Boston: C. L. Adams, 1828. 4 3/4 x 7 1/2. Frontis of a Columbian Press, title, Preface, 316 pages plus tipped recipe for making composition for rollers and two plates of Hoe printing presses. Recent morocco-backed marbled boards and endpapers. Bookplate. Bookplate of Jacob L. Chernofsky. Fine. The second comprehensive..... More
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1973. Three volumes. 6 1/2 x 10. 280; 122 pages; 68 woodcuts in b&w. The Latin text is illustrated with 68 woodcuts stencil-colored by Daniel Jacomet, Paris, after a copy in the British Library. Laid in slip lists the woodcuts. Green morocco spines, vellum sides gilt with..... More
(Boston: Hoighton Mifflin, 1896). 4 x 7 1/2. Double spread title page in black & red, 12 French-fold leaves printed rectos only. Full tan calf stamped in brown with an illustration by Hadaway. Title extends the length of spine; 2 pairs of linen ties. Light wear to the binding. Dust..... More
(London, 2001). 8 x 10. Twenty-four leaves: 6 original color etchings face 6 evocative vignettes of Indian life; each is preceded by a half-title and interleaved with textured Japanese tissue.;leaves without text or illustration are ruled in various colors. Bound by Allix in golden morocco having geometric onlays in red..... More
(Boston, 1895). 11 3/4 x 8 3/4, self-wraps, 24 pages. Wraps a bit soiled, small piece missing from lower margin of front wrap, last 3 leaves have closed tears; a very good copy of this fragile and rare type specimen. It is bound into Cockerel marbled boards (fine cond.) with..... More
USA, 1900. 7 x 12. (98) pages plus 8 smaller format specimens, each in wraps (10), (22), (18), (14)(18), (22), (4), (64). These were tipped-into the binding on hinges. Cloth gilt title on cover. Binding is very worn and disbound. A few specimens are fragile & chipped, but most are..... More
(London, 1950s). Seventeen catalogues, brochures, and fliers designed by Edward Bawden. Colorful, frequently humorous illustrations adorn the contents as well as the covers and order forms. Almost all have their order forms. The Delectable History of Fortnum & Mason is worn; all others are very good to fine. The 17..... More
Katoomba, NSW: Wayzgoose Press, 1998. 19 x 15. (25) pages concertina-folded open to 11 double-spreads of 38 inches. A "typographical jam session," every page is an original print -- "hot, steamy and dreamy amorphous collographs" and multi-coloured monographs. " These were further illuminated by painting directly on individual pages, making..... More
Paris: Chez Aline Guilbert, Libraire, 1843. 5 x 8. (13), 92, (2) pages with elaborate borders and initials, all hand colored and gilded by a very fine hand. An exquisite labor of love. Bound by L. Claessens et Fils in a morocco plaque binding tooled in gold. Its original silk-lined..... More
The Gardner Teall Collection of 36 engraved booksellers' trade cards, each hinged or mounted inside its own mat. Teall has penciled the Franks number (if any) inside the mat and added other notes about the cards. Some he describes as "very rare." The sizes range from 1 x 2 inches..... More
David R. Godine, 1970. 5 1/4 x 8. 8 leaves with 3 delicate hand colored etchings and two wood engravings by Lance Hidy. Bound by David Bourbeau at his Thistle Bindery in a tri-fold of "leaf green" morocco and Gampi paper. The seemingly random gold dots represent the flight of..... More
Jersey City: American Type Founders, September 1904 to August 1905. Complete set of 12 numbers (4 1/4 x 7). Printed in colors, in Bradley's type faces, adorned with Bradley's Arts & Crafts cuts. Bound in decorated boards with specially designed endpapers and printed cover labels. These have been sewn into..... More
Np, Warwick Press, 1975. 6 x 9 1/2. 9 leaves with 4 mounted linoleum cuts hand colored by Carol Blinn. Specially bound by David Bourbeau in full grey morocco, at his Thistle Bindery. Fine in almost fine tray case. A separate hand colored, signed linocut is laid in. One of..... More
