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First Edition. 8vo, pp. 95, with 3 facsimiles printed in-text; publisher's red-printed blue paper wrappers.First edition of Carter and Pollard's further research into the forgeries of Thomas J. Wise. The authors examine pamphlets of Swinburne's poetry published under the imprint of 'Charles Ottley, Landon & Co' and expose them as the work of the book-collector and forger Thomas James Wise (18591937). The study reveals the extraordinary means used by Wise to use his bibliographical reputation to disguise his forgeries and establish them as authentic. Language: English.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 8vo, (235 x 155 mm), pp. 72; four illustrations; in paper wrappers.Julia Alpinula is a legendary Swiss heroine, whose pathetic fate in AD 69 inspired popular historians, dramatists, artists, and poets including an infatuated Byron over a period of more than two hundred years. Her very existence, however, was based entirely on a funerary inscription first published in 1588 and ultimately shown to be a humanist forgery. Julia Alpinula is a fully documented account of her Romantic celebrity, the exposure of the 'Alpinula' myth, and the identification of its scholarly perpetrator.Arthur Freeman is a rare book dealer and writer living in London. In 2014 Quaritch published his Bibliotheca Fictiva: a Collection of Books and Manuscripts Relating to Literary Forgery 400 BC AD 2000. Julia Alpinula is a footnote to that book. ISBN 978-0-9933762-0-7 Language: English.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 8vo (230 x 155 mm), pp. 86; three illustrations; in paper wrappers.This partly historical, partly philological essay offers a general account of the early preservation, post-medieval recovery, and Renaissance evolution of the text of Catullus, with specific reference to one speculative reading in Carmen 17 ('De Colonia'), and certain humanist twists and forgeries that accompanied its long editorial history.Accompanying the narrative is a substantial bibliographical appendix that provides a checklist of significant editions of Catullus in Latin from 1475 to the present day, with brief notes of relevance and location.Arthur Freeman is a rare book dealer and writer living in London. In 2014 Quaritch published his Bibliotheca Fictiva: a Collection of Books and Manuscripts Relating to Literary Forgery 400 BC AD 2000. Catullus Carmen 17.6 is the second footnote to that book, following Julia Alpinula (2015).

Soft cover. Condition: New. 297 x 210 mm, pp. [76], with 8 colour plates; pictorial card wrappers. Printed here for the first time is the text of an autograph manuscript of the epigrams which John Owen presented to Prince Henry, eldest son of James VI of Scotland (I of England), on the occasion of his becoming Prince of Wales in 1610 (this year is the 400th anniversary of his death). The small quarto, preserved at Trinity College, Cambridge, is the only surviving manuscriptin Owen's own hand. It contains 105 epigrams, of which 25 appear in print here for the first time; others present a text frequently at variance with the printed versions which Owen published in 1612, the year of Henry's death. The subjects are a characteristic cross-section of his bitter-sweet jests and jibes. The manuscript is edited with an introduction and notes by Nicholas Poole-Wilson, longtime student and collector of Owen's printed editions. It contains an illustration of the binding and 7 double-page plates reproducing pages from the text.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 8vo (210 x 150 mm), pp. [iv], 116, with 18 full-page illustrations; pictorial card wrappers. In this guide various approaches to Hakluyt's books are suggested under a number of interrelated headings his patronage and connections; Italian and French influences; his use of illustration and his presentation of texts; his intentions; and his impact and readership. It is hoped that it will aid a broad appreciation of Hakluyt's work and the nature of his achievement, notably that his part in the publication of over twenty-five travel books marks a contribution to travel literature far beyond the Principal navigations and discoveries of the English nation for which he is chiefly famous. Extensive notes are provided to indicate further primary and secondary references and, finally, there is a bibliography of the books by or otherwise associated with Hakluyt published between 1580 and 1625.

Two works 8vo, stapled, both inscribed by the author, 'with my compliments?.

