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Oak Knoll Press 

Fall 2010

OAK KNOLL PRESS 

PUBLISHERS OF FINE BIBLIOGRAPHIES 

& OTHER BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS 

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Welcome to our newest publishing catalogue, featuring new and upcoming titles. For a complete list of our books (close to 1500), visit 

our website at www.oakknoll.com/publishing. In addition to titles we’ve published, this catalogue also includes new works that we are distributing 

for other publishers. Oak Knoll continues to act as the exclusive distributor for many important bibliographical organizations, such 

as the Bibliographical Society of America, American Antiquarian Society, and John Carter Brown Library. In this catalogue, we are pleased 

to present books from three new distribution partners: AdVenture Publishing, Greece, HES & DE GRAAF Publishers, the Netherlands, 

and the Center for Book Arts, New York City. 

We are also pleased to introduce the newest member of the Oak Knoll publishing team, Danielle Burcham. Danielle is a recent graduate 

from Wilmington University, where she studied Broadcast Journalism and Print. In her role as Publishing and Marketing Assistant, she 

plans, designs, and sends marketing materials and assists Publishing Director Laura Williams with various tasks. She is happy to present her 

first catalogue. 

This year, Oak Knoll and three other booksellers (Between the Covers Rare 

Books, The Kelmscott Bookshop, and the Old Bookshop of Bordentown) opened 

The Bookshop in Old New Castle. This new bookshop, located on the second floor 

of Oak Knoll, sells books on all subjects from each store’s inventory. The Bookshop 

in Old New Castle and Oak Knoll Books are open Monday through Saturday. 

Best wishes, 

Robert D. Fleck, Publisher 

Front cover: Engraving of the great gallery of St. Geneviève’s library signed by Lagardette; Back cover: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae. Parchment codex written in northern Italy in the 8th c. 

Wolfenbüttel, Herzog-August-Bibliotheck; Both images are from The History of the Library in Western Civilization, Volume IV, page 3 of this catalogue. 

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Oak Knoll Press 3 

THe History of the library in 

Western civilization, volume IV 

From Cassiodorus to Furnival 

by Konstantinos Sp. Staikos 

This fourth volume unfolds the events that influenced the tradition 

of libraries in the West beginning when Christianity was imposed as the 

official religion of the Empire. 

The first chapter includes the realignment of populations of the 

North, the formation of new kingdoms, and the emergence of new 

intellectual centres in relation to books. Chapter two presents the practices 

of authorship and publication, the reproduction of books, and 

their availability movement according to St. Jerome. 

The third chapter is devoted to the British Isles: their conversion to 

Christianity and the nature of the education cultivated in the monastic 

centres of the period. The fourth chapter deals with the Carolingian 

era, Charlemagne’s contribution to upgrading schooling, the foundation 

of a considerable number of monastic centres based on books, and 

the chronicle of the founding of Charlemagne’s personal library. 

Chapter five assesses the influence exerted by the Carolingian period 

in the diffusion of knowledge and books in general and the birth of 

the university in all the European countries is the subject of the sixth chapter. Interests of eminent men of letters are outlined 

in chapter seven, in the matter of books and the genesis of the French royal library, with a chronicle of the papal library at 

Avignon and at Hereford Cathedral. 

Finally, chapter eight is an overview of the installation of the library as architecture. The diverse bookstands serving as 

diminutive ‘libraries’ are described, up to the time when chambers were set aside to function as libraries. 

2010, hardcover, dust jacket, 8.5 x 11.5 inches, 500 pages 

ISBN 9781584561811, Order No. 76544, $75.00 

Available in Europe from HES & DE GRAAF 

Deluxe Edition with leather publisher’s slipcase 

ISBN 9781584561835, Order No. 76545, $275.00 

The Complete History of the Library Series 

Volume I: From Minos to 

Cleopatra 

2004, hardcover, 8.5 x 11.5 inches, 374 pages 

ISBN 9781584561149, Order No. 74805, $75.00 

Deluxe full-leather edition: 

ISBN 9781584561507, Order No. 75831, $275.00 

Volume IV: The Medieval 

World in the West From 

Cassiodorus to Furnival 


ISBN 9781584561811, Order No. 76544, $75.00 


ISBN 9781584561835, Order No. 76545, $275.00 

Volume II: The Roman World 

From Cicero to Hadrian 


ISBN 9781584561484, Order No. 76540, $75.00 


ISBN 9781584561514, Order No. 76541, $275.00 

Volume V: The Renaissance 

From Petrarch to 

Michelangelo 

Est. 2011, hardcover, 8.5 x 11.5 inches, 400 pages 

ISBN 9781584561828, Order No. 76546, $75.00 


ISBN 9781584561842, Order No. 76547, $275.00 

Volume III: The Byzantine 

World From Constantine The 

Great to Cardinal Bessarion 


ISBN 9781584561491, Order No. 76542, $75.00 


ISBN 9781584561521, Order No. 76543, $275.00 

Volume VI: Index and 

Bibliography 

Est. 2012, hardcover, 8.5 x 11.5 inches, 125 pages 

ISBN 9781584561859, Order No. 90190, $45.00 


ISBN 9781584561866, Order No. 90191, $275.00 


4 Oak Knoll Press 

Greek Library 

The Konstantinos Sp. Staikos Book Collection 

henceforth The Alexander S. Onassis Public 

Benefit Foundation Library 


The Konstantinos Staikos Book Collection is a bibliography of the works 

of Konstantinos Sp. Staikos located in the Library of the Alexander S. 

Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. This collection represents the entire 

spectrum of the intellectual pursuits of the Greeks of the Diaspora, 

extending over a period from the Early Renaissance until the late years 

of Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment. The books in this collection not only 

enhance Greek printing and publishing activities, but they demonstrate 

the participation of Greeks in international politics and religious matters 

in the courts of empires such as Russia and Austria. 

The collection includes more than 1,200 titles divided into five sections. 

The first section, Renaissance-Humanism, discusses first editions 

of Greek literature, grammaires, and Lexikons. The other sections examine 

Neo-Hellenic literature, liturgies, theology, and the Neo-Hellenic 

Enlightenment. Among these 

sections, poetry, novels, mythistories, 

gospels, psalters, the Old 

and New Testament, Works of the Greek Fathers, Dogmatic works, translations of 

European literature, and specimens of Greek typography in many places are examined. 

The total number of Greek titles, classified in the Hellenic Bibliography, representing 

publications in Latin or other European languages dealing with the works and 

days of the Greeks, amounts to 7,000. 

For each listed book, full bibliographical notes, the identity according to the 

standard bibliographies, provenance, comments, notes, and descriptions by the writer 

are provided. 

There are over 

700 printers’ 

marks listed, 

as well as many 

title pages and 

portraits of 

writers, publishers, 

and editors. A general introduction, introductions 

for each section, a general index, and an index of 

printers are also included. 

2011, hardcover, dust jacket, 9 x 12.25 inches, 600 pages 

ISBN 9781584562887, Order No. 104816, $195.00 

Available January 2011 



I classici Che hanno fatto l’Italia 

The Classics That Have Made Italy 

by Fabrizio Govi 

Each work explained in the 

book calls special attention to editorial 

strategies such as format, font, 

illustrations, dedications, etc. The 

book is not just a list of prominent 

texts defining Italian history or a 

history of the Italian book from a typographic standpoint, but also a chronological overview 

of known printed texts. 

I Classici Che Hanno Fatto L’talia (or The Classics That Have Made Italy) offers 

itself as a counterpart to the great work Printing and the Mind of Man, illustrating 

the history of the Italian culture through a selection of works by Italian 

authors (by birth or adoption) from the thirteenth-century to the present. 

The publishing history of a text, whether a masterpiece, or the work 

of a pioneering era, can be broken into two parts: information on receiving 

and dissemination of works such as print runs, reprints, counterfeits, privileges, 

and trade agreements; and the 

mutual relationship between the 

press and the readers, showing how 

the printed book has influenced the 

way man reads and writes. 

The Classics That Have Made Italy 

provides the edition, background 

information, references, historical 

and cultural significance of 

each work, brief biography of the author, and an index. An essay by John 

Ragone examining the transformation of Italy from the fifteenth century 

is included. The book is written in Italian and accompanied by an English 

translation of the introduction. 

Fabrizio Govi, who graduated from Bologna in 1997 with a degree in 

literature, is an antiquarian bookseller in Modena. John Ragone teaches 

at the University of Rome La Sapienza and has contributed to a number 

of books, including Publishing in Italy, and Umberto Pregliasco works at an 

antiquarian bookshop in Turin and is the author of several articles on the 

protection of antique books. 


ISBN 9788896656143, Order No. 104769, $95.00 

Distributed for Giorgio Regnani Editore 



The Complete Illustrative Work of 

Thomas Bewick 

by Nigel Tattersfield 

Thomas Bewick can be called one of the best English enthusiasts of 

wood engraving. Born in 1753, he grew up on a small farm, where his chores 

came second to his interest in the countryside, fishing, and watching birds 

and animals. These early passions set the stage for his future endeavors. 

His early work of cutting soft wood for woodcuts eventually turned into 

fine detailed designs into hard wood. Beginning in the late 1700s onwards, 

Thomas illustrated many children’s books with one of his most famous 

books, The History of British Birds. The book contained bird engravings and 

wood cuts and was an immediate success. Other major publications that 

helped solidify Bewick’s success include The Chillingham Bull, Waiting for Death, 

A General History of Quadrupeds, and The Fables of Aesop and Others. 

Bewick’s celebrated histories of quadrupeds and birds of 1790, 1797, 

and 1804 have obscured the immense number of other books of all denominations 

illustrated in his modest workshop. From its inception in 1765 until 

its demise in 1849, the workshop provided illustrations to books, pamphlets, 

periodicals, and newspapers. The range of illustrations encompassed 

natural histories, children’s storybooks, 

cookery books, religious tracts, spelling 

books, mathematical treatises, Bibles, agricultural manuals, local town and county 

histories, joke books, and even a book of sermons. 

Generously illustrated and arranged alphabetically, this book details some 750 titles, 

over 450 of which are unrecorded in earlier bibliographies. In addition it provides sections 

on newspaper mastheads, book cover designs, copy-book covers, maps, and large 

single prints. Whether appealing to the Bewick aficionado, book historian, art historian, 

provincial printing enthusiast, or admirer of engraving on wood or copper, this will be an 

indispensable work. 

Nigel Tattersfield is the author of 

Bookplates by Beilby and Bewick, published 

by Oak Knoll Press and The British 

Library and John Bewick: Engraver on 

Wood, published by Oak Knoll Press. 

2010, hardcover, 7.5 x 11.75 inches, 3 volumes, 1564 pages 

ISBN 9781584562733, Order No. 102274, $265.00 

Available outside North and South America from The British Library 

Available December 2010 


Dermot McGuinne gained 

his primary degree and early experience 

as a graphic designer in 

the United States where he later 

held the position of Art Director 

at the University of Iowa Press 

before returning to Ireland. He 

was awarded his doctorate from 

Trinity College Dublin for work 

completed on the subject of the 

“Irish Character in Print” and is the 

author of various articles on the 

topic. He has been the head of the departments of Visual Communication 

and of Fine Arts at the Dublin Institute of Technology. 


ISBN 9780954379957, Order No. 104562, $55.00 

paperback: ISBN 9780954379964, Order No. 104563, $35.00 

Available outside North and South America from the National Print Museum, Dublin 


Irish type design 

A History of Printing Types in the Irish Character 

by Dermot McGuinne 

The designing of special type for printing Irish language texts 

began in the late sixteenth century and lasted into our own day, 

attracting the attention of many leading political and religious figures—Elizabeth 

I; Irish Franciscans in exile on the Continent; and 

at one point even Napoleon I— as well as scholars such as John 

O’Donovan, Eugene Curry, George Petri and John Henry Newman. 

More recently, internationally renowned designers Stanley Morison, 

Victor Hammer, and Eric Gill have made significant contributions 

to Irish type design. 

Irish typography came after the demise of the late Graceo- 

Roman uncials and semi-uncials, preceded by late Gothic, Roman, 

Italic, and Greek types. It was considered a ‘sacred’ script for the purpose 

of studying Scripture. 

Dermot McGuinne’s book is the most comprehensive published 

on this subject and has become a standard work of reference. 

It contains more than 150 illustrations of Irish types spanning over four 

centuries. McGuinne covers Irish types including Queen Elizabeth’s 

Irish type, the Rome Irish type, the Paris and Parker types, and others. 

Throughout eleven chapters, McGuinne provides a comprehensive account of every 

Irish font in its cultural, religious, and political context. This expanded second edition 

also includes a new foreword by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet and a new chapter on Louvain 

Irish type. 



JOhn Rodker’s ovid Press 

A Bibliographical History 

by Gerald W. Cloud 

This book is primarily a bibliographical study of all the known works 

printed and published by John Rodker (1894–1955) at the Ovid Press, 

London, 1919–1922, and the associated projects connected to his second 

imprint, the Casanova Society. The Ovid Press’s output was not prolific—17 

known items were produced—but the nature of the works and the 

context in which they were created reveals a great deal about both Rodker 

and several central figures of modernist literature and art, including T.S. 

Eliot, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, 

and Edward Wadsworth. 

The book’s introduction includes a biographical account of Rodker’s 

life, focusing especially on his early life and his printing activities at the 

Ovid Press, which he operated with some participation from his then 

wife, the British novelist Mary Butts (1890–1937). Relying heavily on 

correspondence and other archival sources, such as Rodker’s personal and 

professional papers and his diary, the introduction documents the production 

of many of the Ovid Press titles and Rodker’s interaction with his 

authors. 

The descriptive bibliography, which follows the introductory matter, 

includes full collations, detailed, copy-specific notes on each item, institutional locations for Ovid Press publications, and 

attempts to reconcile the discrepancies between Rodker’s colophon statements and the books he actually printed—based on 

careful analysis of extant copies of Ovid Press titles. The book accounts for a number 

of unrecorded bibliographical details in these works and clarifies Rodker’s role 

in the production of Ezra Pound’s “Bel 

Esprit” and the errata sheets for Joyce’s 

Ulysses (Egoist Press/John Rodker, 1922). 

Gerald W. Cloud is Curator for 

Literature in Columbia University’s Rare 

Book & Manuscript Library and Lecturer 

in English and Comparative Literature at 

Columbia where he teaches Bibliography 

and the History of the Book. He earned 

his Ph.D. at the University of Delaware 

(2005) and has served as a lab instructor 

for “Introduction to the Principles of 

Bibliographical Description” at Rare Book 

School, University of Virginia since 2004. 

2010, hardcover, dust jacket, 7 x 10 inches, 152 pages 

ISBN 9781584562863, Order No. 104083, $55.00 

Available October 2010 



The kelmscott chaucer 

A Census 

by William S. Peterson and Sylvia Holton Peterson 

When William Morris founded the Kelmscott Press, his celebrated 

private press, in 1891, one of the books he intended to print 

was an edition of the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer. Because of 

its size and complexity, The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer did not emerge 

from the press until June 1896, shortly before Morris’s death. Even 

at the time of publication, there was almost universal recognition 

that it was the most ambitious and remarkable book produced in 

the nineteenth century. Morris himself designed the type, initials, 

and borders. His old friend Sir 

Edward Burne-Jones created the 

eighty-seven wood-engraved illustrations, 

and the book was printed 

on a hand-press with ink, paper, 

and vellum made to Morris’ exact 

specifications. 

