Oak Knoll Books & Oak Knoll Press



Advanced Search >>

	Bibliography
	Book Collecting
	Book Design
	Book Illustration
	Book Selling
	Bookbinding
	Bookplates
	Cartography
	Children's Books
	Delaware Books
	Fine Press Books
	Forgery
	Graphic Design
	Images & Broadsides
	Libraries
	Literary Criticism
	Papermaking
	Printing History
	Publishing
	Typography
	Writing & Calligraphy

Antiquarian (325)

Private Press

Refine Result ?

Displaying 301-325 of 465

Private Press

Sort By :

Jump to page:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19

Page 13 of 19

PARENTHESIS 18: THE JOURNAL OF THE FINE PRESS BOOK ASSOCIATION
Vancouver/Sheffield FPBA 2010 small 4to cloth, paper covered boards, slipcase 64 pages, seperate portfolio with paper samples
Issue 18. Deluxe edition.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 106088

READ MORE...

PARENTHESIS 20: THE JOURNAL OF THE FINE PRESS BOOK ASSOCIATION
Vancouver/Sheffield FPBA 2011 small 4to cloth, paper covered boards, slipcase 64 pages, seperate portfolio with paper samples
Issue 20. Deluxe edition.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 106355

READ MORE...

PARENTHESIS: THE NEWSLETTER OF THE FINE PRESS BOOK ASSOCIATION.
20 volumes Cheltenham Premiere Press 1998-2011 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers Various pagination.
Issues number One (May, 1998) to Twenty (Spring 2011). Collections of essays about fine printing with articles such as the "Ten most interesting books produced in England between 1913 and 1939," "American Book Design in the Post-War Years" and "Counterblast to the Monstrous March of Megabytes." Illustrated mostly with woodcuts and wood engravings used for book illustration. Cover illustration of number One cut by Vance Gerry and stencilled by Anthea Steel; number Two is by Clive Hicks-Jenkins from The Affectionate Shepeard; number Three is "The Duke of Beaufort's Hunt Point-to-Point, Bushton" from The Wood Engravings of Frank Martin.
Price: $ 750.00 other currencies Order nr. 103785

READ MORE...

(Pear Tree Press) Pippet, Gabriel A LITTLE ROSARY.
(Flansham, Sussex, England) The Pear Tree Press (1930) 16mo. paper-covered boards, paper cover label, top edge cut, other edges uncut unpaginated
Number 90 of an limited edition. With 16 woodcuts by Gabriel Pippet, illustrating the fifteen mysteries of the Roman Catholic rosary. Handprinted. Reflective paper boards depicting saints. Frontispiece. Unopened. Some wear at joints.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 107083

READ MORE...

(Pear Tree Press) TE DEUM LAUDAMUS AND NUNC DIMITTIS FROM THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.
Flansham The Pear Tree Press 1929 12mo. silver paper-covered boards with woodcut in black, paper cover label. (7) pages.
Limited to 150 copies. (Ridler no.23). Printed in red and black on hand-made paper. Woodcut decorations by James Guthrie and design by John Guthrie. This is labeled as volume one in the Black Letter Series. Slightly bumped at spine ends.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 36678

READ MORE...

Prance Copy

(Pear Tree Press) Waller, Edmund SONG & VERSES SELECTED FROM THE WORKS OF EDMUND WALLER
South Harting, Sussex Pear Tree Press 1902 large 12 mo. cloth backed, paper-covered boards with printed paper label on upper right front board (vi),33, (3) pages
Limited to an edition of three hundred numbered copies, signed on the colophon by the decorator, Pickford R. Waller. The book is set entirely in capitals. (Ransom 4) . This is the Prance copy, with his small book label (above the earlier bookplate of Frederick John Hancock Lloyd) on the upper pastedown, plus his penciled signature on the free endpaper. Book is a trifle soiled, corners are lightly worn, a couple of spots of foxing.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 79744

READ MORE...

(Penmaen Press) Beatson, Jesse W. THE PURPOSE OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC LEAGUE.
(Boston The Penmaen Press 1968) folio stiff paper wrappers (4) pages
Limited to 30 numbered copies (Peich 2). Printed by the author's grandson, Michael McCurdy. Cover Italian Fabriano; the inside paper is Japanese Masa. Type is Kennerly, designed by Goudy. A statement of purpose of one of a number of "economic clubs" founded in the early 20th century, many of which advocated Progressive Era reforms. The National Economic League itself was founded in 1906. Front wrapper bent near top edge, and stained near center spine.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 114858

READ MORE...

