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(Bird & Bull Press) Silver, Joel DR. ROSENBACH AND MR. LILLY: BOOK COLLECTING IN A GOLDEN AGE
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2010 8vo quarter leather over cloth covered boards, leather label on spine 131 pages
First edition. Limited to 140 copies. There was a time when book collecting was big news. In the first half of the twentieth century, some of America's leading financiers, executives, and philanthropists played "this book-collecting game" (as A. Edward Newton called it), and competed with each other for the finest books and manuscripts in the world. Their booksellers were no less newsworthy, and one of the most astute, knowledgeable, and flamboyant of them all was Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach of Philadelphia. Dr. R., as the press liked to call him, helped to build some of America's greatest collections, and his own library, assembled from the treasures that he took home for himself rather than put into his stock, still draws vistors and researchers from around the world.

Dr. Rosenbach and Mr. Lilly: Book Collecting in a Golden Age is the story of one collector, Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., of Indianapolis, and the books and manuscripts that he bought from Dr. Rosenbach. The story is told through the many letters that they exchanged, and through the descriptions and illustrations of the books and manuscripts themselves. Though this book is the story of only one collector and bookseller, it is also a microcosm of a great age of book collecting, in which choices were made by booksellers and collectors alike that shaped the contents of some of the greatest research libraries of our own day.

Price: $ 425.00 other currencies Order nr. 104399

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(Bird & Bull Press) Silver, Joel DR. ROSENBACH AND MR. LILLY: BOOK COLLECTING IN A GOLDEN AGE
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2010 8vo unbound signatures. 131 pages
First edition. Limited to 140 copies of which this is "140." There was a time when book collecting was big news. In the first half of the twentieth century, some of America's leading financiers, executives, and philanthropists played "this book-collecting game" (as A. Edward Newton called it), and competed with each other for the finest books and manuscripts in the world. Their booksellers were no less newsworthy, and one of the most astute, knowledgeable, and flamboyant of them all was Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach of Philadelphia. Dr. R., as the press liked to call him, helped to build some of America's greatest collections, and his own library, assembled from the treasures that he took home for himself rather than put into his stock, still draws vistors and researchers from around the world.

Dr. Rosenbach and Mr. Lilly: Book Collecting in a Golden Age is the story of one collector, Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., of Indianapolis, and the books and manuscripts that he bought from Dr. Rosenbach. The story is told through the many letters that they exchanged, and through the descriptions and illustrations of the books and manuscripts themselves. Though this book is the story of only one collector and bookseller, it is also a microcosm of a great age of book collecting, in which choices were made by booksellers and collectors alike that shaped the contents of some of the greatest research libraries of our own day.
Price: $ 325.00 other currencies Order nr. 108786

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(Bird & Bull Press) Spiller, Robert E. THE PHILOBIBLON CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA.
North Hills Bird & Bull Press 1973 8vo. vellum spine, roller-printed paste paper over boards. 41 pages.
Taylor B4. One of 275 numbered copies. The Colophon for the book is a two page, 52 line, original poem by Henry Morris. Fine (the book, not the poem). With information on Rosenbach, Morley, and a bibliography of the books published by the club.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 74429

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(Bird & Bull Press) Stewart-Murphy, Charlotte A. A HISTORY OF BRITISH CIRCULATING LIBRARIES, THE BOOK LABELS AND EPHEMERA OF THE PAPANTONIO COLLECTION.
Newton, PA Bird & Bull Press 1992 tall 8vo. quarter leather, decorated paper over boards. 153, (2) pages.
Limited to 185 numbered copies. Printed on Arches mouldmade paper by Henry Morris at The Bird & Bull Press. Gives a history of British circulating libraries through the use of the Papantonio collection of library book labels and book related ephemera of the eighteenth and nineteenth century by the noted English collector Sir Ambrose Heal. The author has thoroughly researched the subject and has produced an interesting account of the libraries and the increase of literacy among the poorer classes. With related information on the printers, booksellers, engravers and bookbinders of the period. Illustrations of sixty-four labels, trade cards and prints are included.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 34912

