1969. Kentfield, CA: Allen Press, 1969. 4to, 75 pp. With illustrations by Victor Seward and Mallette Dean. Original full Irish linen lettered and decorated in red. A fine copy. § One of 140 copies. Printed in red, blue, and black at the Allen Press, the text presents the technical procedures..... More

1976. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1976. Folio, 99 pages. Richly illuminated and illustrated throughout, with 43 specimen leaves. Original quarter red cloth and boards, fine, original plain dust-jacket, age toned and lightly worn. § Limited to 400 copies printed at the Arion Press and signed by Angelo. This..... More

1939. Los Angeles: The Albertson Press in Association with Bunster Creely, 1939. 8vo, 17 pp. Original red boards with gold paper title label on upper cover, frontis. plate present but detached, boards irregularly faded, some paste action to front blanks. § Edition limited to 1000 copies signed by Bennett and..... More

1976. London: The Scolar Press, 1976. Folio, [8], cxlii pp. With illustrations in woodcut throughout. Full brown morocco ruled in black, backstrip lettered in black and four raised bands, slipcase, as new. § De luxe edition, # XLIII of 50 printed on paper specially made by hand by Barcham, Green..... More

2011. NY: Grolier Club, 2011. 2 vols. in one, 4to, printed dos à dos, 68, 60pp. Illustrated in b/w (Prints), and color (botany). Illustrated wrappers. § Ingenious catalogue of two very different collections put together by the Cohens. More

1929. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1929. 12mo, xxii , 54, 4 pp. With a colored frontispiece and a hand colored initial by Valenti Angelo. Full russet morocco, backstrip slightly faded. § Limited to 425 copies, this one of a very few in the leather binding. In pencil in the colophon..... More

1831. Wyndham Place: Sept. 12, 1831. 4to, 1 p., traces of removal from an album-leaf on verso, no damage. § ‘Dr. Hanthall’ [or Haulhall?], an allegedly distinguished Horace scholar introduced to Dibdin by Richard Heber, with whom Hanthall/Haulthall corresponded in Latin: see Dibdin’s Reminiscences (1838), ii:967, quoting a knowledgeable letter..... More

1840. London: June 1, [18]40. 4to, 2 pp., (with conjugate leaves) written in ink. With two wax seals still present but mostly illegible -- one possibly has the monogram TFD. § Dibdin writes slightly testily to the addressee: "... the weather is hot, my paper of limited dimensions, and a...... More

1827. W.P.: Nov. 20, 1827. Sm. 8vo, 4 pp. Small tear at one corner without loss. § A sad letter, reporting, in shock, the ‘melancholy, dreadful occasion’ of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Davis, having been ‘burnt to death... What was wonderful was she suffered little or no pain but lay in..... More

1826. [N.p.]: Oct. 19, 1826. 4to, 3 pp. Small tear from breaking the seal, othewrwise fine. § A deeply moving and sad letter about the illness of Arch’s brother Arthur, and Dibdin’s own ailments. "As I was very nearly "going the way of all flesh" from the same complaint... I...... More

1828. W.P.: Oct. 9, [1828]. 4°, 3 pp., edges of conjugate second leaf reinforced with transparent paper-tape, no text loss. No loss but not in good condition. § Sadly, one of many Dibdin letters about being behind in financial obligations. He begins: "‘Be tranquil!’ so perhaps Triphook had berated Dibdin..... More

1799. [London]: April 12, 1799. 1p., oblong 4to, a bit soiled and once removed from an album with tape marks on verso. § Very early ALS concerning ‘some Dramatic German M.SS which you might perhaps like to purchase’ from the bearer, a lady: ‘Any arrangement you may make with her..... More

1821. London: Printed For The Author, By W.Bulmer And W.Nicol, Shakespeare Press, And Sold By Payne And Foss, Longman, Hurst And Co..., 1821. 3 vols., royal 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., xxv, [3 leaves], 462, lxxix, [1] errata; 2 p.l., 555; 2 p.l., 622, lxii. without half-titles. 83 plates (incl. portraits;..... More