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(Adagio Press) Bahr, Leonard F. THE ADAGIO PRESS.
N.P. Adagio Press n.d. 4to unbound 131 broadside specimen sheets enclosed by heavy paper covers
Ornaments and type faces offered by the Adagio Press. Includes designs by Will Bradley (American Type Founders), D. Stempel, Imre Reiner and Jose Mendoza y Almeida (Typefoundry Amsterdam), Alessandro Butti and Aldo Novarese, G.C. Lange (H. Berthold), American Type Founders, Monotype, Georg Trump, Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum, designers for Bauersche Giesserei, Hermann Zapf, Jan van Krimpen and others. Illustrations of all type faces and ornaments.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 109160

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Adams, Thomas TYPOGRAPHIA; OR, THE PRINTER'S INSTRUCTOR: A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE ORIGIN, RISE, AND PROGRESS OF THE TYPOGRAPHIC ART, WITH PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR CONDUCTING EVERY DEPARTMENT IN AN OFFICE, HINTS TO AUTHORS, PUBLISHERS, &C..
Philadelphia L. Johnson & Co. 1858 8vo. contemporary half calf over patterned paper covered boards, five raised bands, leather spine label, a signed binding by Calvin S. Hartley (signature at bottom of spine), all edges gilt. viii, 7-286 pages.
Sixth edition. (Bigmore & Wyman I,3). The first edition was issued in 1837. This was the second practical printing manual issued by an American author; it was compiled from many of the facts given by Hansard and Johnson. This edition contains work on Gold, Bronze, Card and Xylographic printing and the printing of wood engravings. Illustrated. It also contains a four page section at the end showing L. Johnson type faces and other material which isn't in the earlier editions. Rubbed along edges with corner of leather spine label chipped off. With a note in pencil on verso of free endpaper "This book was bound complete (forwarded & finished) by C.S. Hartley in December 1859." With a pencil note in another hand below the first commenting on this Philadelphia bindery. Rebacked with original leather laid down. Fabric tape repair of front inner hinge.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 34091

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Adeline, Jules LES ARTS DE REPRODUCTION VULGARISES.
Paris Librairies-Imprimeries Réunies n.d. (circa 1894) 8vo. modern cloth with original stiff paper wrapper bound-in. (viii), x, 379, (3) pages.
First edition. A manual of reproduction processes. Includes 140 illustrations within the text and examples of each process reproducing original designs of the author. Techniques discussed in this volume include dry point, lithography, heliogravure, and various color processes. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. A xerox of the entry for Adeline in Balteau's Dictionnaire Biographie Francaise is loosely inserted in the back.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 42765

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AL'MANAKH BIBLIOFILA (THE BIBLIOPHILE'S ALMANACH)
21 volumes. Moscow n.p. 1975-1993 8vo. cloth.
Twenty-one of the twenty-eight volumes published to-date in this periodical devoted to book collecting, printing, miniature books, bookplates, publishing and bookselling. Illustrated. The former owner of this set knows of no complete sets in the West. Includes the following volumes: 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 11-13, 15-20, 22-28.
Price: $ 650.00 other currencies Order nr. 39558

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ANNUAIRE GRAPHIQUE, REVUE ANNUELLE DES ARTS ET DES INDUSTRIES GRAPHIQUE. 1910-1911.
Paris Attinger Frères 1911 tall 8vo. decorated cloth. (vi), 181 pages.
Second year of this periodical. Not in Ulrich & Kup or in the Union List of Periodicals. A magnificent periodical devoted to the graphic arts. Many of the tipped-in plates are in color. The articles on different aspects of the graphic arts. Published under the direction of Maurice Reymond. Lettering on front cover flaked away.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 61980

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(APHA) VERSE INTO TYPE: THE APHA POETRY PORTFOLIO.
New York American Printing History Association 2006 8vo. contributions loosely inserted in cloth clamshell box, paper spine label.
Various typographic arrangements of seventeen poems, both contemporary and classic, using a variety of typefaces, colors, formats, and papers, all printed letterpress. The poems were selected by the printers. Contributors include Mindy Beloff, Robin Price, Sandy Connors, Barbara Henry, Ed Colker, Ron Gordon, David Pankow, Jerry Kelly, Kay Michael Kramer, Michael Peich, Gaylord Shanilec, Jack Stauffacher, Michael Russum and Carolee Campbell. The printed poems are housed in a handmade traycase made by Judi Conant. Limited to 225 copies.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 97456

