Bibliography from John Atkins

xx, 485 pages, with numerous full-page and in-text black and white illustrations. Cloth worn and badly scuffed to the lower edge of the top board. Very minor loss of cloth to the corners. Internally clean and unmarked. Text in 3 parts: Historical, Practical and Critical covering a wide range of points including the Colophon, Titles in Black-Letter, Ornamented titles, the Modern Title-Page,… Read more about this item

254 pages. Cloth to the top of the spine a little worn, two very small marks to the lower board. End-papers with very minor foxing. Text and plates clean and unmarked. With a 39-page historical introduction by Stanley Morison. The plates have examples of the typography of 15th century Italy; 16th century Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany and the Low Countries; 17th century France;… Read more about this item

[4], xvii, 451, [5] pages. Dust-wrapper in very poor condition, age-toned, torn and chipped with significant loss. Corners to boards bumped with very minor loss otherwise very good condition. Colour frontispiece. Profusely illustrated throughout. Very light mark to lower top board. Internally very good, clean and unmarked, with a clear bold inscription. "I have a feeling that my best work is in… Read more about this item

384 pages. Modern cloth binding with gilt title label to spine. Original wrappers and advertisements bound in. Wrappers worn and with some repairs to tears. Text clean and crisp. Incomplete, lacks 1 part (titles of works starting with the letters U to Z). Nevertheless a detailed part-catalogue of French books, writings, and works that have been suppressed, condemned or against which legal… Read more about this item

vi, 115 pages of text and index, and 130 pages of illustrations with 283 black and white illustrations. Cloth covered boards with title label and details in gilt to spine, and price clipped dustjacket. Dustjacket age-toned, especially to the spine with a few small tears and creases. Text and illustrations, printed on thick paper, clean and unmarked. Rococo being a style of… Read more about this item

63, [1] pages Cloth covered boards with printed paper labels. Top corners bumped and one very small mark to rear board. Very good condition. Until Windle and Pippin's bibliography this was the authoritative reference book for Dibdin's publications. The annotated list covers 106 items with full descriptions, and was referred to as the "backbone" of their work by Windle and Pippin. This… Read more about this item

2 volumes; xv, [10], xxx, 436, xxix pages; [10], 439-1090 pages, (text complete with pagination misprints as recorded in Windle and Pippin). Half cloth binding with brown paper-covered boards. Gilt title to spines. Some scratching and minor marking to boards. Some loss of paper to board edges. Small indent to top of rear board of both volumes. Corners slightly bumped on… Read more about this item

[4], viii, 71 pages. One of one hundred copies. Boards covered with glazed cartonnage gilt (noted by Windle & Pippin, p134, as an original binding). Loss of cartonnage to the spine. Corners bumped and rounded with loss. Heavy foxing to inner-covers, end-papers and throughout text to varying degrees. Fair condition for a very rare item. The first of three French responses to Dibdin's Tour… Read more about this item

8vo., [8], xiv, 618, 64, plus indexes, [4] pages. Full leather binding with five raised bands and gilt title. Inner gilt dentelles with marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Leather to joints, leading edges of boards, and corners rubbed with marginal loss on corners. Corners bumped. Minor scratching and indents to boards without loss. Light foxing for first +/-30 pages and sporadically… Read more about this item

Volume 1 only of 2 volumes. Half title, volume 1 title-page, 379 pages, [1], errata, [4], list of subscribers. Leather covered boards with buckram spine (presumably for repair or strengthening), inner joints strengthened with tape, joints of rear end-papers also strengthened with paper repair tape. Neat repair to small tear on title-page. End-papers browned. Considerable wear to covers – rubbing, splitting… Read more about this item

[6], pages 241-364 CONTENTS John Wolfe, Printer and Publisher, 1579-1601. By HARRY R. HOPPE (illustrated and with 1 plate) Architectural Design on English Title-pages. By WARREN H. SMITH Dives et Pauper. By H. G. PFANDER Thomas Heywood's Play on ' The Troubles of Queen Elizabeth '. By G. N. GIORDANO-ORSINI Newcome's Academy and its Plays, By E. ALFRED JONES The Bibliographical Approach to Shakespeare. Notes on New… Read more about this item

[6], pages 121-240 CONTENTS Edmund Spenser's First Printer, Hugh Singleton. By H. J. BYROM English Imprints after 1640. By PERCY H. MUIR Three Little Tudor Books. By EUSTACE F. BOSANQUET Serial Publication of Traditions of Edinburgh. By COLEMAN O. PARSONS Elizabethan Roman and Italic Types. By FRANK ISAAC (illustrated) The Chronology of Milton's Handwriting. By HELEN DARBISHIRE (with 2 plates) Reviews and Notices: The Manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales… Read more about this item

