VOLUME 105:1 MARCH 2011
Sixteenth-Century Editions of Medieval Catalan Works in North American Collections By
AGEMMA AVENOZA and LOURDES SORIANOConstructive Misreadings: Adams, Turgot, and the American State Constitutions By
WILL SLAUTER
Sampson Low: Organizer of the Victorian Book Trade By
JAMES J. BARNES and
PATIENCE P.
BARNES
BOOK REVIEWS
Abbott, Steven. Gore Vidal: A Bibliography, 1940–2009. (MICHAEL C. AMROZOWICZ)
Bauer, Arnold J. The Search for the Codex Cardona: On the Trail of a Sixteenth-Century Mexican Treasure. (DANIEL J. SLIVE)
Cruz, Laura. The Paradox of Prosperity: The Leiden Booksellers’ Guild and the Distribution of Books in Early Modern Europe. (PAUL DIJTELBERGE)
Hagstrom, Jack W. C., and Bill Morgan. James Ingram Merrill: A Descriptive Bibliography. (MICHAEL C. AMROZOWICZ)
Hellinga, Lotte, ed. Printing in England in the Fifteenth Century: E. Gordon Duff’s Bibliography with Supplementary Descriptions, Chronologies, and a Census of Copies. (SCOTT GWARA)
Howsam, Leslie. Past into Print: The Publishing of History in Britain, 1850–1950. (SCOTT E. CASPER)
Hudson, Graham. The Design and Printing of Ephemera in Britain and America, 1720–1920. (KATHLEEN WHALEN MOSS)
Kallendorf, Crain. A Catalogue of the Junius Spencer Morgan Collection of Virgil in the Princeton University Library. (MARTIN DAVIES)
Loy, William E. Nineteenth-Century American Designers and Engravers of Type. (SIDNEY E. BERGER)
Parisian, Catherine M. The First White House Library: A History and Annotated Catalogue. (JEFFREY H. RICHARDS)
Runge, Laura L., and Pat Rogers, ed. Producing the Eighteenth-Century Book: Writers and Publishers in England, 1650–1800. (JAMES RAVEN)
Schoonover, John R., and Louise Schoonover Smith. Frank E. Schoonover Catalogue Raisonnè. (JOHN NEAL HOOVER)
Sillars, Stuart. The Illustrated Shakespeare, 1709–1875. (ALAN R. YOUNG)
Stray, Christopher. Classical Books: Scholarship and Publishing in Britain since 1800. (ROBERT H. F. CARVER)
Sumner, James. The Mysterious Marbler. With an Historical Introduction, Notes on the English Marbling Tradition… and Der Vollkommne Papierfäber…. (SIDNEY E. BERGER)
Todd, Janet, and Linda Bree, eds. Jane Austen: Later Manuscripts. (WILLIAM BAKER)
Tomita, Soko. A Bibliographical Catalogue of Italian Books Printed in England, 1558–1603. (PAOLA ARRIGONI)
Van der Veen, Sytze. Brill: 325 Years of Scholarly Publishing. (ADRIAAN VAN DER WEEL)
Watkins, Larissa P., and Joan K. Sansbury,
eds. Burnsiana: A Bibliography of the William R. Smith Collection in the
Library of the Supreme Council, 33o,
S.J. (ELIZABETH
SUDDUTH)
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED
Alison, Jennifer. Doing Something for Australia: George Robertson and the Early Years of Angus and Robertson, Publishers, 1888-1900. Melbourne, Vic.: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. xii, 318 pp. Illus. Boards, $49.95 (isbn 978-09751500-3-0).
Alston, R. C. Inventory of Sale Catalogues of Named and Attributed Owners of Books Sold by Retail or Auction, 1676-1800. An Inventory of Sales in the British Isles, America, the United States, Canada, and India. Yeardon, Yorks.: Privately printed by Smith Settle for the author, 2010. 2 vols. (1,191 pp.) Facsims. Cloth, ₤450.00 (isbn not given). Distributed by the author: 67 Ocean City, St. Philip, Barbados, BB 18092.
Aplin, John. The Inheritance of Genius: A Thackeray Family Biography, 1798-1875. Cambridge, Engl.: Lutterworth Press, 2010. xv, 309 pp. Illus. Paper, £25.00 (isbn 978-0-7188-9224-1).
The Book Collector 59, no. 3 (2010).
