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(Angelo, Valenti) VALENTI ANGELO, AUTHOR ILLUSTRATOR, PRINTER, A CHECKLIST OF HIS WORK FROM 1926 TO 1970..
Bronxville, NY n.p. 1970 8vo. quarter vellum, paper-covered boards, title gilt-stamped on spine, fore-edge uncut, glassine dust jacket, slipcase unpaginated
Limited to 55 numbered copies signed by Angelo on colophon. Table of contents. Foreword by Robert Grabhorn. Also includes an article by Annis Duff, then editor of Viking Junior Books, and a brief autobiographical essay by Angelo. Angelo, born 1897 in Tuscany, attended a monastery school, observed a monk reading a 15th century Book of Hours, and was deeply impressed. That book's influence was reflected in Angelo's own work, the books he created for Grabhorn, Peter Pauper, The Limited Editions Club, and his own imprints. Handset, printed, decorated, and illuminated by Angelo. A magnificent and scarce production. Four page prospectus and order form laid in.
Price: $ 850.00 other currencies Order nr. 118367

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(Baum, L. Frank) Greene, Douglas G. & Peter E. Hanff BIBLIOGRAPHIA OZIANA A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CHECKLIST OF THE OZ BOOKS BY L. FRANK BAUM AND HIS SUCCESSORS.
N.P. International Wizard of Oz Club (1988) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 146 pages.
Revised edition. Illustrated.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 35790

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(Biblio Fiction) Neville, Katherine THE MAGIC CIRCLE.
New York Ballantine Books (1998) 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. (vi), 554 pages.
First edition. Ancient lost manuscripts are an intricate part of the plot.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 118537

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(Bird & Bull Press) Barrett, Timothy NAGASHIZUKI, THE JAPANESE CRAFT OF HAND MADE PAPERMAKING
North Hills Bird & Bull Press 1979 4to. half morocco with decorated paper over boards. 120 pages.
Taylor A22. One of 300 numbered copies. An excellent production by this fine private press. It builds on Dard Hunter's efforts by offering more details on how paper is made - the techniques involved in the process. The book is illustrated by Richard Flavin, who has a thorough knowledge of Japanese papermaking. Contains fourteen actual samples of Japanese paper. Bookplate. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 375.00 other currencies Order nr. 5331

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(Bird & Bull Press) McClure, Floyd Alonzo CHINESE HANDMADE PAPER
With a Preface by Elaine Koretsky. Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 1986 4to. quarter morocco and tips with leather spine label. 124, (4) pages.
First edition, limited to 325 numbered copies. McClure spent most of the period 1919 to 1941 in China as a botanist with a strong interest in bamboo. He became fascinated with the use of bamboo in papermaking and wrote his Master's thesis on Chinese Handmade Paper. This thesis has not been printed in book form previous to now though he had hoped to see it published and had brought back many samples of paper from China to use in its publication. Fortunately, Elaine Koretsky found this thesis and the trunks of handmade paper specimens and convinced Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press that the work was important. The resulting book contains an introduction by Koretsky, comments by Morris, the thesis, reproductions of photographs made by McClure showing Chinese papermaking and 40 actual tipped-in specimens of paper rescued from the trunks. A beautifully produced book with an important text. With prospectus loosely inserted. The prospectus has handwritten notes by the former owner along with a carbon of a letter he had written Henry Morris praising the book. With original invoice issued by the Bird & Bull Press.
Price: $ 475.00 other currencies Order nr. 15595

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(Bird & Bull Press) Rosenwald, Lessing J. THE FORTSAS CATALOGUE A FACSIMILE, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LESSING J. ROSENWALD.
Philadelphia Philobiblon Club 1970 4to. cloth spine, marbled paper over boards. 19 pages with a 16 page 8vo. facsimile of the original Fortsas Catalogue laid-in a pocket in the inside rear cover.
One of 250 numbered copies (Taylor B2). This book was designed and printed by Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press. The "Avis" and the text of M. Polain's newspaper account of the hoax are reproduced in facsimile and tipped in the book. An important addition to the literature connected to this famous auction hoax. Covers rubbed at edges and spine ends.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 76603

