(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
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
London, 2014. 4to. Decorated wraps. 79-page catalogue of this traveling exhibition, fully illustrated in color. Fine. WITH: The Society of Bookbinders International Bookbinding Competition 2015. 4to, wraps, 63 pages illustrated in color. WITH: Guild of Book Workers Journal 2010-2011. 96 pages illustrated throughout. More
Jamaica, NY, 1903. 6 x 9. 77 pages, plus 35 superb chromolithographs of bindings. Original ribbed blue cloth gilt. Plates have offset as usual; something acidic has offset onto pastedown. Light wear at extremities, but a clean & bright copy. One of 200 (of 238) numbered copies printed at the..... 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
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
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
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
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
London, 1996. Two vols. 4to. 288; 238 pages. Fully illustrated. Indexed. Printed wraps. Very good. A joy to browse through, and drool over (no drools on these near fine copies!). More
London, 1987. 4to. 285 pages fully illustrated. Indexed. Printed wraps. Very good. This volume begins with Roger Payne and goes through Bernard Middleton. More
London, 1974. Quarto. 160 pages profusely illustrated with color & b/w plates. Very good copy in cloth & dustwrapper. More
Leipzig, 1925 and 1933. Two volumes 7 1/2 x 10. 208 and 169 double-column pages. Uniformly bound in half green morocco marled boards, t. e. g., matching marbled endpapers, exlibris of Julia Wightman. Fine. Unusually nice copy of a seminal work. More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1995. 6 1/2 x 10. 105 pages, including photographic illustrations & eight color plates of bindings. Quarter morocco, sides printed to look like a Middleton binding, slipcase. Fine. With the lovely B&B lapel pin. An enameled lapel pin reproducing Middleton's binding for Henry Morris' own..... More
British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 1998. 3rd ed, Revised & Expanded. 8 x 11. xv, 304 pages, illustrated. Bound by Monique Lallier in full chocolate calf, onlaid with 6 large sections from three old leather bindings of morocco and marbled calf; multicolored headbands, top edges gilt. Fine in tray..... 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
Wiesbaden, 1987. 6 1/2 x 9n 1/2. 511 pages. Cloth. Fine. Comprehensive bibliography of the literature of bookbinding. Over 8000 entries, plus indices. More
New Castle, 1990. 7 1/2 x 10. 57 pages, loose errata slip. Cloth & patterned boards. With 9 original samples of Rizzi patterned papers, printed in the 1930's from 19th c. blocks. Fine, with prospectus. One of 215 copies printed at Bird & Bull Press. More
2018. Third edition. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2. 234 pages including 25 color plates. Wraps. Fine. WITH: Ralph Thompson, American Literary Annusl & Gift Books 1825-1865. 1967 reprint of the 1936 edition. More
The British Library, (1984). 8 1/2 x 11. Color frontis, xii, 407 pages. Numerous plates & illustrations within the text. Cloth. Spine lightly faded else fine in slipcase. Lengthy addenda (1991) laid in. More
London: British Library, 1991. 8 1/2 x 10 1/2. xiv, 490 pages. Profusely illustrated catalogue of over 800 bindings. Numerous appendices. Fine. More
Paris, 1898. 8 x 10 1/2. vi, 274 pages profusely illustrated with bindings. Original Art Nouveau printed wraps by Louis Rhead are bound into three-quarter morocco & peacock marbled sides, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Upper tips worn through, light wear otherwise; page edges lightly toned. A very good copy..... 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
Phila: Library Comapny, 1990. 8 x 10. xiv, 231 pages with 226 illustrations of bindings and rubbings, each described. Cloth. Fine. Introduction describes methods, materials, styles, binders and die-engravers. Indexed. More
