Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, 1983. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 104 pages. A general view of Scotland throughout the ages via an exhibition. Expanded detail on early printing, binding, and plate books. READ MORE about THE EYE OF THE MIND, THE SCOT AND HIS BOOKS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 77251
Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1983. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 265, (3) pages. A history of the E.A. Seemann firm in the context of developments in printing and art reproduction. Well-illustrated. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Small pieces missing along top of jacket spine. READ MORE about KUNSTLITERATUR UND REPRODUKTION
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 61074
The Systematics Association Special Volume No 33.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. 8vo. cloth. xii, 312 pages. The Systematics Association Special Volume No 33. Fifth Edition. This book provides a list of reference material relating to various biological areas. Hundreds of entries. Tail of spine is slightly bumped and worn. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about KEY WORKS TO THE FAUNA AND FLORA OF THE BRITISH ISLES AND NORTH-WESTERN EUROPE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 99571
London: E. Palmer; R. Groombridge; Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1843; 1842; 1844. 8vo. modern cloth spine with paper label, contemporary paper-covered boards, contemporary leather corners. xxx, 338; vi, 49+(1); x, 294 pages. Three bound in one. Smee is the second edition - revised, corrected, considerably enlarged, illustrated with electrotypes and numerous woodcuts (37 illustrations in text) in addition to the frontispiece of the Royal Coat of Arms relief electrotyped in gold and the vignette..... READ MORE about ELEMENTS OF ELECTRO-METALLURGY; A MANUAL OF ELECTRO-METALLURGY; RECENT IMPROVEMENTS IN ARTS,...
Price: $850.00 Order nr. 97832
London: E. Palmer; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Longman, 1841. 8vo. original cloth, all edges gilt. xxviii, 163+(1), (ii), iv, 64, (2) pages. First edition. (Bridson & Wakeman A113 - "the first appearance of a key work on this subject"). Illustrated with electrotypes and woodcuts. The author was the inventor of the improved battery, which was the mainstay of electrotyping until replaced by the dynamo in the late 1870s. Illustrated with woodcuts. With the bookplate..... READ MORE about ELEMENTS OF ELECTRO-METALLURGY, OR THE ART OF WORKING IN METALS BY THE GALVANIC FLUID
Price: $1,250.00 Order nr. 97794
With a foreword by Frans Verdoorn
Amsterdam: A. Asher & Co., 1974. thick tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv pages; 1071 columns. With a foreword by Frans Verdoorn. First editon. Over 4,000 very well annotated entries. READ MORE about HISTORY OF THE LIFE SCIENCES, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 87161
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1927. small 4to. cloth. xi, 89 pages. First edition. A history of the important chemistry books throughout the ages accompanied by many plates showing portraits of the chemists or title pages of books. Smith gave his collection to the University of Pennsylvania. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Minor cover rubbing. READ MORE about OLD CHEMISTRIES
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 98664
London: Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers, Engravers & Process Workers, n.d. (circa 1946). small 8vo. cloth. x, 177, xi-xiii pages. A photography manual printed just after World War II. Badly worn, contents well used, ex-library. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about PHOTO-ENGRAVING BY LINE, HALF-TONE AND PHOTOGRAVURE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 98578
Liverpool: printed at the Caxton Press, by Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, n.d. (circa 1815). 8vo. rebound in marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine and front labels. x, iii-xii, 697-799 pages and 4 plates. The present volume contains the title page for volume 1 and the indexes to both volumes 1 & 2. The text itself is three parts of volume 2 on Drawing. Painting and Engraving removed from the larger work at some point. There are..... READ MORE about THE PANORAMA OF SCIENCE AND ART
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 98176
Procédés et recettes. Préface de V. Breton.
Paris: Les Soins de l'Auteu, 1903. 8vo. quarter morocco, cloth. xvi, 135+(1) pages, 7 plates. Procédés et recettes. Préface de V. Breton. Well-illustrated manual, in French. The seven plates show a variety of techniques and papers, including one that is embossed, several showing the three-color process, and two on colored paper. Contents somewhat spotted throughout. Crack at the half-title. Boards rubbed. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about NOUVEAU TRAITÉ SUR LES IMPRESSIONS MODERNES EN COULEURS
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 98671
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, (1999). square 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxiv, 500 pages. Reprinted, with corrections, from the first edition. Sections on computer art, women in computing and computer art, digital painting and photoediting, digital design and layout, electronic color, printing, building 3D worlds, rendering 3D worlds, etc. READ MORE about THE COMPUTER IN THE VISUAL ARTS
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 99819
Translated by mike shields for Cave Translations Ltd, London; Edited by R.H. Mason MA, FIIP, Hon FRPS
(Herts, England): (Argus Books Ltd), (1980). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 92 pages. Translated by mike shields for Cave Translations Ltd, London; Edited by R.H. Mason MA, FIIP, Hon FRPS. Photograms are photographs without a camera. The author gives hint and tips about how to produce your own. Slight soiling, with the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about PHOTOGRAMS IN BLACK-AND-WHITE AND COLOUR
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 101222
Jubilee Souvenir.
