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(Bookbinding) Tidcombe, Marianne (editor) TWENTY-FIVE GOLD-TOOLED BOOKBINDINGS. AN INTERNATIONAL TRIBUTE TO BERNARD C. MIDDLETON'S RECOLLECTIONS.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 1997 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 76 pages.
Paperback edition. Includes an Introduction and Preface by Dr. Marianne Tidcombe and an essay on "The Use of Gold in Bookbinding" by Bernard C. Middleton. Fine bookbinding and gold-tooling enthusiasts will enjoy this exhibition catalogue of designer bindings honoring respected craftsman and noted bookbinding historian, Bernard C. Middleton. Each of the 25 gold-tooled contemporary bindings executed by some of the world's most talented bookbinders focus on Middleton's memoirs, Recollections, recently produced by the venerable Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press. The catalogue includes a short, one-page biography and photograph of each binder, and, on the facing page, a photograph of the binding and a description of the binding is included. The very words "gold-tooled bindings" bring to mind beauty, brilliance, and luxury. Gold-tooling is one of the most visible and striking of all the traditional techniques, but it has been less evident with each passing decade. This occasion gave binders the opportunity to show what they were still capable of. While enjoying the beauty of the bindings in this collection and reflecting on the skilled craftsmanship that has gone into making them, one soon regrets that this kind of work is such a rarity. By the end of the twentieth century, the number of hand-binders who regularly produced gold-tooled bindings had dwindled dramatically from even only 25 years earlier. This exhibition, which travelled from The British Library to the Rochester Institute of Technology and the San Francisco Library in the first half of 1997, and this catalogue, as a tribute to Bernard Middleton, will be successful if it encourages hand-binders to use more gold-tooling and lettering on their bindings and if it demonstrates to collectors and connoisseurs of fine bindings that beautiful gold-tool bindings will continue if there is a demand for them.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 46858

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(Bookbinding) TWENTIETH CENTURY ENGLISH AND AMERICAN BINDINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF MAGGY MAGERSTADT ROSNER
(New York) n.p. (2001) oblong, 16mo stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
Limited edition of 300. Color illustrations of bindings from Rosner's collection. Brief introduction by Rosner.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 106979

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(Bookbinding) View book of the inside of an edition / library binding company (un-named)
N.P. n.p. n.d. (circa 1960s) oblong 8vo. library buckram. (26) pages.
An interesting but unidentified book composed of 25 full color photographs of the inside of an edition / library bindery showing all aspects of their work. The photographs are mounted on heavy board stock and hinged to turn easily.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 107445

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(Bookbinding) Walker, Edward ART OF BOOK-BINDING ITS RISE AND PROGRESS, INCLUDING A DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE NEW YORK BOOK-BINDERY.
(New York, 1850). New Castle Oak Knoll Books 1984 8vo. cloth. 111 pages.
Edward Walker was the proprietor of the largest bookbinding establishment in New York City in the middle of the nineteenth century. His firm produced edition binding services for institutional libraries and offered custom bindings for collectors and scholars. This book describes the workings of the Walker bindery, explaining how books were bound and how the bindery was organized. Originally published in 1850, this is the first book written by an American on the subject of bookbinding. Oak Knoll's edition contains a lengthy new introduction by Paul Koda. Volume I in the Oak Knoll Series on The History of the Book.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 1354

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(Bookbinding) Watson, Aldren A. HAND BOOKBINDING, A MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION.
New York Dover Publications, Inc. 1996 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 160 pages
Unabridged Dover (1996) republication of the work published by Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 1986. Thorough, detailed instructions, with over 270 helpful illustrations by the author, cover materials, tools and equipment; fundamental procedures and technical methods; rebinding an old book; making a slipcase and other essentials. Covers rubbed.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 55327