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 110, one illustration; printed paper wrappers.A new and particular account of the anti-Catholic and anti-separatist forgeries of Robert Ware, the seventeenth-century Irish antiquary, who has been called 'the most audacious fabricator of historical documents who ever lived'. Ware's formidable output of lively if malicious fictions has distorted Tudor and Stuart history, with remarkable endurance and reiteration, over more than three centuries despite longstanding efforts at exposure and dismissal, which this study traces closely as well. With a full bibliography of the treacherous texts. Language: English.

8vo, pp. 324; with illustrations; paperback.First paperback edition of the first collection of Markham's interviews with antiquarian booksellers. The last resort of the English eccentric, the antiquarian book trade is rich in colourful and entertaining characters. Since 1991 Sheila Markham has been interviewing some of its most influential figures. Fifty of these conversations, in which leading dealers speak frankly about their life and work, are recorded here. A significant contribution to the literature of book trade history, ABook of Booksellers will also appeal to the general reader with an interest in rare books and bookselling perhaps the most humane, sociable, ill-organized, yet absorbing form of commerce to be found anywhere. 'An invaluable mine of fact, anecdote, memoires, few lies and no statistics. Thank God for all the persons that Sheila Markham has immortalised, and all the rest that she has yet to reach.' Nicolas Barker, The Book Collector'This is the most instructive book about the antiquarian book trade that has appeared for years.' Frank Herrmann, Rare Book ReviewThe 2004 hardback, limited to five hundred copies, quickly sold out. ASecond Book of Booksellers and AThird Book of Booksellers are also available. ISBN 978-1-58456-207-8. Language: English.

Folding brochure, 3 square leaves, in very good condition.Prospectus in English and Italian for the forthcoming deluxe edition of 177 copies (Gallup A38b), of which the first, lettered A, would include a full manuscript fair copy of the poem. The work also included a signed text by Archibald MacLeish. An unfortunate typo here gives the poet as 'Ezra Pond' in the English text. Language: English.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. 8vo, pp. 79, [1]; with photographic illustrations; printed purple wrappers.The imprisonment of Annie Cobden-Sanderson, daughter of the famous Victorian statesman Richard Cobden, prompted a wave of letters of protest to the newspapers, giving the women's suffrage campaign the major boost she had hoped for. The ten women with whom Cobden-Sanderson was arrested (and of whom the Home Office deemed her to be the leader) were the first group of middle-class women sentenced to prison for demanding the right to vote. The remarkable survival of the diary she wrote in Holloway Prison in 1906, the earliest known prison diary of a suffragist/suffragette, allows us to read her fascinating story without embellishment. Dr Marianne Tidcombe provides a full transcription of the diary, with extensive notes on the characters and events mentioned. Her biographical introduction gives a full description of Cobden-Sanderson's life, from her childhood in an intensely political household to her later career as a campaigner for equal rights, the welfare of children, and peace among nations. Marianne Tidcombe became a friend of Annie Cobden-Sanderson's daughter Stella (1886 1979) and her great-niece Elizabeth Cobden Boyd while writing on the life and work of Stella's father, T. J. Cobden-Sanderson. Her books, The Bookbindings of T. J. Cobden-Sanderson (1984), The Doves Bindery (1991), Women Bookbinders 1880-1920 (1996), and The Doves Press (2001) were published by the British Library. Published by the Libanus Press in a limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Language: English.

