A CHECKLIST OF BOOKS PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM PICKERING 1820 - 1853 ... WITH ESSAYS BY JOSEPH BLUMENTHAL AND ARTHUR WARREN
2003. · Pomona, NY
by [Pickering, William]: Kelly, Jerry [comp]
Pomona, NY: Kelly-Winterton Press, 2003.. Gilt cloth and boards. Portrait. Facsimiles and tipped-in leaves. Fine copy. First edition. From an edition of three hundred copies, this is one of 180 copies specially bound, with four original leaves from Pickering imprints tipped in. An excellent reference, supplanting Keynes's checklist (1924/69), augmented with Jerry Kelly's own essay on "The Earliest Revivals of Caslon Old-Face Types," Warren's "The Collaboration Between Charles Whittingham & William Pickering," and Blumenthal's "William Pickering, Publisher: An Appreciation." Includes reproductions of sample title-pages and texts. (Inventory #: WRCLIT50710)