According to Sydney 

Cockerell, the second Secretary 

of the Kelmscott Press, Morris 

printed 425 copies of the Chaucer book on paper and thirteen on vellum. This Census 

locates and describes as many of those books (which are now scattered all over the world) as 

possible and reconstructs their complicated history of ownership, supplying a narrative of 

the fortunes of each known copy that came off the press in 1896. New information about 

unlocated copies, copies that have been sold by book dealers and auction houses, and the 

binders who have subsequently rebound many of the copies is also included. Three substantial appendices record the copies 

sold by Bernard Quaritch (the London bookseller most closely 

associated with the production of the Chaucer), the mailing list 

of the Kelmscott Press, and other unpublished contemporary 

documents. 

2011, hardcover, dust jacket, 8.5 x 11 inches, 300 pages 

ISBN 9781584562894, Order No. 103887, $95.00 

Available January 2011 

William S. Peterson (Professor of English Emeritus, 

University of Maryland) has written extensively about the 

Kelmscott Press and other aspects of fine printing in Britain 

and America. He is currently the editor of Printing History, the 

journal of the American Printing History Association. Sylvia 

Holton Peterson (Professor of English Emeritus, University 

of the District of Columbia) is a medievalist and the co-author 

(with Jackson Campbell Boswell) of Chaucer’s Fame in England: STC 

Chauceriana, 1475–1540 (2004). 



John fuller and the sycamore press 

A Bibliographic History 

by Ryan Roberts 

Set up in 1968, John Fuller’s Sycamore Press published some of the most 

influential and critically acclaimed writers of the past half-century. Operating 

from a garage, the press published established authors such as W. H. Auden, 

Philip Larkin, and Peter Porter, as well as promoting young poets including 

James Fenton and Alan Hollinghurst. The Sycamore Press ceased operations 

in 1992, but remains an excellent example of the unique qualities associated 

with the small press movement in England. 

In addition to a full descriptive bibliography, the book includes an evocative 

foreword by John Fuller, who wryly describes the trials and tribulations 

of ‘garage’ publishing. In 

a transcribed interview 

with the author, Fuller 

explains why a pamphlet 

of poems took almost 

a year to produce as he 

experimented with letterpress 

technology. 

Personal reflections by 

Sycamore Press authors such as Andrew Motion and Thom Gunn illuminate 

the publishing process further and show what a powerful role John 

Fuller played in the lives of young poets lucky enough to be published by 

him. While this book is full of entertaining anecdotes about the hazards 

of small book publishing, 

it also provides invaluable 

advice for small press 

printers. 

Ryan Roberts is a 

Professor and Librarian at 

Lincoln Land Community 

College in Springfield, 

Illinois. He also maintains 

the official websites for Ian 

McEwan, Julian Barnes, 

Hermione Lee, and James 

Fenton. He is co-editor of a volume of interviews with Julian Barnes and editor 

of a volume of interviews with Ian McEwan for the University Press of 

Mississippi’s Literary Conversations Series. 


ISBN 9781584562818, Order No. 104085, $49.95 

Available outside North and South America from The Bodleian Library 



Tom Stoppard 

A Bibliographical History 

by William Baker and Gerald N. Wachs 

Tom Stoppard, whose writing career spans over half a century, is one 

of the most prolific of living British authors. This bibliographical history 

provides a comprehensive account of the print-published writings, 

and texts in other media, which he has wholly or partially authored. It 

will be an indispensable resource for all who have a scholarly interest in 

modern British literature, drama and cinematic scripts. 

As a creator of texts 

in dramatic form for live 

theatre, radio, television or 

cinema, Stoppard has won 

Tony awards and Oscars. 

He has composed short 

stories, a novel, and a large 

number of non-fictional 

prose writings, such as essays, 

articles, published speeches 

and letters to periodicals. 

This bibliography records 

for the first time his innumerable articles including investigative journalism, and 

film and theatre reviews penned as a young working journalist. Also included are 

interviews—recorded in print or other media—and interview-based articles. The 

bibliography documents other texts generated from Stoppard’s interests in literary 

projects, human 

rights, and 

other causes 

as a champion 

of freedom of 

expression, with 

forewords to books, short notes, jointly authored letters, 

signatures to petitions, declarations and other material. 

A Bibliographic History provides a guide to Tom Stoppard’s 

obsessive creative revisions and also documents the countless 

translations of his work. 

William Baker is a Board of Trustees Professor and 

Distinguished Research Professor at Northern Illinois 

University. His interest in bibliography and librarianship 

resulted in his gaining the MLS degree from the University 

of Loughborough. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Bibliographical Society of America, the American Philosophical 

Society and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Gerald N. Wachs, MD, is an eminent New York based dermatologist 

and book-collector with a unique Stoppard Collection upon which this bibliographical history is based. 

2010, hardcover, 7 x 10 inches, 496 pages , plus CD-ROM with images 

ISBN 9781584562856, Order No. 104817, $79.95 Available December 2010 




The iliad and odyssey 

As translated by Alexander Pope 

by Homer 

An original twopart 

introduction by the esteemed Pope scholar Steven Shankman reflects on 

and investigates Pope’s majestic poems through a scholarly lens focused on the 

timeless Homeric themes of war and peace. Professor Shankman also elaborates 

on “How To Read Homer,” an aid to understanding the philosophical and historical 

context of the Homeric epics. 

Acclaimed by Samuel Johnson as “a performance which no age or 

nation could hope to equal,” Alexander Pope’s translation of the Iliad 

and Odyssey stands as one of the glories of English Literature. 

The Chester River Press edition of the Iliad and Odyssey of 

Homer is designed and printed to reflect the epic proportions of this 

famous translation and offers both the Greek and English translations 

for the general reader and scholar alike. More than 50 color 

drawings in Greek 

vase styles by Avery 

Lawrence were commissioned 

by the 

Press. Every drawing 

portrays a specific 

scene from each of the 

48 books making up 

the Iliad and Odyssey, 

with smaller medallions 

adorning pages 

throughout. 

The Iliad and Odyssey are presented as a companion, slipcased set and bound in black 

Dutch cloth with dust jackets. 

2009, hardcover, dust jacket, 12.5 x 14.5 inches, 2 volumes, 984 pages 

ISBN 9780982340325, Order No. 104249, $350.00 

Distributed for the Chester River Press 


Distributed for AdVenture Publishing, Athens 


A catalogue of printed maps of greece, 1477–1800 

by Christos G. Zacharakis 

In its third edition, this catalogue covers a period of more than 300 years of printed 

European cartography concerning Greece. With nearly 4,000 maps listed alphabetically by 

the makers’ names and 500 black-and-white illustrations, this is the most inclusive cartographic 

bibliography produced about Greece from 1477 to 1800. 

Maps are listed in alphabetical order under the name of the particular cartographer, 

publisher, and engraver. Variant maps also show some of the inaccuracies of the time 

including the Ptolemaic style of cartography for Greece. 


ISBN 9789608779242, Order No. 104502, $215.00 

All three titles available in Greece & the UK from AdVenture Publishing 

Antonio Millo Isolario 

by Agamemnon Tselikas 

Millo’s earliest dated Isolario (a manuscript description of an island and its corresponding 

maps) comes from the collection of Sylvia Ioannous that was devoted to the 

history of her homeland, Cyprus. The Isolario was chosen specifically from the collection 

to portray the intellect, experience, and magic of the Eastern Mediterranean. This book, 

translated into both Greek and English, details over 200 maps, each containing specific 

information about an island and its reefs, sandbanks, ports, and cities. Also included are its 

perimeters, the depth of waters, anchorage, locations of drinking water, and the distances 

and routes from one place to another. Longitudes and latitudes, as well as the voyage from 

Tripopli of Syria to the city of Venice are examined. Each passage explains in great detail 

the nautical terms of the time that may no longer be used or are unfamiliar to the reader. 


ISBN 9789608779228, Order No. 104500, $115.00 

sweet land of cyprus 

The European Cartography of Cyprus (15th to 19th Century) 

by Sylvia Ioannou 

This book contains five units comprising the whole of the Sylvia Ioannous collection 

of maps about her homeland, Cyprus. The first three units encompass Frankish and 

Venetian rule. Maps and rare loose sheets illustrate the Frankish walls of Nicosia, the philosophical 

concept of the world as depicted by the cosmographers, and pages of atlases that 

made their first appearance while Cyprus was enslaved by the Ottoman Empire. The fourth 

unit, containing nautical charts, also has the “jewel” of the collection—the manuscript isolario 

of Antonio Millo. The whole set is completed by the fifth unit, combining the cartography 

of the Age of Enlightenment with the scientific compilation of nautical charts. 

2003, paperback, 9.75 x 12.5 inches, 240 pages 

ISBN 9608779219, Order No. 104503, $75.00 



Distributed for hes & de graaf Publishers 

HES & DE GRAAF publishes scholarly works on books, the history and production of books, and any topic 

related to manuscripts or the printed book, as well as a wide variety of subjects including fine arts, cartography, travel 

and navigation, and history of sciences. They also have rare reprints and classics on many well-known works. 

The two 15th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography Winners 

Catalogue of books 

printed in the xvth 

century now in the 

British library 

BMC, Part XI England 

by Lotte Hellinga 

The eleventh volume in the series 

covers England and responds to the 

special circumstances of early printing 

in England, giving particular attention 

to textual transmission by systematically 

following each text from source or copy 

to print whenever possible. This work includes descriptions of 323 copies 

of books, representing 221 editions of items printed in England, 

out of a total of 395 known to date, extensive introductions, and 52 

full-size plates accompanying the descriptions of printing types. With 

four full-color and numerous black-and-white illustrations of type and 

watermarks. 


ISBN 9789061943792, Order No. 103198, $1,985.00 

covens & mortier 

A Map Publishing House in 

Amsterdam 1685–1866 

by Marco van Egmond 

This work is an extensive carto-bibliography 

with maps published by Covens 

& Mortier with 500 full-color images. It 

includes a genealogy of Covens & Mortier, 

estate inventories, catalogues of maps and 

copperplates, and references to Covens & 

Mortier in contemporary periodicals and 

booksellers’ books. 

2009, hardcover, dust jacket, 9.5 x 12.5 inches, 600 pages plus CD-ROM 

ISBN 9789061942207 , Order No. 103234, $240.00 

Dutch decorated 

bookbinding in 

the eighteenth 

century 

by Jan Storm van Leeuwen 

This classic ranks among 

the standard works on the 

subject of bookbinding. Vol. I: 

General historical introduction; 

Noord Holland; Vol. IIa: Zuid 

Holland; Vol. IIb: Zeeland, Province of Utrecht, Friesland, Province of 

Groningen, Drente, Overijssel, Gelderland, Noord-Brabant and Limburg; 

Place unknown or irrelevant and Bindings in exceptional materials; 

Vol. III: Catalogue of bindings in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the 

Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum; List of Bindings in other collections; 

Overview of Rubbings important for identification; Diagrams; 

Books referred to with abbreviated titles; Index to the text; Index to 

Catalogue and List. About 10,000 rubbings of tools and ornaments, 

black and white illustrations, and a color section in each volume. 

2006, hardcover, dust jacket, 8.25 x 11 inches, 4 volumes, 4000 pages 

ISBN 9789061943693, Order No. 103679, $2,375.00 

Sailing for the east 

History and Catalogue of 

Manuscript Charts of the Dutch 

East India Company (VOC) on 

Vellum 1602–1799 

by Gunter Schilder and Hans Kok 

This book presents a never-before 

published overview of chart material used 

on a VOC (Dutch East India Company) 

ship. All navigation charts of the VOC in 

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 

are drawn on vellum, and described and 

analyzed in this illustrated carto-bibliography. 


ISBN 9789061942603 , Order No. 104493, $250.00 

Printing the Classical 

Text 

by Howard Jones 


ISBN 9789061942795, Order No. 103669, $200.00 

All available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers 

Technique & Design in the 

History of printing 

by Frans A. Janssen 


ISBN 9789061942894, Order No. 103672, $220.00 

Globi Neerlandici 

The Production of Globes in the Low 

Countries 

by P. van der Krogt 

800-996-2556 www.oakknoll.com oakknoll@oakknoll.com 

1993, hardcover, dust jacket, 9.5 x 12.25 in., 648 pages 

ISBN 9789061941385, Order No. 103608, $645.00


Distributed for The Center for Book Arts 

The Center for Book Arts in New York City is committed to exploring and cultivating contemporary aesthetic 

interpretations of the book as an art object while invigorating traditional artistic practices of the art of the book. 

The Center seeks to facilitate communication between the book arts community and the larger spheres of contemporary 

art and literature. Founded in 1974, it was the first organization of its kind in the nation and has since become a 

model for others around the world. 

New world suite 

number three 

by Robert Bringhurst 

Edition limited to 75 

signed and numbered copies, 

including five artist proofs, 

with only 25 copies for sale. 

A poem for three voices, to 

be performed by three people 

simultaneously. The display 

type was set by hand, and the 

text was printed by the Center’s 

Master Printer, Barbara Henry at their Jane Mead Timken Printshop in 

three separate colors in Monotype Dante, with composition by the Bixler 

Foundry in Skaneateles, NY. Mr. Bringhurst created the typographic 

design for the book and the text; Hedi Kyle designed the innovative binding 

structure. 

2005, black cloth with paper label, 17 x 17 inches 

four 8.5 x 11 books, three at 28 pages, one at 20 pages 

Order No. 103052, $3,500.00 

center broadsides 

reading series 

Limited to an edition of 75. 

This boxed set was designed, 

printed letterpress, and created 

at the Center for Book Arts to 

commemorate the reading held 

in New York on Friday, March 3, 

2006 celebrating the fifth anniversary 

of the Center Broadsides 

Reading Series. Each of the ten 

poems presented is represented by an image in the set. Printed by Delphi 

Basilicato. The boxes were produced by Sarah McDermott and Nicole 

Trigg under the supervision of Ana Cordeiro. 

