The history of the book trade in Medieval London before the age of print has long remained a matter of speculation. Few records survive that name the book artisans and entrepreneurs involved with this early trade venture or that document directly their methods of producing books and creating markets for them. In this directory, C. Paul Christianson assembles an extensive body of alternative data drawn from archival documents that identifies 262 participants in the London trade during a period of 200 years. This group includes stationers, manuscript artisans called limners , textwriters, bookbinders, parchment sellers, and other London citizens active in book production and sale. This book provides a summary of information about the independent book craftsman working in London during this period. Four appendices contain indexes, and two maps, one modern and one from the sixteenth century, illustrate the historical area of the craft community around St. Paul's. Manuscripts and books cited are also listed. Designed by Abe Lerner. Distributed for the Bibliographical Society of America. 254 pages. cloth.. 8vo..

A Directory of London Stationers and Book Artisans, 1300-1500

History

Christianson, C. Paul

Americas

Bibliographical Society of Amer

This reprint is an encyclopedic account of the Tauchnitz firm of publishers, famous for their output of Anglo-American books throughout the 19th and first part of the 20th centuries. The main series of books from 1841 to 1943 is described, comprising 5370 volumes representing 783 English and American authors. The research is based on the collections of 46 libraries and over 56,000 variant copies of editions are taken into account. The book lists numerous first editions of Dickens and other popular novelists, and some of the editions actually precede the recognised first editions of many of the works.

Tauchnitz International Editions in English, 1841-1955: A Bibliographical History

Todd, William B.

Bowden, Ann

Literature & Fiction

Ever since W. H. James Weale laid the foundations for the scholarly study of panel-stamped bindings in 1894, it has been universally assumed that the stamps were hand-engraved, and thus that each panel was a unique artifact. However, Fogelmark discovered that virtually everything written since Weale's study has been based on a fundamental mistake. In Fogelmark's search for literature on blind panels, he had not been able to find a single item dealing with the all-important questions of production and technique. Fogelmark believes that one must understand the nature of the panel stamp and the basic rules that guided its use before discussing matters of attribution and iconography. He now presents decisive evidence that panel stamps were cast in metal rather than hand engraved and were often produced in multiple copies for wide distribution. Identical stamps could be used concurrently in different shops, different cities and even different countries. Fogelmark's research is based on many years of research in a large number of European libraries and a detailed study of various technical and artistic features of the panels. This is a distinguished and highly original contribution to bookbinding history, which greatly extends knowledge of the late medieval booktrade. An exciting work, handsomely produced at The Stinehour Press. Back corner heavily bumped. xviii, 252 pages. cloth.. 4to..

Flemish and Related Panel-Stamped Bindings: Evidence and Principles

Fogelmark, Staffan

Reference

First edition. Adam Smith's great work of political economy reached French readers through reprints of English editions; a number of translations directed towards different audiences; and a host of summaries, extracts and reviews in magazines and journals. Combining cultural history and bibliographical analysis, Carpenter traces the transmission of this text and assesses the implications of its paratext - occurring in reviews and advertisements, and in the front matter, footnotes, format, and typography of more than thirty monographs and periodicals. He provides full bibliographical descriptions necessary for identifying these works and understanding their interpretative agenda, as well as extensive quotations showing how translators, commentators, editors, and publishers mediated Adam Smith's ideas. This publishing history also serves as an anthology of contemporary critical response to a text at first marginalized by the government and the book trade, then adopted by intellectuals se

The Dissemination of the Wealth of Nations in French and in France: 1776-1843 (English and French Edition)

Carpenter, Kenneth E.

Catalogs & Directories

Reformation pamphlets or "Flugschriften" were among the first rare book acquisitions of American libraries. Gatch traces the remarkable history of the Leander van Ess collection purchased by the Union Theological Seminary in 1838, the first and largest collection of these religious tracts to arrive in America. He notes how they were originally obtained by van Ess, a Catholic priest, translator of the Bible, and a former Benedictine monk, who built an impressive personal collection of books and manuscripts when monastic libraries were being dispersed during the Napoleonic wars. Gatch has also identified a significant group of pamphlets assembled at Wittenberg during the 1520s, Luther's most creative period. Never before accurately described, the surviving pamphlets from this collection are listed here in the order of van Ess's own catalogue, with a set of indexes to authors and printers, and with concordances to major bibliographical resources. Gatch reviews the history Reformation pamp

The Library Of Leander Van Ess And The Earliest American Collections Of Reformation Pamphlets (Bsa Occasional Publications, 1)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gatch, Milton McC

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