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AUTHOR'S PRINTING AND PUBLISHING ASSISTANT
London Saunders and Otley n.d. 12mo. original cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on cover, edges gilt (vi), 67, (36) pages plus 2 fold-out plates
Fifth edition (Bigmore & Wyman I,24). Subtitle continues, "Comprising Explanations of the Process of Printing, Preparation & Calculation of Manuscripts, Punctuation, Choice of Paper, Type, Binding, Illustrations, Publishing, Advertising, &c, with an Exemplification and Description of the Typographical Marks unused in the Correction of the Press." One fold-out displays specimens and names of the different sizes of type, the other shows a page properly annotated with corrections and the revised version. Section at the back listing works published by Messrs. Saunders and Otley. Covers blind stamped with border design. Front cover blind stamped with the words Mercantile Library Company with so much force that the indentation is visible through the cover and the endpapers. Library marks throughout. Spine missing, pages are loose, covers detached. Paper catalogue label on lower left corner of front cover. Mercantile Library Company stamp less forceful on the rear cover. Corners rubbed. Pages darkened. Front endpapers missing.
Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 79400

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Barger, M. Susan BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES IN USE BEFORE 1880
Their Materials, Processing, and Conservation Rochester Graphic Arts Research Center (1980) 4to. cloth (xii), 149, (3) pages
With a preface by Larry Booth. Includes sections on Technical Evolution of Processes, Raw Materials and Processing Procedures, and Permanence and Preservation of Photographic Materials. Original paper wrappers bound in. Boards rubbed and lightly soiled, corners bumped. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 99439

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(Baskerville, John) Milton, John PARADISE LOST. A POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS and PARADISE REGAINED. A POEM IN FOUR BOOKS TO WHICH IS ADDED SAMSON AGONISTES AND POEMS UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.
2 Volumes. Birmingham John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson 1760 8vo. contemporary calf with gilt border; spines gilt with leather labels and raised bands; marbled pastedowns and free endpapers (xxiii), 416; lxxii, 390 pages
Printed by Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson (London), from the text of Thomas Newton, D.D., bishop of Bristol and a Milton scholar who had published an edition of Paradise Lost in 1749 (DNB XIV, 403-5). First volume includes a list of subscribers and introductory poems: In Paradisum Amissam (in Latin) by Samuel Barrow, M.D., and On Paradise Lost by Andrew Marvel. Also includes introductory comments on the verse and the argument. Second volume includes table of contents and a biography of Milton. According to F.E. Pardoe, this was Baskerville's third printing of Milton's works; two were previously published in 1758 and 1759 (Pardoe 169). See also Philip Gaskell, 24-7; 28-9. This edition was advertised in the Public Advertiser (London) on May 14, 1760. Noteworthy is the gilt-roll on the bindings and the marbled endpapers. According to Diana Patterson, the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce offered a premium for the manufacture of marbled paper in 1759. Although no premium was awarded until 1763, Baskerville was an entrant, and the front endpaper of this work is illustrated with Patterson's article on the subject (Patterson, "John Baskerville, Marbler," in The Library s6-12 (3), 1990, 212-21). Previous owner's name inscribed on endpaper of both volumes. Front joint of first volume cracked, rubbing at edges. Gilt on spines dulled. Foxing. Copy of Patterson article laid in.
Price: $ 1,750.00 other currencies Order nr. 110054

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Bauer, Friedrich HANDBUCH FÜR BUCHDRUCKER.
Frankfurt Klimsch & Co. 1909 large 8vo. cloth. xii, 612 pages
First edition. Text in German. Published as volume 9 of the Klimschs Graphische Bibliothek. Includes a brief history of printing followed by an extensive account of printing in the early twentieth century. Includes many illustrations. Wear along edges.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 100111

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(Belgium) Cockx-Indestege, G., E. Cockx-Indestege BELGICA TYPOGRAPHICA 1541-1600. CATALOGUS LIBRORUM IMPRESSORUM AB ANNO 1541 AD ANNUM 1600 IN REGIONIBUS QUAE NUNC REGNI BELGARUM PARTES SUNT.
4 volumes Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1968 28x22 cm cloth xxvi,612; xx,495; xvi,236; xiv,634 pages.
A short-title catalogue of altogether 9,755 Belgian editions 1541-1600 in the Royal Library, Brussels and in 93 other Belgian libraries. Numerous cross references. Introductions trilingual (Dutch, French, English). The work is enhanced with very extensive Indices (vol. IV).

