The Private Library Quarterly Journal
The Private Library Quarterly Journal
Quarterly Journal of the Private Libraries Association
The association has published its Quarterly Journal, The Private Library, since 1957. We are currently in the seventh series.
The Private Library
offers substantial essays of interest for the book collector. Over the decades The Private Library has published articles by dozens of leading 20th and 21st Century collectors, printers, publishers and academics. Essays have been printed on topics such as members’ libraries, specialised collections, the work of private presses, illustrators and indeed, any aspect of the mania likely to appeal to collectors. Reviews of new books are also a regular features.
Back issues of The Private Library
still in print are available to purchase. Scroll down
this page to browse the contents of the articles found within each journal and to be directed to the order form to purchase individual journals or sets of journals. Out of print journals are noted.
FREE downloads of Series 1 & Indexes
Series
1
Click on the tab below to find the Volume you wish to download. Then click on each individual issue to download.
Series One | Volume 5
Series One | Volume 6
Series One | Volume 7
Series One | Volume 8
Short Title Index
The Short Title Index to articles which have appeared since 1968 will be updated on a regular basis.
Supplementary Papers
Click the titles below for a downloadable resource.
• Lithographed book illustrations: the early years
• Michael Twyman: Supplementary papers
Lithographed Book Illustration - The Early Years in the double issue of The Private Library: Quarterly Journal of the Private Libraries Association, Seventh series, Vol. 4: 1 & 2, Spring & Summer 2021, pp. 3–96
Indexes 1957-2017
Indexes to Series 1-5 are freely available in the pdf files below. We have also provided a combined file which contains the indexes for series 1-4. Please note that this combined file is not a composite index, but four separate indexes in one file.
Back issues of The Private Library Series 2 - 7
Prices per journal:
Members: £3.50 UK
Non-members: £6.00 UK
For orders of a COMPLETE SERIES, each journal is priced at £2.00 for members, £4.00 for non-members.
Postage FREE within the UK. Outside the UK varies.
All back numbers of The Private Library still in print are available to purchase.
[All of Series 1 are out of print, available in pdf format as free downloads, see above] Please browse the contents of each journal from Series 2-6 on the list below and make a note the journal or journals you would like to order. Then please click on the order form
where you can place your order. You will receive an invoice from us with a link allowing you to pay using your debit or credit card or PayPal account. For orders within the UK, you may also send us a cheque.
Note: Four journals in Series 2 are unavailable and noted as
OUT OF PRINT. Certain journals, marked by
#, are in very short supply, and are available only as part of a series set.
Make a note of the journals you would like to order from the list below, then click HERE
to go to the order form.
ORDER NOW
Seventh Series Volume 1 2018
1 Tidcombe: Bernard C. Middleton 1924-2019; Chambers: Bernard Middleton’s Bindery; Haley: Auctioneering
2 Beck: An illustrator’s Life; Chambers: Roderick Cave 1935-2019
Sixth Series Volume 10 2017
1 Hazarika: A Collection on Colonial India; Chambers: Valediction; Maslen: The Wood-Engravings of C. F. Tunnicliffe
2 Woodbridge: A Collector’s Guide to The Stanbrook Abbey Press; Chamber: Iain Bain 1934-2018
3 Maslen: Wood-Engravings in France 1885-1925
4 Butcher: Collecting The Weather Bird Press
Sixth Series Volume 9 2016
1 & 2 Freemantle: The Caradoc Press
3 Blundell: Folio Society Limited Editions
4 Ward: Towards a Universal Private Library
Sixth Series Volume 8 2015
1
2 Manley: Barter Books; Douglas: Cecil Woolf; Smelter: The Electric Telegraph; Smelter: Missing Blanks in Early Books; Chambers: Sidereus Nuncius.
