Santa Cruz, 2002. A scroll book 11 inches high, opening to 25 feet. The scroll opens with a flap of papyrus. The end of the scroll is secured to a brass rod with finial. The illustrations are reproductions of the first accurate images of the Tower of the Winds (James..... More
Elmwood: Raven Editions, 1988. 6 x 9. 43 pages. Grey morocco spine, lavender & grey pastepaper boards. Fine copy with the prospectus. No. 4 of 14 presentation copies, signed by Ford.Designed and printed letterpress by Carol Blinn at Warwick Press. Carol also made the pastepaper. Bound by Sarah Creighton. (The..... More
London, 1819. 6 x 10. Half title, title, 1-59/b, 57*-59*, 60-72 pages plus six plates, one folding, with some original tissue guards. Original plain boards, rebacked after the text block was stapled; new endpapers, extremities worn; some offsetting from plates, occasional light foxing. While the binding is shabby, the text..... More
Dallas: Bridwell Library, 1986. 4to. xiv, 256 pp, 24 plates. Quarter cloth & decorated boards. Small, stray pencil mark on spine. Fine. One of 750 copies handsomely printed in black, blue & red, by W. T. Taylor. Checklists, chapter on Subiaco type, correspondence from the Ashendene archives... More
Oxford, 1977. 4to. 73 pages, 9 plates. Blue cloth. Very good copy of an excellent reference. John Baptist Jackson, Le Blon, Ploos van Amstel, Ugo da Carpi, Andreani, William Blake. More
1958. 11 x 8. 15 leaves Frenchfold with ten fullpage woodcuts of South American birds. Each hand colored bird faces a paragraph of text. Blue boards printed across both covers with a woodcut of migrating birds in flight. A bit of pinpoint foxing on the fore edge; all else fine..... More
(South Norwalk, 1969). 9 1/2 x 13. Nineteen double leaves with 19 color woodcuts tipped onto each page. Each woodcut is signed. Loose as issued in turquoise cloth tray case by Moroquain Bindery (George Wieck). The case is covered with paper marbled by Frasconi. Fine. Walt Whitman was a favorite..... More
(South Norwalk, 1969 & 2001). 9 x 12 1/4. There are 15 color woodcuts signed "Frasconi 1969." The first is mounted on the portfolio cover. Fourteen are printed on thin board with a blind-embossed numeral in lower margin. The prints are in paper wrapper listing their titles; this is printed..... More
(South Norwalk, 1994). 11 x 15 accordion-fold. Fourteen leaves attached at fore-edges open to 174 inches long. Ten woodcuts and other reliefs & embossings. Each leaf of Arches paper is painted or printed deep blue or purple or black, sometimes black-on-black. The text is white. Tiny holes, through which light..... 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
Private Libraries Association, 2019. 5 1/2 x 8 1/5. 128 pages illustrated. An original leaf from the Caradoc "The Collects from the Book of Common Prayer," 1901. Red cloth gilt. Fine. There is a bibliography of the 23 books & prospectuses produced at the Press. An offprint from the The..... More
Worcester: AAS, 1986. 7 1/4 x 10 1/4. xxiv, 230 pages. Cloth, gilt. Fine. One of the seminal works in the area. 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
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 by Enid Marx and Eric Ravilious, done for the Curwen Press. Mostengravings are printed in black. Cloth..... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1987. 6 1/4 x 9 1/2. 130 pages. Dos-a-Dos binding by Silvia Rennie (signed in front hinge) of full green morocco tooled in gilt with 5 onlays of binders' brown morocco "scraps" on both covers. Part I has one darker morocco piece, while part II as..... More
Northampton, 1965. 8 x 11. 16 leaves on various colors of Fabriano & Japanese papers. There are 17 line drawings. Wraps. Fine in slightly chipped slipcase. One of 500 copies, this specially signed by Leonard Baskin. Some of the drawings are titled (e.g. "after Leonrdo," "The torment of Albrecht Durer,"..... More
Northampton, 1951-1992. Prospectuses include "The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin" (stained), Zapf's Civilité Disclosed," "The Gehenna Shakespeare," "Eemis Stane," "Terminalia ," "Gypsy," "Icones Librorum Artifices (Second Series)," "Demons, Imps, & Fiends," and Flosculi Sententiarum." All were printed at the press, with illustrations by Leonard Baskin. There is also a prospectus..... More
Hamburg & Munich, ca. 1913. A collection of about 75 specimens of design & typefaces. The 4-page specimens are tipped in, and the single page specimens are mounted, onto 34 leaves of good quality black stock. Bound into flexible cloth boards with string ties, printed cover label. A little extremity..... More
Rheinbach, 2007. 11 x 14. 16 leaves, pulp paper paintings by Gerard meander through the text. Green cloth covered in a pulp paper design, with pulp paper endpapers. Fine in green cloth tray case. Laid in is a typed translation of this poem "The Art of Society." "Grünbein’s poetry is..... More
(Risbury): The Whittington Press, (2018). Four parts. 9 1/2 x 13. (iv), 86 pages illustrated with linocuts and wood-engravings from the original blocks + 2 pages of photos & 12 pages of giclée reproductions of Gerry's pochoirs. Rear pocket contains facsimile letter. Full citron morocco by The Fine Bindery... More
Vienna, 1909. 7 1/4 x 6 1/4. 14 leaves of heavy stock, with tissue guards: dedication to the Ladies, tribute to Haydn, and 12 color lithographs, hinged into binding. Bound by Wilhelm Melzer in white kidskin, upper cover richly stamped in gold, black & red; elaborate endpapers; all edges gilt..... More
Wellingborough: Skelton, 1983. 10 1/2 x 13 1/2. xxiv, 545 pages. Cream cloth gilt spine, black blindstamped cloth sides. Fine in slipcase. One of 1350 copies on Mohawk Superfine. Reproductions of all of Gill's wood engravings (with over 80 not in Physick) from the best available prints, in actual size..... More
(Vashon Island: Foolsgold Studio), 2007. 9 x 15. Most of the book’s painted, stiffened fabric pages have original collages of painted cloth, wood veneer, brass, cork, linen thread and acrylic paint - all materials used in boat building. Quarter leather with painted cloth over sculpted boards with inlays. Fine in..... More
Cleveland, 2002. 12 x 14. (28) pages on 14 leaves of aluminum on paper hinges. Quarter morocco binding with aluminum sides; aluminum felt-lined tray case with aluminum label. As new, with the 4-page prospectus, Notice on interleaving, and the rare waxing kit. "A book of paintings, material studies and poetry..... More
