London, 1981-2000. 8 1/2 x 11. Issues vary from 75 to 130 pages, plus Indexes and adverts. Profusely illustrated, much in color. Pictorial stiff wraps. Near fine run of the first 20 numbers. This annual treasure-trove features a different binder in each issue; however, the contents cover all aspects of..... More
(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
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
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
Np, 1989. 11 1/2 x 12 1/2. Eighteen leaves, each painted a background color. The text pages, presented as double spreads, are painted in pale pinks and purples. Vibrant, colorful images flow throughout in ink and mixed media: maps and charts, indecipherable hieroglyphics, "cribriform" glyphs, symbols and graphs, mathematical formulae..... 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
NY, (1988). 10 x 10. (110) pages Printed wraps. Good used copy. An exhibition catalogue of contemporary French bindings at the Grolier Club. Describes 102 bindings, most of which are illustrated in color. 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
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
(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
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
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
