http://www.maggs.com/catalog.asp? Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:16:59 GMT en-gb RSS Search Feed for RSS Feed for Bibliography LIEURE, (J.)72 plates. 4to., original wrappers, lower headcap chipped, slightly shaken. Paris & Brussels: Librairie Nationale D'Art et D'Histoire.]]> Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI104.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI104.asp
The 20 page introduction by Mardersteig translated into English is inserted loose as is the 4 page prospectus. The translation of Dr. Mardersteig's introduction was limited to 80 copies for numbers 101 to 180 of the facsimile edition sold through the Chiswick Book Shop of New York.

A mint copy in the original packing box with the Bodoni printed paper label with the title and copy number on it still stuck to the upper part of it.]]> Fri, 16 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15360.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15360.asp GRIFFITHS, (Jeremy); & EDWARDS (A.S.G.)Full facsimiles of both manuscripts. One of 220 copies for sale. 4to., quarter tan morocco, blue cloth sides with Tollemache arms in gilt on upper cover, gilt lettering on spine. The Roxburghe Club.A remarkable manuscript written at the turn of fifteenth century, the Book of Secrets is a miscellany of practical instructions assembled for the use of the Tollemache household at Helmingham and is written predominantly in Middle English. Amongst many other directions for domestic tasks and pastimes such as gardening, lacemaking, carving, mixing medicines for humans and hawks, dyes, conjuring charms and prognostications, restoring dove-cotes and shirt-making, it includes the earliest known treatise in English on angling, written before the similar text on the subject in The Boke of St Albans (1496).

A substantial part of it is taken up with gardening which includes a unique text by Nicholas Bollard on growing and grafting fruit trees, instructions of planting herbs, and a set of drawings of 'knots' and other diagrams for beds and borders The drawings are among the earliest of their kind and have been used by the present Lady Tollemache to restore the garden at Helmingham Hall.

There is little of culinary interest in the Book of Secrets which is made up for by the reproduction of Catherine Tollemache's Receipts of Pastery... which dates from around the beginning of the seventeenth century. Superb jam, marmalade, fruit and pastry recipes are easy to follow from the Middle English transcriptions.

Both manuscripts have been preserved in the famous library at Helmingham Hall, the Book of Secrets having been sold in 1970 and bought back from the U.S.A. in 1987 by the present Lord Tollemache who has commissioned this facsimile and edition as his presentation to the Roxburghe Club. The book will appeal to historians and literary scholars, and all who love the sports and pastimes, the landscape, houses and gardens of the English countryside.]]> Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15763.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15763.asp Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15946.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15946.asp NIXON, (Howard M.)66 plates (3 in colour), brown cloth, small 4to., 159pp. ISBN 0 901953 04 0, London, Maggs Bros,]]> Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15944.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15944.asp
Other than a tiny crease at the top of the spine this is an immaculate, near mint copy.]]> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15355.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15355.asp Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI13493.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI13493.asp Il modo di temperare le penne on each page. Set in Arrighi-Vicenza italic. One of 80 copies. Oblong 12mo., original vellum-look paper covered boards, red and grey printed spine label, in original stiff card slipcase, uncut. Verona, privately printed at the Officina Bodoni for André Jammes, Paris and Alberto Falck, Milan (40 copies each). ChristmasA hymn for Christmas in the original Latin from Zachariae Ferrerii hymni novi ecclesiastici, printed by Ludovico Vicentino and Laurizio Perugino.

One of the 40 copies for André Jammes with a New Year's greeting inscription from him and his family on the f.f.e.p. In fine condition.]]> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15359.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15359.asp
The book itself includes an introduction by the noted art historian Adolph Goldschmidt and a bibliography as well as 200 fine illustrations.]]> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI14591.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI14591.asp
Mardersteig contributed an excellent introduction on the revival of the letter-forms in Roman inscription and on Felice Feliciano and his alphabet construction.

