1966. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1966. Folio, [19] leaves unpaginated, loose signatures in Siena wrappers, laid in purple cloth covered folding box with printed title label. Fine. § Limited to 400 copies, with a leaf from the Complutensian Bible and a well-researched scholarly essay by Basil Hall. The..... More
1810. London: William Miller, 1810-1812: John Murray, 1816: Longman, Hurst, Rees. Orme, and Brown, 1819. 4 vols., 4to (285 220 mm., untrimmed), 324; 328; 313; 316 leaves paginated as in Windle and Pippin. With 14 mezzotint portraits, 24 other engraved plates, numerous engravings and illustrations in the text, some in..... More
1956. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1956. Folio. 142 pp. Black buckram spine, green cloth boards, printed label on spine. 16 full-page photo plates. Fine. § One of 400 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. An essential reference work on the history of printing in California with chapters..... More
1968. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1968. Folio, (8), 81 pp. Printed in red and black, illustrated with woodcuts from the original edition. Original quarter gray-colored cloth over decorated boards. Stuart B. Schimmel bookplate. A touch of sunning to the upper board, very good. Original prospectus, announcement and other..... More
2015. The Grolier Club, 2015. 4to (11 x 8.25 inches), 318 [1] pp. numerous color illustrations. Hightower and Koch Antiquarian types. Design and typography by Jerry Kelly. Stiff paper wraps, illustrated in full color on upper cover. New. § Trade edition. Detailed descriptions of one hundred famous children’s books and..... More
1738. London: Printed for T. Osborne..., 1738. 8vo, [ii], vii [xii, contents], 402 pp. Contemporary calf, backstrip consolidated and upper hinge with slight splitting but quite firm, a good sound copy. § First edition of the first Library Manual in English and one of the earliest (if not the earliest)..... More
2009. Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press, 2009. Large 4to, 521 pp. profusely illustrated in colour. Beige cloth, illustrated dust jacket. New. § “An important and fascinating work. Jill Shefrin already has a reputation for original research and meticulous scholarship. In this marvelous volume she has given us more, providing..... More