(Penmaen Press) Childs, Christopher (editor) CLEAR SKY, PURE LIGHT, ENCOUNTERS WITH HENRY DAVID THOREAU.
With an Introduction by Walter Harding and Wood Engravings by Michael McCurdy Lincoln, MA Penmaen Press Limited (1978) 8vo. cloth, slipcase, wrap-around paper label on slipcase xv, 102, (2) pages
Limited to an edition of 2000 copies, of which this is one of the 100 copies hand-binded and signed by Childs, Harding, and McCurdy. Contains an extra print laid-in signed by McCurdy. Printed by Penmaen Press. Contains a collection of excerpts from Henry David Thoreau's letters that give fresh insights on one of America's most illuminated thinkers. In immaculate condition.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 96911

READ MORE...

(Penmaen Press) DOVE AT THE WINDOWS, LAST LETTERS OF FOUR QUAKER MARTYRS
With a foreword by George Selleck & five woodcuts by Michael McCurdy Lincoln, MA Penmaen Press 1973 small 4to. cloth, paper spine label, dust jacket. (28) pages.
Limited to 200 numbered copies signed by the artist, Michael McCurdy (Peich 5). Letters selected from William Sewell's History of the Quakers (Philadelphia, 1856). and James Bowden's The History of the Society of Friends in America (London, 1850). Foreword by George Selleck. Five woodcut illustrations by Michael McCurdy.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 78492

READ MORE...

(Penmaen Press) GENESIS.
(Boston The Pendle Press 1967) folio. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards 6 pages
Limited to 20 copies (Peich 1). McCurdy's first published work. The 2nd and 3rd chapters of the book of Genesis in the Old Testament of the Bible. Bound in quarter blue patterned cloth and light blue-gray Fabriano paper boards. Handprinted on double-fold Japanese Masa paper by McCurdy. Pendle Press on colophon. The press's name was changed to Hillside Press, then the Penmaen Press, when McCurdy found other printers using the same names (Finding Aid, Penmaen Press records, Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs). Broadside "An Introductory Comment as to the Aims & Aspirations of the Hillside Press" laid in. Very rare. Also present is another version of this broadside in a different typographic arrangment with a pencil note that states that this version was not used. Cloth portion of boards stained. Paper portion of boards lightly faded at edges.
Price: $ 2,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 114862

READ MORE...

(Penmaen Press) King, B.A. THE VERY BEST CHRISTMAS TREE.
Lincoln, MA Penmaen Press 1983 8vo. green cloth spine with red paper covered boards, paper cover label. 24 pages
Limited to 200 copies. Woodcut illustrations by Michael McCurdy. Signed by the author and the illustrator. Printed letterpress in two colors. A children's story about a family enchanted by Christmas trees, seeking a larger one every year.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 114465

READ MORE...

(Penmaen Press) Lowe, Pardee (translator) KING HARALD AND THE ICELANDERS
(Lincon MA) Penmaen Press (1979) 8vo. Plain paper spine with patterned paper-covered boards, paper covered corners, clear plastic jacket (vi),x,43,(5) pages
Limited to 1000 copies of which this is one of the one hundred numbered copies of the deluxe edition that are signed by the translator and the artist. Translated from the Icelandic. Original wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. The type is Palatino and the paper Mohawk Superfine. Contains five stories.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 93551

READ MORE...

Illustrator's Copy

(Penmaen Press) Lowe, Pardee (translator) KING HARALD AND THE ICELANDERS.
Lincoln, MA Penmaen Press 1979 8vo. Plain paper spine with patterned paper-covered boards, paper covered corners, clear plastic jacket (vi), x, 43, (5) pages
Limited to 1000 copies of which this is one of the one hundred numbered copies of the deluxe edition that are signed by the translator and the artist. This copy is not numbered and instead contains the initials of the illustrator, Michael McCurdy "MM." Translated from the Icelandic. Original wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. The type is Palatino and the paper Mohawk Superfine. Contains five stories.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 114461

READ MORE...

(Plain Wrapper Press) Gill, Brendan. WOOINGS.
Verona Plain Wrapper Press (1980) 4to. paper-covered boards. 7+(1) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 155 numbered and signed copies. (Plain Wrappers Press 29) Five poems in English by Brendan Gill. Two of the poems, "Ferragosto" and "Norfolk," were written especially for this edition. "Easter" was previously published in Harper's magazine, and "In Wicklow" and "Voices" previously appeared in The New Yorker. Toned parchment substitute wove paper printed damp on a Washington handpress in black and light brown. Covers are glued boards covered with matching Ingres paper screenprinted in black and yellow with a leaf-and-berry pattern. With errata sheet inserted apologizing for the error on the colophon page.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 57744

READ MORE...