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(Bookbinding) WHOLE ART OF BOOK-BINDING, CONTAINING VALUABLE RECIPES FOR SPRINKLING, MARBLING, COLOURING, &C.
Richmond Peter Cottom 1824 12mo. contemporary quarter calf over paper covered boards in later clamshell box. iv, 60 pages.
First American from the third English edition, with "considerable additions" (See S-K 7258. Pollard no.89). The 1811 English printing was the first English book devoted entirely to bookbinding. "It is very much a working bookbinder's notebook put in order for publication and owes little to the encyclopaedias." The best description of this important book appears in Highlights from the Bernard C. Middleton Collection of Books on Bookbinding (Rochester, NY, 2000, No.9, page 32): "The first English bookbinding manual, published more than a century after the earliest Continental ones. This slim, unillustrated book covers forwarding somewhat cursorily, but the sections on the sprinkling of book-edges, the sprinkling and marbling of leather covers, and the preparation of the colours are more than detailed. Gold tooling and stationery binding are also dealt with. In these days of complete openness among craftspeople, those of the younger generation may wonder why the book was published anonymously. The reason was that secretiveness was very prevalent at the time and, indeed, persisted in some quarters well within living memory. This apparent meanness of spirit can be understood in the light of very harsh industrial and social conditions and the complete lack of benefits paid by the State. Marblers, in particular, often erected partitions or kept the inquisitive out of their room in order not to be observed at work, so an author who divulged details of the 'art and mystery' of the craft would expect hostility from fellow practitioners. Authors of most later manuals were identified, but they gave generalized instructions which did not include the multitude of essential 'wrinkles' which greatly facilitate procedures. The question of authorship has exercised the minds of a number of historians. I have insufficient space fully to summarize the arguments. Suffice it to say that three candidates have been named: W. Price, an Oswestry binder, whose earliest date in directories is 1828; Nathaniel Minshall, the printer of the manual, and admitted as a solicitor in 1819; and Henry Parry, author of The Art of Bookbinding published in 1817. Of the three, Parry seems the most likely; the Oswestry volume was registered at Stationers' Hall in the name of Henry Parry, so it would be a remarkable coincidence if he were not the author."
This American edition is even more scarce than the English edition with only 11 copies cited in OCLC. This copy's foldout table in the back which lists prices for New York bookbinders is torn with most lacking, but facsimile reprint, with letter from previous bookseller, inserted.
Price: $ 8,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 109774

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(Bookbinding) Yerkes, Lawrence (editor) WILLIAM ANTHONY FINE BINDER.
(Iowa City, IO University Libraries, University of Iowa 2005) small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (x), 70 pages.
Beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue showing the work of this noted bookbinder. Produced in full color.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 110146

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(Bookbinding) Yerkes, Lawrence (editor) WILLIAM ANTHONY FINE BINDER.
(Iowa City, IO University Libraries, University of Iowa 2005) small 4to. unbound sheets suitable for binding (x), 70 pages.
Beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue showing the work of this noted bookbinder. Produced in full color.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 110147

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(Book Design) KEEPSAKE FOR BOOKMEN A COLLECTION OF PAGES FROM CONTEMPORARY BOOKS.
New York Bookbinding & Book Production 1943 4to. spiral bound paper wrappers, paper cover label
Introduction by Will Ransom. Thirty-seven books are shown as taken from their original appearance in the magazine, Bookbinding and Book Production. Includes design work by Goudy, Richard Ellis, Ernst Reichl and others. Chipped around edges and edges of cover spotted.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 727

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(Book Design) KEEPSAKE FOR BOOKMEN A COLLECTION OF PAGES FROM CONTEMPORARY BOOKS.
New York Bookbinding & Book Production 1943 4to. spiral bound paper wrappers, paper cover label.
Introduction by Will Ransom. Thirty-seven books are shown as taken from their original appearance in the magazine, Bookbinding and Book Production. Includes design work by Goudy, Richard Ellis, Ernst Reichl and others. Label damaged. Covers spotted.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 64288

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" BOOKMAKING".
January 7, 1963 large 8vo. cloth, marbled endpapers 114, (2) pages
This issue of Publisher's Weekly from January 7, 1963 Vol. 183 No. 1 features articles on the outlook for the new year and as reflections on the year just past, as well as the usual weekly record of books for sale and news. Of special interest is the article on Bookmaking, with sections on bookbinding, book cover design, art books, and a new way to set Chinese charaters.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 95270

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BOOKS & BOOKENDS
(Forestville (MD) Anaconda Press 1990) small 8vo. spiral bound 73 pages
Exhibition catalogue. Introductory chapters on the invention of the book and the birth of the bookend. With an extensive catalogue of sculptural bookends and artistic bookbinding and design from the 1980s. With color plates throughout.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 86905

