London: ‘The Times’, July. 1955. folio. self paper wrappers as issued. 48 pages. Contributors included Scholderer, Steinberg, Schmoller, Carter, Wolpe, Dreyfus. Folded. READ MORE about PRINTING, A SUPPLEMENT PUBLISHED BY THE TIMES ON THE OCCASION OF THE TENTH INTERNATIONAL PRINTING...
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 80803
4 volumes, complete set.
London: Privately printed at the Curwen Press, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1957. 4to. polished cloth, top edges gilt, leather spine labels. xx,399; xxi,428; xiii,300; xiii,301-675 pages. 4 volumes, complete set. First editions, limited to 500, 400, and 400 copies respectively. Filled with bibliographical descriptions of the color plate books published in England during this period and containing many plates in color. The printing by the Curwen Press of these first editions is far superior to the... READ MORE about SCENERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY 1770-1860. With LIFE IN ENGLAND....
Price: $1,950.00 Order nr. 71437
Paris: Les Editions G. Cres et Cie, 1925. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xxxii, 194 pages. Limited to 2060 numbered copies. Detailed descriptions of hundreds of titles. Well-illustrated. READ MORE about ESSAI SUR LES GRAVEURS DE BOIS EN FRANCE AU DIX-HUITIEME SIECLE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 16583
Paris: Librairie Grund, (1948). 8vo. paper wrappers. 214, (4) pages. First edition. Illustrated. Bibliography of books with engraved plates printed in France during the 18th century. Paper covering torn along hinges in places. First blank page has tear. READ MORE about LE LIVRE À GRAVURES AU XVIIIe SIÈCLE, SUIVI D'UN ESSAI DE BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 14583
Paris: Maison Quantin, n.d. (circa 1886). 8vo. original cloth. 320 pages. New edition. The history of the book and its printing, illustration and binding. Over 100 illustrations. Printed on cheaper paper. Rubbed along edges. Free endpaper loose. READ MORE about LE LIVRE, L'ILLUSTRATION - LA RELIURE, ETUDE HISTORIQUE SOMMAIRE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 71674
Bombay: Thacker & Company, (1957). folio. cloth. xvi, 96 pages. First edition. A selection of 33 poems, of which 26 come from the Mogul Empire. Several of these are of royal authorship as well. Among the authors included are Babur, first Mogul emperor of India and Ghalib, poet laureate of the last Mogul emperor. Bowen comments on the "varied background" of The Golden Pomegranate in his preface. The poems are set within colored ornamented borders... READ MORE about THE GOLDEN POMEGRANATE. A SELECTION FROM THE POETRY OF THE MOGUL EMPIRE IN INDIA 1526-1858
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 71540
3 volumes. Avant-Propos de Joseph Guibert.
Paris: Maurice le Garrec, 1927-1928. thick 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 435; 551; (iv), 201 pages. 3 volumes. Avant-Propos de Joseph Guibert. Limited to 525 numbered copies. (Besterman p.2029). 12,500 illustrated French books are described under different subject headings. With an index to the whole work in the third volume. With the Randeria bookplate. Some chipping and tearing to the heads and tails of spines on all three volumes. READ MORE about LA GRAVURE FRANCAISE, ESSAI DE BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Price: $325.00 Order nr. 21365
London: The Studio Publications, (1951). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 214 pages. S-K 5740. First edition. Major sections on type design, lettering, printing, illustration, commercial binding and hand binding. Each section is well-illustrated. A different author summarizes the results of each country; i.e., binding in the U.S. by E.W. Palmer and Edith Diehl. With the Randeria bookplate. Preliminary pages foxed. Small tears on jacket repaired with clear tape. READ MORE about THE ART OF THE BOOK, SOME RECORD OF WORK CARRIED OUT IN EUROPE & THE U.S.A., 1939-1950
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 71815
London: The Armorial, (1963). 8vo. cloth. 183+(1) pages. Second edition. A register of armorial bearings in current use, with the names and addresses of the bearers and the authority for their use. With a new section on the arms of the chiefs of ruling famililes of Royal and Sovereign Rank. Illustrated with 13 color plates, including a frontispiece, and numerous black-and-white drawings in text. READ MORE about THE ARMORIAL WHO IS WHO, 1963-1965
Price: $22.00 Order nr. 73229
London: Batsford, 1906. 8vo. cloth. xvi, 111+(1) pages. First edition. Intended by the authors as a series of definitions intended to correct the fequently inexact use of terms among students. Printed at the Darien Press, Edinburgh. The contents includes definitions and almost a hundred examples of the scroll, interlacing ornament, border patterns, stripes, diapers, sprig patterns, counterchanges, interchange, all-over continuous patterns, the trellis, foliated and florakl ornament, geometric ornaments, grotesques, and arabesques. Some wear to... READ MORE about SOME TERMS COMMONLY USED IN ORNAMENTAL DESIGN, THEIR APPLICATION DEFINED & EXPLAINED WITH...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 71733
N.P. Midland Master Printers' Alliance, n.d. small 4to. self paper wrappers, clear plastic wrapper on which is printed "With the compliments of the Midland Master Printers' Alliance" (6) pages. Photograph of author on first leaf. Two leaves showing German typography. READ MORE about THE TENDENCY IN MODERN GERMAN TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 78927
London: Faber & Faber, (1951). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 473 pages. First edition. Covers printing and binding and book design. With specific chapters on binding design (Brenni no.32) and the dust jacket (Brenni no.1487). Jacket spine chipped and faded. With the Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about THE MAKING OF BOOKS
