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Author, Title, Summary Price
J[ames] Rodwell, bookseller "late Partner with & Successor to Mr. Faulder" (BBTI does not mention the partnership)

Receipted Invoice, printed heading, account of Lord Glenbervie, signed "C.W. Keller" pp. Rodwell (see BBTI for identifiable dealer 1839 - not mentioned as Rodwell's assistant)

One page, 7 x 4.5", good condition. Annual Register

£35.00
James Asperne (1757-1820), bookseller of Cornhill, London, and proprietor of the 'European Magazine' [Freemasonry; Masonic]

Proof engraving, by T. Blood, from painting by Samuel Drummond, A.R.A., of Asperne as Freemason.

Dimensions of paper roughly twelve inches by ten; dimensions of print roughly nine and a half inches by seven and a half. A good clear impression, on aged, creased paper, of a striking illustration showing a portly and sleek Asperne, beautifully turned out in Freemason's robes and paraphernalia...

£125.00 Asperne
James Crokatt, Fleet Street bookseller

Engraved Trade Card in form of receipt.

Dimensions roughly one and a half inches by two inches. One page, blank verso. Tipped in on piece of yellow paper. Within ruled border. An attractive item, with an illustration of key at head. Beneath this, in copperplate, 'Bought of I: Crokatt | at the Golden Key near | ye. Inner-Temple-Gate |...

£225.00
Johannes Gutenberg, German printer; Peter Stent (fl.1643-67), London printseller; Richard Gaywood (fl.1644-68), English engraver

Engraved portrait of Gutenberg by Gaywood, mounted on piece of paper with painted decorations.

Good clean image of a seventeenth-century engraving, from an earlier idealised portrait of the putative 'father of printing'. It is of irregular shape, the background having been carefully cut away. Neatly mounted on piece of beige paper, illustrated with a brown pseudo-frame with decorative...

£100.00 Gutenberg
John Thomas Smith (1766-1833), artist and antiquary

Engraving of bearded man walking while reading a book.

On wove paper roughly eleven inches by seven and three-quarters; dimensions of print roughly seven inches by four and a half. Image clear and unaffected, on paper aged and creased, with some staining to extremities. Smith's monogram in bottom left-hand corner. The figure is formally dressed, in...

£80.00
LSL [ Luther S. Livingston]

Beverly Chew and his Books

Pamphlet, 8pp., 12mo, blank wraps except inside back wrap ("Reprinted from The Nation / 50 Copies"), minor damage at one staple, mainly good. Enclosed: printed anonymous poem entitled "It Takes a Book", one page (verso blank), 12mo, the theme of which is that you can trust a friend to return...

£80.00
M[atthew]. Carey, American bookseller and publisher

[CATALOGUE] Modern Publications, and New Editions of Valuable Standard Works, Printed for M. Carey . . ."

[24]pp., 12mo, unbound (formerly bound into a book?), crude repair to spine, partly detached leaves, foxing, text clear and complete. Subjects; Voyages, Travels, Geography, and Topography; Miscellaneous; Divinity; Medicine, Surgery and Chemistry; Novels, Romances, etc.; Education (most...

£580.00
Nathan Haskell Dole, editor.

Book Culture, vol. 1, nos 1-4 [of 7, all published]

Pp. 16' 16; 32-56; 57-80, one coloured frontispiece.Some wear and tear, marking and sunning, fair condition, complete. Articles and advertising aimed at the book-collector (for example "A Prince of Collectors" (Jean Grolier)).

£50.00
Percy J. Dobell, bookseller.

Two Autograph Notes Signed "P.J. Dobell" to C.J. Windle.

4to, good condition. Dobell describes a defective "tract" ("A Precious Apple") and speculates on its authorship (Lady Eleanor Douglas). He will send it to be examined. Another hand (presumably Windle) has added pencil notes on the reference works which do not list the item and speculating "...

£50.00
R. A. Brimmell; Boris Harding-Edgar (Charles Rare Books)

A co-operative [booksellers'] catalogue' entitled 'Detective Fiction: A Century of Crime: First and Early Editions'.

Forty-four pages, octavo, with two-page leaf of addenda loosely inserted. Four pages illustrating seventeen pictorial covers on art paper. In printed card wraps. A worn and creased copy of an influential catalogue, issued at a time when, as the introduction points out 'catalogues devoted to...

£120.00
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