San Francisco, In association with the Library of Congress, 1987. 6 1/2 x 10 1/2. 63 pages. Two decorative blue initials on red & white ground scattered with gold stars, drawn & illuminated by Thomas Ingmire. Full white vellum titled in blue on spine & both covers, laced with red... More about CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
Oro-Medonte: Shanty Bay Press, 2019. 10 x 15. 53 pages richly illustrated with pochoirs, color reduction linocuts, and woodcuts. Bound by Janis Butler in deep gold cloth with a color lino cut inset in upper cover, in matching cloth slipcase. Fine, with prospectus. Five large pochoirs, derived from Bachinski's paintings... More about Still Life
Sandy Hook: Chiswick, 1985. 9 x 13. xiv, 115 pages plus 4 original leaves. 46 illustrations in the text. Red cloth gilt, matching slipcase (few waterspots on case). Ink notation on blank in Viv Cohen's hand "4 leaves." Fine. One of 20 copies (of 200) with especially fine leaves. The... More about ALDUS MANUTIUS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF GREEK SCRIPT AND TYPE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
Leipzig, printed for members of the Limited Editions Club by Poeschel & Trepte, 1932. 7 3/4 x 9 3/4. 240 pages with woodcut initials and section titles by Emil Weiss. Bound by Arno Werner in full black morocco ruled in gilt, Poeschel & Trepte printers mark gilt on upper cover... More about THE FOUR GOSPELS
(Vienna: Fiedler, 1972). 9 x 12. 81 pages + approx. 80 leaves of prints. The prints are tipped (or mounted) to black craft paper labeled with the technique. The facing text page gives its history, usage, commercial value, distinguishing features, and what other technique it might be mistaken for. Glassines... More about A Collection of Original Prints from the 15th to the 20th Century with a Description of Their...
Shakespeare Head Press, (Oxford, 1927). 8 volumes. 7 x 9 1/2. 1486 pages. Decorated with 6 hand colored maps, heraldic headpieces & tail pieces, and over 600 hand colored coats-of-arms of English, Scottish, and Irish princes and knights drawn by Paul Woodroffe. Text includes lengthy indices of persons and places... More about FROISSART'S CRONYCLES
[Montague], 1915. 8 x 12. 8 pages, tipped in errata slip. Original green paper boards, printed wrap-around label, original green paper dustwrapper. Protected by a cloth chemise & slip case with leather label. Missing small piece at both spine ends, whic have small repairs; faint shadow at gutter from something... More about THE CENTAUR
Minor Confluence, 1981. 5 1/2 x 7. (36) pages in three gatherings plus a 12-page booklet of footnotes. Boards, hand sewn on exposed tapes, with two pieces of twine across covers. Covers were variously decorated. This copy sports ganglia and a toothy smile. Hamady has written below the large red... More about FOR THE HUNDREDTH TIME
Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1932. Folio (12 x 17). Frontis, 71 pages with 15 tipped-in specimens of old papers made from bamboo, mulberry, china grass, and mitsuma; 3 specimens of bark, 11 mounted color prints, & 19 b&w illustrations. Bound by Peter Franck (stamp signed) in three-quarter linen & decorated... More about OLD PAPERMAKING IN CHINA AND JAPAN
(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 about SCOP HWILUM SANG
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 about An Alphabetical Accumulation
(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 about THE HOLLOW LAND
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 about 100 Wood Engravings by Barry Moser for the Arion Press Edition of Moby-Dick
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 about Nine rare Italian color xylographed papers
(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 about Album Calligraphique. Album of 12 original alphabets hand painted by stencils in watercolors...
[France, 1914]. 8 1/4 x 5 1/2. 18 miniature calendar cover specimens mounted on one sheet, stapled into printed wraps. Printed beneath are their stock numbers and the number of different colors or subjects available. Penciled inside is quantity and price information. Light soil. Very good. Charming calendars in a.... More about CALENDRIERS "BIJOU" pour 1915
Brussels, 1823. 7 x 9. Title, portrait, xii, (1), 303 hand-written pages. The wove paper is watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1822. Each page is within a pen-work architectural border (displaying great variety) with wide margins. A full page with wide ornamental borders opens each Season. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco... More about The Seasons
(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 about LEMONS DESCENDING
