature ou de l'amitie? A la recherche de l'authentique Songe vert by Didier Kahn; 18. Acquiring Enlightenment: Oxford and the Encyclopedie by Giles Barber; 19. Volcanoes Unbound? The Reception of French Geological Research by the Irish Mineralogist, Richard Kirwan, 1783-1794 by B. Taylor Brown; 20. Orwell, France and the French by Peter Davison; 21. Histoire d'une bergere by Anne Sauvy; 22. Reading in Eighteenth-Century Paris by David Garrioch; 23. Literary History and Book History: the Approach to an Eighteenth-Century Best-Seller: Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes by C.P. Courtney; 24. The Uses of Generic Bibliography: French Prose Fiction in the Age of Napoleon by Angus Martin; 25. Pages d'un carnet bibliographique: Etienne Pivert de Senancour (1770-1846) by Roger E. Stoddard; 26. Some Early Discounting and Remaindering Initiatives in the Paris Book Trade by Lorraine M. David; 27. Reading Practices, Writing Practices: Love Letters and ecritures intimes in Nineteenth-Century France and Australia by Martyn Lyons; 28. Fiction, Readers and Libraries in Early Colonial New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land by Elizabeth Webby; 29. John Carfrae (c.1795-1862): Bookseller of Edinburgh, Auctioneer of Melbourne and Sydney by Brian Hubber; 30. 'Ghosts Here, There, and Everywhere': The Strange History of the Victorian Almanac by Ian Morrison; 31. 'Two Books for Every Horse': A Nineteenth-Century Regional Library System for Otago and Southland by K.I.D. Maslen; 32. Peripatetic Pressmen: Some Trans-Tasman Connections in the Book Trade by Ross Harvey; 33. The Peregrinations of Sam Slick; or, Glimpses of Canadian Books in Australia in the Nineteenth Century by Mary Jane Edwards; 34. The Courrier australien and French-Australian Relations during the Biard d'Aunet Years (1892-1905) by Ivan Barko; 35. Colonial King: Grant Madison Hervey, and the Bulletin of the 1900s by Paul Eggert.…

2007, xix,444pp. Illustrated. Cloth, with dust jacket. In very good condition. Pakketzending.

8vo. xx+444pp. B/w illustrations. Original boards in dustwrapper. Black and white illustrations; a fine copy. . First edition.

x+273pp. Large 8vo. Original gilt decorated boards in dustwrapper. Colour portrait frontis. A fine copy. . First edition.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New. Editor(s): Chernaik, Warren; Gould, Warwick; Willison, Ian. Num Pages: 331 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 449. . 1996. Paperback. . . . .

Condition: New. This text concerns a particular area in the history of the book. It demonstrates developments in the sociology of texts, the practice of literary biography, and textual criticism relating to 19th-century literature. Editor(s): Willison, Ian. Num Pages: 349 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 31. Weight in Grams: 596. . 1996. Hardcover. . . . .…

Condition: New. pp. 331.

Condition: New. 349.

Condition: New. Editor(s): Chernaik, Warren; Gould, Warwick; Willison, Ian. Num Pages: 331 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 449. . 1996. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: New. This text concerns a particular area in the history of the book. It demonstrates developments in the sociology of texts, the practice of literary biography, and textual criticism relating to 19th-century literature. Editor(s): Willison, Ian. Num Pages: 349 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 31. Weight in Grams: 596. . 1996. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

First Edition. Pp. x+274(last blank), coloured frontispiece portrait, black & white text illustrations; med. 8vo; blue boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Centre for the Book, Monash University, Melbourne, 2007. First edition. *'Ian Willison, whose professional life was spent in the British Museum Library, later the British Library, has played a leading part in the development of book-history studies in the English-speaking world . The present volume brings together a selection of essays and studies by some of Willison's many friends, colleagues and associates . The topics covered - on book history, libraries, archives and scholarship - reflect the breadth of his interests and the scope of his curiosity' [wrapper blurb].…

First Edition. Fine set copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper (price-clipped), now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 3 vols. (only) ; 26 cm. Contents; v. 1 (600-1660) -- v. 2 1660-1800) -- v. 3 (1800-1900). Subjects; English literature Bibliography. English literature 19th century Bibliography. Genre; Bibliography. 4 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine set copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper (price-clipped), now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 3 vols. (only) ; 26 cm. Contents; v. 1 (600-1660) -- v. 2 1660-1800) -- v. 3 (1800-1900). Subjects; English literature Bibliography. English literature 19th century Bibliography. Genre; Bibliography. 4 Kg.…