Franklin, Colin.

EXPLORING JAPANESE BOOKS AND SCROLLS.

(San Francisco): Book Club of California, (1999). large 4to. half cloth with pictorial paper-covered boards, paper label on spine, slipcase. xi, (i), 156+(2) pages. Limited edition of 450 copies were printed for members of the Book Club of California, San Francisco. Elegantly designed by Jonathan Clark at The Artichoke Press. Antiquarian Colin Franklin explores the rich history of calligraphy, printing, and bookmaking in Japan; supplemented by examples from his extensive collection of Japenese books and..... READ MORE about EXPLORING JAPANESE BOOKS AND SCROLLS

Price: $200.00  other currencies  Order nr. 73778

Franklin, Colin.

FOND OF PRINTING, GORDON CRAIG AS TYPOGRAPHER & ILLUSTRATOR.

With a Foreword by Edward Craig and an Essay by Gordon Craig on Illustrations in General.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1980. tall 12mo. cloth-backed boards. 89, (3) pages. With a Foreword by Edward Craig and an Essay by Gordon Craig on Illustrations in General. First edition, printed in an edition limited to 450 copies for the The Book Club of California. Near fine. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about FOND OF PRINTING, GORDON CRAIG AS TYPOGRAPHER & ILLUSTRATOR

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 33940

Franklin, Colin.

OBSESSIONS AND CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK LIFE.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, Books of Kells, and Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 2012. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 296 pages. Reminiscences of an author, bookseller, and publisher, written at the age of eighty-eight, Colin Franklin's newest book is perhaps his most entertaining. It wanders freely through themes which have absorbed him - a lost world of publishing, adventures in bookselling, and the irreplaceable scholarly eccentrics who dominated that world a generation ago..... READ MORE about OBSESSIONS AND CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK LIFE

Price: $25.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134570