Cloud, Gerald W. John Rodker’s Ovid Press; A Bibliographical History. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2010. viii, 138 pp. Illus. Cloth, $55.00 (isbn 978-1-58456-286-3).
Cooke, Simon. Illustrated Periodicals of the 1860s: Contexts & Collaborations. Pinner, Middlesex: Private Libraries Association; London: British Library; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2010. 228 pp. Illus. Cloth, $75.00 (isbn 978-0-900002-28-x PLA; 978-0-7123-5095-2 BL; 978-1-58456-275-7 OKP).
Cope, Kevin L., and Robert C. Leitz, III, general eds. ECCB: The Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography. N.S. Volume 31 for 2005. New York: AMS Press, 2010. 622 pp. Cloth, $345.00 (isbn 0-404-62231-6; issn 0161-0996).
Cope, Kevin L., and Robert C. Leitz, III, general eds. ECCB: The Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography. N.S. Volume 32 for 2006. New York: AMS Press, 2010. 573 pp. Cloth, $345.00 (isbn 0-404-62200-3; issn 0161-0996).
Earle, T. F. Portuguese Writers and English Readers: Books by Portuguese Writers Printed before 1640 in the Libraries of Oxford and Cambridge. (Oxford Bibliographical Society Publications. Third series, 6.) Oxford, Eng.: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2009. lxxxvi, 237 pp. Hardboard, £40.00 (isbn 0-901420-57-3).
Eggert, Paul, and Peter Shillingsburg, eds. Anglo-American Scholarly Editing, 1980-2055. Ecdotica special issue 6 (2009), 1-425. €43.50 (isbn 978-88-430-5366-7)
Etherington, Don. Bookbinding & Conservation: A Sixty-year Odyssey of Art and Craft. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2010. xi, 156 pp. Col. illus., ports. Cloth, $49.95 (isbn 978-1-58456-277-1).
Gadd, Ian, ed. The History of the Book in the West: 1455-1700. (The History of the Book in West: A Library of Critical Essays, vol. 2.) Farham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010. xlii, 526 pp. Illus. Cloth, ₤130.00 or $250.00 (isbn 978-0-7546-2771-5).
Kiebuzinski, Ksenya. Through Foreign Latitudes & Unknown Tomorrows: Three Hundred Years of Ukranian Émigré Political Culture. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 12 October 2010 – 13 January 2011. Toronto, ON: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, 2010. 102 pp. Illus. Paper, Can. $20.00 (isbn 978-0-7727-6083-8).
Knight, Jesse F. and Stephen Darley. The Last of the Great Swashbucklers: A Bio-Bibliography of Raphael Sabatini. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2010. viii, 150 pp. Col. Illus. Cloth, $65.00 (isbn 978-1-58456-279-5).
Larkin, Jack, and Caroline Sloat, eds. A Place in my Chronicle: A New Edition of the Diary of Christopher Columbus Baldwin, 1829-1835. Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 2010. xliii, 322p. Illus. Cloth, $55.00 (isbn 978-1-929545-64-3). Distributed by Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, DE.
Luey, Beth. Expanding the American Mind: Books and the Popularization of Knowledge. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. 218 pp. Paper, $24.95 (isbn 978-1-55849-816-7).
McGuinne, Dermot. Irish Type Design: A History of Printing Types in the Irish Character. With a Foreword by Henrik D. L. Vervliet. [2nd enl. ed.]. Dublin, Irel. National Print Museum; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2010. viii, 219 pp. Illus., facsims. Paper, $55.00 (isbn 978-09543799-6).
Main, Peter. Peter Lunn, Children’s Publisher: The Books, Authors, and Illustrators. Stirling, Eng.: Lomax Press, 2010. 206 pp. Illus. Boards, £32.00 (isbn 978-0-9560288-1-5).
Meriton, John, and Carol Dumontet, eds. Small Books for the Common Man: A Descriptive Bibliography. London: British Library; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2010. 1008 pp. Col. illus. $115.00 (isbn 978-0-7123-5021-1 BL; 978-1-58456-254-2 OKP).
Notaker, Henry. Printed Cookbooks in Europe, 1470-1700: A Bibliography of Early Modern Culinary Literature. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; Houten, Netherlands: HES and De Graaf, 2010. ix, 395 pp. Illus. Cloth, $125.00 or €125.00 (isbn 978-58456-253-5 OAK, 978-90-6194-270-2 Europe).
