Four catalogues (21 cm), as issued, in publisher’s wrappers. - Catalogues of books and ephemera relating to printing and the book trade, ably described by John Walwyn-Jones. The business was founded c. 1978-1979 and wound-up in 2004-2005, with residual stock dispersed by Oak Knoll Books in a series of their catalogues. Cf. The Book Collector, Spring 2006, p.85. ¶ Lightly annotated copies.
(21 cm), 64 pp., illustrations. 338 items; priced. Publisher’s wrappers. - Offered on inside back cover (price US$75,000) is “one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of the writings of Stanley Morison in private hands. It has been painstakingly assembled over the last quarter of a century by an American collector with great experience of the antiquarian book world and book-collecting…”. ¶ Occasional annotation in ink.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 24] About the book
London, Questor Rare Books, 2003
(21 cm), (2) 53 (1) pp. 300 items; priced. Publisher’s purple self-wrappers. - A “characteristically eclectic and interesting collection” (notice in The Book Collector, Summer 2003, p.229). ¶ Occasional annotation in ink.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 26] About the book
London, Questor Rare Books, 2003
(21 cm), (2) 73 (1) pp. 350 items; priced. Publisher’s self-wrappers. - Noticed in The Book Collector, Autumn 2003, p.414. ¶ Occasional annotation in ink.