Van Gendt & Co. (Amsterdam) – publisher.
Abner Schram Ltd. (NY) – publisher.-
Title page: JOHN LANDWEHR | ROMEYN DE HOOGHE | (1645-1708) | AS BOOK ILLUSTRATOR | A BIBLIOGRAPHY | {space} | 1970 | AMSTERDAM: VANGENDT & CO | NEW YORK: ABNER SCHRAM || Pagination: [1-6] 7-247 [248 blank], ils. Content:109 entries, concordance table and 12 pp. of indices. Binding: 27.3 x 19.7 cm, green cloth, silver lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket. ISBN: 90 6300 467 2. Contributors: Romeyn de Hooghe (Dutch, 1645 – 1708) John Landwehr – author. -
2 volume set, ¾ burgundy morocco over peacock marbled boards, ruled gilt, raised bands, gilt-ruled in compartments, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers and all margins, binding by W. S. Hiltz, NY. Vol. 1. Title: Typographia, | OR THE | Printers' Instructor: | INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT | of the | ORIGIN OF PRINTING, | with | Biographical Notices of the Printers of | England, from Caxton to the close | of the Sixteenth Century : | A Series of | Ancient and Modern Alphabets, | and | DOMESDAY CHARACTERS: | Together with | An Elucidation of every Subject con- | nected with the Art. | By J. JOHNSON, Printer. |{stanza}| Vol. I. | In frame: Published by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, | Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, Pater- | noster Row, London | Under the frame: 1824. || Pagination: Blank leaf, [2] – blank / engraved frontispiece (portrait of William Caxton by W. Hughes) w/guard, [2] – engraved t.p. by Thompson (upper margin almost none, tall lower margin, unframed) / blank, letterpress t.p. w/guard / blank, [2] – dedication to Earl Spenser and Roxburghe Club members / list of members, [2] – engraved Roxburgh Club plate by W. Hughes / blank, [4] – the pedigree of Earl Spenser, [i] ii-xii preface, [1] 2-610, [10] – index, blank leaf; printed on wove paper, text within double rule border. Vol. 2. Title: Typographia, | OR THE | Printers' Instructor: | INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT | of the | ORIGIN OF PRINTING, | with | Biographical Notices of the Printers of | England, from Caxton to the close | of the Sixteenth Century : | A Series of | Ancient and Modern Alphabets, | and | DOMESDAY CHARACTERS: | Together with | An Elucidation of every Subject con- | nected with the Art. | By J. JOHNSON, Printer. |{stanza}| Vol. II. | In frame: Published by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, | Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, Pater- | noster Row, London | Under the frame: 1824. || Pagination: Blank leaf, [2] – blank / engraved frontispiece (portrait of John Johnson ÆTATIS XLVI by William Harvey), w/o guard, [2] – engraved t.p. by G. W. Bonner (framed) / blank, letterpress t.p. w/o guard / blank, [2] – advert. / explanation of engraved title, [i]-iv contents, [1, 2] 3-663 [664], [14] – index, [2] – cantata, blank leaf; printed on wove paper, text within double rule border. Note: This is the book that served as a source of plagiarism for Adams's Typographia: a brief sketch of the origin, rise, and progress of the typographic art published in Philadelphia by himself in 1837. -
Title: TASTE & TECHNIQUE | IN | BOOK-COLLECTING | A study of recent developments in | Great Britain and the | United States | BY | JOHN CARTER | SANDERS READER IN BIBLIOGRAPHY | AND SOMETIME SCHOLAR OF | KING’S COLLEGE | {space} | {publisher’s device} | CAMBRIDGE | AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS | 1949 || Half-title: TASTE & TECHNIQUE | IN | BOOK-COLLECTING | The Sanders Lectures in Bibliography | 1947 || Pagination: [i-vi] vii-x [xi] [xii blank], 1-201 [202 blank] [2] – advert. / blank, total 12+202+2=216 pages. Collation: 8vo; π6 1-128, 136, total 108 leaves. Binding: 22.5 x 15 cm, red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, lettered dust-jacket with armorial publisher’s device in red, price-clipped. Edition: 1st edition (1948), 2nd impression, corrected (1949). Contributors: Carter, John Waynflete (British, 1905 – 1975) – author. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge) – publisher. Brooke Crutchley – printer. -
Title: ABC | FOR | BOOK-COLLECTORS | BY | JOHN CARTER | {publisher’s device} | RUPERT HART-DAVIS | SOHO SQUARE LONDON | 1952 | [TITLE-PAGE] || Pagination: [1-6] 7-191 [192 advert.], total number of pages 192. Collation: 8vo; [A]8 B-M8, total number of leaves 96. Binding: 21 x 13.5 cm, aubergine cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial endpapers; cream unclipped (15s. net) dust-jacket with the sea-green panel in a border, with a fleuron frame, black and cream lettering, and publisher’s device to front; lettering to spine and back; folded prospectus insert loose. Edition: 1st. Contributors: Carter, John Waynflete (British, 1905 – 1975) – author Hart-Davis, Sir Rupert Charles (British, 1907 – 1999); Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd. (London) – publisher. Hazell, Watson and Viney, Ltd. – printer. -
Softcover, pictorial wrappers, square 21 x 21 cm, 46 leaves, unpaginated, with illustrations in colour, 89 entries, with price list laid in; limited edition of 700 copies. Contributor: Israel Goldman In this collection:
SVJP-0327.2020: Kunisada. Ichikawa Ebizo V (Danjuro VII) in a Shibaraku role / Ōban, 1822; # 50 in the Catalogue.
