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
Einbeck, Carl Schleicher & Schüll, (ca. 1950). 7 x 10. (3) pages, each headed by an engraving. Wraps, creased. Good copy. Typography and engravings by Josef Weisz. More
Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1967. 8 x 11. (25) pages illustrated with 24 drawings by Baskin. Boards, spine label. Harold Hugo & family member's small bookplates inside front cover. A fine association copy inscribed by Baskin to "Harold: picture printer from Leonard: type printer." One of 400 copies; this signed "printer's..... More
NY, (1929). 2 1/2 x 3 1/4. 19 leaves. A blank page for Memoranda faces each month; there are 4 pages of Tiffany's sterling silver marks. Green morocco gilt. Light wear along bottom edge. Very good. The binding is attractive; the contents are uninspired. More
Fleece Press, (2009). Two volumes. Miniature. 2 1/2 x 2 1/4. (54) pages + 6 foldout color plates illustrating 30 flies. Blue morocco spine, pink & blue Compton marbled paper boards. Plus all 30 fly patterns tied for this book. The flies are mounted within 8 mats which open accordion..... More
NY: The Grolier Club, 2019. 8 x 11. 435 pages. Profusely illustrated, with an Index. Cloth., dust wrapper. Fine. Scholarly exhibition catalogue of some 240 items. The emphasis here is on the bindings, and the book may almost be seen as an illustrated history of bookbinding. More
Fleece Press, 2010. 3 x 4 3/4. Twenty-four leaves, 32 postage stamps tipped in, and 8 more stamps in rear pocket. Cloth & boards housed in a box, by Stephen Byrne, whose red & grey metal replicating lid replicates a Victorian English postbox. Fine. One of 100 (actually 80) special..... More
Fleece Press, 2010. 3 x 4 3/4. Sixteen leaves, 17 actual postage stamps tipped in. Cloth & boards with a repeat pattern of a Claire Melinsky stamp. Fine. The tipped-in stamps (printed lithographically) were made from wood engravings or linocuts by John Lawrence, Christopher Wormell, Andrew Davidson, David Gentleman, Jeremy..... More
Tideline Press, 2010. 6 1/2 x 10. 53 pages with 18 original bookplates tipped in, created for Fairleigh Dickinson University, tipped in. Citron cloth with red leather cover label; vellum spine with exposed sewing over green leather, titled in gold. Fine. No. 8 of 21 signed copies, printed letterpress by..... More
Paris: Alain Brieux, 1964. 9 1/2 x 12. 44, (6) pages + the facsimile of 9 pages and 68 plates etched by Jost Amman(some color in color). Issued in wraps, this copy is bound by Samuel Feinstein in deep brown morocco with a partial icosahedron rising from the upper cover..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 2008. 8 x 12. 194 pages + several leaves of color photographs. Hopkins' two-page biographies are followed by 5 or more specimens of type & design from each of the 15 private typefounders/printers. The pagination includes these specimens. Quarter black morocco with red leather label..... More
Vancouver: Heavenly Monkey, 2001. 11 x 15. 37 pages + 3 original double leaves. Laced with vellum tapes into heavy handmade paper wraps, blind embossed with Reid's monoram. An ALS from Milroy describes this trial binding..."more of a French wrap-- much better functionally & aesthetically than the case used for..... More
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Paris: Robert Estienne, 1549. Two volumes. 3 1/2 x 5 inches. (8.7 x 12.5 cm). 528, 359, (3) pages--all lightly ruled in red. The title page is hinged in. Circa 1800 gold-tooled straight grain red morocco, with marbled pastedowns, all edges gilt. Spines a bit darkened, joints a bit rubbed..... More
Nürnberg: Johann Andreä Endters, 1721 (actually 1731). First edition, later printing. 9 3/4 x 7 1/2. 30 leaves, 140 pages, 11 leaves. Most text printed in double columns, within a black border. A full page frontis of Ernesti's printing shop is followed by short histories of 8 famous printers from..... More
Mission: Barbarian Press, 2013. 10 1/2 x 13 1/2. About 30 text pages printed on cream Zerkall laid paper, and 134 engravings printed from the original blocks on Zerkall white smooth paper. Several double spreads of larger images are tipped in. Each engraving has a printed title in green. Quarter..... More
Paris, ca. 1770. 10 x 15 1/2. 17 pages of text followed by 25 engraved plates. Recent cloth. A few inconsequential spots, margins a bit toned, very good. The exotic alphabet section from the great Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers. The 25 fine plates..... More
Paris: Charles Panckoucke, ca. 1783. Twenty-five plates, 12 x 19 inches. Each plate is on a half sheet of paper (with deckles on 3 sides). They are mounted on hinges of the same paper, and bound sidewise (as they would have been originally) into recent black cloth titled "Oriental Alphabets."..... More
NY: American Printing History Association, 2002. 6 x 9. xv, 175 pages with numerous illustrations in the original colors, and 3 tipped-in original leaves. Indexed. Hand bound in quarter rose cloth & boards. Fine in slipcase. One of 50 "special" copies signed by the author. (There were also 450 regular..... More
Gehenna Press, 1974. 15 x 11 3/4. Title, colophon, and 66 wood engravings, woodcuts, and linoleum cuts by Leonard Baskin printed one to a leaf on Troya, and interleaved with backing sheets, plus 5 blanks. Signed by Baskin in the colophon. An unbound binder's copy with 64 of the prints..... More
(Kentfield): Allen Press, 1962. Folio (11 x 16). 98 leaves. Unbound as issued in 5 sections, each with printed wraps. In blue felt-lined cloth chemise & cloth slipcase. Fine. First English language edition of all the poems except "Elegy of Ihpetonga" and the "first reprint of the illustrations." One of..... 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, and is fitted with a flap to hold the book so all specimens are visible at the..... 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
(Oldham): Incline Press, 2007. 10 x 14. 86 pages illustrated with 67 tipped-in sheets, including bookmarks, bookplates, keepsakes, announcements, programs, poems, and posters. Half green cloth & marbled boards. Fine in slipcase. "These pieces include our experiments with ink...and tentave forays into the world of asymmetrical typograhy. They show some..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 2007. Thick small folio. Quarter morocco, slipcase. Fine. One of 140 copies. Composed in numerous hand-set metal types in two colors, ranging in size from 4-pt. to 84-pt. Also included is ornamental material from the last ays of the great German type founders. Morris' Foreword..... More
Verona, 1968. 6 1/2 x 10. [34] pages including specimens. Grey Roma wraps. Near fine. One of 50 copies printed at the Officina Bodoni on Cernobbio mould-made paper. This second printing, reprinted from the Gallery 303 keepsake, differs from the first "in that the 16 point specimen is taken from..... More