The Illiad, Homer, Alexander Pope. The Odyssey, Homer, Alexander Pope. Introduction by Steven Shankman; Art by Avery Lawrence. Chestertown, MD: Chester River Press, 2009. 2 vols. in slipcase (xii, 499; 397pp.) Col. illus. Cloth, $350.00 (isbn 978-0-9823403-2-5).
Sweet Land of Cyrus: The EuropeanCartography of Cyprus, 15th – 19th Century, From the Sylvia Ioannou Collection. Athens, Greece: Adventure A. E., 2003. 237 pp. Illus. Paper, $75.00 (isbn 960-87792-1-9).
Tselikas, Agamemnon, ed. The Isolario of Antonio Millo. Transcription of the Italian original. Athens, Greece: Adventure publications, 2006. xlix, 300p. Illus. Cloth. $115.00 (isbn 978-960-87792-2-8). Distributed by Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, DE.
York, Neil Longley. Henry Hulton and the American Revolution: An Outsider’s Inside View. (Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachessetts, vol. 80.) Boston, MA: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2010; Distributed by the University Press of Virginia, 2010. 461 pp. Illus. Cloth, $49.50 (isbn 978-0-9794662-8-1).
Zacharakis, Chrisos G. A Catalogue of Printed Maps of Greece, 1477-1800. 3rd ed., fully rev. and enl. Athens, Greece: Adventure S. A., 2009. 357 pp. Illus. Cloth, $215.00 (isbn 978-960-87792-4-2). Distributed by Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, DE.
VOLUME 105:2 JUNE 2011
The Shape of Incunable
Survival and Statistical Estimation of Lost Editions
By
Jonathan Green, Frank McIntyre, and
Paul Needham
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
An Eighteenth-Century Manuscript of La nouvelle Messaline By June Schlueter
An Unknown American Lewis
Carroll Bibliographer By
Clare Imholtz
and Selwyn Goodacre
review essays
On the Trail of Edmund Curll By James E. May
New and Newer Bibliographies By David Greetham
Liberty, Speech, and Print in Early Modern England By T. H. Howard-Hill
The Sense of an Ending? By
Andrew Nash
boo
k reviewsAvramov, Iordan,
Michael Hunter, and Hideyuki Yoshimoto. Boyle’s Books: The Evidence of His
Citations.
(Scott Mandelbrote)
Bode, Katherine, and
Robert Dixon, eds. Resourceful Reading: The New Empiricism, eResearch, and
Australian Literary
Culture. (Margaret
Sankey)
Davidson, Adele. Shakespeare in Shorthand: The Textual Mystery of "King Lear." (Richard Knowles)
Fitzgerald, Carol. Series Americana: Post Depression-Era Regional Literature, 1938–1980…. (James R. Kelly)
Foot, Mirjam M. A Catalogue of South-European Bindings. (Federico Macchi)
Horrocks, Thomas A.,
ed. A Monument More Durable than Brass: The Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of
Dr. Samuel
Johnson: An Exhibition. (Anthony
Tedeschi)
Mandelbrote, Giles and
Barry Taylor, eds. Libraries Within the Library: The Origins of the British
Library’s Printed Collections.
(A. S. G. Edwards)
Rees, Graham, and
Maria Wakely. Publishing, Politics, and Culture: The King’s Printers in the
Reign of James I and VI.
(John A. Buchtel)
Richards, David Alan. Rudyard Kipling: A Bibliography. (William Baker)
Shefrin, Jill. The Dartons, Publishers of Educational Aids, Pastimes, and Juvenile Ephemera, 1787–1876: A Bibliographic Checklist.… (Clive Hurst)
Sherlock, Meredith, Brian McMullin, and Wallace Kirsop, eds. Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love. (Kathleen Coleridge)
Signaroli, Simone.
Maestri e tipografi a Brescia (1471–1518)… (Paul
F. Gehl)
short reviews
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED
Baker, William, and Gerald N. Wachs. Tom Stoppard: A Bibliographical History. London: British Library; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2010. xlviii, 446 pp. + CD-Rom of illus. Illus. Cloth, £ or $79.95 (isbn 978-0-7123-4966 BL; 978-1-58456-285-6 OAP).
Bland, Mark. A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. x, 230 pp. Illus. Cloth, £60.00 or $99.99 (isbn 978-1-4051-2412-6).
