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
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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
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
Chicago: Starshaped Press, 2020. 17 x 11. Two portfolios of ten prints each. The first portfolio "Elevations" contains 10 type pictures of Chicago printed in colors by letterpress. The second portfolio "Construction Drawings" contains 10 "blueprints" printed by offset. Both housed in a red cloth tray case with printed labels..... 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
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 about 75 specimens of design & typefaces. The 4-page specimens are tipped in, and the single page specimens are mounted, onto 34 leaves of good quality black stock. Bound into flexible cloth boards with string ties, printed cover label. A little extremity..... More
San Francisco, 1889. 6 14 x 9 3/4. Price list of type, title in several colors & gold, (226) pages. Original cloth. Stamp on endpapers of Shaw Printing Co. Binding a little worn contents clean and complete. Very good. Hawks & Shattuck's foundry was established in ca. 1888; this was..... 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
(Easthampton): 1989. This unique triangular sculpture by Dan Kelm contains 5 flattened tetrahedrons fashioned by Timothy Ely. The sculpture has an integral stand. Height 9 inches; widest part 6 1/4. On the inside of the magnetic lid is printed the title, creators' names, and date. Each tetrahedron is covered in..... 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
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
(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
Whittington Press, 2019. Two volumes. 8 1/2 x 11 1/2. Eleven leaves of text and 18 watercolored illustrations (4 fullpage). Bound in plain white cloth with orange endpapers reflecting colors of brick hearths and terracotta roofs. A smaller 8-page book reproduces color sketches the artist made of the chimneys in..... 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
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
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
(Boston): Brier Hill Press, 2013. 9 x 12. Frontis, portrait, (12) pages of text in wraps + 32 wood engravings printed directly from the blocks: for The Life of Christ in Woodcuts (19) and The Song of Songs (13). Each print is numbered. These are laid into two paper portfolios..... More
Fleece Press, (2009). Two volumes. Miniature. 2 1/2 x 2 1/4. (54) pages + 6 foldout color plates illustrating 30 flies. Blue morocco spine, pink & blue Compton marbled paper boards. Plus all 30 fly patterns tied for this book. The flies are mounted within 8 mats which open accordion..... More
