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Books, libraries, and publishing
This collection contains items on all aspect of the printed word from design and production, through sales and acquisition, to collection, description and use. It also includes items on manuscripts and archival material.
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The writings of Stanley Morison: a handlist
Tony Appleton
1976
A bibliography of the writings of the influential British typographer, printing executive, and historian of printing. Number 358 in a limited edition of 600.
The early printer's chapel in England
F.C. Avis
1971
An account of the printing companionship in England between 1476 and 1800, drawing on the earlier work of Joseph Moxon.
Printers of Fleet Street and St Paul's church yard in the sixteenth century
F.C. Avis
1964
A discussion of the importance of Fleet Street and St Paul's churchyard as a printing and publishing centre in London.
William Caslon 1693-1766: the ancestry, life and connections of England's foremost letter-engraver and type-founder
Roundwood Press
1973
A biography of England's most distinguished letter-founder.
A splendor of letters: the permanence of books in an impermanent world
HarperCollins Publishers
2003
The last in a trilogy on book collecting and collectors.
Every book its reader: the power of the printed word to stir the world
HarperCollins Publishers
2003
A discussion of the impact of books, and their owners, on the world.
Shakespeare and Company
Faber and Faber
1960
Memoirs of the famous bookseller and publisher.
A dictionary of English manuscript terminology 1450-2000
Oxford University Press
2008
A dictionary of some 1,500 terms relating to manuscripts and their production and use in Britain.
From flock beds to professionalism: a history of index-makers
Oak Knoll Press
2008
Sixty five brief biographies of indexers complemented by a review of indexing organisations.
Books, buildings, and social engineering: early public libraries in Britain from past to present
Ashgate
2009
An assessment of the development and influence of British public libraries.
Blackie & Son 1809-1959: a short history of the firm
Blackie & Son Limited
1959
A history of the Glasgow publisher.
A Batsford century: the record of a hundred years of publishing and bookselling
B.T. Batsford Ltd.
1943
Issued to mark the noted publishing house's centenary.
A history of Longmans and their books 1724-1990: longevity in publishing
British Library and Oak Knoll Press
2008
A history of what was the oldest commercial publisher in the United Kingdom.
Manuscripts from the Anglo-Saxon age
British Library
2007
An introduction to book production and its impact in the Anglo-Saxon period.
Librarians in fiction: a critical bibliography
McFarland & Company Inc.
1998
A bibliography focused on fictional library employees.
Cupar: the years of controversy - its newspaper press 1822-1872
Fife Family History Society
2009
A history of the Fife Herald and the battle for its control. Signed by the author on the title-page.
Catalogue of the Edward Clark Library
Napier College of Commerce & Technology
1976
The catalogue of a special collection assembled to illustrate the development of printing and the printing process funded by a bequest to Heriot-Watt College by Edward Clark.
Books and book-collectors
Rupert Hart-Davis
1956
A selection of essays on matters bibliographic and bibliophilic.
Libraries in the ancient world
Yale University Press
2001
The story of ancient libraries from when books were clay tablets and writing was a new phenomenon.
Some notes on bookbinding
Humphrey Milford
1929
An introduction to bookbinding by a renowned craftsman and bound using Cockerell marbled papers, which were first produced at the Cockerell bindery by Sydney and Oliver Cockerell in September 1926.
Folk in print: Scotland's chapbook heritage 1750-1850
John Donald
2007
A collection of texts which originally appeared as chap-books, set in a social and historical context.
The Scottish periodical press 1750-1789
Oliver and Boyd
1931
A survey of Scottish periodicals published during the period of the Expansionist Movement.
The Times deceas'd : the Rare Book Department of the Times Bookshop in the 1960s
Stone Trough Books
2003
A memoir of rare bookselling in the sixties.
The bankrupt bookseller speaks again
Oliver and Boyd
1938
Further anecdotes about a fictional bookseller.