3 Scheibe: The Private Press of Frederick the Great 1749-60
4 Hill: Collecting Books in Boards; O’Connor: Coping with ‘The Gentle Madness’
Sixth Series Volume 7 2014
1 Marks: A London Collection; Freemantle: Flinders’ Voyage
2 Smeltzer: Chine colle´, Chambers: Charles Clark’s bookplates and broadsides
3 Maslen: Joan Hassall – a life in a collection
4 Thompson: The publications of Cyril W. Beaumont, 1917-31
Sixth Series Volume 6 2013
1 Willi Harwerth; Thomas Balston and Duckworth; William Barnes
2 Printing on Iona; William Muir; Ise Monogatari
3 John William North; A very modest collection by Richard Burleigh; Thor Heyerdahl
4 Freemantle: Vellum
Sixth Series Volume 5 2012
1 A Fresh Glance at Nature Printing; Library of a Dickensian; Daniel Maclise – The Story of the Norman Conquest
2 Insel-Bücherei; The Ornithologist’s Guide
3 Little Tim (Ardizzone); The pochoir process in book illustration in France; Bunyan Press; St Bride Library
4 On the margins of collecting – Christmas cards; The Mark Hinchliffe collection of books by Ted Hughes; The abortive 1931 Ashendene Press Daphnis & Chloe
Sixth Series Volume 4 2011
1 Gaylord Schanilec issue: Midnight Paper Sales Press; To Science, Art & Printing
2 Private Press in France II – 18th Century; Venice fever; David Chambers – 70 years of Bibliomania I
3 Illustrations of Reynolds Stone; Reynolds Stone checklist
4 Private Press in France III – the Revolution; David Chambers – 70 years of Bibliomania II; Talbot Baines Reed
Sixth Series Volume 3 2010
1 Anthony Smith – Christmas presence; Brooks Press of Wirksworth; Blankshire Brigade (Ravilious et al)
2 Léon Pichon – a postscript; Heart’s Desire – Sandford & Buckland Wright; A taste for the decorative; Coronation Book – Golden Cockerel Press; Blankshire digitized
3 Confessions of an addict (children’s books); Metamorphic library chair
4 Private Press in France I – 15th to 17th Centuries; Scholartis Press
Sixth Series Volume 2 2009
1 Tomorrow’s Past (bookbinding); Protecting the alphabet; A conversation; Gallery of Bindings
2 Aliquando Press; Kristian Kongstad, Danish master printer; Libreria Acqua Alta
3 Léon Pichon – printer & publisher; Paul Koch – master printer of music
4 Stuart Schimmel – collectors in my library; Paul Koch & Fritz Arnold
Sixth Series Volume 1 2008
1 Keith Fletcher – insider collecting; Robert Gibbings – a man & his books
2 John Cole of Scarborough; A family library; De luxe bindings of Peter Carstens
3 A Considerable Power – the illustrations of Henry Courtney Selous
4 Printing office of John Wilkes 1763
Fifth Series Volume 10 2007
1 Lock’s Press 1979-2006; Printing of A House of Pomegranates; Hooked on books – interpreting Sir John Soane’s library
2 Dalziel’s Bible Gallery; Bill Fletcher – book buying by a bookseller
3 What made the chimney lean; Poor Richard’s books; Durning-Lawrence Library
4 Alan Loney – 50 books old 1975-2006; Bibliographical spoofs & parodies
Fifth Series Volume 9 2006
1 Kitchen’s Designs for Seats; Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.; Christopher Larkspvr & the Saint Ronan’s Press
