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New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. First edition. New in dust jacket. First edition. xx, 345p. Gilt-titled black cloth.

New York: International Universities Press, 1965. Second printing. VG+ but for owner's name struck out in marker on flyleaf. Second printing. 345p. Gilt-titled gray cloth.

Charlottesville, VA, 1979. First edition. Text block edges lightly spotted, all else fine. First edition. x, 163p. Illustrated. Gilt-titled green cloth with illustrated endpapers.

New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library and Cornell University Press, 1982. First edition. Clothbound. Fine in dust jackets. First edition. Clothbound. Quarto. xxxii, 245p (iii); (vii), 246-557p (v). Describes 396 books with complete bibliographic detail, illustrations, and extensive annotations. Also illustrated examples of fine bindings. Bound in gilt-titled red cloth with gilt figural device on the upper covers. Excellent and essential reference.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973. First edition. Limited to 1500 copies. 1/8" fade to spine foot, else excellent copies in like dust jackets. In near fine cloth slipcase, but for small marks ot its spine. First edition. Limited to 1500 copies. Two volumes. Folio (13"). xxiii, (iv), 93 examples with facsimile on the recto with legend and transcript facing, index; vii (ii), nos. 94-197, index. Bound in quarter gilt-titled green cloth over tan boards.

Mansfield, CT: Martino, 1996. Reprint of the 1896 edition. Limited to 150 copies. Fine. Reprint of the 1896 edition. Limited to 150 copies. 180p. 1300 items. (Library of Harvard University. Bibliographical Contribution No. 51.).

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971. VG in soiled d.j.. 367p. Large 8vo. Tan cloth with gilt titles on black ground. Includes extensive short title bibliography.

Radnor, PA: Wallace-Homestead Book Company, 1990. First edition. Minor speckling to text block edges, else fine. First edition. xv (iii), 199p. Illustrated in color and black and white. Gilt-titled blue-green cloth. Includes listings of her works.

Spokane: Spokane Public LIbrary, 1926. No. 28 of 500 copied signed by George W. Fuller. Light rubbing with paper toning, else VG. No. 28 of 500 copied signed by George W. Fuller. 151p. Gilt-titled maroon cloth, t.e.g. Describes in detail 1000 items on the subject, covering every aspect of ex-libris literature.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. Reprint of the 1925 edition. Fine.. Reprint of the 1925 edition. Gilt-titled blue cloth.

Frankfurt Am Main: Buchhandler-Vereinigung GMBH, 1969. Fine.. xi, 1017-1246 columns (printed in double columns). 4to. Printed wrappers.

Cambridge: University Press, 1958. Third edition, limited to 750 copies. VG+ in soiled d.j. with minor chipping. Third edition, limited to 750 copies. Large 8vo. xx, 285p. Illustrated. Gilt-titled black cloth with green spine label.

London: Shakespeare Press, 1817. First edition. Fine. First edition. Three volumes. Royal 8vo, 250 cm. (vi), vi, (ii, corrections and additions), ccxxvi, 410p, (ii); (iv), 536p, (ii); (iv), 544p, (ii, additional erratum). Copiously illustrated with wood and copper engravings including 35 full-page plates. Bound by the Monastery Hill Bindery in full brown morocco with marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and triple-ruled panels, the raised bands extending onto the covers and terminating in fleurons in blind. Beautifully printed by William Bulmer at his celebrated Shakespeare Press. "[Bulmer] spared no pains to render the typography of his press the most correct and beautiful England had hitherto known." (Talbot Baines Reed. A History of the Old English Letter Founderies). A beautifully printed, beautifully illustrated, handsomely bound wide-margained copy. A true collector's copy. Windle and Pippin A28. With the bookplate of Julie Parker Whitman, collector and Pierpont Morgan… Read More

New York: Barnes & Noble (and Dawsons of Pall Mall), 1973. New edition. VG in chipped and faded dust jacket. New edition. xxxiv, 3-300p. Small 4to. Gilt-titled blue cloth. Newspaper review of the book pasted to flyleaf.

Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1944. Fine.. xix, 351p. Illustrated. Gilt-titled blue over gray cloth.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1968. Reprint of the 1900 edition. Fine.. Reprint of the 1900 edition. xiii, 174p. Gilt-titled green cloth.

London: George Bell & Sons, 1857. New Edition, Revised, Corrected and Enlarged; With An Appendix relating to the Books of Literary and Scientific Societies. Spines evenly faded to a lighter shade, inner hinge of Vol III with gutter paper cracked - may separate, but VG+ handsome copies. New Edition, Revised, Corrected and Enlarged; With An Appendix relating to the Books of Literary and Scientific Societies. Four volumes. Thick crown octavo. Bound by Macdonald, NY in half brown morocco with marbled sides, a.e.g., the spines with gilt titles and simple panel frames with cornerpieces of three small dots. A remarkable standard reference in its time and still of use.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951. First edition. Outer corner lightly bumped, else fine in d.j. with lightly faded edges.. First edition. ix, 289p. Gilt-titled blue-green cloth.

Paris: Georges Andrieux, 1928. First edition. Minor wear, VG. First edition. Tall quarto. 56p. 191 Lots. Illustrated, including full-page plates. Gilt-titled cloth spine with marbled boards. Some penciled prices.

Paris: A. Besombes, et al., 1934. First edition. Minor wear, VG. First edition. Small folio. 237p. 612 lots. Illustrated, including full-page plates. Bound in gilt-titled blue buckram, original wraps bound in rear. Manuscrits avec miniatures, incunables, livres a figures sur bois des XVe et XVIe siecles, etc.