2006, 5.75 x 7.5 inches 

10 loose sheet poems contained in a red, cloth-covered matchbox style container 

with cloth covered flaps on inner sliding tray to protect contents 

Order No. 103156, $350.00 

The Diary of a Madman 

by Nicolai Gogol 

1998, 7.25 x 11 inches 

hardcover with clamshell box, 56 pages 

Order No. 103057, $2,000.00 

Ticket licket 

by Benjamin D. Rinehart 

2001, 10.25 x 5.75 inches 

portfolio, six woodcut images printed on both sides 

Order No. 103059, $1,250.00 

istoriato 

by Mare Blocker 

2001, 11 x 11 inches 

case bound concertina 

with round-shaped case, printed navy Irish cloth on 

book, book covers, and lidded clamshell box 

Order No. 103051, $1,250.00 

cinnamon bay sonnets 

by Andrew Kaufman 

1996, softcover, 7 x 9 inches, 30 pages 

Order No. 103160, $100.00 

center broadsides 

2008 Reading Series 

2008, 13 x 15 inches 

paper letterpress printed with rectangles 

in shades of lime green; front 

flap opens to form a box shape made 

from hunter green book cloth faced 

with white paper 

Order No. 103158, $500.00 

the present 

Twelve Poems 

by Jane Hirshfield 

2007, hardcover, 5 x 7 inches, 32 pages 

Order No. 103170, $100.00 

Hedi Kyle & Her 

influence 

1977–1993 

1993, hardcover, 9 x 12 in., 8 pages 

Order No. 103927, $10.00 

Paper, art and the book 

1996, paperback, 5 x 7.25 inches, 36 pages 

Order No. 103181, $10.00 

coptic and collage 

Ancient technique, modern application 

1997, paperback, 6.5 x 9 inches, 24 pages 

Order No. 103174, $10.00 



The thread that binds 

Interviews with Private Practice Bookbinders 

by Pamela Train Leutz 

All independent bookbinders have a “story”—significant, fascinating and unique— 

that reveals their path to bookbinding and sustains them as they continue their craft. 

What was it that brought them to bookbinding? Where did they learn the craft? What 

made them choose private practice? How do they ensure a living? How hard do they 

work? After years of bookbinding, do they still like what they are doing? Where do they 

get clients? What advice would they give to someone interested in becoming a bookbinder? 

What common threads do these folks share? The Thread That Binds documents 

Pamela Leutz’s quest to learn about the lives of representatives of this field. The book is 

comprised of 21 interviews with independent bookbinders, with introductions written 

by Pamela Leutz, including a special interview with Don Etherington. It includes images 

that offer a closer look at these bookbinders’ studios, as well as photographs of the binders 

themselves. This is an excellent book for those considering working on their own in 

the field of bookbinding or for those simply interested in its history. 

2010, 6 x 9 inches, 352 pages 

Hardcover, dust jacket: ISBN 9781584562764, Order No. 103924, $55.00 

Paperback: ISBN 9781584562740, Order No. 103885, $34.95 

Also available as unbound sheets: Order No. 103925, $24.95 

“There is a behind-the-scenes aspect to this book that propels the essentially disparate interviews into a compelling whole.” 

- Jeffrey S. Peachey, The Bonefolder 

Bookbinding and Conservation 

A Sixty-Year Odyssey of Art and Craft 

by Don Etherington 

This new autobiography by renowned bookbinder Don Etherington takes the 

reader through his lifelong journey of bookbinding and conservation. Etherington 

documents his experiences teaching these trades and traveling throughout Europe and 

to the United States. He tells of his generous contribution to the conservation effort in 

Florence, Italy, following the great flood that caused incredible damage to thousands of 

books. Bookbinding and Conservation is a unique account of the personal and professional 

life of this important figure in the world of binding and conservation. The memoirs 

contain numerous personal photographs that richly illustrate his story. The autobiography 

is followed by a pictorial catalogue of many of Etherington’s fine bindings. This 

book is an excellent pick for anyone interested in bookbinding and the lives of major 

bookbinders. 


ISBN 9781584562771, Order No. 102815, $49.95 

Also available as unbound sheets: Order No. 104070, $24.95 

“Mr. Etherington is a good writer, and the account he tells of his long career is interesting and telling, from his hard but rewarding 

apprenticeship to the fine work he presently does.” - Sandy Cohen, Guild of Bookworkers 



The Henry Davis Gift 

A Collection of Bookbindings 

Volume III: A Catalogue of South European Bindings 

by Mirjam M. Foot 

This much anticipated third and final volume of The Henry Davis Gift focuses on 

South and East European fine bindings, with additional sections on Oriental and 

American bindings. It includes many new identifications, and owners and binders are 

discussed comprehensively. Not only have the decorative features of every binding 

been described and illustrated, details of structure have also been described, and consequently, 

it is now possible to compare and contrast bookbinders’ practices in the 

various countries, as evident from this splendid collection of fine bindings. Although 

this volume focuses on Southern Europe, it also includes bindings from the Middle 

East, Mexico, and the United States. Two bindings overlooked in Volume II are also 

included. As in Volume II, this volume has been arranged according to country, and 

then further organized chronologically. In the introduction, Foot explains how her 

views and methods have changed and how, as a result, she has altered specific descriptions 

and structural elements. The text also contains indices of binders and of owners. 

This is an invaluable book for all academic libraries, for antiquarian booksellers, 

for collectors, and for all interested in the history of the book. 

2010, hardcover, 8.5 x 10.75 inches, 528 pages Volume II: 1983, hardcover, 8.5 x 10.75 inches, 368 pages 

ISBN 9781584562726, Order No. 102273, $125.00 ISBN 9780904654738, Order No. 104824, $140.00 

Available outside North America from our co-publisher The British Library 

2009, paperback, 9 x 9.75 inches, 216 pages 

ISBN 9781584562689, Order No. 102152, $59.95 

Available outside North and South America from our co-publisher The British Library 

Fine Bookbinding 

A Technical Guide 

by Jen Lindsay 

The purpose of this book is to guide the reader through the sequence 

of operations involved in creating a book bound in leather, or a “fine binding.” 

The author defines a fine binding as a book fully covered in leather, with 

leather-jointed endpapers, gilt edges, and leather doublures. Although a basic 

knowledge of bookbinding terms and techniques is assumed, this book is 

meant for both novice and experienced bookmakers. The book is intended to 

be used as an active guide during the process of fine binding. It is arranged into 

sixteen sections, in the order of how they are to be undertaken (or a “sequence 

of operations”), beginning with preliminary work and ending with preparing 

and putting in leather doublures. Each section includes appropriately numbered 

instructions so that the user can find his or her place in the sequence of 

operations and have a reference for what step is next. There are also numbered 

explanatory sections that include a rationale (why you do it) and technique 

(how you do it). The work includes close to 300 black-and-white illustrations, 

four appendices, and a bibliography. 

“An outstanding, detailed, step-by-step manual that ... 

has set the bar high for future fine binding manuals.” 

- Frank Lehmann, Guild of Bookworkers 



A Place in my chronicle 

A New Edition of the Diary of Christopher Columbus 

Baldwin, 1829–1835 

edited by Jack Larkin and Caroline Sloat 

The text of Baldwin’s diary is a virtual trip back in time, and this edition 

with its lively illustrations and helpful identification of the hundreds of 

people he meets along the way takes the reader back into Massachusetts in the 

years between 1829 and 1835. Numerous illustrations and pictures expand 

the descriptions Baldwin gives readers in his entries. Additionally, Larkin and 

Sloat use footnotes to explain information, such as dates or places that audiences 

may be unfamiliar with. Baldwin’s entries detail a wide variety of subjects 

including everyday occurrences in his life as a lawyer and librarian, as well as 

the obscure and unusual things that amused him. Also discussed are people 

Baldwin met (with an index in the back describing every person in detail) in 

addition to his feelings on important subjects such as slavery, religion, politics, 

and art, and his passion for books and reading. Baldwin was an inveterate collector 

of books and this diary is an account of building a library before librarianship 

was established as a profession. 


ISBN 9781929545643, Order No. 104667, $55.00 

Distributed for the American Antiquarian Society 

Doing Something for Australia 

George Robertson and the Early Years of Angus and 

Robertson, Publishers, 1888–1900 

by Jennifer Alison 

From tentative beginnings in 1888, Angus and Robertson soon hit their 

stride as publishers with the publication of Banjo Paterson’s verses The Man 

from Snowy River. From this foundation, Angus and Robertson went on to publish 

books for the Australian community for the better part of the next hundred 

years. The powerful force in the early publishing was George Robertson, 

who devoted himself to the task and who, with the continuing success of the 

firm’s many books, truly believed he was “doing something for Australia.”This 

book tells the story of how Angus and Robertson operated as a business to 

achieve their success, which in effect tells the story of George Robertson himself. 

It highlights the success of Angus and Robertson within Australia and 

acknowledges their powerful marketing and advertising methods. Lastly, it 

includes a complete list of Angus and Robertson publications between 1888 

and 1900, as well as images of the early bookshop and its publications. 


ISBN 9780975150030, Order No. 104149, $49.95 

Available in Australia and New Zealand from the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand 



Small Books for the common man 

A Descriptive Bibliography 

edited by John Meriton with the assistance of Carlo Dumontet 

The hundred years prior to the mid-nineteenth century saw a flowering of 

ephemeral publishing often referred to by the shorthand “chapbooks.” This book is 

an analytical bibliography of the National Art Library’s collection of literary ephemera 

of the period; that is, histories, tales, verse collections, primers, and alphabets. 

Nearly 800 titles are described here in significant bibliographical detail to allow 

accurate comparison and verification with editions, variants, and states in other 

collections. Examples of illustrations from all the books described are reproduced 

here, providing a visual feast and resource. The book will appeal to libraries with 

collections containing literary and educational ephemera. It will provide support 

for current research into literary studies and work on literacy and language development. 

John Meriton is Librarian of the National Art Library and Deputy Keeper 

of the Word and Image Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Carlo 

Dumontet is the National Art Library’s Special Collections Bibliographer. 


ISBN 9781584562542, Order No. 99759, $115.00 


Illustrated Periodicals of the 1860s 

Contexts & Collaborations 

by Simon Cooke 

Illustrated Periodicals of the 1860s provides a new and informative approach to the 

study of “sixties” periodicals, revealing the previously unstudied area of the complex 

interrelationships between the various parties involved in the production of these 

magazines: publishers, editors, artists, engravers, and authors. The book considers 

the effects of these relationships on creative output, both artistic and literary, and in 

doing so provides a detailed, historical reconstruction of the essential character of the 

periodicals of that era. The book includes over 120 reproductions of engravings and 

preparatory drawings, almost all of them original size. Additionally, the text contains 

two appendices; the first includes a reflection of the work that goes into collecting 

and researching these periodicals. The second lists the key illustrators, engravers, publishers, 

editors, as well as magazines mentioned throughout the text, each including a 

brief description. This work is an informative and colorful choice for those interested 

in the history of periodicals, the production of magazines, and art. 


ISBN 9781584562757, Order No. 103919, $75.00 

Co-published with The Private Libraries Association and The British Library 

Available outside North America from The British Library 



Ernest Hemingway 


by Edgar Grissom 

Ernest Hemingway: A Descriptive Bibliography is the culmination of all previous 

endeavors in Hemingway bibliography. Grissom corrects the work of previous bibliographers, 

adding numerous editions and printings to the periods they covered and 

addressing the years 1975–2009, which had previously been left untouched. This is 

the only Hemingway bibliography to classify edition, printing, issue, and state, and 

provide a classical bibliographical description. It is also the only text that provides and 

describes every printing of every edition, as well as a comprehensive list of the parent 

editions of the primary works. Additionally, the text supplies the locations of the 

copies it describes. In addition to a number of useful appendices, Grissom has created 

sections with reviews and epigraphs containing material by Hemingway, interviews 

with Hemingway, as well as lists of plays, television productions, and films adapted 

from Hemingway’s works. The bibliography includes hundreds of illustrations, 

including over 50 images of Hemingway’s signature from 1908 to 1960. Appendix 

8, which is part of Volume II (on the attached CD-ROM), provides comprehensive 

imaging in color of selected items from specific sections, all arranged chronologically. 

2010, hardcover, dust jacket, 8.5 x 11 inches 

Approx. 600 pages, plus 600 more on CD-ROM 

ISBN 9781584562788, Order No. 102275, $225.00 

Available November 2010 

Rudyard Kipling 

A Bibliography 

by David Alan Richards 

2010, hardcover, dust jacket, 8.5 x 11 inches, 504 pages, plus 446 on CD-ROM 

ISBN 9781584562429, Order No. 96675, $195.00 

Available in the UK from our co-publisher The British Library 

This new bibliography of Rudyard Kipling, the first English-language author 

to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, is the first to appear in fifty years and the first 

to incorporate modern standards of collation, binding cloth description, publication 

dates and prices, and dust jacket description. It fully describes 480 first editions, 

authorized and unauthorized, appearing as books, pamphlets, leaflets and broadsides 

from 1881 through 2008 in British India, England, the United States, Canada, New 

Zealand, South Africa, and Chile. This work also includes 127 titles of books with 

contributions from Kipling, 17 titles containing prefaces, introductory letters and 

forewords by Kipling, and 123 titles first printing his private letters. Also described 

are all important association and presentation copies of Kipling’s earliest works. 

Significant innovations in this bibliography include the first complete chronological 

list of all of Kipling’s newspaper and periodical appearances and the first examination 

of all English and American auction sale catalogues with lots of his editions and 

separate listings of unauthorized private editions and private editions as first editions. 

Further appendices include a chronology of the author’s life and major works, and 

titles of biographical studies of Rudyard and his immediate family. 



the last of the great swashbucklers 

A Bio-Bibliography of Rafael Sabatini 

by Jesse F. Knight and Stephen Darley 

A biography and comprehensive bibliography of Rafael Sabatini and his works 

is being presented for the first time anywhere. Sabatini is one of the most prolific and 

widely read novelists who specialized in making history live again through his fictional 

characterizations. He had a unique ability to use history as a background for fiction. 

Sabatini was the master of romantic historical novels and has rightly been called 

by Jesse Knight, “The Last of the Great Swashbucklers.” Not only did he write interesting 

and well-told stories of romance and adventure, but the movies that followed 

were just as popular as his books. No author has better captured the imagination of 

so many with fiction filled with intrigues, escapes, romantic loves, devilish plots, and 

sword play. This new book includes a thirty page biography of the life of Sabatini 

written by the late Jesse F. Knight. It also contains a bibliography of the first US and 

UK editions (as well as other significant editions) of all forty-seven of his books, prepared 

by Stephen Darley. The bibliography also describes the dust jackets, with color 

photos of many of them, which are important to collectors and sellers. 


ISBN 9781584562795, Order No. 102816, $65.00 

Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press 

A Checklist, With an Appreciation of Andrew White Tuer 

by Matthew McLennan Young 

This book is the first comprehensive bibliographic study of the London partnership 

of Field & Tuer and their publishing imprint, Leadenhall Press. Known today 

primarily for old-style facsimile reprints and a few outstanding works such as Tuer’s 

own History of the Horn-Book, the Leadenhall Press in fact published hundreds of titles 

in almost every subject area, from sixpenny pamphlets to vellum-bound limited editions. 

The book includes a revealing portrait of Andrew Tuer as a man of energy, 

curiosity, and wit: a successful businessman, inventor, advocate for fine printing, 

publisher, designer, collector, author, and correspondent. The annotated checklist 

describes nearly 450 publications issued by Field & Tuer and the Leadenhall Press 

from 1863 to 1913. Listing details include month and year of publication, publisher’s 

job number, listed price, brief description of format and cover design, important 

aspects of content and publication, and location of scarce and noteworthy copies. 

