REWARDS OF MERIT, TOKENS OF A CHILD’S PROGRESS AND A TEACHER’S ESTEEM AS AN ENDURING ASPECT OF AMERICAN RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR EDUCATION
Fenn, Patricia & Alfred P Malpa oblong 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 224 pages. First edition. Minor uneven fading along the spine of the jacket, else fine in fine jacket. This magnificently produced book is the first ever published about "Rewards of Merit," printed cards, certificates and engraved medals that school teachers gave their students for success in scholarship and good behavior. Though a majority of these ephemera were machine-printed, many were also painstakingly illustrated and colored by hand. These pieces demonstrate the art of American printing, typefaces, graphic arts and illustration in every aspect of their production. Beautifully photographed in full-color, these certificates of achievement reflect almost 500 examples of from 19th-century and Victorian engraving, calligraphy, printing, illustration and folk-art through turn-of-the-century graphics. REWARDS OF MERIT also brings 250 years of the American school experience to life through these documents, reflecting attitudes toward religion, education and achievement, values that were strongly stressed to young Americans. The ephemera illustrated include many reproductions from the Gardiner/Malpa Collection of Rewards of Merit and School of Ephemera and photographs of over 70 medals from the John Sallay Collection of School Medals. REWARDS OF MERIT also includes a directory of booksellers, engravers, printers, publishers, stationers and related tradesmen, useful to those doing research in the book arts field. A beautiful book with extraordinary variety, rich color and detail for Victorian ephemera, printing, engraving, illustration and children's book enthusiasts.- $24
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WALTONIANA: INEDITED REMAINS IN VERSE AND PROSE OF IZAAK WALTON
Shepherd, Richard Herne 8vo. publisher's cloth. 124 pages. First edition. Two small bookplates and book description on front pastedown. Covers lightly rubbed and stained, corner bumped, spine ends lightly worn. Front hinge cracked. Published at the Pickering Press, the text is "inedited remains in verse and prose of Izaak Walton.with notes and preface by Richard Herne Shepherd."- $36
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PROBLEM OF THE MISSALE SPECIALE.|THE
Stevenson, Allan 8vo. cloth. xxiv, 400 pages. First edition, limited to 2000 copies. A very good copy. Excellent book demonstrating modern methods of bibliographical research. Stevenson uses paper analysis to determine the printing date of this incunabula.- $24
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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PRINCIPAL MODERN PRESSES PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.|A
Tompkinson, G.S. small 4to. cloth-backed boards, leather spine label. xxvi, 238 pages. With introduction by B. H. Newdigate. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Spine faded, small minor dampstains on the edge of the front board as well as near the bottom of the spine. Else a near fine copy. Minor scuffing to the spine label. Printed in black and red. Beautifully printed book listing the productions of such presses as the Ashendene, Cuala, Daniel, Doves, Eragny, Essex House, Kelmscott, Vale, Chiswick and many others. Contains reproductions of many of the best page designs. Minor cover soiling and fading. cloth-backed boards, leather spine label- $48
- $48
MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MANUSCRIPTS: TWELVE JOURNEYS INTO THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
De Hamel, Christopher thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. v, 623 pages. First edition. Fine in fine jacket. "The book is a captivating examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period. Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the reader into intimate conversations with these texts to explore what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history - and about the modern world, too. Part travel book, part detective story, part conversation with the reader, 'Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts' allows us to experience some of the greatest works of art in our culture to give us a different perspective on history and on how we come by knowledge."- $36
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PITTSBURGH BIBLIOPHILES PILGRIMAGE TO ITALY, 1976.|THE
small 4to. cloth, paper spine label. viii, 112 pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies. A fine copy. A book dedicated to the Pittsburgh Bibliophiles for their Pilgrimage to Italy in 1976. Appendices list members who made the trip and libraries visited such as Casanatense, Vaticano, Bertoliana etc.- $24
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THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN, BIBLIOGRAPHER & BIBLIOMANIAC EXTRAORDINARY 1776-1847
O'Dwyer, E.J. 8vo. boards, dust jacket. 45 pages. First edition, limited to 1400 copies. A fine copy in fine jacket. Describes the life of this author of books on book collecting and commentator on the famous collectors of his day.- $24
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WRECK OF THE DEUTSCHLAND.|THE
