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(Caldecott, Randolph) ORIGINAL WOODBLOCKS, DRAWN BY RANDOLPH CALDECOTT
Yucaipa Gail Klemm Books 1972 8vo. paper wrappers. (36) pages.
Illustrated. Book dealer's catalogue.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 1207

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(Caldecott, Randolph) ORIGINAL WOODBLOCKS, DRAWN BY RANDOLPH CALDECOTT
Yucaipa Gail Klemm Books 1972 8vo. later pamphlet holder with paper cover label and with pamphlet bound-in. (36) pages.
Illustrated. Book dealer's catalogue. Library stamp on front cover stating "Received May 15, 1972, Hunt Library." Pencil signature of Gavin Bridson.
Price: $ 9.00 other currencies Order nr. 97923

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(Calder, Alexander) ALEXANDER CALDER, MAY 17-JUNE 4, 1955
New York Curt Valentin Gallery 1955 16mo. stiff paper wrappers (8) pages.
A catalogue with 32 entries. Minor wear, small crease at bottom corner of back cover.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 101754

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(Calligraphy) Carter, Patricia. ILLUMINATED CALLIGRAPHY.
Tunbridge Wells, Kent Search Press (1998) small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 64 pages.
Reprint of the first edition. A manual on how to illuminate a page using simple and more complex borders. It is illustrated with over forty beautiful illuminated borders and includes the materials required, page design, use of color, and more.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 108409

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(Calligraphy) Knight, Stan HISTORICAL SCRIPTS FROM CLASSICAL TIMES TO THE RENAISSANCE.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press and John Neal, Bookseller (2009) 4to. hardcover, dust jacket 112 pages.
Reprint with minor corrections of second edition. The craft of calligraphy has a 2000-year history in the Western world. Up to the time of the Renaissance, calligraphy was the only means of preserving literature, and so, it played a vital role in the spread of learning, culture, and religion. Historical scripts were not rigidly-fixed "styles;" they represented the high peaks in an endlessly shifting landscape. Throughout centuries, styles of writing were continually being modified and developed in response to a multitude of influences encompassing political, religious, aesthetic, intellectual, sociological, and pragmatic changes in the ways that books were made and scripts were written. The modern calligrapher, typographer, historian, and anyone interested in western lettering and documents benefits from studying the methods, skills, and attitudes of generations of historical scribes who produced such outstanding and accomplished works for so many centuries.
Revised and expanded, this book is an excellent survey of bookhands with its full-page, enlarged illustrations and solidly researched sources. It is a useful text for studying the history of manuscripts as well as the details of letter construction. This work also helps one make judgments about the technical condition of letter writing and its qualities of rhythm and movement, possible only when consulting an original manuscript. The author has gone to considerable lengths to obtain photographs that are well-focused and lit so that the tactile qualities of surfaces, ink tone, and flow are revealed. The author has chosen examples of formal writing that show a coherent and reasonably consistent relationship between methods of tool use and letter formation, making the construction of a script much easier to grasp in practice. He has also made the effort of selecting writing without idiosyncrasies of style.
Price: $ 39.95 other currencies Order nr. 52752

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(Calligraphy) Twyman, Michael THE LANDSCAPE ALPHABET.
Kent Hurtwood Press (1987) square 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 24 Pages followed by 26 plates.
First edition. Contains a facsimile of a set of charming letters of the alphabet combining picturesque landscape with inventive lettering. Text describes the early history of lithography. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 21583

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(Callot, Jacques) Plan, Pierre-Paul JACQUES CALLOT MAITRE GRAVEUR (1593-1635)
Suivi d'un Catalogue Chronologique, Nouvelle Édition Revue et Réduite Ornée de 96 Estampes et d'un Portrait par Pierre-Paul Plan. Paris G. Van Oest & Cie, Éditeurs 1914 8vo later cloth, leather spine label 106, (2) pages
Plan's bibliography of Jaques Callot's engravings from 1593 to 1635. Contains 92 black-and-white plates and 890 entries.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 102529

