London: The Studio, 1928. Quarto, quarter vellum with patterened boards, colour illus (including some tipped-in plates), b&w illus, top edge gilt, pp viii, 186. Previous owner's signature front free endpaper. Boards, text and illustrations very clean. Corners lightly rubbed. Near-fine condition. Lavishly illustrated discussion of book production and design, with.....
![Item #104777 Autographs: A Key to Collecting [Signed by Author]. Mary A. Benjain](https://muirbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/104777.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1785056532)
New York: R.R. Bowker, 1946. 1st ed., octavo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, index, ppp 305 plus unpag. illustration section with 35 plates. Signed by the author, with presentation inscription. Near-fine condition in like dustjacket, protected. Comprehensive guide to gathering and caring for an authograph collection. Includes photographs with.....
Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1975. 1st ed., octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w and colour illus, diagrams, glossary, bibliography, index, pp 400. Near fine condition in like dustjacket, protected by a clear pastic sleeve. Compresehensive guide to bookbinding, covering every aspect of the subject from aimple bindings and repairs to.....
![Item #103707 The Book-Hunter [Limited Edition]. John Hill Burton](https://muirbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/103707.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1722941119)
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1882. Quarto, original cloth boards with gilt illustration upper board, gilt to spine, author frontis wood-engraved plate, fore-edge and bottom edge untrimmed, b&w illus, index, civ, pp 427. Number 460 of a limited edition of one thousand. Corners bumped, water-stain to the inner.....
Privately Printed, 1938. Octavo, original cloth boards with gilt title upper board and spine, b&w plates, pp 64. Exeter City Library engraved bookplate front endpaper. Occasional marks. Very good condition. A history of the famous bookshop, from its founding until 1938. Photographs include the building in Charing Cross Road, William.....
London: Charles Hindley, 1886. 1st ed., octavo, original cloth boards with printed paper title label, index, pp xliv, 308. Many illustrations, some printed in colour. Very good condition. "There can be little doubt that Jemmy Catnach, the printer, justly earned the distinction of being one of the great pioneers in.....
London: Victor Gollancz, 1978. Cl bds, d.j., b&w plates, b&w line reproductions, pp. 256. D.j. lightly worn along top edge, no other marks, v.g. condn. History of Gollancz and the authors it published (including Orwell, Elizabeth Bowen, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Dorothy L. Sayers, Daphne du Maurier, Leonard Woolf, H.G. Wells, Stravinsky.....
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1915. Octavo, original boards, printed paper title label to spine, b&w frontis plate, b&w plates, illus vignette title page, index, pp xvi, 232. Previous owner's bookplate. Near-fine condition. Details the processes involved in bookbinding, and devotes chapters to the history of early Italian.....
London: Cassell & Company, 1933. 5th impression,slim octavo, pp. 48, b/w ills., light speckling fore-edge including edge title page, limp cloth, few stains and pencil marks, rear fore-edge rubbed, spine worn, chip to right hand side fo front cover. Contents clean. Very good condition. Volume of the 'The Practical Workroon.....
Melbourne: Scribe, 2020. Royal octavo, stiff pictorial wraps, b&w plates, pp 329 including bibliography and index. Near fine condition. The first full account of an audacious publishing decision that - with the help of booksellers and readers around the country - forced the end of literary censorship in Australia. In.....
London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1928. Quarto, quarter vellum binding,128 illustrations, a few tipped in including portrait of "Laura de Noves de Sade", top edge gilt, pp 221. Limited edition: number 728 of 750 for the English printing. Ex-library stamps (Educ. Dept., H.M. Prison Hull). Vellum spine warped. Water.....
London: Studio Publications, 1949. Quarto, original cloth boards, many b&w and two-tone illustrations, pp 88. Small ex-library stamps to preliminary pages, damage and wear to upper spine. Very good condition. Detailed guidance on designing, making, and collecting bookplates. Mark Severin (1906 - 1987) was a Belgian illustrator, engraver, and graphic.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1922. 2nd impr., 8vo, pp. (viii) 306, Index, b/w frontis., b/w plates, prev owner's inscr., bookplate, foxing scattered throughout, orig cl bds., worn with some marks, rear bottom cnr bumped Collection of essays on writers, including Voltaire, Racine, and Shakespeare.