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(Morris, William) Needham, Paul WILLIAM MORRIS AND THE ART OF THE BOOK
With Essays on Willam Morris as Book Collector by Paul Needham, as Calligrapher by Joseph Dunlap, and as Typographer by John Dreyfus. (New York and London) The Pierpont Morgan Library, Oxford University Press (1976) 4to. later quarter brown morocco stamped in gilt 140, (2) pages followed by 114 full page plates.
First English edition. With comments by John L. Crawford Jr who donated many of the items in the exhibition to the Morgan Library. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Well preserved copy.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 106572

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(Papermaking) Hunter, Dard THE LIFE WORK OF DARD HUNTER, A PROGRESSIVE ILLUSTRATED ASSEMBLAGE OF HIS WORKS AS ARTIST, CRAFTSMAN, AUTHOR, PAPERMAKER, AND PRINTER.
2 volumes. Chillicothe Mountain House Press 1981, 1983 folio full native dyed red Niger sewed on cords, cloth box, leather spine label, both volumes inserted in cloth-covered clam-shell cases with leather spine labels. (viii),198; (viii),130 pages.
Limited to 150 numbered and signed copies; this is one of the 50 special copies to be bound in full leather and containing extra specimens bound in. Printed on dark cream handmade paper produced by Hodgkinson Mill in Wookey Hole on Dard Hunter's personally watermarked laid moulds. The first volume covers Hunter's early days as a book designer and designer of stain glass windows, pottery, furniture, and his work for the Roycrofters. This volume contains 194 colored and 65 black and white tipped-in illustrations, many of which have been printed to resemble the original. Reproduced in this volume are many of the designs that Hunter produced for the bindings of the Roycroft books and catalogues and also the cover designs for other advertising publications. Volume II describes Hunter's activities as a papermaker and paper historian and contains a bibliography of Hunter's writing. Accompanied by tipped-in specimens of paper, tipped-in facsimiles of title pages and other work. Dard Hunter Jr. has written a two-page note regarding the production of this book, a massive job requiring 12 years. The book was printed by hand on dampened paper printed on Washington hand presses. The paper specimens were made using Dard Hunter's original beater which had to be reconstructed for this project. This surely is one of the landmark books produced in the book-arts field in the 20th century both from a textual and production standpoint.
Price: $ 12,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 34639

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(Papermaking) Jammes, André PAPIERS DOMINOTÉS: TRAIT D'UNION ENTRE L'IMAGERIE POPULAIRE ET LES PAPIERS PEINTS (FRANCE / 1750-1820).
N.P. Éditions des Cendres (2010) square thick 4to. decorated paper-covered boards 560, (4) pages
Limited edition of 999. Text in French. A Published with the assistance of the Centre Nationial du Livre. A major new book on the paper covering books being sent to the binder for fine binding during the period 1750-1820. Introduction by the author. Color illustrations of paper from major centers of production including Orléans, Paris, Chartres, Le Mans and others. Each section includes a brief history of paper production at that particular location and brief biographical information about paper makers. Bibliography and colophon.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 109542

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(Papermaking) Kopylov, Christiane F. PAPIERS DORÉS D'ALLEMAGNE AU SIÈCLE DES LUMIÈRES SUIVIS DE QUELQUES AUTRES PAPIERS DÉCORÉS (BILDERBOGEN, KATTUNPAPIERE & HERRENHUTPAPIERE) 1680-1830.
(Verona La Maison Bortolazzi 2012) square 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards 434, (12) pages
Text in French. Limited to 999 copies. The art of paper making for books and brochures in Germany between 1680 and 1830. Table of contents. Introduction by the author. Acknowledgments. Sections on gilt paper (including varnished, embossed and plates), and papers colored by the patron. Full color illustrations. Bibliography and photographic credits. A major new book on this subject. Prospectus laid in.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 115804