(Manchester: Cooperative Printing Society), 1930. 8vo. flexible paper-covered boards, decorated endpapers. ix, 92 pages. Jubilee Souvenir. Commerates the 50th anniversary of the Society, a trade union of employees in the printing industry. Compiler was General Secretary of the union. Letter of congratulations from Prime Minister J. Ramsay McDonald (the first Labour Prime Minister), along with similar letters from other organizations of printers. Foreword by Rt. Hon. C.W. Bowerman, M.P. Historical summary of the Society. Includes..... READ MORE about THE HISTORY AND PROGRESS OF THE AMALGAMATED SOCIETY OF LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTERS & AUXILIARIES OF...
Price: $90.00 Order nr. 108787
3 volumes.
(London: Stanley Gibbons Antiquarian Books Limited, 1979. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. ii,111,iii-iv; (i),94,ii-v; i,92,ii-vii pages. 3 volumes. The Spring, Summer, and Autumn Catalogues of 1979 for Stanley Gibbons Antiquarian Books. Catalogue One contains 381 entries, Catalogue Two contains 309 entries, Catalogue Three contains 266 entries, for a total of 956 entries. Some wear at extremities, some soiling on covers. Catalogue One has the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson on the first page. Several entries in..... READ MORE about STANLEY GIBBONS ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 102149
Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Libraries, 1966. tall 8vo. stapled stiff paper wrappers. pp. (73)-102. Reprinted from Bibliography & Natural History, Essays presented at a Conference convened in June 1964 by Thomas R. Buckman. Signed in pencil by Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about EARLY AMERICAN BOTANY AND ITS SOURCES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 99863
Paris: A. Picard et Fils, 1897. thick 8vo. quarter vellum with cloth covered boards, leather spine label with original stiff paper wrappers bound-in. xx, 895 pages. First edition. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. With a xerox of Taylor's comment on this bibliography of bibliographies (not favorable). Ex-library copy with markings. READ MORE about MANUEL DE BIBLIOGRAPHIE GÉNÉRALE (BIBLIOTHECA BIBLIOGRAPHICA NOVA
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 86207
A Select Annotated and Classified Catalogue of Books in the Norwich Public Library.
Norwich: Norwich and District Master Printers' Association, 1921. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 33, (3) pages. A Select Annotated and Classified Catalogue of Books in the Norwich Public Library. A catalogue of unnumbered entries. Some soiling and sunning, minor wear. With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson on the inside front cover. READ MORE about BOOKS ON PRINTING AND SOME RELATED SUBJECTS
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 101453
some aspects of portrait engraving
(Glasgow): (Bell & Bain Ltd.), 1976. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 128 pages. some aspects of portrait engraving. Compiled two years after a 1974 exhibition which stressed the influences operating on an artist and his sitter, this is not intended to be a study of the aesthetics of engraved portraits, but of the unique relationship between painter, engraver and subject, and the social pressures and conventions which affected all three. With 200 black-and-white illustrations of..... READ MORE about A FACE FOR ANY OCCASION
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 99941
An inventory of 21 collections in the Netherlands with additioinal and supplementary instructions.
s'Gravenhage: P.A. Tiele Academie-Hogere Beroepsopleiding voor Bibliotheek en Documentatie, 1986. 4to. stiff paper wrappers with later marbled dust jacket and paper spine label. 142 pages. An inventory of 21 collections in the Netherlands with additioinal and supplementary instructions. Text in Dutch. Part of the Series Bibliografica of the P.A. Tiele Academy in the Netherlands. Title page in Dutch and English. Foreword. Organized alphabetically by author with entries in language of publication. Indices of titles, first..... READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAFIE VAN DE TECHNIEK VAN DE MANUELE DIEPDRUK-BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE TECHNIQUE OF THE MANUAL...
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 108395
(Aldershot): Gower, (1982). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xi, 201 pages. Second edition.With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Loosely inserted is a review of this book that had appeared in The Library. READ MORE about THE FUNCTION OF BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 80777
With an Introduction by Martin Hardie.
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1930. 8vo. cloth. x, 218, (12) pages. With an Introduction by Martin Hardie. First edition (Bridson & Wakeman B77 - "A detailed treatise on all practical and artistic aspects of the craft"). With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. Presentation on free endpaper "To Charles E. Pont with compliments from David Strang, London. Dec. 1937" and with Pont's bookplate on front pastedown. READ MORE about THE PRINTING OF ETCHINGS AND ENGRAVINGS
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 97967
With an Introduction by Martin Hardie.
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1930. 8vo. cloth. x, 218, (12) pages. With an Introduction by Martin Hardie. First edition (Bridson & Wakeman B77 - "A detailed treatise on all practical and artistic aspects of the craft"). With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Covers slightly faded. READ MORE about THE PRINTING OF ETCHINGS AND ENGRAVINGS
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 98363
(Ardmore, PA): Universal Books, 1971. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 48 pages. An illustrated price guide. READ MORE about BOOKBINDERS' VALUE GUIDE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 107977
(London): The British Library, (1996). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. vii, 37 pages. First edition. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about HOW TO FIND SOURCE MATERIALS, BRITISH LIBRARY COLLCTIONS ON THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF SCIENCE,...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 100140
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 336 pages. First edition. In this unique work, the author surveys almost 500 illustrations created by the Pre-Raphaelites during their graphic revolution, which encompassed the second half of the nineteenth century. Each artist is represented by a short biography, which also illustrates many of his works. Co-published with the British Library. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about THE PRE-RAPHAELITE ILLUSTRATORS
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 98603
