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 Alphabetical American augmentée auteurs Authors Biblio Bibliographical Bibliomania Bibliotheca Americana Bibliothèque Biographical Bodleian Library Bohn books printed Books relating Boston British Bruxelles Bure Catalogue des Livres Catalogue of Books Century Charles Charles Nodier Colard Mansion collector Compiled contains copies only printed copies privately printed copies were printed curious Dibdin E. G. Squier édition Edward Engelmann Facsimiles Fifty copies printed folio Henry Stevens History hundred copies printed Illustrated J. O. Halliwell John Russell Smith Joseph Sabin jusqu'à l'histoire large paper Leipzig Librarian Library of Parliament liographie Literary littéraire London Manual Manuscripts Munsell Notes Notices Paris Petzholdt Plates Portrait Post 8vo Printed Books printed on large Printer Public Library published relating to America Second Edition Society sold Sotheby Specimens Supplement Thomas Thomas Frognall Dibdin Thomas Hartwell Horne titles Trübner Twenty-five copies printed Typographical valuable viii vols volume William William Caxton York
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Page xi - 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 cxxvii - 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 cviii - The English, Scotch and Irish historical libraries. Giving a short view and character of most of our historians, either in print or manuscript.
Page cxxx - Handbook to the Library of the British Museum, containing a brief History of its Formation, and of the various Collections of which it is composed, Descriptions of the Catalogues in present use, Classed Lists of the Manuscripts...
Page x - Dictionary, containing an account of the Lives, Characters, and Writings of the most eminent persons...
Page lxv - British topography : or an historical account of what has been done for illustrating the topographical antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland.
Page cxxxi - 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 xcii - 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 xliv - 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...
Page xxx - A Catalogue of Books in the Library of the American Antiquarian Society, in Worcester, Massachusetts.