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(Bookbinding) Greenfield, Jane and Jenny Hille HEADBANDS, HOW TO WORK THEM
New Castle Oak Knoll Books (1990) 8vo. cloth. (viii), 88 pages.
Second, revised edition. The resurgence of interest in hand bookbinding has led to the publication of countless practical manuals on the subject. These manuals tend to provide an outline of the basic bookbinding techniques, but do little to provide detailed information on specific aspects of the craft. A topic which is often overlooked is how to create headbands - those decorative bands of silk or cotton which can be found fastened inside the top (and sometimes also the bottom) of the spine of a book.
Now, at last, two experienced hand bookbinders have produced an easy to use, step-by-step guide showing how to create fourteen different styles of headbands. Separate chapters are devoted to each headband with all the necessary materials and equipment listed at the beginning. Each step is clearly illustrated by an accompanying diagram and all the instructions have been tried out on students of the craft and perfected at the bench so that the easiest and simplest method is presented.
Written for both beginners and experienced binders alike HEADBANDS has established itself as one of the classic manuals for the hand bookbinder.
Price: $ 32.50 other currencies Order nr. 118511

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(Bookbinding) TWELVE BINDINGS - MICHAEL WILCOX WITH REMARKS ON THE BINDINGS BY MICHAEL WILCOX & ON THE BOOKS BY ELAINE SMYTH & W. THOMAS TAYLOR.
Austin W. Thomas Taylor 1985 tall 4to. cloth, paper spine label. (42) pages.
First edition, limited to 225 numbered copies. Printed by David Holman on Guarro mould-made paper with design by Taylor. Each book is described in detail with the physical description and philosophy behind the binding and is pictured in full color with a tipped-in photograph. Beautifully printed look at one of better binders working today.
Price: $ 325.00 other currencies Order nr. 14135

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(Bookbinding) Wolfe, Richard J. GEHEIMEN DER BOEKBINDERIJ, SECRETS OF BOOKBINDING, AN ANONYMOUS 19TH CENTURY DUTCH BOOKBINDING MANUAL, REPRODUCED IN FACSIMILE WITH TRANSLATION, INTRODUCTION AND NOTES.
Boston Richard J. Wolfe 1991 8vo. decorated paper over cloth-backed boards. xix, 15, 23, (7) pages.
Limited to 250 signed copies, 200 for sale. Text is a facsimile of original German text with translation on facing page. Gives information on gilding of leather; paper; silk; velvet and fore edge, marbling on edges of calf and sheepskin, and dyeing of calf and sheepskin. Tipped-in are 8 samples of some of the processes explained in the book. Marbled paper samples and cover paper were made by Mr. Wolfe who also executed the binding.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 34250

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(Book Club of California) Franklin, Colin THEMES IN AQUATINT
San Francisco The Book Club of California 1978 folio half red morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, plain paper dust jacket viii, 104 pages.
First edition, limited to 500 copies. Printed at Cambridge University Press with color plates printed at the Curwen Press. Designed by John Dreyfus. A history of this form of book illustration and including 16 full color plates. "a handsomely illustrated study of the aquatint by an authority on the subject" - 200th Book of the Book Club of California no.160. Prospectus loosely inserted. Plain paper jacket is chipped along edges.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 3860

