WILLIAM PICKERING PUBLISHER by KEYNES GEOFFREY

London: The Galahad Press, 1969. Limited edition, signed by author. Hard cover in very good condition, with plastic covered, unclipped dust jacket in good condition. A special edition limited to 100 signed copies, of which this is No. 45. Acquired from Sotheran's booksellers, the longest established antiquarian booksellers in the world, founded in 1761. Their discreet stamp is present to pageblock, front cover, endpapers and title page. General shelf and handling wear to cover, including creasing to edges and corners, taped internal repair to spine and small open tears to spine and rear bottom corner. Boards are very clean, with gold embellishment to front, text to spine. Within, pages are tightly bound, some light pencil marginalia present, otherwise content unmarked. CN. Signed by Author. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Used.

London : Galahad Press, 1969. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some minor loss) and dust-toned dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 125 p. : facsims., port. ; 27 cm. Notes: List of William Pickering's publications: pp. 47-96. Includes index. Summary: Sir Geoffrey Keynes's monograph on the distinguished and influential English publisher, William Pickering, is a classic of its kind. It is also rare, since the original edition was limited to 350 copies, and published by The Fleuron in 1924. This new edition adopts the same formats and some other features as the original production, but is no slavish imitation, and there are important changes in the text. Sir Geoffrey Keynes, reviewing his work of some 45 years ago, has revised and extended the Memoir of William Pickering, written a Preface, and augmented the list of Pickering's publications. Subject: Pickering, William.… Read More

London: The Galahad Press, 1969. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 10.5" by 8". None. A highly illustrated first edition of this memoir of the life and works of William Pickering. First edition. Highly illustrated with 37 title pages of books published by William Pickering. Collated complete. The life and works of William Pickering, an English publisher and bookseller, known for various innovations in the field including the introduction of edition binding in cloth to British publishing. Written by Geoffrey Keynes, a British surgeon and author, notable for innovations in the fields of blood transfusion and breast cancer surgery. In the original cream cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper also very smart with minor chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Light shelf wear to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine

London: The Fleuron, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. 110 pp. illus. Limited to 350 copies. Includes 37 facsimile reproductions of title-pages. Edgeworn, boards a bit rubbed, spine label is faded, interior has some mild age toning.

N.P.: The Galahad Press, 1969. cloth, dust jacket. Pickering, William. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 126 pages. Revised edition, one of 100 numbered and signed copies. Prospectus loosely inserted. Fine in fine dust jacket. Contains a number of facsimile title pages printed with a yellow tinted background.

London: At the Office of The Fleuron, 1924 First edition. One of 350 copies. Cloth. Large octavo. Full- and partial-page facsimile illustrations Bookplate of Estelle Doheny. Very good.