Mckerrow Ferguson (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This book is bound in brown boards with a tan spine with bright black letters. There is wear, small tears, on the spine edges. There is light wear on the cover corners. There is a previous owner's bookplate inside the front cover. The contents are clean, bright & unmarked, the binding is tight. Printed on the front cover: "Illustrated Monographs issued by the Bibliographical Society. No. XXI." This book weighs 2 kilos so extra postage may be required.

Top edge gilt. Foxing to edges, endpapers, preliminary and final leaves. Contents generally clean. Previous owner's bookplate. Crease to series title page.

Quarter-cloth and boards, top edge gilt, 4to, xlvii, 234 pp, 329 facs. Over 300 entries. Bibliographical Society Illustrated Monographs No. XXI. Ferguson described this as "forming a complementary volume to McKerrow's [Printers' & Publishers' Devices in England & Scotland 1485-1640] and adding greatly to the usefulness of that work as an aid to the identification of anonymously printed books, and, from evidence of progressive deterioration, to the assigning of others without date to approximate years of publication. Over 300 borders or 'compartments' .are reproduced in facsimile, with lists of all the books in which the compilers have found them - as distinguished from the earlier work, which gives in general only earliest and latest instances of use of the devices by printers and booksellers through whose hands they passed - and notes on the foreign originals from which many were copied (as well as on five actual foreign blocks imported into England)." Bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, spine heavily stained, upper fore-edge corner of front board (about 2 cm x 1 cm) bruised and torn and in danger of disappearing, otherwise Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Ex-academic library book. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Bibliographical Society copy, which is in quarter-linen and boards. Boards are scuffed, scored and grubby with rubbed and chipped leading corners and rubbed lower edges. Sticker residue on front board. Tanned and marked spine has nicked spine ends. Linen cover is partially split along spine edges. Gilt head of page block. Foot of page block is grubby with library stamp. Page edges are unevenly cut. Front and rear inner paper hinges are split; boards and rear endpaper are rather loose. Library stickers and stamps on front pastedown and endpapers. Ink library stamp on catalogue page. Text-pages are tight, contents are clear. T. Ex-Library.

"One of 250 copies offered for sale of an edition primarily printed for members of the Bibliographical Society." First edition. A very good original cloth binding. 4to. 11.25" x 9.5" x 2.0". pp.xlvii/[1p.]/pp.220/ [256pp.]/pp.221-234 . Navy blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Light foxing throughout, not detracting from the overall condition. VG.

hardcover. Condition: Good. ***Please Read*** No marks on text - My shelf location 54-F-10*GREIF.

4to, (280x220mm); xlviii,235p. 237 illustrations - mainly full-page. Rebound in modern quarter buff cloth, grey Ingres paper sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. An attempt to present 'an account of all title-page frames, or compartments, cut either on a single piece of wood or metal, or on pieces evidently intended to form part of a single design, and found used in Great Britain and Ireland before the close of the year 1640.' HEAVY BOOK please note that this title weighs more than the 1 kg packed average on which postage charges are based. Overseas customers may wish to email us through the 'Ask the bookseller a question' option for delivery options and possible additional charges.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. MCKERROW, R. B., and F. S. FERGUSON. Title-page Borders used in England & Scotland 1485-1640 (Illustrated Monographs, No. XXI) London, The Bibliographical Society, 1932. 4to. xlvii, 220, (6) p., several unnumbered leaves with 306 woodcut borders, 3 pages with 15 miscellaneous fragments, (4) p., 4 leaves with 8 woodcuts in appendix, (1), 222-234 p. of index. Title in red and black. Deckled edges. Quarter coated cloth and printed paper over pasteboards. Title stamped to spine. A compendium of British title-pages and frontispieces with descriptions and 300+ fac-similes. A fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: near fine/near fine. Limited edition. Quarto. (11 1/2" x 9") 234pp. Illustrated. Limited to 250 copies. A very nice copy in an equally nice dust jacket.

Oxford University Press/The Bibliographical Society, London 1932. 4to. XLVII+234 pages + large plate section with illustrations in b/w. Publisher's half-cloth binding with top-edge gilt. Slight soiling to spine.

London, Oxford UP, 1932. 4to. xlvi,234 pp. With over 300 ills. Halfcloth. (Bibliographical Society, Illustrated Monographs.21; traces of labels on spine; spine and board edges sl.dam; binding a bit soiled).