Hopkins, Gerard Manley large 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards, paper cover label. not paginated. Printed in an edition limited to 1250 numbered copies and constituting the "DeLuxe" edition. With an introduction by James Dickey. A fine copy. decorated paper-covered boards, paper cover label- $30
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INVITATION TO BOOK COLLECTING, ITS PLEASURES
Storm, Colton and Howard Peckham 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 281 pages. First edition. Jacket chipped along edges. Else a very nice copy. This manual by these Americana experts is getting more difficult to find. With page 44-45 devoted to A. Edward Newton.- $24
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A. R. ORAGE
Mairet, Philip 8vo. cloth. xxxii, (iv), 140 pages followed by 10 pages of advertisements. A Memoir. Memoir of English critic and editor who left his career to follow Russian mystic Gurdjieff. Some shelfwear. Front cover has soiling at lower right corner and a few scratches. Corners and spine ends worn.- $24
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BOOKS AND THE MAN
Winterich, John T. tall 8vo. cloth-backed boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt. xvi, 374 pages. First edition, limited to 210 numbered and signed copies printed on Utopian laid paper. A fine copy of this scarce book. Includes chapters on Walt Whitman and LEAVES OF GRASS, Charles Dickens and THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB, Nathaniel Hawthorne and THE SCARLET LETTER, Samuel Johnson and his DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE and others. Illustrated. cloth-backed boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt- $48
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EARLY ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, A HISTORY OF THE DECORATION
Pollard, Alfred W. 8vo. original cloth. xvi, 256 pages. First edition. (Hart no.100). Both hinges cracked, uneven fading to spine and boards. Wear to spine ends. Bookplate of Leonard F. Bahr loosely inserted. Chapters on Germany, Italy, France, Holland, Spain and England.- $24
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CANVASSING BOOKS, SAMPLE BOOKS, AND SUBSCRIPTION PUBLISHERS’ EPHEMERA, 1833-1951, IN THE COLLECTION OF MICHAEL ZINMAN
Arbour, Keith 8vo. cloth. xxviii, (iii), 517+(1) pages. First edition. A fine copy. A catalogue of almost 1800 entries that suggests the wide geographical, topical, and qualitative scope of 19th century subscription publishing, that a significant number of Americans of all regions, ethnic affiliations, and walks of life, were eager to consume. The importance of the canvassing books through which agents created and responded to this vast market is a central theme of the author's introduction. This catalogue is largely from the collection of sample and canvassing books compiled by Robert Seymour of the Colebrooks Book Barn, and purchased by Michael Zinman, estimated to be more than seven times greater than any other institutional or private collection. Illustrated with publishers' cover letters, promotional slips, salesmans' weekly reports, handbills, and other ephemera. With indexes of publishers, places, copyright holders, titles, and languages other than English.- $36
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FIRST CENTURY OF PRINTING AT BASLE.|THE
Johnson, A.F. small 4to. decorated boards, paper cover and spine labels, dust jacket. 50 pages and 50 illustrations. First edition. Edited by Stanley Morison. (Appleton p.36). Jacket has tears and is soiled. Bottom of the spine is worn. decorated boards, paper cover and spine labels, dust jacket- $42
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BOOKMAN’S QUINTET FIVE CATALOGUES ABOUT BOOKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, PRINTING HISTORY, BOOKSELLERS, LIBRARIES, PRESSES, COLLECTORS
Rostenberg, Leona and Madeleine B. Stern 8vo. cloth. xx, 283 pages. Preface by Terry Belanger. One of 500 copies. A fine copy. Copublished with Ballinger's Used and Rare Books (Hillsborough, NC). Reissue of five important catalogues dealing with books about books and the history of printing. Includes the landmark catalogues on the Aldine Press and the House of Elzevier. With full index and illustrations. Reprints a Bruce Rogers letter.- $24
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BRITANNICA’S TYPESETTERS, WOMEN COMPOSITORS IN EDWARDIAN EDINBURGH
Reynolds, Sian small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 170 pages. First edition. A near fine copy. In the early 1900's the printing trade had traditionally reserved its skilled jobs for men, but for over thirty years in Edinburgh women were being actively recruited to work as compositors and even responsible for the typesetting of the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Sian Reynolds tells the story of women's entry into the printing trade, with the help of printing office records, trade union papers, contemporary press and journal articles, as well as discussion with the compositors still living. Indexed.- $24
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GUTENBERG BIBLE, LANDMARK IN LEARNING
Thorpe, James 8vo. quarter cloth with printed paper-covered boards. 48 pages. Second edition, this being the first hardcover edition. A fine copy. Lavishly illustrated throughout in full color with several full facsimile pages and numerous decorated initials from the Huntington copy. quarter cloth with printed paper-covered boards- $24
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