Booton, Diane E. Manuscripts, Market and the Transition to Print in Late Mediaeval Brittany. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. xviii, 469 pp. Illus. Hardcover, $144.95 (isbn 978-0-7546-6623-3).
Brown, Cynthia J. The Queen’s Library: Image-making at the Court of Anne of Brittany, 1477-1514. (Material Texts.) Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2011. xii, 402p. Illus. Cloth, $79.95 or £52.00 (isbn 978-0-8122-4282-92).
Carefoote, Pearce J. Great and Manifold: A Celebration of the Bible in English, Commemorating the Four-Hundredth Anniversary of the First Printing of the King James Bible. Exhibition and Catalogue by…. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 7 February – 3 June 2011. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Library, 2010. 147 pp. Col. illus. Paper, Can. $30:00 (isbn 978-0-7727-6105-7).
Dane, Joseph A. Out of Sorts: On Typography and Print Culture. (Material Texts.) Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2011. xii, 242p. Illus. Cloth, $59.95 or £39.00 (isbn 978-0-8122-4294-2).
De Hamel, Christopher. Gilding the Lilly: A Hundred Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts in the Lilly Library. Bloomington, IN: Lilly Library, 2010). [8], 252 pp. Col. illus. Cloth, $ (isbn 0-9777529-8-4).
DeVries, Duane. General Studies of Charles Dickens and His Writings and Collected Editions of his Works: An Annotated Bibliography.(AMS Studies in the Nineteenth Century, 33.) New York: AMS Press, 2010. 2 vols. (cxxx, 622; xiv, 623-1,568 pp.) Illus. Cloth, $595.00 (isbn set 979-0-404-64463-5).
Georgetown University Library. Special Collections at Georgetown: A Descriptive Catalog. 4th ed., rev. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Library, 2010. vii,209 pp. Col. illus. Paper, Price and isbn not given.
Gunther, Gerald. Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xx, 704 pp. Cloth, $95.00 (isbn 978-0-19-537777-4).
Histoire et Civilisation du Livre: Revue internationale. Vol. 6, 2010.
Livingston, Meg Powers. “The Women’s Prize” by John Fletcher. (The Malone Society Reprints, 172, 2007.) Manchester: Published for the Malone Society by Manchester University Press, 2009. xxviii pp., 52 fols. Facsims. Price not given (isbn 978-0-1790-7710-4).
Main, Peter. Peter Lunn, Children’s Publisher: The Books, Authors, and Illustrators. Stirling, Eng.: Lomax Press, 2010. 206 pp. Illus. Boards, £32.00 (isbn 978-0-9560288-1-5).
Marrow, James H., Richard A. Linenthal, and William Noel, eds. The Medieval Book: Glosses from Friends & Colleagues of Christopher de Hamel. ‘t Goy-Houten, Netherlands: HES and De Graff, Publishers, 2010. xxxi, 467 pp. 157 colored and 27 bl. And wh. illus. Coth, €69.00 (isbn 978-90-6194-3709).
Matano, Lisette, and Karen O’Connell, curators. A Swinburne Gallimaufry: Selections from the John S. Mayfield Papers; An Exhibition October 5, 2009 through January 8, 2010. Washington, DC: Special Collections Research Center, Georgetown University Library, 2009. 44 pp. + 4 pp. illus. Paper, Price and isbn not given.
Meier, John H. The John H. Meier, Jr. Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction Collection, 13 September 2010 to 14 January 2011, Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta. Edmonton, Albert, Canada: Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, 2010. xix, 88 pp. Col. illus. Paper, Price not given (isbn 978-1-55195-264-2).
Other People’s Books: Association Copies and the Stories They Tell. Introduction by G. Thomas Tanselle. Chicago: Caxton Club, 2011. viii, 214 pp. Col. illus. Cloth, $75.00 (isbn 978-0-940550-10-0). Distributed to the trade by Oak Knoll Books, 310 Delaware Street, New Castle, DE 19720.
Price, Lois Olcott. Line, Shade and Shadow: The Fabrication and Preservation of Architectural Drawings. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; GH Houten, Netherlands: Hes and De Graaf; Wilmington, DE: Winterthur Museum and Garden & Library, 2010. xi, 359 pp. Col. illus. Cloth, $95.00 (isbn 978-1-5846-237-5 OKP; 978-90-6194-420-1).