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(Bird & Bull Press) Stoneback, H.R. THE CARTOGRAPHERS OF THE DEUS LOCI THE MILL HOUSE.
North Hills Bird & Bull Press 1982 8vo. vellum spine and Morris' paste-paper sides. Printed on a limited supply of Dard Hunter's own paper, plain paper dust jacket. (24) pages.
First edition, limited to 240 numbered copies. A poem written to help raise funds to preserve Dard Hunter's mill giving a history of the house including Hunter's stay. Dard Hunter produced his first paper in this building; the book is printed on some of Hunter's Lime Rock handmade paper that survived. With illustrations by William Osborne. With a separately issued note on the book printed by Henry Morris loosely inserted.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 451

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(Bird & Bull Press) Taylor, W Thomas and Henry Morris TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF BIRD & BULL A BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1958-1979.
North Hills W. Thomas Taylor and Bird & Bull Press 1980 large 8vo. leather spine, paper-covered boards. 108+(1) pages.
Limited to 350 numbered copies and oversubscribed on publication. A well produced guide to the printing of one of the finest of private presses in operation today.
Price: $ 105.00 other currencies Order nr. 468

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(Bird & Bull Press) Taylor, W. Thomas and Henry Morris TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF BIRD & BULL A BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1958-1979.
North Hills W. Thomas Taylor and Bird & Bull Press 1980 large 8vo. leather spine, paper-covered boards with a separate cloth folder containing thirteen pieces of ephemera, all enclosed in a cloth box with a leather spine label. 108+(1) pages.
Limited to 350 numbered copies and oversubscribed on publication, this is one of only 140 copies that were issued with the extra portfolio of ephemera and inserted in the box. This copy contains prospectuses to Roller-Printed Paste Papers for Bookbindings, The Paper Maker, the Commonplace Book, a broadside entitled "An Ode to S. & T., an issue of Swine Print and parts of different books. A well produced guide to the printing of one of the finest private presses in operation today. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 180.00 other currencies Order nr. 20702

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(Bird & Bull Press) THREE ERFURT TALES, 1497-1498
Translated into English by Dr. Arnold H Price, with an introduction by Lessing J. Rosenwald. North Hills, PA Bird & Bull Press 1962 small 8vo. cloth. viii, 62, iv pages.
Limited to 310 numbered copies. (Taylor A3). Rosenwald provided the original edition of the book, a series of three tales written for the common man of Erfurt, Germany. Illustrated with woodblock cuts throughout. Printed and bound by Morris and using handmade "Bird & Bull" paper. One of the earliest Bird & Bull Press books. Presentation on colophon page "For Dard Hunter Jr - as an example of how not to bind a book. Henry 9/18/68."
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 25122

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(Bird & Bull Press) THREE ERFURT TALES, 1497-1498
Translated into English by Dr. Arnold H Price, with an introduction by Lessing J. Rosenwald. North Hills, PA Bird & Bull Press 1962 small 8vo. cloth. viii, 62, iv pages.
Limited to 310 numbered copies. (Taylor A3). Rosenwald provided the original edition of the book, a series of three tales written for the common man of Erfurt, Germany. Illustrated with woodblock cuts throughout. Printed and bound by Morris, using handmade "Bird & Bull" paper. One of the earliest Bird & Bull Press books. Presentation from Henry Morris on free endpaper "To C.S.T. with kindest regards, H.M." and with the original folded broadside prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 425.00 other currencies Order nr. 95912

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(Bird & Bull Press) THREE ERFURT TALES, 1497-1498
Translated into English by Dr. Arnold H Price, with an introduction by Lessing J. Rosenwald. North Hills, PA Bird & Bull Press 1962 small 8vo. cloth. viii, 62, iv pages.
Limited to 310 numbered copies. (Taylor A3). Rosenwald provided the original edition of the book, a series of three tales written for the common man of Erfurt, Germany. Illustrated with woodblock cuts throughout. Printed and bound by Morris, using handmade "Bird & Bull" paper. One of the earliest Bird & Bull Press books.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 114271

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(Bird & Bull Press) Tindale, Thomas Keith and Harriett Ramsey Tindale THE HANDMADE PAPER OF JAPAN.
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2001 4to. single sheet , folded once
Four page prospectus for this book.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 92851

