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company (which printed this book), establish a noted publishing house and develop a web based information
resource for the study of library history. [Order No. 90815]
284. Staikos, Konstantinos Sp. THE MIRROR OF THE LIBRARY. With an Introduction to the
Reader by Robert D. Fleck. (New Castle, DE): Oak Knoll Press, 2006, 8vo., full leather, deckle edges,
paper cover label. 52 pages. ISBN 9781584562023. $95.00 $71.25
Limited to 900 numbered copies of which this is one of 200 printed by hand at the Kotinos Press in Athens, Greece
on special paper and bound thus. [Order No. 90816]
285. (Private Libraries Association) Chambers, David (editor). A MODEST COLLECTION: PRI-
VATE LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION, 1956-2006. Pinner, Middlesex: Private Libraries Association,
2007, 6.25 x 9.75 inches, hardcover. 378 pages. ISBN 9780900002670. $60.00 $45.00
First edition. Here, in the guise of a history of the Private Libraries Association, is an account of the friendships of
its members over the past fifty years. The book contains the story of the Association and a bibliography of its
publications, but perhaps the most interesting portions are the brief essays by over eighty members about their
collections, with photographs of many of these individuals and illustrations taken from the collections. Their
specialties range from illustrated books and early private presses to Australiana, golf, the history of the automobile
and surgery. There is a retail price index at the end of the book, which will prove very useful when recounting
book prices over the last 50 years. Distributed for the Private Libraries Association. [Order No. 94201]
286. (Art) Nagler, G.K. (editor). DIE MONOGRAMMISTEN, UND DIEJENIGEN BEKANNTEN
UND UNBEKANNTEN KUNSTLER ALLER SCHULEN, WELCHE SICH ZUR BEZEICH-
NUNG IHRER WERKE EINES FIGURLICHEN ZEICHENS, DER INITIALEN DES NAMENS,
DER ABBREVIATUR DESSELBEN, &C., BEDIENT HABEN. Five volumes. Mansfield Centre, CT:
Martino Publishing, (2002), 8vo., cloth. (iv),xviii,1088; (iv),viii,1121+(1); (iv),iv,1143+(1); (iv),1155+(1);
(vi),436+(index) iv,109+(1) pages. ISBN 1578983509. $475.00 $356.25
A reprint of the original edition, published by George Franz, München, 1858-79 (Arntzen & Rainwater, Guide to
the Literature of Art History, E58). The standard work on artists' monograms, illustrated with more than 30,000
facsimiles. An indispensable tool to identify artists who signed themselves only by their monogram or similar
devices. Thousands of these artists were also book illustrators, hence this work's importance for books as well as
fine art in general. Nagler begins by giving an exact facsimile of the monogram, followed by the artist's name, a
biographical sketch, list of works, and books illustrated by him. This edition also includes an index of artists'
names at the end of the fifth volume. [Order No. 73391]
287. Leroy, David H. MR. LINCOLN'S BOOK: PUBLISHING THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS
DEBATES. New Castle, DE & Chicago, IL: Oak Knoll Press & Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, 2009, 6 x 9
inches, cloth, dust jacket. 228 pages. ISBN 9781584562443. $49.95 $37.46
Here, for the first time in a detailed and readable account focusing on Lincoln's personal involvement, Dave Leroy
writes the full story with original correspondence, contemporary newspaper accounts, and photos and
illustrations of the day to carry the reader from the dejected debater of 1858 to the surprise president of 1860 who
rode a political bestseller to the White House. Perhaps the last remaining Lincoln mystery is also explained at
length: did Lincoln make one or two paste-up scrapbooks of the original newspaper texts of his and Douglas'
verbatim debate remarks? If only one existed, why did a New York newspaper account hint at another in
December, 1860? If there were two, what became of the second? Like a lawyer before a jury, Leroy marshals the
facts to let the reader decide. It is a rare day when something novel is published about Abraham Lincoln's life and
work. Yet 20,000 volumes later, Mr. Lincoln's Book is an unknown study, well researched and compellingly told.
The printed volume is accompanied by a CD-ROM containing a complete copy of Lincoln's scrapbook of the
debates, copies and transcriptions of Lincoln's correspondence, and some related political cartoons and
photographs. [Order No. 99275]
288. (Zenger, John Peter) Botein, Stephen (editor). MR. ZENGER'S MALICE AND FALSEHOOD:
SIX ISSUES OF THE NEW-YORK WEEKLY JOURNAL, 1733-34. Worcester: American Antiquarian
Society, 1985, tall 8vo., stiff paper wrappers. 48, (2) pages. ISBN 0912296739. $10.00 $7.50
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