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(Bird & Bull Press) Morris, Henry FORTY-FOUR YEARS OF BIRD & BULL. A BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1958-2002.
Two parts in a larger clamshell box. Newtown, Pennsylvania Bird & Bull Press 2002 large 4to. quarter morocco with Japanese cloth sides, leather spine label, Japanese cloth portfolio, cloth-covered clamshell box, leather spine label. 99 pages plus not paginated inserts.
Printed in an edition limited to 150 numbered copies (Leaf Book - Chalmers 225). The third volume of the Bird & Bull bibliography, providing entries from 1988-2001 (A46-A66 plus B and C items) and complements the previously published Twenty-One Years of Bird & Bull and Thirty Years of Bird & Bull. The main volume includes an introduction by Morris, his bibliography (written with his usual candor) and 8-, 12-, and 16-pp. specimen sections, large posters, prospectuses, and other ephemera. 24 tip-ins or inserts bound in, including five 4-pp. inserts, two 6-pp. inserts, and a fold-out broadside on handmade Italian "Roma" paper. The other portfolio contains a variety of specimens, all loosely inserted. Among the items included is a 16-pp. small folio booklet with the complete woodcuts of Three Lions and the Cross of Lorraine (1992). Dard Hunter & Son (1998) also makes an appearance here in the form of various leaves from the book. Several prospectuses, exhibition posters, and paper samples are included in this specimen group. Composed in Dante types and printed on Arches mouldmade paper.
Price: $ 500.00 other currencies Order nr. 71716

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(Bookbinding) Bailey, H. BOOKBINDING SPECIMENS AND NOTES
Old Books & Bindings Restored. Presentation Bindings. Law Bindings. Salisbury H. Bailey n.d. oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 14, (2) pages
This booklet gives general information for people interested in getting their books bound or rebound, including comparisons of materials, how decorations are created, and care of various bindings. Illustrations of bindings in black-and-white throughout. Wrappers soiled, edges tanned and worn.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 94851

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PELVAR 40.
N.P. n.p. n.d. 8vo. Pelvar simulated leather with gilt-stamped lettering, slipcase. (50) pages of samples.
An extensive sample book of Pelvar 40 simulated leather, from Cartiera Delvarone. Pelvar is described as having a leather touch, brilliant surface, strong abrasion resistance, easy to work with when scoring, excellent for silk screen printing, and useful for deluxe hard cover editions, book-backs, box linings, etc.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 70848

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STEREOTYP
Obrázkový vzorník, oborných a reklamních, stocku a podtisku [Illustrated sample book, specialty and advertising, engraving and background printing]...specielní odborný závod stereotypérsky, rozmnozování sazeb. stocku, drevorytu, matric atd. [specialty professional stereotype establishment, duplication rates, engraving, xylography, matrices, etc.] Vinohrady (Praha) Stereotyp n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (32) pages.
The style of the examples suggests the 1920's or '30's. Paper wrapper lightly soiled, chip at bottom mended with tape, small tear to last page and wrapper, water stain at bottom right corner.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 74365

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(Tenfingers Press) FOLIO OF SPECIMENS
N.P. The Tenfingers Press n.d. small 4to stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
Specimen of print and illustration by the Tenfinger's Press tipped in on the second and third page. Includes quotation from Song of Songs and illustration signed by F.J. Thomas. Paper label with the press's logo on front wrapper.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 106973

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Young, Matthew McLennan THE RISE AND FALL OF THE PRINTERS' INTERNATIONAL SPECIMEN EXCHANGE.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2012 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover, dust jacket 160 pages
The Rise and Fall of the Printers' International Specimen Exchange is the first in-depth study of an institution whose goal was nothing less than a renaissance of fine printing at a time when quantity mattered far more than quality. The Printers' International Specimen Exchange was founded in 1880, first and foremost as a means to encourage British printers to improve their technical and artistic skills, which lagged far behind those of their American and European counterparts. It came to be a far more international and influential institution than its originators imagined, its 16 volumes including the work of more than 1,000 printing establishments (several times that number of contributors, including employees and apprentices) from 28 different nations.

The story of the Specimen Exchange involves the development of new machinery and processes, "Old Style" vs. "Artistic" printing, the histories of the two innovative printing houses that managed the Exchange, cooperation and conflict among outsize personalities, and the extraordinary efforts of a few talented and dedicated people. The history of the Specimen Exchange also involves a Victorian-style hostile takeover and a separate breach-of-contract court case.

The Specimen Exchange is a record of a remarkable period in letterpress and lithographic printing. As a subscription publication distributed primarily to contributors, only a few hundred copies of each volume were issued, and many of the specimens were produced expressly for the Exchange. Consequently, some of the examples reproduced in this book have not been seen before outside the original volumes, and the selection presented here should delight any printing historian or admirer of good graphic design. This book includes 81 full-page reproductions of some of the best examples, in a wide range of styles and from many countries.

Matthew McLennan Young is a practicing graphic designer and book collector, and the author of a previous study, Field & Tuer, the Leadenhall Press, (Oak Knoll Press and the British Library, 2010) that earned positive reviews in the TLS, the Book Collector and elsewhere. He has presented papers on the Printers' International Specimen Exchange, the Caxton Celebration of 1877, and the Leadenhall Press at various conferences. He and his wife, Valerie, live in Hopewell, New Jersey.
Price: $ 59.95 other currencies Order nr. 108704

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