Appendices cover Andrew Tuer’s writings, ephemera, series titles, and institutional 

collections of special interest. A color section and illustrations in the text complete 

the story of an important link in the development of printing between the Chiswick 

Press of Charles Whittingham II and the celebrated publishers of the 1890s. 


ISBN 9781584562801, Order No. 103886, $59.95 

Available in the UK from The British Library 



French Renaissance Printing Types 

A Conspectus 

by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet 

This conspectus exhaustively surveys all Roman, Italic, Greek, Hebrew, 

and Arabic typefaces made in France during the sixteenth century. Such a survey 

will be of interest to historians, bibliographers, and philologists wishing to 

identify the types used in the imprints they are investigating, as well as to type 

historians or type designers wishing to base their attributions on documentary 

evidence. The conspectus consists of introductory chapters on the sources 

available, the evolution of sixteenth-century type-casting and letter-engraving, 

biographical notices of 17 punchcutters (both famous ones, such as Colines, 

Garamont, Granjon, and lesser known ones, such as Vatel, Gryphius, or Du 

Boys) and the methodology used. The main part of the book consists of the 

facsimiles of 409 typefaces (216 Romans, 88 Italics, 61 Greeks, 41 Hebrews, 

2 Arabics, and one phonetic) each with a short identifying notice, describing 

their letter family, size, punchcutter (or eponym), their first appearance in 

books or type-specimens, the surviving materials such as punches or matrices, 

and finally (for about two-thirds of them), the recent literature. Every typeface 

has been illustrated, several with multiple examples of their use. 


ISBN 9781584562719, Order No. 103920, $120.00 

Co-published with The Bibliographical Society and The Printing Historical Society; available in the UK from The Bibliographical Society 


ISBN 9781584562672, Order No. 102011, $85.00 

Distributed for The American Historical Print Collectors Society 

interpretive wood-engraving 

The Story of the Society of American Wood-Engravers 

by William H. Brandt 

In the late nineteenth century, wood-engraving was the principle medium 

of illustration employed by publishers. From this beginning, print collector 

Bill Brandt goes on to recount the story of the Society of American 

Wood-Engravers. The lost art of interpretive wood-engraving comes to life 

in Brandt’s detailed account. The fifty prints reproduced on these pages, 

scanned from Brandt’s extensive collection with most produced at full size, 

highlight the astonishing skill and painstaking craftsmanship required of a 

wood-engraving artist of the golden age. The author profiles many leading 

personalities on the American wood-engraving scene, including Alexander 

Anderson,William J. Linton, Anna Botsford Comstock, General Rush C. 

Hawkins, Timothy Cole, and Elbridge Kingsley. Brandt tells how the Society 

of American Wood-Engravers burned brightly for almost twenty years, and 

then faded away in the early days of photoreproductions. Readers, glimpsing 

the warm glow of a remarkable era, will take pride in this little-known period 

of American art history. 



PRINTErs’ & publishers’ marks in books for 

the greek world (1494–1821) 


This book contains reproductions of the printers’ and publishers’ marks of all 

those—both Greeks and non-Greeks—who printed or published books for Greek 

readers from the dawn of typography until just before the outbreak of the Greek 

War of Independence in 1821. Also reproduced here are the crests and coats of arms 

of the rulers of the Danubian principalities who actively supported the publication 

and dissemination of Greek books in the East. Some of the devices are the marks 

of well-known printing houses, where Greek scholars and calligraphers were largely 

responsible for the accuracy of the texts and the visual appearance of the book, such 

as the firms of Aldus Manutius in Venice and Robert Estienne in Paris. The marks are 

illustrated and described in all their variant forms, complete with bibliographical references, 

identifications, a general index, and an index of printers and printing houses. 

They are shown at actual size and presented chronologically. Includes a brief message 

to the reader by the author, as well as an extensive and detailed introduction. 


ISBN 9781584562702 , Order No. 102238, $125.00 

Available in Europe from our co-publisher HES & DE GRAAF 

Printed cookbooks in Europe, 1470–1700 

A Bibliography of Early Modern Culinary Literature 

by Henry Notaker 

This is the first bibliography to list all known editions of printed cookbooks 

published in Europe before 1700. More than a hundred titles in at least 650 editions 

were printed in fourteen different languages. Some household encyclopedias 

with culinary sections have also been included. Many of the editions described have 

never before been listed in modern bibliographies. Cookbooks from this period are 

no longer only of interest to collectors and antiquarians: food history is taught as an 

academic subject in an increasing number of universities. Information provided here 

about the locations of known copies, modern reprints, and facsimile editions will 

facilitate these studies. The bibliography gives the full title and physical description 

of each work. Annotations provide details about contents, biographical data about 

authors and publishers, information about the sources of the recipes, translations, 

and plagiarisms. A historical introduction analyzes the development of the cookbook 

as a genre during the first two centuries of printing, with reference to authorship, 

publishing history, didactic methods, culinary processes, and differences in gender. 


ISBN 9781584562535, Order No. 96680, $125.00 

Available in Europe from our co-publisher HES & DE GRAAF 



line, shade and shadow 

The Fabrication and Preservation of Architectural Drawings 

by Lois Olcott Price 


ISBN 9781584562375, Order No. 96676, $95.00 

Co-published with the Winterthur Museum and HES & DE GRAAF; available in Europe from HES & DE GRAAF 

Available October 2010 

This book explores the materials and techniques used in the fabrication of architectural 

drawings while illustrating their evolution from the eighteenth through the 

twentieth century. It provides a comprehensive look at both the problems and the 

solutions and it is beautifully illustrated with examples from major collections with 

extensive source citations. The first three chapters discuss the development of drafting-specific 

drawing, detail, and tracing papers and cloths; the changing media and 

techniques used in drafting, rendering, and mounting working, detail, and presentation 

drawings; the use of drawing instruments and correction and copying methods; 

and the introduction, development, and identification of blueprints and other photoreproduction 

processes, including the history, chemistry, and working procedure for 

each process. The fourth and final chapter includes an introduction to preservation, 

collection management, storage, and exhibition specifically for architectural drawings 

and photo-reproductions; and descriptions of specific conservation treatments with 

an assessment of their appropriateness for different deterioration issues and types of 

drawings. 

2009, paperback, 8 x 10 inches, 140 pages 

ISBN 9781584562160, Order No. 94208, $49.95 

Co-published with the New York Botanical Garden 

ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOREPRODUCTIONS 

A Manual for Identification and Care 

by Eléonore Kissel and Erin Vigneau 

Second edition, with corrections. This manual is designed for professional conservators, 

librarians, private collectors and researchers who want practical, contemporary 

insight into preserving architectural plans and drawings. The authors provide 

detailed methods for identifying architectural photoreproductions based on visual 

examination. The manual discusses twelve distinct processes and offers additional 

information on several other methods commonly used in North American architectural 

practice from 1860 to approximately 1960. One of the manual’s important 

features is the flowchart, an outline using a series of questions leading the reader 

to a preliminary identification. Each process is described in a separate chapter with 

numerous color illustrations of general and magnified views of select photoreproductions. 

Each chapter includes sections on how to identify a print, trade names and 

synonyms, the history and use of the printing process, how a print was manufactured, 

and degradation and storage considerations. The 54 illustrations, critical for identifying 

a document’s state of condition and extent of damage, have been carefully photographed 

and checked to ensure correct color representation. Appendices give information 

on storage, handling, and exhibition and current methods of reproduction. 


Books about Book Collecting 


THE BALTIMORE 

BIBLIOPHILES AT FIFTY 

1954–2004 

with “Children’s Books in 

Bygone Baltimore” 

An Essay and a Catalogue 

by Linda F. Lapides 

edited by Donald Farren and 

August A. Imholtz, Jr. 

With this volume, the Baltimore 

Bibliophiles celebrate the 50th anniversary 

of their founding, demonstrating 

the flourishing of bibliophily 

in Baltimore and the vigor of the 

organization. Included in the book 

are an account and catalogue of early children’s books in Baltimore by 

Linda F. Lapides. A separate section presents the organization’s historical 

record. This book contains 16 black-and-white photographs of children’s 

books in the catalogue, 3 portrait photographs of principal members of 

the Baltimore Bibliophiles, and a color frontispiece. 


ISBN 9781584562511, Order No. 101279, $55.00 

Distributed for the Baltimore Bibliophiles 

ABC FOR BOOK COLLECTORS 

by John Carter and Nicolas Barker 

Revised and re-set, with additional information and an 

introduction by Nicolas Barker. Can you define: shaken, 

unsophisticated, Harleian style, fingerprint and dentelle? If 

not, this is the book for you! John Carter’s classic has long 

been the most enjoyable and useful reference book in the 

field. 490 alphabetical entries define and analyze the terms 

used in book collecting and bibliography. Retains its humorous character as 

an indispensable guide, while keeping us up-to-date with current terminology. 


ISBN 9781584561125, Order No. 75338, $29.95 

The Literature of collecting 

& Other Essays 

by Richard Wendorf 

A ground-breaking investigation of the relationship 

between the theoretical and fictional texts devoted to collecting. 

Wendorf shows how the critical arguments posed by 

Benjamin, Baudrillard, Muensterberger and others play out 

in these modern literary texts—and how, in turn, these fictional works complicate 

the ways in which we think about what it means to be a collector. 


ISBN 9781584562306, Order No. 96668, $49.95 

Co-published with the Boston Athenaeum 

Books as History 

The Importance of Books Beyond Their Texts 

by David Pearson 

David Pearson explores the way books have been printed, 

bound, annotated, beautified, or defaced. He uses examples 

of books from the Middle Ages to the present day to show 

why books may be interesting beyond their texts. As the 

format of the book becomes history, we can recognize that books are also 

history in another significant way. Books provide evidence about the way 

they were used, making them an indispensable part of our cultural heritage. 

Extensively illustrated. 


ISBN 9781584562337, Order No. 96664, $49.95 


provenance research in book 

history 

A Handbook 

by David Pearson 

This handbook offers a compendium of information on 

the ways of recognizing and identifying marks of ownership, 

and on placing that knowledge in a wider context. Topics 

covered include inscriptions; mottos; bookplates; book labels and book 

stamps; armorials; sales catalogues; catalogues and lists of private libraries; 

provenance indices; heraldry and paleography. 


ISBN 9781884718793, Order No. 53851, $49.95 


Books about Book History 

the Books of Venice 

Il Libro Veneziano 

edited by Lisa Pon and 

Craig Kallendorf 

The Books of Venice (Il libro Veneziano) 

contains a series of essays (in English 

and Italian) exploring Venetian 

book history from the Quattrocento 

through current production, books 

printed “in the shadow of Aldus 

Manutius.” Most of the papers from 

a conference held in Venice in March 

2007 are included here, providing a 

survey of the high spots of Venetian 

printing from the fifteenth century 

through the twenty-first. Case studies focus on outstanding individuals, 

and other essays discuss the role of anonymous buyers, readers, and 

performers, and analyses of archival documents and marks in the books 

themselves are complemented by studies of how Venetian books arrived 

in collections throughout Europe. The Books of Venice contains essays that 

set Peter Koch’s deluxe edition of “Watermark” into the tradition of fine 

press printing in Italy. 

2009, paperback, dust jacket, 6.75 x 9.5 inches, 632 pages 

ISBN 9781584562573, Order No. 100392, $85.00 

Co-published with Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana and La Musa Talìa 

Available in Italy from La Musa Talìa 


26 Oak Knoll Press—Book History 

THE GREAT LIBRARIES 

From Antiquity to the Renaissance 


This monumental work chronicles the development of 

the library from 300 B.C. to 1600 A.D. Staikos reveals the 

majesty of Western literature within these great depositories 

of human knowledge. Includes hundreds of beautifully photographed 

interiors of legendary libraries and their treasures. 


ISBN 9781584560180, Order No. 58026, $125.00 

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BOOK 

by Geoffrey Ashall Glaister 

This extensive work defines almost 4,000 terms used in 

the book trades. Includes information on printers, authors, 

bookbinders, bibliophiles, equipment, famous books, printing 

societies, customs of the trade and other related information. 

A well-illustrated reprint of the 1979 second edition. 

2001, 7 x 10 inches, 576 pages 




Books about Bookbinding 

THE REPAIR OF CLOTH BINDINGS 

by Arthur W. Johnson 

One of the leading designer bookbinders in Great Britain, 

Arthur Johnson has used his extensive knowledge of book 

construction to provide a reference manual for the repair and 

reconstruction of cloth bindings. Each process is explained 

in detail with clear text, in order to give the worker confidence 

in this exacting skill. Using more than 90 hand-drawn illustrations, 

Johnson explains his procedures for sound repair. 


ISBN 9781584560784, Order No. 70933, $35.00 


ABC OF LEATHER BOOKBINDING 

A Manual for Traditional Craftsmanship 

by Edward R. Lhotka 

This work is an illustrated manual that shows step-bystep 

the art and science of fine leather bookbinding. The 

author learned the ancient craft from one of England’s foremost 

binders, Alfred de Sauty. In this important work, he 

takes the reader through the intricacies of traditional leather binding. 


ISBN 9781584561637, Order No. 79690, $19.95 

BOOKBINDING & 

CONSERVATION BY 

HAND 

A Working Guide 

by Laura S. Young 

This book is designed as a 

working guide in the field of hand 

bookbinding and book conservation. 

It is intended as a practical manual 

for teachers and their students, as 

an instruction guide to be followed 

by the beginner attempting to learn 

binding on his or her own, and as 

a ready reference for experienced 

binders, book collectors, book dealers, and librarians. The techniques 

described in this volume follow in principle the German school, and to 

the best of the author’s knowledge, this is the first book in which these 

binding practices have appeared in English. The heart of this working 

guide is the three chapters dealing with techniques and the chapter on 

conservation. A list of materials needed precedes the step-by-step instructions 

for a given section or techniques. 


ISBN 9781884718113, Order No. 42513, $24.95 

THE RESTORATION OF LEATHER 

BINDINGS 

by Bernard C. Middleton 

Fourth edition, revised from the 1998 edition. New 

additions include a section on identifying leather and marbled 

papers and an updated listing of binders’ suppliers. The 

book has chapters concerning definitions of terms, tools, materials, cleaning 

and all phases of reconstruction. Middleton’s work is a comprehensive handbook 

for practitioner and student alike. Well-illustrated and with eight new 

color plate pages. 


ISBN 9781584561194, Order No. 75328, $45.00 


HEADBANDS 

How to Work Them 

by Jane Greenfield and Jenny Hille 

Third printing of the second, revised and corrected 

edition. A topic that is often overlooked is how to create 

headbands—those decorative bands of silk or cotton which 

can be found fastened inside the top of the spine of a book. 

At last, two experienced hand bookbinders have produced an 

easy to use, step-by-step guide showing how to create fourteen different styles 

of headbands. Written for both beginners and experienced binders alike, it 

has established itself as one of the classic manuals for the hand bookbinder. 