8vo, pp. 24; fine in the original yellow printed wrappers, errata slip tipped in at end.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 8vo; pp. 96; six black and white illustrations; in printed paper wrappers.Published in celebration of Nicolas Barker's eightieth birthday, this bibliography serves both as a collection of his writings and as a tribute to one who has inspired so wide and deep affection in so many.Nicolas Barker's first bibliographical articles and reviews appeared in 1959. John Hayward, then the Editor ofThe Book Collector, was quick to grasp his potential. His first reviews appeared in that journal, and his first article for the journal, 'The Aesthetic Investor's Guide to Current Literary Values. An Essay in Bibliometry', had, Hayward reported, "called forth more favourable comment than almost anything we've published." It was the beginning of an unbroken association with a journal that he has made so distinctively an extension of himself, particularly since he became Editor in 1965. The extraordinary number of his articles, reviews, leaders, obituaries, and 'News and Comment' pieces in the journal has often shaped current bibliographical thinking.But Nicolas's writings have increasingly ramified in their range and form. He has written extensively for more than fifty years for theTimes Literary Supplementand for the Roxburghe Club, the bibliography of whose publications formed his first book. He has been a prolific obituarist, chiefly, but by no means only, for theIndependent. The range of topics that has engaged him in other books and articles is astonishingly wide: medieval manuscripts, calligraphy, forgery, the book trade, typography, bibliophily, bookbinding are simply some of the more recurrent interests that his publications reflect. The cumulated record of his publications represents an achievement of extraordinary scope.ISBN 978-0-9563012-5-3.

8vo, pp. [4], 127, [1]; publisher's stone buckram (slightly oversize spine), black and white dustjacket; a very good copy in a good jacket (some nicks at edges); bookplate of D. G. Bridson. First edition, third impression. Armitage & Clark A5a. Language: English.

8vo, pp. 17-32, with 7 'supplements' on green card loosely inserted; some spotting; disbound in blue printed wrappers; both wrappers detached and browned with tears and chips to edges.Contains notes on Kipling's early works, and suppressed editions, and extracts from prefaces to a number of his works. The supplements comprise copies of the cover illustrations for Kipling's earliest works, as published by the Indian Railway Library.

First Edition. 4to, pp. 18 [2], including the stiff paper covers; a very good copy, stitched as issued; compliments card of the publisher tipped onto front inside cover.First edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, pp. 216, with 36 illustrations; printed paper wrappers.A collection of essays together recounting the history of Bernard Quaritch Ltd, published by The Book Collector to commemorate the firm's sesquicentenary in 1997. The volume, guest-edited by Richard Linenthal and illustrated throughout with images from Quaritch's archive, represents the most comprehensive account of the history of the company. The essays comprise: 'Bernard Quaritch' by Nicholas Barker 'Fifty Years at Quaritch' by E.M. Dring 'The Story of a Tablet' by Nazan Ölçer 'Bernard Quaritch and "My Omar": The Struggle for Fitzgerald's Rubáiyát' by Arthur Freeman 'Bernard Quaritch and John Gennadius: The Development of a Library' by Leonora Navari 'A Hilton Manuscript once in the Possession of Luttrell Wynne' by Toshiyuki Takamiya 'The View from Cambridge: Henry Bradshaw and Bernard Quaritch' by Arnold Hunt 'The Manuscript of Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons"' by Nina Nikitina 'Bernard Quaritch and William Morris' by Norman Kelvin 'Louis Hagué and Bernard Quaritch' by Joan Winterkorn 'Double Agent: M. Caulin and M. Hagué' by Mirjam M. Foot 'Quaritch Islamicus' by Tim Stanley 'Michael Kerney' by E.M. Dring 'Ephraim Deinard on the Shapira Affair' by Brad Sabin Hill 'Bernard Alfred Quaritch in America' by Leslie A. Morris 'B.Q. and the O.V.' by Colin Fr anklin Language: English.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 8vo (215 x 140 mm), pp. xii, 209, with 12 full-page illustrations (one folding); title printed in red and black; blue cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. Pocahontas meaning 'Little Wanton' or playful one is famous for something she may or may not have done four hundred years ago: rescue the English colonist John Smith from execution by her father, Powhatan, the Indian paramount chief of the Virginia area. Pocahontas, Little Wanton investigates the legendary rescue and separates the known facts of her life and death in England from the myths about her. The book then follows the posthumous history of her story, as it is told and retold over the centuries by historians, dramatists, poets, novelists and film-makers who formed her into an American national icon, repeatedly rescuing the colonial Englishman from the indigenous Indian. Pocahontas, Little Wanton is the first book to combine an account of her brief life with the history of her long, ambiguous afterlife, as an American Indian heroine. Neil Rennie is a Reader in English at University College London.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Folio, pp. 128, with 75 colour illustrations; blue cloth lettered in gilt, dust-jacket.Aristotle's influence towers over western philosophy and science. His astonishing range and depth philosophy and logic, the physical and natural sciences, ethics and politics make him indisputably the most important intellectual figure in the western tradition before the modern age. This volume illustrates the ways in which the Aristotelian corpus has been transmitted over time. In particular, it focuses on the crucial moment when, thanks to the invention of printing, Aristotle's works became widely available in Latin, Greek, and in vernacular languages in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The extraordinary books and manuscripts in this volume, selected from the collection of the Martin J. Gross Foundation, demonstrate just how intellectuals received and interpreted Aristotle. Through commentaries, treatises, lecture courses and schools and above all in the written marginalia of books, the volume reveals the extent of the era's engagement with Aristotle. It includes a beautifully illustrated catalogue section featuring the pages of works on Aristotelian texts from the thirteenth to the late seventeenth century, many of which show the annotations of contemporary readers and teachers. Language: English.