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Softcover, pictorial wrappers, square 21 x 21 cm, 42 leaves, unpaginated, with illustrations in colour, 80 entries, with price list laid in; limited edition of 700 copies. Contributor: Israel Goldman -
Softcover, pictorial wrappers, square 21 x 21 cm, 48 leaves, unpaginated, with illustrations in colour, 96 entries, with price list laid in; limited edition of 700 copies. Contributor: Israel Goldman In this collection:
SVJP 0251.2018. Utagawa Kuniyoshi. A woman on a terrace dancing with a fan, 1853.
SVJP 0252.2018. Utagawa Kunisada. A woman reading a letter by the light of a lantern, 1840.
SVJP-0253.2018. Utagawa Kunisada. A beauty seated in a boat, 1856.
SVJP-0254.2018. Utagawa Kunisada. A geisha eating edamame aboard the boat of the Atari-ya teahouse, 1860.
SVJP-0250.2018: Toyokuni I. Onoe Matsusuke I as Kudo Saemon Suketsune and Bandō Hikosaburō III as Soga no Goro Tokimune.
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Title: PROCESSES OF | GRAPHIC REPRODUCTION | IN PRINTING | BY | HAROLD CURWEN | [space] | NEW YORK | OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS | 1934 || Pagination: [i-vii] viii-xvi [6] [1-3] 4-142 [2], ills. Collation: 8vo; π3 [A]8 B-K8, 14 plates extraneous to collation, in-text illustrations. Binding: 22.5 x 15.5 cm, dark-blue cloth, remnants of gilt lettering to spine. Edition: 2nd (after the 1st published by Faber and Faber in London, printed by The Curwen Press in Plaistow, the same year, 1934 – [LIB-2840.2021]). Contributors: Harold Curwen (British, 1885 – 1949), grandson of John Curwen (British, 1816 – 1880) The Curwen Press (Plaistow, London) – printer. -
Title: PROCESSES OF | GRAPHIC REPRODUCTION | IN PRINTING | BY | HAROLD CURWEN | [space] | LONDON | FABER AND FABER | 24 RUSSELL SQUARE || Pagination: [i-vii] viii-xvi [6] [1-3] 4-142 [2], ills. Collation: 8vo; π3 [A]8 B-K8, 14 plates extraneous to collation, in-text illustrations; (quire K – 'Binding'). Binding: 22.8 x 15 cm, black cloth, gilt lettering to spine; calligraphic MS bookplate to fep "Dorothy Mahoney | 1942." Edition: 1st edition, printed by The Curwen Press in Plaistow. Contributors: Harold Curwen (British, 1885 – 1949), grandson of John Curwen (British, 1816 – 1880) – author. The Curwen Press (Plaistow, London) – printer. Faber and Faber Limited (London) – publisher. Dorothy Mahoney – provenance; author of the book The Craft Of Calligraphy, first published on October 12th, 1981 by Pelham Books. The 1st American edition was published the same year in New York by Oxford University Press [LIB-2835.2021]. -
Softcover, in pictorial wrappers, 28 x 21.8 cm, 37 entries, with colour illustrations. Catalogue of the sales exhibition on March 3 - April 5, 2008 in NY; pagination: [1-3] 4-102 [2], ils. Contributor: Sebastian Izzard -
NEWHardcover volume 230 x 135 mm, bound in brown buckram with gilt lettering to spine, in craft paper dust jacket with lettering and vignette, and blurb on flaps; collated 8vo: A-O8, i.e. 112 sheets, pp: [1-8] 9-221 [222] [2 blank], plus frontispiece in colour and four leaves of b/w plates after p. 96; First UK edition. Title-page (in cresting frame): THE MEMOIRS | OF AN | EROTIC | BOOKSELLER | by | ARMAND COPPENS | assisted by his | tired wife | CLEMENTINE | and her | distant lover | VOLUME ONE | ⚜ | LONDON: LUXOR PRESS || Imprint: © Armand Coppens, 1969 | Made and printed in | Great Britain by | C. Tinling and Co Ltd | Liverpool, London and Prescot | and | published by | LUXOR PRESS LTD | 50 Alexandra Road | London s w 19 […] || Contributors: Schors, Willem Nicolas [Coppens, Armand] (Dutch, 1925 – 2014) Luxor Press (London) — owner Charles Skilton (British, c.1922 – 1990) -
Cover: John Milton | A Catalogue of Works by or Relating to | John Milton | {vignette portrait} | Catalogue 620 | Issued by | MAGGS BROS. Ltd. | 34 & 35 Conduit Street, New Bond Street | LONDON, W.I. | and at Paris | 1936 || Title page: top left: Catalogue 620; top right: 1936, middle: JOHN MILTON | A CATALOGUE OF WORKS BY OR | RELATING TO JOHN MILTON | Largely comprising the Library of the well-known Milton Scholar, the late | prof. Hugh C. H. Candy, B.A., B Sc. | {coat of arms: by appointment to his majesty King George V} | MAGGS BROS. Ltd. | BOOKSELLERS BY APPOINTMENT TO HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE V | AND H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES | 34 & 35 CONDUIT STREET, LONDON, W.I. | TELEGRAPHIC & CABLE ADDRESS: “BIBLIOLITE, LONDON.” […] TEL.: REGENT 1337 | At Paris: Maggs Bros., 93 & 95 Rue La Boëtie. || Printed: Courier Press Leamington SPA and London. Pagination: [1-4] 5-56 [6], wrappers incl. in pagination, the total number of leaves is 31. Binding: 24 x 18.5 cm, publisher’s tan wrappers, front wrapper detached, browned.