ISBN 0938768514, Order No. 43018, $14.95 


Oak Knoll Press—Bookbinding 27 

ABC OF BOOKBINDING 

A Unique Glossary with 

over 700 Illustrations for 

Collectors and Librarians 

by Jane Greenfield 

Reprint of the first edition of 

1997. Jane Greenfield provides a 

unique glossary of terms, styles, 

structures, and names related to conservation 

and bookbinding through 

the ages illustrated with over 700 

line drawings. Locating accurate 

descriptions of bookbindings from 

various periods has previously been 

frustrating for those who work with 

rare and antiquarian books, especially conservators, librarians, book collectors 

and antiquarian book specialists. However, this frustration will 

abate as Greenfield’s work takes place alongside John Carter’s ABC For 

Book Collectors as well as Don Etherington’s and Matt T. Roberts’ Bookbinding 

and Conservation of Books. Greenfield has provided names and drawings for 

almost every conceivable part of the book as well as a multitude of styles, 

bindings, and decorations. She literally takes apart the structure of the 

book and illustrates the many and varied facets and definitions that clearly 

outline the historical development of the book’s structures and styles. 

2002, hardcover, 8.5 x 11 inches, 180 pages 

ISBN 9781884718410, Order No. 49915, $49.95 

BOOKBINDERS AT WORK 

Their Roles and Methods 

by Mirjam M. Foot 

The role of the bookbinder in the production of books 

and the significance of the binding in all its details have 

often been disregarded by bibliographers. In this book, 

Mirjam Foot reverses this trend by establishing binders, their 

materials and tools as essential parts of the production cycle; she reveals 

the inadequacy of bibliographical descriptions that lack essential binding 

information. 


ISBN 9781584561682, Order No. 87274, $59.95 


ELOQUENT WITNESSES 

Bookbindings and Their History 

edited by Mirjam M. Foot 

This work is a collection of essays that demonstrate the 

new directions the study of bookbinding has taken. Much of 

the work is based on observation of bookbinding techniques 

and materials, as well as a close study of decorative tools and 

the ways in which they were used to reflect the styles and fashions of their day. 

Includes 101 black-and-white pictures and eight color plates. 


ISBN 9781584561170, Order No. 76293, $65.00 

Co-published with The Bibliographical Society and The British Library 


A History of English Craft 

Bookbinding Technique 

by Bernard C. Middleton 

A classic work on decorative and commercial English 

bookbinding techniques. Chapters include the following 

topics: beating and pressing; sewing endpapers; gluing the 

spine; rounding and backing; edge-trimming and decoration; 

covering, finishing, siding and pasting down; and repair and restoration of 

books. Includes appendices on the background and history of the London 

bookbinding trade, working conditions and the growth of binderies. 


ISBN 9781884718281, Order No. 44862, $65.00 


TRADE BOOKBINDING IN THE 

BRITISH ISLES, 1660–1800 

by Stuart Bennett 

In 1930, Michael Sadleir declared that, “the bookseller-publisher 

from 1730 to 1770 issued his books either 

in loose quires, or stitched, or at most in a plain paper 

wrapper.” Bennett, however, presents new documentary and 

visual evidence that books were sold ready-bound in sheep, calf, and goat as 

well as boards and wrappers. Over 200 color illustrations show these bindings 

and their evolution. 


ISBN 9781584561309, Order No. 75432, $85.00 


American Signed Bindings 

through 1876 

by Willman Spawn and Thomas E. Kinsella 

Willman Spawn and Thomas E. Kinsella describe and 

illustrate 315 bookbinder’s tickets, stamps and engraved 

designations dating from the 1750 s through 1876. Two 

hundred and thirty-three binders are represented, many with multiple designations. 

The strength of the study is in its attention to nineteenth-century 

trade binders. The volume has two introductory essays and is well-indexed. 


ISBN 9781584562085, Order No. 93148, $85.00 

Co-published with Bryn Mawr College Library 

TICKETED BOOKBINDINGS FROM 

NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN 

by Willman Spawn and Thomas E. Kinsella 

Well-illustrated exhibition catalogue including plates in 

color. The first 219 bindings are described in great detail. 

This is followed by shorter descriptions of 485 ticketed 

bindings also in the collection but not pictured. Includes an essay by Bernard 

Middleton. 

1999, 8.5 x 11 inches, 206 pages 

Hardcover: ISBN 9781884718984, Order No. 54990, $65.00 


Unbound: ISBN 9781884718953, Order No. 54992, $35.00 

Co-published with Bryn Mawr College Library 



Books about Papermaking 

DER VOLLKOMMNE 

PAPIERFÄRBER 

The Accomplished Paper 

Colorer 

translated by Richard J. Wolfe 

This new work, limited to 300 

copies, is a facsimile reproduction 

and translation of an important 

early German manual on decorated 

and marbled paper. In the historical 

introduction to his translation of 

this work, Richard J. Wolfe summarizes 

the professional literature 

on marbling and paper coloring that 

began to appear in Germany at the beginning of the nineteenth century. 

Der Vollkommne Papierfärber, published around 1823, is the earliest work of 

its kind that has survived. Wolfe shares his experience with a seemingly 

unique copy of this rare and seminal treatise that he initially encountered 

in Leipzig in 1987. The story has a somewhat surprising ending. 

Following the introduction, the book displays the facsimile on the left 

page and a parallel translation on the opposing page. 

2008, hardcover, 5 x 7.5 inches, 180 pages 

ISBN 9781584562436, Order No. 99499, $60.00 

EDWARD SEYMOUR & THE FANCY 

PAPER COMPANY 

The Story of a British Marbled Paper 

Manufacturer 

by Sidney E. Berger 

In this limited edition, Berger shares the vicissitudes of 

the Fancy Paper Company’s fortunes, the personal lives of its owners, and 

the touching correspondence he found among its business records. With 20 

tipped-in, original examples of their many fancy papers, this work is a wellresearched 

text about one of the last marbled paper manufacturing firms. 

2006, hardcover with slipcase, 6 x 9 inches, 104 pages 

ISBN 9781584561897, Order No. 90944, $150.00 

paper mould and mouldmaker 

by E.G. Loeber 

This book covers the development and handling of paper 

mould, the mouldmaker, the deckle, the wire profile, and 

variants of the European mould and deckle. It also includes 

illustrations, various appendices, and sections on studying 

paper and watermarks. 


ISBN n/a, Order No. 70709, $100.00 

LETTERPRESS PRINTING 

A Manual for Modern Fine Press Printers 

by Paul Maravelas 

The comprehensive text for beginning and intermediate 

letterpress printers. Using clear explanations and more than 

80 illustrations, the manual describes presses, ink, paper, 

press operation, type and photopolymer plates. Includes glossaries of terms 

relating to paper and printing. An up-to-date work for students and fine press 

printers. 

2005, 8.5 x 11 inches, 220 pages 




FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF PRINTING 

by S.H. Steinberg 

Fully revised and updated by John Trevitt; republished 

in a larger format, with over 100 superb illustrations chosen 

afresh from the rich collections of The British Library. This 

volume is essential reading for book collectors, cultural historians, 

book designers and students. 

2001, 7 x 10 inches, 272 pages 




Books about Printing & Publishing 

PERIODICALS AND 

PUBLISHERS 

The Newspaper and Journal 

Trade, 1740–1914 

Part of the Print Network 

Series 

edited by John Hinks, Catherine 

Armstrong, and Matthew Day 

This tenth volume contains 

eleven exciting chapters from 

scholars working on provincial 

periodicals and newspapers in 

England, Scotland and Ireland. 

The topics focus on the book 

trades between 1740 and 1914, 

and include case studies of 

individual publishers and their 

experiences in the print market. This volume demonstrates the cultural 

and political significance of newspapers and periodicals and their producers. 

The main theme emerging from the papers is that of provinciality and 

specifically the relationship of producers and consumers of print who live 

and work in the provinces to each other and to London. Examination of 

the question of provinciality in this volume helps to illuminate the connections 

between book trade people in all parts of the British Isles. 


ISBN 9781584562665, Order No. 100486, $49.95 



Oak Knoll Press—Printing & Publishing 29 

The Design and Printing 

of Ephemera in Britain and 

America, 1720–1920 

by Graham Hudson 

This is the first book to discuss ephemera as an aspect of 

design history, showing how function, production process 

and time period have affected the changing appearance of billheads, trade 

cards, flyers, playbills and other ephemera. The book explores the closely 

interwoven printing histories of Britain and America. It is richly illustrated 

with letterforms, engravings, drawings and the reproduction of over 200 

items of ephemera, many in full color. 


ISBN 9781584562245, Order No. 95868, $65.00 


early printing in Saint Vincent 

The Island’s First Printers and their work, With 

a List of Saint Vincent Imprints, 1767–1834 

by Gregory Frohnsdorff 

foreword by Donald N. Mott 

This book traces its history from the first printing in 

Kingstown, as early as 1767 through 1834, the year slavery was abolished 

in the British West Indies. Several early printers are identified, and details 

about them and some of their publications are provided. It includes an annotated 

list of more than 250 items printed in Saint Vincent prior to 1835. 

Illustrated in black and white. 


ISBN 9781584562580, Order No. 100465, $45.00 

BE MERRY AND WISE 

Origins of Children’s Book Publishing in 

England, 1650–1850 

by Brian Alderson and Felix de Marez Oyens 

When did children come to be seen as a special readership? 

Child readership is the subject of this bibliographical 

study, in which the authors show how creative talents 

appealed directly to children and how the publishing industry realized that 

children were a profitable market. 


ISBN 9781584561804, Order No. 90644, $115.00 

Co-published with The Pierpont Morgan Library, The Bibliographical Society of America, 

& The British Library; available outside North & South America from The British Library 

The printed Greek book 

15th to 19th Century 

edited by K. Staikos and T. Sklavenitis 

An International Congress on the History of Greek 

Printing was held in Delphi, Greece where leading scholars 

presented over 40 papers pertaining to dissemination of the 

Greek language via manuscripts, books and documents. The 

collection of essays compiled in this book is the publication of these learned 

papers. The essays appear in a broad variety of languages, and many are 

printed in Greek. There is a useful appendix that contains abstracts in English 

for all 30 of the essays in Greek. 


ISBN 9781584561422, Order No. 76423, $95.00 

Co-published with Kotinos Publications, Athens, Greece 

Books for Sale 

The Advertising and 

Promotion of Print since the 

Fifteenth Century 

Part of the Publishing 

Pathways Series 

edited by Robin Myers, Michael 

Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote 

This volume of eight original 

essays, with contributions by specialists 

in the promotion and marketing 

of print, as well as by leading 

historians of the book, explores 

themes that include the advertising 

and marketing techniques of booksellers 

and publishers across early 

modern Europe, the increasing use 

of newspaper and periodical advertisements in England and Ireland during 

the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the dramatic impact of 

online marketing on the book trade. Other promotional tools discussed 

range from the illustrated trade cards of eighteenth-century Paris to the 

rise of the book jacket and the cult of literary prizes in the twentieth 

century. 


ISBN 9781584562658, Order No. 100485, $49.95 


BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 

Writer and Printer 

by James N. Green and Peter Stallybrass 

This work focuses on Franklin as a printer, from his 

apprenticeship to his retirement, by which time his was the 

largest printing business in colonial America. His success as 

a printer was based not only on his newspaper and popular almanacs, but also 

on his own writings, first for his brother’s press in Boston and then for his 

own press in Philadelphia. 


ISBN 9781584561873, Order No. 90643, $49.95 

Co-published with the Library Company of Philadelphia and The British Library; 

available in the UK from The British Library 

Disbound and dispersed 

The Leaf Book Considered 

This is the first in-depth examination of a bibliophilic 

phenomenon that began in the early nineteenth century and 

continues today. A leaf book is one that contains an original 

leaf from an imperfect copy of an historic book bound with 

an essay about the significance of the historic book. As such 

they provide a unique medium for both learning the history of books while 

providing the opportunity to inspect (or own) a specimen of the original. 

Includes 242 leaf books, and 41 images, many in color. 


ISBN 9781584561613, Order No. 79481, $45.00 

Distributed for the Caxton Club 


30 Oak Knoll Press—Printing & Publishing 

The Fanfrolico 

Press 

Satyrs, Fauns and Fine 

Books 

by John Arnold 

This work consists of a 

detailed history of the Fanfrolico 

Press and a full bibliography of 

its publications and ephemera, 

tracing the venture from its 

origins in Sydney, Australia in 

the early 1920s, to success in 

London from 1926, and its final 

dissolution in 1930. The Press 

was notable for the literary input 

of its proprietor Jack Lindsay and illustrations by his father, Norman 

Lindsay, as well as by Edward Bawden, Hal Collins, Lionel Ellis, and others. 

Jack Lindsay was responsible for the typographical design (initially 

with Kirtley) that brought a distinctive style to the books of the Press. 

This book has been designed by Paul W. Nash, with a design inspired by a 

Fanfrolico publication. There are 96 illustrations. 


ISBN 9780900002977, Order No. 101286, $65.00 

Distributed for the Private Libraries Association; available in the UK from the Private 

Libraries Association and in Australia from Kay Craddock 

the paradox of prosperity 

The Leiden Booksellers’ Guild and the 

Distribution of Books in Early Modern Europe 

by Laura Cruz 

Laura Cruz explores the world of the book trades as it 

was constructed in Leiden in the decades after the Revolt 

against Spanish rule. This book gives new insights to the 

culture of the young Republic that are based not only on the thoughts and 

dreams of individuals, but also on the behavior and aspirations of groups and 

the constraints and opportunities presented by institutions. 


ISBN 9781584562351, Order No. 96671, $55.00 

books about books 

A History and Bibliography of Oak Knoll Press, 

1978–2008 

by Robert D. Fleck 

A comprehensive history and bibliography of the press, 

from its beginning in 1978 through the fall of 2008. Bob 

Fleck, founder, owner, and president of the Press, begins 

with a history of the press, that is illustrated with more than fifty images. The 

history is followed by the bibliography, which lists 320 books in order of 

publication. 




the Book as a work of art 

The Cranach Press of Count Harry Kessler 

edited by John Dieter Brinks 

The Cranach Press, though located in Germany, was 

inspired by and became an integral product of the English 

private press movement. The Press’s work is recorded in this 

lavishly illustrated book. It includes Essays by John Dreyfus, Anne Hyde 

Greet, Gunnar Kaldewey, J.D. Brinks, Lindsay Newman, among others, with 

extensive documentation and a new and illustrated bibliography of the 

Cranach Press. 

2005, hardcover with slipcase, 9.5 x 12 inches, 456 pages 

ISBN 3935518669, Order No. 88729, $290.00 

Distributed for Triton Verlag, Berlin, Germany and Chapin Library of Williams 

College, Williamstown, MA 

A history of longmans and 

their books 1724–1990 

Longevity in Publishing 

by Asa Briggs 

Longmans is the oldest commercial publisher in the 

United Kingdom, founded in 1724 by Thomas Longman. 

Throughout its history, Longmans has published a variety of works, covering 

religion, law, medicine, science, and sports and has been a major publisher of 

dictionaries and reference books. 