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(Bird & Bull Press) THE TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL FREDERIC W. GOUDY AWARD ... PRESENTED TO HENRY MORRIS.
Rochester The School of Printing Management & Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology 1992 small 4to. self paper wrappers. (4) pages printed French fold.
Portrait of Henry Morris accompanied by a biographical sketch. Lists other award winners of this distinguished award. Corner bumped.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 39671

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(Bird & Bull Press) Valls, Oriol A LIVELY LOOK AT PAPERMAKING.
North Hills Bird & Bull Press 1980 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards, paper spine label. (45) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 300 copies. This booklet reproduces 24 advertising cards from the late 18th century which show the various steps involved in papermaking from the rag picker to delivery. The cards were discovered by Valls in the print collection of the Historical Archives of Barcelona. They were originally advertising inducements on packets of cigarette paper to encourage buying.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 5332

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(Bird & Bull Press) Voorn, Henk HENK VOORN TO HENRY MORRIS, SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE, JUNE 1967--JULY 1981.
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2003 small 4to. cloth, slipcase 56, (4) pages
Printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper in an edition limited to 150 numbered copies. Composed in Garamond types by Michael and Winifred Bixler, bound by the Campbell-Logan bindery in Japanese cloth and enclosed in a cloth covered slipcase. Sixteen colored illustrations are tipped-in throughout. Henk Voorn (b. 1921), publisher and editor of De Papierwereld (The Paper World) since 1949, is well known to all those interested in papermaking history, and considered by Leonard Schlosser to be the leading paper historian of his time. The earlier letters include personal details and information concerning the planning and publication of Old Ream Wrappers (1969), the Voorns' first trip to the U.S. and the Morris' first trip to Holland and England in 1967. Subsequent letters are concerned with trips to IPH Congresses, books published Bird & Bull, and related matters of papermaking history. Scholars of paper history and the private press will find these letters informative and enjoyable. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 73386

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(Bird & Bull Press) Voorn, Henk OLD REAM WRAPPERS, AN ESSAY ON EARLY REAM WRAPPERS OF ANTIQUARIAN INTEREST.
North Hills Bird & Bull Press 1969 small 4to. leather spine, marbled paper over boards. 111 pages.
Taylor A8. One of 375 numbered copies. This was by far the largest Bird & Bull edition to date. It took Mr. Morris 30 weeks to make the paper used for it. The book was the result of a trip the Morris's took to Europe in 1967. With prospectusThe separately issued envelope containing two reproductions of a ream wrapper is not present.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 461

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(Bird & Bull Press) Voorn, Henk OLD REAM WRAPPERS, AN ESSAY ON EARLY REAM WRAPPERS OF ANTIQUARIAN INTEREST.
North Hills Bird & Bull Press 1969 small 4to. leather spine, marbled paper over boards. 111 pages.
Taylor A8. One of 375 numbered copies. This was by far the largest Bird & Bull edition to date. It took Mr. Morris thirty weeks just to make the paper used for it. The book was the result of a trip the Morrises took to Europe in 1967. The separately issued envelope containing two reproductions of a ream wrapper is not present.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 95993

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(Bird & Bull Press) Voorn, Henk OLD REAM WRAPPERS, AN ESSAY ON EARLY REAM WRAPPERS OF ANTIQUARIAN INTEREST.
North Hills Bird & Bull Press 1969 small 4to. leather spine, marbled paper over boards. 111 pages.
Taylor A8. One of 375 numbered copies; this copy has "printer's copy" written in place of a number on the colophon. This was by far the largest Bird & Bull edition to date. It took Mr. Morris 30 weeks to make the paper used for it. The book was the result of a trip the Morris's took to Europe in 1967.With the separately issued envelope containing two reproductions of a ream wrapper present. This is often missing as it is much larger than the book. In a variant binding.
Price: $ 315.00 other currencies Order nr. 102492

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(Bird & Bull Press) WESLEY W. BATES' COMPLETE WOOD ENGRAVINGS FOR THE FORESTERS.
Large-paper proofs suitable for framing. Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2000 small 4to. plain paper portfolio with title plate to portfolio and individual proofs loosely inserted.
A separate publication of this private press. The wood-engravings by this Canadian artist are quite spectacular.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 100363

