(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
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 2004. Two vols. 6 x 9. 81 pages illustrated with 6 tipped-in color photos. 60 samples of book cloths from 5 producers are mounted in an accordion-fold portfolio. Both volumes in brown silk cloth, leather labels, in a matching slipcase. Fine, with prospectus. A fascinating..... 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
Boston: Harcourt Bindery, 1980. 9 1/2 x 12. Cloth, leather spine label. 25-page essay followed by 99 plates of dies, 2 tipped-in color photographs of stamped bindings. Fine. One of 500 copies, printed at The Heron Press in Dante types, and handbound at The Harcourt Bindery. The plates, which were..... More
Fairleigh Dickinson Library, 1983. 6 1/2 x 12 1/2. 17 pages followed by 9 leaves with 13 mounted specimen of "Fairview" paste paper made in the 1930s by Delight Rushmore Lewis. There are also 5 smaller mounted specimens in the text. Quarter linen and boards. One of 70 copies signed..... 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
(Long Island, ca. 1980). 5 1/2 x 7. 8 pages. Booklet in a loose printed wrap of Howell's hand made paper. The booklet has photographs of six Howell hand-bindings for sketch books using some of his highly textured papers. The wrap is sheet of Howell paper, pastel colored with embedded..... More
(Wakefield), The Fleece Press, (1991). 47 mm x 70 mm (1 3/4 x 2 3/4 inches). 27 leaves illustrated with wood engravings. Floral cloth. Fine. One of 290 set in 8-point Van Dijck at the Rocket Press. More
Krefeld, Germany ca. 1905. 9 3/4 x 12 1/2. 359 pages. Collated complete. Later cloth binding. Text in German, French, English, Spanish, & Italian. Paper is a bit brittle; title & first few leaves are chipped, some foxing, and a couple of tape repairs. Overall good plus. Brass bookbinding ornaments..... More
(Pico Rivera, 1994). 2 1/4 x 2 3/4. 161 pages. Seven wood engravings by John DePol. Gold-printed decorations for each chapter head. Full black morocco with abstract onlays of red & blue morocco, stamped all over with iridescent blue & green dots & one gilt circle, top edge gilt and..... More
NY: The Grolier Club, 2019. 8 x 11. 435 pages. Profusely illustrated, with an Index. Cloth., dust wrapper. Fine. Scholarly exhibition catalogue of some 240 items. The emphasis here is on the bindings, and the book may almost be seen as an illustrated history of bookbinding. More
(Bronxville, 1979). 8vo. 20 page catalogue followed by 26 plates. Quarter green morocco & marbled boards with morocco tips by G. Parrott. Fine. Limited to 300 copies. (Some copies were bound in cloth, some in paper-covered boards.) The plates in this high quality, attractive reprint are superior to those of..... More
Harper Woods: Adagio Press, 1969. 10 x 15. 54 pages, two original leaves. Vellum spine & Cockerel marbled papers over boards by Fritz and Trudi Eberhardt. Recipient of this copy has underlined a few sentences in pencil, and penciled a brief note on rear pastedown. Fine copy with laid-in photograph..... More
NY, 1992. 6 x 9. Catalogue of the 86th Anniversary Exhibition of the Guild of Book Workers. For each of the 49 works exhibited there is a double spread with photographs of the text and of the designer binding. Bound by Peter Verheyen in red chagrin leather with onlays in..... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's, 1978. 9 3/4 x 12 3/4. 61 pages. Quarter morocco and cloth by Gray Parrot. Fine in handsome custom slipcase, with prospectus. One of 200 copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press, signed by Weimann. Twenty-two (20 of which are full-page) marbled specimens include a Turkish..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1985. 6 1/4 x 9 3/4. 161, (2) pages including illustrations & color plates. Morocco and deocorated paper boards. Fine. One of 350 copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press. More
(London, 1881). Facsimile reprint by Plough Press, 1985. 5 x 8. 82 pages plus 38 leaves with 52 mounted marbled paper specimens. Cloth, gilt. Fine. One of 150 copies. The marbled papers by Katherine Davis of Payhembury reproduce the patterns of Woolnough's specimens. Lovely edition of a classic work... More
