Boston: Wagner School of Sign and Commercial Art, (1950). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 13-115+(1) pages. Textbook Frontispiece illustration of the author instructing a class. Foreword by the author. Table of contents. Black and white illustrations. Quiz questions at end of text. Dust jacket wearing at edges. READ MORE about TEXT BOOK OF GILDING FOR SIGN AND RELATED ARTS
Price: $80.00 Order nr. 108533
London: T.C. & E.H. Jack, n.d. (circa 1920s). 12mo. cloth, inlaid paper cameo decoration on front cover. 112 pages and 26 plates with 6 in color. "Shown to the Children" series. New cloth spine laid down. Rubbing at the corners and edges of the covers. Exlibris with markings. READ MORE about BOOKS AND THEIR HISTORY SHOWN TO THE CHILDREN
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 42318
Harper Woods, MI: The Adagio Press, 1979. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, mailing envelope. pp.29-60. Printed in an edition limited to 325 numbered copies. Tanner and Alstrom 37. A continuation of the work presented as Typographia 1. This copy is signed by the private press owner, Leonard Bahr. This is a commonplace book of typographic exercises interspersed with notes on printing, typography and the private press. Signed by Bahr next to limitation statement. READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHIA TWO
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 18
New York, NY: privately printed, 1926. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, title gilt-stamped on front cover, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. 38 pages. A tribute to the life and accomplishments of Edward Dean Adams, business executive and philanthropist. Biographical record follows text. Frontispiece portrait of Adams. Complimentary card from the author laid in. READ MORE about EDWARD DEAN ADAMS
Price: $70.00 Order nr. 134241
(Philadelphia): Scott Paper Company, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrapper portfolio with two leaves of text containing loosely inserted broadsides. Bank developed this series for this papermaker to demonstrate their paper. All of the broadsides are housed in a lovely later clamshell box. READ MORE about THE ALPHABET SERIES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 94998
Philadelphia: Beck Engraving Co., n.d. (circa 1929). 4to. paper covered boards. (16) pages. One page of text followed by examples of the gravure work executed by Beck. Beautiful cover printed in silver and dark blue against a light blue background. Near fine, lacking slipcase. READ MORE about BECK GRAVURE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 41222
Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Co., (1963). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), xviii, 418, (2) pages. Reprint of the first edition. Illustrated. Essays by Wroth, Warde, Dwiggins, Rogers, Ransom, Pollard, Grabhorn, Morison, Gill, Goudy and others. Covers toned. READ MORE about BOOKS AND PRINTING, A TREASURY FOR TYPOPHILES
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 32192
Descriptions by William Blades. Introduction by Henry Morris.
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1996. 8vo. cloth, cloth spine label. Accompanied by a separate folder with die-cut holes in which is loosely inserted the four facsimile medals in silver. All enclosed in a slipcase. Descriptions by William Blades. Introduction by Henry Morris. Limited to only 120 numbered copies (Berger A58). Printed from Dante types composed by Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari at Golgonooza Letter Foundry. During the 17th and 18th century the Dutch printing..... READ MORE about RARITIES OF NUMISMATA TYPOGRAPHICA, FOUR EXAMPLES OF EARLY DUTCH PRINTER'S BOOKBINDERS' &...
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 44313
Wood Engravings by Gaylord Schanilec.
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1994. small 4to. blue cloth with blue leather spine label. 100, (3) pages. Accompanied by a separate portfolio of four pages of text by Henry Morris, the printer, and Gaylord Schanilec, the illustrator, and 10 separate brochures containing the suite of illustrations. All inserted in a cloth clamshell box. Wood Engravings by Gaylord Schanilec. Limited to 150 numbered copies (Berger A56). Printed by Henry Morris on Arches mouldmade paper with..... READ MORE about FIVE SHORT STORIES BY MARCEL AYME, THE STATE OF GRACE, THE DWARF, RUE DE L'ÉVANGILE, LEGEND OF...
