Tuscaloosa: Red Hydra Press, 2000. Two volumes. 7 x 11. Wood engraved portrait, signed, by John DePol, xxv, 332 pages; indexed. Quarter green morocco & patterned boards by Gray Parrot. A separate, cloth-bound book contains the plates. Both volumes in green cloth traycase. A fine set at publication price. Based... More
Newtown, 1999. 10 x 13. 77 pages, 20 tipped-in facsimiles and an original specimen. Full cloth, leather spine label in matching drop back box. A recessed compartment in the box holds two clay impressions of ancient Babylonian seals. Fine. This is one of only 18 copies (of 150) with the... More
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1978. 7 x 10 1/2. (5) pages of text and 10 double-spreads of marbled papers. Wraps. Fine. One of 400 copies. This being # 1 -- as were all other 400. More
Lower Marston Farm: Whittington Press, 2002. 10 x 15. 62 pages with 38 colorful ceremonial papers: mock money, prayer sheets, a paper bowl, some gilded, some with cut outs. Most specimens are tipped-in; one is in rear pocket; an elaborate ceremonial object is loose in paper folder. Both slipcased. Fine... More
Upper Denby: Fleece Press, 2002. Miniature, 7 x 4 cm (3 x 1 1/2 inches). Thirty-three leaves, with 10 wood engravings. Boards with a pattern of foolscap watermarked papers. Enclosed in a three-part wood & copper papermaking mould. One of 100 (of 285) copies in this unusual and delightful "binding."... More
Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1934. 10 x 14. xvi, 157 pages plus 54 plates and 2 pages of watermarks. Quarter blue morocco spine & corners, tan cloth sides, spine titled in gilt, top edge gilt. Spine sunned to green, leather scuffed at joints and extremities. Book plate on paste down... More
Furth, 18th century. Embossed and gilt paper made by Johan Lechner of Furth. Decorated area measures 14 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (on a sheet 17 x 14 1/2. There are 4 rows each with 9 panels of gilt saints, on a green pastepaper ground. The "imprint" is difficult to... More
Italy, 18th century. A full, unused sheet measuring 15 1/2 x 13. Eight religious figures are printed in gilt on a blue pastepaper ground. In the top row, Joseph (with the Christ child) and Mary are flanked by Jesus and Ecce Homo. Saints Peter, Matthew, Simon, and Sebastian fill the... More
A full sheet 17 1/2 x 14 of block-printed pastepaper, bearing the same image twice, with a space for cutting them apart. The design consists of two rows: a large sunburst flower in the upper row, with smaller 4-petaled flowers suspending tassels in the lower row, all on a field... More
A full sheet 17 1/2 x 14 of block-printed pastepaper, bearing the same image twice, with a space for cutting them apart. The design consists of a blue checkered background with a large central floral wreath flanked by 4 smaller oval floral wreathes. The central wreathe surrounds a city (Venice?)... More
Embossed and gilt paper made by Paul Reymund, Nuremberg. Pattern No. 36: a floral diaper pattern on rose colored paste paper. The full sheet measures 16 x 13 1/2 inches. The design has a dentelle border formed of circles. Previously folded in half; fine condition. Signed in the design. Matted... More
Germany, 18th century. Gilt and embossed paper by Paul Reymund of Nuremburg--signed in the vine border. It is his design No. 16 -- rows of gold stars or snowflakes in two sizes on a full sheet of paper 17 x 14 inches. The design is impressed (as opposed to being... More
Embossed and gilt paper made by G. N. Renner & Abel, of Ausberg, printed in gold on a full sheet (16 x 13) of wove paper watermaked C B. This has a floral diamond pattern with a vine border. Some surface abrasion (or perhaps poor gilding). A very good specimen... More
(Northampton & Cambridge): Catawba & Kat Ran Presses, (2011). Nineteen original specimens, each 8 x 10 inches, are slotted into passe-partouts printed with the creator's name. A paperbound book (6 x 8 1/4) of 22 leaves gives a biography of each artist facing a reproduction of the paste paper. All... More
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
Plains: Boss Dog Press, 2015. 11 x 7. 51 pages. There are 38 mounted pattern swatches ranging in size from 5 x 2 to 5 x 7 inches; they are arranged by decade. Oatmeal cloth with large cover label. Housed in a fitted tray case along with a DVD of... More
(Maidstone, ca. 1976). 15 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches. Most of a ream (about 480 sheets) watermarked JBG 1976. Other watermarks are the "head of Christ as transferred to the kerchief of St Berenice (or Veronica as it is said to be the Vera Icon or true image) when she... More
Newark: Janus Press, 2008. Three volumes + map. 7 1/2 x 10. 65 pages, with mounted color portrait and 14 tipped-in paper specimens. Wraps (exposed longstitches on spine). Long folding map (laid in) shows the various paper mills on the Loose Valley stream. With a portfolio of 19 historic photographs... More
Minor Confluence, WI: Perishable Press, 1982. 7 x 10 1/2. ( 12), 42, (3) pages + 3 double-page specimens. Jim Lee's 11 linocuts portrait equipment & methods. Irish linen, blind stamped title. Fine. Inscribed by Hamady, on his linocut portrait, to a fellow printer. Both a practical manual and a.... 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 imbedded... More
Tokyo & NY, 1978. 8 1/2 x 11 1/2. 452 pages, of which 113 have tipped-in specimens; photographic illustration, glossary, bibliography and index. Quarter cloth, in clamshell box. Fine copy in the original shipping carton which is lightly stained on one edge. No. 520 of 1000 copies with specimens, which... More
Chillicothe, 1981-83. Two volumes. 12 x 17. Frontis, (8), 198; frontis, (9), 131 pages, plus numerous inserts. Full chestnut morocco by Gray Parrot, ruled in black & gilt, Hunter armorial device gilt on Vol. I, Hunter watermark gilt on Vol. 2. Each volume in a cloth tray case with morocco... 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 & red cloth, red leather... More
Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1937. 8 1/4 x 11 1/4. 3 leaves, photogravure of an elaborate furnace for burning sacred paper, 79, (3) pages (some folding). There are 49 original specimens of Chinese ceremonial paper dating from the 17th c., plus text photogravure and collotype illustrations, and prints in color... More
Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1925. 12 x 16 1/2. 48, plus 7 unpaginated leaves with specimens. 22 illustrations and 24 reproductions of old title pages. Loose sheets, as issued, in three-quarter buckram portfolio with cloth ties. Light offsetting as usual from some specimens; fairly heavy, as usual, from the Koops... More