2 Werner Klemke as book illustrator
3 In search of Edward Gorey; Bird books – a guide for collectors
4 A Suffolk herald’s library; Byrnes Calculus; John Collins – the book business
Fifth Series Volume 8 2005
1 Cock Robin Press of Peter Beavan; H.E. Bates – a collector’s perspective
2 Construction of A House of Pomegranates; Wood-engravings of Jim Westergard; Osho Lao Tzu Library
3 Kenneth Hopkins – poet & publisher; Douglas Foskett’s Uzanne collection; Cataloguing
4 Electronic book; Richard Doyle’s In Fairyland; Francis Meynell’s Keepsake for the A.I.G.A.
Fifth Series Volume 7 2004
1 Rare architectural books – part 3; Robert Aspinall – my life in printing
2 Thomas Malory, the Morte Darthur & Aubrey Beardsley; Eight letters from T.E.L.; First type of Gutenberg
3 Kuthan’s Menagerie Completed; Owen Jones’s Alhambra; Paul W. Nash – behind us
4 Bohn’s Illustrated Library; Golden Cockerel Press
Fifth Series Volume 6 2003
1 Rare architectural books – part 1; Artists’ Press edition of The Ultimate Safari
2 Collecting pre-King James English Bibles; Illustrated Book Award; Typographical Society of Newcastle; Lloyd’s Ports Record; Pinxit, sculpsit, excudit, etcetera – some additional notes
3 Giambattista Bodoni; Illustrated gift books of the 1860s
4 Rare architectural books – part 2
Fifth Series Volume 5 2002
1 An illustrator & The Genius of Place – Rigby Graham at 70; St. Sepulchre’s Press 1964-1984
2 Poetry folios & the Linden Press; Adanaland; Agathynian Club
3 Samuel Egerton Bridges & the Lee Priory Press; Scent of libraries
4 Crosby Continental Editions; New bibliography of perfume books
Fifth Series Volume 4 2001
1 Microfilm librarians; Pop-ups, peepshows & paper engineering; Movable Book Society; Ancient Mariner
2 One woman’s work at Warwick Press; Oxford Guild of Printers’ Millennium Project
3 Demi-Griffin Press; Internet; Wolfgang Würfel; Dorrell & Sons
4 Pinxit, sculpsit, excudit, etcetera: notes on the lettering which appears on prints
Fifth Series Volume 3 2000
1 Viscount Carlow, T.E. Lawrence & the Corvinus Press
2 Cresset Press; Whitbread Archive; Homo intelligens
3 Henry Noel Humphreys
4 David Esslemont – jack of all trades; Palace of Architecture
Fifth Series Volume 2 1999
1 Children’s Library; Kickshaws, Paris; Thoreau Society
2 Will Carter’s booklabels; Thomas & James Craig Annan of Glasgow
3 Life & work of Barbara Jones
4 John de Pol – wood-engraver; British Library; Design in British publishing
Fifth Series Volume 1 1998
1 Mark Attwood & the Artists’ Press; Women in the American wilderness
2 Iain Bain – Collecting with a purpose (Chiswick Press to Thomas Bewick); Joel Biroco & the Herculaneum Press
3 Abram’s Augereau; Antoine Augereau; Poet & Printer Press; Enid Marx; John Buckland Wright & M.B.B. Nijkerk
4 Modern Design in British Bookbinding; Butterfly, abstraction or flower? (Charles Ricketts)
Fourth Series Volume 10 1997
1 Peter Fleming; Book art in Hungary; Sven Ljundberg
2 Book illustrators of the German Democratic Republic; Joseph Swan
3 Bob Forster; Wayzgoose Press; Jill Grey collection; Bewick in bas-relief; Folio Society
4 Collecting private press books; Paul Minet – bookselling
Fourth Series Volume 9 1996
1 19C publishers’ bindings
2 Kim Taylor – book designer; Genesis of a book-collecting interest (Orlando Jewitt)
3 Exlibris of the Golden Age
4 Nonesuch Press; Fritz Wegner
Fourth Series Volume 8 1995
1 Marryats; Toni Savage; Pandora et al; Guido Morris; Latin Press Pygmy Albion; Penguin Collectors’ Society
2 Edition Tiessen; College magazines; Housman Society
3 Library at Clothworkers’ Hall; Bob Jones & the Glad Hand Press; Thomas Allan Dunn
4 Collecting Baring; Serendipity in the saleroom; G.R. Woodward
Fourth Series Volume 7 1994
1 Manners maketh man; Swedish book illustration
2 Society for Art of Book in Sweden; GCP Four Gospels; Science fiction; Newton, Ulizio & The Whale; Eternal Italy
3 American book illustration; Pursuing American illustrations; Hammatt Billings; Felix Darley; EW Kemble
4 Otto Rohse & his private press; Brautigan Library
Fourth Series Volume 6 1993
1 Queen Caroline & the divorce; Mark Severin’s bookplates; Charles Lamb Society
2 Physical book arts; Pathology of book collecting; Fine bookmaking
