NY: Grolier Club, 2000. 6 1/2 x 10 1/2. xix, 424 pages. Oatmeal cloth spine, red cloth sides, leather spine label, cloth & decorated board slipcase. Fine. WITH: Grolier 75. Two volumes. One of 250 deluxe copies. Very useful for provenance information. "...informative and evocative glimpses of 120 distinguished..... More
New Castle, Oak Knoll Press, 2005. 8 x 11. xviii, 174 pages, errata slip laid in. Four original leaves & specimen of paste paper are tipped in. Quarter leather & marbled boards, matching .marbled slipcase. Spine slightly darker, but a fine copy. The discursive bibliography goes from 1927 to 1955..... More
Jerusalem, 1975. 7 x 9 1/2. 30 pages illustrated throughout with Hebrew type specimens. Errata slip tucked in. Wraps printed in Hebrew wood type in blue. Fine. Typophiles Keepsake, one of 500 copies. WITH: Moshe Spitzer, The Development of Hebrew Lettering. More
Lexington: The Anvil Press, 1988. 7 1/2 x 11. 305 pages. Gold cloth, thin cardboard case. Fine. A collection of Hammer's writings in English. This includes "Type Design in Relation to Language," "A Dialogue on the Uncial," "Memory and Her Nine Daughters," "Digression on the Roman Letter," and "Some Fragments..... More
Boston: Godine, (1978). 7 1/2 x 11. 57 pages, 26 color plates. Cloth. Fine in thin cardboard slipcase. The color plates reproduce oil portraits, triptychs, sculpture, and metal work. Printed at Stamperia Valdonega on Magnani paper. No. 263 of 500 copies. More
(Cape Town, 2000). 10 x 9. (44) pages incorporating gold leaf, gold Cameo cigarette papers, tissue paper collages, stamps, cut-outs, fold-overs, strips of printed text paper, & etchings. Printed on Fabriano & Canson papers along with with painted calligraphic text. Open spine binding by the artist, the black Indian petal..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1940. 10 x 14). xv, (4), 194 pages + 8 pages of reproductions + 4 bifolia of original leaves. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. Laid in are 2 prepublication pieces and 10 extra original leaves. Prior owner has placed a light pencil check next to the many titles he owned..... More
NY: Grolier Club, 2002. 7 x 12. xi, 44 pages, including 8 full page color wood engravings & 3 vignettes. Quarter black morocco & gray silk cloth boards with black & silver leather label. With a separtate portfolio containing both an extra suite of Schanilec's engravings (each one signed), and..... More
London: William Pickering, 1853. 4 1/2 x 7 1/4. 360 leaves on fine "India" paper. Title printed in black and red within a border of the Tree of Jesse, and overleaf a portrait of Queen Elizabeth. Each page printed within a pictorial woodcut border by Mary Byfield. Dark navy blue..... More
November 1865-April 1870. Volume I, no. 1 to Volume V, no. 2. But lacking I, 3. 9 1/2 x 13. About 422 numbered pages + 62 leaves of inserted type specimens + 3 Hoe Company inserts. Contemporary quarter leather rebacked with the spine laid down. Typothetae bookplate. A few leaves..... More
Philadelphia , April 1855 - July 1869. 10 x 13. 412 pages plus 6 bound-in supplements. Each issue has a page of 3-column text with substantive news (recent type specimens from other foundries, notices of typographic journals, technical articles) and a page of ads for printing equipment. Specimens of types..... More
NY: Grolier Club, 1984. 6 x 9. 223, (1) pages. Illustrated. Cloth. Fine. An excellent reference work describing 169 classics in bibliography from 1469 --Peter Schoeffer's broadside catalogue of his publications--to 1968. One of 600 copies, designed by Philip Grushkin and printed by A. Colish. More
(Oxford, 1984). 7 x 10 1/2. 25 pages illustrated, including two tipped-in original specimens of nature- and color-printing. Plate XVI from The Octavo Ferns features 3 ferns in green, with several small wood engravings of plant parts. Plate LXXX from The British Seaweeds features a large seaweed in red, with..... More
NY: Grolier Club, 2007. 8 x 10. 140 pages, with 80 color illustrations plus 6 original leaves. Quarter leather, slipcase. Limited to 20 copies. Designed by Jerry Kelly. The original sheets of the Grolier Club's 2000 catalogue are augmented by four illustrated leaves from books, an illustrated 4-page prospectus for..... More
(Oxford: Plough Press, 1984). 7 x 10 1/2. 25 pages illustrated, including two tipped-in original specimens of nature- and color-printing, from The Octavo Ferns and The British Seaweeds. Quarter cloth & Japanese paper boards. Fine. Bradbury was an important innovator in two areas of relief printing--nature printing and the color..... More
Boston: Printed and published for the author, 1854. 20 1/2 x 26 1/2. 16 pages + one-page index + 6 full page chromolithographs. Recent boards with linen spine; facsimile of original title label on upper cover. The contents have been professionally conserved with the paper de-acidified, fore edges strengthened, and..... More
NY: Russell Maret, 2017. 7 x 11. (23) pages. Illustrated by Russell Maret with a "modulating ground of sprayed acrylic paint running through the book, a kind of desert landscape from which the poems rise." Bound in Nepalese Lotka wraps. Fine. Russell writes about the genesis of this book: "I..... More
Heavenly Monkey, 2020. 6 x 9. 114 pages illustrated with type specimens + an original tipped-in leaf. Cloth-backed boards, spine label. Fine. Griffo cut all the types--Roman, Greek, & Hebrew--used by the printer Aldus. The celebrated "Aldine italic" was Griffo's creation. The first half of this book is a biography..... More
PA, 1969-2005. Various sizes. Very good to fine. An attractive sampling of Henry Morris' design and printing. More
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1967. 6 x 9 1/2. 121 pages, illustrated. Fourteen handmade paper samples (by Henry Morris, Dard Hunter, & Daniels). Quarter morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Fine, with prospectus. With the laid-in specimen, as issued, from the last wind-driven mill in Holland, the Schoolmeester. One..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 2007. 6 x 9. 139 pages, 4 tipped-in original leaves from Alciato's 1589 edition. Quarter leather, slipcase. Fine, with prospectus. This is one of 8 copies having additional leaves. (124 regular copies had one leaf.) Three leaves in this copy bear woodcuts with moral lesson..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1985. 6 1/4 x 9 3/4. 161, (2) pages including illustrations & color plates. Morocco and deocorated paper boards. Fine, with prospectus. One of 350 copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press. More
(North Hills): Bird & Bull Press, 1980. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2. 108 pages. Morocco & decorated boards, with portfolio of specimens, in clamshell case (10 x 12 1/2). Spine slightly darker (as usual, from binding glue) else fine, with prospectus. One of 140 (of 350) with the separate portfolio..... More
1969. Original etching. 9 x 6 image on sheet 14 x 10 3/4. Printed in black on cream wove paper. Signed. Crease in lower left corner and another across the top edge--both away from image. Very good. Fern 547. This engraving appeared in Laus Pictorum. More
NP, (1963). Original color woodcut in black and blues on Japanese Hosho paper. 9 1/2 x 6, on slightly larger sheet. Fine condition. No. 19 of 150 signed copies. The print was made from two blocks. The first block was printed 4 times in dark blue, teal, green, and purple;..... More
