(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
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
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
(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
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1985. 6 1/4 x 9 3/4. 161, (2) pages including illustrations & color plates. Morocco and decorated paper boards. Fine, with prospectus. Fourteen of KInder's bindings are shown in full color. There s also a catalogue of Kinder's hand binding tools. One of 350 copies..... More