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 25113
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1898. thick 8vo. half-leather, top edge gilt, others uncut. xx, 615 pages. Limited to 1,100 copies. (Besterman p. 3010). With 5,000 entries and numerous plates. An important reference work. Covers detached and worn at spine ends. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ART AND ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, BEING A GUIDE TO COLLECTORS OF...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 71758
(London): The Herbert Press, (1984). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 271 pages. Second edition. Over 460 illustrations with 28 in color. With the Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about THE 20TH CENTURY BOOK, ITS ILLUSTRATION AND DESIGN
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 71808
Paris: Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1887. 8vo. original red cloth decorated in black and gilt, all edges gilt. (iv), 270, (2) pages. Reprint of 1886 first edition. Chapters on papermaking, binding, printing, etc. With 221 illustrations including a beautiful chromolithographic frontispiece. Very decorative cover. With the Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about LE LIVRE ET LES ARTS QUI S'Y RATTACHENT DUPUIS LES ORIGINES JUSQU'A LA FIN DU XVIIIE SIÈCLE
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 71822
London: Focal Press, (1972). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xi, 284 pages. First edition. Study of such things as cutting, production of booklets, magazines, labels, book binding and carton and box manufacture. Presentation from the author on the free endpaper. READ MORE about FINISHING PROCESSES IN PRINTING
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 71911
Paris: Libraire Hachette, 1922. tall 8vo. decorated cloth. 208 pages. First edition. A history of the production of the book with 120 illustrations. Covers faded and spotted with a tear along top of back hinge. Paper is browned; With the Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about ÉTAPES D'UN LIVRE LE PAPIER, L'ENCRE, LE MANUSCRIT, LA TYPOGRAPHIE, LA RELIURE, LA LIBRAIRIE,...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 3541
New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, 1909. 8vo. cloth. xi, 330 pages. Reprint of the first edition. Many illustrations. Inside hinges cracked. READ MORE about HOW TO APPRECIATE PRINTS
Price: $11.00 Order nr. 44844
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton Kent & Co., n.d. (circa early 20th century). small 4to. paper cover label. xxxiv pages followed by 96 plates. First edition. With the Randeria bookplate. History followed by illustrations. Spine faded. READ MORE about FRENCH ENGRAVERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 71807
Ten volumes.
London: Sotheby's, 1965-1989. small 4to. original boards except parts five and six which are in the original paper wrappers. Ten volumes. First ten volumes of these auction catalogues describing this magnificent collection (lacks the 11th volume which was issued in 1989). Contains one of the best selections of bookbindings and books about bookbindings ever sold at auction. Hundreds of plates of illustrations. Prices realized in all volumes except volume eight. Covers of volume 9 have... READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS AND FINE BINDINGS FROM THE CELEBRATED COLLECTION, THE...
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 25725
Organisee par Ader Picard Tajan.
Monte-Carlo: n.p., 1986. oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 232, (2) pages. Organisee par Ader Picard Tajan. Auction catalogue, July 1, 1986, held at the Hotel Hermitage, Monte-Carlo, organisee en collaboration avec la Société des Bains de Mer, a la requete de la Ste Art Monaco. Lots 1-154 are architecture related. Lots 155-232 is a selection of incunabula, illuminated manuscripts, prints, and fine bindings. Fully illustrated. Randeria bookplate on half-title page. Corners bumped. READ MORE about ARCHITECTURE ET BEAUX LIVRES ANCIENS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 71780
London: Maggs Bros. 1961. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 200 pages. Catalogue 876 issued by Maggs. Well-illustrated. READ MORE about AUSTRIA AND THE HABSBURGS, A CHRONOLOGICAL CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, DOCUMENTS, LETTERS, ETC
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 25457
London: George Allen & Unwin, (1967). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 336 pages. Fourth edition. Includes a 40 page chapter on binding and all 8 plates are of bindings. With the Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about ESDAILE'S MANUAL OF BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $15.00 save 20% $12.00 Order nr. 71582
Paris: L. Giraud-Badin, 1937. 4to. later cloth, leather spine label. (iv), 70, (4) pages and 16 plates. Blogie II, 338. The expert was Étienne Ader. With 267 lots for sale. 16 plates mostly depicting these fine bindings. With the Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about BEAUX LIVRES ANCIENS, RARES ET PRÉCIEUX, MANUSCRITS ET IMPRIMÉS, RICHES RELIURES ARMORIÉES
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 71518
Paris: L. Giraud-Badin, 1939. 4to. later cloth, leather spine label. 64 pages followed by the 24 plates. Blogie II, 344. The expert was Étienne Ader. With 176 lots for sale. 24 full-page plates mostly showing fine bindings. With the Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about BEAUX LIVRES MODERNES LA PLUPART REVÊTUS DE TRÈS RICHES RELIURES ET ENRICHIS DE PRÉCIEUX...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 71515
