Heavenly Monkey, 2017. 4 1/2 x 6. Title + 26 leaves+colophon, all printed (black) & calligraphed (red) on rectos only. Bound by Claudia Cohen in a non-adhesive limp vellum, gold-tooled at the edges, title calligraphed in red on the spine. The pastedowns are taken from old vellum manuscripts. Fine in...
Oro-Medonte: Shanty Bay Press, 2019. 10 x 15. 53 pages richly illustrated with pochoirs, color reduction linocuts, and woodcuts. Bound by Janis Butler in deep gold cloth with a color lino cut inset in upper cover, in matching cloth slipcase. Fine, with prospectus. Five large pochoirs, derived from Bachinski's paintings...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. One full sheet folded to make 4 pages. 9 x 14 3/8. First page is the title page for Volume One with Tory borders; center fold with criblé initial describes the books in great detail; last page reads "The Riverside Press, Cambridge" with BR's thistle mark...
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...
Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1937. 8 1/4 x 11 1/4. 3 leaves, photogravure of an elaborate furnace for burning sacred paper, 79, (3) pages (some folding). There are 49 original specimens of Chinese ceremonial paper dating from the 17th c., plus text photogravure and collotype illustrations, and prints in color...
NY: Pynson Printers, 1939. 9 x 11. 129, (5), pages followed by 27 specimens of Indian handmade papers, some colored. Quarter black leather & India-print cloth. A few small chips to leather spine & rubbed rear joint; bookplate on pastedown; contents are fine; worn slipcase is missing the bottom panel...
NY: Pynson Printers, 1936. 9 x 11. 148 pages + numerous photogravure plates + 51 annotated specimens. Bound by Gerhard Gerlach in black Oasis Niger spine & boards printed with an old Korean woodblock; tooled in gold & red. Bookplate of K. S. Maclachlan. A few tiny scrapes to spine...
Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1947. 7 3/4 x 11 1/2. 102 pages + 3 leaves. The pagination includes two paper specimens and 15 plates of photographs. Red morocco spine, decorated boards, vellum tips by Peter Franck (stamp-signed on rear pastedown). Large bookplate removed from inside front cover, leaving glue residue...
Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1923. 8 1/4 x 11 3/4. Tipped-in frontis of Hunter's paper mill is signed by the artist, Raymond Pearson and titled in pencil by Hunter himself. (iv), 112, (4) pages + 27 plates on Hunter's watermarked paper and specimens and nine leaves with mounted samples. There...
Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1934. 10 x 14. xvi, 157 pages plus 54 plates and 2 pages of watermarks. Quarter blue morocco spine & corners, tan cloth sides, spine titled in gilt, top edge gilt. Spine sunned to green, leather scuffed at joints and extremities. Book plate on paste down...
Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1932. Folio (12 x 17). Frontis, 71 pages with 15 tipped-in specimens of old papers made from bamboo, mulberry, china grass, and mitsuma; 3 specimens of bark, 11 mounted color prints, & 19 b&w illustrations. Bound by Peter Franck (stamp signed) in three-quarter linen & decorated...
Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1925. 12 x 16 1/2. 48, plus 7 unpaginated leaves with specimens. 22 illustrations and 24 reproductions of old title pages. Loose sheets, as issued, in three-quarter buckram portfolio with cloth ties. Light offsetting as usual from some specimens; fairly heavy, as usual, from the Koops...
Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1950. 11 1/2 x 16 1/2. (11), 326, (4) pages. Hand-colored photogravure of Hunter's Mountain House plus 96 facsimiles, 27 reproductions of early American watermarks, and 42 reproductions of ream wrappers on handmade paper intended to reproduce the original papers. Three-quarter Irish linen over heavy beveled...
Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1927. Folio (12 x 16 1/2). Gravure of the Mountain House, 48 numbered text pages plus 29 un-numbered leaves with text & mounted specimens. Loose as issued in three-quarter buckram portfolio by Peter Franck, with cloth ties, title label on cover. Bookplate inside the portfolio. A....
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1986. 8 x 10. 123 pages with 40 paper samples. Large folded broadside "South China Post" is laid in, as issued. Quarter black morocco & morocco tips, decorated paper boards. Fine copy. One of 325 copies. The paper samples, all collected by McClure during the...
Tokyo & NY, 1978. 8 1/2 x 11 1/2. 452 pages, of which 113 have tipped-in specimens; photographic illustration, glossary, bibliography and index. Quarter cloth, in clamshell box. Fine copy in the original shipping carton which is lightly stained on one edge. No. 520 of 1000 copies with specimens, which...
Leicester: Twelve by Eight Press, 1971. 8 x 12. Half title, title printed in gold, "special copy" leaf, limitation leaf, (2) contents, 35 printed paper specimens (each interleaved with handmade paper blank except for red numeral), typewritten leaf, Rigby Graham's color thread drawing. Linsom vellum boards gilt. Fine in mylar...
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 the laid-in specimen, as issued, from the last wind-driven mill in Holland, the Schoolmeester. One of Henry's...
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1969. 7 1/2 x 9 1/2. 110 pages, illustrated with fine reproductions of European & American wrappers. Indices of mills, papermakers, importers, and merchants. Quarter red morocco & marbled boards. Fine with the two prints (one corner tips creased) pulled from original copperplates for...
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1976. 7 x 9 1/2. 70 pages. Quarter morocco. Fine. One of about 220 numbered copies, printed by Henry Morris on his handmade paper. Schlosser writes about early Milanese ream wrappers, with reproductions; Morris about light-and-shade watermarks and Assignats, with original assignat laid in. Printers' Choice 22.
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....
Boston: Bromer, 1984. 2 x 2 1/2. Miniature manuscript of 32 leaves of calligraphed text and water colors. Bound by Arno Werner in red morocco with the alphabet in gilt, all edges gilt. Fine in morocco & cloth tray case. A delicate alphabet book --F for Fava Bean, N for...
(South Norwalk, 1974). 14 1/2 x 21 1/2. Sixteen leaves: 4 pages of xylographic text in blue, 1 single and 8 double spread color wood cuts on French-fold pages, with glassines. Marbled papers (3 different) on binding and endpapers, made by the artist, that reflect the book's tone. Cloth-backed boards...
(NY: Rudge), 1943. 7 x 10 1/2. 8 pages. Self-wraps, stapled. Slightly tanned, few light creases, good copy. Humorous menu included "Entree (copy to come), six-pica potatoes, decorative spinach, Rogers romaine, and Apple 'Pi' " is on one page. Photos of BR, Hendrickson, Rudge's compositor & pressman, papermaker, inkmaker, and binder. Text about "Paragraphs."
Washington, DC: USPS, 2001. 8 x 8. Sheet of 20 stamps signed by the designer. As new. WITH a copy of his book "Designing the Mentoring Stamp." The book, designed by Michael Russem and printed at Stinehour Press, is one of 600 copies. 6 x 9. 64 pages with 36...