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Dibdin, Thomas Frognall THE BIBLIOMANIA; OR BOOK MADNESS, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ROMANCE.
4 volumes. Boston The Bibliophile Society 1903 tall 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards.top edge cut, others uncut. 274; 247; 305; 204 pages plus plates.
Reprint of the 1842 edition, with the addition of an introduction by Richard Garnett and an essay by William P. Cutter. Limited to 489 copies. (Windle A11f; Jackson no.21; S-K 1523 for binding reference). . Contains the four Howard Pyle plates depicting four bibliophiles and printers each engraved by H.W. Bicknell. Incuded are: Caxton at his press, Erasmus reading to Colet and More, "Friar" Bacon in his Study, and "Izaak" Walton. Half-titles, plates, and titles pages finely printed on Japan vellum, text printed on specially watermarked Bibliophile Society paper. Volume 1 appears to be missing two pages before the contents page. Light cover soiling.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 3239

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Diringer, David THE ILLUMINATED BOOK, ITS HISTORY AND PRODUCTION.
London Faber and Faber (1967) thick small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 514 pages.
Revised edition, enlarged from the 1958 first edition. "Virtually an encyclopedia of the hand-illuminated book." An historical account with a bibliography after each school discussed, an addition only present in this second edition. Many illustrations including some in color.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 63441

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Fairbank, Alfred A BOOK OF SCRIPTS.
N.P. Penguin Books (1960) 12mo. boards, dust jacket. 40 pages and 64 plates.
Fourth edition. History followed by plates. Dust jacket torn and missing pieces along spine and chipped at edges. Boards rubbed and scuffed at edges.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 25386

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(Fournier, Pierre Simon) Mosley, James MODELES DES CARACTERES DE L'IMPRIMERIE ET DES AUTRES CHOSES NECESSAIRES AUDIT ART. NOUVELLEMENT GRAVES. With An Introduction to Pierre Simon Fournier's MODELES ... by James Mosely.
Two volumes. London Eugrammia Press 1965 oblong 4to. cloth, paper wrappers, both volumes enclosed in a slipcase. Facsimile of the 1742 manual accompanied by the 20 page introduction.
Printed in an edition limited to 600 copies. Reproduced from the copy in the Printing Library of the St. Bride Institute. Thirty-three plates depict samples of the types cut by Fournier c. 1742 and which then appeared in his Manuel Typographique. A consummate artist and craftsman, Fournier (1712 - 1768) was one of the 18th century's finest engravers and typefounders, and his type, with its light, clean look on the printed page and great economy in text, greatly influenced Giambattista Bodoni ( 1740 - 1813), who later in the century popularized the more severe "modern" look. Introduction by Mosley, renowned typography professor and then librarian at the St. Bride Printing Library. Printed in collotype by Louis van Leer & Co. of Amsterdam on rag cream paper. Loosely inserted in this copy is the 12 page publisher's catalogue describing this book and others they published.
Price: $ 575.00 other currencies Order nr. 4119

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(Fuller, Margaret) Myerson, Joel MARGARET FULLER, A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
Pittsburgh Univ. of Pittsburgh Press 1978 8vo. cloth. xvi, 165 pages.
First edition. Definitive bibliography of this 19th century American writer. Rubbed along edges.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 3897

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Goudy, Frederic W. TYPOLOGIA, STUDIES IN TYPE DESIGN & TYPE MAKING
With Comments on the Invention of Typography, The First Types, Legibility and Fine Printing. Berkeley University of California Press 1940 small 4to. quarter leather over parchment covered boards, slipcase. xix, 170, (2) pages.
First edition, one of 300 numbered and autographed copies. A landmark in the history of typography, the book is designed by master American typographer Goudy (1865 -1947). Set in University of California Old Style type, also designed by Goudy and used for the first time in this volume. The typographer describes his methods of type design and production in chapters such as:"The First Types"; "What Type Is"; "The Design of Types"; "Details of Construction"; "Making the Patterns"; and others. Some of the chapters written originally as magazine articles and revised for this book. Black and white illustrations throughout. Produced with collaboration of Samuel T. Farquhar, manager of University of California Press. With small booklabel of former owner in corner of back pastedown. Well preserved copy.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 21601