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(Cambridge University) Smith, J.J. CATALOGUE OF THE MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
Cambridge J. Deighton, and MacMillan & Co. 1849 8vo. original cloth boards, otherwise disbound. viii, 329+(1) page.
First edition. Describes 700 manuscript volumes. Bibliographic entries include annotations regarding contents, illuminations, and foliation. Includes a brief introduction about the catalogue. Some internal nineteenth century library markings. Spine lacking, boards detached. Last leaf provided in photocopy facsimile.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 56222

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(Cameron, D.Y.) A CATALOGUE OF ETCHINGS AND DRY-POINTS BY D.Y. CAMERON.
New York The Grolier Club 1908 small 8vo. paper wrappers. viii, 46 pages.
Asaf Handlist 63. 218 items displayed at The Grolier Club. Six page introduction. Well preserved copy.
Price: $ 12.00 other currencies Order nr. 38425

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Cameron, Kenneth Walter (compiler) AN ANGLICAN LIBRARY IN COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND.
The Collection of Henry Lloyd, Esq., of Boston and Lloyd's Neck, Long Island Hartford Transcendental Books (1980) 4to. cloth variously paginated
A collection of facsimiles about Henry Lloyd's library collection. Printed only on the recto except for the frontispiece, which is printed on the verso only. Includes several engravings and other illustrations. Slight shelf wear.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 97595

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Canby, Henry Seidel THE BRANDYWINE.
Illustrated by Andrew Wyeth. New York Farrar & Rinehart (1941) 8vo. cloth. (ii), xiv, 285 pages.
First edition, one of 650 numbered copies signed by Canby and Wyeth and printed for the Greenwood Book Shop. Part of the Rivers of America Series. Has a special limitation page bound-in at the beginning which is signed by Canby and Wyeth. Spine shows some rubbing.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 28503

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(Caricature) SCHACHT IN DER KARIKATUR
Im Auftrage des Reichsbankdirektoriums zusammengestellt in der Volkswirtschaftlichen und Statistischen Abteilung der Reichsbank Berlin Gedruckt in der Druckerei der Reichsbank 1937 4to. two-toned cloth 105 leaves
Privately printed, no trade edition. Printed recto only. Hjalmar Schacht (1877-1970) was once a member of the liberal German Democratic Party but after the war he was cleared of charges as a war criminal. This book was published to honour Dr. Schacht on his 60th birthday. Corners bumped. Minor shelfwear.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 98402

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Carper, Janice M. DELAWARE SKETCH BOOK, AN HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE.
Sketches by Nancy C. Sawin. Hockessin The Holly Press (1976) oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 88 pages.
With an introduction by Betty Burroughs of the Wilmington News Journal. Covers soiled.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 30642

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Carper, Janice M. DELAWARE SKETCH BOOK, AN HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE.
Sketches by Nancy C. Sawin. Hockessin The Holly Press (1976) oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 88 pages.
With an introduction by Betty Burroughs of the Wilmington News Journal. Signed by Sawin and dated 1976. Covers soiled with age darkening along bottom of front cover.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 66474

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Carper, Janice M. DELAWARE SKETCH BOOK, AN HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE.
Sketches by Nancy C. Sawin. Hockessin The Holly Press (1984) oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 88 pages.
See B3. Second edition. With a new introduction to this second edition. With an introduction by Betty Burroughs of the Wilmington News Journal. Signed by Sawin.
Price: $ 27.50 other currencies Order nr. 97350

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Cartwright, H. Mills PHOTOGRAVURE, A TEXT BOOK ON THE MACHINE AND HAND-PRINTED PROCESSES
London Hunter-Penrose Limited 1939 8vo. cloth. xvi, 202 pages.
Second English edition, revised and enlarged. With 34 illustrations. Covers rubbed.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 104976