(Plough Press) Wakeman, Geoffrey and Graham Pollard FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN BOOKBINDING.
New Castle, DE and Kidlington, England The Plough Press 1993 8vo. cloth, leather spine label. 96 pages with six tipped-in handmade facsimile samples of cloth bindings and 31 other illustrations in black and white.
Limited to 180 numbered copies of which this is one of the 125 cloth bound copies. Printed by hand by Paul Wakeman, the son of Geoffrey Wakeman, at the Plough Press. Three separate essays which provide a fascinating study of English trade binding from the sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. In "Illustrations of English Trade Bindings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Geoffrey Wakeman describes what an ordinary book of the period looked like. Pollard's essay "Changes in the Style of Bookbinding, 1550-1830" originally appeared in "The Library" in 1956. The third article is again by Wakeman and is entitled "Bookbinding Styles in the Loughborough and Ashby-de-la-Zouch Parish Libraries." This article is based on illustrated slide lectures Wakeman gave while teaching at Loughborough and was meant to demonstrate to students the changes in binding style over the period covered in Pollard's article. These slides are reproduced as plates which are contained in a pocket in the back of the book. Presentation from the printer, Paul Wakeman, on the limitation page.
Price: $ 335.00 other currencies Order nr. 115660

READ MORE...

(Plough Press) Wakeman, Geoffrey and Graham Pollard FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN BOOKBINDING.
New Castle, DE and Kidlington, England The Plough Press 1993 8vo. cloth, leather spine label. 96 pages with six tipped-in handmade facsimile samples of cloth bindings and 31 other illustrations in black and white.
Limited to 180 numbered copies of which this is one of the 125 cloth-bound copies. Printed by hand by Paul Wakeman, the son of Geoffrey Wakeman, at the Plough Press. Three separate essays provide a fascinating study of English trade binding from the sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. In "Illustrations of English Trade Bindings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Geoffrey Wakeman describes what an ordinary book of the period looked like. Pollard's essay "Changes in the Style of Bookbinding, 1550-1830" originally appeared in "The Library" in 1956. The third article is again by Wakeman and is entitled "Bookbinding Styles in the Loughborough and Ashby-de-la-Zouch Parish Libraries." This article is based on illustrated slide lectures Wakeman gave while teaching at Loughborough and was meant to demonstrate to students the changes in binding style over the period covered in Pollard's article. These slides are reproduced as plates which are contained in a pocket in the back of the book. With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. Also present is a prospectus to the book and a letter from Paul Wakeman meant to accompany this complimentary copy.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 98809

READ MORE...

(Plough Press) Wakeman, Geoffrey and Graham Pollard FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN BOOKBINDING.
New Castle, DE and Kidlington, England The Plough Press 1993 8vo. cloth, leather spine label. 96 pages with six tipped-in handmade facsimile samples of cloth bindings and 31 other illustrations in black and white.
Limited to 180 numbered copies of which this is one of the 125 cloth bound copies. Printed by hand by Paul Wakeman, the son of Geoffrey Wakeman, at the Plough Press. Three separate essays which provide a fascinating study of English trade binding from the sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. In "Illustrations of English Trade Bindings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Geoffrey Wakeman describes what an ordinary book of the period looked like. Pollard's essay "Changes in the Style of Bookbinding, 1550-1830" originally appeared in "The Library" in 1956. The third article is again by Wakeman and is entitled "Bookbinding Styles in the Loughborough and Ashby-de-la-Zouch Parish Libraries." This article is based on illustrated slide lectures Wakeman gave while teaching at Loughborough and was meant to demonstrate to students the changes in binding style over the period covered in Pollard's article. These slides are reproduced as plates which are contained in a pocket in the back of the book. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 325.00 other currencies Order nr. 38873

READ MORE...

With Specimens Inserted

(Plough Press) Wakeman, Geoffrey BRADBURY & EVANS, COLOUR PRINTERS
Oxford The Plough Press 1984 small 4to. half-leather over boards. (vi), 19 pages.
First edition, limited to 100 numbered copies, this is one of twenty copies bound thus. A history of this excellent English color printing firm. Contains two tipped-in examples of their work, a specimen sheet from THE OCTAVO FERNS and THE BRITISH SEAWEEDS. Also has six illustrations of equipment.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 2956

READ MORE...

(Plough Press) Wakeman, Geoffrey THE LITERATURE OF LETTERPRESS PRINTING 1849-1900, A SELECTION.
Oxford The Plough Press 1986 small 4to. cloth-backed boards, top edge gilt. (xii), 54, (7) pages.
First edition, limited to 120 numbered copies. Printed by hand on Zerkall Elfenbein Halbmatt. Wakeman, a printing historian of the highest regard, has described 51 of the most important titles relating to printing that were written over the explosive second half of the 19th century. He tells how printing was presented to the public, both as a technical science and as manuals for the amateur printer. Includes illustrations of title pages, printing machinery, etc. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Bound into the back is an offprint from Matrix 6 being an article by Wakeman on "Further Thoughts on the Literature of Letterpress Printing" that appeared in 1986 which has a presentation from Wakeman to Bridson.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 14056

READ MORE...

