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New Haven: (The Graphic Arts Collection in the Yale University Library), 1967. 8vo, quarter brown leather over gray boards, backstrip gilt-lettered, gilt top 27, (4) pp. Color frontispiece and nine plates. Backstrip slightly faded, otherwise as issued. First Edition. #150 of 300 copies. A lecture given by Leonard Baskin at Yale on the occasion of the opening of the Graphic Arts Collection in the Yale University Library on May 9, 1966. Illustrated with plates from books in the Yale collection, showing the... more information

London: Elkin Matthews & Marrot, 1927. Small 4to, original violet-blue paste-paper boards, paper backstrip label. [viii], 9-46 pp. Slightly rubbed at extremities of binding, backstrip mellowed, internally very good. First Edition thus; one of 250 copies on Binda hand-made paper. "The original English text of the poems and epigrams with editorial notes from the Miscellaneous Works, Volume III, London 1778, with the addition of several poems from other sources" (Officina Bodoni Bib.) One of th... more information

Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1970. Small 8vo, 120 pp. Original decorated brown cloth, fine. Bentley, Blake Books, 2327 lists the over twenty essays, here printed in part or whole from anon. to Yeats. ... more information

London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1970. Small 8vo, 120 pp. White and orange printed wrappers. Readings in Literary Criticism 7. Very good. Bentley, Blake Books, 2327 lists the over twenty essays, here printed in part or whole from anon. to Yeats. ... more information

Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1970. Small 8vo, 120 pp. Original decorated brown cloth, fine. Bentley, Blake Books, 2327 lists the over twenty essays, here printed in part or whole from anon. to Yeats. ... more information

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1941. 8vo, xi, 251pp. Original gray card wrappers, light sunning to spine. Full-color frontis. One of 30 copies printed on 100% rage paper. A very good. First edition in original wrappers, one of 30 on rag paper, with a bibliography and index; scarce thus. University of California Publications in History, Vol. 26, (reprinted in 1975). A detailed study of the competition between Spanish, Russian, and American interests to exploit the lucrative Pacific Coast trad... more information

London: Printed for T. Osborne..., 1738. 8vo, [ii], vii [viii, contents], 402 pp. Contemporary calf, backstrip consolidated and upper hinge repaired, rear free endpaper missing, a good clean copy First edition of the first Library Manual in English and one of the earliest (if not the earliest) books in English on old and rare books. DNB notes: ÒIn 1737 Oldys began publishing his own researches in The British Librarian, a miscellaneous bibliographical compilation of rare books and manuscripts. It wa... more information

London, Bombay, and Sydney: Harrop & Company Limited, 1928. 4to, 220pp. Original quarter vellum with blue paper-covered boards; color frontispiece and two color plates tipped in, with 128 additional plates in black-and-white (included in the pagination). Some scuff marks and edge wear to boards, some browning to edges, bumping to bottom of backstrip, else very good and internally bright. Limited edition of 750 for England, and 12 lettered copies (not for sale) for the Editor. This is copy number 722. ... more information

Madison and Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin Press, 1965. 8vo, x [xi-xiv], 224 pages. Black cloth, dust-jacket. Very good. Bentley, Blake Books, 2335. ... more information

Madison and Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin Press, 1965. 8vo, x [xiÐxiv], 224 pp. Black cloth, dust-jacket. Very good. Bentley, Blake Books, 2335: Òa sensitive and responsible commentary on BlakeÕs prosody.Ó ... more information

New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 8vo, 244pp. Three full-page Illustrations. Blue cloth with printed green dust-jacket. Very light edgewear. Very good. First edition. ÒThis book focuses on the tension in Blake's poetry between a hermeneutics of suspicion and a hermeneutics of belief: it offers a new account of the way in which the major prophecies work and of the strategems they employ to consolidate error and so open their readers' eyes to alterity. Central to this reading is a re-d... more information

London: C. Hitch [and 12 others], 1757. 3 vols, small 8vo, with a fine engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. 1by Miller after Beal, contemporary calf, neatly restored, vol. 3 backstrip restored and label obscured. Old signature of B. Bayley 1766 in vol. 3. Pleasant reading set of Otway, the restoration dramatist renowned for his tragedies and comedies. The first collected edition of Otway appeared in 1712; this is the second, followed by printings in 1768, 1812, and the Nonesuch Press edition of 1926. ... more information