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(Papermaking) Kopylov, Marc PAPIERS DOMINOTÉS FRANÇAIS OU L'ART DE REVÊTIR D'ÉPHÉMÈRES COUVERTURES COLORÉES LIVRES & BROCHURES ENTRE 1750 ET 1820.
(Verona La Maison Bortolazzi 2012) square 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards 404, (4) pages
Text in French. Limited to 999 copies. The art of paper making for books and brochures in France between 1750 and 1820. Table of contents. Foreword by André Jammes. Introduction by the author. Acknowledgments. Organized alphabetically by center of production with a brief description of paper making in that location. Includes Aix, Chartres, Lyon, Paris, Rouen, and others. Full color illustrations. Also includes examples not identified by location. Bibliography and index of names and places. A major new book on this subject.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 115801

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(Papermaking) Kopylov, Marc PAPIERS DOMINOTÉS ITALIENS UN UNIVERS DE COLEURS, DE FANTAISIE ET DE L'INVENTION 1750-1850.
(Verona La Maison Bortolazzi 2012) square 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards 396, (10) pages
Text in French. Limited to 999 copies. The art of paper making for books and brochures in Italy between 1750 and 1850. Table of contents. Introduction by the author. Acknowledgments. Organized alphabetically Notes on dating. Detailed information on place and time of production given when known. Full color illustrations. Bibliography and photographic credits. A major new book on this subject. Prospectus laid in.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 115803

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(Paper Specimens) Andrews. EUROPEAN PRINTING, ART AND PARCHMENT PAPERS.
New York Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead n.d. thick oblong 16mo. stiff paper wrappers, plastic spine. (70) leaves.
A sample book of various types, weights and colors of imported paper, including many by Fabriano.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 45648

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PHOTO/ DESIGN FOR THE CREATIVE TEAM.
30 issues. New York Ziff-Davis Publishing Co. 1984-1992 small 4to. paper wrappers.
Thirty issues of this periodical devoted to the use of photography in design. Begins with the premier issue No.1 and goes to issue 47 (1992).
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 105711

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Rand, Paul PAUL RAND: A DESIGNER'S ART
New Haven Yale University Press 1985 small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 239 pages.
First edition. A collection of articles taken from a variety of design magazines and journals. Most have been edited and updated. Well illustrated. Well preserved copy.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 30923

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(Rogers, Bruce) Boswell, James. PRIVATE PAPERS OF JAMES BOSWELL FROM MALAHIDE CASTLE, IN THE COLLECTION OF LT.-COLONEL RALPH HEYWARD ISHAM.
22 volumes, complete. N.P. n.p. (Ralph Heywood Isham printed by W.E. Rudge) 1928-1937 various sizes between 8vo. and large 4to. red paper-covered boards, paper spine labels, slipcases. Various paginations.
Printed in an edition limited to 570 numbered copies. (Haas no.153). One could call Boswell's diaries and private journals a kind of uncompleted "Life of Boswell," related in various ways to his other biographical enterprise. Certainly Boswell's habit of collecting concepts, conversations, characters and characteristics served him well later, and also make his private writings a source of information on personalities and social life in later 18th-century England. Unfortunately, most of these writings were long lost. They began to come to light again in the mid-1920's, and in 1926 the collector Ralph Heywood Isham (1890-1955) succeeded in acquiring a large number of Boswell papers, along with publishing rights, from Boswell's reluctant descendants. More discoveries of Boswelliana and their eventual purchase by Isham followed. Yale University acquired the entire Isham Boswell collection in 1949.
Isham planned an edition from the beginning, and in 1928 engaged Geoffrey Scott as editor, W.E. Rudge to print the edition, and Bruce Rogers to design the books. Rogers describes his design in the prospectus: "I have chosen a style flexible enough to accommodate the various papers, journals and documents comprised in the collection. No special effort has been made to secure an air of antiquity, but with the importation of a recent English reproduction of John Baskerville's famous eighteenth century types it was been possible to present the text in a form typographically harmonious with Boswell's individual mode of expression. The size of the different volumes is determined, as a rule, by the dimensions of the facsimile documents..." (Blumenthal p.105).
The full set ran to eighteen volumes, published 1928-1934. G. Scott died after completion of vol. 6, and F.A. Pottle took over the editing. This set also includes The Private Papers of James Boswell... A Catalogue by Frederick A. Pottle & Marion S. Pottle, London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1931 (limited to 415 copies), Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D., New York: The Viking Press, 1936 (limited to 790 copies), Index to the Private Papers of James Boswell, London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1937 (limited to 1250 numbered copies). These three volumes are bound in a similar fashion to the eighteen volume set. Also present is the large original prospectus to the set which contains a lengthy statement by Bruce Rogers (folio, stiff red paper wrappers, 13 pages), the note that the original editor Geoffrey Scott had died (small 4to., stiff red paper wrappers, 6 pages), and Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle, New York: Grolier Club, 1931 (8vo., stiff paper wrappers, many pages).
There is uneven fading to the spines (remember that the set was issued over a long period of time). The supplementary volumes of 1931 and 1937 lack the slipcase.
Price: $ 5,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 72684