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Casilear, George W. SCRAP BOOKS.
7 Volumes. N.P. n.p. n.d. 4to. variously bound unpaginated
Seven volumes of engravings collected by George W. Casilear. Casilear was an engraver and landscape artist in New York from 1847 to 1852, working with his brother John W. Casilear from 1847 to 1848. In 1851, he produced, with Henry Bainbridge, A View of San Francisco, published by Sarony and Major in 1851. About the same time, he produced a view of Sacramento, also published by Sarony. He also produced the sketch used by G.V. Cooper for the frontispiece in Lett's Pictoral View of California. See George C. Groce and David H. Wallace, The New-York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 (New Haven: Yale Univerity Press, 1957), 114.

Casilear then worked as an editor, secretary and solicitor of patents from 1852 to 1857. In 1862, he became Chief of the Engraving Division of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. Casilear was instrumental in the redesign of United States currency in 1864. One contemporary news account called his engraving of the landing of Columbus "superior to that of the original." (The Farmer's Cabinet, Amherst, New Hampshire, January 21, 1864). But in May 1878, Casilear was accused of "gross misconduct" and a congressional committee chair urged President Rutherford B. Hayes to remove him from office (Herald Tribune, New York, May 2, 1878). Casilear remained in office, and he would lead an investigation of counterfeiting of United States bonds based on evidence found by the Secret Service in Chicago (Herald Tribune, New York, October 1, 1880). See also Ben. Perley Poore, Congressional Directory (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1872 and 1881).

Casilear was finally removed from office in 1885, being replaced by John A. O'Neill of Hoboken, New Jersey. News accounts stated that no charges of wrongdoing had emerged, and Casilear was "considered one of the best engravers in the country" (New York Times, April 17, 1885). But a subsequent news account stated that Casilear's replacement would "bring new life to a division that has been charged with a lack of ingenuity and freshness." The same account averred that Casilear had "never touched a graver or a plate in the production of a government note," noting his focus on designing silver certificates and bonds" (New York Times, April 18, 1885). Possibly, politics was a factor, the Democratic Cleveland administration having recently replaced the Republican Arthur administration.

The seven volumes include well over 500 engravings mostly from England, continental Europe, with some from the United States. There is no apparent format of organization, but some points are worthy of note. One volume, labeled "Miscellaneous Engravings" includes a number of English engravings attributed to James Virtue, the National Gallery and the Royal Collection. Another, labeled "Engravings," also has a number of items attributed to Virtue. A third volume, labeled "Scrap Book-Engravings and Etchings by the Old and New School," includes mainly English, French and German items, with translations into English of some of the French captions. A fourth volume, labeled "Scrap Book," includes annotations with handwritten biographical information about many of the engravers and descriptive information about the engravings. A fifth volume includes an engraving of President Chester Arthur with a facsimile signature and date, along with French, English, German and American engravings. The scrap books feature artists such as Rembrant van Rijn, Samuel William Reynolds, Jacques Callot, Charles Heath, W. Unger, Francis Boucher, Sebastian Bourdon, John Henry Roos, George Benedetto Castiglione, Nicholas van Aelst, Gerard Dow, Martinet, and Francis Chereau to name a few.

Five of the seven volumes are bound in half leather, marbled paper-covered boards. One is bound in leather, gilt decorated, and one half leather, cloth boards. Casilear's bookplate is on the front pastedown of each volume. The volumes are rubbed and scuffed at the edges, and there is some foxing.
Price: $ 4,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 114553

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(Cassel, Lili) Kent, Norman THE GRAPHIC ART OF LILI CASSEL.
Reprinted from American Artist, February 1958, small 4to., stiff paper wrappers. pp.45-51.
Illustrated article on this calligraphy - artist. Former owner has added his name in calligraphic hand to front cover.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 38483

