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The author of this 1755 work is unknown - John Smith may not even have been his real name. He describes the typesetting of books, from the formation of type to imposing and correcting, in a comprehensive survey which gives a fascinating account of the eighteenth-century compositor's craft.

This work contains anecdotes about the bibliophilic Roxburghe Club, as recorded by the antiquary and founder member Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833). Privately printed in 1837, the work was compiled by James Maidment (1793-1879) and includes material about and in defence of Haslewood.

The 1864-5 three-volume autobiography of writer, editor and publisher Charles Knight (1791-1873), reissued here in its posthumous 1873 edition, provides insights into the economics as well as the personalities of the mid-Victorian publishing world. Volume 3 covers the 1850s, and continues up to 1865.

The 1864-5 three-volume autobiography of writer, editor and publisher Charles Knight (1791-1873), reissued here in its posthumous 1873 edition, provides insights into the economics as well as the personalities of the mid-Victorian publishing world. Volume 2 covers the 1820s to the late 1840s.

This three-volume bibliography of printing was published between 1880 and 1886 by E. C. Bigmore (1838-99) and C. W. H. Wyman (1832-1909), and quickly became a classic. It includes 'typographic, lithographic, copperplate printing, etc., with the cognate arts of type-founding, stereotyping, electrotyping, and wood-engraving'. Volume 3 covers the letters T to Z.

This three-volume bibliography of printing was published between 1880 and 1886 by E. C. Bigmore (1838-99) and C. W. H. Wyman (1832-1909), and quickly became a classic. It includes 'typographic, lithographic, copperplate printing, etc., with the cognate arts of type-founding, stereotyping, electrotyping, and wood-engraving'. Volume 2 covers the letters M to S.

This three-volume bibliography of printing was published between 1880 and 1886 by E. C. Bigmore (1838-99) and C. W. H. Wyman (1832-1909), and quickly became a classic. It includes 'typographic, lithographic, copperplate printing, etc., with the cognate arts of type-founding, stereotyping, electrotyping, and wood-engraving'. Volume 1 covers the letters A to L.

The Duke of Roxburghe's library included illuminated medieval manuscripts, incunabula, fifteen books printed by Caxton, and all four Shakespeare folios. Reissued here together are the 1812 sale catalogue and supplement, both annotated by an auction attendee who recorded the name of every buyer and the price paid for each book.

Henry Richards Luard (1825-91) was a Cambridge academic, university administrator and clergyman. He combined the roles of registrary of the university and vicar of Great St Mary's while editing historical texts. This 1891 catalogue of his private library shows the sheer breadth of interests of a Victorian scholar.

Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847) was employed as librarian for life by the bibliophile aristocrat George Spencer (1758-1834), who amassed at Althorp the greatest private library in Europe. Published in 1822, these two volumes include additions to Bibliotheca Spenceriana (also reissued in this series) and detailed descriptions of the interiors of Althorp.

First published in 1881, this popular and entertaining work examines the numerous threats that books have faced throughout history. Based on the author's experience as a collector, the book explores such destructive forces as fire, water, ignorance and vermin. It is reissued in the revised and enlarged edition of 1888.

Richard Gough (1735-1809), director of the Society of Antiquities for over twenty-five years, was an eighteenth-century authority on British topography and an eager proponent of Saxonist scholarship. Published in 1814, this catalogue lists the extensive collection of books and artefacts that he bequeathed to Oxford's Bodleian Library.

Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847) was employed as librarian for life by the bibliophile aristocrat George Spencer (1758-1834), who amassed at Althorp the greatest private library in Europe. Published in 1822, these two volumes include additions to Bibliotheca Spenceriana (also reissued in this series) and detailed descriptions of the interiors of Althorp.

First published in 1907, this book sets out the original aims of the Cambridge Modern History alongside examples of its execution in ten extracts. Together, these outline some of the key Victorian ideas of how history should be written, including Lord Acton's insistence on the then new concept of impartiality.

