Los Angeles: Kenneth Karmiole, 1981. 9 x 12. 27, (5) pages. The original leaf is laid loose into a folder which is bound into the book, making the leaf easy to remove. Cloth. Spine faded, inconspicuous book label, else fine. This handsome Aldine leaf in Roman type, has paragraph marks..... More
Andover: Whittington Press, 1992. Two volumes. 9 x 12 1/2. Photographic frontis, xvi, 225 pages, 2 photographic plates, 8 tipped-in original leaves, original wood engraving, and honey label. Quarter vellum & marbled boards. A separate cloth & boards portfolio holds 20 original specimens of Stanbrook Abbey printing (both ephemera and..... More
NY: American Printing History Association, 2002. 6 x 9. xv, 175 pages with numerous illustrations in the original colors, and 3 tipped-in original leaves. Indexed. Hand bound in quarter rose cloth & boards. Fine in slipcase. One of 50 "special" copies signed by the author. (There were also 450 regular..... More
Private Libraries Association, 2019. 5 1/2 x 8 1/5. 128 pages illustrated. An original leaf from the Caradoc "The Collects from the Book of Common Prayer," 1901. Red cloth gilt. Fine. There is a bibliography of the 23 books & prospectuses produced at the Press. An offprint from the The..... More
San Francisco: John Howell Books, 1977. Folio (10 x 14). xxx, 117 pages + inserted illustrations and original leaves. Quarter green morocco & printed cloth. A couple of light scuffs to spine; but a fine copy of an exceedingly handsome book. Printed by Andrew Hoyem in Franciscan types in black..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press: 1992. 8 1/2 x 12. 40, (26) pages plus leaf. Quarter morocco. Fine. The leaf included here bears a large, clear, centered watermark of Tate's mill. One of 138 numbered copies, with a fine leaf, ca. 1495, from Wynkyn de Worde's edition of Bartholomaeus Anglicus'..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1998. 9 x 12 1/2. 165 pages (including 30 tip-ins: original folio & quarto leaves from Mountain House books, 4 original light-and-shade watermarked papers made by all three Hunters, color photos, and 30 pages of b&w illustrations). Quarter black morocco & golden silk cloth, red..... More
Sandy Hook: Chiswick Bookshop, 1990. 10 x 14. 112 pages. With an original leaf from The Psalter (431/432) printed on vellum. Cloth, leather spine label, slipcase. Fine copy. A fascinating history of Updike's magnum opus, from The Merrymount Press. J. P. Morgan sponsored a competition to design and print the..... More
Meriden: Bayberry Hill Press, 1969. 9 x 12. 76 pages with numerous tipped in photos, reproductions, type specimens, and 16 original leaves from Bayberry books. Printed blue boards, stapled, spine covered with blue binders' tape. The staples have rusted, tips lightly worn, some of the mounted specimens are loosening from..... More
Pomona: Kelly-Winterton Press, 2004. 51/2 x 8 1/2. ix, 56, (2) pages plus 56 plates, four original leaves tipped in. Quarter red leather & boards, slipcased. Fine. One of 25 copies (total edition was 198 copies) with 4 original leaves tipped-in. Arranged chronologically, Kelly's long-needed Checklist expands and greatly revises..... More
Pomona: Kelly-Winterton Press, 2004. 51/2 x 8 1/2. ix, 56, (2) pages plus 56 plates, four original leaves tipped in. Full green morocco gilt, slipcased. Fine. Edition A. One of 6 signed & numbered copies (of 198), with four "more interesting" original leaves tipped-in. Arranged chronologically, the Checklist expands and..... More
Dawson's Book Shop: Los Angeles, 1966. 11 x 1/2 x 16 1/2. Frontis, 73 pages illustrated with 22 tipped in examples of Korean types. Seven of these are facsimiles and 15 are original leaves. Cloth-backed boards covered in embossed yellow paper typical of old Korean books, in a worn slipcase..... More
