Easthampton: Cheloniidae Press, 1986. Two volumes. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. (44) pages French-fold. All text--initial letters, Latin names, & common names—has been painted by Suzanne Moore in an array of colors. Bound in vellum by Gray Parrot. An original signed watercolor by Robinson, a suite of the wood engravings..... More
Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1997. 9 1/2 x 12 1/2. 26 leaves, including 24 mult-colored montotype portraits of imaginary artisans. Tray case. Fine. This copy not bound, to better have the opportunity to individually display the portraits. Included is a special full leather inlaid and gilt replica of the binding cover..... 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
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1762. Folio (9 1/4 x 14 1/4; 36.5 cm). Contemporary red morocco, covers with double gilt fillet border enclosing a double gilt panel, the outer panel border formed by a single ornamented roll with a crown at each corner, the inner panel border formed by two ornamental..... More
Strassburg: Wolfgang Köpfel, 1534. 5 x 7 1/4 (186 x 128 mm). Two parts in one volume: (viii), 89, (16) pages. Printer's device at end of each part. Seventeenth or eighteenth century mottled sheep. A very good copy, with generous margins. Fourth and preferred edition of this medal book. In..... More
Paris, 1890. 10 x 14. Color title page, 55 color lithographed plates of porcelain and faience, each with a facing of description and prices; 47 monochrome plates of glassware; 15 pages of text by Louis Enalt. There is no plate 25, and none called for in the Table. Publisher's dark..... More
NY: Vincent FitzGerald, 1986. 11 x 15. Thirty-three leaves, including 11 single-page linocuts and 6 double-page linocuts (several folding out and up); all protective glassines are present. Text is silkscreened from Beard's manuscript. Bound by Gérard Charrière in turquoise silk boards. Several light scratches on upper cover, along with a...... More
(South Norwalk, Winter 1994-1995). 9 1/2 x 12. Twelve leaves of color woodcuts and xylographic text in brown. A full page portrait (head) of a native American in earth tones faces a full page owl in purple & black, followed by seven double-spreads of a poem and an owl, concluding..... More
Frankfurt: Der Goldene Brunnen (1961). 7 1/2 x 10 1/2. (2), xxiv, 34, (2). Fritz Kredel's 24 hand colored woodcuts of roadside flowers & plants are surrounded by George Salter's calligraphic texts from classic German poetry. hese are followed by 34 pages of German poems and an index. Vellum-backed green..... More
(Wales), The Red Hen Press, (1988). 10 x 13. (16) text pages,10 mezzotints & a mezzotint combined with relief etchings. Specially bound by Jan Ascoli (signed in the colophon) in quarter black morocco and handmade paper boards--a textured paper dyed in blue & red; pink endpapers. In a folding case..... More
Whittington Press, (2019, actually 2020). 7 x 10 1/2. 13 French-fold leaves illustrated with 19 wood engravings in the text. Four Shaker-style seed packets--engraved, hand colored, & fashioned by Sandy--are inserted in photo mounts. Sentiments from a 1557 farmer & poet are printed beneath. Quarter cloth and boards covered in..... 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
(Easthampton): Cheloniidae Press, 1985. 8 x 11. (42) pages. Six erotic wood engravings and 5 erotic drypoint etchings in color by Alan James Robinson. Blind-embossed blue paper boards edged with white pigskin. Extra suite of the engravings and etchings, numbered & signed is laid with the book into a quarter..... More
Chamberlain Press, 1982. Broadside. 11 x 20 1/2. Etching in blue on Arches paper; text in black in Lydian types. Two tiny specks upper left corner, else fine. A well-known children's book illustrator, Chamberlain learned wood engraving from Leonard Baskin and Barry Moser, and printed her first book at the..... More
Izmir, 2017. Miniature. 3 x 2 1/4. 58 numbered pages (but many are blank or have a single word). Sixteen text pages in English are followed by 6 original postage stamps loose in plastic mounts. Green cloth gilt. Fine. "The Turkish passion for flowers is well known," writes Sönmez. The..... More
NY, 1992. 6 x 9. Catalogue of the 86th Anniversary Exhibition of the Guild of Book Workers. For each of the 49 works exhibited there is a double spread with photographs of the text and of the designer binding. Bound by Peter Verheyen in red chagrin leather with onlays in..... More
(Portland, OR, 2013). A paper hat woven and sculpted from letterpress printed strips of pale green paper. The hat measures 19 inches in diameter and is 7 inches high. Slang and derogatory words that exploit women comprise the handset text -- in a great variety of typefaces. "Zook," Nockstress," "Overnight..... 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
Northumberland: Bird Editions, 2011. 12 x 9 3/4. (18) leaves loose, as issued, in two-part wrappers of grey glaciers against a blue sky, with a coordinating slipcase by the Red Bone Bindery. The 12 initial letters of the Greenlandic alphabet are illustrated by 12 pochoir-colored prints of icebergs. Fine. One..... More
NY: Century, 1900. First edition. 5 1/4 x 7 3/4. 403 pages, including Index, copiously illustrated with type specimens. Larger paper copy in 3/4 leather, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Some wear & soil to binding. A very good copy./. "Plain" includes Roman, Italic, Fat-face, Black-Letter, Gothic, Antique, Runic, Celtic..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1841. First edition. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. viii, 815 pages. Original green cloth blind-embossed, glazed yellow endpapers. Upper corners bumped, wear along hinges. Small oval discard stamp from Birmingham Library on blank verso of title page and on the last page. Bookplate removed..... More
(Nuremberg, early c19). A diamond pattern (12 1/2 x 11) of simple flowers, grapes, & pomegranates embossed and gilt on a blue paste ground (15 1/2 x 13 1/4) is signed G. N. Renner & Abel" in the design. There is a central fold line, as these papers were traditionally..... More
Frankfurt: Stempel, May 1952. 12 1/2 x 9. Eleven leaves: introductory note in German and English + 10 specimens, printed in black & red on rectos only. vellum-back grey boards with gilt MT on upper cover. Fine. Inscribed by Zapf to Jackson Burke, Christmas 1952. No. 9 of 30 copies..... More
NY: Z Presse, 1968. 8 x 12. (6), 117, (1) pages. Vellum spine titled in gold, grey silk boards with alphabet in gold. A fine, as new copy in dust wrapper. No. 291 of 975 copies signed by Zapf. Presented are 100 typographical arrangements with considerations about types, typography and..... More
West New York: Mark Batty, 2002. 8 x 11. 221 pages (including 150 color plates). Red cloth gilt. A separate portfolio contains six type and printing specimens created especially for this edition by Gudrun Zapf. Both in slipcase. Fine. One of 80 special copies, signed by Zapf. First major retrospective..... More
