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(Bird & Bull Press) Morris, Henry AN O. HENRY GIFT FROM HENRY.
North Hills, PA Bird & Bull Press 1979 scroll (55 x 1243 mm) enclosed in a plastic medicine bottle.
Limited to about 250 copies. (Taylor C21). Morris claims that this interesting piece of ephemera resulted from his "abortive attempt at producing a second miniature book." This copy has the original mailing label attached to the bottle with the postage stamp present and is addressed to Jack Robinson at A/N/W (Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead - the paper agents).
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 28343

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(Bird & Bull Press) Morris, Henry OMNIBUS, INSTRUCTIONS FOR AMATEUR PAPERMAKERS WITH NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS OF PRIVATE PRESSES, BOOK PRINTING AND SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE INVOLVED IN THESE ACTIVITIES.
(North Hills, PA) Bird & Bull Press 1967 large 8vo. quarter leather over decorated paper-covered boards. 121 pages.
Limited to 500 numbered copies. Chapters on The Mould, The Beater, Other Necessary Equipment and Beating Pulp, Some Observations on Private Presses, Making, Drying and Sizing Paper, Notes on Printing and Binding. Includes six samples of paper used by Morris for his books. Loosely inserted is a printed paper specimen with text referring to page 120 of the book. Also present is the four page prospectus. The boards are spotted. Small security plate on back pastedown.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 16205

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(Bird & Bull Press) Morris, Henry THE PRIVATE PRESS-MAN'S TALE.
With illustrations by Lili Wronker. Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 1990 4to. paste paper over cloth-backed boards, leather spine label. 61, (2) pages.
First edition, limited to 230 numbered copies. Letterpress printed with Van Dijck types on Arches mouldmade paper and bound by Barbara Blumenthal. A humorous collection of satire and prose, inspired by Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. All the text is related to the book arts - book-collecting, bookselling, printing, papermaking, etc. It includes an imaginary interview with William Morris, a great poem about the attitude of FINE PRINT magazine, Henry's explanation of the Handmade Paper Today incident and a review of the antics in Fine Print's book reviews. There are also two excellent articles by Sidney Berger on Book Fairs and Book Scouts. The illustrations have been very well executed and express all the humour of the text. An essential for anybody who is known in the books about books field, because they are bound to have been mentioned! Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 240.00 other currencies Order nr. 89153

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(Bird & Bull Press) Morris, Henry SCHLOCKER & THE FISHES
Newtown, Pa Bird & Bull Press 2010 8vo stiff paper wrappers 16 pages
One of 115 copies. Relates an unforgettable event in the early life of Henry Morris, entitled Schlocker & The Fishes. This brief account is illustrated with two full-page wood engravings by Wesley Bates.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 105377

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(Bird & Bull Press) Morris, Henry VIGNETTES, AN ECLECTIC ASSEMBLAGE OF ANECDOTES ABOUT PAPERMAKING.
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 1999 large 4to. cloth with leather spine label, in special cloth solander case with leather spine. 72, (5) pages, with additional pages of color illustrations.
Limited to 150 numbered copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press. Includes chapters on Bird & Bull Incunabula, 19th-Century Security Papers, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Numismata Typographica, Farewell to Papermaking, A History of Die Cutting, The Wurzburg Lithography and more. Includes a tipped-in sample of the first Bird & Bull handmade paper (1958). The portfolio case includes two removable cylinder seal impressions. These clay impressions, attributions to the article "Better Late Than Never," bear images of people and inscriptions from ancient cylinder seals in Babylonia. Full of illustrations in both black and white and color, many tipped-in. Text in Ehrhardt types on Arches Mouldmade paper. Several pages printed in two colors. Prospectus inserted.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 56850

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(Bird & Bull Press) Morris, Henry THE WORLD'S WORST MARBLED PAPERS, BEING A COLLECTION.
N.P. San Serriffe Publishing Co. 1978 tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 10 pages, 10 double-page marbled paper samples, 5 pages.
Limited to 400 copies, all numbered "1." This book is the first of the San Serriffe books. As Swift used Gulliver, Henry Morris resurrected his mythical author, Theodore Bachaus, from the BIRD & BULL COMMONPLACE BOOK and NUMBER 13 to give us comments on a very bad lot of marbled paper he received. Very amusing. Spine and upper cover faded.
Price: $ 90.00 other currencies Order nr. 11227

