Published by 4to, pp.[iv],119, London, The Library Association, 1969., 1969
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Red cloth, gilt, dust-jacket slightly chipped. Ex-library copy with some stamps. A good copy.
Published by London:The Library Association, 1969., 1969
Seller: Saintfield Antiques & Fine Books, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. (3) + 119 pp. 30.5 x 21.5 cm. Gold-blocked red boards, stained. In a dw with one small scuff on the back. Excludes items listed in (1) Aldis's List of Books printed in Scotland before 1700; (2) Dix's Catalogue of Early Dublin-Printed Books 1601-1700 ; and (3) Madan's Oxford Books [to 1680] , so the entries included in Clough for six Scottish towns, Dublin, and Oxford to 1680 are supplementary. The bulk of the space is taken up by Cambridge (34 pages), Dublin (24 pages), Edinburgh (18 pages), and Oxford (19 pages). The catalogue is arranged alphabetically by place, and under each place, the entries are in chronological sequence, with the author or heading, short title, place, imprint, format, and STC or Wing number, as in the original catalogues.
Published by Private Libraries Association, London, first edition, 1969, 1969
ISBN 10: 0900002204 ISBN 13: 9780900002205
First Edition
Edition of 1000 copies of which 700 were for sale. Cloth, 8vo, 26 cm, 160 pp, ills, facs, map. From the preface: "I started collecting broadside ballads many years ago when I saw a batch of them in an antiquarian bookshop and found that they were good traditional country songs like 'Fare well He', 'Bedlam City', 'Banks of Invarary', and 'Young Riley'. They were narrow slips, printed on old rough tinted paper, with quaint woodcuts, and the publisher was John Pitts, of Seven Dials, London. From that time onwards I read widely on the subject and collected broadsides and chapbooks wherever I could find them and I soon discovered that the topical ballads were also full of interest. The Charles Hindley books about James Catnach fired me with enthusiasm, but Catnach had all the attention and I could not help regretting that nobody had written about John Pitts, who seemed a much more interesting printer, although less flamboyant than Catnach. Over the years I searched for any scraps of information about Pitts, and it became something of a passion to find sufficient material for a short study which would do for Pitts what Hindley had done for Catnach There are still many details missing, and probably some things we shall never know, but I have set down all I could discover on the life and times of the elusive John Pitts. " Slightly rubbed, otherwise Very Good.
Published by Library Association, London, first edition, 1969, 1969
ISBN 10: 0853650918 ISBN 13: 9780853650911
First Edition
Cloth, large 8vo, 31 cm, [3], 119 pp. Excludes items listed in (1) Aldis's List of Books printed in Scotland before 1700; (2) Dix's Catalogue of Early Dublin-Printed Books 1601-1700 ; and (3) Madan's Oxford Books [to 1680] , so the entries included in Clough for six Scottish towns, Dublin, and Oxford to 1680 are supplementary. The bulk of the space is taken up by Cambridge (34 pages), Dublin (24 pages), Edinburgh (18 pages), and Oxford (19 pages), The catalogue is arranged alphabetically by place, and under each place, the entries are in chronological sequence, with the author or heading, short title, place, imprint, format, and STC or Wing number, as in the original catalogues. Very Good in an edgeworn dustwrapper with some tape repairs.
Published by Private Libraries Association, London, first edition, 1969, 1969
ISBN 10: 0900002204 ISBN 13: 9780900002205
First Edition
Edition of 1000 copies of which 700 were for sale. Cloth, 8vo, 26 cm, 160 pp, ills, facs, map. From the preface: "I started collecting broadside ballads many years ago when I saw a batch of them in an antiquarian bookshop and found that they were good traditional country songs like 'Fare well He', 'Bedlam City', 'Banks of Invarary', and 'Young Riley'. They were narrow slips, printed on old rough tinted paper, with quaint woodcuts, and the publisher was John Pitts, of Seven Dials, London. From that time onwards I read widely on the subject and collected broadsides and chapbooks wherever I could find them and I soon discovered that the topical ballads were also full of interest. The Charles Hindley books about James Catnach fired me with enthusiasm, but Catnach had all the attention and I could not help regretting that nobody had written about John Pitts, who seemed a much more interesting printer, although less flamboyant than Catnach. Over the years I searched for any scraps of information about Pitts, and it became something of a passion to find sufficient material for a short study which would do for Pitts what Hindley had done for Catnach There are still many details missing, and probably some things we shall never know, but I have set down all I could discover on the life and times of the elusive John Pitts. " Name and date on front free endpaper, otherwise Very Good.
