Product Description: This is a revised edition of the indispensable guide to the great collections of the British Library. Illustrated throughout in colour, it is the perfect introduction to some of the world’s most magnificent books and manuscripts, from The Lindisfarne Gospels to Shakespeare’s First Folio, The Diamond Sutra, and The Gutenberg Bible...read more

Product Description: Long after his reputation has faded, Edward Young (1683–1765) lives on in unattributed quotations ("Procrastination is the Thief of Time"). If his name is known today, it is largely because William Blake created a series of engraved images to frame his most famous poem, Night Thoughts, a nocturnal meditation on death and immortality...read more

Product Description: The Devonshire Inheritance: Five Centuries of Collecting at Chatsworth was an exhibition of material from Chatsworth, the primary home of the Cavendish family-the earls and then dukes of Devonshire-since the 16th century. One of the most beautiful country houses in England, Chatsworth contains fabulous treasures of every kind and from every period and region of the world...read more

Product Description: The keen desire for fine books, researched, edited and celebrated for their intrinsic artistic and emotional value should never die. The Book serenely considers the future, not only as a simple source of knowledge or an embodiment of a certain lifestyle but as the lifestyle itself...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Nicolas Barker, OBE FBA, has made many contributions to the study of the book. In celebration of his 70th birthday, the British Library has published a selection of his essays that show the range of his interests in a number of related fields: books and texts; books and people; typography and early printing; the history of the book; bookselling; and forgery...read more

Product Description: Based on lectures given at the William Andrews Clark Library in 1986-87, these essays discuss the many aspects of the history of the book, with a range of topics related to manuscripts as well as books. This is the second title in "The British Library Studies in the History of the Book" series...read more

Product Description: A selection of twenty-seven botanical prints from the Hortus Eystettensis. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The forgeries of Thomas James Wise, disclosed in 1934 in John Carter and Graham Pollard's "An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets," is perhaps the most notorious literary scandal of this century. The sensational exposure of Wise led to further discoveries, most notably that he had acted not alone but in collusion with Harry Buxton Forman, the distinguished editor of Keats and Shelley...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 'Books are not absolutely dead things but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as the soule whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them...read more

Product Description: This much-acclaimed work was first published in 1985 in an extremely limited edition of something under 200 copies. The first edition nonetheless sold out rapidly, and the reviewers were virtually universal in their recommendations that a new edition be published at a more accessible price, and thereby satisfy the additional demands on the marketplace...read more

Product Description: Reprint of the second edition. In 1934 two young booksellers, John Carter and Graham Pollard, electrified the world of books and book-collecting with an exposure of literary forgery on a grand and systematic scale. From the 1880s there had appeared on the market, through sale rooms or private transaction, a steady stream of `rare' or `early' editions of works by the Brownings, Swinburne, Morris, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Ruskin, Kipling, Rossetti and others...read more

Product Description: Bound in the publisher's original cloth over boards, spine and cover stamped in gilt. Light wear to dust jacket at extremities, else fine. Black & white illustrations throughout.

Product Description: GOOD-PLUS HARDBACK-WITH-DUSTJACKET. EX-LIBRARY WITH TYPICAL MARKINGS