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(Rogers, Bruce) Breton, Nicholas TWELVE MONETHS AND CHRISTMAS DAY FROM 'FANTASTICKES'.
New York Clark & Way 1951 8vo. full blue calf stamped in gilt, slipcase. (60) pages.
Printed in an edition of 1000 copies of which this is one of the 100 signed by Bruce Rogers and bound in leather. Printed on English hand-made paper by the Thistle Press in New York City with design and hand-setting by Bruce Rogers. (Blumenthal, p.182-183). Profusely illustrated throughout with illustrations for each month printed in a different color. A very attractive book with many classic illustrations.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 114278

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(Rogers, Bruce) THE HISTORY OF OLIVER AND ARTHUR.
(Boston Houghton, Mifflin and Company 1903) small 4to. quarter linen with linen corners, dark green textured paper sides, paper spine label. (xvi), cviii, (iv) pages.
Limited to 330 numbered copies printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge. (Warde 39; Work of Bruce Rogers 95; Blumenthal p.17). This book is an excellent example of Bruce Rogers' allusive style (where he designed the book in a style appropriate to the period in which it was written.) In this case, Rogers has chosen to illustrate the book with woodcuts, evocative of the period, placed in the text. The book is printed in two columns with the Priory Text font. This is one of three books Rogers did in black-letter for the Riverside Press. Chapter headings, major initial letters, and page numbers are printed in red.The title page is printed with red swash lettering and a woodcut in black. The colophon is also printed in red with Bruce Rogers' initials and a classic thistle design. This is the first English translation of the tale originally written in French in 1511. The tale is of interest in its own right, and doubly so because it apparently is based on the same tale as William Morris' The Friendship of Amis and Amile. Extra spine label tipped in. Lacks slipcase. Spine label age darkened. Some wear at tips.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 114287

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(Rogers, Bruce) THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TOUNGUES AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED.
Cleveland and New York The World Publishing Co. 1949 large folio full red cloth, title gilt-stamped on spine, gilt decorations on boards; top edge gilt. xxii, (2), 942+(1) pages.
One of 950 copies printed. King James version with dedication to the King and introduction by the translators. The finest lectern Bible ever printed in America. Rogers worked on this book for four years. It was set in a Goudy type that was heavily modified by Bruce Rogers for this book. The typeface did not space to BR and Abraham Colish's standards so the original monotype composition was almost entirely releaded by hand. Paper for the Bible was specially commissioned for the book. This landmark in book design is becoming increasingly difficult to find. With 8 page prospectus loosely inserted. Boards and spine soiled and rubbed at edges. Names of previous owners inscribed on front pastedown. Hinges cracked. Free endpapers, title page and introductory pages torn or bent at lower corners. Shaken.
Price: $ 500.00 other currencies Order nr. 110072

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(Rogers, Bruce) Lowell, Maria THE POEMS OF MARIA LOWELL.
Cambridge The Riverside Press 1907 8vo. paper-covered boards, slipcase, label with title on spine and slip case, top edge cut, other edges uncut (x), 47+(1) pages
Limited to 330 numbered copies. Designed by Bruce Rogers (Warde 58). A collection of the works of American poet Maria White Lowell (1821-1844), first prepared for publication by her husband James Russell Lowell, and first published in 1855. Frontispiece illustration of Lowell with tissue guard. Table of contents. Biographical note with publication history. Slipcase soiled, tanned and torn at top with small piece missing
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 114766

