Library copy. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-239) and index. Contents; The book trade -- Words into type -- Paper -- Design -- Book Bindings -- Book-jackets -- Book illustration -- The 'three-Decker' -- Part-issues and serials -- Series publishing & the yellow-back. Subjects; Scott, Walter Sir 1771-1832. 1800-1999. Books Great Britain History 19th century. Books Great Britain History 20th century. Book industries and trade Great Britain History 19th century. Book industries and trade Great Britain History 20th century. Bookbinding. Printing. Book industries and trade. 3 Kg.

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Title: Apart from the text / Anthony Rota
Publisher: Pinner, Middlesex, England New Castle, Del., U.S.A. : Private Libraries Association ; Oak Knoll Press
Publication Date: 1998
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1884718523
ISBN 13: 9781884718526
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Weight: 3 kilograms

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Apart from the Text is the presentation volume, 1995/6, for members of the Private Libraries Association. An international society of book collectors, founded in 1956, its series of monographs on specialised aspects of the mania have been much appreciated by collectors at large.

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Anthony Rota has been an antiquarian bookseller for more than 45 years, the last 30 of them as head of Bertram Rota Ltd. the firm founded by his father, Bertram Rota, in 1923. He has taught at the Rare Book School at Columbia University, and at the ABA Diploma Course, University College, London.

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