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(Bird & Bull Press) Murray, John PRACTICAL REMARKS ON MODERN PAPER. WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY LEONARD B. SCHLOSSER.
North Hills, Pennsylvania Bird & Bull Press 1981 8vo. leather spine, decorative paper-covered boards. 120, (3) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 300 copies. A reprint of a book by John Murray in 1829 on the state of papermaking at that time. It discusses the impact on the usefulness and longevity of paper of some of the practices used by the industry. The book is prophetic in tone in light of what has occurred during the last 150 years. Schlosser has added an excellent introduction explaining Murray's concerns with using shorter paper fibers in mechanical papermaking machinery, the increased use of minerals in the pulp, the introduction of chemical bleaching, and the introduction of sizing into the pulp. Henry Morris has added his own introductory remarks about other aspects of John Murray's life. He has also reprinted several abstracts on other Murray discoveries such as a "New Method of Saving Lives in Cases of Shipwreck and of Fire," a "New Shower Bath" and a respirator for aid in breathing.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 464

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(Bird & Bull Press) OAK KNOLL IS 21, 1976-1997.
N.P. n.p. 1997 11 1/2 x 9 inches broadside.
Broadside printed for a special dinner hosted by Henry and Pearl Morris for Oak Knoll's "21st birthday." Printed by hand by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press in limited quantity. These are the extras that aren't hanging on the wall at Oak Knoll or in the archives. Henry will be proud of me for converting these into cash in hopes that I can return the dining favor for my two special friends.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 99473

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(Bird & Bull Press) REPUBLIC OF SAN SERRIFFE WILL PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND TWENTY-FIVE CORONAS.
Republic of San Serriffe 1986 4.5"x 6" Single small broadside sheet
Another piece of printing ephemera from the Bird & Bull Press of Henry Morris. This is a banknote printed by hand on both sides by Morris for his mythical kingdom of San Serriffe. Printed in two colors with a very interesting calligraphic border.
Price: $ 7.50 other currencies Order nr. 36343

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(Bird & Bull Press) Schlosser, Leonard B. A PAIR ON PAPER, TWO ESSAYS ON PAPER HISTORY AND RELATED MATTERS.
North Hills, PA Bird & Bull Press 1976 small 4to. quarter brown morocco over paper-covered boards. 70, (2) pages.
First edition, limited to 220 numbered copies, and printed on paper made by hand by Henry Morris. This interesting book contains a essay by Morris on his discovery of a number of books printed on French paper made from assignats, those pieces of currency used in France during the French Revolution. Includes a number of illustrations and two actual specimens of this currency inserted in a pocket opposite page 29. Schlosser writes on "Some Early Milanese Paper Wrappers," i.e. ream wrappers, with reproductions of a number of them. Small spot on front cover.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 21877

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(Bird & Bull Press) Schmoller, Hans MR. GLADSTONE'S WASHI, A SURVEY OF REPORTS ON THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER IN JAPAN, THE PARKES REPORT OF 1871.
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 1984 8vo. quarter morocco with sides based on a fine decorated paper in the Parks Collection. 134 pages plus 3 fold-out illustration and a separate suite of color prints in a portfolio, all enclosed in a slipcase.
Limited to 450 copies. Sir Harry Parks was sent to Japan by W.E. Gladstone, the English Prime Minister, to gather information on Japanese papermaking. His report, along with a large selection of handmade paper was sent to England in 1871, there soon buried. Hans Schmoller was told about this important cache of historical information in the 1970s and put together a fascinating history of Parkes, the German scientist, Engelbert Kaempfer, and accompanied the history with reprints of both the Parkes report and Kaempfer's description of Japanese papermaking, the first such report. Also reproduced are twenty full size color reproductions of Japanese watercolors depicting papermaking. Each copy of this book also has an extra suite of these plates in a separate portfolio. Slipcase age darkened along edges.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 460

