Oxford: The Plough Press, 1984. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 250 pages. First edition. Excellent bibliographical guide to technique. Well indexed. Includes nature printing. READ MORE about PRINTMAKING & PICTURE PRINTING, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO ARTISTIC & INDUSTRIAL...
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 14216
Wymondham: Brewhouse Press, 1970. 4to. half leather over marbled paper-covered boards. 64 pages. First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies (Not in Leaf Book - Chalmers). With three actual specimens inserted. With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. Boards bowed, especially the front. Leather backstrip detached and loosely inserted in book. An important history of the first commercially successful means of reproducing the printed page. With three mounted specimens demonstrating this method of reproduction. Well-printed by..... READ MORE about ASPECTS OF VICTORIAN LITHOGRAPHY, ANASTATIC PRINTING AND PHOTOZINCOGRAPHY
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 79820
New Castle and Kidlington: The Plough Press, 1993. 8vo. half leather with marbled paper in facsimile of the half leather binding sample illustrated in the book. 96 pages and 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 25 copies to be bound thus. Printed by hand by Paul Wakeman, the son of Geoffrey Wakeman, at..... READ MORE about FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN BOOKBINDING
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 38874
New Castle, DE and Kidlington, England: 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..... READ MORE about FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN BOOKBINDING
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 98809
Oxford: The Plough Press, 1986. small 4to. quarter Oasis morocco over boards, top edge gilt. (xii), 54, (7) pages. First edition, limited to 120 numbered copies of which this is one of the 30 bound in this manner. 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..... READ MORE about LITERATURE OF LETTERPRESS PRINTING 1849-1900, A SELECTION
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 14055
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..... READ MORE about THE LITERATURE OF LETTERPRESS PRINTING 1849-1900, A SELECTION
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 14056
Loughborough, Leicestershire: The Plough Press, 1980. small 4to. quarter blue morocco leather, marbled paper-covered boards, gilt title & author on spine. 123, (2) pages with pocket at rear containing five paper samples (four 19th Century samples and one 20th Century samples). First edition limited to 102 numbered copies. Prospectus loosely inserted. A fine copy. Short histories of 14 mills with numerous samples, maps and photographs bound in which were jointly formed by Wakeman & Roderick..... READ MORE about TWENTIETH CENTURY ENGLISH VAT PAPER MILLS
Price: $725.00 Order nr. 38034
Loughborough: The Plough Press, (1975). 8vo. cloth. xii, 127 pages. First edition. Spine lightly age darkened. Covers lightly soiled. Lacking the dust jacket. Else very good. Historical accounts of the most important English color printers. With biographical information and listing of important books produced and a chronological directory of their addresses. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about A GUIDE TO NINETEENTH CENTURY COLOUR PRINTERS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 5254
1969. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp.24-40. Reprinted from Journal of the Printing Historical Society, Number 5, 1969. READ MORE about ANASTATIC PRINTING FOR SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 104862
Detroit: Gale Research Company, (1973). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 182 pages. First U.S. edition. Spine slightly faded. Subtle foxing to preliminary pages, else near fine. With 40 illustrations. Chapters on wood engraving, etching, aquatint, lithography, chromolithography, printing presses of the period, the photomechanical revolution, the 1890s, etc. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about VICTORIAN BOOK ILLUSTRATION; THE TECHNICAL REVOLUTION
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 22463
