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

Overview

Works:	171 works in 567 publications in 2 languages and 7,394 library holdings
Genres:	History Exhibition catalogs Bibliography Criticism, interpretation, etc Juvenile works Bibliographies Fairy tales Autobiographies Biography Bibliography‡vExhibition catalogs
Roles:	Author, Editor, Translator, Other, Contributor, Author of introduction, Creator, Speaker
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 by Barbara Kaye( Book )
Bookselling in the 20th century : Elkin Mathews Ltd., an archive, 1928-1979( Book )
Percy Muir : manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence : a catalogue( Book )

P.H. Muir : supplement to A check list of his published work( Book )
P.H. Muir : a check list of his published work( Book )
Percy Muir : manuscripts, typescripts and correspondence ; a catalogue by Percy H Muir( Book )
Antiquarian bookman records-Malkin family papers( )
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 )
The League in Geneva by Barbara Kaye( )
Automata and other toys, musical boxes, Victorian nursery bygones and parlour games by Manson & Woods Christie( Book )
Letters by Percy H Muir( )
Percy H. Muir papers 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 )
Papers by Percy H Muir( )
[Letter, 1935 or 1936, London, to unknown recipient (Donald Brien?)] by A. J. A Symons( )
Percy H. Muir letters to Rev. James Brown by Percy H Muir( )
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 )

59 editions published between 1954 and 1985 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,099 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 )

23 editions published in 1967 in English and held by 1,006 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 )

27 editions published between 1971 and 1989 in 3 languages and held by 874 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

37 editions published between 1944 and 1949 in English and Undetermined and held by 536 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

19 editions published in 1983 in English and held by 307 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 )

18 editions published in 1952 in English and Undetermined and held by 304 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

5 editions published between 1949 and 1968 in English and held by 258 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

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

12 editions published between 1970 and 1971 in English and held by 256 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

13 editions published in 1949 in English and Undetermined and held by 244 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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 233 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

21 editions published between 1927 and 1978 in English and held by 190 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Bücher die die Welt verändern by John Carter( Book )

21 editions published between 1968 and 1976 in German and held by 166 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

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

6 editions published between 1931 and 1934 in English and held by 154 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 Undetermined and held by 134 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

7 editions published in 1931 in English and Undetermined and held by 133 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 held by 113 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 between 1946 and 2015 in English and held by 111 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 109 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Catnachery by Percy H Muir( Book )

1 edition published in 1955 in English and held by 95 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The sleeping beauty by Charles Perrault( Book )

2 editions published in 1949 in English and held by 78 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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