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Castleman, Riva A CENTURY OF ARTISTS BOOKS.
New York The Museum of Modern Art, distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc 1994 small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (ii), 263+(1) pages.
First edition. "Traces the international development of the modern illustrated book to the last decade of this century." This book was meant to accompany the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art. accompanied by 224 illustrations with 76 in color. A wealth of information for the dealer and collector.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 41528

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CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, FINE OLD AND MODERN BINDINGS
London Sotheby and Co. 1929 large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 70 pages + fold-out illustrations
Sale held March 21-22. 395 lots. Catalogue includes illuminated manuscripts, French illustrated books and fine old and modern bindings. Contains black-and-white fold-out illustrations of manuscripts and book bindings and a full color frontispiece. From the reference library of the Zaehnsdorf Company with a commemorative booklabel loosely inserted. Wrappers chipped along edges.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 102426

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CA, THE JOURNAL OF THE COMMUNICATION ARTS.
Palo Alto, CA Coyne & Blanchard, Inc. 1968- 4to. stiff paper wrappers. various pagination.
A huge run of this important magazine. 124 issues. Includes the following:
Volume X, No.1-6. (1968)
Volume XI, No.1-6. (1969)
Title changes to Communications Arts Magazine with volume XI, No.2.
Volume XII, No.1-6. (1970)
Volume XIII, No.1-6. (1971)
Volume XIV, No.1-6. (1972)
Volume XVI, No.3,4,5. (1974)
Volume XVII, No.2-6. (1975)
Volume XVIII, No.1-6. (1976)
Volume XIX, No.1-6. (1977)
Now switches to whole number issues. Volume XIX, No.6 (whole issue 129).
130-155, 165, 167-170, 172-175, 177, 179--188, 190-192, 194, 195, 200, 203, 205, 206, 214, 215, 220, 223-226, 228, 236, 256-259, 261, 263-266, 268 (1996).
Price: $ 1,250.00 other currencies Order nr. 105705

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(Caxton Press) Lamb, R.C. STREET CORNER
A study to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of The Caxton Press. Christchurch, New Zealand The Caxton Press 1967 8vo. cloth, dust jacket 56 pages.
An interesting glimpse of the many people who lived and worked in and around The Caxton Press during its first thirty years. Many black-and-white photographs, with an acetate over-lay on a map that is the frontispiece.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 101528

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(Celadine Press) Wain, John. MID-WEEK PERIOD RETURN, HOME THOUGHTS OF A NATIVE.
Stratford-upon-Avon Celadine Press 1982 8vo. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards. (24) pages.
Limited to 175 numbered copies, signed on colophon by author and illustrator of which this is one of 85 copies hardbound thus. Historical-literary-personal reminiscences and reflections of the author on a train ride from Oxford to Stoke-on-Trent, with drawings by Arthur Keene. Printed for the Celadine Press by Skelton's Press.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 52574

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Cermak, Werner HANDBUCH DER OFFSETKOPIE
Eine Arbeitsbeschreibung mit Angaben der Fehlerquellen und Rezeptvorschriften. Volume 12. Halle (Saale) Veb Wilhelm Knapp 1953 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards viii, 154, (6) pages
Written in German. Volume 12 of "Der Grafische Betrieb Wissen und Praxis". With a foreword, introduction, and index of topics. With 44 black-and-white illustrations throughout, as well as six pages of advertisements. A description of the work of offset lithography, with information about the sources of trouble and prescriptions for them. Corners rubbed and worn, soiling on covers, remains of tape on cover near bottom going across spine. stamp and pen on front pastedown saying: "Vereinnahmt im Bestandsbuch I Seite 113 Nr. 126".
Price: $ 12.50 other currencies Order nr. 100667

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CESKÁ KNIHA V MINULOSTI A JEJÍ VYZDOBA.
Prague Frantisek Novák (1948) 8vo quarter cloth, paper covered boards 253, (3) pages
Text in Czech. History of book decorations in Czechoslovakia. Black and white illustrations throughout. Index and list of illustrations. Portion of dust jacket laid in. Rubbed at corners.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 107514

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