2006. NY: Grolier Club, 2006. Oblong 4to, xii, 212 pages. Frontispiece photograph of Neale Albert. Illustrated throughout with color photographs of the miniatures by photographer Tom Grill. Gray cloth, spine gilt, illustrated paste-on of a miniature book on the upper board. A fine copy in publisher's gray cloth slipcase. §..... More
1985. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1985. Folio, 114, (8) pp., with 10 original leaves bound in. Printed in black and red with numerous illustrations. Original cloth, fore-edge untrimmed, a few very light scuffs to the cloth, still a fine copy with the original prospectus. § Limited to 750..... More
2004. NY: Grolier Club, 2004. 8vo, 54 pp. Illustrated. Wavy green/yellow patterned wrappers. As new. § Limited to 1500 copies printed at the Thornwillow Press. A lovely and useful little booklet. More
2020. NY: Grolier Club, 2020. 4to, color frontispiece and full-page color illustrations for every entry. Beige wrappers, upper cover printed in black and red. New. § A fascinating catalogue, each entry show a famous book by a famous author from Maya Angelou to Virginia Woolf and a children's book by..... More
1971. San Francisco, CA: John Howell - Books, 1971. Folio, unpaginated. Illustrations in black white throughout. Brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to backstrip and upper cover. Covers faintly scuffed, text block edges spotted, internally a fine copy. § A comprehensive, fully illustrated catalogue of Borein's engravings with an index of..... 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
2010. NY: Grolier Club, 2010. Slim 8vo, 45, (2)pp. Portrait of Mary Webb loosely inserted. Original white printed wrappers. As new. § Limited to 1000 copies issued by Mary and Bruce Crawford for the Grolier Club. 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
1799. [London]: Sept. 9, 1799. 4to, 1 p., tiny hole in centre, text unaffected. § A highly important, very early, and previously unrecorded letter, tasking his correspondent to give the bearer two copies of “my Charts of the Rights of Persons,” one colored and one plain, without charge, “in tolerably..... 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
1798. London: Feb. 6, (17)98. 4to, 4 pp., written in ink. Fold neatly restored, in very good condition. § This is one of the earliest, and by far the most important, Dibdin letters extant. It is fully described and transcribed in Windle and Pippin E2 and it describes Dibdin's first..... 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
London: 'Tuesday', n.d. 8vo, 1p., trimmed close to the margins with no loss. § A sweet little letter, inviting them to a ‘confabulation’ over dinner (‘haddock, roast mutton, and apple (drawing)’. Dibdin has added two simple drawings, one of a dish (of apples) and one of a heart (i.e. heartily..... 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
Kensington: July 17, n.d. 8vo, 4 pp. Very good. § Interesting letter ‘in direful wrath’ about Dulau, who ‘owes me upwards of £50’, and concerned about Leighton’s ‘price for boarding’: ‘he asked 14, then 18, and then 17, and I stuck out for 16 free volumes. Shall it be so?’..... 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
1824. Kensington: March 22, 1824. 8°, 2 pp. with a separate wrapper franked ‘Spencer’, with Dibdin's wax seal bearing the Aldine anchor and the word "Aldus". § Interesting letter thanking Brockett for ‘your intended kind Present. Lord S[pencer] will necessarily have the books’; TFD is deeply occupied by his new..... More
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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
1815. London: Dec. 11, 1815. 4to, 1p., written in ink. Addressee illegible but possibly J.O. Downey? § Dibdin apologises for the late delivery of "your copy of the 4th volume", probably the Bibliotheca Spenceriana. He ends (typically) with a sales pitch: "I enclose a prospectus of my new work which..... More
1815. London: Dec. 13, 1815. 4to, 1p., written in ink. Addressee illegible but possibly J.O. Downey? § Dibdin thanks the addressee for "£4.4 for the 4th volume of the Bibl. Spenceriana. The books have arrived safely and Lord Spencer should be immediately apprised of your kind intentions...No kind of apology..... 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
1838. London: Printed for the Author..., 1838. 2 vols, royal 8vo, (i-v) vi-xv [xvi], (10, subscribers, plates, contents), (1) 2–436, (i) ii-xxx (supplement), (1, errata) +12 plates; (iv), (437–39) 440–1090 pp. With 40 plates and woodcut vignettes on titles and throughout the text. Original pinkish buff boards, printed paper labels..... More
1842. London: Bohn, 1842. Tall thick 8vo, (2), [i-vii], vii-xiv, 618, 63, (1), xxxiii pp. Full pebbled brown morocco with gilt fillet borders, gilt turn-ins, gilt-panelled backstrip, raised bands, gilt top, rebacked retaining original backstrip. Bookplate on front pastedown of Francis Frederick Fox and Charles Sebag-Montefiore. § First combined edition..... More
1814. London: Printed for the Author by W. Bulmer Shakspeare Press and published by Longman, Hurst [etc.], 1814-15. 4 vols., 8vo, ix, lii, i, 383; 503; 509, [3]; vii, 509, lxxvii pp., with 22 plates including one double-page, as called for, and numerous additional woodcuts, some in red, in the..... More