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(Bird & Bull Press) Silver, Joel DR. ROSENBACH AND MR. LILLY: BOOK COLLECTING IN A GOLDEN AGE
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2010 8vo quarter leather over cloth covered boards, leather label on spine 131 pages
First edition. Limited to 140 copies. There was a time when book collecting was big news. In the first half of the twentieth century, some of America's leading financiers, executives, and philanthropists played "this book-collecting game" (as A. Edward Newton called it), and competed with each other for the finest books and manuscripts in the world. Their booksellers were no less newsworthy, and one of the most astute, knowledgeable, and flamboyant of them all was Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach of Philadelphia. Dr. R., as the press liked to call him, helped to build some of America's greatest collections, and his own library, assembled from the treasures that he took home for himself rather than put into his stock, still draws vistors and researchers from around the world.

Dr. Rosenbach and Mr. Lilly: Book Collecting in a Golden Age is the story of one collector, Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., of Indianapolis, and the books and manuscripts that he bought from Dr. Rosenbach. The story is told through the many letters that they exchanged, and through the descriptions and illustrations of the books and manuscripts themselves. Though this book is the story of only one collector and bookseller, it is also a microcosm of a great age of book collecting, in which choices were made by booksellers and collectors alike that shaped the contents of some of the greatest research libraries of our own day.

Price: $ 425.00 other currencies Order nr. 104399

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(Bird & Bull Press) Silver, Joel DR. ROSENBACH AND MR. LILLY: BOOK COLLECTING IN A GOLDEN AGE
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2010 8vo unbound signatures. 131 pages
First edition. Limited to 140 copies of which this is "140." There was a time when book collecting was big news. In the first half of the twentieth century, some of America's leading financiers, executives, and philanthropists played "this book-collecting game" (as A. Edward Newton called it), and competed with each other for the finest books and manuscripts in the world. Their booksellers were no less newsworthy, and one of the most astute, knowledgeable, and flamboyant of them all was Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach of Philadelphia. Dr. R., as the press liked to call him, helped to build some of America's greatest collections, and his own library, assembled from the treasures that he took home for himself rather than put into his stock, still draws vistors and researchers from around the world.

Dr. Rosenbach and Mr. Lilly: Book Collecting in a Golden Age is the story of one collector, Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., of Indianapolis, and the books and manuscripts that he bought from Dr. Rosenbach. The story is told through the many letters that they exchanged, and through the descriptions and illustrations of the books and manuscripts themselves. Though this book is the story of only one collector and bookseller, it is also a microcosm of a great age of book collecting, in which choices were made by booksellers and collectors alike that shaped the contents of some of the greatest research libraries of our own day.
Price: $ 325.00 other currencies Order nr. 108786

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(Bird & Bull Press) Stewart-Murphy, Charlotte A. A HISTORY OF BRITISH CIRCULATING LIBRARIES, THE BOOK LABELS AND EPHEMERA OF THE PAPANTONIO COLLECTION.
Newton, PA Bird & Bull Press 1992 tall 8vo. quarter leather, decorated paper over boards. 153, (2) pages.
Limited to 185 numbered copies. Printed on Arches mouldmade paper by Henry Morris at The Bird & Bull Press. Gives a history of British circulating libraries through the use of the Papantonio collection of library book labels and book related ephemera of the eighteenth and nineteenth century by the noted English collector Sir Ambrose Heal. The author has thoroughly researched the subject and has produced an interesting account of the libraries and the increase of literacy among the poorer classes. With related information on the printers, booksellers, engravers and bookbinders of the period. Illustrations of sixty-four labels, trade cards and prints are included.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 34912

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Presentation to Dard Hunter Jr.

