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
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. 38 ceremonial papers tipped in. Cloth & boards. A colorful paper fan is laid into a separate folder. Both slipcased. Fine. One of 200 copies, with tipped in colorful printed papers, mock money, prayer sheets, even a paper bowl, some gilded some with cut outs. 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
Mittineague: Strathmore Paper Co, 1921. Two vols. 8 1/2 x 13. 28 text pages, 2 plates engraved by Rudolph Ruzicka showing unbalanced and balanced color, and 19 folding color-printed specimens demonstrating color combinations. Cloth-backed boards, printed cover label. Light wear to extremities, rusty paper clip mark inside front cover. Volume... 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
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
Germany or Italy, 18th century. Embossed in a floral design, sized & dusted with gold, and color stenciled in a diagonal pattern in blues, yellow, orange, and pink. Decorated area measures 15 x 12 inches (on a sheet 16 1/2 x 14). Previously folded in half (as usual). About fine... 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
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
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1998. 9 x 12 1/2. 165 pages including thirty pages of black and white illustrations, thirty tip-ins, many of which are in full color, seven original folio or quarto leaves from Mountain House books, and four original light-and-shade watermaked papers made by all three generations... 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
Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1932. Folio (12 x 17). Frontis, 71 pages with 15 tipped-in specimens of old papers made from bamboo, mulberry, china grass, and mitsuma; 3 specimens of bark, 11 mounted color prints, & 19 b&w illustrations. Bound by Peter Franck (stamp signed) in three-quarter linen & decorated... More
