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Dorking, Surrey, England [Recycling; the Environment; the Green Party; Publishing History; Bookselling; the Book Trade; Austerity] Advertisement for 'Dorking Urban District Book, Waste Paper and Cardboard Drive'. Striking advertisement, in red ink, on one side of a piece of paper roughly seven inches by seventeen wide. With something of a prewar feel, it reads 'DORKING URBAN DISTRICT | BOOK, WASTE PAPER | and CARDBOARD DRIVE | [in box on right] 12th April | TO | 1st May | 1948 [end of boxed text] | Save... |
£45.00 |
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E. Handscomb, bookseller [add date to BBTI] Manuscript Invoice/Receipt Signed to "Mrs Forbes", Ampthill, [Bedfordshire] One page, 8vo, minor damage and staining. The invoice is to the account of [J?] Handscomb but the receipt is signed by "E. Hanscomb" identifiable with Eb Handscomb perhaps in BBTI though the dates are a problem. Apparently unrelated figures in pencil on reverse. |
£50.00 | |
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E[dward]. Newbery, Bookseller, Corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, London Printed Advertisement Leaf advertising Mavor's 'Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries'. Two pages, on leaf roughly eight and a half inches by five. Very good, with three stab holes along one margin. Headed 'NEW COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, [...] This Day is published'. On the reverse is a long and florid 'ADDRESS' beginning 'As we have now closed our labours, it is natural to... |
£60.00 | |
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Ed. Elke Sadeghi and others. Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, vols. I-IV Four vols, simply bound in variant colours, good condition. Ex lib (Public Library) but latterly from the Reference Library of Peter Eaton (Booksellers) Ltd, library stamp, and number on spine. The periodiocal which best informed booksellers and collecvors from its institution. |
£750.00 | |
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Edward Verrall Lucas (1868-1938), English author; Grant Richards (1872-1948), English publisher The collection as a whole is in good condition, although lightly creased in places and somewhat dusty and aged. All items have unobtrusive pinholes, and Item Seven has fraying and closed tears to extremities. An interesting correspondence casting light on publishing practices at the turn of the... |
£220.00 | |
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Eliz[abeth] Harris, bookseller, stationer, printer, bookbinder (adds to BBTI) Receipt, printed heading, signed "E Harris". One page, 6.5 x 5.5", good condition. Payment for one number of "Blackwood's Magazine". Note spelling "Recieved". |
£75.00 | |
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Fernand De Nobele, French bookseller; Josephine Beaudouin (c.1910-2005), French illustrator Beautifully printed bifolium on thick wove paper. Dimensions of leaf roughly thirteen inches by ten; dimensions of illustration roughly nine and a half inches by eight. Tissue guard. Recto of first leaf and verso of second blank. Letterpress on verso of first leaf reads 'Fernand De Nobele,... |
£120.00 | |
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Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe [Baron Corvo] [George Frederick Sims] A Catalogue of Letters, Manuscript Papers and Books of Frederick Rolfe (Baron Corvo). Eighteen pages, octavo, with four plates on art paper. In original grey printed wraps. Some light staining, creasing and wear. One of 600 copies. Lists seventy-seven items, with addenda of a further eleven. This milestone catalogue was published, according to Sims (A Life in Catalogues, 1994),... |
£75.00 | |
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Gaetano Donizetti [Charles Jefferys and Co., 21 Soho Square] Poster for English publication of the score of Donizetti's opera 'La Favorite' ['The Favourite']. Roughly twelve and half inches by nine and a quarter. Neatly mounted on piece of cream paper, with surrounding ink rules. Good, with some ruckling and wear to corners. Characteristically arresting arrangement of type. Reads: 'CAUTION. | THE ONLY CORRECT COPY | OF DONIZETTI'S OPERA | THE... |
£60.00 | |
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George Burbage (died 1807), eighteenth-century Nottingham printer, bookseller and stationer Fragment of printed advertisement. One page. On leaf roughly nine and a half inches by seven wide. Aged, with frayed edges, and with slight loss to head, affecting decorative border, and extensive loss at foot, involving several lines of text. Begins 'G. BURBAGE, PRINTER, BOOKSELLER and STATIONER; ON THE LONG ROW, NOTTINGHAM,... |
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