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 1,850.00 other currencies Order nr. 103255

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Bender, J. H. (editor) FINE PRINTS
5 volumes, being 1-5. Kansas City Alden Galleries (circa 1931-6) 12mo. cloth variously paginated
Fine Prints was a periodical published monthly, except for June-August, for which there are no publication. Vols. I-IV include the covers of each issue as subdividers; Vol. V has no divisions. Vol. I resets the page count for each issue; Vols. II-V do not and contain (iv),219+(1); (vi),223+(1); (vi),215+(1); (vi),223+(1) pages. Each issue contains a table of contents and a list of the many prints in each book, which are mostly black-and-white, but Vol. I contains a few color prints as well. The catalogue for the Thomas J. Watson Library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art indicates there is also a Vol. VI, not included in this set. It also references the date of publication of Vol. V as 1936-1942, although it appears to be 1935-36, following the order of the preceding volumes. Most volumes have corners and spines slightly bumped, spine slightly faded, and small white soilings in various spots on covers, except Vol. III. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson on the endpapers of each volume.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 100469

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(Bibles) PAGINA SACRA: BIBLES AND BIBLICAL TEXTS 1050-1511.
Stalden, Switzerland Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books 2011 4to cloth, title and publisher gilt-stamped on spine and front board; illustrated label on front board 231+(1) pages
Catalogue 10 issued by Günther. Frontispiece, preface and introduction. A beautifully illustrated catalogue of illuminated manuscript and printed Bibles from different sections of Europe. 30 entries with descriptions including condition, provenance and text. Earliest entry is the Four Gospels, Brittany, c. 1050. The latest is Dürer's Engraved Passion, 1508-13. Full color illustrations of every item. Bibliography. Price list (in Swiss francs) and dealer's business card laid in.
Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 109448

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BIBLIOTECA UMANISTICA COLLEZIONE DI SCRITTURE INEDITE O RARE DEL QUINDICESIMO SECOLO E ANTERIORI
Milano Bertieri E Vanzetti 1925 4to. paper covered boards, slipcase xvi, 204, xvii-xxi pages
Numbered edition. Written in Italian. Collection of fifteenth century writings from the Humanities Library in Florence. Beautifully printed by the Officina Grafica Bertieri e Vanzetti di Milano. Bookplate from the Lakeside Press on the front paste down. Boards soiled, paper on the spine has an open tear and is separating at the back edge. Slipcase is rubbed, and bumped on the front edge.
Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 104572

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(Bird & Bull Press) Hopkins, Richard L. (editor) PRIVATE TYPECASTERS, PRESERVING THE CRAFT OF HOT-METAL TYPE INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2008 small 4to. quarter morocco with Japanese cloth sides, leather spine label. 194 pages.
First edition, limited to 150 numbered copies. The private press has been with us in one form or another for 200 years or more. The equipment for a small private press was inexpensive, required little space and almost anyone could learn to do basic printing in a short time. Private typecasting is entirely different. A single machine weighs almost a ton and a lot of practice and experience is required in order to decently produce the most basic work. This once-costly equipment came into the hands of printing enthusiasts when hot-metal typesetting was forced into decline by the computer. The members of this hot-metal fraternity comprise a network of small shops using the machines and matrices which once supported the hot-metal letterpress era. They are, in effect, a group of small, working museums. The work of fifteen of these typecasters has been gathered into the pages of this book. Here you will see unknown, newly-created types, ancient types cast from 200-year-old matrices, proprietary types and a beautiful Civilité face designed by Hermann Zapf, which was never released to the commercial market. There are five fold-out pages, two of which open together to make a 32-inch spread. One of the fold-outs is a recreated page from the 36-line Gutenberg Bible with rubrication. It took six months to turn the printed images on the original page into a complete font of hand-fitted metal types. Printed on dampened handmade paper, this leaf required a week's work, and handling it is as close as most of us will get to experiencing the genuine page.
A biographical sketch of each contributor precedes his alphabets and the specimen pages which show the alphabets in use. Produced over a 14-month period, the labor and expense lavished on this work exceeds any previous book from Bird & Bull Press.
The Private Typecasters, a 194-page small folio printed on Zerkall mould-made paper, is beautifully bound in quarter morocco with Japanese cloth sides and leather spine label. The same cloth and spine label are used on the clamshell case which houses the book.
Price: $ 900.00 other currencies Order nr. 100094

