Books On Books from Rulon-Miller Books

London: Smith and Robins, Printers, King Street, Long Acre, 1842. First edition, 4to, pp. xxiv, 250; mounted lithographic frontispiece portrait of Walpole by G. Madeley after Eckhardt; woodcut title, vignettes in the text; original cloth-backed blue pictorial wrappers creased and worn; spine ends chipped, good and sound. Tipped in at the front is a printed slip from W. Forster,… Read more about this item

London: printed by Richard Edwards, Crane Court, Fleet Street, for the author; and sold by all booksellers in the United Kingdom, 1804. First edition, 12mo, pp. viii, 212, [4] index and errata; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, printed paper labels on both the front board and (unusually) on the back board as well; front cover loose, spine… Read more about this item

Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1963. 8vo, pp. [2], vii, [3], 117, [9]; 22 grayscale illustrations in text and 2 plates tipped in; maroon paper wrappers; bookseller label on first leaf, else fine.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd, 1893. 8vo, pp.xii, 219, [1]; frontispiece and 10 facsimile plates; full brown cloth; ex-Liverpool Racquet Club library, with spine label and their bookplate on pastedown, upper joint starting boards sunned with spots of soiling, good.

Hilversum: The Paper Publications Society, 1981. 4to, pp. [4], xvi, [2], 11-154, [2]; 533 plates; full black cloth; fine. A good visual reference of over 4000 watermarks, organized by subject.

New York: Hacker Art Books, 1969. 4to, pp. viii, [2], 71, [1]; 84 leaves of plates; full tan cloth; fine.

Vancouver: The Library of the University of British Columbia, 1970. 8vo, pp. 138, [2]; text illustrations; full brown cloth, fine. "With a chronological appendix indicating landmarks in the evolution of angling literature and some prefatory matters pertaining to the history of the Harry Hawthorne Foundation for the Inculcation and propagation of the principles and ethics of fly-fishing, including an… Read more about this item

London: Constable, 1938. 16mo, pp. [2], 247-277, [1]; red printed paper wrappers; spine sunned, text foxed, last leaf dog-eared, good.

[London]: The British Library, 1983. 4to, pp. 446; grayscale text illustrations throughout; full tan cloth; red label on spine; fine. Preceeded by vol. 1, an introduction, and later followed by vol. 3. This volume covers bindings from the British Isles, the Netherlands (including Belgium), Germany, Austria, and Denmark.

London: Marks & Co, 1928. 8vo, pp. 20; green printed paper wrappers; light toning to wrappers, pencil ticks throughout text, very good.

Dublin: Friends of the Library of Trinity College, 1956. 8vo, pp. 50, [2]; pictorial paper wrappers; a touch of toning and bumping, near fine.

Chicago: Hanzel Galleries Inc, 1973. 8vo, pp. [76]; facimiles in text; printed paper wrappers; fine.

Chicago: Chicago Book & Art Auctions, Inc, 1931. 8vo, pp. 50, [2]; yellow printed wrappers, old fold, light soiling to wrapper, short closed tear to one leaf, very good. Sale No. 11 October 6th, 1931.

[Austin: University of Texas, 1942. 9.25 x 6.5 in., pp. 20, printed self-wrappers, lightly toned at edges, else fine. Includes details on the Wise forgeries also in the collection.

New York: The New York Public Library, 1954. 10 x 7 in, pp. 45, [3]; printed green paper wrappers; upper wrapper chipped, some sunning to edges, text clean and sound, very good. A reprint from essay provided to the Bulletin to the New York Public Library.

Chicago: Chicago Book & Art Auctions, Inc, 1932. 8vo, pp. 60, [4]; printed green paper wrappers; spine sunned, a couple pencil marks in margins, near fine. Sale No. 27, October 25, 1932.

[Boston]: Harvard University, 1981. Edition limited to 1500 copies, this one of 400 gifted to friends of the Harvard Library, 7 x 5 in., pp. [40]; 15 text illustrations; pictorial paper wrappers, fine. "The woodcuts of the Ars Memorandi contain some of the most curious images ever printed... one of the most remarkable early mnemonic workds, [it] is extremely… Read more about this item

Chicago: Chicago Book & Art Auctions, Inc, 1932. 8vo, pp. 123, [5]; printed gray paper wrappers; light sunning to spine, else fine. Sale no. 17, February 9-10, 1932.

[London]: The Dickens Fellowship. 8vo, pp. 42, [2]; text illustrations; printed paper wrapper with vignette of the Comte's bookplate; light toning to wrapper, near fine.

Chicago, New York, et al., 1957. A blast from the book-trade past. After AB Bookman's Weekly, the American Book Collector was the most important trade magazine on the American scene in the last half of the 20th century, with many interesting articles by many renown authors and book people: Walter Hart Blumenthal, Lawrence S. Thompson, Frederick R. Goff, Jeff… Read more about this item