THE HARVARD LIST OF BOOKS ON ART.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 163 pages. Over 2000 titles given. Name in ink on front cover. READ MORE about THE HARVARD LIST OF BOOKS ON ART
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 249
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 163 pages. Over 2000 titles given. Name in ink on front cover. READ MORE about THE HARVARD LIST OF BOOKS ON ART
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 249
Bruxelles: Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier. 1975. thick small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xviii, 495, (3) pages. Avant-Propos by Martin Wittek. Filled with interesting text and illustrations (some in color). READ MORE about CINQ ANNÉES D'ACQUSITIONS, 1969-1973
Price: $28.00 Order nr. 106272
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1976). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 176 pages. First edition. With many illustrations in the text. Chapters on binding a book, care and repair, and papercraft. Ownership inscription in pencil. Good condition. READ MORE about SIMPLIFIED BOOKBINDING
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 5801
København: Lehmann & Stages Forlag, 1907. small 4to. later full red morocco, four raised bands, top edge gilt with original front paper wrapper bound in. 162 pages. First edition, limited to 500 copies (S-K 847; Mejer 386). The Danish Museum of Decorative Arts mounted this 1906 exhibit of old bookbindings. A preface by Hannover provides an overview of the material that follows. The catalog is divided into: the old style and the new style. The..... READ MORE about KUNSTFÆRDIGE GAMLE BOGBIND INDTIL 1850
Price: $90.00 Order nr. 102696
London: Myers & Co., 1933. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 124 pages with many separate plates. Catalogue 291 issued by this firm. Includes a number of important bindings. Wear along edges and covers soiled. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF VERY RARE BOOKS, CHOICE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, IMPORTANT AUTOGRAPH...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 102921
New York: Publishers Book Bindery, n.d. oblong 12mo. boards. (24) pages. Contains impositions most frequently used by this binding firm. Back hinge cracked. Ownership inscription in pencil. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about IMPOSITIONS, EDITION, CATALOG & JUVENILE BINDING
Price: $24.00 Order nr. 5876
Halle: Wilhelm Knapp, 1929. 8vo. later half leather with decorated paper covered boards. iv, 162 pages followed by 24 full-page plates of binding ornaments and illustrations of bindings. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged (Mejer no.1874; Brenni 233). Contains 138 text illustrations, 24 plates and 32 paper specimens; the paper specimens are lacking from this copy. Covers soiled. READ MORE about DER EXAKTE BUCHEINBAND, DER GUTE HALBRFRANZBAND DER KÜNSTLERISCHE, GANZLEDERBAND, DIE...
Price: $132.00 Order nr. 102694
Compiled by the staffs of London School of Printing and Graphic Arts Library, National Book League Library, St. Bride Printing Library.
London: London School of Printing and Graphic Arts, 1959. 8vo. paper wrappers. 41 pages. Compiled by the staffs of London School of Printing and Graphic Arts Library, National Book League Library, St. Bride Printing Library. Occasional descriptive text. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about LIBRARY BOOK LISTS, BOOKBINDING AND WAREHOUSE WORK, A GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE AVAILABLE UP TO 1957
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 102907
(Chatillon-sur-Seine): n.p., 1824. 8vo. later cloth. pp. 68-228. Mairet's Essai sur la Reliure was the major portion of Notice sur la Lithographie. The lithographic portion occupied the first 67 pages and had 5 plates (lacking in this copy). The essay on bookbinding is very early for the subject (SK-7284; Pollard 52). It was added to this second edition of the lithography title and was first printed here. Our copy is excised from this book. A...... READ MORE about NOTICE SUR LA LITHOGRAPHIE, SUIVIE D'UN) ESSAI SUR LA RELIURE ET LE BLANCHIMENT DES LIVRES...
Price: $400.00 Order nr. 102967
Cambridge: University Press, 1952. folio. cloth. 73 pages followed by 61 plates. First edition, limited to 750 copies. (Brenni no.825). One of the Sandars Lectures for 1949. An excellent reference book. Covers faded. Bookplate. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about ENGLISH BLIND-STAMPED BINDINGS
Price: $140.00 Order nr. 31151
London: G. Michelmore & Co., n.d. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 208 pages and many separate plates. Catalogue 19 issued by this firm. Many illustrations including some foldout plates. READ MORE about RARE OLD BOOKS, MANY IN FINE BINDINGS, OLD ASSOCIATION BOOKS, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS, HOLOGRAPH...
