Bookbinding in Early America: Seven Essays on Masters and Methods. With catalogues of bookbinding tools prepared by Willman Spawn.
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1986. First edition. Fine. Cloth. Octavo.
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1986. First edition. Fine. Cloth. Octavo.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1949. First edition. Bookplate of historian John Haskell Kemble. Very good in very good, lightly edgeworn d.j. Cloth.
London: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1799. Third edition of More’s important work on women’s education, one of her best known and most important, published the same year as the first. Strictures proved immensely successful; a second “corrected” edition was soon published and it had reached a......
London: R B Seeley and W Burnside, 1834. Second edition, corrected from the first of the same year, of the standard biography of Hannah More. Engraved frontisportrait in Volume I. Binding extremities rubbed, some hinges cracking, but sound. Frontisportrait foxed, a little light foxing otherwise, contemporary ownership signature on front.....
London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1844. First edition. Printed by Charles Whittingham the Younger on thick, wove paper in Caslon Old Face (Great Primer leaded). Full-page woodcut coat-of-arms, decorative initials, headpieces, and publisher’s device. A good copy of a book that marked the revival of Caslon types. Half brown.....
Hartford, Conn: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1881. First edition of this rare work by Julia Evelina Smith (1792-1886), a suffragist and the first woman to publish her own complete translation of the Bible. Julia’s sister, the suffragist Abby Hadassah Smith (1797-1879), was the original collector of.....