(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 about THE BOOKBINDING TRADES JOURNAL. 31 issues
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, and printed in an edition of 500 copies. More about BOUND TO BE THE BEST: The Club Bindery. Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Grolier Club
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 about SON OF THE BOOKBINDER
Paris: Librairie Garnier Frères, nd (ca. 1920). Two volumes. 4 1/2 x 7. 208; 205 pages. Front blank bears penciled list of French terms translated into English. Original wraps bound into an unsigned binding of green morocco tooled with Tudor roses & leaves, spine & lower cover with gilt roses... More about Manuel Pratique de l'Ouvrier Relieur
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 about ENDGRAIN DESIGNS AND REPETITIONS. The Pattern Papers of John DePol
Los Angeles: Dawson's Bookshop, 1983. 8 1/2 x 11. xiii, 190 pages, color frontis, 5 leaves of plates (3 in color) and 6 samples of original marbling. Oatmeal cloth with inset marbled specimen by Rubovitz. Fine. One of 850 numbered copies. Inscribed by the author in the colophon. More about MARBLING: A HISTORY AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY
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 about An Essay on the Development & Usage of Brass Plate Dies, including a catalogue Raisonné from...
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 about PASTE PAPERS OF THE GOLDEN HIND PRESS
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 about Traité de la Reliure de Livres
(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 imbedded... More about The Art of the Book--"Sketchbooks."
Boston: L. C. page, nd. 4 x 6. 264 pages followed by a catalogue of other titles in this series of "Dainty Gift Books." Bound in ivorine (celluloid) with fluted edges gilt, hand painted with the scene of a fireplace, candle, and gentleman's cigar; stabbed & tied with ribbon. Very... More about Reveries of a Bachelor
(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 about The Art of Binding Books
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 ornaments for... More about CATALOG C
Gloucestershire: Whittington Press, 1987. Two vols. 7 1/2 x 10 1/2. xii, 105 pages plus plates (mostly in color). Included in the pagination are 32 tipped-in large specimens by 16 Curwen artists, with notes about each on the facing page. Quarter morocco & patterned paper boards. Matching board portfolio containing... More about A New Specimen of Curwen Pattern Papers
(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 about YOU CAN JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER. A Brief Survey of Materials
Bird & Bull Press, 1991. 6 x 9. 79 pages (52 text pages, 12 mounted specimens). Quarter cloth & marbled boards, leather spine label. As new. One of 250 copies. "Spanish techniques differ from regular marbling. They are a lot more intricate, complex, and require mush more concentration." "I have... More about VARIETIES OF SPANISH MARBLING
(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 the orig. 1900 printing. More about A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS BOUND BY S. T. PRIDEAUX BETWEEN MDCCCXC and MDCCCC WITH TWENTY-SIX...
Boston: F. H. Gilson Co., 1905. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4. Frontis with printed guard, facs. letter mounted, xvi, tipped-in map, 452 pages. Publisher's half morocco & cloth, top edge gilt. Spine a bit faded, some extremity wear, contents fine. Very good. There are 60 samples of binding cloth mounted... More about THE BOOK OF SPECIMENS STANHOPE PRESS
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 about C-S THE MASTER CRAFTS MAN
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1976. 6 x 9. 68 pp. Quarter morocco and marbled boards. Fine. One of 250 copies printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press. More about The Mysterious Marbler
Vermont: Janus Press, 2002. 7 1/2 x 10. 141 pages. Wraps. Accompanied by 16 booklets demonstrating the binding structures employed in 16 Janus Press books. These 4 x 5 booklets, using various colored papers & tyvek, are contained in 4 paper slipcases. All housed in sturdy cloth clamshell box. Fine... More about Woven and Interlocking Book Structures from the Janus, Steiner, and Gefn Presses
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 about MARBLED PAPERS. Being a Collection of Twenty-two Contemporary Hand-Marbled Papers, showing a...
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1987. 7 x 10. 106 pages. 13 marbled specimens. Quarter morocco, marbled boards. Fine with the prospectus. First publication of a manuscript (Lyon, ca. 1642) on Turkish marbling. "The best Method of making Marbled Paper" from Journal Oeconomique 1758. The Marbler of Paper from Diderot-Alembert... More about THREE EARLY FRENCH ESSAYS ON PAPER MARBLING 1642-1765
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 about LOUIS HERMAN KINDER AND FINE BOOKBINDING IN AMERICA
(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 about THE WHOLE ART OF MARBLING