8vo, pp. [2 (blank)], [6], 319, [1 (blank)], [8 (advertisements)]; a few corners creased or torn, a few slight marks; a good copy in publisher's mottled brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt; a little rubbed and bumped with a few scratches and minor losses to caps and corners, spine somewhat cockled.First edition of George's examination of Spencer's stance on the land question. Asking the reader 'to judge for himself Mr. Spencer's own public declarations' (p. 8), the political economist, popular orator, and politician Henry George (1839-1897) dismantles the arguments of the British liberal theorist Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) to promote his radical views on land redistribution: 'George wanted radical redistribution but without revolution. He pioneered the idea that taxation, properly crafted, can redistribute wealth without damage to the market. His influence on Fabianism was early and wide; also on American reformers like Tom L. Johnson, Upton Sinclair, John R. Commons and Norman Thomas. The modern "mixed economy" is in the Georgist spirit of reform within traditional forms' (Palgrave II, p. 515). Language: English.

8vo, pp. xiii, [1 blank], 822; a near fine copy in original red cloth, no dustjacket, front board and spine with title printed in black and green, marked, some foxing to endpapers and edges; portion of dustjacket pasted to front free endpaper, ownership inscription with crossing-out of 'Elijah L. White, U. of Chicago, May 1950'.Second edition, first published 1931. A text-book of the Chicago School.

8vo, pp. iv, 79, [1 (blank)]; title and last page dusty; disbound; ink inscription of 'T.J. Mathias' at head of title.The third of four editions published in 1810. 'A rabid Anti-Bullionist' (Stephens, p.42), Rose (17441818), here, 'for Pitt's greater glory illustrate[s] the decline of the influence of the crown since 1782 by reference to the elimination of places and sinecures. His conclusions were contested by the House, 19 Mar., though he replied "with some warmth"' (Thorne, History of Parliament). The following year, Rose turned down a position on the bullion committee, later denouncing its final report in a two-and-a-half-hour speech, published in 1811.Goldsmiths' 20112; this edition not in Kress; not in Einaudi. Language: English.

24mo? pp. 46, [2]; a fine copy, in the publisher's colour-printed wrappers, folded round stiff blanks.Third edition, translations of Pound's 'Introduction' and one play from Certain Noble Plays of Japan by his daughter Mary de Rachewiltz. This third edition added 'Un intervallo di 40 anni' by Pound, dated November 1958. Gallup D73. Language: Italian.

