Books and readers - General, Histories

Lot Comprises:

David Finkelstein & Alistair McCleery, The Book History Reader, London & New York, 2002, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers

Ian Gadd, ed., The History of the Book in the West: 1455‐1700, vol. 2, Farnham, Surrey, Ashgate, 2010, 4to., publisher's red cloth gilt

Andrew Pettegree, The French Book and the European Book World, Amsterdam, Brill, 2007, 8vo., publisher's yellow cloth, dust jacket

Flavia Bruni & Andrew Pettegree, Lost Books: Reconstructing the Print World of Pre‐Industrial Europe, (Library of the Written Word, vol. 46), Leiden & Boston, Brill, 2016, 4to., publisher's yellow cloth

John P. Feather & David McKitterick, The History of Books and Libraries: Two Views [Engelhard lectures on the book presented on March 5 and 14, 1985 at the Library of Congress], Washington, 1986, 8vo., pamphlet

David McKitterick, Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450‐1830, Cambridge, University Press, 2003, 4to., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket

Nicolas Barker, ed., A Potencie of Life: Books in Society, New Castle, DE, 2001, 8vo., publisher's wrappers

Andrew Pettegree, The Book in the Renaissance, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2010, 4to., publisher's green cloth, dust jacket

Francesco Malaguzzi, Guida alla lettura di ciò che non è scritto in un libro, Savigliano, 2005, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers

Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, The color of melancholy : the uses of books in the fourteenth century (translated by Lydia G. Cochrane), Baltimore & London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, 8vo., publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket

Roger Chartier, The Order of Books : readers, authors and libraries in Europe between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries (translated by Lydia G. Cochrane), Stanford, CA., 1994, 8vo., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket

Joseph B. Trapp, Erasmus, Colet, and More: the early Tudor humanists and their books (The Panizzi Lectures, 1990), London, British Library, 1991, 8vo., publisher's blue printed wrappers

Henry Stanley Bennett, English Books & Readers 1475 to 1557, Cambridge University Press, 1952, 4to., dust jacket (two copies)

Harry Y. Gamble, Books and readers in the early church : a history of early Christian texts, New Haven, 1995, 4to., publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket

John N. King, ed., Tudor books and readers : materiality and the construction of meaning, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010, 4to., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket

Henri‐Jean Martin, The French Book: Religion, Absolutism, and Readership, 1585‐1715 (translated by Paul Saenger and Nadine Saenger), Baltimore & London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, 8vo., publisher's blue cloth silvered

Robin Myers & Michael Harris, Serials and their Readers, 1620‐1914, Winchester & New Castle, DE, St. Paul's Bibliographies / Oak Knoll Press, 1993, 8vo., publisher's printed boards

Armando Petrucci, Writers and Readers in Medieval Italy: Studies in the History of Written Culture (translated by Charles M. Radding), New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1995, 4to., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket

Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England, New Haven & London, 2000, 4to., publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket

William W.E. Slights, Managing readers : printed marginalia in English Renaissance books, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2001, 4to., publisher's maroon cloth, dust jacket

John Carter & Percy H. Muir, ed., Printing and the Mind of Man: The Impact of Print on Five Centuries of Western Civilization, London & New York, Cassell / Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967, fol., publisher's red cloth, dust jacket

John Feather, A Dictionary of Book History, London, Routledge, 1988, 4to., publisher's grey cloth, dust jacket

Michael F. Suarez & H.R. Woudhuysen, The Book: A Global History, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, 4to., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket

Henri‐Jean Martin, The History and Power of Writing (translated by Lydia Cochrane), Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1999, 4to., publisher's red cloth, dust jacket

Christopher Morley, Ex Libris Carissimis, New York, (1932), reprint 1967, 8vo., publisher's wrappers

Christopher Morley, Ex Libris Carissimis, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1932, 8vo., cloth over boards, dust jacket

Michael Olmert, The Smithsonian Book of Books, Washington, 1992, fol., publisher's red cloth, dust jacket

María Isabel de Páiz Hernández, ed., La memoria de los libros : estudios sobre la historia del escrito y de la lectura en Europa y América, [Salamanca], Instituto de Historia del Libro y de la Lectura, 2004, 2 vols., 4to.

David Pearson, Books as history: the importance of books beyond their texts, New Castle, DE & London, Oak Knoll Press / British Library, 2008, 4to., publisher's black cloth gilt, dust jacket

David Pearson, Books as history: the importance of books beyond their texts, revised edition, The British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 2012, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers

Sold as a group, not subject to return.