Richards, Jennifer, and Fred Schurink, eds. The Textuality and Materiality of Reading in Early Modern England. (Hunington Library Quarterly: Studies in English and American History and Literature. Volume 73, Number 3, 2010.) pp. 345-552 pp. Illus. Paper, Price not given issn 0018-7895; e-issn 1544-399x).
Tanselle, G. Thomas. Bibliographical Analysis: A Historical Introduction. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2009. vii, 167 pp. Paper, £16.99 or $27.99 (isbn 978-0-521-75762-1).
Towsey, Mark R. M. Reading the Scottish Enlightenment: Books and Their Readers in Provincial Scotland, 1750-1820. (Library of the Written Word, 10; The Handpress World, 5.) Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2010. xvi, 361 pp. Tables. Cloth, $141.00 (issn 1874-4834; isbn 978-90-04-18432-9).
Walker, LuLen, and Christen E. Runge, curators. Collecting to Teach: The Extraordinary Legacy of Joseph A. Haller, S.J.; An Exhibition November 1, 2009 through February 28, 2010. Washington, DC: Special Collections Research Center, Georgetown University Library, 2010. [80] pp. Illus. (some col.) Price and isbn not given.
Weber, Jeff. Annotated Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting Artists & Binders. The Fore-edge Paintings of Miss C. B. Currie, with a Catalogue Raisonné. Los Angeles, CA: Jeff Weber Rare Books, 2010. [10], 421 pp. Col. illus. Cloth, $400.00 (isbn not given).
VOLUME 105:3 SEPTEMBER 2011
In Memoriam: Trevor Howard-Hill
Another "per me": A Richenbach Binding Discovered in the Huntington Library By SCOTT HUSBY
"Common Variants" and "Unusual Features": Shorthand and the Copy for the First Quarto of Lear By ADELE DAVIDSON
"Fruits of Conceit and Flowers of Nonsense": William Beckford’s Marginalia on Lord Byron By ROBERT J. GEMMETT
John Jay and "The Fœderalist, No. V": A Bibliographical
Discussion By RICHARD
BUCCI
REVIEW ESSAY
The Passion for the Book and Bibliography By WILLIAM BAKERARTICLES FORTHCOMING AND UNDER CONSIDERATION FOR PUBLICATION
Bucci, Richard. “John Jay and The Federalist: A Bibliographical Discussion, with Reference to No. 5.”
Davidson, Adele. “’Common Variants’ and ‘Unusual Features:’ Shorthand and the Copy for the First Quarto of Lear.”
Gemmett, Richard J. “Fruits of conceit and flowers of nonsense”: William Beckford’s marginalia on Lord Byron.”
Heller, Marvin J. “Akedat Yitzhak (the Binding of Isaac) on the Title-Pages of Early Hebrew Books.”
Husby, Scott. “’Another per me’: A Richenbach Binding Discovered in the Huntington Library.”
McLaverty, James. “The Revision of the First Edition of ‘Gulliver’s Travels.’”
REVIEWS COMMISSIONED
Some books listed here do not appear in the "Publications Received" list because reviewers have used copies not provided by publishers. — Details are as complete as they could be made from Global Books in Print, November, 2010.
Afro-Americana 1553-1906: A Catalog of the Holdings of the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 2nd expanded ed. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2008. xvii, 890 pp. Cloth, $125.00 (isbn 978-1-58456-236-8). By the Editor.
Alison, Jennifer. Doing Something for Australia: George Robertson and the Early Years of Angus and Robertson, Publishers, 1888-1900. Melbourne, Vic.: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. xii, 318 pp. Illus. Boards, $49.95 (isbn 978-09751500-3-0). By Wallace Kirsop.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007. x, 388p. Cloth, ₤36.00 (isbn 978-0-927898-5). By James E. May.
Barnhisel, Greg, and Catherine Turner, eds. Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War. (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book.) Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. vi, 285 pp. Illus. Cloth, $39.95 (isbn 978-1-55849-736-8). By Michael Ryan.
Bell, Hazel K. From Flock Beds to Professionalism; A History of Index-Makers. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; Hatfield, Herts.: HKB Press, 2008. xiv, 338 pp. Illus. Cloth, $95.00 (isbn 978-1-58456-228-3 OKP; isbn 978-0-9552503-4-7 HKB Press). By the Editor.
