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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1931. 8vo. Pp. 51. Exhibition plan. Orig. printed boards. The anonymous intro. by S.C.Roberts; cover designed by Stanley Morison (Appleton 287). Handsomely printed by Walter Lewis.

1p., 4to. In good condition. The large and unusual letterhead is the point of interest: it is roughly 17 x 11.5 cm, and mostly taken up with an illustration, printed in red, yellow, green, blue, orange and black, depicting an idealised scene in a Victorian bookseller's shop, with a young lady with bonnet and parasol, two schoolboys in top hats with Eton collars and a bespectackled master in mortar board and robes, the last of whom is examining a book shown to him by an elderly bookseller. At head of letterhead: 'ROYAL WARRANT GRANTED BY QUEEN VICTORIA | ESTABLISHED 1836 | EDUCATIONAL BOOKSELLERS . PUBLISHERS AND SCHOLASTIC STATIONERS'. Stevenson updates Vale on the status of his order, which includes 'Chantry Chapels', 'Auto Nomad', and 'the new books on the Industrial Revolution by Ashton published by the Oxford University Press'.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Introduction by A.N.L. Munby. 96pp, 2 plates, pink card covers. 1,148 books from the library of E.M. Forster. Some sunning at spine area ow about very good copy. Ownership signature of one Helen Morris on cover. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Catalogues 1-172 (complete); Lists 4-8 § 15-20 § 22-33; Stock Lists 1-2 (complete); supplements 1-16, 18 . London, 1923-1992. 21 vols in 4to & 8vo bound in buckram containing 154 catalogues, lists & supplements in their original illustrated or printed wrappers; the remainder offered loose in original wrappers as issued. A comprehensive collection of scholarly, illustrated sale catalogues, lists & supplements issued by the distinguished firm of London antiquarian booksellers founded in 1923, specializing in early printed continental books, bindings & manuscripts. Comprising a complete series of 172 sale catalogues (nos 82 & 95 in photocopy) - nos 1-154 bound (nos 29-48 from the library of John Carter CBE (1905-75), author & bibliographer (signed) - (Sotheby sale 1976); catalogues no 155-172 in original wrappers, as issued; including 24 lists (of 33 issued), stock lists I & II (all issued), supplements 1-16 & 18 (of 18 issued) (1960-1984) - (nos 1-5 bound in buckram.) Overall condition good to very good, except for cat. no 97 (soiled blank margins some tears without loss.) E. Ph. Goldschmidt (1887-1954) collector, bibliographer & aniquarian bookseller, paid special attention to textual questions, bindings and provenances. Offered additionally : (1) Christie's, London, auction catalogue. The Stock and Reference Library of E.P. Goldschmidt & Co. Ltd. London, 8 & 9 July, 1993. 4to. [10] + 383 p, 666 lots. Illustrated. List of prices realized loosely laid in. Laminated illustrated wrappers. Part II contains lots 291-666 of the reference library); some cover illustrations are of early sale catalogues. (2) Goldschmidt, E.Ph. Medieval texts and their first appearance in print. London, Bibliographical Society, 1943. [6] including frontispiece + 143 + [1]p. Publisher's printed wrappers, untrimmed & partially uncut. First edition of one of the author's most influential works ( published as 'Supplement to the Bibliographical Society's Transactions, 16').…

R. J. L. Kingsford, in his history of the Publishers Association, describes Young as 'a bookseller of outstanding character and ability, a friend of Arnold Bennett, and the discoverer of the literary distinction of George Sturt'. 1p., 12mo. Neatly and closely written. Headed 'private', and addressed to 'Dear John'. Young is apparently following a dinner (of the Publishers Association) at which George Bernard Shaw was present, and the subject of the letter would appear to be an exhibition Wilson's firm has mounted of books by the London publisher John Murray. He asks him not to allow his 'remarks of Thursday to drill too deeply into your mind'. From Wilson's 'early note' he fears his remarks may have been taken too seriously. 'Knowing you so well and as you will believe with so considerable a liking, I thought you should be made aware of an outside impression which does exist though has not been expressed to me. It was a criticism of the publisher rather than of you. If you look at it from these outsiders point of view it resolves itself into propaganda for your firm.' From Young's own point of view 'such exhibitions can only do good to the Book trade and I am not minded to consider too personal a point of view. Now you may dismiss this matter from your mind If Murrays and subsequent shows would make it clear that the books exhibited are on sale at all reputable bookshops it might be "A Good Thing" as the author of "1066 and all that" says.' Young concludes: 'I wish I'd stayed another few minutes. - & seen G. B. S. I liked herself very much.' From the papers of John G. Wilson, for information regarding whom see his entry in the Oxford DNB.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Introduction by A.N.L. Munby. 96pp, 2 plates, pink card covers. 1,148 books from the library of E.M. Forster. Some sunning at spine area ow about very good copy. Loosely inserted is a handwritten signed King's College card from A.N.L. Munby (known as 'Tim') to Noel Annan 'Noel I bagged an advance copy of this for you, just in case you fancied anything. Tim.' Lord Annan has ticked 3 items - A Jane Austen, a Dickens and a Kennreth Clark. Signedes.…

1p., 4to. In fair condition, on aged and creased paper. He announces the publication of 'a book of outstanding literary importance, namely Meyerstein's "Life of Chatterton". Meyerstein is undoubtedly the greatest living authority on this subject, and his book, the result of nine years original research, contains much unpublished material. I believe it will be recognised as the standard work on Chatterton for many years to come.' He states that he has 'put a great deal of money and time into this book', and asks Wilson to help him 'make it a success'. The letter concludes: 'Our traveller will call upon you probably tomorrow. I shall be glad to know if you are able to use any prospectuses'.…

120 pages (unpaginated), 12mo. Stitched without covers. In fair condition: worn (particularly the first two leaves) and aged. A marvellous collection, described in a carefully printed and compiled catalogue of 901 lots. A two-page 'Prefatory Note' has a long quotation from one of Meynell's catalogues, beginning: 'My books must at my death be turned to account. What I have to fear (and what I hereby forbid) is that they should be offered as a whole to some insensitive dealer who judges a collection by its bindings, its look of prosperity, the presence of those standard 'rarities' that are to be had from every expensive bookseller and found in every wealthy man's library.' Following the quotation Bumpus (i.e. Wilson) points out that 'Into a large number of entries in this list have been introduced the phrases by which Everard Meynell characterised the book in question in his own notes of his stock and library.' Divided into two roughly equal parts: 'Books written before 1800' and 'Books, Mss. and Letters written after 1800'. The latter include sections of Browning, Coleridge, Coventry Patmore and Rossetti associations. There are also long descriptions of a number of AlsS to Patmore: nine from Robert Bridges (£25); three from Robert Browning and his wife (eighteen guineas); five from Thomas Carlyle (£70); Gerard Manley Hopkins (lots 651 to 655); Francis Thompson (lots 880 to 882); Tennyson (lots 864 and 865); and six letters from Lady Tennyson to Mrs Patmore (eight guineas). Among the single letters offered are items by Mary Shelley (ten guineas) and Robert Louis Stevenson (£65). Scarce: only two copies on OCLC WorldCat.…