First Edition. 16mo, pp. [16], self-wrappers, front cover with a reproduction of the portrait of Pound by Martinelli; printed in brown; booklabel of D.G. Bridson.A small celebratory booklet printing tributes by Auden, Cummings, Eliot, Hemingway ('Will gladly pay tribute to Ezra but what I would like to do is get him the hell out of St. Elizabeth's'), Archibald Macleish, Jose de Pina Martins, Marianne Moore, Norman Pearson, Spender, and Edith Sitwell.

8vo, pp. 413, [1]; fine in the original printed stiff paper covers; booklabel of D. G. Bridson.First edition. Not in Gallup. Language: English.

8vo, pp. 62, [2]; a very good copy sewn in original lilac printed wrappers, faded and slightly dusty, ink inscription to front wrapper.First edition in English of the above. The translator, of whom nothing is known, is described as 'late student of Newnham College Cambridge, Modern Languages Tripos'; an interesting case of a graduate, jobbing, female translator in wartime.

8vo, pp. vi, [1] preface, [1] blank, 18, [2] blank; a very good, crisp copy in the publisher's printed stiff wrappers, ink mark to upper wrapper and slight browning at extremities.First edition, number 52 of 250 copies, numbered and signed by the author, of this study of the public dispersal of the Leeds-based collector Roland Winder's library of conjuring books. In his preface, Hall terms this pamphlet 'a footnote to the chapter, 'Libraries and Collectors,' in [his earlier monograph] Old Conjuring Books. A Bibliographical and Historical Study (London, 1972 and New York, 1973) (p. [vii]). Language: English.

Large 8vo, pp. 68, [2]; publisher's red cloth, yellow dustjacket printed in red and blue-green; a very good copy in a very good jacket (a few short tears, spine dusty).First edition, published to coincide with MacDiarmid's seventy-fifth birthday.

Small 8vo., pp. 4; a very good copy in half green morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments; bookplates of Walter Thomas Wallace and John Whipple Frothingham.Second edition, distinguished from the first by the hollow diamond at the centre of the French rule beneath the title.Wise I.104.

4to, pp. xii, 169, [3], with a portrait frontispiece and 12 further plates; untrimmed; light offsetting to endpapers, else a very good copy in the original cloth; armorial bookplate of Sir Michael Barker Nairn to the front pastedown.Second edition, revised and enlarged, narrating the instrumental role of the Coutts family in establishing a magnificent system of banking in Scotland. Language: English.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Tall 8vo, pp. 144, with frontispiece and illustrations; hardcover in blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, with printed dustjacket.'This volume has grown out of one event in a long series of annual conferences on book-trade history held to mark the fortieth conference in 2018. For this we had asked nine well-known book historians to give a retrospective review of their field, be it manuscripts, incunabula, book binding, and so on, explaining how they had come into book history, who had been the major influences on them, what the field was like then, what it was like now, and how they would, in the light of the changes they had seen, have done things differently. Everyone mentioned the technological revolution, which had completely changed their way of working and brought a wealth of research material to their desks, greatly amplifying but not substituting for (as they were at pains to point out) research in libraries and archives. Thus these papers are a mix of scholarly assessment and personal reminiscence: likely, we thought, to have a wider readership than just historians of the book.' Contents: Robin Myers, The Book Trade History Conferences: The First Forty Years (1979-2018); Maureen Bell, From Scandalous Women to Provincial Peruke-Makers: Tracking the Men and Women of the English Book Trade; Peter W.M. Blayney, But I Digress; Mirjam Foot, Approaches to the Study of Bookbinding: From E.P. Goldschmidt to Howard Nixon and Beyond; Antony Griffiths, The Development of Print Studies in the Past Half Century; Christopher de Hamel, In the Beginning; Lotte Hellinga, Beginning a Lifetime with Early Printed Books; David McKitterick, Becoming a Rare Books Librarian and Something More; Mark Rose, Copyright and Authorship: From the Printing House to the Courthouse. With a complete list of Book Trade History Conferences to 2021, their contributors, papers, and publications, and full indexes. Language: English.