(Bird & Bull Press). