Lexington, 1955. 5 1/4 x 7 3/4. (10) pages with 8 woodcuts by Victor Hammer. Blue boards, wrap-around title label. Spine base bumped, one-inch repair to rear backstrip. Very good. One of 250 copies printed by Carolyn Reading in red and black in Hammer's American Uncial type. Hammer based his..... 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
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
1968. Original wood engraving, matted. 14 x 8.9 cm. No. 14 of 100, signed by Baskin. Fern 506. More
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 1999. 5 x 7. 3 text pages, 8 tipped-on wood engravings, and a tipped-in framing label. Red silk cloth with paper labels. A fine copy. One of 200 copies signed by Baskin, Blinn, Perry Smith, and Harold McGrath. Created between 1955 and 1974, only two of these..... More
Easthampton: Pennyroyal Press, 1975. 6 1/2 x 9. Wood engraved frontis portrait of Beekman by Barry Moser, (14) pages, pressmark in red. Quarter black morocco & marbled boards. Fine. LAID IN IS A SIGNED PROOF OF THE PORTRAIT. No. 37 of 200 copies signed by author & artist. Pennyroyal 11..... More
Chicago: Cherryburn Press, 1972. 7 1/2 x 6. Six-page booklet and 10 folder-mats. Nine mats contain an impression from the original wood block, along with a reproduction of Bewick's drawing for that block. The 10th, "Harrier Dog," was printed from a photoengraved block. Cloth & paste-paper boards. Fine in matching..... More
New-York: Printed [by D. & G. Bruce] for Ezra Sargeant, 1810. Two vols. 4 x 7. 346; 348 pages + 8 full page wood engravings by Alexander Anderson. Bound in full green leather, spines faded to brown. A "composite" binding with central embossed plaque framed by a wide gilt border;..... More
NY: Khelcom New York, 2010. 8 x 10. Twenty-eight French-fold leaves: 4 pages of text, 3 photogravures (2 double spread) of pilgrimages, 21 fullpage color woodcuts. There are 2 smaller woodcuts within the text. Bound by Gray Parrot in stiff vellum wraps, in cloth traycase with vellum label. Fine. Bogardus..... More
Tours: Alfred Mame et Fils, (1884). 4 1/2 x 6. (xvi), 516 pages, printed in black & red. Bound by Lesort in full polished aubergine morocco, turn-ins gilt, all edges gilt over marble, moire endpapers. Front doublure has owner's gold monogram and the date "7 Juin 1886." Fine copy in..... 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
Andoversford: Whittington Press, 1986. 5 3/4 x 7 1/4. Twenty-six leaves Frenchfold, with hand-colored illustration on verso and alphabetical word printed in red on facing page. Silk boards, side stitched; slipcase. Rear pocket contains a very large, folded, broadside of all the illustrations printed in black and signed by the..... More
Tuscaloosa: Legacy Press, (2000). 5 1/2 x 10. x, 154 pages plus 5 original patterned paper specimens mounted. Quarter black cloth, black & white patterned boards by Gray Parrot. Fine. "Beginning in the 1950s, the American master of wood engraving, John DePol (1913–2004), cut small, endgrain blocks featuring subjects from..... More
Paris: Imprimerie de E. Duverger, 1827. 10 1/2 x 17. Original blue wraps with title & imprint on upper wrap; table of contents on lower wrap. 42 leaves: 1-30, 35-38, (1), 41-44, 48-50 pages, printed rectos only. The Table of contents calls for only 38 pages. The ornaments on these..... More
Rudolstadt: Burgart-Presse, 1997. 8 x 11. 147 pages illustrated throughout. Grey boards printed in white. Fine. Hans Mueller was a master of the woodcut, who specialized in illustrating majory literary works. He also taught graphic arts at Columbia or over 20 years. His best known student was Lynd Ward. A...... More
Petersham: The Lone Oak Press, 2011. 6 1/2 x 11. 26 pages including 7 plates of multi-color wood engravings. Quarter grey morocco & pebble-textured grey boards with circular color engraving inset in upper cover, in navy cloth tray case with leather label. Fine. The Eritrichium nanum is a wildflower "with..... More
NY: Grolier Club, 1996. 9 x 12. An original signed & numbered woodcut of a sunflower behind barbed wire tipped in, (94) pages illustrated. Oatmeal cloth, titled in brown on the spine, paper label on upper cover. Blue boards slipcase with Frasconi's red AF monogram. Fine. An artist's copy (AC)..... More
London: The Fleuron, 1927-1930. Complete in 4 volumes. 7 1/4 x 10 3/4. 75; 90; 78; 71 pages. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings. Volume 1 has two large tipped-in specimens of color engravings printed on fabric by Enid Marx and Eric Ravilious. Cloth & boards, with some wear & discoloration..... More
The Gemini Press, (1934) & (Basilisk Press, 1980). 8 x 13 1/2. Twenty-eight leaves with 23 full page wood engraving. Laid into quarter cloth folder with leather spine label. Fine copy in slipcase. Lacks the separate explanatory booklet. The first book from Hughes-Stanton's press. This is no. 251 of 280..... More
Dallas: Chama Press, 1991. 8 x 11. 48 pages with double spread title and 8 other wood engravings by John DePol, on tan paper. Full green morroco, with DePol patterned endpapers. Fine in tray case, with prospectus. Inscribed on half title to Barron Henderson (son of the publisher) and signed..... More
(Wakefield), Fleece Press, 1992. 8 x 12 1/2. 21 pages, 16 plates of wood engravings. Quarter gold cloth with black & gold Maziarczyk paste paper boards, slipcase. Fine. One of 270 copies. The engravings were printed from the original blocks, in black & dull red, on an 1853 Albion, requiring..... More
Glenwood Landing, 1995. 6 x 10. 3 leaves, patterned wraps from wood engraving by the artist. Fine, with prospectus. Copy "D" inscribed to Lynne & Bob Veatch with "thanks for the wonderful Gordon press." The edition was 100 numbered & signed copies, printed letterpress in 3 warm earth tones. Using..... More
Grapho Editions, 2009. 7 1/2 x 10 1/2. 25 pages illustrated throughout. Blue cloth titled on upper cover. Fine. In these poems about birds, text and images are interwoven into fluid shapes. Marbling, machined wood, and some wood engraving are used with a light touch. "All sorts of shapes and..... More
Cheloniidae Press, 1990. Two vols. Folio, 10 1/2 x 16. Etched frontis, i-(v), 87 French-fold pages. Twenty-one birds and 17 animals are depicted in one or more engravings (55 engravings in all). Each page is set within a red rule border. The appropriate line from Shakespeare is also printed in..... More