Jersey City: ATF Library, 1936. 6 x 8 3/4. 109 pages. Wraps. Good copy. A catalogue of some 1700 items covering virtually every aspect of printing; a significant portion of which came from the libraries of De Vinne and David Bruce. WITH: a pamphlet about the ATF Typographic Library &..... More
Risbury: Whittington Press, 2022. Two volumes. 11 x 15. 138 pages plus tipped-in 27 original leaves double leaves, most with illustrations. A large fold-out page displays pressmarks of the various presses, printed on Batchelor's Crown and Sceptre paper. Full green morocco in tray case with a separate portfolio containing a...... More
NY: Advertising Agencies' Service, 1924-1930, 1933, 1934, 1948-1954. Broadsides (mostly) ranging in size from 7 1/2 x 10 to 12 x 19. Five are signed by Schiller, and 4 have their mailing envelopes. Also included are cards Schiller designed for others--one in Hebrew. And Schiller's own greeting, the Nazimussjap portrait..... More
(Vancouver): HM Editions, 2015. Two volumes. 9 1/2 x 12 1/2. Sixty-eight text pages present techniques and history. Accompanied by more than 600 original mounted or tipped in specimens --most a generous size--from the 19th & 20th centuries, and a sampling of earlier Dutch gilt and Italian paste papers. A...... More
(Boston, 2008). A handmade deck of 54 cards including 2 Jokers. 3 3/8 x 2 3/8 in a mahogany box, with the signed colophon inside the lid. Clubs are 3-leaf clovers; Diamonds are birds; Hearts are trees; Spades are flowers. All the Jacks, Queens, & Kings have aluminum or gold..... More
(Blois): R. Marchand, 1884. 5 1/2 x 9. Complete in 44 gatherings (over 400 pages). After the Errata, there is bound in the uncommon 4-page ''Avis/Tarif" on pink paper. An update for Subscribers, it states that the original plan of 200 pages has expanded to some 400 pages. And there..... More
(NY: Grolier Club, 1884). 6 x 9. (93) pages. Bound in green straight grain morocco richly gilt floral tools on pointille grounds with a central medallion, corner pieces, and floral borders on 4 sides that allude to the floral borders of the original Japan vellum wraps (which are bound in..... More
London, 1946, 1948, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1983. Each menu is produced by a different designer and press, in a great variety of sizes and styles; most are 4 pages. They include information about the evening's after-dinner speaker. Very good condition. Double Crown is a...... More
Amsterdam, 1897 (1896 printed on spine). 6 x 7 1/2. 194 pages, within delicate art nouveau borders in golden brown, full page sectional titles and opening pages of art nouveau design in seven colors, all by Theo Nieuwenhuis. He also designed the binding of batik cloth, exposed vellum cords. Dyed..... More
NY, 2014. 11 x 13 1/2. Two-sided spineless accordion-fold. 30 double spreads. Geometric design covers of blue calfskin & Tim Barrett's grey UICB paper. Laid in are Instructions for opening the book, and "Russell's Paint-it-yourself Pavement." A tour de force of design, printing (color printing in particular) by Russell Maret..... More
Paris, 1764-1766[68]. Two volumes. 4 x 6 1/4. xxxii, Frontis of a printing shop by Gravelot, 316, (5) pages + 16 foldout plates; allegorical frontis, xliv, 306 pages including 5 foldout plates of music printing. Handsome contemporary leather bindings, morocco spine labels, spines gilt with printers' flowers ornaments, a.e.g. Dutch..... More
Amherst: Fort Juniper, (1992). 7 x 10. 73 pages. Suzanne Moore's calligraphy graces the title page and the binding. Frontis portait by Robert Lyons. Another portrait by Frank Faulkner. Bound by David Bourbeau at his Thistle Bindery in snow white boards gilt, fire red endpapers. Fine in clamshell case. One..... More
