Gehenna Press, 1974. 15 x 11 3/4. Title, colophon, and 66 wood engravings, woodcuts, and linoleum cuts by Leonard Baskin printed one to a leaf on Troya, and interleaved with backing sheets, plus 5 blanks. Signed by Baskin in the colophon. An unbound binder's copy with 64 of the prints..... More
Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1997. 11 x 16 1/2. (11) pages of text followed by 26 plates of etchings (most in color). Each copper engraving is numbered & signed by Baskin. Full stained green vellum by Daniel Gehnrich, gilt title & lizard on upper cover. In quarter green vellum & cloth..... More
![Title in Greek] Novum Testamentum. Bible in Greek](/pictures/thumb/3433.jpg?v=1588097097)
Paris: Robert Estienne, 1549. Two volumes. 3 1/2 x 5 inches. (8.7 x 12.5 cm). 528, 359, (3) pages--all lightly ruled in red. The title page is hinged in. Circa 1800 gold-tooled straight grain red morocco, with marbled pastedowns, all edges gilt. Spines a bit darkened, joints a bit rubbed..... More
Seal Harbor, Maine: High Loft Press, (1982). Two volumes. 10 x 14. The book of (62) pages is illustrated throughout with line cuts adapted from Albrecht Durer (1497). Bound by Gray Parrot in quarter morocco with gilt title & blue cloth boards. WITH: A Portfolio of Six Etchings, Accompanying The..... More
Mission: Barbarian Press, 2013. 10 1/2 x 13 1/2. About 30 text pages printed on cream Zerkall laid paper, and 134 engravings printed from the original blocks on Zerkall white smooth paper. Several double spreads of larger images are tipped in. Each engraving has a printed title in green. Quarter..... More
Guilford, Surrey. 1986. 11 x 15. 35, (1) pages, French-fold, in eleven fascicles, illustrated throughout. There are ten luminous silkscreened hand-cut moveable puppets. Loose in printed wrappers, in red cloth portfolio which is printed on spine and on upper cover; inserted in a blue & white striped cloth slipcase with..... More
[Germany, late c18 or early c19]. Broadside scene 11 1/2 x 14 on a 14 x 16 1/2 blue paste ground. There are three horizontal panels with 2 scenes in each. The story begins with troubadours (who may be singing this tale) under a tree, a fortress-like castle on a...... More
1958. 11 x 8. 15 leaves Frenchfold with ten fullpage woodcuts of South American birds. Each hand colored bird faces a paragraph of text. Blue boards printed across both covers with a woodcut of migrating birds in flight. The binding (fragile & most often found in shabby condition) is here..... More
(South Norwalk, 1994). 11 x 15 accordion-fold. Fourteen leaves attached at fore-edges open to 174 inches long. Ten woodcuts and other reliefs & embossings. Each leaf of Arches paper is painted or printed deep blue or purple or black, sometimes black-on-black. The text is white. Tiny holes, through which light..... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1987. 6 1/4 x 9 1/2. 130 pages. Dos-a-Dos binding by Silvia Rennie (signed in front hinge) of full green morocco tooled in gilt with 5 onlays of binders' brown morocco "scraps" on both covers. Part I has one darker morocco piece, while part II as..... More
Hamburg & Munich, ca. 1913. A collection of approx. 75 promotional samples/specimens tipped (the 4-page specimens) or mounted (the single page specimens) onto 34 leaves of good quality black stock. Bound into flexible cloth boards with string ties, printed cover label. A little extremity wear, contents mostly fine. These specimens..... More
(Kentfield): Allen Press, 1962. Folio (11 x 16). 98 leaves. Unbound as issued in 5 sections, each with printed wraps. In blue felt-lined cloth chemise & cloth slipcase. Fine. First English language edition of all the poems except "Elegy of Ihpetonga" and the "first reprint of the illustrations." One of..... More
Baltimore: Hill Press, 2014 (actually 2020). 7 x 9 3/4. vi, 44, (1) pages illustrated with several tipped in photos. Title page wood engraving by Chris Manson. Full brown morocco titled in gold on spine and upper cover. Fine. WITH 11 loose broadside specimens of type and prayer books. These..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 2008. 8 x 12. 194 pages + several leaves of color photographs. Hopkins' two-page biographies are followed by 5 or more specimens of type & design from each of the 15 private typefounders/printers. The pagination includes these specimens. Quarter black morocco with red leather label..... More
Paris: Alain Brieux, 1964. 9 1/2 x 12. 44, (6) pages + the facsimile of 9 pages and 68 plates etched by Jost Amman(some color in color). Issued in wraps, this copy is bound by Samuel Feinstein in deep brown morocco with a partial icosahedron rising from the upper cover..... More
Northampton: Double Elephant Press, 2004. 18 x 14. 24 leaves. Ten plates (13 1/2 x 9 1/2) are etched with images of the beasts, their common names & binomial nomenclature. The etchings are hand colored by Kuch, in the tradition of natural history books. A description of each creature is..... More
Hadley: Double Elephant Press, 2006. 17 x 12. 30 leaves laced together at fore-edges in Coptic style. Illustrated with 19 etchings and 12 lithographs by Kuch. Several additional etchings are on the three-part binding. Upper cover of the book bears a collage of various objects (including scissors) within temple pillars..... More
Vancouver: Heavenly Monkey, 2001. 11 x 15. 37 pages + 3 original double leaves. Laced with vellum tapes into heavy handmade paper wraps, blind embossed with Reid's monoram. An ALS from Milroy describes this trial binding..."more of a French wrap-- much better functionally & aesthetically than the case used for..... More
(Hingham: Village Press, 1905). 7 x 8 1/2. Double-spread title with illustration by Enright enclosed by vine border, 67 pages. Original grey boards titled in red, linen backstrip. Tiny dent in fore edge of upper cover. Laid in is the prospectus for "Four Poems" by James Russell Lowell. A fine..... More
San Francisco, November 1979. Four pages (title + list of plates) + 100 engravings. Each engraving is numbered 12/30 and signed by Moser, and has a printed title on the back. A fine set in quarter blue morocco & cloth tray case (few tiny scratches at base of spine) with..... More
Minneapolis, 1994. Approximately 185 printed examples from the first 20 years of this fine press. A wonderful collection of greeting cards, invitations, announcements, letterheads, bookmarks, and broadsides. Housed in three cloth clamshell cases with printed paper labels, all within a stepped cloth slipcase (8 1/2 x 14 x 11). Fine..... More
(Purchase, NY, 1985). 18 x 15. Seven collotypes from photographs are each numbered 13/20 and signed by the artist. Each is laid into a printed folder of Arches paper, along with title and colophon folios. In a linen portfolio box (slightly bowed) by George Wieck. Fine. A collotype--a beautiful, delicate..... More
Middletown CT. 1970. Original acrylics on masonite. 7 1/4 x 5 1/4. Laid into a velvet-lined "antiqued" frame. Fine condition. Reed has produced a marvelous rendition of Paul Revere’s famous engraving of British war ships blockading Boston Harbor -- a harbinger of the American Revolution. The British troops being rowed..... More
18th century & later. Full sized, unused sheets. Six of the papers are known or presumed to have been printed by the Remondini factory. Three are later printings by Rizzi from the original Remondini blocks and bear the Stampa Remondiniani PESP blindstamp. Most in very good condition. The stars of..... More
Freeville, 2007. 6 1/2 x 11. 41 leaves plus 6 double leaves of Suminagashi marbled paper as section dividers. The artist's illustrations are viewed through two leaves of clear vellum paper: a die-cut latticework archway; then the archway surround by leafy tendrils painted in silver; then the illustration within its..... More