Price: $300.00 Order nr. 41525
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2013. 8vo. cloth, paper cover label, gilt on spine. (4), 22, followed by 80 pages of colored reproductions. One of 120 copies. Beautiful example of three books on the subject of criers and hawkers. Introduction by Joel Silver. Contains color reproductions of Criers of London and Costumes of the Lower Orders concerning the criers of Paris. Each section covers the many different variants of hustlers, criers, hawkers, and beggars..... READ MORE about BUSBY'S STREET SCENES: IMAGES OF STREET HAWKERS AND CRIERS IN 19TH-CENTURY LONDON AND PARIS
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 133922
With twenty-five wood engravings by Rosemary Covey.
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1993. small 4to. quarter red morocco with patterned blue cloth sides, leather spine label, clamshell box. 156, (3) pages. With twenty-five wood engravings by Rosemary Covey. Limited to 200 numbered copies (Berger A54). Printed on Arches mouldmade paper and composed in Perpetua types by Golgonooza Letter Foundry with binding by Campbell-Logan. Covey created 25 woodcuts showing Chinese street peddlers specifically for this book. Morris printed the woodcuts directly from the..... READ MORE about CALLS, SOUNDS & MERCHANDISE OF THE PEKING STREET PEDDLERS
Price: $400.00 Order nr. 39437
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press and Minneapolis: Daedalus Press, 1984. 8vo. quarter morocco with tips, Dutch Gilt sides reproduced from an 18th century German decorated paper, plus 14 larger facsimiles in a separate accompanying portfolio. 109 pages. Limited to 325 copies (Heaney A39). The history of this important piece of publishing ephemera from its beginning in 1610 up through the 19th century and accompanied by 24 facsimile prospectuses from 2 to 10 pages in length..... READ MORE about ENGLISH BOOK PROSPECTUSES, AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 2685
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1992. tall 4to. quarter leather, paper over boards. 40, (22) pages. Limited to 138 numbered copies, this work was printed at the Bird & Bull Press by Henry Morris using Van Dijck types by M&H Type on Frankfurt mould-made paper (Berger A53). Three Lions and the Cross of Lorraine, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, John of Trevisa, John Tate, Wynkyn De Worde, and De Proprietatibus Rerum contains four essays written for this..... READ MORE about THREE LIONS AND THE CROSS OF LORRAINE, BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS, JOHN OF TREVISA, JOHN TATE, WYNKYN...
Price: $1,000.00 Order nr. 36463
N.P. (but Newtown, PA): Bird & Bull Press, 1998. 4to. quarter black morocco, leather spine label, Japanese cloth-covered boards, cloth-covered clamshell box with leather spine label. 152, (6) pages, with 30 additional pages and 6 additional leaves of paper & printing samples and reproductions. This fine letterpress work is an edition limited to only 225 numbered copies, of which 180 are pre-subscribed (Berger A61; Leaf Book - Chalmers 215). Henry Morris's Bird & Bull Press..... READ MORE about DARD HUNTER & SON
Price: $850.00 Order nr. 53318
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2010. 8vo. quarter Morocco and Japanese cloth, slipcase. 33, 12 plates, 12 pages. Limited to 115 numbered copies. Morris' first dos-a-dos binding. Engravings and etchings (intaglios) are printed on special presses which exert the far greater pressure needed for this kind of printing. After successful experimentation in printing small intaglio plates by letterpress, Morris produced this book, with twelve plates (some as large as 5 x 6.5") printed in..... READ MORE about THE ART OF INTAGLIO. PRODUCED ON A LETTERPRESS WITH A COLLECTION OF TWELVE PRINTS OF 18TH CENTURY...
