A Bibliography of Bibliography: Or, A Handy Book about Books which Relate to Books ; Being an Alphabetical Catalogue of the Most Important Works Descriptive of the Literature of Great Britain and America, and More Than a Few Relative to France and Germany |
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Account Albany Alphabetical AUDIFFREDI Authors Bibles Biblio Bibliographical Bibliomania Bibliotheca Americana Bibliothèque Biographical books printed Books relating Boston British British Museum Bruxelles Catalogue of Books collection Compiled contains copies only printed copies were printed Critical curious Descriptive Dibdin Dictionnaire édition Essay Facsimiles fifty copies printed folio française Frederik Muller HALLIWELL Henry historiques History hundred copies printed Index Joel Munsell Johann Samuel Ersch John Joseph Sabin jusqu'à l'histoire l'Imprimerie large paper Leipzig Librarian Library of Parliament Libri Librorum Literary Literature littéraires livres London Manual Manuscripts Memoirs NAMUR notes Notices ouvrages Paris Peignot Petzholdt Plates Portrait Printed Books printed on large Printer Public Libraries published Quérard raisonné rare relating to America Renouard Second Edition siècle Sold Sotheby Specimens Supplement thick paper Thomas Thomas Frognall Dibdin Thomas Hartwell Horne titles Twenty-five copies Typographical Van Benthuysen vellum viii vols volume William York
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Page viii - Typographical Antiquities ; or the History of Printing in England, Scotland, and Ireland : containing Memoirs of our Ancient Printers, and a register of the books printed by them. Begun by the late Joseph Ames, . . . Considerably augmented by William Herbert...
Page lxix - SHAKESPERIANA, a Catalogue of the Early Editions of Shakespeare's Plays, and of the Commentaries and other Publications illustrative of his works. By JO HALLIWELL. 8vo, cloth. 3s 1841 " Indispensable to everybody who wishes to carry on any inquiries connected with Shakespeare, or who may have a fancy for Shakesperian Bibliography."— Spectator.
Page lxvii - WHELER's Historical Account of the Birthplace of Shakespeare, reprinted from the edition of 1824, with a few prefatory remarks by J. 0. Halliwell. 8vo, front. Is6d 1863 BRIEF Hand List of the Collections respecting the Life and Works...
Page vii - Dictionary, containing an account of the Lives, Characters, and Writings of the most eminent persons...
Page cxxiv - A Catalogue of Spanish and Portuguese books, with occasional literary and bibliographical remarks, by Vincent Salvá. London, M. Calero, Spanish printer, 1826. 8.°, XXX + 244 págs.
Page cxxviii - BIBLIOTHECA CANTIANA.— A Bibliographical Account of what has been published on the History, Topography, Antiquities, Customs, and Family Genealogy of the County of Kent, with Biographical Notes. By John Russell Smith. In a handsome 8vo volume (pp. 370), with two plates of facsimiles of Autographs of 33 eminent Kentish Writers.
Page lxxxix - Life of Mayster Wyllyam Caxton of the Weald of Kent, the first Printer in England. In which is given an Account of the Rise and Progress of the Art of Pryntyng in England, during his Time, till 1493. Lond. 1737, royal Svo. 150 copies printed, with a fictitious portrait of Caxton. The major part of this volume is inserted by Dr. Dibdin in his edition of Ames
Page cvii - Bibliographie biographique universelle. Dictionnaire des ouvrages relatifs à l'histoire de la vie publique et privée des personnages célèbres de tous les temps et de toutes les nations, depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'à nos jours; contenant: 1° la désignation chronologique de toutes les monographies biographiques; 2°...
Page cv - The English, Scotch and Irish historical libraries. Giving a short view and character of most of our historians, either in print or manuscript.
Page xli - Descriptive Catalogue of the Books printed in the Fifteenth Century, lately forming part of the Library of the Duke di Cassano Serra, and now the property of...