Published by Library Association, London, first edition, 1969, 1969
ISBN 10: 0853650918 ISBN 13: 9780853650911
First Edition
Cloth, large 8vo, 31 cm, [3], 119 pp. Excludes items listed in (1) Aldis's List of Books printed in Scotland before 1700; (2) Dix's Catalogue of Early Dublin-Printed Books 1601-1700 ; and (3) Madan's Oxford Books [to 1680] , so the entries included in Clough for six Scottish towns, Dublin, and Oxford to 1680 are supplementary. The bulk of the space is taken up by Cambridge (34 pages), Dublin (24 pages), Edinburgh (18 pages), and Oxford (19 pages), The catalogue is arranged alphabetically by place, and under each place, the entries are in chronological sequence, with the author or heading, short title, place, imprint, format, and STC or Wing number, as in the original catalogues. Very Good in slightly soiled dustwrapper.
Published by 8vo, pp.160, London: Private Libraries Association, 1969., 1969
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Numerous reproductions withn the text. Red cloth, gilt spine label, decorative gilt label on the front cover. Fine in the original glassine.
Published by Library Association, London, first edition, 1969, 1969
ISBN 10: 0853650918 ISBN 13: 9780853650911
First Edition
Cloth, large 8vo, 31 cm, [3], 119 pp. Excludes items listed in (1) Aldis's List of Books printed in Scotland before 1700; (2) Dix's Catalogue of Early Dublin-Printed Books 1601-1700 ; and (3) Madan's Oxford Books [to 1680] , so the entries included in Clough for six Scottish towns, Dublin, and Oxford to 1680 are supplementary. The bulk of the space is taken up by Cambridge (34 pages), Dublin (24 pages), Edinburgh (18 pages), and Oxford (19 pages), The catalogue is arranged alphabetically by place, and under each place, the entries are in chronological sequence, with the author or heading, short title, place, imprint, format, and STC or Wing number, as in the original catalogues. An ex-library copy with stamps on the edges of the textblock, a label on the front pastedown endpaper, library stamps on the verso of the title-page, covers rubbed in a somewhat worn dustwrapper with a number on the spine-panel.
Published by Library Association, London, first edition, 1969, 1969
ISBN 10: 0853650918 ISBN 13: 9780853650911
First Edition
Cloth, large 8vo, 31 cm, [3], 119 pp. Excludes items listed in (1) Aldis's List of Books printed in Scotland before 1700; (2) Dix's Catalogue of Early Dublin-Printed Books 1601-1700 ; and (3) Madan's Oxford Books [to 1680] , so the entries included in Clough for six Scottish towns, Dublin, and Oxford to 1680 are supplementary. The bulk of the space is taken up by Cambridge (34 pages), Dublin (24 pages), Edinburgh (18 pages), and Oxford (19 pages), The catalogue is arranged alphabetically by place, and under each place, the entries are in chronological sequence, with the author or heading, short title, place, imprint, format, and STC or Wing number, as in the original catalogues. Ex-library copy with tape-marks on covers and endpapers, label on half-title, stamps on title-page (recto and verso).
Published by Library Association, London, first edition, 1969, 1969
ISBN 10: 0853650918 ISBN 13: 9780853650911
First Edition
Cloth, large 8vo, 31 cm, [3], 119 pp. Excludes items listed in (1) Aldis's List of Books printed in Scotland before 1700; (2) Dix's Catalogue of Early Dublin-Printed Books 1601-1700 ; and (3) Madan's Oxford Books [to 1680] , so the entries included in Clough for six Scottish towns, Dublin, and Oxford to 1680 are supplementary. The bulk of the space is taken up by Cambridge (34 pages), Dublin (24 pages), Edinburgh (18 pages), and Oxford (19 pages), The catalogue is arranged alphabetically by place, and under each place, the entries are in chronological sequence, with the author or heading, short title, place, imprint, format, and STC or Wing number, as in the original catalogues. Very Good in rubbed and price-clipped dustwrapper dustwrapper.
