Great catalogues by master booksellers : a selection of American and English booksellers' catalogues, 19th-21st century /
"The author has selected one hundred forty catalogues from amongst tens of thousands viewed during his time at the Lilly Library at Indiana University, The Harry Ransom Center at University of Texas at Austin, New York's Grolier Club, and the Huntington Library in San Marino. The individua...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin, Texas :
Roger Beacham, Publisher,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "The author has selected one hundred forty catalogues from amongst tens of thousands viewed during his time at the Lilly Library at Indiana University, The Harry Ransom Center at University of Texas at Austin, New York's Grolier Club, and the Huntington Library in San Marino. The individuals and firms represented include the giants of the last one hundred fifty years of bookselling, names such as Breslauer, Eberstadt, ExLibris, Les Enluminures, Fleming, Goldschmidt, Goodspeed, Kraus, Maggs, Quaritch, Reese, Rosenbach, and Rostenberg & Stern, as well as more contemporary booksellers who will be seen in retrospect, if they are not already, as giants themselves." |
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| Item Description: | "This first edition was designed by William R. Holman in an edition of 500 copies in 2017. The text was set by Barbara Mathews Whitehead in Jan Tschichold's Sabon. Four hundred copies are bound in red cloth. Of these, 150 copies are reserved for my collaborators, friends, and family. Each of the 100 Special Copies is bound by Raoul Bollin at the Bollin Bookbindery in San Diego, CA, in quarter morocco over marbled paper-covered boards. The combination of 10 colors of morocco and the colors and patterns of 50 marbled papers render each copy unique. A copy of the 2017 quasi-facsimile edition of The Scribner Book Store's A Catalogue of Original Manuscripts and First and Other Important Editions of the Tales of Sherlock Holmes, as Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is housed in the slipcase with the Special Copies. The Special Copies are numbered and signed by Payne, Holman, and Zimmerman"--Colophon. The Cushing Library/Lit./Mitchell copy is inscribed by the author. |
| Physical Description: | xxii, 485 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles ; 32 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and author/name index. |
| ISBN: | 0976604426 9780976604426 |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Texas -- Austin. |