Black, Joseph L., ed. The Martin Marprelate Tracts; A Modernized and Annotated Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. cxvi, 315 pp. Illus. Cloth, $150.00 (isbn 978-0-521-87579-0). By the Editor.
Bradshaw, Graham. Where Duty Leads: Canada in the First World War. Exhibition and catalogue by…. 22 September – 19 December 2008. Toronto, ON: The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 2008. 117 pp. Illus. Paper, Can. $20.00 (isbn 978-0-7727-6066-1). By the Editor.
Carefoote, Pearce J. Calvin by the Book: A Literary Commemoration of the “Redscovering Calvin” Conference Held at the University of Toronto, 18-20 June 2009. Exhibition and Catalogue by…. Toronto: The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, 2009. 107 pp. Illus. Paper, Can.$20.00 (isbn 978-0-7727-6067-8). By the Editor.
Cloud, Gerald W. John Rodker’s Ovid Press; A Bibliographical History. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2010. viii, 138 pp. Illus. Cloth, $55.00 (isbn 978-1-58456-286-3). By Steven E. Smith.
Colclough, Stephen, and Alexis Weedon, eds. The History of the Book in the West: 1800-1914. (The History of the Book in West: A Library of Critical Essays, vol. 4.) Farham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010. xxviii, 526 pp. Illus. Cloth, ₤130.00 or $250.00 (isbn 978-0-7546-2776-0). By Leslie Howsam.
De Hamel, Christopher. Catalogue One of Bernard M. Rosenthal (New York, 1954) Completely Recatalogued, from Fresh Stock, by…(London, 1990). And Now First Published in Celebration of the 90th Birthday of Bernard Rosenthal. Berkeley, CA: Ian Jackson, 2010. 4 pp. Illus., with 2 pp. insert. Paper, (No price and ibsn given). By Roger Stoddard.
Don Quixote Illustrated: An Exhibit in Celebration of the “Quixote,” 1605-2005. College Station, TX: Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University, 2005. v, 71 pp. Illus. Paper, Price and isbn not given. By the Editor.
Etherington, Don. Bookbinding & Conservation: A Sixty-year Odyssey of Art and Craft. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2010. xi, 156 pp. Col. illus., ports. Cloth, $49.95 (isbn 978-1-58456-277-1). By Sidney E. Berger.
Gadd, Ian, ed. The History of the Book in the West: 1455-1700. (The History of the Book in West: A Library of Critical Essays, vol. 2.) Farham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010. xlii, 526 pp. Illus. Cloth, ₤130.00 or $250.00 (isbn 978-0-7546-2771-5). By A.S.G. Edwards.
Garcia, Lionel. My Horse. College Station, TX: Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University, 2010. [7] pp. Illus. Paper, Price and isbn not given. By the Editor.
Govi, Fabrizio. I classici che hanno fatto l’Italia: per un nuovo canone bio-bibliografico degli autori italiano, con un saggio introduutivo di Giovanni Ragone ed una nota di Umberto Pregliasco. Modena: Giorgio Regnani editore, 2010. xxxv, 415 pp. Illus. Cloth, €65.00 (isbn not given). By Paul Gehl.
Hanley, William. A Biographical Dictionary of French Censors, 1742-1789. Vol. I, A-B. (Publications, 17.) Ferney-Voltaire: Centre Internationale d’Étude du xviiie Siècle, 2005. xii, 400 pp. Illus. Paper, €160.00 (isbn 2-84559-031-8). By Thierry Rigogne.
Haynes, Christine. Lost Illusions: The Politics of Publishing in Nineteenth-century France. (Harvard Historical Studies, 167.) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. xvi, 328 pp. Illus. Cloth, $45.00 (isbn 978-0-674-03576-8). By Sarah Leonard.
Hench, John B. Books as Weapons: Propaganda, Publishing, and the Battle for Global Markets in the Era of World War II. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010. xviii, 333p. Illus. Cloth, $35.00 or ₤21.95 (isbn 978-0-8014-4891-1). By Valerie Holman.
Iackerson, Shimon. Catalogue of Hebrew Incunabula in the Collection of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary. 2007. (Details not available). By Paul Needham.
Johnson, Kevin. The Dark Page, II: Books that Inspired American Film Noir, 1950-1965. Foreword by Guy Maddin. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. xi, 252 pp. Illus. Cloth, $95.00 (isbn 978-1-58456-259-7). By Laura Rattray.
