U. of Delaware Library, 1988. 6 x 9 1/2. 55 pages, 1 tipped in specimen by Henry Morris. Illustrated. Reproduction Dutch gilt wraps. Fine. This copy is inscribed by Henry Morris to Lili Wronker, who has lettered the spine. Lili Wronker was a calligraher, who illustrated at least one of..... 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
Japan: Bijutsu shuppan-sha, (1953). First edition. 7 1/2 x 12 3/4. (104) pages, french-fold, stenciled title. There are 47 tipped-in paper samples including 6 laquered (Inden), 3 dyed, and the balance made with different materials. With forty lovely stenciled illustrations of papermaking locals, tools, processes, and materials. Side-stitched wrappers in..... 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; produced by the Bird & Bull Press. With a fine leaf, ca. 1495, from..... 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
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 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
NY: Pynson Printers, 1939. 9 x 11. 129, (5), pages followed by 27 specimens of Indian handmade papers, some colored. Quarter black leather & India-print cloth. A few small chips to leather spine & rubbed rear joint; bookplate on pastedown; contents are fine; worn slipcase is missing the bottom panel..... More
NY: Pynson Printers, 1936. 9 x 11. 148 pages + numerous photogravure plates + 51 annotated specimens. Bound by Gerhard Gerlach in black Oasis Niger spine & boards printed with an old Korean woodblock; tooled in gold & red. Bookplate of K. S. Maclachlan. A few tiny scrapes to spine..... More
Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1927. Folio (12 x 16 1/2). Gravure of the Mountain House, 48 numbered text pages plus 29 un-numbered leaves with text & mounted specimens. Loose as issued in three-quarter buckram portfolio by Peter Franck, with cloth ties, title label on cover. Bookplate inside the portfolio. A...... More
Tokyo: The Mainichi Newspapers, 1974. Eleven volumes in 6 cases. 5 large cases (20 x 14 x 5) contain 1000 large, handmade paper specimens plus supplemental specimens and little "extras." There are 200 specimens in each folding cloth case, divided among several paper portfolios. Each specimen is tipped to a...... More
Brookline: Carriage House Press, 1991. Two vols. 9 1/2 x 10. 115 pages, tipped-in sample of burnished bamboo paper. Illustrated with numerous photographs of material, processes, and crafts people. Quarter black morocco, textured side papers by Donna Koretsky. A saffron cloth portfolio holds 26 specimen papers, in their original sizes..... More
Leicester: Twelve by Eight Press, 1971. 8 x 12. Half title, title printed in gold, "special copy" leaf, limitation leaf, (2) contents, 35 printed paper specimens (each interleaved with handmade paper blank except for red numeral), typewritten leaf, Rigby Graham's color thread drawing. Linsom vellum boards gilt. Fine in mylar..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1986. 8 x 10. 123 pages with 40 paper samples. Large folded broadside "South China Post" is laid in, as issued. Quarter black morocco & morocco tips, decorated paper boards. Fine copy. One of 325 copies. The paper samples, all collected by McClure during the..... More
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1967. 6 x 9 1/2. 121 pages, illustrated. Fourteen handmade paper samples (by Henry Morris, Dard Hunter, & Daniels). Quarter morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Fine. With the laid-in specimen, as issued, from the last wind-driven mill in Holland, the Schoolmeester. One of Henry's..... More
(Beltsville): Hand Papermaking, 2010. 8 1/2 x 11. Fourteen delightful examples of paper engineering: pop-ups and other moveables, constructed from handmade paper, each in a printed folder. Many are signed by the artists. With a 40-page book. Fine in clamshell case. Twenty-eight book artists & papermakers collaborated to construct these..... More
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1976. 7 x 9 1/2. 70 pages. Quarter morocco. Fine. One of about 220 numbered copies, printed by Henry Morris on his handmade paper. Schlosser writes about early Milanese ream wrappers, with reproductions; Morris about light-and-shade watermarks and Assignats, with original assignat laid in..... More
Newton: Bird & Bull Press, 1987. 10 x 7. 77 pages plus 24 large tipped-in specimens of fancy tea chest papers. Quarter morocco & boards decorated in gilt, leather spine label by Barabara Blumenthal. Fine. These decorated papers, no longer made, were discovered in storage where they had lain for..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1982. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2. 16 leaves. Vellum-backed pastepaper boards, with a tendency to splay; plain dustwrapper. Publisher's note to subscribers laid in. INSCRIBED by Henry Morris to Richard Wolfe. Near fine association copy. Richard Wolfe was a marbled paper historian, several of whose..... More
Mittineague & Springfield, Mass. 8vo. Wraps. Very good. More
Santa Cruz: Peter & Donna Thomas, 2005. Oblong, 13 1/2 x 10 1/2. 40 pages, illustrated by Donna Thomas, and with 11 specimens of Philippine paper tipped in. Quarter morocco & Philippine ikat dyed fabric over boards. Small oily mark near spine base, all else fine in red cloth slipcase..... More
Rutland & Tokyo, 1952. 4 volumes plus envelope. 13 1/4 x 10/ 3/4. Japanese-style bindings of hand-stenciled wraps & boards. Volumes contained in a Shufi-covered folding case. A fine set. Signed by the publisher, Tuttle. One of the finest and most important studies on Japanese paper, and a magnificent production..... More
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1969. 7 1/2 x 9 1/2. 110 pages, illustrated with fine reproductions of European & American wrappers. Indices of mills, papermakers, importers, and merchants. Quarter red morocco & marbled boards. Fine with the two prints (one corner tips creased) pulled from original copperplates for..... More
Cambridge, 1952. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2. Frontis portrait, vii, 40 pages. Illustrated with 14 engravings by Lawrence Josset; all tissue guards present. Pebbled cloth, inlaid cloth label on upper cover. Lightly rubbed, near fine. Mrs. Whatman's detailed notes are a guide book a well-ordered 18th c. English home. Whatman..... More