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(Boss Dog Press) A CATALOG OF BOOKBINDING TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT FORMERLY BELONGING TO DR. LOYD HABERLY.
N.P. Boss Dog Press 2012 4to. quarter leather, decorated paper-covered boards, top edge cut, other edges uncut, slipcase. unpaginated
Limited to 70 copies signed by designer, printer and binder Dan Rash; this is one of the 20 lettered copies bound thus and printed on handmade paper. A "small bit of book arts history" designed to provide a "resource for collectors and scholars of Loyd Haberly's bindings." Tipped-in color illustrations throughout include equipment, finishing tools, hand tools and supplies. Text includes descriptions of the tools in the illustrations. Includes a center fold-out reproduced from an original page of finishing tool smoke proofs.
Price: $ 235.00 other currencies Order nr. 114255

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(Boss Dog Press) A CATALOG OF BOOKBINDING TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT FORMERLY BELONGING TO DR. LOYD HABERLY.
N.P. Boss Dog Press 2012 4to. stiff paper wrappers, title and author on label on front wrapper unpaginated
Limited to 70 copies signed by designer, printer and binder Dan Rash. This is one of the 50 numbered copies bound thus and printed on white Bugra paper. A "small bit of book arts history" designed to provide a "resource for collectors and scholars of Loyd Haberly's bindings." Tipped-in color illustrations throughout include equipment, finishing tools, hand tools and supplies. Text includes descriptions of the tools in the illustrations. Includes a center fold-out reproduced from an original page of finishing tool smoke proofs.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 114256

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(Boss Dog Press) Eberhardt, Fritz. RULES FOR BOOKBINDERS IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN
Plains, PA Boss Dog Press 2003 large 12mo. semi-limp Bluestone Ingres paste paper wrapper; nonadhesive four-needle Japanese sewing structure, paper cover label 24 pages
The first book printed by the Boss Dog Press, issued in a limited edition of 100 numbered copies printed for distribution. A poem in sixteen stanzas (with two notes) written in English and German and illustrated by Fritz Eberhardt, the famous hand bookbinder and calligrapher. Unique papers, line engravings of the original pencil sketches by Eberhardt, and letterpress printing were employed to capture the spirit of the author, as well as enhance the text and relate it to the illustrations.
Price: $ 120.00 other currencies Order nr. 77017

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Brown, H. Glenn and Maude O. Brown DIRECTORY OF THE BOOK-ARTS AND BOOK TRADE IN PHILADELPHIA TO 1820, INCLUDING PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.
New York The New York Public Library 1950 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 129 pages.
First separate edition, reprinted from the Bulletin. Excellent source document. With information on marblers. Name in ink on free endpaper.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 20568

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(Center for Book Arts) AN EXHIBITION OF BOOKBINDINGS BY JEAN DE GONET.
New York Center for Book Arts 1987 12mo. stiff paper wrappers 28 pages
An exhibition of 45 works by innovative French bookbinder de Gonet was held in New York from May 16 to June 16, 1987. According to Jan van der Marck in the introduction, innovation is a radical attack on the continuity of thought and action that distinguishes culture and informs tradition. There are two ways in which to detect it: by deduction and induction. The former requires that we search for a break in an evolving stylistic configuration much as we would for a stoppage of leak in a pipeline. The latter proceeds by the intuitive recognition of a sea change, and the ability to pinpoint evidence from clues. At first blush, de Gonet's ingeniously crafted or industrially produced covers resemble the lid of a roll top box or the dash of a racing car. These unsubtle clues that somebody is playing hard and fast with the bookbinders tradition are the unchallengeable evidence of innovation. Black and white illustrations.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 103926

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(Center for Book Arts) THE FIRST DECADE, CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS, AN EXHIBITION AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY SEPTEMBER 7 - NOVEMBER 29, 1984.
New York Center for Book Arts 1984 4to. stiff paper wrappers with illustration on front cover 56 pages
An exhibition held at the New York Public Library from September 7 to November 29, 1994 celebrated the first ten years of the Center's existence. Including 132 works by 112 artists, it was not intended as a retrospective, but rather as an overview of traditional book forms, paper arts, bookbinding and art works based on, or alluding to, book forms. Introduction by Frances O. Mattson, curator of Rare Books at The New York Public Library. Each entry is accompanied by a black and white photograph.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 103186

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(Center For Book Arts) THE FIRST DECADE, CENTER FOR THE BOOK ARTS, AN EXHIBITION AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY SEPTEMBER 7 - NOVEMBER 29, 1984.
New York Center for Book Arts 1984 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 56 pages.
An exhibition held at the New York Public Library from September 7 to November 29, 1994 celebrated the first ten years of the Center's existence. Including 132 works by 112 artists, it was not intended as a retrospective, but rather as an overview of traditional book forms, paper arts, bookbinding and art works based on, or alluding to, book forms. Introduction by Frances O. Mattson, curator of Rare Books at The New York Public Library. Each entry is accompanied by a black and white photograph.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 36530