3 Stanbrook Abbey Press; Making of a livre d’artiste; Le Lézard; Form of the Book
4 Lungarno series; Richard Garnett’s library; J. Allen St. John; Dropmore Press Winchester Bible
Fourth Series Volume 5 1992
1 Vicar of Wakefield 1843; Van Eijk’s In de Bonnefant; Roy Fuller
2 German fine printing; English as she is spoke; Hester Sainsbury
3 Rachel Daniel – The Lamb; Septentrio Press; Dropmore & Queen Anne Presses
4 Exlibris library in Japan; Staples
Fourth Series Volume 4 1991
1 George Musgrave; Priapus Press
2 Pogonotomy; Gunnar Brusewitz; Sir Francis Bond Head
3 French bibliophile society menus; Frederick Locker; The Great Auk
4 Debts; Charles Hulbert 1778-1857; Cuir ciselé bindings
Fourth Series Volume 3 1990
1 Collecting Detective Fiction; Inscribed Sitwelliana; Talwin Morris checklist
2 Augustine Birrell; Book-buying; Keepsake Press
3 Cataloguing with a PC; Hester Sainsbury; Joseph Cundall
4 Lawrence Durrell limited editions
Fourth Series Volume 2 1989
1 Collection of Italian Writing Books
2 Glad Hand Press; A Edward Newton catalogues
3 Grey Walls Press Crown Classics; Cuala Press; Joseph Zaehnsdorf
4 Alice B. Woodward; Collecting Sitwelliana
Fourth Series Volume 1 1988
1 Jan van Voorst; Pseudonym Library; Cockerels & Amazons
2 David Gentleman
3 Collecting Mr Eliot; Shirley Jones; Frans Masereel’s bookplates
4 Matthew Holbeche Bloxam; Michael Ayrton; Ultimate sentimental collection
Third Series Volume 10 1987
#1 Talwin Morris, Blackie & the Glasgow style
2 Fleece Press; Dibdin collection; Topographical diversion; New bestiaire
3 Tirzah Garwood; Legend of Andrew Block; Britain in Pictures 2; Egon Guenther
4 C.K. Ogden’s To-day & To-morrow Series; Rare, out of print & non-existent books; Monica Redlich; Printing apparatus for use of amateurs
Third Series Volume 9 1986
1 Book illustrations of Michael Ayrton
2 Limited Edition’s Club in 1980s; John Drinkwater & some of his books; Two nuisances at the private presses
3 Redpath & Abricotier Abattu Presses; Britain in Pictures 1; Bibliography of Andrew Lang
4 Private library in Japan; Owen Jones – Ancient Spanish Ballads; Early American bookbinding
Third Series Volume 8 1985
1 Boar’s Head & Golden Hours Presses; Sandford, Gibbings, Newberry & Rutter; Golden Cockerel prospectuses
2 Limited Editions Club 1929-1956; Furnival Books; Friends of my father, Lawrence Binyon
3 Rocket Press; Morison to McCance at Gregynog
4 Alain Anseeuw; Patience Cockerell – bookbinder
Third Series Volume 7 1984
1 Margaret of York; Christopher Skelton; Count Potocki of Montalk’s library
2 Library of Margaret of York; Aspects of Gregynog Press 1930-1933
3 Allen Lane’s Christmas books; Recent livres d’artiste
4 Book illustrations of Faith Jaques; Cheney Brothers; John Maggs – London bookselling tradition; Count Potocki of Montalk – Elephant in relation to Polish affairs
Third Series Volume 6 1983
1 Miniature Libraries for the young; Infant’s Library
2 19C science & technology; Odd volumes; Facsimiles of medieval illuminated books; Collecting E. Phillips Oppenheim
3 Guild of Women-Binders; Book Lover’s Library
4 Reynolds Stone – designing engraved booklabels; Reynolds Stone’s bookplates; Working with Reynolds Stone; Colour printed books
Third Series Volume 5 1982
1 Nigel Lambourne; Walter Murdoch – bookman; Dear Mr Scott ….
2 Pictorial bookplates in Britain
3 Vivien Gribble 1888-1932; Whittington Press – the first decade
4 Old Stile Press; Concerning Dorothy Osborne; Boxes & slip-cases
Third Series Volume 4 1981
1 Livre d’artiste 1967-1980
2 Valentin le Campion’s bookplates; Southey – The Doctor; 25 yrs of the PLA 3
3 Kay Michael Kramer & the Printery; On Austin Dobson & some of his books
4 Sette of Odd Volumes; Bernard C Middleton – English craft bookbinding 1880-1980; Collecting music hall ephemera
Third Series Volume 3 1980
1 Leisure of an Oxford Don; History’s other half; Tom Thumb’s Pretty Song Book; On selling children’s books
2 Wilkie Collins; Sette of Odd Volumes
3 Mark Severin’s book illustrations; 25 years of the PLA 1; Mrs Alec Tweedie
4 Bookplates by Kate Greenaway & Walter Crane; Byfields; 25 yrs of the PLA 2
Third Series Volume 2 1979
1 Stanislaw Gliwa; Potholes in the primrose path
