Unica T. Ten Years of Artists' Books.
1996. 4to. Fully illustrated exhibition catalogue. Decorated boards. Text in English and German. More
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THE OLD STILE PRESS... in the twentieth Century, A Bibliography 1979-1999.
(Llandogo: Old Stile Press, 2000). Two volumes. 12 x 16 and 8 x 11. 135 pages, illustrated throughout. Pictorial boards. With 59 ephemera. A sturdy cloth tray, lined with Robin Tanner's patterned papers, houses the book in a fitted compartment. The three categories of ephemera are in a slide-out tray..... More
REYNOLDS STONE ENGRAVED LETTERING IN WOOD.
(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
English Writing-Masters and their Copy-Books 1570-1800. A Biographical Dictionary & a Bibliography.
Cambridge, 1931. 9 x 12. xxxix, 225 pages + 81 plates. Buckram spine gilt & marbled cloth sides, top edge gilt. Light edge wear; contents fine. Illustrated with Portraits of the MAsters and specimens of their hands. Introduction on the development of handwriting by Stanley Morison. More
THREE LIONS AND THE CROSS OF LORRAINE. Bartholomaeus Anglicus, John of Trevisa, John Tate, Wynkyn de Worde and De Proprietatibus Rerum. A Leaf Book with Essays by Howell Heaney, Lotte Hellinga and Richard Hills.
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press: 1992. 8 1/2 x 12. 40, (26) pages plus leaf. Quarter morocco. Fine. The leaf included here bears a large, clear, centered watermark of Tate's mill. One of 138 numbered copies, with a fine leaf, ca. 1495, from Wynkyn de Worde's edition of Bartholomaeus Anglicus'..... More
Dutch Types Used in the English Book of Common Prayer 1911-1930.
Baltimore: Hill Press, 2014 (actually 2020). 7 x 9 3/4. vi, 44, (1) pages illustrated with several tipped in photos. Title page wood engraving by Chris Manson. Red cloth, paper spine & cover labels. Fine. WITH 11 loose broadside specimens of type and prayer books. These range in size from..... More
SEANCE FOR A MINYAN.
Northampton: Double Elephant Press, 2001. 8 x 15. Ten poems by Hecht and 25 intaglios by Kuch appear in a series of 12 fold-out triptychs. In a black silk tri-fold binding which supports the fold-out sheets. A red window in the upper cover reveals the half-title. Fine in slipcase. Hecht's..... More
SEANCE FOR A MINYAN.
Northampton: Double Elephant Press, 2001. 8 x 15. Ten poems by Hecht and 25 intaglios by Kuch appear in a series of 12 fold-out triptychs.Two etchings (black aquatints or color copper-plate etchings) flank each poem. Hand printed in 16 point Spectrum on handmade Velke-Losiny paper. In a black silk tri-fold..... More
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GRABHORN PRESS 1915-1940.
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1940. 10 x 14). xv, (4), 194 pages + 8 pages of reproductions + 4 bifolia of original leaves. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. Laid in are 2 prepublication pieces and 10 extra original leaves. Prior owner has placed a light pencil check next to the many titles he owned..... More
Maria Chapdelaine. Récit du Canada Français.
Paris: Editions du Polygone, 1927. 9 x 11. 207 pages with 25 lithographs and decorative initials by Alexandre Alexeieff. Pictorial wraps, glassine dust wrapper, in custom board slipcase. Fine. No. 402 of 650 copies. "A novel embodying the spirit of French Canada at its most lyrical, was based by author..... More
Vers un Monde Volage. Illustré de dix eaux-fortes originales par Marcel Gromaire.
Paris: Marcel Seheur, 1926. 218 pages plus 10 aquatints. Original wraps (slightly soiled, small piece missing at spine base). The text is unopened, mark on one page, page edges dusty. Very good copy. One of 270 copies. Gromaire was a post-Cubist painter, watercolorist, and printmaker associated with the Social Realist..... More
Meridan/Stinehour.
Lunenberg: Stinehour Press, 1982. Two posters, intended as a pair. 30 x 10. Offset lithography (Meriden) and letterpress (Stinehour. Stephen Stinehour is the model in the Meriden poster; John McCormack models for Stinehour. Stephen Harvard did the lettering and the alphabet. Fine. Alan Fern, "Lance Hidy's Posters" pages 48 &..... More
Moral Reflections on the Short Life of the Ephemeron.