ISBN 9781584562344, Order No. 96667, $110.00 


ARTHUR W. RUSHMORE & THE 

GOLDEN HIND PRESS 

by Monroe S. Causley 

First edition, limited to 200 copies, numbered and signed 

by author. A short biography of Arthur Rushmore and a 

comprehensive bibliography of his works. This edition was 

hand-set in Monotype, printed on an old Heidelberg press, 

quarter-leather bound and gold stamped for the discriminating collector. 

The bibliography covers all known works designed and printed by Rushmore 

from his days at Harper & Brothers to his death, and titles printed by his wife 

thereafter. 

2005, Quarter Leather, slipcase, 8.5 x 11 inches, 120 pages 

ISBN 9781584561415, Order No. 79692, $150.00 

Co-published with Kotinos, Athens 

THE VALE PRESS 

Charles Ricketts, A Publisher in Earnest 

by Maureen M. Watry 

The Vale Press is the story of typographer, publisher, and 

wood engraver, Charles Ricketts and his famous press. 

Ricketts was a versatile and innovative practitioner of the 

printing arts who exerted a powerful influence on modern 

book design. The Vale Press reveals the nature of Ricketts’ collaboration with 

the master printer Charles McCall of the Ballantyne Press. Includes a complete 

bibliography. 


ISBN 9781584560722, Order No. 76292, $95.00 

Available in UK from The British Library 


Books about Type Design 


AMERICAN metal typefaces of 

the twentieth century 

by Mac McGrew 

Reprint of the second, revised edition, with 300 more 

typefaces in a clean, attractive format. Discover 1,600 classical 

as well as bizarre typefaces in one of the most massive 

tributes to the history of printing and metal types. Includes alphabeticallylisted 

type families and typefaces and their variant forms are shown in full 

alphabets—upper and lower case with numerals and punctuation. The specimens 

are cleanly reproduced from metal types for maximum clarity. 


ISBN 9780938768395, Order No. 34980, $65.00 

AMERICAN PROPRIETARY TYPEFACES 

edited by David Pankow 

This book is a fascinating survey of typefaces developed 

in America after 1892. It includes essays on American Arts 

& Crafts typefaces, the Merrymount Press, Bruce Rogers’ 

Centaur type, Dard Hunter’s typefaces, and many others. 

Limited to 600 regular edition copies set in Monotype 

Centaur and Bembo, with text printed letterpress and illustrations printed by 

offset lithography at The Stinehour Press. Includes 66 illustrations at the end 

of the book. 



typeforms 

A History 

by Alan Bartram 

In this work, nearly 75 different letterforms types are 

shown in their original metal forms and placed in their 

historical context. By including photographs of contemporary 

inscriptions on buildings and monuments, Alan Bartram explores the 

relationship between printed and architectural letterforms and their parallel 

course from the Renaissance until Victorian times. Without an understanding 

of the visual make-up of letterforms, designers cannot fully exploit the 

potential of type. 


ISBN 9781584562221, Order No. 95866, $55.00 


PRINTING TYPES 

Their History, Forms, and Use 

by Daniel Berkeley Updike 

Explores the art of typography from the dawn of moveable 

type to the twentieth century. The two-volume set is 

combined into one, containing the original 367 illustrations. 

Updike’s text constitutes a running commentary on the historical 

and artistic significance of these illustrations. 

2001, 6.5 x 9 inches, 1088 pages 



Available in the UK from our co-publisher The British Library 

NINETEENTH- 

CENTURY AMER- 

ICAN DESIGNERS 

AND ENGRAVERS 

OF TYPE 

by William E. Loy 

edited by Alastair Johnston 

and Stephen Saxe 

In 1896, William E. Loy, a 

San Francisco printing equipment 

salesman and scholar, 

wrote a series of profiles of 

type designers, recognizing the 

importance of documenting 

the men in the background 

who created the nineteenth 

century’s fanciful types. Here is the behind-the-scenes story: biographies 

of artists, sportsmen, blacksmiths, soldiers, even a game warden, who were 

the creators of innovative types. Loy traces their personal stories adding 

much incidental detail about the politics and business practices of the 

time and the innovations of each. Typographical historians Johnston and 

Saxe have realized Loy’s vision, fully illustrated and annotated, with over 

800 illustrations of typefaces designed by the craftsmen he discusses. 


ISBN 9781584562610, Order No. 96679, $59.95 

Hamilton Wood Type 

A History in Headlines 

by Bill Moran, Robert Style, Dennis Ichiyama, and 

Richard Zauft 

A 65-page book outlining the history of the 

Hamilton Wood Type Company, the importance of 

wood type to the growth of printing world-wide, and the role the Museum 

plays in the education of today’s design professionals. The book includes a 

foreword by Jim Sherraden and five chapters on the history of Hamilton as a 

company and a museum. Well illustrated in full color. 


ISBN 0972392718, Order No. 99663, $20.00 

Distributed for the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum 

MACKELLAR, SMITHS & JORDAN 

Typographic Tastemakers of the Late 

Nineteenth-Century 

by Doug Clouse 

This study of America’s leading type foundry of the 

nineteenth century emphasizes the design of the hundreds of 

typefaces that were produced from its inception in the 1860s until its merger 

with most other American foundries at the end of the century. This study 

proposes that the earlier styles were successful in their own time and should 

be judged on that basis. An illustrated appendix showing MS&J’s original 

typeface designs accompanies the text. 


ISBN 9781584562320, Order No. 96669, $65.00 



Books about Book Design & Typography 

Book art object 

edited by David Jury 

with a foreword by Peter Koch 

Book Art Object is a record of 

the first biennial Codex Book 

Fair and Symposium: “The Fate 

of the Art,” Berkeley, California, 

2007. The event showcased 

contemporary artist books and 

fine press and fine art editions 

produced by some of the world’s 

most esteemed printers, designers, 

book artists, and artisans. The 

book includes transcripts of the 

following lectures: Sarah Bodman, 

Research Fellow, Centre for Fine 

Print Research, UWE, Bristol: 

“The hybrid lexicon: an overview of contemporary artists publishing in 

the UK”; Robert Bringhurst, poet, translator, and typographer: “Spiritual 

geometry: the book as a work of art”; and Felipe Ehrenberg, artist, 

Mexican diplomat, former publisher of the Beau Geste Press, London: 

“Cutting and pasting: metaphor of life.” The volume is illustrated in full 

color throughout. 


ISBN 9780981791401, Order No. 100395, $150.00 

Distributed for the Codex Foundation 

BOOK TYPOGRAPHY 

A Designer’s Manual 

by Michael Mitchell and Susan Wightman 

A comprehensive guide to typography and typesetting, 

describing the principles of good design, why they exist and 

how to put them to practice. The organization of text and 

the handling of images are explained in detail, and advice is given on work 

progression and print management. Contains over a thousand examples and 

illustrations showing typographic principles put into practice, as well as an 

extensive glossary. 


ISBN 0948021667, Order No. 92771, $69.95 

Distributed for Libanus Press 

Available in Europe and the UK from Libanus Press 

BOOK TYPOGRAPHY 

by Ari Rafaeli 

Rafaeli’s book examines how maximum-quality typography 

consistent with traditional standards can be achieved 

through modern technology. Word-division, letter-space, 

punctuation, footnotes and endnotes, symbols and special 

characters, dashes, quoted passages, folios and running 

heads are studied with reference to renowned authorities. Surveys the famous 

Monotype and Linotype book faces in their historical contexts with remarks 

on the quality of the current digital versions. Illustrated. 


ISBN 9781584561576, Order No. 79445, $34.95 


code(x) + 1 Monograph series 

2008–09 

This monograph series is devoted to the celebration 

of the book and print culture. This set contains the first 

three in the series, printed in an edition of 500 copies by 

Peter Koch on a Heidelberg cylinder press. Individual 

books include Why There are Pages and Why They Must Turn, 

Art: Definition Five (and Other Writings), and Each New Book. 

The covers were printed from antique wood and metal types in the Koch 

collection. 

Complete Set: 2008, paperback, 5.5 x 7.75 inches, 64 pages 


Distributed for the Codex Foundation 

AMERICAN BOOK DESIGN AND 

WILLIAM MORRIS 

by Susan Otis Thompson 

Reprint of the first edition with additional illustrations 

and a new foreword by Jean-Francois Vilain. With his 

Kelmscott Press and associations with the Arts and Crafts 

Movement, William Morris helped raise the public’s awareness of fine books 

to new heights. This landmark study documents the true extent of Morris’s 

influence on American bookmaking. 


ISBN 9781884718267, Order No. 44931, $34.95 


The Typographic 

Desk Reference 

by Theodore Rosendorf 

with a foreword by Ellen Lupton 

The Typographic Desk Reference (aka 

TDR) is comprised of a thousand 

facts on the form of Latin-based 

writing systems. The book includes 

the following four main sections: 

Terms—definitions of format, measurements, 

practice, standards, tools, 

and industry lingo; Glyphs—the list 

of standard ISO and extended Latin 

characters, symbols, diacritics, marks, 

and various forms of typographic 

furniture; Anatomy & Form—letter 

stroke parts and the variations of impression and space used in Latinbased 

writing systems; and Classification & Specimens—an historical line 

with examples of form from blackletter to contemporary sans serif types. 

Designed for quick consultation, entries are concise and factual, making it 

handy for the desk. 


ISBN 9781584562313, Order No. 96672, $45.00 


Books about Writing & Calligraphy 


AN ELEGANT HAND 

The Golden Age of American Penmanship & 

Calligraphy 

by William E. Henning, edited by Paul Melzer 

Guides the reader through the careers of some of the 

most important American penmen, including Rogers 

Spencer and his gifted student George A. Gaskell, whose books and periodicals 

reached thousands of students in the second half of the 1800s. Paul 

Melzer added more than 400 examples taken from original specimens to 

illustrate Henning’s manuscript. 


ISBN 9781584560678, Order No. 68991, $59.95 

Pen, Ink & Evidence 

A Study of Writing and Writing Materials for 

Penman, Collector and Document Detective 

by Joe Nickell 

Second printing with corrections. An excellent study of 

writing and writing materials for the penman, collector, and 

document detective. The author traces the development of 

writing and writing materials from the ancient cuneiform tablet to today’s 

historical documents. This work is essential for all calligraphers, archivists, 

literary historians and document examiners. Over one hundred illustrations. 


ISBN 9781584560920, Order No. 71215, $29.95 

Books about Illustration 

HISTORICAL 

SCRIPTS 

From Classical Times to 

the Renaissance 

by Stan Knight 

Up to the time of the 

Renaissance, calligraphy was the 

only means of preserving literature, 

and therefore played a vital 

role in the spread of learning, 

culture, and religion. Historical 

scripts were not rigidly-fixed 

styles, but the high peaks in an 

endlessly shifting landscape. 

Throughout the centuries, 

styles of writing were continually 

developed in response to various influences. Revised and expanded, 

this book is an excellent survey of bookhands with full-page, enlarged 

illustrations and solidly researched sources. It is useful for studying the 

history of manuscripts as well as the details of letter construction. This 

work also helps one make judgments about the technical condition of letter 

writing and its qualities of rhythm and movement, possible only when 

consulting an original manuscript. 


ISBN 9781884718564, Order No. 52752, $39.95 

Frank E. 

Schoonover 

Catalogue 

Raisonné 

by John Schoonover and 

Louise Schoonover Smith 

with LeeAnn Dean 

Frank E. Schoonover is 

recognized as one of the 

foremost illustrators of 

his time. His contribution 

to American illustration 

spanned over 40 years and 

included more than 2,200 

illustrations. The twovolume 

slip-cased Catalogue Raisonné embodies Schoonover’s entire oeuvre, 

from his earliest sketches to his last easel paintings. The book is chronologically 

organized with the numeration based on his daybook entries. 

Included are over 3,000 images, most in full color, a detailed biography 

with accompanying time line, information about his models and students, 

lists of exhibitions and magazines, bibliographies, and indices. 

2009, hardcover, dust jacket, slipcase, 9 x 12 inches, 2 volumes, 846 pages 

ISBN 9781584562382, Order No. 96681, $195.00 

Co-published with the Frank E. Schoonover Fund, Inc. 

CARL LARSSON 

An Annotated Bibliography 

by Ann J. Topjon 

This is the first comprehensive bibliography on Larsson 

and, with approximately 5,900 entries, encompasses all his 

known works, including albums, book illustrations and articles 

he wrote and/or illustrated in all languages and countries. The bibliography 

also documents and annotates the plethora of materials about him in all 

languages, including monographs, incidental books, encyclopedia articles and 

exhibition catalogs, as well as the numerous journal and newspaper articles 

written about him during his lifetime and up to the present. 


ISBN 9781584562108, Order No. 94200, $135.00 

HOWARD PYLE 

His Life – His Work 

by Paul Preston Davis 

This book celebrates the enduring and far-reaching 

achievements of Howard Pyle, America’s most famous and 

influential illustrator at the dawn of the twentieth century. 

Illustrated with over 3,300 images, this important research tool represents 

the most complete record of Pyle illustrations. For the first time, full-color 

images of each of Pyle’s published and unpublished works are provided in a 

single source. Indexed and cross-indexed. 

2004, hardcover, dust jacket, 9 x 12 inches, 2 volumes, 906 pages 

ISBN 9781584561330, Order No. 75317, $149.95 

Co-published with The Delaware Art Museum 


34 Oak Knoll Press—Illustration 

AMOS DOOLITTLE 

Engraver of the New Republic 

by Donald C. O’Brien 

As a copperplate engraver, Amos Doolittle (1754–1832) 

played an important role during the American colonies’ 

war for independence and the early years of the new nation. 

There are chapters on various types of Doolittle’s work, including tunebooks, 

maps, illustrations, bank notes and more. The book also includes two 

useful appendices, cataloguing books that contain his engravings, and references 

to him and his work. 


ISBN 9781584562061, Order No. 93957, $65.00 

Co-published with the American Historical Print Collectors Society 

A GUIDE TO THE PRINTED WORK OF 

JESSIE M. KING 

by Colin White 

Jessie M. King was the foremost Scottish book designer 

and illustrator of the twentieth century. In this work, every 

known item has been annotated, classified, and catalogued, 

and a further section lists over 100 publications containing 

reproductions of works by the artist. An appendix discusses King’s work for 

the German publisher Globus, and a second appendix investigates her designs 

for Routledge’s series of children’s classics. 


ISBN 9781584562047, Order No. 93073, $90.00 


ALEXANDER ANDERSON 1775–1870 

Wood Engraver & Illustrator, An Annotated 

Bibliography 

by Jane R. Pomeroy 

This comprehensive bibliography focuses on the 

American wood engraver and illustrator Alexander 

Anderson. The work contains a well-written and 

researched biography on his life, a bibliography with over 

2,322 entries illustrated with over 1,000 engravings and three indexes. 

2005, hardcover, slipcase, 8.5 x 11 inches, 3 volumes, 2616 pages 

ISBN 9781584561620, Order No. 88121, $350.00 

Co-published with The American Antiquarian Society 

SEVEN PERSPECTIVES Of THE 

WOODCUT 

Presentations from a Heavenly Craft Symposium 

and Exhibition 

edited by Daniel De Simone 

This book covers issues related to bookmaking in the fifteenth 

and sixteenth centuries. The analyses of the art of the 

woodcut presented here originated at the exhibition “A Heavenly Craft: The 

Woodcut in Early Printed Books,” which opened at the Library of Congress 

in April 2005. Corresponding images of woodcuts as well as photographs of 

original woodblocks appear throughout the volume. 


