Asparagus Valley (Hadley): Double Elephant Press, 2004. 7 1/2 x 10. 16 leaves,many are double and fold out. Printed throughout with wood type & chiaroscuro woodcuts in several colors on Japanese handmade paper. Bound by Mark Tomlinson in die-cut flax fiber printed wraps. In a red flax chemise with ivory..... More
1994. 6 1/4 x 10. Eleven double-spreads accomplished in acrylic, pencil, pen and gold leaf painting, and collage. Calligraphic text. Bound in highly textured, painted boards with an abstract design formed by onlays of various materials. Fine in cloth tray, which has a blind & gilt decoration. Edition of 1..... More
(Nice, 1996). Hand painted and lettered on twelve sheets of heavy Fabriano folded to 10 1/2 x 22 inches. The Biblical text is lettered in the original Greek (in black) and in English (in red). Ornamented with paintings in red, blue, black, & gold leaf. Two of the folders have..... More
Yale Center for British Art, 2002. 6 x 9. 179 pages filled with color illustrations and photographs, and a pop-up of the letter "E." Stiff pictorial wraps. Fine. King provides a brief commentary for each of his 115 works. More
Paris: F. Didot for Lami Denozan, (1828). 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. cxlvi, 48 pages + 11 leaves bearing the lithographs uncolored. Title page & 10 half-page lithographic vignettes by Richard Parkes Bonington (6) and Monnier (4). Bound by Charles de Samblanx in Romantic style in black straight grain morocco..... 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
Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, 2022. Two volumes. 11 x 13 1/2. 633 pages. Double column text. Profusely illustrated, including 22 tipped-in folded prints. Index. Quarter cloth & patterned boards. Each volume in a slipcase. Two corners of one case were bumped in shipping (book not affected); else as new..... More
(NY): Dieu Donne Press & Paper Mill, 1986. 9 x 12. 17 text pages + 2 full page b&w etchings and a double spread color etching. Gosin also created several light-and-shade watermarks which subtly illustrate the text. There's also is a full page light-and-shade watermark reproducing one of the etchings..... More
Stillwater, Maine, 2007. 4 x 6. A one-of-a-kind hand lettered and painted artist's book. Twenty-seven text pages are interspersed with 5 double-spread nature prints created by the sun and enhanced by Leavitt. Bound in sage green linen wraps, and housed in a forest green tray case lined with two colorful..... More
Wakefield: The Fleece Press (1989). 5 x 7 1/2. 56 pages, illustrated with 26 wood engravings printed from the blocks. Morocco & decorated boards. Four proof engravings, numbered & signed, are laid into pocket at rear. Fine in slipcase. No. 18 of 40 deluxe copies. More
Paris, 1855. First ed. 5 3/4 x 9 1/4. x, 440 pages, one double folding, with index. 19th century calf-backd boards with marbled edges. Joints and corners worn; spot on inner margin of a few pages, slight scattered foxing else a clean very good copy. With typographic bookplate of John..... More
Munich: Typographische Gesellschaft, 1964. 8vo. 125 pages beautifully printed and well illustrated. Printed cloth and dj. Fine. More
NY; Marchbanks Press, Fall 1923. The poster measures 17 x 11 1/2. The woodcut is 10 1/4 x 8 1/2. It depicts a mother and baby in Fall colors and Fall attire. The baby's hat is an acorn. The mother's is oak leaves. There is a dusty shadow across the..... 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
London: W. Alard and J. Browne, 1770. First edition. 5 1/4 x 8 1/8. (21 cm) Frontis, (10) Preface, 502, (4) Contents pages + 24 extra leaves of Caslon's ornament specimen. This extra, inserted specimen, printed by T. Wright on rectos only, collates [ ]4, I4, *I4, K-M4. It is..... More
Falkland: Duval & Hamilton, 1969. 7 1/2 x 11 1/2. 145 pages. Initials in blue. Quarter vellum & patterned boards,top edge gilt. As new in slipcase. One of 160 copies signed by Masereel, MacDiarmid, and Hans Mardersteig. Printed at the Officina Bodoni in Dante types on Amalfi handmade paper. Schmoller..... More
Duval & Hamilton (1977). 7 x 10. Engraved portrait, 34 pages. Booklabels of Harold & Nancy Hugo. Quarter vellum & blue pastepaper boards, top edge gilt. Fine in slipcase. No. 22 of 135 numbered copies printed at Officina Bodoni, in honor of the Scottish poet's 85th birthday. Printed on handmade..... More
The Lone Oak Press, (2015). Two volumes. 9 x 7. Frontis engraving, title, (22) pages. Illustrated with 22 wood engravings by the two artists. Bound in chestnut and tan morocco with an architectural design. A portfolio holds an extra suite of all the engravings, each numbered & signed by the..... More
Philadelphia: L. Johnson & Co., 1893. Eighteenth Edition, Revised & Enlarged. 4 1/2 x 7 1/2. Frontis of MacKellar, 348 pages, (4) pages ads. Beveled navy cloth boards, all edges dyed red Light wear, near fine. The last edition (only slightly different from the 17th ed.) of this popular American..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1893. 5 x 8. 183 pages + 8 plates. In a Wiener Werkstatte binding (ca. 1920) of black morocco and golden morocco stamped in gold geometric designs, top edge gilt, cloth endpapers in large black & white floral pattern. "Wiener Wekstatte" stamped in gold inside..... 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
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, 1996. Two vols. 4to. 288; 238 pages. Fully illustrated. Indexed. Printed wraps. Very good. A joy to browse through, and drool over (no drools on these near fine copies!). More
London, 1987. 4to. 285 pages fully illustrated. Indexed. Printed wraps. Very good. This volume begins with Roger Payne and goes through Bernard Middleton. More
Verona, 1973. 7 x 10. Two-page introduction followed by 12 full page woodcuts. Mardersteig's commentary is printed on each facing page. One leaf of contents. Wraps. Near fine. One of 300 copies printed at the Officina Bodoni. Masereel's woodcuts (which first appeared in the 1929 "Operation of a Hand Press")..... More
