Northampton, 1980. 6 1/2 x 10. 29 pages, 3 leaves. Extra spine label laid in. Navy cloth, spine lightly faded; contents fine. A very good copy. Despite the title, there are 7 engravings. The original binding design called for a large triangular label on the upper cover; this label was..... More
SF: John Henry Nash, 1929. 8 1/4 x 12 1/2. xviii, 35 pages. Tipped in leaf from Doves Press edition of Goethe. Full vellum, top edge gilt. Typographic bookplate inside front cover. Base of spine rubbed, some pinpoint speckling to vellum, very good. No. 40 of 312 copies containing a...... More
Maple Shade: Pickering Press, 1985. 5 1/2 x 8. (28) pages, french-fold. Side-stitched wraps with label on cover, Japanese paper dust jacket. Fine. A lovely printer's commonplace book in brown and black using about 20 different type faces on Japanese paper, with 5 wood engravings by De Pol. John Anderson..... 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. 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 in Latin..... More
Northampton: Double Elephant Press, 2001. Poems by American poet laureate Hecht and intaglios by Michael Kuch form a series of 12 fold-out triptychs. 8 x 15. In a black silk tri-fold binding which supports the unfolded sheets. A red window in the upper cover reveals the half-title. Fine in slipcase..... More
Frankfurt, 1832. 6 3/4 x 8. 82 leaves printed rectos only. Tipped to front end paper is a fold-out price list dated 1831; printed in black, green, blue, peach, & yellow. Linen spine & stiffened color-printed wraps, two old handmade wrap-around paper spine labels. A little wear and soiling, a...... More
Red Hen Press, 1995. 12 x 15. Each essay, printed in brown, is preceded by a blind-embossed shell and followed by a sepia mezzotint. Mezzotints are interleaved with Japanese Unryushi. Quarter brown morocco & cloth by the Gwasg Gregynog bindery, with a brown morocco onlay of angel-wing shells. Slipcase is..... More
Stamford, 1975. 7 x 11. 83 pages. Black cloth, spine titled in gilt. Prospectus laid in. Fine copy inscribed by Jones to "Faber [C. Birren] with admiration and affection." One of a few copies specially bound in cloth from an edition of 100. There are 254 impressions, with commentary, printed..... More
New-York: The DeVinne Press, 1891. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2. 145 pages. Original cloth gilt. Light wear to extremities; very small & light stain on upper margin of most of text block. Good. A handsome specimen printed in black & red, with extensive use of decorated and illuminated initials. It..... More
NY: Double Elephant Press, 1998. 8 1/4 x 9 1/2. A double accordion-fold of 34 leaves: 17 leaves for Gluttons and 17 for Angels, mounted back--to-back and hinged with linen. There are 29 copper-plate etchings: those for Gluttons in shades of brown & rust; Angels in gold, green, and blue..... More
(Joppe): Frits Knuf, (1993). 4 x 10 1/2. A 14-page English introduction & history is followed by 26 accordion-fold pages with 90 mounted specimens of Aschaffenburg papers. The book opens to several feet. The samples are given their original names from the Aschaffenberg catalogues and the dates that paper was..... More
Northampton: Smith College Libraries, 2005. 7 1/2 x 10 1/2. Photogravure print of Ruth and Clarence Kennedy, (32) pages illustrated, a tipped on proof of title page text Kennedy left as standing type. Bound by David Bourbeau and Stephanie Gibbs in blue & white boards gilt (binding signed with their..... More
Chalons-S-Marne: Imprimerie Lithographique Barbat, 1844. 8 1/4 x 11. 319 pages. Collation: (12), 11-107, (3), 113-148, (4), 149-315, (2) pages. A few preliminary pages appear shuffled in order--despite being in the original binding. Entirely lithographed in colors, silver, and gold on glazed white paper. These Gospels for Sundays and holidays..... More
SF, 1958. 10 x 14. xiii, (5), 80 pages (with index) + 18 illustrations. Half tan linen and decorated paper boards, spine label in gilt. Upper tips slightly bumped, else fine. With the prospectus. One of 400 printed in red and black by the Grabhorn Press. Complete bibliographical details of..... More
London: Nonesuch Press, 1936. 7 1/2 x 12. xi, 80, [20], 98, 99 pages. Green cloth, black leather label. Upper tips bumped; spine extremities lightly faded; very good copy in the original printed dw which is missing some pieces. Laid in is an autograph note signed from Meynell inviting Sydney..... 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
Cambridge, 1952. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2. Frontis portrait, vii, 40 pages. Illustrated with 14 engravings by Lawrence Josset; all tissue guards present. Pebbled cloth, inlaid cloth label on upper cover. Lightly rubbed, near fine. Mrs. Whatman's detailed notes are a guide book a well-ordered 18th c. English home. Whatman..... More
Np, nd (Probably Ashcaffenberg, ca. 1930). 12 x 11. 24 leaves bearing 241 specimens of decorated papers. The album pages are preprinted in a grid which allows varying sizes of samples to be mounted. At the top of each page is placed the Sorte number (the variety) and the paper's..... More
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1978. 7 x 10 1/2. (5) pages of text and 10 double-spreads of marbled papers. Wraps. Fine. One of 400 copies. This being # 1 -- as were all other 400. More
Bird & Bull Press, 1990. 9 x 12. 61 pages. Quarter morocco & gilt paste paper boards by Barbara Blumenthal. Fine, with prospectus. One of 230 copies, printed in 3 colors on Arches mould-made paper. "Inspired by Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' this collection of satirical poetry and prose deals with the..... More
Tokyo: The Mainichi Newspapers, 1974. Eleven volumes in 6 cases. 5 large cases (20 x 14 x 5) contain 1000 large, handmade paper specimens plus supplemental specimens and little "extras." There are 200 specimens in each folding cloth case, divided among several paper portfolios. Each specimen is tipped to a...... More
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1976. 6 x 9. 68 pp. Quarter morocco and marbled boards. Fine. One of 250 copies printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press. More
Los Angeles: Dawson's, 1978. 9 3/4 x 12 3/4. 61 pages. Quarter morocco and cloth by Gray Parrot. Fine in handsome custom slipcase, with prospectus. One of 200 copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press, signed by Weimann. Twenty-two (20 of which are full-page) marbled specimens include a Turkish..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1998. 9 x 12 1/2. 165 pages including thirty pages of black and white illustrations, thirty tip-ins, many of which are in full color, seven original folio or quarto leaves from Mountain House books, and four original light-and-shade watermaked papers made by all three generations..... More
(Vashon Island: Foolsgold Studio), 2007. 9 x 15. Most of the book’s painted, stiffened fabric pages have original collages of painted cloth, wood veneer, brass, cork, linen thread and acrylic paint - all materials used in boat building. Quarter leather with painted cloth over sculpted boards with inlays. Fine in..... More
