Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1997. 11 x 16 1/2. (11) pages of text followed by 26 plates of etchings (most in color). Each copper engraving is numbered & signed by Baskin. Full stained green vellum by Daniel Gehnrich, gilt title & lizard on upper cover. In quarter green vellum & cloth..... More
1968. Original wood engraving, matted. 14 x 8.9 cm. No. 14 of 100, signed by Baskin. Fern 506. More
New Haven, 1967. 6 x 9 1/2. Color frontis by Blake, 27, (1) pages, including 9 plates. Brown morocco & boards. Spine slightly lighter with a few very tiny spots. Very good in paper slipcase. No. 95 of 300 copies printed at the Officina Bodoni in Dante type. Leonard Baskin's..... More
Frankfurt, 1962. Broadside/Poster. 34 x 27. Matted, glazed, in a handsome cherry frame. The visible portion measures 33 x 24 inches. A stylized black tree on a soft green background, displaying the development of Bauer type faces, printed in various colors. With about 60 faces, those on the trunk are..... 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
(ca. 1840-1860). 5 x 7. An elegant card with a view of this girls' school in the medieval Flemish town of Coutray. This sizeable gated school is surrounded by formal plantings of trees and gardens. The view is enclosed in an elaborate foliate border chromolithographed in green, blue, pale red..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 2002. Two vols. 9 x 12 1/2. 99 pages plus 24 unpaginated inserts (some multi-page, one foldout broadside) of original leaves, paper specimens, and photographs. Quarter morocco & Japanese cloth. An inch-thick portfolio contains leaves & signatures from previous B&B books, prospectuses, large posters, and..... 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
Paris: Gruel & Englemann, 418 Rue St. Honoré, ca. 1900. 4 1/2 x 6. 176 pages, each with a different medieval style border, + 4 pages for family records & a leaf with Engelmann's printer's mark in gold. Embossed silk pastedown is stamped in gold "Au Cheval de Bronze/ Lyon-Bellecour."..... More
PA, 1969-2005. Various sizes. Very good to fine. An attractive sampling of Henry Morris' design and printing. More
U. of Delaware Library, 1988. 6 x 9 1/2. 55 pages, 1 tipped in specimen by Henry Morris. Illustrated. Reproduction Dutch gilt wraps. Fine. This copy is inscribed by Henry Morris to Lili Wronker, who has lettered the spine. Lili Wronker was a calligraher, who illustrated at least one of..... More
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 1978. 7 x 8 1/2. 12, (1) pages. Pastepaper boards. Fine. With the hand colored prospectus. A journal of Blinn's former country life, raising ducks & geese. One of 250 copies designed, illustrated, printed in Spectrum type, and hand colored by Carol Blinn. Inscribed by Blinn to..... More
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 2018. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. 102 pages with 55 color illustrations of commercial work and photographs of the printers. Two colors of Japanese cloth over boards, with spine & cover labels. Fine. Carol's memoirs of some 45 years as a printer, from her apprenticeship at the..... More
Los Angeles: Kenneth Karmiole, 1981. 9 x 12. 27, (5) pages. The original leaf is laid loose into a folder which is bound into the book, making the leaf easy to remove. Cloth. Spine faded, inconspicuous book label, else fine. This handsome Aldine leaf in Roman type, has paragraph marks..... More
Northampton, 2004. 8 x 9 1/2. Tipped in wood engraving by Leonard Baskin of a pomegranate in red, 133 pages illustrated throughout. Wraps. Fine in clamshell case by BB. Inscribed by B. Blumenthal & David Bourbeau. This is partially a census of Northampton area book workers from 1954-2004. Some 80..... More
Boston: Impressions Workshop, Cricket Press, 1965. 9 x 9 1/2. 17 French-fold leaves. A color engraving (on the left) faces a poem (on the right). Brown boards, side-stitched, label on upper cover, marbled endpapers. Small bookplates of Harold Hugo & family member on blank. A 45-RPM recording of the poet..... More
Paris: Gruel & Engelmann, 1862. 5 x 6. CXCII pages, each richly illuminated by chromolithography in colors and gold + 12 full page illustrations, and terminal pages to record family births, marriages, etc. Each leaf is tipped to a hinge, allowing the book to be opened flat. Bound by Gruel..... More
Tours: Alfred Mame et Fils, (1874). 4 1/2 x 6. (xvi), 516, 48 pages. Deep brown morocco, red morocco doublures gilt, all edges gilt. Signed by the binder Auguste Petit; rear doublure signed by the finisher Wampflog. In quarter leather & marbled board chemise and matching repaired slipcase. These have..... 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
(Manchester, England), 1904-July 1914. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. Most issues are bound with original wraps into quarter morocco & woven cloth by Edward McLean. Three issues are in their wraps, not bound into the single volume: I, 17 and II, 4 & 5. The separately printed Index to volume..... More
Boston: Boss, 2004. 9 1/4 x 12 1/4. 140 pages with 75 illustrations (29 in color). Cloth gilt. A comprehensive history of the Club Bindery and its later incarnations is followed by detailed descriptions of the bindings, brass plate dies, tools, sketches, photographs, and binding furniture. Designed by Jerry Kelly..... More
February 1858-December 1859. Twenty-three issues. 10 x 13. Each issue is 4 pages. The first and last pages contained news, articles on the history of printing, and classified ads, printed in 3 columns. The centerfolds are specimens of the foundry's new type faces (sometimes set as text), "cuts," ornaments, and..... More
Seal Harbor, Maine: High Loft Press, (1982). Two volumes. 10 x 14. The book of (62) pages is illustrated throughout with line cuts adapted from Albrecht Durer (1497). Bound by Gray Parrot in quarter morocco with gilt title & blue cloth boards. WITH: A Portfolio of Six Etchings, Accompanying The..... 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
Williamstown, 2005. 4to. 451 pages profusely illustrated. Index. Red cloth. Fine in slipcase. English language edition. Numerous essays about this outstanding private press operating from 1913 to 1931. More
