Book History, Selling And Collecting, And Publishing from John Atkins

(A) The London Bookshop. Being Part One of a Pictorial Record of the Antiquarian Book trade: Portraits & Premises with prefatory reminiscence by Percy Muir. Pinner, Private Libraries Association, 1971 Grey cloth covered boards with burgundy and gilt title band to cover and spine. Very minor evidence of rubbing to spine extremities and corners. Oblong (18.5 x 25cms), 95 pages, including many black and… Read more about this item

Cover design by William Grimmond. 72 pages, plus 16 pages of additional illustrations (including 7 pages in colour) Boards a little bowed with slight bubbling to the paper of the lower board. Internally clean and unmarked. Very slight paper-fault to pages 53-56 (see photos). The text, with in-text illustrations throughout, covers a description of book illustration processes with many examples of illustrators from… Read more about this item

xx, 485 pages, with numerous full-page and in-text black and white illustrations. Cloth worn and badly scuffed to the lower edge of the top board. Very minor loss of cloth to the corners. Internally clean and unmarked. Text in 3 parts: Historical, Practical and Critical covering a wide range of points including the Colophon, Titles in Black-Letter, Ornamented titles, the Modern Title-Page,… Read more about this item

254 pages. Cloth to the top of the spine a little worn, two very small marks to the lower board. End-papers with very minor foxing. Text and plates clean and unmarked. With a 39-page historical introduction by Stanley Morison. The plates have examples of the typography of 15th century Italy; 16th century Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany and the Low Countries; 17th century France;… Read more about this item

[4], xvii, 451, [5] pages. Dust-wrapper in very poor condition, age-toned, torn and chipped with significant loss. Corners to boards bumped with very minor loss otherwise very good condition. Colour frontispiece. Profusely illustrated throughout. Very light mark to lower top board. Internally very good, clean and unmarked, with a clear bold inscription. "I have a feeling that my best work is in… Read more about this item

[iv], 76 pages, with a further 20 pages of which 19 are book-trade advertisements, plus 5 pages of black and white plates. Salmon-coloured cloth covered boards with black lettering. Dust-wrapper in protective plastic sleeve. Slight rubbing to the top and lower board edges. Dust-wrapper age-toned and with signs of foxing, otherwise in good condition. Spots of foxing to the title-page. Off-setting to… Read more about this item

viii, 312 pages. Gilt decorated olive cloth, top edge gilt. With illustrations and facsimiles. Corners, spine top and bottom, very slightly bumped. Sporadic foxing to title page, front and rear free end-papers, final leaf, and inner margins of first 4 pages. Text and illustrations clean. With one hundred and Eighteen Illustrations and Facsimiles of Early Typography, Printers' Marks, Copies of Book Illustrations and… Read more about this item

[2], xxv, 232, [4] pages. With numerous black and white in-text illustrations. Uncommon publisher's green cloth covered bevelled boards, with applied illustrations, lined in gilt, with gilt titles to top board and spine. Top edge gilt. Patterned endpapers. Text clean. Corners bumped. Small tear to cloth at top lower board spine joint (25mm), with some loss to the top and bottom of… Read more about this item

xviii, 448 pages. Many black and white illustrations including some full-page. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Text and illustrations clean and unmarked. With details of 100 famous English book collectors from all periods. This volume is heavier than the average quoted in my store listings and, as consequence, the shipping cost will be higher than that quoted in my… Read more about this item

Revised and enlarged reprint of the Second Appendix to the author's - The Book Collector's Vade Mecum. 8vo., [4], 67, [1] pages. Cloth covered boards with gilt-titling to spine and gilt motif to top board. Binding a little rubbed, spine faded, with a small mark on the top of the upper board. A few spots of minor foxing to a number of… Read more about this item

8vo, vii, [1], 352 pages. Frontispiece showing a book sale at Sotheby's with tissue overlay identifying the figures in the scene. 1 further black and white plate of another sale at Sotheby's, taken from an original watercolour by Rowlandson. Original buckram cloth, a little soiled and spine darkened. Top edge gilt. Deckled edges. Some off-setting to the end-papers. Internally clean and unmarked.… Read more about this item

[6], xii, 205, [3] pages.First edition. With numerous black and white full-page and in-text illustrations. Cloth covered boards, stamped in brown and gilt to spine and front. Cloth very lightly rubbed in places. Top edge gilt. Very light foxing to end-papers and some text pages. Small ex-libris stamp "LS" to title-page. Contents: I. Hints to Beginners; II. Some Practical Details; III.… Read more about this item

xii, 219, [1] pages. 10 plates plus frontispiece, 1st edition. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettered title on the top cover and spine. Cloth worn and rubbed. Light foxing to endpapers. Deckled Edges. Neat ex-libris stamp to title page and ex-libris of Mary Stetson Clarke to the front pastedown. Text, printed on high-quality watermarked paper, crisp and unmarked. Published as part of A.… Read more about this item

[2], 160 pages, plus plates. With 46 illustrations in total – black and white except for the frontispiece which is in colour. Cream cloth covered boards with red illustrations, and red text to the spine. Spine a little soiled. Some age-toning to the top of the upper board. Light foxing to the half-title. Previous bookseller's pencil marks to the front free… Read more about this item

ix, 203, [2] pages. Black cloth with gilt letting to spine. Ex-libris (Dundee Public Library, cancelled) with the usual marks and gilt notice stamped to the lower cover. Text clean and unmarked. Exact reprint of the 1930 first edition, with 8 plates and 24 text-figures. An important work in the field of researching English book ownership from the sixteenth to early twentieth… Read more about this item

[8], 156 pages. First Edition. Bound in half red linen to the spine and cream linen to the boards, with dust-wrapper. Very slight rubbing to the spine cloth top and bottom edges otherwise binding in excellent condition. Dust-wrapper with faded spine, age-toning to the top edge, and a little chipping to the spine top and bottom. Also a little dusty…thus fulfilling… Read more about this item

[4], 98, [2], [4] pages, plus original card covers bound-in. First edition. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to the spine, with original card covers bound in. Hand-made brown end-papers with the watermark of "Abbey Mills Greenfield" (i.e. Abbey Mills papermill, Flintshire, Wales). Unobtrusive scratch to rear board otherwise binding, original covers and text in very good condition. With 8… Read more about this item

[2], 45, [1] pages. Red cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine in very good condition, Dust-wrapper soiled and chipped in places. Off-setting to front and rear free end-papers. Text clean and unmarked. Contains the text of 4 talks delivered on BBC Radio in the summer of 1950. By: R.W. Chapman,"The Sense of the Past", John Hayward, "Why First Editions?", John… Read more about this item

[ii],130 pages. Brown cloth covered boards, lettered and decorated in brown and black, somewhat faded. Cloth a little soiled. Lower corner to rear board creased. Slight off-setting to end-papers. Text clean and unmarked. Bookseller's marks in pencil to front free end-paper. With black and white figures in text, including examples of early printer's marks. Excellent, if somewhat dated, guide to book history… Read more about this item

[8], 248 pages. Green cloth over boards with gilt lettering to top board and spine. Very slight rubbing to extremities of spine and boards. Decorated endpapers. Previous owner's ink inscription (1902) to title-page. Page bottom and fore-edges cut to slightly differing sizes. With chapters on "men who have formed libraries", different types of libraries, how to buy, bibliographies, etc., ending with a… Read more about this item