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THE BRITISH BOOK TRADE, 1475-1890: A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Howard-Hill, T.H.

- New Castle, Delaware, and London, England : Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2009 - 7.5 x 9.75 inches - Hardcover, 2 volumes - 1,876 pages in 2 volumes, plus index on CD-ROM - ISBN 9781584562559 / Order Nr. 96665 - Price: $ 175.00 View Excerpt (PDF) View Table of Contents (PDF) View Reviews (PDF)

This superbly comprehensive and detailed bibliography of the British book trade, the product of research in over three hundred libraries in the UK and USA, supersedes all bibliographies on British authors and authorship, bibliography itself, book collecting, bookbinding, book illustration, bookselling, censorship, copyright, libraries, literacy, papermaking, printing, publishing, textual criticism, and typography until 1890. More than 24,000 items (notably articles in trade journals) are lightly annotated and arranged in classified chronological order to illustrate the social and technological development of British book crafts and industries. Items are minutely indexed on the accompanying CD-ROM. Large areas of the history and practices of the British book trades are opened to scholarly study for the first time. British Book Trade, 1475-1890 belongs in every research library: no-one who works in the fields of British literature, bibliography, or book trade history should neglect this work.

Trevor Howard-Hill is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. Besides his many publications on Shakespearean texts, Renaissance dramatic manuscripts, and textual scholarship are eight volumes of the Index of British Literary Bibliography (Oxford 1969-99).

Published by Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, in association with The Bibliographical Society and The Bibliographical Society of America.

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THE BOOK AS ART. Limited to only 35 numbered copies signed by Kathleen Dinan, Leonard Seastone and Alexandra Soteriou. 10 leaves printed rectos only by Leonard Seastone in red and black on rough-edged all cotton, handmade paper by Kathleen Dinan, Wildcliff Paper Studio, joined concertina-style by white cotton tape, woodcut over title by Leonard Seastone. Binding by Alexandra Soteriou. A limited edition catalogue for the eponymous exhibition held at the Wildcliff Craft Center, Fall, 1979. Laid-in is a note regarding the binding "pages were glued to strips by binder on a ladder which she fell from and got a broken leg".