A good copy, despite the rubbing to the slipcase and a couple of tiny marks on the upper cover, with the single prospectus leaf inserted loose into the book although it has a slightly roughed up bottom edge]]> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI14756.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI14756.asp
Warde and Morison had first used this new type to print Robert Bridges's The Tapestry at the Fanfare Press in London in 1924.

The spine is a little darkened but a good copy of this book printed by Mardersteig which is of some rarity.

Appleton, 54; John Barr, The Officina Bodoni, 14]]> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI14680.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI14680.asp Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15930.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15930.asp Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15349.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15349.asp Privilege Du Roi at the end which is not always present. First edition. 8vo., recent blue cloth, maroon & gilt leather spine label, red speckled edges, stamps of Merton House Library on verso of titles. Paris: Lacombe.There are over 7000 works listed, many with prices fetched for them on the open market and at particular auctions. Points are giving for recognizing the best editions and several "Anecdotes historiques, critiques & intéressantes".

This book "had a large share in determining the character of later French catalogues of rare books...Osmont's title suggests his preface states clearly that he was making a list of choice books suitable for a good private library as well as a list of rare books" (Taylor, Catalogues of Rare Books).

Osmont was helped in his compilation by Barthelemy Mercier, Librarian of the Abbey of Ste.-Genevieve, and Albert François Floncel, the Royal censor and owner of a large library of Italian books.]]> Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI14214.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI14214.asp Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15936.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15936.asp Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15919.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15919.asp Mon, 06 Dec 2004 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI14846.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI14846.asp Tue, 03 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15910.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15910.asp Thu, 13 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15894.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15894.asp Tue, 14 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15885.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15885.asp Memoirs. He remarks on his "happy change" to ardent Methodism and his shame at having written his "evil" Memoirs. He refers to the errors of his ways as a bookseller and as a writer all the way through the book. He notes his retirement from the firm of George Lackington five years previously and how he handed over to his third cousin and a Mr. Allen whom he trained up from a boy in his shop.]]> Mon, 09 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15848.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15848.asp Thu, 27 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15283.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15283.asp Thu, 27 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15285.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15285.asp ed.Pp. xx, 293. Reprint of 1941 edition. Sm. 4to., 73 illus., black & green cloth, gilt lettering. New York & London: R.B. Bowker,With essays on early American bookbinding by hand by Hannah French, American edition binding by Joseph Rogers and the rebinding of old books by Lehmann-Haupt.]]> Thu, 13 Feb 2003 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI14814.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI14814.asp ed.31 pp. of facsimile. Oblong 12mo., original decorated paper covered boards, printed paper label on upper cover. Chicago: composed, printed and bound at The Newberry Library,Stanley Morison suggested this publication and oversaw the introduction. Tagliente's "Opera", the first Venetian copy-book, appeared for the first time two years after Arrighi's "La Operina" was published in 1522. The latter was directed at clerks in the Papal Chancery instructing them on writing official hands used for transacting church business. In Venice Tagliente directed his book not only at clerks in the Republic's chanceries with instruction on legal and documentary hands but also at businessmen wanting to master mercantile and commercial hands. Tagliente's calligraphy is much freer and varied than Arrighi's angular, pointed Chancerly style. The former demonstrates complicated and decorative patterns in his script and his interest in arabesque decoration can be clearly seen in this work. Wells writes in the introduction: "Tagliente's work is important in the history of Italian writing-books and hence of modern script and type, because it marks the emergence of a new factor..the writing-master, who supplants the scribe and whose work now provides the models for type faces."

With the ownership inscription of E.W. Playfair, friend to John Carter (see earlier items), a very good copy with only slight darkening to the edges.]]> Tue, 04 Feb 2003 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15788.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15788.asp Thu, 07 Nov 2002 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15766.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15766.asp Thu, 07 Nov 2002 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15767.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15767.asp Thu, 07 Nov 2002 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15759.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15759.asp Thu, 07 Nov 2002 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15758.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15758.asp Thu, 07 Nov 2002 00:00:00 GMT Bibliography http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15757.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/BI15757.asp