Price: $24.00 Order nr. 102948
(Garches: Varth Editions Sarl, 1987). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 72 pages. No. 1. Foreword by Francois Chabanian. Various articles on the book arts. Paper label of former owner on front cover. Ink ownership inscription. READ MORE about SIGNES ET SCRIBES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 102954
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1926. 8vo. orange cloth, paper spine label. 304 pages. First edition. With a bibliography of books about Caxton and a listing of his writing. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about CAXTON, MIRROUR OF FIFTEENTH-CENTURY LETTER, A STUDY OF THE LITERATURE
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 19998
London: Francis Edwards Ltd., 1975. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 79 pages. Illustrated. With a three page history of the firm by A.K. Russell and a reproduction of the first page of their first catalogue, issued in 1855. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about CATALOGUE ONE THOUSAND PUBLISHED DECEMBER 1975
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 2591
New York: John F. Fleming Inc, n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 150 pages. Describes 637 items and their prices. READ MORE about ENGLISH BOOKS, LITERATURE, HISTORY, RELIGION, SCIENCE
Price: $6.40 Order nr. 35275
Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg, various. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 37 pages. Reprint of the first edition. With a directory of leatherworkers in the back. Illustrated. READ MORE about LEATHERWORKER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WILLIAMSBURG, BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE NATURE OF LEATHER,...
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 102959
Nieuwkoop: B. de Graaf, 1970. thick 8vo. cloth. xlix, (iii), 491+(1) pages. Reprint of the 1866 first edition. (See S-K 1287; St. Bride Catalogue p.530). Grolier (1479-1565) was a famous French bibliophile who commissioned the best binders of the day to bind his book. Over 600 of these bindings exist today that can be attributed to his library. Includes a biography, an alphabetical catalogue of his library and reprints of correspondence. Ownership inscription in pencil..... READ MORE about RECHERCHES SUR JEAN GROLIER SUR SA VIE ET SA BIBLIOTHÈQUE SUIVIES D'UN CATALOGUE DES LIVRES...
Price: $132.00 Order nr. 102695
Translated and Revised by Carolyn Shipman.
New York: Burt Franklin, n.d. tall 8vo. cloth. xlv, 385 pages. Translated and Revised by Carolyn Shipman. Reprint of the 1907 first edition. Minor spotting of covers. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about RESEARCHES CONCERNING JEAN GROLIER, HIS LIFE AND HIS LIBRARY. WITH A PARTIAL CATALOGUE OF HIS...
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 11665
Third (revised and enlarged) edition.
(London): Longman, (1980). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. Third (revised and enlarged) edition. Only volume published in this attempt to revise the original John Horden was general editor. This volume contains fully-documented evidence about the authorship of some 4,000 anonymous and pseudonymous publications in English, including translations from other languages, up to 1640. READ MORE about DICTIONARY OF ANONYMOUS AND PSEUDONYMOUS ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 102766
From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, Catalogue 54
San Francisco: John Howell Books, 1982. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 128, (2) pages. From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, Catalogue 54. Catalogue 54 of John Howell Books containing 378 items of English literature from the sixteenth through twentieth centuries. READ MORE about ENGLISH LITERATURE
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 97412
Publiée pour la première fois d'après l'inventaire original.
Paris: Typographie de Firmin Didot Frères, 1843. 8vo. contemporary quarter calf, red leather spine label, marbled paper covered boards. 57 pages. Publiée pour la première fois d'après l'inventaire original. Extract from the Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes. Description of the library of this 14th century French poet. Minor rubbing of covers. READ MORE about LA BIBLIOTH'EQUE DE CHARLES D'ORLÉANS A SON CHATEAU DE BLOIS EN 1427
Price: $80.00 Order nr. 104265
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (xx), 179, (3) pages. A book describing and showing some illustrations from older printed books that were used to illustrate the works of Chaucer. Back paper wrapper soiled. READ MORE about A MIRROR OF CHAUCER'S WORLD
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 104876
London: Maggs Bros. 1923. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. frontispiece, (ii), 432 pages. Maggs catalogue no. 437. Describes 1837 items, priced. Illustrated. Wrappers soiled and chipped in places. READ MORE about BOOKS ON ART AND ALLIED SUBJECTS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 102721
London: Maggs Bros. 1924. thick 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 592 pages. Catalogue no.446. 2436 items and 61 illustrations. Covers soiled with tape repairs including tape holding front cover to book block. READ MORE about ENGLISH LITERATURE, MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS 14TH TO THE 18TH CENTURIES
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 102675
London: Maggs Bros. 1926. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. frontispiece, (ii), 236 pages. Maggs catalogue no. 472. Describes 1051 items, priced. Illustrated. Covers soiled. READ MORE about BOOKS ON ART AND ALLIED SUBJECTS
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 102710