[6], pages 1-120 CONTENTS Books and Readers, 1599-1603. By G. B. HARRISON The Bibliographical Society. Report and Annual Meeting. Parliament and the Press. II. By WILLIAM M. CLYDE Pen-and-ink Corrections in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Books. By G. and A. TlLLOTSON Samuel Pepys his Shorthand Books. By W. J. CARLTON Elizabethan Roman and Italic Types. By FRANK ISAAC (illustrated) The Astrological Prognostications of 1583. By RENE PRUVOST Undescribed Copy-books in the Ekstrom… Read more about this item

[10], pages 337-468, [8 – Volume XIII contents list] CONTENTS Some Cuir-Cisele" Bookbindings in English Librariea By E. P. GOLDSCHMIDT (with 8 plates) The Vesalian Compendium of Geminus and Nicholas Udall's Translation: their relation to Vesalius, Caius, Vicary, and de Mondcville. By SANFORD V. LARKEY, M.D. (illustrated) A Cancel in Southerne's The Disappointment, 1684. By CLIFFORD LEECH Parliament and the Press, 1643-7. By WILLIAM M.… Read more about this item

[8], pages 113-224 CONTENTS Bibliography—An Apologia. By W. W. GREG King Richard IPs Books. By EDITH RlCKERT The Personal Prayer-Book of John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford. By EUSTACE F. BOSANQUET (with 1 plate) Wayland's Edition of The Mirror for Magistrates. By WILLIAM ALEXANDER JACKSON (with 2 plates) Subscription Publishers prior to Jacob Tonson. By SARAH L. C. CLAPP A Publishing Agreement of the late Seventeenth Century.… Read more about this item

[10], pages 365-487 CONTENTS The Printing of John Dowland's Second Booke of Songs or Ayres. By MARGARET DOWLING Gabriel Naude" and John Evelyn: with Some Notes on the Mazarinades. By the EARL OF CRAWFORD AND BALCARRES, K.T.(illustrated) Notes on Single-sheet Incunabula. By STEPHEN GAZELEE (with 4 plates) The Marriage of Mary Queen of Scots to the Dauphin: a Scottish Printed Fragment. By DOUGLAS HAMER (illustrated… Read more about this item

[8], pages 125-252 CONTENTS The Abridgements of the Statutes, 1481?-1551. By JOHN D. COWLEY (illustrated) John Evelyn as a Bibliophil. By GEOFFREY KEYNES (with 8 plates) Elizabethan Almanacs and Prognostications. By CARROLL CAMDEN The Metamorphosis of Ajax and its sequels. By A. E. M. KlRWOOD More Bibliographical Notes on Marston. By R. E. BRETTLE 'Assembled' Texts. By R. C. BALD Review: Shakespeare's Iterative Imagery, (i) as Undersong, (ii)asShakespeare's Iterative… Read more about this item

[10], pages 1-124 CONTENTS Richard Field, Printer, 1589–1624. By A. E. M. KIRWOOD (illustrated) The Bibliographical Society Report and Annual Meeting. Alexander Read Physician and Surgeon, 1580–1641. By WALTER MENZIES The Bibliothèque Britannique, 1733–47. By F. BECKWITH Elizabethan Almanacs and Prognostications. By CARROLL CAMDEN, JR. The Earliest Books Printed at Barcelona. By VICTOR SCHOLDERER The British Museum's New Catalogue of Printed Books. By A. W. POLLARD Reviews and Notices; William… Read more about this item

[10], pages 393-526 CONTENTS Parisian Binding 1500-1525. By G. D. HOBSON (with 8 plates) Some Notes on the Library of Printed Books at Holkham. By C. W. JAMES Thomas Walkley and the Ben Jonson 'Works' of 1640. By W. W. GREG Papers used in England after 1600. II. c. 1680-1750. By EDWARD HEAWOOD (illustrated) A Playbill of 1687. By ELEANORE BOSWELL Eighteenth-Century Imprints. By R. W. CHAPMAN Reviews… Read more about this item

[10], pages 241-392 CONTENTS The Present Position of Bibliography. By W. W. GREG Paper Used in England After 1600: The Seventeenth Century to c.1680. By EDWARD HEAWOOD (illustrated) The Growth of The Peele Canon. By T. LARSEN John Wayland—Printer, Scrivener, and Litigant. By H. J. BYROM MS. Line-reckoning. By ROBERT STEELE The Evolution of the Modern-face Roman. By A. F. JOHNSON (illustrated) REVIEWS AND NOTICES Wlliam Shakespeare, a Study… Read more about this item