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description, price, cross references with the standard bibliographies of the day and short but useful annotations.
With thirty-five black-and-white illustrations throughout. [Order No. 64871]
140. Winans, Robert B. DESCRIPTIVE CHECKLIST OF BOOK CATALOGUES SEPARATELY
PRINTED IN AMERICA 1693-1800. Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1981, 8vo., cloth.
xxxi, 207 pages. ISBN 091229647x. $37.50 $28.13
First edition. Excellent book describing over 300 book catalogues separately issued in America before 1801 by
booksellers, publishers, auctioneers, and libraries. Includes locations of copies of the catalogues when known.
Most complete listing to date. Printed at the Stinehour Press. [Order No. 5062]
141. Hudson, Graham. THE DESIGN AND PRINTING OF
EPHEMERA IN BRITAIN AND AMERICA, 1720-1920. New
Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library,
2008, 8.5 x 11 inches, Hardcover, dust jacket. 160 pages. ISBN
9781584562245. $65.00 $48.75
First edition. Ephemera has been collected for many years, but only
recently has it become widely accepted as material for academic study.
This is the first book to discuss ephemera as an aspect of design history,
showing how function, production process and period have affected the
changing appearance of billheads, trade cards, flyers, playbills and other
ephemera. This book explores the closely interwoven printing histories of
Britain and America. Richly illustrated with letterforms, engravings,
drawings and the reproduction of over 200 items of ephemera, many in
full color, this is a book for collectors, students, design historians and all
with an interest in the visual arts. Sales rights: North and South America;
available elsewhere from The British Library [Order No. 95868]
142. Lerner, Abe. DESIGNING A BOOK. New York: The Typophiles, 1993, small 8vo., paper
wrappers. (16) pages. $25.00 $18.75
Printed in an edition limited to 800 copies printed at the Stinehour Press. Typophile Monograph, New Series, No.
10. Abe Lerner discuss the making of the Typophile Chap Books Bibliography. Distributed for the Typophiles by
Oak Knoll Press. [Order No. 61089]
143. (Medicine) Sudhoff, Karl. DEUTSCHE MEDIZINISCHE INKUNABELN. (Mansfield Centre:
Martino Fine Books, n.d. but 1999), 8vo., cloth. xxiv, 278 pages. ISBN 1578981344. $60.00 $45.00
Reprint of the 1908 first edition published in Leipzig by Johann Ambrosius Barth (Besterman 3773). 464 books
described in detail covering the incunabula of German medical books. [Order No. 55466]
144. Plomer, H.R., G.H. Bushness, E.R. McC. Dix. A DICTIONARY OF THE PRINTERS AND
BOOKSELLERS WHO WERE AT WORK IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND FROM
1726 TO 1775. Mansfield Centre: Martino Publishing, 2008, 8vo., cloth. xxi, 432 pages. $75.00 $56.25
Reprint of the 1932 first edition. Among the most significant undertakings of the Bibliographical Society in the
U.K. were the dictionaries of early English printers and booksellers, which with this edition extends the account
through 1775. This is the fourth in a series of dictionaries covering the period from 1557; (1) A dictionary of
printers and booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland... 1557-1640, edited by R.B. McKerrow. 1910. (2)
1641-1667, by H.R. Plomer. 1907. (3) 1608-1725, by H.R. Plomer. 1922. The organization of the dictionary is
alphabetical by subject. Dates for publishing activity are provided, as are associations with other printers and
publishers, such as employment history and apprenticeship. The Dictionary also provides short biographical
sketches based on available information. Contains circa 3000 individuals active in the trade during the period.
[Order No. 100084]
145. Ruysch, Frederik. DILUCIDATIO VALVULARUM IN VASIS LYMPHATICIS ET LAC-
TEIS 1665. FACSIMILE OF THE FIRST EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A.M.
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