Price: $600.00 Order nr. 105233
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2000. folio. cloth-covered portfolio with paper cover label and accompanied by small 4to. cloth-covered book with a paper cover label. Both inserted in a folio clamshell box with a leather spine label. 41, (3) pages and additional plates. Printed in an edition limited to 150 numbered copies (Berger A63). The actual inventor of the paper machine was a thirty-three year old former artilleryman named Nicolas Louis Robert (1761-1828). The..... READ MORE about NICOLAS LOUIS ROBERT AND HIS ENDLESS WIRE PAPERMAKING MACHINE
Price: $185.00 Order nr. 58400
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1999. large 4to. cloth with leather spine label, in special cloth solander case with leather spine. 72, (5) pages, with additional pages of color illustrations. Limited to 150 numbered copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press; this is one of the first four numbered copies and is a copy "with extra material" according to the pencil note by Henry Morris in the colophon (Berger A62). Includes chapters on..... READ MORE about VIGNETTES, AN ECLECTIC ASSEMBLAGE OF ANECDOTES ABOUT PAPERMAKING
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 120383
With a Foreword by Henry Morris.
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1996. tall 8vo. quarter dark blue morocco with cloth sides, leather spine label, slipcase. 79, (3) pages. With a Foreword by Henry Morris. Limited to 160 numbered copies (Berger A59). Printed by Henry Morris by hand at his Bird & Bull Press on Zerkall mouldmade paper and bound by Campbell-Logan Bindery. Gaylord Schanilec has become one of premier wood engravers in this country and is especially noted for his work..... READ MORE about MY COLORFUL CAREER
Price: $525.00 Order nr. 45486
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2010. 8vo. quarter leather over cloth covered boards, leather label on spine. 131 pages. First edition. Limited to 140 numbered 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..... READ MORE about DR. ROSENBACH AND MR. LILLY: BOOK COLLECTING IN A GOLDEN AGE
Price: $465.00 Order nr. 104399
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..... READ MORE about HENK VOORN TO HENRY MORRIS, SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE, JUNE 1967--JULY 1981
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 73386
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2012. 4to. stiff paper wrappers in clamshell box. 15+(1) pages with 22 engravings loosely laid in. Limited to only 99 numbered copies. A collection of John DePol's (1913-2004) woodcut engravings. Prefatory note by Henry Morris with a note by DePol on his pattern papers. Listing of individuals and corporations for whom engravings in this portfolio were made. Engravings tipped in introductory volume with 22 tipped-in engravings loosely laid in..... READ MORE about JOHN DEPOL: A PORTFOLIO OF HIS WOOD ENGRAVINGS
Price: $400.00 Order nr. 112211
Interspersed with anecdotes and observations on book collecting, printing, private presses and other bookish matters.
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2005. 4to. quarter leather with blue cloth stamped in gilt with the Bird & Bull logo, blue leather spine label, slipcase. 105, (5) pages. Interspersed with anecdotes and observations on book collecting, printing, private presses and other bookish matters. Limited to 160 numbered copies printed by hand on Arches Mould-made paper by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press in Dante types composed by Michael and Winifred Bixler..... READ MORE about MY LOG & DIARY, 1994-2005
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 90233
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1999. large 4to. cloth with leather spine label, in special cloth solander case with leather spine. 72, (5) pages, with additional pages of color illustrations. Limited to 150 numbered copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press (Berger A62). Includes chapters on Bird & Bull Incunabula, 19th-Century Security Papers, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Numismata Typographica, Farewell to Papermaking, A History of Die Cutting, The Wurzburg Lithography and more. Includes a...... READ MORE about VIGNETTES, AN ECLECTIC ASSEMBLAGE OF ANECDOTES ABOUT PAPERMAKING
Price: $240.00 Order nr. 56850
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2000. 8vo. quarter leather, cloth covered boards. xx, 112, (3) pages. Limited to 150 numbered copies (Berger A64). 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..... READ MORE about THE FORESTERS
Price: $235.00 Order nr. 60487
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1985. small 4to. quarter morocco with tips and leather spine-label, gold-decorated paper sides. 161 pages. Limited to 325 copies (Heaney A40; S-K 7047). 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..... READ MORE about LOUIS HERMAN KINDER AND FINE BOOKBINDING IN AMERICA, A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF THE ROYCROFT SHOP
Price: $165.00 Order nr. 60469