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(Gravesend Press) Kredel, Fritz (illustrator) DOLLS AND PUPPETS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
Lexington, KY Gravesend Press 1958 12mo. silk-covered boards with leather spine label and gilt stamped design on front cover, decorated slipcase (16) pages, 24 plates, (4) pages
Printed for The Gravesend Press by Ludwig Oehms at Frankfurt am Main in an edition limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by Fritz Kredel (1900-1973). Designed by Gotthard de Beauclair. The drawings have been colored by hand through stencils by Schauer & Silvar at Darmstadt. "Fritz Kredel has never let the exacting requirements of his craft interfere with his engaging interest in puppets and dolls. These little drawings (here reproduced on copper in their exact size) are a labor of love" (from the preface by Joseph C. Graves).
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 118579

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(Grolier Club) Smith, Carolyn L. MEMBERS OF THE GROLIER CLUB, 1884-2009
New York The Grolier Club 2009 5.5 x 8.5 inches paperback 240 pages
Contains an alphabetical list of all members past and present, and a chronological lists of officers, council members, and committees. Compiled by Carolyn L. Smith for the Grolier Club's 125th anniversary, as an update of Members of the Grolier Club 1884-1984 (issued for the Club's 100th anniversary).
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 106673

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(Gutenberg Bible) ILLUMINATED LEAVES FROM THE COOPER SQUARE FACSIMILE OF THE GUTENBERG BIBLE.
New York Cooper Square Publishers n.d. folio cloth stamped in blind and holding a four page text brochure with 7 leaves inserted. 1 leaf.
A prospectus for the facsimile edition of the Gutenberg Bible facsimile edition printed by Insel Verlag of Leipzig in 1913-1914. Seven leaves are here enclosed, 15.5 x 11.25 inches, printed in full color on cream colored 100% rag content paper.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 118387

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Heck, Christian and Rémy Cordonnier GRAND MEDIEVAL BESTIARY: ANIMALS IN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS.
New York, NY Abbeville Press 2012 folio. cloth, dust jacket, slipcase, top edge gilt 619+(1) pages
As the 587 colorful images in this magnificent volume reveal, animals were a constant - and delightful - presence in illuminated manuscripts throughout the Middle Ages. Many proto-zoological illustrations, of great charm but variable accuracy, are found in the bestiaries, or compendiums of animal lore, that were exceedingly popular in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. But animals are depicted in every other sort of illuminated manuscript as well, from the eighth-century Echternach Gospels, with its geometrically schematized symbols of the Evangelists, to the early fifteenth-century Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, with its famously naturalistic scenes of peasant and aristocratic life.

In his insightful opening chapters, the noted art historian Christian Heck explains that the prevalence of animals in illuminated manuscripts reflects their importance in medieval thought, an importance due in part to the agricultural society of that age, in which a variety of speciesand not just docile petswere the daily companions of man. Animals also had a greater symbolic significance than they do today: in popular fables, such as those of Reynard the Fox, they held up a mirror to the follies of mankind, and on the religious plane, they were understood as an integral part of Gods creation, whose attributes and behaviors could be taken as clues to His plan of salvation.

The main part of the book explores the complex and fascinating iconography of the individual creatures most frequently depicted by medieval miniaturists. It is arranged in the manner of a proper bestiary, with essays on one hundred animals alphabetized by their Latin names, from the alauda, or lark, whose morning song was thought to be a hymn to Creation, to the vultur, which enjoyed a certain respect due to its impressive appearance, but whose taste for carrion also made it a symbol of the sinner who indulges in worldly pleasures. The selection includes a number of creatures that would now be considered fantastic, including the griffin, the manticore, and of course the fabled unicorn, tamable only by a gentle maiden.

Not merely a study of art history, The Grand Medieval Bestiary uses a theme of timeless interest to present a panorama of medieval life and thought that will captivate even the most sophisticated modern reader.

