Muir, Percy H. (Percy Horace) 1894-1979

Overview

Works:	233 works in 639 publications in 2 languages and 7,561 library holdings
Genres:	History Bibliographies Exhibition catalogs Criticism, interpretation, etc Juvenile works Fairy tales Fiction Stories, plots, etc Autobiographies Catalogs
Roles:	Author, Editor, Translator, Contributor, Other, Author of introduction, Creator, Speaker, wpr
Classifications:	Z121, 655.1

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Percy H Muir

The company we kept by Barbara Kaye( Book )
Minding my own business, an autobiography by Percy H Muir( Book )
P.H. Muir : a check list of his published work( Book )
Bookselling in the 20th century : Elkin Mathews Ltd., an archive, 1928-1979( Book )
P.H. Muir : a check list of his published work( Book )

Percy Muir : manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence : a catalogue( Book )
P.H. Muir : a checklist of his published work by Barbara Kaye( Book )
P.H. Muir : supplement to A check list of his published work( Book )
Antiquarian bookman records-Malkin family papers( )
[Letter, 1935 or 1936, London, to unknown recipient (Donald Brien?)] by A. J. A Symons( )
Automata and other toys, musical boxes, Victorian nursery bygones and parlour games by Manson & Woods Christie( Book )
Papers by Percy H Muir( )
Percy H. Muir letters to Rev. James Brown by Percy H Muir( )
Percy H. Muir papers by Percy H Muir( )
A memorial catalogue dedicated to Percy H. Muir, 1894-1979 : children's books and games : also to celebrate 60 years of Elkin Mathews Ltd. (now a partnership) by E. Mathews (Firm)( Book )
Percy Muir : manuscripts, typescripts and correspondence ; a catalogue by Percy H Muir( Book )
The League in Geneva by Barbara Muir( )
Letters by Percy H Muir( )
Children's books, juvenilia, related drawings and manuscripts : including a presentation copy of Kenneth Grahame's The wind in the willows, 1908 by Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co( Book )
Cambridge, to Siegfried Sassoon by Sydney Carlyle Cockerell( )

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Most widely held works by Percy H Muir

English children's books, 1600 to 1900 by Percy H Muir( Book )

69 editions published between 1954 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 1,112 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Muir discusses the changes in children's books collecting that have occurred since the first impression of 1954. Muir has written an account which is both scholarly and entertaining of the works published for children during three centuries. He passes over the books written solely to instruct or to improve, and concentrates on those whose aim is entertainment

Printing and the mind of man : a descriptive catalogue illustrating the impact of print on the evolution of Western civilization during five centuries by John Carter( Book )

17 editions published in 1967 in English and German and held by 984 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Catalog of the printing and the mind of man exhibition held in conjunction with IPEX,1963

Victorian illustrated books by Percy H Muir( Book )

33 editions published between 1971 and 1989 in 3 languages and held by 897 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Book-collecting as a hobby : in a series of letters to Everyman by Percy H Muir( Book )

44 editions published between 1940 and 1949 in 3 languages and held by 556 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Printing and the mind of man by John Carter( Book )

21 editions published in 1983 in English and German and held by 315 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Revised catalog of a display of printing mechanisms and printed materials arranged to illustrate the history of Western civilization and the means of multiplication of literary texts since the 15th century, organized in connection with the 11th International Printing Machinery and Allied Trades Exhibition assembled at British Museum and at Earls Court, London, 16-27 July, 1963

Talks on book-collecting by Percy H Muir( Book )

13 editions published in 1952 in English and held by 296 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selected essays on books and printing by A. F Johnson( Book )

13 editions published between 1970 and 1971 in English and German and held by 261 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Beauty and the beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont( Book )

3 editions published between 1949 and 1968 in English and held by 252 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

With a kiss, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast

Minding my own business, an autobiography by Percy H Muir( Book )

12 editions published between 1956 and 1991 in English and Undetermined and held by 251 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Tells the story of the firm Elkin Mathews, the antiquarian booksellers, with which he (Muir) has been associated since 1930. Founded by Charles Elkin Mathews and the legendary John Lane, it has survived the two world wars, the great slump of the Thirties, many changing fashions in book-collecting, and even the gloriously unorthodox methods of its partners" - blurb

Book-collecting : more letters to everyman by Percy H Muir( Book )

12 editions published in 1949 in English and Undetermined and held by 243 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Bibliographies of the first editions of books by Aldous Huxley and by T F Powys by Percy H Muir( Book )

12 editions published between 1927 and 1978 in English and Undetermined and held by 159 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Points, second series, 1866-1934 by Percy H Muir( Book )

4 editions published between 1931 and 1934 in English and held by 149 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Points, 1874-1930 : being extracts from a bibliographer's note-book by Percy H Muir( Book )

5 editions published in 1931 in English and Undetermined and held by 135 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Children's books of yesterday; a catalogue of an exhibition held at 7 Albemarle Street, London during May 1946 by National Book League (Great Britain)( Book )

7 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 129 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Welsh ambassadors : (Powys lives and letters) by Louis Marlow( Book )

3 editions published between 1935 and 1936 in English and held by 121 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Some printers & publishers of conjuring books and other ephemera, 1800-1850 by Trevor H Hall( Book )

6 editions published in 1976 in English and German and held by 118 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Children's books of yesterday; a catalogue of an exhibition held at 7 Albemarle street, London, during May 1946, compiled by Percy H. Muir, with a foreword by John Masefield by National Book League (Great Britain)( Book )

12 editions published in 1946 in English and held by 112 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Catnachery by Percy H Muir( Book )

1 edition published in 1955 in English and held by 100 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Bücher die die Welt verändern by John Carter( Book )

9 editions published in 1968 in German and held by 83 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ein Lexikon mit den wichtigsten Büchern aus allen Wissensgebieten, die das heutige Weltbild entstehen ließen (gesamt 424 Werke)

The sleeping beauty by Charles Perrault( Book )

2 editions published in 1949 in English and held by 79 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Disgruntled at not being invited to the princess' christening, the wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for a hundred years

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