London, 1953. 9 x 12. xxi, 427 pages. Frontis, 32 collotype plates, and 50 text illustrations. Leather bookplate of Julia Parker Wightman. Cloth, spine label, printed dust wrapper. Fine. Beautifully printed at the Curwen Press. More
Madison (1995). 4to. x, 74 pages, 20 color plates of Anderson's typography. Linen cloth, leather spine label, cloth slipcase. Fine with prospectus. One of 150 copies handsomely printed by Neil Shaver on dampened Rives. More
SF: BCC, 1976. 10 x 14. 97 pages including 43 facsimile specimen pages. Quarter red cloth, long spine label. Fine copy of a lovely book. One of 400 copies signed by Angelo. Printed by Andrew Hoyem. The illuminated in blue and gilt by Angelo. Essays by Oscar Lewis, Robert Grabhorn..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 2002. Two vols. 9 x 12 1/2. 99 pages plus 24 unpaginated inserts (some multi-page, one foldout broadside) of original leaves, paper specimens, and photographs. Quarter morocco & Japanese cloth. An inch-thick portfolio contains leaves & signatures from previous B&B books, prospectuses, large posters, and..... More
Mission: Barbarian Press, 2013. 10 1/2 x 13 1/2. About 30 text pages printed on cream Zerkall laid paper, and 134 engravings printed from the original blocks on Zerkall white smooth paper. Several double spreads of larger images are tipped in. Each engraving has a printed title in green. Quarter..... More
Williamstown, 2005. 4to. 451 pages profusely illustrated. Index. Red cloth. Fine in slipcase. English language edition. Numerous essays about this outstanding private press operating from 1913 to 1931. 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
British Library & OAk Knoll Press, 2002. 4to. xi, 279 pages illustrated throughout. Index. Cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. 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. Inscription on blank from the printer John Randle (but not signed by him) to a fellow printer & wood..... More
The Old School Press, 2011. 7 x 9. 61 pages + 48 plates, 2 tipped in illustrations. Quarter cloth & blue boards. "A record of nearly every piece of ephemera from the Press" when the Daniel Press was in Somerset, before the move to Oxford. They form a very lengthy..... 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
1989. 5 x 8 1/2. 129 pages copiously illustrated with mounted color photos. Bound in hinged binding of leather, marbled boards, and copper overlay. Few tiny scratches, but fine in cloth & marbled paper dustwrapper. No. 41 of 75 signed copies. Printed letterpress with Della Robbia type on Johannot paper..... More
University of Tampa Press, 2013. 6 x 9. 302 pages. Indices. Decorated boards. Fine. More
(Newtown): Gwasg Gregynog, 1990. 7 1/2 x 12. xii, 74 pages illustrated throughout. White & black morocco with large rectangular inset both covers-- a colorful photographic collage of GG books overlaid with translucent paper; ruled in white. Fine in the original black cloth colander box. Copy no. X of 25..... 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
(Risbury): The Whittington Press, (2018). Four parts. 9 1/2 x 13. (iv), 86 pages illustrated with linocuts and wood-engravings from the original blocks + 2 pages of photos & 12 pages of giclée reproductions of Gerry's pochoirs. Rear pocket contains facsimile letter. Full citron morocco by The Fine Bindery. With..... More
Pinner: PLA, nd. 8vo. 126 pages. Quarter blue morocco and printed cloth, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Spine very slightly sunned, very slight crease in bottom margin of some pages. Bookplate of Arthur Rippey. Near fine. One of 300 copies, signed by David Chambers and Christopher Sanford. More
London. 6 1/2 x 10. 112 pages illustrated with wood engravings. Quarter morocco & patterned cloth, top edge gilt.Deckle edges toned. Very good. One of 250 specially bound copies on all rag paper, signed by Christopher Sanford. More
NY: Grolier Club, 1980. 8 1/2 x 11. xii, 241 pages. Illustrated. Cloth, leather label, slipcase. Fine. Ground-breaking bibliography, limited to 1000 copies. 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
(Llandogo: Old Stile Press, 2000). Two volumes. 12 x 16 and 8 x 11. 135 pages, illustrated throughout. Pictorial boards. With 59 ephemera. A sturdy cloth tray, lined with Robin Tanner's patterned papers, houses the book in a fitted compartment. The three categories of ephemera are in a slide-out tray..... More
Cambridge, 1931. 9 x 12. xxxix, 225 pages + 81 plates. Buckram spine gilt & marbled cloth sides, top edge gilt. Light edge wear; contents fine. Illustrated with Portraits of the MAsters and specimens of their hands. Introduction on the development of handwriting by Stanley Morison. More
London, Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1877. 4 1/4 x 6 3/4. Frontis of Hoe's high speed printing press, 149 pages on Whatman handmade paper. Rebound by the Water Street Bindery in period morocco & red leather label, Nevins marbled paper sides, new endpapers, top edge graphited. Untrimmed edges..... 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
Wilmington, 1997. 7 1/2 x 11. xvi, 17-127, (1) pages, 16 plates. Quarter morocco and cloth. Fine. One of 50 specially bound (of 225). Herbert Johnson's long awaited history, appraisal, and bibliography of the Elston Press. A well researched (and produced) study, balanced between the press work of Conwell and..... More
