[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
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
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
Asparagus Valley (Hadley): Double Elephant Press, 2004. 7 1/2 x 10. 16 leaves, some folding. Printed throughout with wood type & chiaroscuro woodcuts in several colors on Japanese handmade paper. Bound by Mark Tomlinson in die-cut flax fiber printed wraps. In a red flax chemise with ivory ankh closure. Fine..... More
(Vashon Island, 2015). 9 x 14 3/4. Ten leaves, most worked on both sides, lettered directly by Suzanne Moore, with some blind-embossed printing and 3 letterpress pages. "A"s abound--in every way, shape, and form--in the images and in the the typography. They are lettered, silvered & gilded, cut, sewn, embossed..... 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
(Beltsville): Hand Papermaking, 2010. 8 1/2 x 11. Fourteen delightful examples of paper engineering: pop-ups and other moveables, constructed from handmade paper, each in a printed folder. Many are signed by the artists. With a 40-page book. Fine in clamshell case. Twenty-eight book artists & papermakers collaborated to construct these..... 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..... More
(West Hatfield), 1986. 4 1/2 x 7. [52] pages. The calligraphed letters are printed in 26 different colors. Designer binding by Erin Fletcher at her Herringbone Bindery in yellow Hamartan goatskin with onlays of pink, black, & white goatskin blindtooled. Housed in a suede-lined tray case. Fine. "Highly inspired by..... 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
NY, {1859]. Broadside 11 x 13 1/2. A central calendar is framed by a wide architectural border printed in gold, red ink, and green velvet. Fourteen specimens of business cards sit in the frame. Evidence on reverse side of glue; but no sign of removal; small repair to lower margin..... 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
NY: Advertising Agencies' Service, 1925-1927, 1931, 1933, 1946-1951, 1953-1955. Broadsides (mostly) ranging in size from 7 1/2 x 10 to 12 x 19. There are two copies of "Joyous Banner" --a fine copy still in its printed mailing envelope and a faded displayed copy that is signed by Schiller. The..... 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
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