Kemp, Geoff, and Jason McElligott, general eds. Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009. 4 vols. Cloth, $575.00 (isbn 978-1-8519-6993-7). By T.H. Howard-Hill.
Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. xvii, 296 pp. Cloth, $35.00 (isbn 978-0-262-11311-3). By David Greetham.
Landon, Richard. Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The Natural History of Charles Darwin. Exhibition and Catalogue by…. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 28 September to 18 December 2009. Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 2009. 72 p. Illus. Paper, Can. $20.00 (isbn 978-0-7727-6069-2). By the Editor.
Larkin, Jack, and Caroline Sloat, eds. A Place in my Chronicle: A New Edition of the Diary of Christopher Columbus Baldwin, 1829-1835. Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 2010. xliii, 322p. Illus. Cloth, $55.00 (isbn 978-1-929545-64-3). Distributed by Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, DE. By Carolyn L. Lawes.
Luey, Beth. Expanding the American Mind: Books and the Popularization of Knowledge. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. 218 pp. Paper, $24.95 (isbn 978-1-55849-816-7). By David Gants.
McKenzie, D. F. and Maureen Bell. A Chronology and Calendar of Documents Relating to the London Book Trade, 1641-1700.[Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 3 vols. Cloth, £108.00 (vol. 1); £119.00 (vol. 2); £ ?? (vol. 3), $195.00 per vol. (isbn 978-0-19-818410-2, 978-0-19-818716-7, 978-0-19-928558). By T.H. Howard-Hill.
McKitterick, David, ed. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. Volume 6: 1830-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvii, 808 pp. Illus. Cloth, $165.00 (isbn 978-0-521-86624-8). By Leslie Howsam.
Main, Peter. Peter Lunn, Children’s Publisher: The Books, Authors, and Illustrators. Stirling, Eng.: Lomax Press, 2010. 206 pp. Illus. Boards, £32.00 (isbn 978-0-9560288-1-5). By Andrea Immel.
Manguel, Alberto. The Library at Night. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 381 pp. Illus. Paper, $17.00 (isbn 978-0-300-15130-5). By Michael Ryan.
Meriton, John, and Carol Dumontet, eds. Small Books for the Common Man: A Descriptive Bibliography. London: British Library; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2010. 1008 pp. Col. illus. $115.00 (isbn 978-0-7123-5021-1 BL; 978-1-58456-254-2 OKP).
Myers, Robin, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote, eds. Fairs, Markets, and the Itinerant Book Trade. (Publishing Pathways.) New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; London: The British Library, 2007. xv, 223 pp. Illus. Hardcover, $47.50 (isbn 978-15845-62009 Oak Knoll; 978-07123-4984-0). By James R. Kelly.
Nord, David Paul, Joan Shelley Rubin, and Michael Schudson, eds. The Enduring Book: Print Culture in Postwar America. (A History of the Book in America, volume 5). Chapel Hill, NC: Published in Association with the American Antiquarian Society by the University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xvi, 618 pp. Illus. Cloth, $60.00 (isbn 978-0-8078-3186-3285-1). By Andrew Nash.
Notaker, Henry. Printed Cookbooks in Europe, 1470-1700: A Bibliography of Early Modern Culinary Literature. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; Houten, Netherlands: HES and De Graaf, 2010. ix, 395 pp. Illus. Cloth, $125.00 or €125.00 (isbn 978-58456-253-5 OAK, 978-90-6194-270-2 Europe). By Susan Hammerman.
Ogborn, Miles, and Charles W. J. Withers, eds. Geographies of the Book. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. xiv, 302 pp. Illus. Hardcover, $114.00 (isbn 978-0-7546-7850-2). By Bertrum McDonald.
One Hundred Years Hence: Science Fiction & Fantasy at Texas A&M. College Station, TX: Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University, 2010. 83 pp. Illus. Paper, Price and isbn not given. By the Editor.
Roberts, Ryan, comp. and ed. John Fuller & the Sycamore Press: A Bibliographic History. Oxford: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2010. xi, 148 pp. Illus. Hardcover, ₤29.99 (isbn 978-1-85124-323-5), $49.95 (978-1-58456-281-8). By Steven E. Smith..
Rosendorf, Theodore. The Typographic Desk Reference. Foreword by Ellen Lupton. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. xi, 136 pp. Illus. Cloth, $45.00 (isbn 978-1-58456-231-3). By Terry Belanger.