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(Bird & Bull Press) Whitehill, Walter Muir THE CLUB OF ODD VOLUMES, BOSTON 1887-1973; AN ADDRESS GIVEN TO THE PHILOBIBLON CLUB ON 19 APRIL, 1973.
Philadelphia The Philobiblon Club 1973 8vo. paste paper wrappers, paper cover label. 14 pages.
Limited to 250 copies; only 50 copies for sale. (Taylor B3). Designed and printed by Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press for the Philobiblon Club of Philadelphia. Scarce.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 454

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(Bird & Bull Press) Wilson, Alexander THE FORESTERS.
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2000 8vo. xx, 112, (3) pages.
Limited to 150 numbered copies. Printed on Arches Mouldmade paper by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press. This book contains Alexander Wilson's long poem "The Foresters" describing his first "pedestrian journey" with two companions to the Falls of Niagara in the Autumn of 1804. Wilson's work is a wonderfully descriptive account of the spectacular sights of the American wilderness. With engravings by Wesley W. Bates, one of the top-rated wood engravers in North America. Bates works in the classic British style and has produced thirteen full-page engravings plus the title page cartouche for this book. Composed in Dante types by Michael and Winifred Bixler. Includes a foreword by Henry Morris, a synopsis of the poem by Robert Cantwell, and notes on the text.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 60487

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(Bird & Bull Press) Wolfe, Richard J. and Paul McKenna LOUIS HERMAN KINDER AND FINE BOOKBINDING IN AMERICA, A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF THE ROYCROFT SHOP.
Newtown Bird & Bull Press 1985 small 4to. quarter morocco with tips and leather spine-label, gold-decorated paper sides. 161 pages.
S-K 7047. Limited to 325 copies. A history of this German born binder that worked for the Roycrofters from 1897 to 1911. The authors have included much unpublished material relating to Kinder and Hubbard, a rather complete Catalogue of impressions of Kinder's bookbinding hand tools and illustrated 14 bindings in full color. Another excellent Bird & Bull production.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 7113

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(Bird & Bull Press) Wolfe, Richard J. and Paul McKenna LOUIS HERMAN KINDER AND FINE BOOKBINDING IN AMERICA, A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF THE ROYCROFT SHOP.
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 1985 small 4to. quarter morocco with tips and leather spine-label, gold-decorated paper sides. 161 pages.
S-K 7047. Limited to 325 copies. A history of this German born binder who worked for the Roycrofters from 1897 to 1911. The authors have included much unpublished material relating to Kinder and Hubbard, a rather complete catalogue of impressions of Kinder's bookbinding hand tools and illustrated fourteen bindings in full color. Another excellent Bird & Bull production. With prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 60469

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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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(Bird & Bull Press) Wolfe, Richard J. ON IMPROVEMENTS IN MARBLING THE EDGES OF BOOKS AND PAPER, A NINETEENTH CENTURY MARBLING ACCOUNT EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED WITH FOURTEEN ORIGINAL MARBLED SAMPLES.
Newtown Bird & Bull Press 1983 oblong 12mo. quarter leather over marbled paper-covered boards, leather tips. 64 pages followed by the tipped-in samples.
First edition, limited to 350 numbered copies. Reprints the first American Treatise on Marbling, an account which appears in the April 1829 issue of the Journal of the Franklin Institute with additional text by Wolfe. Beautifully printed on handmade paper. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 462

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(Bird & Bull Press) Wolfe, Richard J. THREE EARLY FRENCH ESSAYS ON PAPER MARBLING, 1642-1765
WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND THIRTEEN ORIGINAL MARBLED SAMPLES. Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 1987 8vo. quarter bound by E.G. Parrot in morocco and tips with leather spine label, and "snail" pattern marbled paper sides made by Wolfe especially for this edition. 106 pages.
Limited to 310 numbered copies and hand-printed by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press on Umbria handmade paper. Wolfe has translated an unpublished manuscript from Lyon circa 1642, containing the earliest known French marbling recipe, an article from Journal Oeconomique,1758, and an article from the Diderot-D'Alembert Encyclopedie of 1765 into English. The Diderot article is especially interesting as it comments on the practical side of marbling, i.e., how much money could be made. The samples were produced by Wolfe using the instructions in the translated manuals. Included is a four-color sequence showing the various steps taken by Wolfe in producing the Placard pattern.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 17530

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