Boston: Godine, 1970. 5 1/4 x 8. 8 leaves with 3 delicate etchings and two wood engravings. The mayflies' wings are hand painted with tiny brushes. Brown linen, spine label. Cloth tray case with leather spine label (light wear) by Arno Werner. Bookplate residue and pencil erasure on front pastedown..... More
The Literature of Printing. A Catalogue of the Library Illustrative of the History and Art of Typography, Chalcography, and Lithography of Richrd M. Hoe.
London, Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1877. 4 1/4 x 6 3/4. Frontis of Hoe's high speed printing press, 149 pages on Whatman handmade paper. Rebound by the Water Street Bindery in period morocco & red leather label, Nevins marbled paper sides, new endpapers, top edge graphited. Untrimmed edges..... More
John Howard Benson 1901-1956. With a Preface by Lawrence C. Wroth and an Introduction by Rudolph Ruzicka.
NY: Typophiles, 1957. 4 3/4 x 7. xii, 57 pages. Bound in full brown morocco, cover gilt with a feather quill and "HB" by Arno Werner. Bound for John Peckham with his initials in gold inside front cover. In quarter morocco tray case using the decorated paper from the Typophiles..... More
She is my Bright and Smiling and Shy Dear. Poems.
(Easthampton): Warwick Press, 1985. 8 1/2 x 11. (10), 11-63, (1) pages printed rectos only. Japanese paper boards, with title on spine in three small colored paper onlays. Fine. One of 75 copies signed by Hopkins and Carol Blinn, who designed, printed, bound, and illustrated the volume with four water..... More
THE PRIVATE TYPECASTERS. Preserving the craft of hot-metal type into the twenty-first century. With woodcuts by Christopher Manson.
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
Small Wood Type at Shooting Star Press.
(Little Rock), 2021. 8 1/2 x 11. 15 leaves printed rectos only. Printed wraps. Fine. The 13 alphabets are presented with a color border, each different. One of 200 copies beautifully printed on a Vandercook. This book is a supplement to John Horn's magnificent broadside wood type specimens, produced from..... More
Apple of Carthage.
Portland, 2001. 13 1/2 x 9 1/2. Title leaf, 12 etchings of pomegranates (measuring 2 1/2 x 2 1/2) with tissue guards, colophon leaf. Laid into a pomegranate-colored cloth case. Fine, with artist's statement laid in. "I am intrigued by organic objects, their structures and life cycles. The pomegranate I...... More
Technical Terms of the Printing Industry.
St. Gallen, 1969. Fifth revised ed. 4 x 6. Cloth, 195 pages printed in double columns, in five languages. Illustrated. Very good copy of a book you can keep in your pocket. An invaluable little work, consisting of a picture section in English, French & german, and a dictionary which..... More
The Life Work of Dard Hunter. A Progressive Illustrated Assemblage of His Works as Artist, Craftsman, Author, Papermaker, and Printer.
Chillicothe, 1981-83. Two volumes. 12 x 17. Frontis, (8), 198; frontis, (9), 131 pages, plus numerous inserts. Full chestnut morocco by Gray Parrot, ruled in black & gilt, Hunter armorial device gilt on Vol. I, Hunter watermark gilt on Vol. 2. Each volume in a cloth tray case with morocco..... More
DARD HUNTER & SON. With a Foreword and Notes by Henry Morris.
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1998. 9 x 12 1/2. 165 pages including thirty pages of black and white illustrations, thirty tip-ins, many of which are in full color, seven original folio or quarto leaves from Mountain House books, and four original light-and-shade watermaked papers made by all three generations..... More
DARD HUNTER & SON. With a Foreword and Notes by Henry Morris.
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1998. 9 x 12 1/2. 165 pages (including 30 tip-ins: original folio & quarto leaves from Mountain House books, 4 original light-and-shade watermarked papers made by all three Hunters, color photos, and 30 pages of b&w illustrations). Quarter black morocco & golden silk cloth, red..... More
PAPERMAKING BY HAND IN INDIA.
NY: Pynson Printers, 1939. 9 x 11. 129, (5), pages followed by 27 specimens of Indian handmade papers, some colored. Quarter black leather & India-print cloth. A few small chips to leather spine & rubbed rear joint; bookplate on pastedown; contents are fine; worn slipcase is missing the bottom panel..... More
A PAPERMAKING PILGRIMAGE TO JAPAN, KOREA AND CHINA.
NY: Pynson Printers, 1936. 9 x 11. 148 pages + numerous photogravure plates + 51 annotated specimens. Bound by Gerhard Gerlach in black Oasis Niger spine & boards printed with an old Korean woodblock; tooled in gold & red. Bookplate of K. S. Maclachlan. A few tiny scrapes to spine..... More