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Details for Manuscripts and Printed Books

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Tributes to Graham Greene, OM, CH, 1904-1991 at the memorial requiem mass at Westminster Cathedral.

Maker(s)

Publisher: Reinhardt Books
Printer: Lloyd, Peter
Printer: Gamecok Press

The Revelation of Saint John the Divine

Maker(s)

Illustrator: Feibusch, Hans
Publisher: Collins (publisher)

The red path : a narrative ; and The wounded bird

Maker(s)

Author: Freeman, John (author)
Printer: Rogers, Bruce
Publisher: Dunster House
Publisher: Selwyn & Blount Ltd.

Preface by Diana White to an album of poems from the Livre de jade translated from the Chinese by Judith Gautier.

Maker(s)

Author: White, Diana

Gutenberg-Preis der Stadt Mainz und der Gutenberg-Gesellschaft verliehen an Hermann Zapf, Darmstadt, am 24. Juni 1974

Maker(s)

Contributor: Mardersteig, Giovanni
Contributor: Zapf, Hermann
Illustrator: Zapf, Hermann
Publisher: Gutenberg-Gesellschaft

Illustrations of the book of Genesis : being a complete reproduction in facsimile of the manuscript British Museum, Egerton, 1894

Maker(s)

Editor: James, Montague Rhodes, Dr
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: Oxford University Press
Printer: Emery Walker Limited

Of memoirs & magpies

Maker(s)

Author: Fowles, John
Publisher: W. Thomas Taylor (Firm)

Homage to the book: sixteen designers

Maker(s)

Contributor: Baskin, Leonard
Contributor: Blumenthal, Joseph
Contributor: Clarke, Bert
Contributor: Crutchley, Brooke
Contributor: Eisenman, Alvin
Contributor: Ives, Norman Seaton
Contributor: Low, Joseph
Contributor: Mardersteig, Giovanni
Contributor: Matter, Herbert
Contributor: Rand, Paul
Contributor: Stinehour, Roderick D.
Contributor: Thompson, Bradbury
Contributor: Trump, Georg
Contributor: Tschichold, Jan
Contributor: Zahn, Carl
Contributor: Zapf, Hermann
Contributor: Adams, Frederick Baldwin
Publisher: West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company
Publisher: Westvaco
Editor: Thompson, Bradbury

Titus & Vespasian, or, The destruction of Jerusalem : in rhymed couplets

Maker(s)

Editor: Herbert, John Alexander
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: J. B. Nichols and Sons

Antiquités et Guerre des Juifs de Josèphe : reproduction des 25 miniatures des Manuscrits français 247 et nouv. acq. 21013 de la Bibliothèque nationale.

Maker(s)

Editor: Omont, Henri Auguste
Publisher: Bibliothèque nationale de France. Dèpartement des manuscrits
Printer: Berthaud frères

Facsimiles in photogravure of six pages from a Psalter, written and illuminated about 1325 A.D. for a member of the St. Omer family in Norfolk, subsequently (c.1422 A.D.) the property of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, fourth son of King Henry IV, and now in the library of Henry Yates Thompson, 19, Portman Square, London

Maker(s)

Contributor: Thompson, Henry Yates
Publisher: Chiswick Press

Happenings here and there along the trail, or, The world went very well then : a Victorian tale gleaned from memories and told for the edification of the fellow Typophiles by W. B.

Maker(s)

Author: Bradley, William H.
Printer: Dahlstrom, Grant
Publisher: Castle Press

Morris and the printed book : a reconsideration of his views on type and book design in the light of later computer-aided techniques

Maker(s)

Author: Dreyfus, John
Printer: William Morris Society

Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum

Maker(s)

Publisher: British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
Editor: Warner, George Frederic

The Mystique of printing : a half century of books designed by Ward Ritchie

Maker(s)

Publisher: Orange County Public Library (Calif). San Juan Capistrano Regional Branch
Designer: Ritchie, Ward
Printer: Hoffman, Richard

The autographic mirror: autographic letters and sketches of distinguished men of past and present times; sovereigns, statesmen, warriors, divines; historians, lawyers, literary, scientific, artistic, and theatrical celebrites : = L'Autographe cosmopolite

Maker(s)

Publisher: Petter & Galpin
Publisher: Cassell, John
Lithographer: Brooks, Vincent Robert Alfred

Le Poète assassiné

Maker(s)

Author: Apollinaire, Guillaume
Illustrator: Dufy, Raoul
Publisher: Sans Pareil

Catalogue of a magnificent collection of manuscripts formed by a gentleman of consummate taste & judgement, comprising a marvellous assemblage of the illuminated books of the middle ages and the renaissance period; splendid examples of illuminated MS Bibles; an extraordinary series of Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis ... numerous richly illuminated Latin psalters; a unique series of woodcuts to the Apocalypse, by a Russian artist ... the original ms. of the Tewrdannckh ... the hours of Philip de Commines ... also a splendid assemblage of Oriental manuscripts ... which will be sold by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ... at their house, no.13 Wellington Street, Strand, W.C. on Wednesday, the 7th of June, 1876, and three following days ....

Maker(s)

Publisher: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
Annotator: Cockerell, Sydney C.

Trousers & the most precious ornament

Maker(s)

Author: Gill, Eric
Illustrator: Tegetmeier, Denis
Publisher: Faber & Faber

Livre des merveilles: Marco Polo, Odoric de Pordenone, Mandeville, Hayton, etc

Maker(s)

Editor: Omont, Henri Auguste
Publisher: Bibliothèque nationale de France. Dèpartement des manuscrits
Printer: Berthaud frères

La geste francor di Venezia (Codice marciano XIII della serie francese); facsimile in fototipia

Maker(s)

Editor: Rajna, Pio
Publisher: Biblioteca nazionale marciana
Publisher: Bestetti & Tumminelli

Le Bréviaire de Philippe le Bon : bréviaire parisien du XVe siècle

Maker(s)

Author: Leroquais, Victor
Publisher: Bibliothèque royale de Belgique
Publisher: Maurice Rousseau
Publisher: Ch. Weckesser
Publisher: G. E. Stechert & Co.

Histoire des Frances de Grégoire de Tours, ms. de Beauvais : reproduction réduite du manuscrit en onciale, latin 17654 de la Bibliothèque nationale.

Maker(s)

Editor: Omont, Henri Auguste
Publisher: Bibliothèque nationale de France. Dèpartement des manuscrits
Printer: Berthaud frères

The Life of John Linnell

Maker(s)

Author: Story, Alfred T.
Publisher: Richard Bentley and Son

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