The Private Libraries Association

Books

Association Publications

The Private Library A 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. If you wish to pay by PayPal, contact Jim Maslen.

Members may have two copies at the Members' rate (shown in brackets). Orders over Ł30 post free, otherwise please add Ł4 postage (UK) or Ł5 (overseas).
Orders for books and back issues of The Private Library to Jim Maslen, 29 Eden Drive, Hull, HU8 8JQ, maslen@maslen.karoo.co.uk

Trade terms (on full price) 33%. Orders to Tony Cox, College Gateway Bookshop, 3 & 5 Silent Street, Ipswich, IP1 1TF, England. books@claudecox.co.uk

ILLUSTRATED PERIODICALS OF THE 1860s by Simon Cooke, 2010. Quarto, 224 pages, 123 illustrations, including 4 in colour. Purple cloth, Ł45 from British Library [Ł22.50 to members]

ENGLISH COUNTRY BOOKSHOPS, by David Chambers. 2010. Landscape 8vo. 112 pages. Over 100 photographs of ten antiquarian bookshops. Green cloth. Ł20 [Ł10].

A MODEST COLLECTION, the Private Libraries Association 1956–2006, with essays on their collections by 83 members. 2007. Royal octavo, 378 pages, 49 illustrations and 71 photographs of members. Green cloth. Ł30 [Ł15]

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. Ł35 from The British Library [Ł20]

EDWARD ARDIZZONE, a bibliography, by Brian Alderson. 309 pages + 4 colour plates, 80 black and white illus. Maroon cloth. Ł45 [Ł22.50]

BOOKS IN THE BLOOD, by Anthony Rota. 2002. Demy 8vo. 313 pages, 18 illus. Grey cloth. Ł24 [Ł12]. Memoirs of a fourth generation bookseller.

APART FROM THE TEXT, by Anthony Rota. 1998. Demy 8vo. 254 pages, 35 illus. Grey cloth. Ł24 [Ł12]. Special edition, 150 copies in quarter morocco, signed, Ł75 [Ł50]. An account of the externals of the book, its production and sale over the past two centuries.

BRUCE ROGERS: American typographer, by Georgia Mansbridge. 1998. Large post 8vo. 111 pp, frontispiece. Purple cloth. Ł23 [Ł17]. Published in U.S.A. by The Typophiles.

THE BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS OF ORLANDO JEWITT, by Frank Broomhead. 1996. Imperial 8vo. 272 pages, 168 illus, mostly reproducing Jewitt’s wood-engravings. Black cloth. Ł45 [Ł22.50].

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. Ł45 [Ł22.50].

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. Ł45 [Ł22.50]. A bibliographical, literary and artistic study.

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. Ł68.50 [Ł25].

THE ZAEHNSDORFS (1842–1947), craft bookbinders, by Frank Broomhead. 1986. Royal 8vo. 109 pages, 35 illus. Cloth. Ł20 [Ł10]. A biographical history of the firm.

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. Ł24 [Ł12].

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. Ł22 [Ł11].

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). Ł14 [Ł7].

JOSEPH CUNDALL, a Victorian publisher, with a checklist, by Ruari McLean. 1976. Imperial 8vo. 104 pages, 50 illus, 4 in colour. Red cloth. Ł14 [Ł7].

LITERARY ANNUALS AND GIFT BOOKS, a bibliography 1823–1903, by Frederick W. Faxon. 1973. Crown 8vo. 328 pages, 24 plates. Red cloth. Ł10 [Ł5.00]. Facsimile of the 1912 edn, with added illustrations, and essays by Eleanore Jamieson and Iain Bain.

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.

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 & vol 2; 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. The Fanfrolico Press.