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THE PHILOBIBLON CLUB
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100 Years of Book Collecting in
PHILADELPHIA
Allen, George Rankin. The Centennial of the Philobiblon Club of Philadelphia, 1893–1993. Philadelphia: The Philobiblon Club, 1993. 12mo (19 cm; 7.5"). [3], [1] ff., 53, [3] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. The booklet includes on its final three pages “A short-title list of items exhibited in Some of Our Best Friends: Books Selected from Collections of Members of the Philobiblon Club, at the Rosenbach Museum & Library, 12 February – 9 May 1993,” and that is preceded on pp. 1–53 by a reprint of “A loan collection of decorative bindings, rare books, manuscripts, and other bibliographical specimens from the libraries of Philadelphia,” being the catalogue of an 1893 book exhibit at Philadelphia's Academy of the Fine Arts that partly led to the Club's formation. 
This is not a social history of the Club, but rather an excellent snapshot of its founding and centennial members' leading book interests.
• New. Original tan wrappers. Saddle-stitched. (35758)
For POST-1820 AMERICANA, click here. For more of PHILADELPHIA interest, click here. For BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS, click here.
Designed by P.J. Conkwright — A Signer's Sad, Sensational End
Boyd, Julian P. The murder of George Wythe. Philadelphia: Privately Printed for The Philobiblon Club, 1949. Small 8vo (20 cm; 7.75"). [2] ff., 45, [3 (last blank) pp.
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murder by poison of Whyte, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence and subsequently a judge in Virginia and opponent of slavery, at the hands of Wythe's sister's 17-year-old grandson. The death of a black teen-aged servant of Wythe's in the same atrocity is not glossed over, and one bit of the talk turns on Virginia's admission (or not) of the legal testimony of “Negroes” in a case such as Wythe's became. There is a “Bibliographical note” on p. [47].
The Princeton Library catalogue record for this work states that P.J. Conkwright, the legendary designer and typographer at the Princeton University Press, designed the book. One would suspect that it was printed at the Press as well.
• New. Bound as issued; marbled paper boards, black cloth spine with title stamped in gold. Glassine dust wrapper, chipped and torn over spine but present. (35761)
For PRE-1820 AMERICANA, click here. For ANGLO-AMERICAN LAW, click here. For ABOLITION / BLACK HISTORY, click here. For BIOGRAPHIES, mostly 20th-Century
Satire of Pennsylvania Politics at the
Start of the French & Indian War
(Colonial American Satire). A fragment of the chronicles of Nathan Ben Saddi. Printed in Philadelphia by James Chattin, 1758. Philadelphia: The Philobiblon Club, 1904. 4to (27 cm; 10.5"). [1] f., 18 pp., [1] f., xv plates (facsimiles) in color.
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The 15 plates offer a fine facsimile of the 1758 rarity, presented with good margins on that good paper.
• Nearly New. Bound in brown paper boards, printed in black. In a protective box that is lightly chipped and with a spot or two of fading/discoloration; book in fine condition. (35756)
For FALSE IMPRINTS & For LITERATURE, click here. For FACSIMILES, click here.
CASANOVA — Beyond His Exploitatious Exploits
Ricci, Seymour de. Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: An address to the Philobiblon Club of Philadelphia, 24 May, 1923. Philadelphia: Privately Printed [for The Philobiblon Club], 1923. 8vo (22 cm; 8.5"). 24 pp.
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• New. Publisher's blue cloth shelfback and French swirl marbled paper over boards; white paper label on front cover. (35760)
For LITERATURE, click here. For a bit of (mostly very mild!) EROTICA, 
Bird & Bull Press — Incunables Studied Here
Schulz, Ernst. The study of incunables: Problems and aims. Philadelphia: The Philobiblon Club, 1977. 8vo (24 cm; 9.25"). vii, 28, [1 (colophon)] pp.