Review

"This is a huge and beautiful book that feels almost like a trip to the Cloisters between two covers." -New York Daily News

"Rarely have earnest scholarship and sheer wonder come together as comfortably as they have here. And as magical as the original artworks surely are, this unique volume is literally better than the real thing, since it allows us to ogle them closely." -Fine Art Connoisseur

"Every year I try to reserve the adjective "stunning" for one book. This is it." -The Seattle Times holiday gift guide

About the Author
Christian Heck, a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France and former curator-in-chief of the Unterlinden Museum in Colmar, is an authority on illuminated manuscripts.

Rémy Cordonnier, a researcher at the University of Lille, specializes in medieval iconography.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 118741

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(King Library Press) Koch, Rudolf. WER IST VICTOR HAMMER (WHO IS VICTOR HAMMER)
(Lexington The King Library Press 1996) 4to. stiff paper wrappers, paper ties in Japanese style, all edges uncut unpaginated
Text in English and German. Published as a keepsake for a lecture workshop in graphic design with David Pankow, marking the 40th anniversary of the founding of the King Library Press by Carolyn Reading Hammer in 1956. According to Dr. Paul Holbrook of the Press, about 50 copies were printed. Designed by Holbrook. Type set by Suann Childers. Hand printed and sewn. Four broadsides by Koch (12 x 8 inches) and a brochure about the Fall 1996 Seminar in Graphic Design laid in.
Price: $ 650.00 other currencies Order nr. 118396

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(Leaf Book) Cave, Roderick and Geoffrey Wakeman TYPOGRAPHIA NATURALIS.
Wymondham Brewhouse Press 1967 4to. quarter leather over boards, impression of nature printed leaf on front cover. 37 pages with five tipped-in plates.
First edition, limited to 333 numbered copies. History of printing illustrations for natural history books and others directly from the specimens described, i.e., Nature Printing. Chapters on "Early Nature Printing," "The Nineteenth Century," "Postscript: The Twentieth Century." With reproductions of three early specimens and two actual nature prints executed by Rigby Graham and Morris Cox. With prospectus and invoice to former owner loosely inserted.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 118394

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(Leaf Book) Hutner, Martin THE MAKING OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER OF 1928.
Accompanied by an Original Leaf Printed on Vellum at the Merrymount Press N.P. Chiswick Book Shop 1990 folio cloth, leather spine label, slipcase. xviii, 75+(1) pages.
Limited to 285 copies printed at A. Colish, Inc. with typography by Jerry Kelly (Leaf Book - Chalmers 192). History of the production of this famous book designed and printed by D.B. Updike including information from the files of Bruce Rogers and Stanley Morison.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 32191

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(Marbling) Wolfe, Richard J. THE ROLE OF THE MANN FAMILY OF DEDHAM, MASSACHUSETTS IN THE MARBLING OF PAPER IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA AND IN THE PRINTING OF MUSIC, THE MAKING OF CARDS, AND OTHER BOOKTRADE ACTIVITIES.
(Chestnut Hill, MA. Privately printed 1981) tall 8vo. quarter cloth with marbled paper-covered boards. 145 + (1) pages.
First edition, limited to 500 copies. Contains tipped-in photographic illustrations of sixteen examples of marbled paper. This copy has been signed by the author on the free endpaper and contains 20 actual marbled paper samples mounted on front pastedown. Some offset from samples on free endpaper.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 118575

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(Mason, John) SOME PAPERS HAND MADE BY JOHN MASON.
London Maggs 1959 8vo. parchment-backed handmade paper-covered boards with actual leafs inlaid in both covers, enclosed in cardboard box with paper cover label. 32 leaves.
First edition, limited to 100 numbered copies. Short history of this papermaker followed by actual examples of paper produced during the period 1954 to 1959. Consists of heavy stock produced in different colors some of which contain illustrations and some of which contain leaf specimens, flowers, etc. Thue author explains the history of each specimen. Very fine copy.
Price: $ 650.00 other currencies Order nr. 118362

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