ISBN 9780844411835, Order No. 100570, $15.95 

Distributed for the Library of Congress 

Books about Bibliography 

the gilded page 

The History and Technique of 

Manuscript Gilding 

by Kathleen P. Whitley 

Second edition; revised, with the 

addition of color plates and new information 

on ancient Egyptian Papyrus 

gilding. The Gilded Page traces the history 

of gilding from ancient Egypt and 

Babylon through Rome, the Near East, 

Medieval and Renaissance Europe, 

and finally into the modern day studio. 

Learn step-by-step methods of applying 

and burnishing gold, described in 

a sensible and easy-to-understand way. 

Learn about the tools, methods, and materials employed in flat, raised, 

and pattern gilding for manuscripts and paintings, along with historical 

mordants such as Gesso Sottile, Gum Ammoniac, Gum Arabic, and 

Garlic Juice; and modern mordants such as Acrylic Gesso and White 

Glue. 





PRINCIPLES OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL 

DESCRIPTION 

by Fredson Bowers 

One of the indisputable classics of twentieth-century 

scholarship, Bowers’ work is one of the standard guides 

on the subject, providing a comprehensive manual for the 

description of printed books as physical objects. Although 

there has been much activity in descriptive bibliography since then, Principles 

still holds its place as the central book to which those engaged in bibliographical 

work continually return. 


ISBN 9781884718007, Order No. 40520, $39.95 

A NEW INTRODUCTION TO 

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

by Philip Gaskell 

In this book, Gaskell incorporates work done since the 

publication of Ronald McKerrow’s Introduction to Bibliography 

on the history of the printing technology from the handpress 

period through the present day. In recent years, there 

has been an increasing interest in the textual problems of the eighteenth 

through twentieth centuries, which are covered in this book. 





Bibliography 


The British Book 

TradE 1475–1890 

A Bibliography 

edited by T.H. Howard-Hill 

This superbly comprehensive and 

detailed bibliography of the British 

book trade supersedes all bibliographies 

on British authors and authorship, bibliography 

itself, book collecting, bookbinding, 

book illustration, bookselling, 

censorship, copyright, libraries, literacy, 

papermaking, printing, publishing, 

textual criticism, and typography until 

1890. More than 24,000 items are 

lightly annotated and arranged in classified 

chronological order, to illustrate 

the social and technological development 

of British book crafts and industries. Items are minutely indexed on 

the accompanying CD-ROM. Large areas of the history and practices of 

the British book trades are opened to scholarly study for the first time. 

2009, hardcover, 7.5 x 9.75 inches, 2 volumes, 1876 pages 

(plus index on CD-ROM) 

ISBN 9781584562559, Order No. 96665, $175.00 


BOOKS ON ART IN EARLY AMERICA 

Books on Art, Aesthetics and Instruction 

Available in American Libraries and Bookstore 

through 1815 

by Janice G. Schimmelman 

This bibliography covers a broad range of books on art 

in early America, including not only art treatises and instruction 

manuals, but books related to drawing, painting, engraving, sculpture, 

artist biography and the history of art. The checklist includes 183 titles, each 

with a full bibliographic description, followed by a full catalogue reference of 

the booksellers and/or libraries that listed the book. Includes five appendices. 


ISBN 9781584562146, Order No. 94205, $65.00 

A SHORT-TITLE CATALOGUE OF 

BOOKS PRINTED IN ENGLAND, 

SCOTLAND & IRELAND 

by A.W. Pollard and G.R. Redgrave 

This is the second edition, revised and enlarged. The 

work consists of three volumes begun by W.A. Jackson and 

F.S. Ferguson and completed by Katharine F. Pantzer. The third volume 

includes a printers’ and publishers’ index, other indices and appendices. 

1976, 1986, 1991, hardcover, 9 x 12 inches, 3 volumes, 1602 pages 

ISBN 0197217915, Order No. 60371, $795.00 

Distributed for The Bibliographical Society 

the dark page ii 

Books that Inspired 

American Film Noir, 

1950–1965 

by Kevin Johnson 

with a foreword by Guy Maddin 

Following up on his wellreceived 

bibliography of first 

edition sources for American film 

noir of the 1940s, this volume 

covers the second half of the classic 

American period, 1950–1965. 

The reverse influence of the film 

industry on the book industry 

increased as well, with stories 

being snatched up as film options as soon as they first appeared. The second 

volume of The Dark Page is an essential volume in a continuing series 

of references that are projected to cover American screwball comedies, 

European film noir, and American crime films and dramas of the late 

1960s and 1970s. Full-color photos of each first edition are featured, 

as well as bibliographical points for each book, and a bounty of factual 

information surrounding both the origins of the books and their subsequent 

film adaptations. 


ISBN 9781584562597, Order No. 100483, $95.00 

Deluxe edition signed by Guy Maddin & Kevin Johnson, with slipcase 

ISBN 9781584562603, Order No. 100484, $375.00 

The literature of the lewis and 

clark expedition 

A Bibliography and Essays 

by Stephen Dow Beckham 

This first comprehensive bibliography of Lewis and 

Clark expedition publications in a century. Introductory 

historical essays survey the large cast of characters who 

have contributed to the expedition story; bibliographies for each section list 

all known publications, with full annotated descriptions of primary texts. 

Lavishly illustrated with twenty-four full-page color plates and numerous 

black-and-white images from Lewis & Clark College’s collection. 


ISBN 0963086618, Order No. 73443, $75.00 

THE DARK PAGE 

Books that Inspired American Film Noir 

1940–1949 

by Kevin Johnson, with a foreword by Paul Schrader 

Identifying every 1940s American film noir with a 

published literary source, The Dark Page provides concise 

but fact-filled accounts of the authors, books and filmmakers that came 

together—often in unlikely combinations—to create a unique and cherished 

period in film history. Tapping the wells of film historians and cinemanistas 

from around the world, Johnson has compiled an unprecedented dossier of 

rare first edition book images. 


ISBN 9781584562177, Order No. 98426, $95.00 

Deluxe edition signed by Paul Schrader & Kevin Johnson, with slipcase 

ISBN 9781584562184, Order No. 95436, $450.00 


36 Oak Knoll Press—Bibliography 

MR. LINCOLN’S BOOK 

Publishing the Lincoln- 

Douglas Debates 

With a Census of Signed Copies 

by David H. Leroy 

Here, for the first time in a 

detailed account focusing on 

Lincoln’s personal involvement, Dave 

Leroy writes the full story of the 

Lincoln-Douglas debates with original 

correspondence, contemporary 

newspaper accounts, and illustrations 

of the day. In 1954, historian 

Harry Pratt located and described 

eighteen inscribed copies of the 

Lincoln-Douglas debates. In this new work, Leroy describes 37 such volumes. 

Ultimately, Mr. Lincoln’s Book asks the reader to resolve the century 

and a half old debate: was Lincoln an author? Leroy leaves the final decision 

up to the reader. The printed volume is accompanied by a CD-ROM 

containing a complete copy of Lincoln’s scrapbook of the debates, copies 

and transcriptions of Lincoln’s correspondence, political cartoons, and 

photographs. 


ISBN 9781584562443, Order No. 99275, $49.95 

Co-published with the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop 

A CATALOGUE 

OF THE JUNIUS 

SPENCER MORGAN 

COLLECTION OF 

VIRGIL IN THE 

PRINCETON 

UNIVERSITY 

LIBRARY 

by Craig Kallendorf 

The collection that this book 

is based on consists of over 700 

titles of editions of the Roman 

poet Virgil, with items ranging 

from the first printed edition 

(Rome, 1469) to the present, focusing on material published in the early 

modern period. This collection was formed by Junius Spencer Morgan, 

the nephew of the financier J.P. Morgan. Morgan’s interest in Virgil was 

undoubtedly encouraged during his student days at Princeton and reflects 

his efforts to obtain the best copies he could find of items noteworthy for 

their scholarship, their illustrations, or their place in publishing history. 

The result is one of the largest collections of early printed editions of 

Virgil in the world, a collection whose balance and integrity make it the 

proper beginning place for research in this field. 


ISBN 9781584562634, Order No. 100481, $95.00 

GORE VIDAL 

A Bibliography, 1940–2009 

by Steven Abbott 

This bibliography documents all phases of Vidal’s ongoing 

work, focusing on Vidal from 1940 through June 2009. 

More than 400 of his contributions to periodicals are listed. 

The appendices include a chronology of Vidal’s life, a table of essay titles, a 

table of small press appearances, a selection of critical works about him, and 

a listing of his work as an actor. Close to 700 images of covers and title pages 

are included in grayscale in Volume I, and more than 1,000 are included in 

color on the accompanying CD-ROM. 

2009, hardcover, dust jacket, 8.5 x 11 inches, 516 pages plus CD-ROM 

ISBN 9781584562207, Order No. 96674, $195.00 

Series Americana 

Post Depression-Era 

Regional Literature, 

1938–1980 


by Carol Fitzgerald 

The thirteen series highlighted 

in this book were published 

from 1940 to 1980 and 

contain 163 titles, providing a 

broad representation of series 

Americana published during 

this span. Taken together, 

they constitute a unique and 

compelling self-portrait of 

America. Each of the thirteen sections contains an introduction and publishing 

history, brief biographical sketches of the series editors, authors, 

and illustrators, a precise bibliographical description of the first edition/ 

first printing of each title in the series, a tabulation of the number of 

reprints, and a listing of other works by the book’s author. There are 242 

biographical sketches altogether. With this wealth of relevant information, 

the books in these series function as guides to the regions or subjects 

they address. 


ISBN 9781584562528, Order No. 96683, $125.00 

Co-published with the Library of Congress Center for the Book 

The Rivers of America 


by Carol Fitzgerald 

This bibliography is the most comprehensive work 

ever published on the historical series of books called The 

Rivers of America. This important series of sixty-five titles 

was published from 1937 to 1974, and most have been reprinted, some of 

them many times. Each book focused on one of the nation’s major rivers or 

river systems and captured its spirit, folklore and history as never before. This 

work presents complete bibliographical descriptions of the nearly 400 printings 

of the 65 titles that make up the series. 


ISBN 9781584560326, Order No. 61955, $125.00 

Co-published with the Library of Congress Center for the Book 


Oak Knoll Press—Bibliography 37 

JOHN UPDIKE 

A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary 

Materials, 1948–2007 

by Jack De Bellis and Michael Broomfield 

with a foreword by John Updike 

This definitive guide to materials by and about this prolific 

American author consists of a printed first volume and 

a second volume on CD-ROM. The printed volume lists all primary source 

material and features over 500 images of book covers. Volume II contains 

entries for material about Updike, several appendices, and full-color versions 

of images appearing in the printed volume. 


ISBN 9781584561958, Order No. 92254, $195.00 

J.R.R. Tolkien 


by Wayne G. Hammond 

This is the first descriptive bibliography of J.R.R. Tolkien, 

one of the most popular writers of the twentieth century. 

There are eight pages of plates, a chronology and an index. 

This bibliography will become a standard reference book for 

scholars, librarians, booksellers and collectors whose already keen interest in 

Tolkien continues to grow. 


ISBN 9780938768425, Order No. 36406, $94.00 

BIBLIOGRAPHIA OZIANA 

A Concise Bibliographical Checklist of the Oz 

Books by L. Frank Baum and his Successors 

by Peter E. Hanff and Douglas G. Greene 

Serves as the standard reference work that sorts out the 

complex printing history of each of the original forty Oz 

books by L. Frank Baum and his successors. In addition, this 

book includes full descriptions of their Oz-related works. 136 photographic 

illustrations complement the textual descriptions, making it particularly helpful 

to those who are new to the field. 


ISBN 1930764022, Order No. 86827, $30.00 

Distributed for the International Wizard of Oz Club 

James ingram Merrill 


by Jack W.C. Hagstrom and Bill Morgan 

This comprehensive bibliography, covering James 

Merrill's entire life, was prepared with the cooperation of the 

poet himself. All books, periodicals, recordings, translations, 

critical and biographical appearances are listed here. A special feature of the 

book also reproduces the full text of previous uncollected poems and prose 

by Merrill. 


ISBN 9781584562641, Order No. 100482, $95.00 

Other Books about Books 

The mysterious 

marbler 

With an Introduction, Notes 

on the English Marbling 

Tradition, and Thirteen 

Original Marbled Samples by 

Richard J. Wolfe 

by James Sumner 

This printing of James Sumner’s 

1854 marbling manual includes a 

new preface by Richard J. Wolfe. 

A further note on the English 

marbling tradition and thirteen 

tipped-in original examples of 

marbled papers by Wolfe have also 

been added. Sumner discusses the 

little-known history of paper marbling prior to the nineteenth century. 

Sumner’s text includes specific information on various types of marbling 

and precise recipes for their creation. Sumner’s original pamphlet had no 

exhibit samples attached. Wolfe added thirteen samples of marbled paper 

that were possibly created by Sumner himself, or by John Hargreaves, his 

associate, for the 1976 printing. The cover is a facsimile reproduction 

of an original nineteenth-century English marbled paper in the editor’s 

collection. 


ISBN 9781584562696, Order No. 103080, $60.00 

The peaceable 

and prosperous 

regiment of 

blessed queene 

elisabeth 

A Facsimile from 

Holinshed’s Chronicles (1587) 

edited with introduction 

by Cyndia Susan Clegg 

with textual commentary 

by Randall McLeod 

Holinshed’s Chronicles contains 

one of the few accounts 

of Elizabeth’s reign written 

during her lifetime. This facsimile 

edition, a compilation 

based on this portion of the Chronicles in copies in the Huntington’s collection 

as well as the British Library and Cambridge University Library, 

documents the censorship and demonstrates that it occurred in three stages. 

The Chronicles is also a rich source for the study of printing practices. 

The base text chosen by the editors, an unusual copy in the Huntington 

Library, contains the largest sample of proofmarkings that survive from 

the sixteenth century. 


ISBN 9780873281614, Order No. 103769, $325.00 

Distributed for the Huntington Library 


38 Oak Knoll Press—Other Books about Books 

“ The good 

education of 

youth” 

Worlds of Learning in the 

Age of Franklin, An Essay 

Collection and Exhibition 

Catalogue with a Photo 

Essay, “Early Schoolhouses 

in the Delaware Valley” 

edited and with an introduction 

by John H. Pollack 

The essays in this collection 

look in detail at Franklin’s 

projects for education alongside 

educational plans by and for 

Quakers, African Americans, 

women, German Americans, and the other populations of Pennsylvania 

and the region from the colonial era through the early national period. 

The exhibition surveys the educational landscape of the period and provides 

a vital context for understanding the importance, originality, and 

ongoing relevance of Franklin’s vision. An accompanying photographic 

essay assembles for the first time images of numerous surviving school 

buildings in the Delaware Valley. 