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(Rogers, Bruce) THE SONG OF ROLAND.
Cambridge Riverside Press (1906) folio quarter vellum with fleur-de-lis patterned paste paper-covered boards, vellum tips. (ii), 35 pages.
Finely printed in an edition limited to 220 copies. (Blumenthal Printed Book in America, p.65; Warde 71). One of Bruce Rogers' favorite books, and justifiably so--it is a superb example of Rogers' elusive style. The type fonts are a lettre batarde and Civilite types imported from France. The title page is printed in red and black, with a panel design of thistles with the name of the Press displayed on a banner hand painted in blues and yellows. The text is printed in two columns, adorned with illustrations by Rogers patterned after stained glass windows, and hand-colored in the same vein. The initial letter of the text is stamped in gold and surrounds an heraldic eagle with a crown over its head. Page numbers and chapter headings are printed in red, shoulder notes in olive. Minor cover wear.
Price: $ 4,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 46758

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(Ruzicka, Rudolph) Thoreau, Henry David WALDEN, OR LIFE IN THE WOODS.
With an Introduction by Raymond Adams. Illustrated by Rudolph Ruzicka. Chicago The Lakeside Press 1930 8vo. cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards, slipcase. xviii, 355, (3) pages.
Limited to 1000 copies. Designed and illustrated by Rudolph Ruzicka and printed at the Lakeside Press under the supervision of William Kittredge. Slipcase soiled. With clear plastic dust jacket present but with pieces of it's spine missing.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 39698

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SIGNATURE, A QUADRIMESTRIAL OF TYPOGRAPHY AND GRAPHIC ARTS. Edited by Oliver Simon. ORIGINAL SERIES NO 3.
London Signature 1936 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 56 pages.
With articles by Morison, Sutherland, A.F. Johnson and Miles on Edward Bawden. With illustrations in color.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 24267

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SIGNATURE, A QUADRIMESTRIAL OF TYPOGRAPHY AND GRAPHIC ARTS. ORIGINAL SERIES NO 2.
Edited by Oliver Simon. Original Series no.2. London Signature 1936 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 52, (4) pages.
With articles by Barnett Freedman, James Laver, John Carter on the woodcut calligraphy of Reynolds Stone, Desmond Flower, Frank Sidgwick and Harry Carter. Some illustrations in color. Few minor spots on front cover.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 24492

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Simon, Oliver and Julius Rodenberg PRINTING OF TO-DAY, AN ILLUSTRATED SURVEY OF POST-WAR TYPOGRAPHY IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES.
Introduction by Aldous Huxley. London The Curwen Press 1928 large 4to. polished cloth, bevelled edges. xix, 83 pages with 122 reproductions of various examples of typography.
First edition, one of the 300 numbered copies to be printed at the Curwen Press on hand-made paper and containing a hand-printed page from the edition de luxe of Zola's Nana, with an original etching by Chas. Laborde. The facsimiles are often in two colors. With original prospectus loosely inserted. An excellent survey of the design of the printed book in England, America and Europe with contributions by Oliver Simon, Paul Beaujon and Julius Rodenberg. The Editor's note states: "The specimens in this book have been selected not so much to represent every publisher, printer and illustrator of distinction in each country, but rather to endeavour to indicate the general trend of the design of the printed book in Europe and the United States to-day". Some age darkening of creme colored cloth on spine.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 15995

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Thompson, Bradbury THE ART OF GRAPHIC DESIGN.
With an appreciation by J. Carter Brown and a foreword by Alvin Eisenman. New Haven Yale University Press 1988 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 216, (2) pages.
First edition. Reveals this designer's working methods and philosophy. Shows examples of his work in magazines, books, postage stamps, etc. Includes contributions from other notable designers, critics, and art historians. Well-illustrated in color throughout.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 30919

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(Thompson, Bradbury) HOLY BIBLE
Norwalk CT Easton Press (1987) thick 4to. full leather, four raised bands, gilt lettering and design, all edges gilt, silk endpapers, ribbon marker, slipcase with pictorial pastedowns on each side xxii, (iv), 1769, (3) followed by four lined pages for family records
Designed by Bradbury Thompson. Bradbury Thompson (1911-1995) was born in Topeka, Kansas and graduated from Washburn College in 1934. He designed for Westvaco, Mademoiselle, Art News and the Smithsonian among others. He had a unique style which included the experimental use of color, typography and photo reproduction. This Bible is also known as ( from the title page) The Easton Family Bible and The Washburn College Bible. The Washburn College Bible was originally published in 1979 by the College. Then is was published in a one-volume edition by Oxford University Press in 1980. Washburn College Bible and Oxford University Press appear on the slipcase, but Easton Press does not. The text is King James in Modern Paraphrase. The slipcase has taken the wear - a little soiled and worn at the edges. The Bible has a tiny chip in the leather at the lower edge of the rear board.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 91114