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(Center for Book Arts) HEDI KYLE & HER INFLUENCE: 1977 - 1993.
New York Center for Book Arts 1993 4to. stiff paper wrappers with paper structure in center 8 pages
An exhibition was held in New York from October 1 to November 27, 1993 featuring works by Kyle and twenty contemporary book artists that have been inspired by Ms. Kyle's unique and creative bindings. The essay by Brian Hannon maintains that "All the works in the exhibition in some way challenge established notions about this cultural icon, (the book), that has played such a significant role in intellectual history." Illustrated in black and white, with paper structure in the center of the booklet.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 103927

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DOLPHIN, A JOURNAL OF THE MAKING OF BOOKS. VOLUME IV, NO.3
New York Limited Editions Club 1940 4to. cloth. 233-312, 14 pages.
The third part of the fourth and final number of this periodical devoted to the book arts. Ward Ritchie has written an article on Cobden-Sanderson in this issue. Wear at spine ends.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 6109

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(Dolphin) Wroth, Lawrence C. (editor) A HISTORY OF THE PRINTED BOOK, BEING THE THIRD NUMBER OF THE DOLPHIN.
New York Limited Editions Club 1938 thick 4to. cloth. xv, 507, (35) pages.
Limited to 1800 copies. A collection of articles on the history of printing, papermaking, bookbinding and book illustration by eminent book-arts specialists. Slanted towards readers with a solid background in the history of the printed book. The editor originally planned to publish the articles in serial form in regular issues of the Dolphin but later decided to combine the material in this special number of the respected book arts journal. Contributions by authors such as Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt, Otto W. Fuhrmann, Peter Beilenson, Carl Purington Rollins, Dard Hunter, R.W. Chapman, George Parker Winship, and others. Handsomely designed by Rollins and printed by George T. Bailey at Yale University Press with 190 illustrations, mainly black and white. Directory of ads comprises last section of volume. Index. Bookplate of the collector, Mark Holstein. Slightly bumed.
Price: $ 100.00 other currencies Order nr. 8389

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Dubansky, Mindell THE PROPER DECORATION OF BOOK COVERS: THE LIFE AND WORK OF ALICE C. MORSE.
With Essays by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen and Josephine M. Dunn New York The Grolier Club 2008 9 x 12 inches paperback 108 pages
This catalogue was published as part of the exhibition held at the Grolier Club from April 4 to May 2, 2008 and at the University of Scranton from April 4 to May 2, 2008. The book provides a ground-breaking study of one of America's leading designers of nineteenth-century publishers bookbindings, Alice C. Morse. A biography titled "A Woman of the Century" explores the Women's Art School at Cooper Union, the Women's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition, the New York Society of Decorative Art, and Morse's experiences in designing book covers. It examines her work in Scranton between 1897 and 1923 and contains a catalogue of her designs. With illustrations accompanying each of her designs, the book also contains a bibliography and various indexes. It was designed by Jerry Kelly and printed by Capital Offset.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 106670

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Dubois, Henri Pene FOUR PRIVATE LIBRARIES OF NEW-YORK A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF BIBLIOPHILISM OF AMERICA.
New York Duprat & Co. 1892 8vo. original woven cloth. 119 pages.
First edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies printed by DeVinne. (Webber p.62). Thirteen chapters on the book including one on the art of bookbinding and another on Historical Book-Covers. Includes thirteen illustrations with eight of the bindings including a full color frontispiece. Most of spine covering chipped away.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 2236

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Dubois, Henri Pene FOUR PRIVATE LIBRARIES OF NEW-YORK A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF BIBLIOPHILISM OF AMERICA.
New York Duprat & Co. 1892 8vo. original wove cloth binding which has rebacked with modern cloth with spine covering laid down on this new cloth. 119 pages.
First edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies printed by DeVinne. (Webber p.62). Thirteen chapters on the book including one on the art of bookbinding and another on Historical Book-Covers. Includes 13 illustrations with 8 of the bindings including a full color frontispiece. Cloth spotted with parts of original spine covering missing. Presentation from the author to Arnodl W. Brunnet on the limitation page.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 3298

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