(Bird & Bull Press) THREE ERFURT TALES, 1497-1498
Translated into English by Dr. Arnold H Price, with an introduction by Lessing J. Rosenwald. North Hills, PA Bird & Bull Press 1962 small 8vo. cloth. viii, 62, iv pages.
Limited to 310 numbered copies. (Taylor A3). Rosenwald provided the original edition of the book, a series of three tales written for the common man of Erfurt, Germany. Illustrated with woodblock cuts throughout. Printed and bound by Morris and using handmade "Bird & Bull" paper. One of the earliest Bird & Bull Press books. Presentation on colophon page "For Dard Hunter Jr - as an example of how not to bind a book. Henry 9/18/68."
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 25122

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(Bird & Bull Press) THREE ERFURT TALES, 1497-1498
Translated into English by Dr. Arnold H Price, with an introduction by Lessing J. Rosenwald. North Hills, PA Bird & Bull Press 1962 small 8vo. cloth. viii, 62, iv pages.
Limited to 310 numbered copies. (Taylor A3). Rosenwald provided the original edition of the book, a series of three tales written for the common man of Erfurt, Germany. Illustrated with woodblock cuts throughout. Printed and bound by Morris, using handmade "Bird & Bull" paper. One of the earliest Bird & Bull Press books. Presentation from Henry Morris on free endpaper "To C.S.T. with kindest regards, H.M." and with the original folded broadside prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 425.00 other currencies Order nr. 95912

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(Bird & Bull Press) THREE ERFURT TALES, 1497-1498
Translated into English by Dr. Arnold H Price, with an introduction by Lessing J. Rosenwald. North Hills, PA Bird & Bull Press 1962 small 8vo. cloth. viii, 62, iv pages.
Limited to 310 numbered copies. (Taylor A3). Rosenwald provided the original edition of the book, a series of three tales written for the common man of Erfurt, Germany. Illustrated with woodblock cuts throughout. Printed and bound by Morris, using handmade "Bird & Bull" paper. One of the earliest Bird & Bull Press books.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 114271

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(Bird & Bull Press) Tindale, Thomas Keith and Harriett Ramsey Tindale THE HANDMADE PAPER OF JAPAN.
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2001 4to. single sheet , folded once
Four page prospectus for this book.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 92851

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(Bird & Bull Press) Twiss, Richard A TRIP TO PARIS IN JULY & AUGUST 1799.
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2012 8vo quarter morocco, blut cloth covered boards, gilt lettering on spine (4), 82 pages
One of 120 copies. Richard Twiss (1747-1821) was an 18th century travel writer of some renown. He went out of his way to stir up controversy as the resulting publicity increased the sale of his books. His second book, A tour of Ireland in 1775, full of disparaging remarks, sneers and ridicule, earned him universal dislike in the country, but made the book a best-seller. Irish anger was visibly expressed by the production and sale of thousands of chamberpots ("Twiss-pots") with a picture of Twiss printed on the bottom.

In 1793, he published A Trip to Paris in July and August, 1792, which is the basis for the present book. Twiss' tendency to be overly-critical appears here and there in the Paris book, but alongside the mundane details of transport, sight-seeing, food and lodging and currency exchange, which all travelers want to know, he is on the ground reporting the bloody events of a violent revolution in progress.

A Trip to Paris is printed on Arches laid paper and quarterbound in morocco with Japanese cloth sides. Four wood engravings by Wesley Bates illustrate the text. Two tipped in specimens and prospectus are also included.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 109163

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(Bird & Bull Press) Voorn, Henk HENK VOORN TO HENRY MORRIS, SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE, JUNE 1967--JULY 1981.
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2003 small 4to. cloth, slipcase 56, (4) pages
Printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper in an edition limited to 150 numbered copies. Composed in Garamond types by Michael and Winifred Bixler, bound by the Campbell-Logan bindery in Japanese cloth and enclosed in a cloth covered slipcase. Sixteen colored illustrations are tipped-in throughout. Henk Voorn (b. 1921), publisher and editor of De Papierwereld (The Paper World) since 1949, is well known to all those interested in papermaking history, and considered by Leonard Schlosser to be the leading paper historian of his time. The earlier letters include personal details and information concerning the planning and publication of Old Ream Wrappers (1969), the Voorns' first trip to the U.S. and the Morris' first trip to Holland and England in 1967. Subsequent letters are concerned with trips to IPH Congresses, books published Bird & Bull, and related matters of papermaking history. Scholars of paper history and the private press will find these letters informative and enjoyable. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 73386

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(Bird & Bull Press) WESLEY W. BATES' COMPLETE WOOD ENGRAVINGS FOR THE FORESTERS.
Large-paper proofs suitable for framing. Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2000 small 4to. plain paper portfolio with title plate to portfolio and individual proofs loosely inserted.
A separate publication of this private press. The wood-engravings by this Canadian artist are quite spectacular.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 100363

