The Private Libraries Association



Association Publications

The Private LibraryA series of illustrated books and pamphlets on specialized aspects of bibliophilia has been issued. Apart from a book issued free to members every year or so, certain books are published on a subscription basis and are offered to members at substantially reduced prices.

Members may have two copies at the Members' rate (shown in brackets). Orders over £30 post free, otherwise please add £2 postage (UK) or £3 (overseas). Trade terms (on full price) 33%. Orders to Tony Cox, College Gateway Bookshop, 3 & 5 Silent Street, Ipswich, England.

Orders for back issues of The Private Library to David Chambers, Ravelston, South View Road, Pinner, Middlesex HA5 3YD.

A MODEST COLLECTION, the Private Libraries Association 1956–2006, with essays on their collections by 83 members.Royal octavo, 378 pages, 49 illustrations and 71 photographs of members. Green cloth. £30 [£15]
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IN PROGRESS : English Country Bookshops; Fanfrolico Press; John Sharpe; PPB 2004 & 2005.
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BEYOND DECORATION, the illustrations of John Everett Millais, by Paul Goldman. 2005. 357 pages + 2 colour plates, 336 black and white illus.reproducing all the engravings and etchings. Green cloth. £35 from The British Library [£20]
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EDWARD ARDIZZONE, a bibliography, by Brian Alderson. 309 pages + 4 colour plates, 80 black and white illus. Maroon cloth. £45 [£22.50]
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BOOKS IN THE BLOOD, by Anthony Rota. 2002. Demy 8vo. 313 pages, 18 illus. Grey cloth. £24 [£12]. Memoirs of a fourth generation bookseller.
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APART FROM THE TEXT, by Anthony Rota. 1998. Demy 8vo. 254 pages, 35 illus. Grey cloth. £24 [£12]. Special edition, 150 copies in quarter morocco, signed, £75 [£50]. An account of the externals of the book, its production and sale over the past two centuries.
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BRUCE ROGERS: American typographer, by Georgia Mansbridge. 1998. Large post 8vo. 111 pp, frontispiece. Purple cloth. £23 [£17]. Published in U.S.A. by The Typophiles.
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THE BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS OF ORLANDO JEWITT, by Frank Broomhead. 1996. Imperial 8vo. 272 pages, 168 illus, mostly reproducing Jewitt’s wood-engravings. Black cloth. £45 [£22.50].
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THE WOOD-ENGRAVINGS OF BLAIR HUGHES-STANTON, by Penelope Hughes-Stanton. 1991. Small folio. xii, 183 pages, with 150 reproductions of wood-engravings. Black cloth. £45 [£22.50].
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GOGMAGOG: MORRIS COX & THE GOGMAGOG PRESS, by David Chambers, Colin Franklin & Alan Tucker. 1991. Imperial 8vo. 184 pages, 45 illus, 16 in colour. Orange cloth. £45 [£22.50]. A bibliographical, literary and artistic study.
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EARLY LITHOGRAPHED BOOKS, their design and production in the age of the hand press, with a catalogue, by Michael Twyman. 1990. Crown 4to. 374 pages, 282 illus. Brown cloth. £68.50 [£25].
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THE ZAEHNSDORFS (1842–1947), craft bookbinders, by Frank Broomhead. 1986. Royal 8vo. 109 pages, 35 illus. Cloth. £20 [£10]. A biographical history of the firm.
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JOAN HASSALL, engravings & drawings, by David Chambers, introduction by Joan Hassall, and appreciation by George Mackley. 1985. Royal 8vo. 224 pages, over 470 illus. Black cloth. £24 [£12].
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COCK-A-HOOP, bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press 1949–1961, by David Chambers and Christopher Sandford. 1976. Royal 8vo. 126 pages, 53 illus. Blue cloth. £22 [£11].
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JAMES LUMSDEN & SON OF GLASGOW, their juvenile books and chapbooks, by S. Roscoe & R. A. Brimmell. 1981. Royal 8vo. 160 pages, 60 illus (including a colour frontispiece). £14 [£7].
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JOSEPH CUNDALL, a Victorian publisher, with a checklist, by Ruari McLean. 1976. Imperial 8vo. 104 pages, 50 illus, 4 in colour. Red cloth. £14 [£7].
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LITERARY ANNUALS AND GIFT BOOKS, a bibliography 1823–1903, by Frederick W. Faxon. 1973. Crown 8vo. 328 pages, 24 plates. Red cloth. £10 [£5.00]. Facsimile of the 1912 edn, with added illustrations, and essays by Eleanore Jamieson and Iain Bain.
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PRINTING FOR PLEASURE, by John Ryder. Revised edition, with a foreword by Vivian Ridler. Small 8vo. 143 pages, more than 60 illustrations, many in two colours. Orange cloth, dust-jacket. £10 [£5].
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PRIVATE PRESS BOOKS. An annual bibliography. Now edited by Paul W. Nash, Margaret Lock & Asa Peavy. Royal 8vo, paperback, 80–120 pp., with some 10 illustrations in each volume.
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Out of Print: Simplified Cataloguing Rules; Twelve by Eight; Concerning Bookplates; Earl Grey's Papers; Concerning Booklabels; The Development of Certain Styles of Bookbinding; Friendship's Offering; Romantic Book Illustration; John Buckland Wright; The London Bookshop, vol 1; John Pitts; Engraved Bookplates; Taste & Technique in Book Collecting; Bookplate Designs of Rex Whistler; Bookplates of Eric Gill; Gregynog Press; Reynolds Stone; Printing Apparatus for the use of Amateurs; Private Press Books 1963-68.