(Plough Press) Wakeman, Geoffrey PRINTING RELIEF ILLUSTRATIONS, KIRKALL TO THE LINE BLOCK
Leicestershire The Plough Press 1977 small 4to. two-toned cloth, paper spine label. 29 pages and with plates.
Limited to only 100 numbered copies; this copy is not numbered. Contains six original pages of specimens that have been tipped in to demonstrate illustration techniques, with an additional five specimens tipped in that Bridson has added. Four illustrations in the text. Well printed by this English private press. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson who has added a note that this copy is "with extra illustrations."
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 97872

READ MORE...

Extra Illustrated

(Plough Press) Wakeman, Geoffrey XIX CENTURY ILLUSTRATION, SOME METHODS USED IN ENGLISH BOOKS.
Loughborough, (England) The Plough Press 1970 folio quarter cloth portfolio with paper-covered boards, slipcase. (16) cord-tied portfolios.
Printed in an edition limited to only 75 numbered copies. (Bibliography of the Plough Press, p.8). Includes descriptions and actual period examples laid-in for 16 different printing processes utilized during the nineteenth century. Included are familiar processes such as wood engraving, copper and steel engraving, lithography, and aquatint as well as less familiar processes such as omnigraphy, and anastatic printing. An early book from this fine English press. Useful as teaching tool because of the examples of the different processes which are present. This copy has been supplemented by a number of additional samples of the various processes and there is a note in pencil stating that "This is an extra-illustrated copy." Slipcase rubbed and faded along edges.
Price: $ 1,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 42839

READ MORE...

(Poltroon Press) Butler, Frances and Alastair Johnston PSHAW! 1975 - 2005
30 years of Poltroonery N.P. (but Berkeley CA) Poltroon Press n.d.(but 2006) folio quarter cloth, paper-covered boards not paginated (but 44 pages)
100 copies letterpress on Hahnemühle paper. The paper is in three colors. Far more than a simple bibliography, there are eight pochoir plates by Frances Butler and 28 tipped-in facsimiles and recreations of Poltroon ephemera.
Price: $ 500.00 other currencies Order nr. 91656

READ MORE...

(Pré Nian) Csoori, Sandor K. É. VEGAKARATA
(Rétaud) Pré Nian Press (1995) small oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, clear plastic slipcase not paginated
Limited to 70 copies. Adapted by Andre Doms and Aniko Fazsy. Text in Hungarian and French. Signed on the colophon. Woodcuts and vignettes by Bracaval. Bracaval has been awarded many prizes through nearly four decades beginning with the Prix Lafont in 1967 and most recently the Prix Robert Beltz in 2002. His works are continually exhibited and are held in such public collections as the Centre George Pompidou, British Library, and the Boston Athenaeum.
Price: $ 430.00 other currencies Order nr. 93034

READ MORE...

(Pré Nian) Cyr, Gilles CORRELATS
(Rétaud) Pré Nian Press (1991) small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers holding smaller text pages not paginated
Limited to 70 copies. Poem illustrated with three silkscreens by Bracaval. Signed by the poet and illustrator. Bracaval has been awarded many prizes through nearly four decades beginning with the Prix Lafont in 1967 and most recently the Prix Robert Beltz in 2002. His works are continually exhibited and are held in such public collections as the Centre George Pompidou, British Library, and the Boston Athenaeum.
Price: $ 380.00 other currencies Order nr. 93037

READ MORE...

(Pré Nian Editions) White, Kenneth METHODOS.
Nantes Pré Nian Press (1988) folio (15 1/8 x 11 inches) loose signatures gathered in a paper wrapper, grey linen clamshell box. (28) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 60 copies, on Johannot paper, each copy signed by the poet and the artist. A sequence of five haiku by the Scottish poet Kenneth White who lives in France and has written verses in English and in French. Each page has the English verse, followed by the French verse set in italic; the recto of each page is Bertrand Bracaval's silkscreen. Inspired by the ancient monuments of Greece, the Acropolis, Delphi, etc. The haiku catch the starkness of the Greek landscape, as do the stone-like triangles in Bracaval's square silkscreens. The French artist has also set the type. Bracaval has been awarded many prizes through nearly four decades beginning with the Prix Lafont in 1967 and most recently the Prix Robert Beltz in 2002. His works are continually exhibited and are held in such public collections as the Centre George Pompidou, British Library, and the Boston Athenaeum.
Price: $ 2,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 61609

READ MORE...

E-mail/Export ?

Jump to page:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19

Page 13 of 19

Refine Result
Within This List:

New search of entire database?

	Include		Exclude
Author		Author
Title		Title
Keyword		Keyword

Clear all entries and click "Go" button to return to original search result.

Technology by Rockingstone
Viewed best in Internet Explorer 7

Copyright © 2009 Oak Knoll. All rights reserved.