Chalons-S-Marne: Imprimerie Lithographique Barbat, 1844. 8 1/4 x 11. 319 pages. Collation: (12), 11-107, (3), 113-148, (4), 149-315, (2) pages. A few preliminary pages appear shuffled in order--despite being in the original binding. Entirely lithographed in colors, silver, and gold on glazed white paper. These Gospels for Sundays and holidays... More
(South Norwalk, 1967). 15 x 21 1/2. 36 leaves, with the architectural woodcuts printed on French-fold leaves. Printed in black, red, green, blue, purple, silver, & gold. Green cloth spine, boards covered in architectural woodcut printed in green on green marbled paper by the artist, marbled endpapers, cover title printed... More
Lurey, Devon, 1982. 6 1/2 x 9. Title, (52) pages with 26 line-cut illustrations from drawings by Baskin, errata page, hand colored wood engraved press mark (owl & pomegranate). Cream vellumized boards titled in gilt. Fine copy, in marbled slipcase. A special, association copy, "Printer's copy" signed and inscribed by... More
(Waltham St. Lawrence): Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. 6 x 9 3/8. 20 pages plus 5 copper engravings by Eric Gill. Contemporary green morocco, blind-ruled border with berry clusters at the four corners and a large blindstamped "J" on upper cover. Spine partially faded to brown, lower board edges rubbed, leather... More
Strassburg: Wolfgang Köpfel, 1534. 5 x 7 1/4 (186 x 128 mm). Two parts in one volume: (viii), 89, (16) pages. Printer's device at end of each part. Seventeenth or eighteenth century mottled sheep. A very good copy, with generous margins. Fourth and preferred edition of this medal book. In... More
(Wales) The Red Hen Press (1988). 10 x 13. (16) text pages,10 mezzotints & a mezzotint combined with relief etchings. Specially bound by Jan Ascoli (signed in the colophon) in quarter black morocco and handmade paper boards--a textured paper dyed in blue & red; pink endpapers. In a folding case... More
The Red Hen Press, 1992. 17 x 21. A suite of 5 large mezzotints, with tissue guards. WITH an octavo booklet of 8 pages containing a miniature mezzotint and selected texts reminding the reader that, as Colette remarked, "There are no ordinary cats." In turquoise cloth tray case, vellum label... More
(Llanhamlach: Red Hen Press, 1983). 16 x 18. A suite of 6 etchings by Shirley Jones, inspired by passages of Anglo Saxon poetry. These are placed, with tissue guards, into a purple paper portfolio, then into a dramatic half chestnut morocco & black cloth tray case by Mary French from... More
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Kelly, Kansas City, Missouri, 1964. 17 1/2 x 22 1/2. 97 broadside specimens printed from the original wood types. With a 12-page book printed in three columns on tan paper, in comb binding of printed orange wraps. All laid into a cloth solander box. Mild fading and a bit of... More
(Northampton) Oxingale Press, 2000. 11 1/2 x 11 1/2. 34 leaves with sixteen color etchings by Michael Kuch. Bound by Claudia Cohen in lemon-colored cloth & her pastepaper boards with an additional etching inset into upper cover. This deluxe set is accompanied by four cloth-bound portfolios, containing: (1) a CD of... More
1994. 6 1/4 x 10. Eleven double-spreads accomplished in acrylic, pencil, pen and gold leaf painting, and collage. Calligraphic text. Bound in highly textured, painted boards with an abstract design formed by onlays of various materials. Fine in cloth tray, which has a blind & gilt decoration. Edition of 1... More
Paris: F. Didot for Lami Denozan, (1828). 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. cxlvi, 48 pages + 11 leaves bearing the lithographs uncolored. Title page & 10 half-page lithographic vignettes by Richard Parkes Bonington (6) and Monnier (4). Bound by Charles de Samblanx in Romantic style in black straight grain morocco... More
Heavenly Monkey, 2017. 4 1/2 x 6. Title + 26 leaves+colophon, all printed (black) & calligraphed (red) on rectos only. Bound by Claudia Cohen in a non-adhesive limp vellum, gold-tooled at the edges, title calligraphed in red on the spine. The pastedowns are taken from old vellum manuscripts. Fine in... More
Treasury Department. Washington, D. C., 1869. Oblong 13 x 9. 3 leaves, 100 pages, 31 plates. The text is arranged in two sections followed by an Index. Pages 1-36 concern bonds, and are followed by 22 hinged-in engraved specimens.Pages 37-66 concern coinage, and are followed by 9 embossed plates printed... More
Northampton, 1980. 6 1/2 x 10. 29 pages, 3 leaves. Each engraving is signed by Moser. Bound by Peter Verheyen in Dorfner/de Gonet "open joint" style, with text sewn onto leather tapes. Goat vellum sides reveal a design from the book; snakesin spine; graphite top edge, O'Malley Crackle" endpapers. Signed... More
London, 1888. 9 x 11. 6-page intro & list of contributors + 367 leaves of specimens. Some of these are larger, foldout specimens. Two of the specimens are adhered to each other; one is loose. The specimens are printed on papers of every color and style, from thin tissue to... More
Tuscaloosa: Skeptical Press, 1993. Three volumes. 5 1/2 x 7. Boards, in cloth slipcase. Fine set with the prospectus. One of 15 sets. Text, printing, and binding by the book artist Coriander Reisbord. In "Riddle" five intaglio etchings are suspended in cut-out windows with printed hint below. "Ghost," printed from... More
(NP, ca. 1840). 9 1/4 x 11 3/4. 120 pages. The album is comprised of 12 alphabets of 25 letters (there is no "W") on rectos of thick, smooth paper which was "made" by the artist. There are also a title page, an index, and 10 section titles preceding the... More
(Andoversford, 1990). Two volumes. 10 x 14. (vii), 125 pages with illustrations & several tipped-in ornament specimens, printed in black, olive, & citron. Full russet straight-grain morocco by the Fine Bindery with a large inlaid letter "A" that wraps around the spine across the lower cover; suede doublures & leather... More
