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Lot of 7. Daye, Stephen. The Bay Psalm Book, being a Facsimile Reprint of the First Edition.... New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903. 12mo, 1/2 brown cloth over light brown paper boards, one of 1000 (plain paper), untrimmed, pages not numb. Early facsimile edition of the first book printed in English in the Americas. Slight wear to spine ends. Minor toning of edges of leaves. Backhouse, Janet. The Illuminated Manuscript. Oxford: Phaidon, 1979. 4to, black cloth, gilt spine, w/dj, 80pp. McMurtrie, Douglas C. The Book: The Story of Printing & Bookmaking. New York: Oxford University Press, 1943. 8vo, blue cloth, 676pp. Boards faded, light shelf wear. Binding good for a thick volume. Meynell, Francis. English Printed Books. London: Collins, 1946. 8vo, red printed paper boards, [48]pp. Spine chipped, moderate to heavy shelf wear and corner bumping. Dahl, Svend. History of the Book. New York: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1958. 8vo, light blue cloth, gilt spine, 279pp. Spine sunned, a few stains on boards. Light wear to spine ends. Thomas, Isaiah. The History of Printing in America. New York: Weathervane Books, 1970, second ed. 8vo, navy cloth, embossed device on front, gilt lettering spine, w/ dj, 650pp. Near new. Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut. Peter Schoeffer of Gernsheim and Mainz with a list of his surviving books and broadsides. New York: Leo Hart, Co., Inc., 1950. 8vo, green cloth, w/ dj, 145pp. Includes publisher's advertising pamphlet for the volume. Wear to dust jacket, including slight paper loss at head of spine, else very good condition.