Boston: Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, 1993. First edition. Spiral Bound Wraps. A Fine copy. Oblong Octavo. (20.5 x 15.5 cm). Spiral bound wraps. 16 leaves. Published by the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Houghton Library, September 3- October 28... More about Why Artists' Books?
Los Angeles: The Primavera Press, 1935. First printing. Boards. Fine. Signed, inscribed & dated on verso of half title from Author to Donald A Charnock, President of the Zamorano Club 1950-1951. Small Zeitlin Booksellers' label on rear paste-down. 16 mo (6 7/8 x 4.5 in.). Quarter cloth over printed boards... More about Farewell Thou Busy World. Decorations by Paul Landacre
Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Near Fine. Limited printing # 74 of 375 copies. Corners lightly tipped, otherwise fine. Octavo ( 7.5 x 4.75 inches). Quarter cloth over brown batik paper covered boards. 115pp, with two copperplate engravings by JE Laboureur. Printed by... More about A Rapture. With engravings by J.E. Laboureur
London: Trefoil Publications, Ltd., 1987. First edition. boards. Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket. As New. Quarto. Tan boards, black lettered spine. 159 pp. fully illustrated in color and b/w. Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'English Artists Paper' at the Victoria and Albert Museum 1987. With preface by... More about English Artists Paper; Renaissance to Regency
Chicago: The Bookfellows, 1924. First edition. printed wraps. Fine condition. Bright, clean copy with original glassine wraps. Signed. One of 250 copies. 12 mo. (14.3 x 15.2 cm). Robin's Egg Blue wraps with gilt lettering, ruling and ornament. 41 pp. Signed on dedication page by poet Richard R. Kirk and... More about Penny Wise Verses
San Francisco and New York: Paul Elder and Company, 1907. Third. Cloth. Fine. Octavo (8.5 x 5.5 inches). Brown cloth with gilt lettering and arabesque set in gilt panel to front board. Gilt lettering and emblem to spine. TEG, untrimmed. Former owner's signature and stamp to front paste down. Tidy... More about Where Dwells the Soul Serene
Leeds: The Elmete Press, 1978. Limited Edition. Cloth. A Fine copy First Edition limited to 475 copies, of which this is #38. Small Quarto (7.5 x 9.75 inches). Gilt decorated cloth with gilt lettered leather spine. TEG. xv, 104pp, 63 illustrations. Printed in red and black in Garamond type on... More about Heraldic Influence on Early Printers' Devices
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1897. Limited Printing. Printed Wraps with Slipcase. Fine in a Fine Slipcase. Limited printing: One of 425 copies. 12mo. (8.5 x 13.3 cm). Printed wrap over boards. Patterned paper Slipcase with Japanese Vellum printed spine. Printed on Japan Vellum at the Press of George D.... More about The Story of Amis & Amile Done Out of the Ancient French into English by William Morris
London: Gramol Publications Ltd, 1944. First edition. Wraps. A Very Good + copy. Minor shelf wear. 12mo (5 x 7.25 inches). Printed wraps. pp. 98 (3) plus 7 illustrated plates. A fine little publication by noted children's book authority, Percy H. Muir on the finer points of establishing a book... More about Book-Collecting as a Hobby; In a Series of Letters to Everyman
San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1903. First printing. Cloth. Near Fine. Octavo (4.5 x 7.75 inches) Clay colored cloth. Printed paper label to front board. Lightly toned. Former owner's bookplate to front paste down, gift inscription dated 1903 to ff.. Unpaginated; [56] untrimmed leaves printed in black and orange... More about The Limerick Up To Date Book
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1930. First Impression of the Trade Edition. Boards. A Fine copy in a Fine DJ. Octavo. Brown boards, lettered and elaborately stamped in gilt. xi, [1], 314pp. Colored frontispiece with tissue guard, b/w plates. A companion volume to his ''In Quest of the Perfect Book'... More about The Magic of the Book; More Reminiscences and Adventures of a Bookman
San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1915. First edition. Cloth. Fine. Very minor shelf wear, else a fine clean, solid copy. Octavo (5.75 x 8.5 inches). Tan cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Patterned endpapers. Former owner's dated signature on ff.. (Susanna Bixby Bryant: Los Angeles 1915)... More about The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition; A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the...
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1982. Limited Edition. 1/4 vellum paste-paper over boards. Fine Condition. # 167 of 240 copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press in July 1982. Slender Octavo (6.5 x 10 inches). Quarter gilt-lettered vellum, burnt orange paste-paper over boards, sepia illustration by Osborne... More about Cartographers of the Deus Loci: The Mill House
Kenley, Surrey, England: The Technical Section of the British Paper and Board Makers' Associotion, 1950. Reprinted Edition. Cloth. Fine in a VG+ soiled DJ. Octavo (5.75 x 8.75 in). Red cloth boards with black lettering on front board and spine. x, 208pp with 75 illustrations. Membership promotional flyer attached to... More about Paper Making; A General Account of Its History, Processes, and Applications
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New York: The Woolly Whale Press, 1939. First printing. Single sheet. Broadside in Fine condition. 10 x 20 inches. Hand-pulled paper, untrimmed. Letterpress printed in black lettering with red ornament surrounded by ruled border with decorative corners, headed with a hand-painted Merton College crest. A fine decorative Broadside- these Rules... More about Broadside] Rules of the Library- made in the second year of Richard III and the third of the...
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Ghent: Louis Van Houtte, 1845-1888. First edition. Matted in Rag Board. Fine Condition. Octavo (6.5 x 9.75 inches). Original color lithograph by Horto Van Houtteano. Matted in Rag board with French gilt line sized to 14 x 12 inches. Rich and luminous, this plate is printed in multiple colors and... More about Paper] Manière de Couper la Substance du Papier de Chine; Flore des Serres et des Jardins de...
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Ghent: Louis Van Houtte, 1845-1888. First edition. Matted in Rag Board. Fine Condition. Octavo (6.5 x 9.75 inches). Original color lithograph by Horto Van Houtteano. Matted in Rag board with French gilt line sized to 12 x 16 inches. Rich and luminous, this plate is printed in multiple colors and... More about Paper] Plante a papier de Chine; Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe
San Francisco: The Roxburghe Club and Zamorano Club. 1969. First printing. Wraps. Fine condition. Folio (9 x 13.5 inches). Letterpress printed Wraps. Limited to 350 copies, printed by Adrian Wilson at his Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco for the members of The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco and the... More about The Nuremberg Chronicle Designs; An account of the new discovery of the earliest known layouts...