Andoversford: Whittington Press, ( 1989). 13 x 19. x, 20 pages + 4 pages of photographs + 7 large sheets (folded) of original Bawden wallpapers. Cloth spine, boards covered in reproduction "birds' nest" wallpaper. Lightly bumped at spine base, otherwise fine in very good but spotted slipcase. These wallpapers created..... More
Heavenly Monkey, 2020. 6 x 9. 114 pages + 8 leafs of proofs of the book’s illustrations printed on F. J. Head paper. Illustrated with type specimens + an original tipped-in leaf brief, light. Bound by Claudia Cohen in flexible vellum with single gilt rule & gilt titled spine, in..... More
Heavenly Monkey, 2020. 6 x 9. 114 pages illustrated with type specimens + an original tipped-in leaf (waterstained at top). Cloth-backed boards, spine label. Fine. Griffo cut all the types--Roman, Greek, & Hebrew--used by the printer Aldus. The celebrated "Aldine italic" was Griffo's creation. The first half of this book..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1988. 9 1/2 x 12. 103 pages. Quarter morocco and pastepaper boards. With a cloth covered portfolio containing a generous amount of ephemera and sheets from books. Both are contained in a cloth clamshell box. Fine, with prospectus. One of 300 copies, printed on damped..... More
(North Hills): Bird & Bull Press, 1980. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2. 108 pages. Morocco & decorated boards, with portfolio of specimens, in clamshell case (10 x 12 1/2). Spine slightly darker (as usual, from binding glue) else fine, with prospectus. One of 140 (of 350) with the separate portfolio..... More
(Leicestershire), 1986. Three volumes, each measuring 5 1/2 x 6, are bound in wrappers reproducing the original ones. All laid into a quarto-sized portfolio of cloth & marbled boards. Also laid in are a leaf of letterpress describing the three works, and an original anastatic print. Fine. The leaf is..... More
Vancouver: Heavenly Monkey Press, 2019. 10 x 15. 18 + (10) pages, with an original leaf from the Doves Bible and another from the Kelmscott Golden Legend. Title, section headings, initial letters, flourishes, and page numbers are calligraphed in red (with touches of liquid gold) by Martin Jackson. Bound by..... More
Midnight Paper Sales & Solmentes Press, 2003. 9 1/2 x 13. 153 pages. Illustrated with 14 color linocuts by Esslemont, 3 color wood engravings by Schanilec (including a 33-inch folding panorama), 10 tipped-in color ink jet images, and 6 original leaves. Bound by David Esslemont in laminated bevelled boards covered..... More
Stockholm (WI): Midnight Paper Sales, 2000. 9 x 14. Two volumes. 76 pages with 24 illustrations, including facsimiles, a few tipped-in specimens, and 7 color wood engravings by Schanilec. Quarter leather and silk cloth. A generous 45 pieces from Wulling's press are in a separate portfolio. Both volumes are in..... More
SF: Magee, 1941. 11 x 15. (17) pages + a vellum leaf. Text in Deepdene type has one large and 13 smaller initials by Valenti Angelo hand-illuminated in red, gold, and blue. Two-tone cloth over beveled boards. Binding is quite worn. The handsome 11 x 15 vellum partial leaf is..... 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
Lower Marston: Whittington Press, 1995. Three vols. 7 1/2 x 10, 180 pages plus tipped-in illustrations. Quarter morocco. With a typographic facsimile of the 1923 "Daisy and Marguerite" printed on old F. J. Head handmade paper. A separate portfolio holds two large original leaves folded. All fine in slipcase. A..... More
NY: American Printing History Association, 1998. 6 x 9. 176, (4) pages plus 38 plates, 7 leaves in rear pocket. Cloth, leather spine label. Fine. One of 120 deluxe copies, printed on special paper and handbound, with 7 inserts specially printed from original types: Kaatskill, Montallegro, Montaigne, Arrighi & Vicenza..... More
