Antiquarian Book Monthly Review (ABMR) magazine, July 1991, Vol. XVIII No. 7, Issue 207: John Russell Smith, Bibliographer of Kent; Charles Gilson; Gregynog, Tragara and Alembic Press reviews
Antiquarian Book Monthly Review (ABMR) magazine, July 1991, Vol. XVIII No. 7, Issue 207: John Russell Smith, Bibliographer of Kent; Charles Gilson; Gregynog, Tragara and Alembic Press reviews
Antiquarian Book Monthly Review (ABMR), July 1991, Vol. XVIII, Number 7, Issue 207 (cover price £1.80) – the Oxford monthly of the antiquarian and second-hand book trade, edited by John Kinnane. Features: 'John Russell Smith: Bibliographer of Kent, Publisher and Bookseller' by Anthony Lister (page 298), on the Victorian London bookseller and county bibliographer; and 'Charles Gilson' by William H. P. and R. D. Crewdson (307), on the boys' adventure writer. Also Press Books (314), Forthcoming Book Fairs (312), ABMR Diary, Notes and Queries, Letters and the Crossword. Book reviews: Barry Newport on Gwasg Gregynog: A Descriptive Catalogue of Printing at Gregynog 1970-1990 (David Esslemont and Glyn Tegai Hughes), A Month in the Country (J. L. Carr), The Tragara Press 1979-1991: A Bibliography (Alan Anderson), The Alembic Press Guide (Claire Bolton), Two Against the Tide (Adrian Wilson) and Private Press Books 1988 (ed. Philip Kerrigan); John Kinnane on Marbling Methods and Receipts from Four Centuries (ed. Barry McKay); Ron Winch on Sheppard's Book Dealers in Australia and New Zealand; Anthony Lister on Forged Documents: Proceedings of the 1989 Houston Conference. Columns: The New Book Scene (Piers Brissault), Common Market (J. J. Peachum and Renata Ting), Trade Tales (Peter Eaton), Words (James Morton), Book Chat (Paul Minet), Auctions (Liz Merry), Catalogues (James Fergusson, Renata Ting), Postscript by William Safire, and booksellers' classified advertisements. Cover: Madonna Icon by Vladimir Sulyagin. Published by ABMR Publications Ltd, Cowley Road, Oxford; printed by Bocardo Press, Didcot. ISSN 0306-7475. About 48 pages, 19 x 25.5 cm, stapled. THEMES: antiquarian book trade, private presses, bibliography, book collecting, bookbinding and marbling, forgery, bookselling history, 1990s book trade.
Author: John Kinnane (ed.)
Publisher: ABMR Publications
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Single Issue Magazine
Condition: Used - Very Good