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299. Marshall, Nancy H. THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRA-
PHY OF CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE'S IMMORTAL POEM. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press,
2002, 4to., cloth, dust jacket. 324 pages, 24 pages of color plates. ISBN 9781584560715. $75.00 $56.25
First edition. This bibliography is the first comprehensive work ever undertaken to document the publication
history of the most famous work in all Christmas literature. The Night Before Christmas poem was written over 180
years ago, and it has never been out of print. With more than 1,000 entries including 144 color illustrations of
historic first editions, this book is a collector's dream. Mrs. Marshall has spent a lifetime collecting and organizing
the works listed in this extraordinary bibliography. Seven detailed indexes, an historical essay describing the St.
Nicholas legend, Clement Moore, and the origin of the poem make this an essential reference tool for collectors of
Christmas memorabilia. [Order No. 69264]
300. (Von Amsdorf, Nikolaus) Kolb, Robert. NIKOLAUS VON AMSDORF (1483-1565). POPU-
LAR POLEMICS IN THE PRESERVATION OF LUTHER`S LEGACY. Nieuwkoop: HES & DE
GRAAF, 1978, 8vo, cloth. 296 pages. ISBN 9789060043547. $130.00 $97.50
Deals with Amsdorf's role in developing the understanding of Luther in the years after his death. (Bibliotheca
Humanistica & Reformatorica, Vol. XXIV). With portrait. Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES
& DE GRAAF Publishers. [Order No. 103550]
301. Loy, William E. (edited by Alastair M. Johnston and Stephen O. Saxe). NINETEENTH-CEN-
TURY AMERICAN DESIGNERS AND ENGRAVERS OF TYPE. New Castle, Delaware: Oak
Knoll Press, 2009, 9 x 12 inches, hardcover, dust jacket. 164 pages. ISBN 9781584562610. $59.95 $44.96
In 1896 William E. Loy, a San Francisco printing equipment salesman and scholar, had the idea of writing a series
of profiles of type designers. Loy took a long view of history, and realized that it was important to document the
men in the background who created the nineteenth century's fanciful types, even as the furiously competing type
foundries got the credit for introducing them to the printing trade. His work was serialized in The Inland Printer
over the next three years and included biographies, photographs of the artists, and lists of the type they had
designed or cut, which Loy had painstakingly compiled through correspondence with the type founders and other
craftsmen. Unfortunately, due to the technical limitations of a monthly periodical, it was not possible to show the
typefaces mentioned. Finally here is the work as Loy envisioned it, with over 800 illustrations of typefaces
designed by the craftsmen he discusses. Here, written by a man who knew many of the designers and engravers, is
the behind-the-scenes story: biographies of men - artists, sportsmen, blacksmiths, soldiers, even a game warden -
who were the creators of these innovative types. Loy traces their personal stories adding much incidental detail
about the politics & business practices of the time and the innovations of each of these thirty men. Now, a century
later, typographical historians Alastair Johnston and Stephen Saxe have realized Loy's vision, fully illustrated and
annotated. [Order No. 96679]
302. Wolff, Robert Lee. NINETEENTH-CENTURY FICTION, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATA-
LOGUE BASED ON THE COLLECTION FORMED BY ROBERT LEE WOLFF. Five volumes in
two. Mansfield, CT: Maurizio Martino Publisher, 1993, thick 8vo., cloth. 1,400 pages. $225.00 $168.75
Reprint of the first edition. An important supplement to Sadleir's XIX Century Fiction. Four times its length with
emphasis on minor writers of the time, Wolff's collection also contains manuscript material herein transcribed.
With illustrations of bindings. Full bibliographic descriptions and collations given. [Order No. 52724]
303. Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel. NINETEENTH-CENTURY PRINTING PRACTICES AND
THE IRON HANDPRESS. Two volumes. New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press and the British
Library, 2004, small 4to., unbound sheets. 1152 pages. ISBN 1-58456-100-9. $55.00 $41.25
First edition. Set of unbound sheets suitable for binding. Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress
is encyclopedic in its examination of printing techniques from the late-seventeenth century through the nineteenth
century. Using selected readings from printers' manuals - beginning with Joseph Moxon's Mechanick Exercises on
the Whole Art of Printing, 1683, and culminating with John Southward's Practical Printing, 1900 - Gabriel
Rummonds has distilled over two hundred years of printers' wisdom into this very readable and important work
on iron handpresses and how they were used in the nineteenth century. With almost five hundred rare and scarce
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