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The introduction is by Bernhard Bischoff (the distinguished paleographer, historian, and philologist) and the work's editor was Rudolf Hirsch (the dynamic librarian of the University of Pennsylvania, identified in the “Editorial Note” merely by his initials); both men knew Schulz.
“Five hundred copies of this essay have been printed at the Bird & Bull Press, North Hills, Pennsylvania. Copies 1-200 for distribution to members of the Philobiblon Club of Philadelphia.” The work is printed in Baskerville type on Strathmore Artlaid paper.
• Taylor & Morris, Twenty-one Years of Bird & Bull, B8. New. As issued in brown textured paper wrappers with a paper spine label on the front cover. (35762)
To view our INCUNABLES, click here. For TRANSLATIONS, click here. For PRB&M's GENERAL MISCELLANY
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Printed by W. Thomas Taylor / Signed by SternStern, Madeleine B. Nicholas Gouin Dufief of Philadelphia: Franco-American bookseller, 1776-1834. Philadelphia: The Philobiblon Club, 1988. 8vo. (22 cm; 8.75"). 81 pp., illus., portrait, facsimiles.
Click the images for enlargements.Stern was the life and business partner of Leona Rostenberg, their firm of Rostenberg & Stern having been one of America's most respected during the post –WWII period and known for its dealing in early printed books Dufief (1776?–1834) was a refugee from the French Revolution who from 1793 to 1818 lived in Philadelphia, where he taught French and ran a bookstore. 
Among the libraries he acquired was the large residue of Benjamin Franklin's!
• New. Publisher's light brown cloth with paper spine label. (35753)
For PRE-1820 AMERICANA, For POST-1820 AMERICANA, For more COMMERCE / TRADE / For more of WOMEN's interest, click here. For COLLECTED PRESSES
Printed for The Philobiblon Club by Edmund Thompson atHAWTHORN HOUSEThompson, Lawrance. Emerson and Frost: Critics of their times. Philadelphia: The Philobiblon Club, 1940. Small 8vo (20.5 cm; 8"). 44 pp.
Click the images for enlargements.The title-page is printed in black with two blue lines; the portrait of Emerson is in blue on a pale ochre field; the colophon incorporates a large blue “H.”
Lawrance Thompson (1903–73) was a member of the English faculty at Princeton University and the official biographer of Robert Frost.
• New. Publisher's gray cloth shelfback with orange-red marbled paper sides. Deckle edges. In the original gray cloth openback slipcase. (35754)
For LITERATURE, click here. For “GIFTABLES” — mostly $150
With a List of Members of the Philobiblon Club in 1945
Thorp, Willard. The lost tradition of American letters. Philadelphia: Privately Printed for The Philobiblon Club, 1945. 8vo (24 cm; 9.5"). 26, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements.• New. Bound, as issued, in quarter blue linen with marbled paper boards, title stamped in gold on spine. With the glassine wrapper. (35759)
For more of PHILADELPHIA interest, click here. For LITERATURE, click here. For BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS, click here. For “GIFTABLES” — mostly $150
Bird & Bull Press — Clubs ComparedWhitehill, Walter Muir. The Club of Odd Volumes, Boston, 1887–1973. [Philadelphia]: Printed for The Philobiblon Club [by the] Bird & Bull Press, 1973. 8vo (23 cm; 9"). 13, [1 (colophon)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. the Club of Odd Volumes, the Boston book collecting club founded in 1887.This brief history was printed in an edition of 250 copies at the Bird & Bull Press. The Press's bibliography says: “Title line and colophon [are printed] in Arrighi; the text [is] printed in Garamond type on Hodgkinson's Bird & Bull paper” and the wrappers are “Burnt Sienna roller-printed paste paper . . . [with the] title on [a] paper label on [the] upper cover.”
• Taylor & Morris, Twenty-one Years of Bird & Bull, B3. New. Publisher's “burnt sienna” patterned wrappers as above. (35763)
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