ISBN 9781584562627, Order No. 100470, $49.95 

Co-published with The University of Pennsylvania Libraries 

FROM FLOCK BEDS TO 

PROFESSIONALISM 

A History of Index-Makers 

by Hazel K. Bell 

with a preface by David Crystal 

Hazel Bell presents brief biographies of 65 individual 

practitioners, the makers of indexes, from the fifteenth to the 

twentieth century, considering their working methods, techniques, training, 

remuneration, lives, and personalities. Bell outlines in “Banding Together” the 

history of groups and societies of indexers up to 1995, the year she sees as 

the end of print-only indexing. 


ISBN 9781584562283, Order No. 96599, $95.00 

Available in the UK from HKB Press 

Following Pausanias 

The Quest for Greek Antiquity 

edited by Maria Georgopoulou, Celine Guilmet, Yanis 

A. Pikoulas, Konstantinos Sp. Staikos and George Tolias 

Following Pausanias is a study of Pausanias’s ten-book 

travelogue Hellados Periegesis, which describes Greece as he 

experienced it in the second century. The volume is beautifully produced and 

illustrated, with color or black-and-white images. The work concludes with a 

useful bibliography and index. English translation by Deborah Kazazi. 


ISBN 9781584562092, Order No. 94929, $75.00 

Co-published with Kotinos Publications, Athens. 

Martino Publishing 

www.martinopublishing.com 

Martino Publishing issued its first reprint in 1990. Over fifteen years and more than 500 titles later, they are still engaged in the 

reprinting of out-of-print reference books for the antiquarian book trade, at a rate of approximately 50–75 titles per year. 

HISTORIA Y BIBLIOGRAFIA DE 

LA IMPRENTA EN EL ANTIGUO 

VIREINATO DEL RIO DE LA PLATA 

by Jose Toribio Medina 

This volume is a comprehensive bibliography 

of colonial imprints in Paraguay, Cordoba del 

Tucuman, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo. 


Order No. 104108, $110.00 

HISTORY OF PRINTING IN 

COLONIAL MARYLAND 1686–1776 

by Lawrence C. Wroth 

This is a reprint of one of the most exhaustive 

studies of the printing press and literature of 

Colonial Maryland. This work will rank as one 

of the great contributions to the history of colonial 

American literature. 372 items are meticulously 

described. 


Order No. 104674, $60.00 

HAND-LISTS OF BOOKS PRINTED 

BY LONDON PRINTERS, 1501–1556 

by E.G. Duff, W.W. Greg, R.B. McKerrow, 

H.R. Plomer, A.W. Pollard, and R. Proctor 

This reprint of the 1913 first edition lists all 

known printers active in the London book trade 

from 1501–1556. This bibliography describes 

hundreds of books by author, title, date and 

location. 


Order No. 104103, $60.00 

CATALOGUE OF BOOKS IN THE 

LIBRARY OF THE ALPINE CLUB 

Reprint of 1899 edition published by 

Edinburgh University Press. The Alpine Club has 

one of the most extensive collections of Alpine 

books. This catalogue describes 2,500 books in 

the collection. 


Order No. 104290, $65.00 

800-996-2556 www.oakknoll.com oakknoll@oakknoll.com 

DICTIONNAIRE DES OUVRAGES 

ANONYMES ET PSEUDONYMES 

PUBLIÉS PAR DES RELIGIEUX DE 

LA COMPAGNIE DE JÉSUS 

by Carlos Sommervogel 

Reprint of the 1884 first edition . Carlos 

Sommervogel was a French Jesuit scholar. He 

was author of the monumental Bibliothèque 

de la Compagnie de Jésus, which served as one 

of the major references for the editors of the 

Catholic Encyclopedia. In 1884, he published his 

Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes publiés 

par des religieux de la Compagnie de Jésus. This bibliography 

contains 7,500 entries that cover authors 

and their publications. 


Order No. 104675, $85.00

Index 

Abbott, Steven 36 

ABC for Book Collectors 25 

ABC of Bookbinding 27 

ABC of Leather Bookbinding 26 

Accomplished Paper Colorer 28 

AdVenture Publishing 13 

Alderson, Brian 29 

Alexander Anderson 34 

Alison, Jennifer 18 

American Antiquarian Society 

18, 34 

American Book Design & William 

Morris 32 

American Historical Print Collectors 

Society 22, 34 

American Metal Typefaces 31 

American Proprietary Typefaces 31 

American Signed Bindings through 

1876 27 

Amos Doolittle 34 

Angus and Robertson 18 

Antonio Millo Isolario 13 

Architectural Photoreproductions 24 

Armstrong, Catherine 28 

Arnold, John 30 

Arthur W. Rushmore 30 

Baker, William 11 

Baldwin, Christopher Columbus 

18 

Baltimore Bibliophiles at Fifty 25 

Barker, Nicolas 25 

Bartram, Alan 31 

Be Merry and Wise 29 

Beckham, Stephen Dow 35 

Bell, Hazel K. 38 

Benjamin Franklin 29 

Bennett, Stuart 27 

Berger, Sidney E. 28 

Bewick, Thomas 6 

Bibliographia Oziana 37 

Bibliographical Society 22, 27 

Bibliographical Society of Australia 

and New Zealand 18 

Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana 

25 

Blocker, Mare 15 

Bodleian Library 10 

Book Art Object 31 

Book as a Work of Art 30 

Book Typography 32 

Book Typography: A Designer’s 

Manual 32 

Bookbinders at Work 27 

Bookbinding & Conservation 16 

Bookbinding & Conservation by 

Hand 26 

Books about Books 30 

Books as History 25 

Books for Sale 29 

Books of Venice 25 

Books on Art in Early America 35 

Boston Athenaeum 25 

Bowers, Fredson 34 

Brandt, William H. 22 

Briggs, Asa 30 

Bringhurst, Robert 15 

Brinks, John Dieter 30 

British Book Trade 35 

British Library 6, 11, 17, 19- 

22, 25-32, 34-5 

Broomfield, Michael 37 

Bryn Mawr College Library 27 

Carl Larsson 33 

Carter, John 25 

Catalogue of Books in the Library of 

the Alpine Club 38 

Catalogue of Books Printed in the 

XVth Century 14 

Catalogue of Printed Maps of Greece 

13 

Catalogue of the Collection of Virgil 

36 

Causley, Monroe S. 30 

Center Broadsides Reading Series 15 

Center for Book Arts 15 

Chester River Press 12 

Cinnamon Bay Sonnets 15 

Classici Che Hanno Fatto L’Italia 5 

Clegg, Cyndia Susan 37 

Cloud, Gerald 8 

Clouse, Doug 31 

Code(X)+1 Monograph Series 32 

Complete Work of Thomas Bewick 6 

Cooke, Simon 19 

Coptic and Collage 15 

Covens & Mortier 14 

Cruz, Laura 30 

Dark Page, Dark Page II 35 

Darley, Stephen 21 

Davis, Paul Preston 33 

Day, Matthew 28 

De Bellis, Jack 37 

De Simone, Daniel 34 

Design and Printing of Ephemera 29 

Diary of a Madman 15 

Dictionnaire Des Ouvrages Anonymes 

38 

Disbound and Dispersed 29 

Doing Something for Australia 18 

Dow Beckham, Stephen 35 

Dumontet, Carlo 19 

Dutch Decorated Bookbinding 14 

Early Printing in Saint Vincent 29 

Edward Seymour 28 

Egmond, Marco Van 14 

Elegant Hand 33 

Eloquent Witnesses 27 

Encyclopedia of the Book 26 

Ernest Hemingway 20 

Etherington, Don 16 

Fanfrolico Press 30 

Farren, Donald 25 

Field & Tuer 21 

Fine Bookbinding 17 

Fitzgerald, Carol 36 

Five Hundred Years of Printing 28 

Fleck, Robert D. 30 

Following Pausanias 38 

Foot, Mirjam M. 17, 27 

Frank E. Schoonover Catalogue 

Raisonne 33 

French Renaissance Printing Types 22 

Frohnsdorff, Gregory 29 

From Flock Beds to Professionalism 

38 

Fuller, John 10 

Gaskell, Philip 34 

Georgopoulou, Maria 38 

Gilded Page 34 

Giorgio Regnani Editore 5 

Glaister, Geoffrey Ashall 26 

Globi Neerlandici 14 

Gogol, Nicolai 15 

Good Education of Youth 38 

Gore Vidal 36 

Govi, Fabrizio 5 

Great Libraries 26 

Greek Library 4 

Green, James N. 29 

Greene, Douglas G. 37 

Greenfield, Jane 26-7 

Grissom, Edgar 20 

Guide to the Work of Jessie M. King 

34 

Hagstrom, Jack W.C. 37 

Hamilton Wood Type 31 

Hammond, Wayne G. 37 

Hand-Lists of Books by London 

Printers 38 

Hanff, Peter E. 37 

Harris, Michael 29 

Headbands 26 

Hedi Kyle 15 

Hellinga, Lotte 14 

Hemingway, Ernest 20 

Henning, William E. 33 

Henry Davis Gift 17 

HES & DE GRAAF 3, 14, 

23-4 

Hille, Jenny 26 

Hinks, John 28 

Hirshfield, Jane 15 

Historia y Bibliografia de la Imprenta 

38 

Historical Scripts 33 

History of English Craft Bookbinding 

27 

History of Longmans and Their 

Books 30 

History of Printing in Colonial 

Maryland 38 

History of the Library 3 

Homer 12 

Howard Pyle 33 

Howard-Hill, T.H. 35 

Hudson, Graham 29 

Ichiyama, Dennis 31 

Iliad and Odyssey 12 

Illustrated Periodicals of the 1860s 

19 

Imholtz, August A., Jr. 25 

Interpretive Wood-Engraving 22 

Ioannou, Sylvia 13 

Irish Type Design 7 

Istoriato 15 

J.R.R. Tolkien 37 

James Ingram Merrill 37 

Janssen, Frans A. 14 

John Fuller & the Sycamore Press 10 

John Rodker’s Ovid Press 8 

John Updike 37 

Johnson, Arthur W. 26 

Johnson, Kevin 35 

Johnston, Alastair M. 31 

Jones, Howard 14 

Jury, David 32 

Kallendorf, Craig 36 

Kaufman, Andrew 15 

Kelmscott Chaucer Census 9 

Kinsella, Thomas E. 27 

Kipling, Rudyard 20 

Kissel, Eléonore 24 

Knight, Jesse F. 21 

Knight, Stan 33 

Koch, Peter 32 

Kok, Hans 14 

Krogt, P. van der 14 

Larkin, Jack 18 

Last of the Great Swashbucklers 21 

Leadenhall Press 21 

Leroy, David H. 36 

Letterpress Printing 28 

Leutz, Pamela Train 16 

Lhotka, Edward R. 26 

Lindsay, Jen 17 

Line, Shade and Shadow 24 

Literature of Collecting 25 

Literature of the Lewis and Clark 

Expedition 35 

Loeber, E.G. 28 

Loy, William E. 31 

Mackellar, Smiths & Jordan 31 

Mandelbrote, Giles 29 

Maravelas, Paul 28 

McGrew, Mac 31 

McGuinne, Dermot 7 

Medina, Jose Toribio 38 

Meriton, John 19 

Middleton, Bernard C. 26-7 

Mitchell, Michael 32 

Moran, Bill 31 

Morgan, Bill 37 

Mr. Lincoln’s Book 36 

Musa Talia 25 

Myers, Robin 29 

Mysterious Marbler 37 

National Print Museum 7 

New Introduction to Bibliography 34 

New World Suite Number Three 15 

New York Botanical Garden 24 

Nickell, Joe 33 

Nineteenth-Century American 

Designers 31 

Notaker, Henry 23 

O’Brien, Donald C. 34 

Ovid Press 8 

Oyens, Felix de Marez 29 

Pankow, David 31 

Paper Mould and Mouldmaker 28 

Paper, Art and the Book 15 

Paradox of Prosperity 30 

Peaceable and Prosperous Regiment 37 

Pearson, David 25 

Pen, Ink, & Evidence 33 

Periodicals and Publishers 28 

Peterson, Sylvia Holton 9 

Peterson, William S. 9 

Place in My Chronicle 18 

Pollack, John H. 38 

Pollard, A.W. 35 

Pomeroy, Jane R. 34 

Pon, Lisa 25 

Pope, Alexander 12 

Present: Twelve Poems 15 

Price, Lois Olcott 24 

Principles of Bibliographical Description 

34 

Printed Cookbooks in Europe 23 

Printed Greek Book 29 

Printers’ & Publishers’ Marks in 

Books 23 

Printing Historical Society 22 

Printing the Classical Text 14 

Printing Types 31 

Private Libraries Association 30 

Provenance Research in Book History 

25 

Rafaeli, Ari 32 

Redgrave, G.R. 35 

Repair of Cloth Bindings 26 

Restoration of Leather Bindings 26 

Richards, David Alan 20 

Rinehart, Benjamin D. 15 

Rivers of America 36 

Roberts, Ryan 10 

Robertson, George 18 

Rodker, John 8 

Rosendorf, Theodore 32 

Rudyard Kipling 20 

Sabatini, Rafael 21 

Sailing for the East 14 

Saxe, Stephen O. 31 

Schilder, Gunter 14 

Schimmelman, Janice G. 35 

Schoonover, John 33 

Series Americana 36 

Seven Perspectives of the Woodcut 34 

Short-Title Catalogue of Books 35 

Sklavenitis, T. 29 

Sloat, Caroline 18 

Small Books for the Common Man 19 

Smith, Louise Schoonover 33 

Sommervogel, Carlos 38 

Spawn, Willman 27 

Staikos, Konstantinos Sp. 3-4, 

23, 26, 29, 38 

Stallybrass, Peter 29 

Steinberg, S.H. 28 

Stoppard, Tom 11 

Storm Van Leeuwen, Jan 14 

Style, Robert 31 

Sumner, James 37 

Sweet Land of Cyprus 13 

Sycamore Press 10 

Tattersfield, Nigel 6 

Technique & Design in the History of 

Printing 14 

Thompson, Susan Otis 32 

Thread That Binds 16 

Ticket Licket 15 

Ticketed Bookbindings 27 

Tom Stoppard 11 

Topjon, Ann J. 33 

Trade Bookbinding in the British 

Isles 27 

Tselikas, Agamemnon 13 

Typeforms: A History 31 

Typographic Desk Reference 32 

Updike, Daniel Berkeley 31 

Vale Press 30 

Vervliet, Hendrik D.L. 7, 22 

Vigneaur, Erin 24 

Vollkommne Papierfärber 28 

Wachs, Gerald N. 11 

Watry, Maureen M. 30 

Wendorf, Richard 25 

White, Colin 34 

Whitley, Kathleen P. 34 

Wightman, Susan 32 

Winterthur Museum 24 

Wolfe, Richard J. 28, 37 

Wroth, Lawrence C. 38 

Young, Laura S. 26 

Young, Matthew McLennan 21 

Zacharakis, Christos G. 13 

Zauft, Richard 31 


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