Published by Private Libraries Association, London. 1969., 1969
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
Tall 8vo, 160pp. black and white illustrations. A very good hardback copy.
Published by London: Private Libraries Association, 1969, 1969
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Condition: Used - Very Good. 1969. London: Private Libraries Association, 1969. Cloth, 160 pp., illustrated. Some minor rubbing to cloth. Very Sound.
Published by London, The Library Association 1969, 1969
ISBN 10: 085365171X ISBN 13: 9780853651710
Seller: Antiquariaat Schot, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands
233 p. Bound in the publisher's red cloth with pictorial dustjacket (Exteriors of the dustjacket rubbed, otherwise in good condition.).
Published by Library Association, London, first edition, 1969, 1969
ISBN 10: 0853650918 ISBN 13: 9780853650911
First Edition
Cloth, large 8vo, 31 cm, [3], 119 pp. Excludes items listed in (1) Aldis's List of Books printed in Scotland before 1700; (2) Dix's Catalogue of Early Dublin-Printed Books 1601-1700 ; and (3) Madan's Oxford Books [to 1680] , so the entries included in Clough for six Scottish towns, Dublin, and Oxford to 1680 are supplementary. The bulk of the space is taken up by Cambridge (34 pages), Dublin (24 pages), Edinburgh (18 pages), and Oxford (19 pages), The catalogue is arranged alphabetically by place, and under each place, the entries are in chronological sequence, with the author or heading, short title, place, imprint, format, and STC or Wing number, as in the original catalogues. Very Good in slightly soiled and torn dustwrapper.
Published by Library Association, London, 1971 reprint of 1969 first edition, 1971
ISBN 10: 085365171X ISBN 13: 9780853651710
First Edition
Cloth, 8vo, 233 pp, plates. Contents Include: Foreword; Preface; I. The Eighteenth-Century Forerunner of the London Library; II. Some Reading Trends in Bristol 1773-84; III. English Book Clubs and their Social Import; IV. Glimpses of Reading in some West Country Book Clubs; V. Reading Trends at Cathedral Libraries; VI. Mr. Yorick in the Minster Library; VII. New Light from Parochial Libraries; VIII. An Introduction to Libraries of Dissent: Zion's; Temple, Manchester; IX. Coffee Houses as Reading Centres; X. Community Readers at the Shrewsbury School; Library; XI. Scotland as the Home of Community Libraries; XII. Dundee, Mother of Burgh Libraries; XIII. Innerpeffray: Reading for all the People; XIV. Lead Hills: Library of Diggers; XV. Community Libraries of Ireland and Wales; XVI. The Community Library: A Chapter in English; Social History; XVII. In Defence of Fair Readers; Index. Booklabel of the bibliophile A R A Hobson on front pastedown endpaper, signed and dated by him on the front free endpaper, and with his 4-line verse dismissal of the author inscribed in ink on the half-title: 'O leaden-footed Doctor Paul, whose every essay is 'unique'.', and two ink annotations in his hand, one at the end of Chapter XII reading "This thoroughly mistaken account is corrected by Thomas Kelly". Spine curved with creasing to the dustwrapper spine-panel, otherwise Near Very Good in slightly rubbed dustwrapper with slight fading to the spine-panel.
Published by Private Libraries Assn. (1969), London, 1969
Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark, Svendborg, Denmark
Condition: Some rubbing. VG. orig.cloth Some rubbing. VG. 29pp facsimile illustrations 25x16cm, 160 pp Contents: The Ballad & Chapbook Market Before Pits; John Pitts & the Revival of Street Literature; The Age of Pitts & Catnach; The Ballad Market after Pitts and Catnach; Broadsides & Chapbooks by Pitts & his Contemporaries; Appendices: Genealogy; Obituary of John Pitts; A Short List of Publications by John Pitts; Collection of Pitts Material; Stationers' Company Register of Ballads, 1675; Fortey Collection: Sotheby Sale Records, 1906.