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

Overview

Works:	162 works in 556 publications in 2 languages and 7,402 library holdings
Genres:	History Exhibition catalogs Bibliography Criticism, interpretation, etc Juvenile works Biography Bibliography‡vExhibition catalogs Fiction Bibliography‡vCatalogs Folklore
Roles:	Author, Editor, Translator, Compiler, 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 )
Children's books, juvenilia, related drawings and manuscripts : including a presentation copy of Kenneth Grahame's The wind in the willows, 1908, with dust jacket and 2 A.L.s.s.; a complete set of Kate Greenaway's Almanacks, (1882-96); F.E. Weatherly's A happy pair, (c. 1890), illustrated by Beatrix Potter; presentation copies of The tale of Peter Rabbit, 1902; and The tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1903; miniature books including Biblia, Leipzig, 1707 in contemporary silver binding; a miniature chained library by Roger Powell and Peter Waters, (c. 1960); and John Taylor's Verbum sempiterum, (1693); playing cards, including two games by P. Du Val in sheet form, 1669 and 1677; Geograficcheskiya Karty Rossii, (c. 1840), and della Bella's Jeu de fables and Cartes des rois de France; costume books, flick books, moving picture books, rag books, panoramas, peepshows and table games, including The royall and most pleasant game of ye goose, (c. 1665), and two early French games by P. Du Val; drawings by Norman Ault, Walt Disney, Kate Greenaway, including one for A apple pie, Harry Rountree, and others, designs for a picture alphabet by J. Voltz, and 54 drawings for A book of nonsense by Edward Lear : which will be sold by auction by Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. ... days of sale: Monday, 12th October, 1981 lots 1-283; Tuesday, 13th October, 1981, lots 284-578; Wednesday, 14th October, 1981 lots 579-856 by Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co( Book )
P.H. Muir : a check list of his published work( Book )
Percy H. Muir papers by Percy H Muir( )
Papers by Percy H Muir( )
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( )
Percy H. Muir letters to Rev. James Brown by Percy H Muir( )
Letters by Percy H Muir( )

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Most widely held works by Percy H Muir

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

58 editions published between 1954 and 1985 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,098 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 )

22 editions published in 1967 in English and held by 1,011 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 875 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 1940 and 1949 in English and Undetermined and held by 534 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

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

20 editions published in 1983 in English and German and held by 302 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 264 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 )

11 editions published between 1970 and 1971 in English and held by 254 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 240 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

14 editions published between 1956 and 1991 in English and Undetermined and held by 235 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Bücher die die Welt verändern by John Carter( Book )

18 editions published between 1968 and 1976 in German and held by 159 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

7 editions published between 1931 and 1934 in English and Undetermined and held by 150 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 132 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 127 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 107 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 106 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 102 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Catnachery by Percy H Muir( Book )

1 edition published in 1955 in English and held by 94 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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