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TIDSSKRIFT FOR KUNSTINDUSTRI.
15 volumes bound in 5. Kjøbenhavn G.E.C. Gad 1885-1899 4to. contemporary half parchment, read leather spine labels, all edges stained red. Thousands of pages.
Complete run of this periodical devoted to the decorative arts. Each volume is profusely illustrated. A study of the arts throughout the world but concentrating on the Scandinavian countries. Includes chapters on bookbindings. Text in Danish. Parchment spine of the fifth volume is damaged.
Price: $ 1,250.00 other currencies Order nr. 72753

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(Type Specimens) Amsterdam. LETTERPROEF DER LETTERGIETERIJ "AMSTERDAM", VOORHEEN N. TETTERODE, SPECIMEN GENERAL DE LA FONDERIE "AMSTERDAM", SUCCESSEUR DE N. TETTERODE [TYPE SPECIMEN(S) OF THE TYPE FOUNDRY "AMSTERDAM", FORMERLY N. TETTERODE...].
Amsterdam Lettergieterij Amsterdam n.d. (c1915) large 8vo. cloth. xxxii, 720 pages with various gaps but complete as issued.
Large type specimen book from around 1910-1915 (Lane - Lommen 334). Arranged as follows: a) Introduction and general table of contents; b) photographs of the factory and showrooms in Amsterdam; c) brief samples (short texts, alphabets, figures) of selected bookfaces first by size and then by face, and then first by face and then by size, Some of these faces include Plantin, Cheltenham, Electa, Firenze, Aldine, and others; d) longer text samples of bookfaces in different sizes and spacings; e) selected bookfaces in short texts grouped by size, each text specimen accompanied by lines of typographically compatible bolds and cursives in various faces; f) "fantasy-types" (which seems to include display and ornamental faces, along with initials) in lines, texts, and sample advertising compositions; g) borders and ornaments, generally in sample compositions and often in different colors; h) "diverse" materials - rules, symbols, numbers, scientific and technical signs, etc., and i) German and oriental typefaces (Fraktur, Hebrew, Arabic, and so on). In all there are about 50 basic typeface styles in a wide range of variants. The text specimens are often elaborately printed, with borders, columns, illustrations and decorated initial letters. Covers rubbed. Slightly shaken.
Price: $ 750.00 other currencies Order nr. 52986

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Updike, Daniel Berkeley PRINTING TYPES, THEIR HISTORY, FORMS, AND USE A STUDY IN SURVIVALS.
2 volumes. Cambridge Harvard Univ. Press 1937 8vo. cloth, dust jackets, original slipcase. xl,292; xx,326 pages.
Second edition. (Appleton p.69). Profusely illustrated. An essential reference book for anyone interested in the history of printing and development of type faces. Light wear at ends of spine of jackets. Slipcase rubbed along edges. Well-preserved copy of an important set.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 22948

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Vervliet, Hendrik D.L. LIBER LIBRORUM, 5,000 JAHRE BUCHKUNST.
Eine geschichtliche Übersicht. Geneva Weber Verlag 1973 square 4to. cloth, dust jacket, cloth-covered slipcase. 545, (3) pages.
German translation of this work, first published in 1972. Twenty-four contributions or chapters by 24 scholars and experts: P. Culot, K. Gardner, A. Gaur, R. McLean, H.D.L. Vervliet et al., with 264 illustrations, color or black-and-white. In four sections: early history of books and writing, books in the orient, western manuscript books, and the printed western book (beginning with block books). Much attention is paid to illumination and illustration, with due notice of binding. A useful general work, particularly for the history of books before printing. Bibliographies at ends of chapters, list of illustrations at end. Shaken, covers almost detached from block at back hinge. Jacket lightly chipped at top and bottom edges. Slipcase somewhat soiled, lightly worn, bumped on three of the back corners.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 53854

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