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(Bird & Bull Press) Hunter II, Dard DARD HUNTER & SON
N.P. (but Newtown, PA) Bird & Bull Press 1998 4to. quarter black morocco, leather spine label, Japanese cloth-covered boards, cloth-covered clamshell box with leather spine label. 152, (6) pages, with 30 additional pages and 6 additional leaves of paper & printing samples, and reproductions.
This fine letterpress work is an edition limited to only 225 numbered copies, of which 180 are pre-subscribed (Leaf Book - Chalmers 215). Henry Morris' Bird & Bull Press has now published a new Dard Hunter book, which aims to "provide a reasonable taste of the original [The Life Work], sufficient perhaps to appreciate the unstinting quality of the artistry and uncommon skill that was lavished on this work," and to provide additional material, including some on Dard Hunter II. The introduction by Mr. Morris is followed by Dard Hunter II's account of the writing of his father's biography, followed in turn by Dard Hunter III's short account of the life of Dard II, with color plates. Dard Hunter & Son documents Hunter's early Roycroft days, studies in Vienna, stained-glass windows, first paper mill in Marlborough NY, early watermarks, typefounding experiments, the move to "Mountain House," brief venture into large-scale hand papermaking, later moulds and watermarks, and his publications. Each topic is complemented by appropriate illustrations. There are three tipped-in-plates with 55 color reproductions of swatches of marbled and paste papers done by Hunter in his Vienna days, three samples (reprintings by Bird & Bull) of 2-color page or cover designs done for the Roycrofters, photos of the Marlborough Mill and a reduced-size reprint of a Dard Hunter poster drawing of the mill, original leaves from various publications, a bound-in sample of paper made by Dard Hunter and two by his son, tipped-in photos of Dard Hunter demonstrating papermaking at MIT in 1946, and a tipped-in facsimile of a page of notes made by Dard Hunter while visiting an English paper mill. The book concludes with a ten-page facsimile of the journal kept by Dard Hunter II while writing the Life Work. In all, there are about seventy individual text illustrations or facsimiles, twenty or so tipped-in plates, and sixteen printings or reprintings by the Hunters and print reproductions by Bird & Bull. This work is set in Ehrhardt type and printed on Frankfurt mould made paper at Bird & Bull. The multi-talented Dard Hunter (1883-1966), who eventually settled upon papermaking and the history of paper as his life's work, is a person of considerable interest in the recent history of the book arts. Relatively little, however, of a biographical nature has been published about him: chiefly his own autobiography of 1958, and the Life Work of Dard Hunter by his son, Dard Hunter II (1917-1989), itself an impressive work printed in Dard Hunter II's own type, and produced in a very limited edition in the early 1980s. Also includes a prospectus.
Price: $ 1,750.00 other currencies Order nr. 53318

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(Bird & Bull Press) Morris, Henry CONSERVATORY FOR MY PROSPECTUSES AND SPECIMEN LEAVES
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2008 small folio cloth, leather spine label, clamshell case with leather spine label 90, (8) pages
Limited to only 100 numbered copies and out of print upon publication. This book combines Henry's brief descriptions of the books that he has published over 50 years complemented by bound-in examples of original prospectuses and leaves in Henry Morris's possession. Included are many scarce early prospectuses, of which he had kept a small hoard. There are 36 pages of brief commentaries on the books, facsimiles of relevant letters plus leaves from books which will be unknown to Morris's subscribers. The 46 inserts are bound-in and not removable, thus providing a permanent record of the progression and variety of works produced over a fifty-year period. As the inserts are so varied and quantities limited, no two copies are alike. This book is a perfect example of the value of doing leaf books as it demonstrates the progression of the Bird & Bull Press through actual examples of its work through 50 years. The prospectus for the present volume is loosely laid-in. We are offering this book at its publication price for a period of time even though it is now out of print.
Price: $ 500.00 other currencies Order nr. 98953