2 Elliot Stock & some old book-collecting magazines; Mobiles in books
3 Bibliographica; Form & content; Bernard Barton & his friends; Library of Waddesdon Manor
4 Insurance; Collecting Golden Head Press; Will Carter’s booklabels; Sir Richard Burton
Third Series Volume 1 1978
1 Sir Thomas Phillips & the Middle Hill Press; Book Collector’s Quarterly 1930-1933
2 Society of Private Printers; Colour supplements of London Illustrated News; Bespoke hand-made papers for fine books; Nonesuch Press & Curwen Press stencil colouring
3 Walter de la Mare’s stories for children; Collecting books on bookbinding & bookbindings
4 Edmund Blunden & Cricket; Assault on the book; Printing Blake’s engravings; American book scouting
Second Series Volume 10 1977
1 Kalashnikov bookplates; Mandeville Press; Edward Gordon Craig’s Hamlet
2 Douglas Cleverdon – 50 years; Richard Shirley Smith’s bookplate designs
3 Jessie M King; Pilgrim Press; Edward Thomas – Horae Solitariae
4 King Penguin series; Note to our customers; Sidelines in collecting; English book illustration
Second Series Volume 9 1976
1 James Guthrie & Pear Tree Press
2 John Dreyfus – Ten British Poets for Limited Editions Clubs
#3 John Buckland Wright’s bookplate designs; Complete Angler
#4 Boy’s Own Paper – origins & editorial policies
Second Series Volume 8 1975
1 Beaumont Press; Come ye all – an exhibition
2 Walter Crane’s bookplate designs; Alec Frizzell – private printer
3 Kate Greenaway’s bookplate designs; 1st Jamaican private press; Friends of National Libraries; A publisher & his books
4 Otto Eric Deutsch – a profile; Poetry collection of Lockwood Memorial Library; Sheepfolds matter
Second Series Volume 7 1974
1 Diana Bloomfield – a fearful joy; Making of Maigret; Open letter to beginner bookseller
2 Charles Hamilton – Greyfriars & myself; James Crosley; Techniques of Illustration
3 Janus Press; H Walter Bray at the Raven Press (postscript)
4 Joan Hassall – my engraved work; Louis Ginzberg Open letter 2; Raven Press (addendum); Natalie d’Arbeloff
Second Series Volume 6 1973
#1 Gregynog Press & Gregynog Fellowship; T.E. Lawrence & Seizin Press; Perez collection of British bookplates; Migrant Press; Codex Caesareus facsimile
2 Adagio Press; Coole Library; Tracking down the Beats
3 Cuala Press 1903-1973; Private Press exhibition in Glasgow; A problem for the bookplate collector; Laura Riding Jackson – Cult of connections
4 Raven Press; Outposts – 100 not out
Second Series Volume 5 1972
#1 Edward Ardizzone, a preliminary hand-list of his illustrated books 1929-1970
#2 Halcyon Press; World’s End Press; Bookplate collecting; Shelf of cricket books
3 Seizin Press; Laura Riding Jackson – Postscript; Modern trends in Book-Collecting; Corvo bibliography OUT OF PRINT
#4 Officina Bodoni
Second Series Volume 4 1971
1 Collecting Yeats; Thomas Sturge Moore – wood-engraver
#2 Stanton Press; Society for the Bibliography of Natural History; Modern English woodcuts; 1st ed of Waverley
#3 Jean de Bosschère; Library of Duke of Urbino; Poet & Printer Press; The Brook, Chiswick
4 Scorpion Press; Travellers’ Library; Blickling Hall Library
Second Series Volume 3 1970
1 German Expressionist Woodcuts; This Quarter; More association books; Poetry Book Society
#2 Collectors of Officina Bodoni; Bewick mss; Perpetua Press; Departure
#3 A Phoenix out of the Ark; Bibliophile & the spaceship; Bewick mss; Ralph Chubb 1
#4 Modern French Bestiaries; Ralph Chubb 2; Poetry & poverty; J. Lumsden & Son
Second Series Volume 2 1969
1 Fantasy Poets; Edy-Legrand; Book design for Lehmann imprint OUT OF PRINT
#2 Art of Science Fiction covers; Stourton Press; Monckton Milnes & Philobiblion Society
3 Concrete Poetry; Art Society Press; John Walsh & 18C music; Giving free
4 Quest for Guido & the Latin Press
Second Series Volume 1 1968
1 Book Collector’s Quarterly; John Minton OUT OF PRINT
#2 Collecting Ange Goudar; Charles E. Feinberg; Reading between the leaves; Chance-found friends
#3 Newcastle Typographical Society; Wuthering Heights & illustrator 1; Gabriel Naudé; Louis Jou
4 Cobden-Sanderson; Rosemary Press; Amateur printer of French Revolution; Wuthering Heights & illustrator 2 OUT OF PRINT