Fine Books

Chapter 18

REED, T. B. _A List of Books and Papers on Printers and Printing under the Countries and Towns to which they refer._ (Bibliographical Society.) London, 1895.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. _Transactions._ London, 1893, etc.

EDINBURGH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. _Transactions._ Edinburgh, 1896, etc.

_Le Bibliographe Moderne._ Paris, 1897, etc.

_Bibliographica._ 3 vols. London, 1895-7.



_Centrallblatt fur Bibliothekswesen._ Leipzig, 1888, etc.

_The Library._ London, 1889, etc.

_Zeitschrift fur Bucherfreunde._ Bielefeld, 1897, etc.

BRUNET, J. C. _Dictionnaire de Geographie ancienne et moderne a l"usage du libraire et de l"amateur de livre. Par un Bibliophile._ Paris, 1870.

With notes on the introduction of printing into the places named.

CRANE, W. _Of the Decorative Ill.u.s.tration of Books Old and New._ Second edition. London, 1901.

DUFF, E. G. _Early Printed Books._ (_Books about Books._) London, 1893. 8vo.

HUMPHREYS, H. N. _Masterpieces of the Early Printers and Engravers_: Series of facsimiles from rare and curious books, remarkable for ill.u.s.trative devices, beautiful borders, decorative initials, printers" marks, and elaborate t.i.tlepages. Fol. London, 1870.

KRISTELLER, P. _Kupferstich und Holzschnitt in vier Jahrhunderten._ 4to. Berlin, 1905.

LANG, A. _The Library._ With a chapter on modern English ill.u.s.trated books by Austin Dobson, London, 1881.

---- Second edition. London, 1892.

LIPPMANN, F. _Druckschriften des xv. bis xviii. Jahrhunderts in getreuen Nachbildungen herausgegeben von der Direction der Reichsdruckerei unter Mitwirkung von Dr. F. Lippmann and Dr. R.

Dohme._ Fol. Berlin, 1884-7.

MORGAN, J. P. _Catalogue of Early Printed Books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, etc., now forming portion of the library of J. P. Morgan._ [By S. Aldrich, E. G. Duff, A. W. Pollard, R. Proctor.] 3 vols. Large 4to. London, 1907.

With many facsimiles.

ROUVEYRE, E. _Connaissances necessaires a un bibliophile._ 10 vols.

Paris, 1899.

I.--COLLECTORS AND COLLECTING

ELTON, C. I. and M. A. _The Great Book Collectors._ London, 1893.

FLETCHER, W. Y. _English Book-Collectors._ London, 1902.

QUARITCH, B. _Contributions towards a Dictionary of English Book Collectors._ London, 1892-9.

DAVENPORT, C. _English Heraldic Book-Stamps._ London, 1909.

With biographical notes.

GUIGARD, J. _Nouvel Armorial du Bibliophile. Guide de l"amateur des livres armories._ 2 tom. Paris, 1890.

With biographical notices of many French collectors.

_Book Prices Current._ London, 1893, etc.

_American Book Prices Current._ New York, 1895, etc.

LIVINGSTON, L. S. _Auction Prices of Books._ 1886-1904. 4 vols. New York, 1905.

LAWLER, J. _Book Auctions in England in the Seventeenth Century._ London, 1898.

ROBERTS, W. _Catalogues of English Book Sales._ London, 1900.

---- _Rare Books and their Prices._ London, 1896.

WHEATLEY, H. B. _Prices of Books_: An inquiry into the changes in the price of books which have occurred in England at different periods.

London, 1898.

BRUNET, J. C. _Manuel du libraire et de l"amateur de livres, contenant 1^o un nouveau dictionnaire bibliographique_, etc. Cinquieme edition.

6 vols. Paris, 1860-5.

GRAESSE, J. G. T. _Tresor de livres rares et precieux: ou Nouveau Dictionnaire bibliographique._ 7 vols. Dresde, 1859-69.

These two books mark the close of the fashion of General Collecting.

II.--BLOCK-BOOKS

SOTHEBY, S. L. _Principia typographica._ The block-books issued in Holland, Flanders, and Germany during the fifteenth century, etc. 3 vols. Fol. London, 1858.

SCHREIBER, W. L. _Livres xylographiques et xylo-chirographiques.

Fac-similes des livres xylographiques._ (_Manuel de l"amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur metal au xv^e siecle_, tomes 4, 7, 8.) 8vo and fol. Leipzig, 1895, 1900, 1902.

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