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Alston, R. C. (comp.). A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE FROM THE INVENTION OF PRINTING TO THE YEAR 1800. Volume Eighteen Part IV [complete]. Volume I [Volume II, Volume III] Horsemanship, Commerce, Trade, Classics, Cookery, Technology, Religion, Mythology, Recreation, Sports, Music, Satire. NP: Printed for the Author by Smith Settle Otley 2006. 4to. 3 vols. xcviii,162;(2),(163)-604pp. Index. Plus the plate volume with 388 facsimiles (15 folding). Edition limited to 500 sets. Blue cloth stamped in gilt.

Schullian, Dorothy M. and Francis E. Sommer. A CATALOGUE OF INCUNABULA AND MANUSCRIPTS IN THE ARMY MEDICAL LIBRARY. New York: Published for The Honorary Consultants to the Army Medical Library by Henry Schuman, Inc N.d. (circa 1948). Lg. 8vo. xiv,362pp. Indices. Illustrated with 12 plates. Orig. black cloth. Printed by the Anthoensen Press. With a bookplate stating “From the reference library of Lessing J. Rosenwald.”

Perceau, Louis. BIBLIOGRAPHIE DU ROMAN EROTIQUE AU XIX SIECLE… Paris: Georges Fourdrinier 1930. 8vo. 2 volumes. 400,(2);415,(3)pp. Indices. This set (# XXIII) is one of 40 special sets printed on “verges d’arches” paper. The total edition was 1050 sets. Original printed (red & black) wrappers. Very useful reference with full bibliographical descriptions, many of which are annotated.

Stafford, Lorna Lavery. CATALOGO DE INCUNABLES DE LA BIBLIOTECA PUBLICA DEL ESTADO DE JALISCO… Con 39 Ilustraciones. Mexico: Imprenta Nuevo Mundo 1948. 8vo. xxii,(4),66,(2)pp. Illustrated. Orig. blue & red printed wrappers.

Vernazza di Freney, Giuseppe, Barone. DIZIONARIO DEI TIPOGRAFI e Dei Principali Correttori ed Intagliatori che Operarono Negli Stati Sardi di Terraferma e Piu Specialmente in Piemonte Sino All’Anno 1821… Torino: Stamperia Reale 1859. 4to. (2),328pp. 20th c. half calf, gilt, over marbled boards. Rare. Though this work remains “a very useful and important dictionary of the printers of Sardinia” (Bigmore & Wyman, p. 47), it was published incomplete at the time of Vernazza’s (1745-1822) death, and the last alphabetical entry is “Savoia Raconigi.”

No author. GUIDE TO DEPOSITORIES OF MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES: CALIFORNIA. Prepared by The Northern and Southern California Historical Records Survey Projects Division of Community Service Programs, Work Projects Administration. Los Angeles, CA: The Southern California Historical Records Survey Project October, 1941. 4to. ff.vii,76. Index. Mimeographed pages, printed on one side. Orig. black cloth over thin printed boards.

Dawe, Grosvenor. MELVIL DEWEY. SEER: INSPIRER: DOER. 1851-1931. Biografic Compilation. Club Edition. Lake Placid, NY: Melvil Dewey Biografy 1932. (8),391,(1)pp. Index. Unopened. Illustrated with 40 photos and facsimiles, and a large folding map of Lake Placid. Photographic endpapers. The limited & numbered “Club Edition” (probably 500 copies but limitation not stated). Mounted original clipped autograph of Melvil Dewey on the limitation leaf. Brown morocco, gilt, over cloth. T.e.g. Gift inscription from an elderly Dewey associate on the dedication leaf, dated 17 July 1986. Discoloration to the cloth on the back cover.

Dyson, Anthony. PICTURES TO PRINT. The Nineteenth-Century Engraving Trade. (London: Farrand Press 1984. Sm. 4to. (2),xxx,234pp. Index. Bibliog. With 95 illustrations, including a hand-colored engraving as the frontis.. This copy is #12 from an unstated limited edition (100?). Half brown morocco over brown cloth, gilt. Fine.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT, With Some First Impressions of America. Edited by Roger G. Swearingen. Part One: The Emigrant Ship. Ashland: Lewis Osborne 1976. xxiv,96pp. Illustrated with numerous plates and a folded map (laid in). Title page vignette. Edition limited to 600 numbered copies. Beige linen, gilt. Bookplate on front pastedown. D.j.

Lackington, James. THE CONFESSIONS OF J. LACKINGTON, Late Bookseller, at the Temple of the Muses, in a Series of Letters to a Friend. New York: John Wilson and Daniel Hitt, for the Methodist Connection 1808. 12mo. 189,(3)pp. + 2 pages of ads at back. A paper flaw on page 187-188 closely trims the outer margin, touching the final letters of some of the lines. The text, however, is still readable. Otherwise, a very pretty copy in contemporary calf. The second American edition of Lackington’s revised memoirs (that is, with letters dated as late as 1803). AMERICAN IMPRINTS #15385.

Langfeld, William R. (comp.). WASHINGTON IRVING, A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Compiled by William R. Langfeld with the Bibliographic Assistance of Philip C. Blackburn. New York: The New York Public Library 1933. Lg. 8vo. x,90,(2)pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and 8 plates. Edition limited to 450 copies. Orig. black cloth, gilt. Reprinted with additions and revisions from The Bulletin of The New York Public Library of June-December 1932.

No author. WESTERN BOOKS [EXHIBITION 1938-1963]. Los Angeles: The Rounce & Coffin Club 1938-1963. 22 consecutive annual volumes (various sizes, all pamphlets, each 20pp. – 36pp.). Complete through 1963. Profusely illustrated. No exhibition was published in 1940, 1943, 1944, and 1945. 8 of the years have a water stain along the spine. OFFERED WITH: TWENTY YEARS OF WESTERN BOOKS. Sacramento: Crocker Art Gallery. 1959. In all, 23 volumes. A distinguished series of publications, a juried annual selection of the best printed books by Western presses. The annual pamphlet illustrating the books selected was sold at the travelling exhibition of the books. The series continued to 2005, when it ceased (The Rounce & Coffin Club officially ceased in 2007). Notably the volumes were well printed by some of the best printers in the West: Adrian Wilson The Greenwood Press, The Plantin Press, Ward Ritchie Press, The Castle Press, etc., etc.