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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 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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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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Blum, André LES ORIGINES DU LIVRE À GRAVURES EN FRANCE, LES INCUNABLES TYPOGRAPHIQUES.
Paris et Bruxelles Les Éditions G. Van Oest 1928 4to. later cloth with original stiff paper wrappers bound-in. xi, 99 pages followed by 78 plates.
First edition. A study of the beginning of the engraved book in France. With 177 illustrations. With a bookplate indicating that this book came from the reference library of H.P. Kraus. Covers soiled. Some chipping of edges of preliminary pages.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 26137

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Bodoni, Giambattista MANUALE TIPOGRAFICO DEL CAVALIERE GIAMBATTISTA BODONI
2 volumes. London The Holland Press 1960 4to. decorated paper cover boards, paper spine labels, slipcase. lxxii,267; (iv),279 pages.
One of 500 copies. An exact facsimile of the famous Bodoni specimen book - manual originally printed in Parma by the Presso la Vedova in 1818. Slipcase with top and bottom partially detached. Spines of books show some foxing.
Price: $ 650.00 other currencies Order nr. 700

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(Bookbinding) Davenport, Cyril THOMAS BERTHELET, ROYAL PRINTER AND BOOKBINDER TO HENRY VIII, KING OF ENGLAND, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HIS BOOKBINDINGS.
Chicago Caxton Club 1901 4to. original cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. 102 pages.
S-K 4201. First edition, limited to only 252 copies. (Mejer no.288; Brenni no.803). Contains eighteen full color plates of bookbindings executed by Berthelet. Three chapters including English Bookbinding Up to the Time of Henry VIII, Documentary Evidence Concerning Berthelet and His Work, and the Bookbindings of Thomas Berthelet with Detailed Descriptions. Ex-library copy with mark on spine, spine label has pieces missing, bookplate stamped "withdrawn" and another bookplate from private collectors.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 5743

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BOOK DESIGN AND PRODUCTION. Edited by James Moran.
Volume I, no. 1 to Volume 5, no.4 London Printing News Ltd. 1958-1961 4to. stiff paper wrappers.
With twenty issues in all, complete from the first issue to the fourth issue of the fifth volume. The first issue has the following in ink on the front cover "Benham's marked copy" - Benham was the printer. The illustrations in this issue have a cross drawn through many of them.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 76456

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Bossange, Hector CATALOGUE DE LIVRES FRANÇAIS, ANGLAIS, ALLEMANDS, ESPAGNOLS, GRECS ET LATINS, ITALIENS, PORTUGAIS, ORIENTAUX, ETC. ... SUIVI DE PRIX COURANTS.
Paris Hector Bossange, Maison de Commission 1845 thick 8vo. contemporary half morocco, top edge gilt (xvi), 984 pages
A massive catalogue of 984 pages, the vast bulk of which (pp.1-802) is devoted to books as noted in the title. Some of this is very interesting, especially the section on the arts and architecture, which includes some rare and expensive books. The second part is of even more interest as it contains sections on maps, globes and spheres, astronomical instruments, and "machines typographiques" (with lithographic illustrations of the Stanhope Press, the Columbian Press, the Presse Française and the Machine à Glacier). This is followed by eight leaves of type specimens and "Les Articles pour la Reliure" which includes four folding plates of shiny glazed black paper printed in gold showing 'Fers a Doreur.' The two final plates are more fers a doreur and include two fully blocked spines, a fully blocked cover and other stamps, rolls and lines. These are in perfect condition and have great appeal as well as obvious documentary value for historians of 1840s binding. The letterpress lists also include skins for binding with prices. The final leaf of this section is Daguerreotypes, both full apparatus and plates. Contemporary bookplates of the Franklin Library of Boston and the later 19th century bookplate of the Lawrence Public Library. Rubbed, hinges rubbed but sound.
Price: $ 950.00 other currencies Order nr. 81799

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