Books on Printers and Printing, Bibliography, Manuscripts, Bookbinding: With an Appendix of Beautiful Books from Famous Modern Presses

Front Cover
Maggs Bros., 1925 - Antiquarian booksellers - 280 pages
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 272 - THE STORY OF THE GLITTERING PLAIN, which has been also called The Land of the Living Men, or The Acre of the Undying.
Page 272 - THE STORY OF SIGURD THE VOLSUNG. and the Fall of the Niblungs.
Page 134 - Bibliomania ; or, Book-Madness : A Bibliographical Romance. With numerous Illustrations. A New Edition, with a Supplement, including a Key to the Assumed Characters in the Drama. Parts I. to XII. now ready, 2is. each. Cussans
Page 267 - THE HISTORY OF HELYAS, KNIGHT OF THE SWAN Translated by Robert Copland from the French version published in Paris in 1504. A literal reprint in the types of Wynkin de Worde after the unique copy printed by him upon parchment in London, 1512.
Page 236 - SACRA PICTORIA: being a Series of Illustrations of the Ancient Versions of the Bible, copied from Illuminated Manuscripts, executed between the Fourth and Sixteenth Centuries. Royal 4to, with 50 beautifully Illuminated Plates, half-bound morocco, .£3 IM.
Page 127 - Testament!,' with 90 wood-cuts beautifully engraved. Crown 8vo. half bound morocco, 1(. Is. A few copies printed entirely on India paper, 2J. 2s. THE DANCE OF DEATH, exhibited in fifty-five elegant Engravings on Wood, with a Dissertation on the several Representations of that Subject; more particularly on those attributed to MACABER and HOLBEIN, by FRANCIS DOUCE, FSA 8vo.
Page 118 - BURY (RICHARD de). THE PHILOBIBLON OF RICHARD DE BURY, edited from the best manuscripts, and translated into English, with an Introduction and Notes by ANDREW FLEMING WEST, Professor in Princeton College.
Page 32 - Annals of Parisian Typography, containing an account of the earliest typographical establishments of Paris ; and notices and illustrations of the most remarkable productions of the Parisian Gothic Press.
Page 269 - The Floure and the Leafe, and The Boke of Cupide, God of Love, or The Cuckow and the Nightingale. Edited by FS Ellis.
Page 264 - An Endeavour towards the Teaching of John Ruskin and William Morris. Being an account of the Work and Aims of the Guild of Handicraft. By CR ASHBEE. 250 copies. This will be the first book in the new Essex House type. The Psalms of David, according to the text of the Anglican PrayerBook. Erasmus

Bibliographic information