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(Bird & Bull Press) Wilson, Alexander THE FORESTERS.
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2000 8vo. xx, 112, (3) pages.
Limited to 150 numbered copies. Printed on Arches Mouldmade paper by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press. This book contains Alexander Wilson's long poem "The Foresters" describing his first "pedestrian journey" with two companions to the Falls of Niagara in the Autumn of 1804. Wilson's work is a wonderfully descriptive account of the spectacular sights of the American wilderness. With engravings by Wesley W. Bates, one of the top-rated wood engravers in North America. Bates works in the classic British style and has produced thirteen full-page engravings plus the title page cartouche for this book. Composed in Dante types by Michael and Winifred Bixler. Includes a foreword by Henry Morris, a synopsis of the poem by Robert Cantwell, and notes on the text.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 60487

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(Bird & Bull Press) Wolfe, Richard J. and Paul McKenna LOUIS HERMAN KINDER AND FINE BOOKBINDING IN AMERICA, A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF THE ROYCROFT SHOP.
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 1985 small 4to. quarter morocco with tips and leather spine-label, gold-decorated paper sides. 161 pages.
S-K 7047. Limited to 325 copies. A history of this German born binder who worked for the Roycrofters from 1897 to 1911. The authors have included much unpublished material relating to Kinder and Hubbard, a rather complete catalogue of impressions of Kinder's bookbinding hand tools and illustrated fourteen bindings in full color. Another excellent Bird & Bull production. With prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 60469

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FIRST U.S. COLOR PLATE BOOK

(Bird & Bull Press) Wolfe, Richard J. JACOB BIGELOW'S AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANY, 1817-1821, AN EXAMINATION OF THE ORIGIN, PRINTING, BINDING AND DISTRIBUTION OF AMERICA'S FIRST COLOR PLATE BOOK. WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE MANNER OF MAKING AND PRINTING ITS COLORED PLATES.
North Hills, PA Bird & Bull Press 1979 tall 8vo. quarter leather over decorated paper-covered boards. 123 pages.
Limited to 300 numbered copies, this work (Taylor A21) is an excellent, scholarly study, finely printed by Henry Morris. With two original plates intended for Bigelow's book, Jacob Bigelow's American Medical Botany shows a plate that Bigelow had meant to use in his work but didn't. "The two illustrations mounted into this study comprise original, engraved plates--one hand-colored and one left uncolored--which Jacob Bigelow had made up when he initially intended to illustrate his edition in the usual, hand-colored way. As this study shows, the burdensome aspects of this method led him and his cohorts to invent a mechanical method of printing the plates and coloring them concurrently. This resulted in the abandonment of these initial plates, some of which had been colored by artists and some left untouched. These surplus plates, amounting to several thousand, came into the Boston Medical Library in 1927 through the bequest of Jacob Bigelow's grandson, Dr. William Sturgis Bigelow, and it was deemed desirable to mount two of them--a colored and an uncolored specimen--into each copy of this edition, in this way enhancing it with an air of originality and added interest."
Price: $ 600.00 other currencies Order nr. 23016

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(Bird & Bull Press) Wolfe, Richard J. THREE EARLY FRENCH ESSAYS ON PAPER MARBLING, 1642-1765
WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND THIRTEEN ORIGINAL MARBLED SAMPLES. Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 1987 8vo. quarter bound by E.G. Parrot in morocco and tips with leather spine label, and "snail" pattern marbled paper sides made by Wolfe especially for this edition. 106 pages.
Limited to 310 numbered copies and hand-printed by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press on Umbria handmade paper. Wolfe has translated an unpublished manuscript from Lyon circa 1642, containing the earliest known French marbling recipe, an article from Journal Oeconomique,1758, and an article from the Diderot-D'Alembert Encyclopedie of 1765 into English. The Diderot article is especially interesting as it comments on the practical side of marbling, i.e., how much money could be made. The samples were produced by Wolfe using the instructions in the translated manuals. Included is a four-color sequence showing the various steps taken by Wolfe in producing the Placard pattern.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 17530

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