Rosenthal, Bernard M. Autobiography and Autobibliography. Berkeley, CA: Ian Jackson, 2010. 61 pp. Illus. Paper. (Price and isbn not given). By Roger Stoddard.
Shevlin, Eleanor F., ed. The History of the Book in the West: 1700-1800. (The History of the Book in West: A Library of Critical Essays, vol. 3.) Farham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010. xlix, 529 pp. Illus. Cloth, ₤130.00 or $250.00 (isbn 978-0-7546-2768-5). By Michael C. Amravowicz.
Suarez, Michael, S. J., and H. R. Woudhuysen, eds. The Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 2 vols. in slipcase (lxv, 1327 pp.). Cloth, ₤195.00 (isbn 978-0-19-8606653-6). By William Baker.
Tenschert, Heribert, and Ina Nettekoven, eds. Horae B.M.V. 158 Stundenbuchdrucke der Sammlung Bibermühle 1490-1550. Bibermühle: Heribert Tenschert, 2003. 3 volumes in slipcase: xii, 1335 pp. Illus. Paper, €980.00 (isbn not given). By Hope Mayo.
Textual Cultures. Vol. 4, no. 2 (Autumn 2009). {With proceedings of Greg Conference, Trinity College, Cambridge]. By G. T. Tanselle.
Vervliet, Hendrik D. L. The Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance: Selected Papers on Sixteenth-Century Typefaces. (Library of the Written Word, 4; The Handpress Word, 4.) Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2008. 2 vols. Illus. Cloth, €195.00 or $299.00 (isbn 978-90-04-169821). By William Kemp.
Vervliet, Hendrik D. L. French Renaissance Printing Types: A Conspectus. London: The Bibliographical Society; London: The Printing Historical Society; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2010. 471 pp. Illus. Cloth, ₤40.00 or $120.00 (isbn 978-0-948170-18-2 BL; 978-0-900003-14-1 PHS; 978-1-58456-271-9 OKP). By William Kemp
Whitesell, David R. First Supplement to James E. Walsh’s Catalogue of the Fifteenth-Century Printed Books in the Harvard University Library. (Special issue of the Harvard Library Bulletin 16, nos. 1-2.) Cambridge, MA: Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library; Distributed by Harvard Univ. Press, 2006. xxix, 205 pp. Illus. Cloth, $29.95 (isbn 0-674-02145-2). By Paul Needham.
Yamada, Akihiro. Secrets of the Printed Page in the Age of Shakespeare: Bibliographical Studies in the Plays of Beaumont, Chapman, Dekker, Fletcher, Ford, Marston, Shakespeare, Shirley, and in the Text of King James I’s “The True Lawe of Free Monarchies;” with an Edition of “Arcadia Restored,” Egerton MS 1994, Folios 212-23 in the British Library. (AMS Studies of the Renaissance, no. 46.) New York: AMS Press, Inc., 2010. xxii, 290 pp. Illus. Cloth, $137.50. (isbn 978-0-404-61460-7; issn 0195-8011). By Richard Proudfoot.
Young, Matthew McLennan. Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press: A Checklist with an Appreciation of Andrew White Tuer. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; London: The British Library, 2010. 144 pp. Illus., Cloth, $59.95 (isbn 978-1-58456-280-1). By Deborah Whiteman.
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Alston, R. C. Inventory of Sale Catalogues of Named and Attributed Owners of Books Sold by Retail or Auction, 1676-1800. An Inventory of Sales in the British Isles, America, the United States, Canada, and India. Yeardon, Yorks.: Privately printed by Smith Settle for the author, 2010. 2 vols. (1,191 pp.) Facsims. Cloth, ₤450.00 (isbn not given). Distributed by the author: 67 Ocean City, Barbados, BB 18092.
Cooke, Simon. Illustrated Periodicals of the 1860s: Contexts & Collaborations. Pinner, Middlesex: Private Libraries Association; London: British Library; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2010. 228 pp. Illus. Cloth, $75.00 (isbn 978-0-900002-28-x PLA; 978-0-7123-5095-2 BL; 978-1-58456-275-7 OKP).
Knight, Jesse F. and Stephen Darley. The Last of the Great Swashbucklers: A Bio-Bibliography of Raphael Sabatini. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2010. viii, 150 pp. Col. illus. Cloth, $65.00 (isbn 978-1-58456-279-5).