Cambridge University Library houses an internationally important collection of manuscripts. These volumes, first published between 1856-67, contain the first published catalogue of the manuscripts held by the University Library, providing the appearance, condition and age of the manuscripts. Volume 5 contains catalogues of the Baumgartner and Baker manuscripts.

Cambridge University Library houses an internationally important collection of manuscripts. These volumes, first published between 1856 and 1867, contain the first published catalogue of the manuscripts held by the University Library, providing the appearance, condition and age of the manuscripts. Volume 6 contains the index to the complete work.

Cambridge University Library houses a vast and internationally important collection of manuscripts. These volumes, first published between 1856-67, contain the first published catalogue of the manuscripts held by the University Library, providing the appearance, condition, age and provenance of the manuscripts. Volume 4 describes classmarks Ll.1-Oo.7.

Cambridge University Library houses a vast and internationally important collection of manuscripts. These volumes, first published between 1856-67, contain the first published catalogue of the manuscripts held by the University Library, providing the appearance, condition, age and provenance of the manuscripts. Volume 2 describes classmarks Ee.1-Ff.4.

Cambridge University Library houses a vast and internationally important collection of manuscripts. These volumes, first published between 1856-67, contain the first published catalogue of the manuscripts held by the University Library, providing the appearance, condition, age and provenance of the manuscripts. Volume 3 describes classmarks Gg.1-Kk.4.

Cambridge University Library houses a vast and internationally important collection of manuscripts. These volumes, first published between 1856-67, contain the first published catalogue of the manuscripts held by the University Library, providing the appearance, condition, age and provenance of the manuscripts. Volume 1 describes classmarks Dd.1-Dd.15.

This 1882 catalogue lists two important collections that provide fascinating insights into nineteenth-century reading habits. The Townshend library was bequeathed in 1868 by the famous occultist and friend of Charles Dickens, while the Wisbech Literary Society (founded in this prosperous port in 1781) contributed works on history, biography and travel.

First published in 1837, Hannett's Inquiry into the Nature and Form of the Books of the Ancients is a small but comprehensive physical history of the book as object. He outlines the forms which books took over the centuries, but concentrates on the craft of bookbinding, past and present.

First published in 1888, Modern Printing Machinery remains a valuable work on the mechanisation of the printing industry in the nineteenth century. It contains detailed information, with illustrations, on all the machinery then in use. It will be of interest to book historians, printers, engineers and industrial archaeologists.

First published posthumously, Annals of a Publishing House contains the early history of the influential Scottish publishing house, William Blackwood and Sons, by one of its most successful authors, Mrs Oliphant. Volume 1 covers the early history of the firm, the Edinburgh Magazine, its writers and rivals.

M. R. James' detailed and scholarly descriptive catalogue of over 80 medieval manuscripts in the University Library, Aberdeen, originally published in 1932, is still much sought after by librarians and researchers. It lists the material, dimensions, structure, date, provenance, contents and decoration of the manuscripts, and includes 27 plates.

Edward Gordon Duff (1863-1924) was a librarian and bibliographer specialising in the early history of the printed book. This biographical dictionary, first published in 1905, contains short accounts of the lives of printers, bookbinders and booksellers working in England up to 1557, and remains a standard reference work.

Originally published in 1908, this study documents the history of the library at Westminster Abbey from 1060 to 1660. The original library was dispersed during the Reformation, and its successor destroyed by a fire in 1694, but the distinguished authors' research on the surviving sources reconstructs a surprisingly detailed account.

First published in 1931, Streeter's The Chained Library traces the history of library arrangement in England from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. With many illustrations from cathedral, college, and parish libraries, he shows how library design evolved during these centuries to meet the changing needs of readers.

This 1872 analytical catalogue investigates editions of the Authorised Version of the Bible published from 1611 to 1711. It provides interesting examples of the errors and alterations that could affect even a book as important as the Bible in an age of contention and diverse publishing practices.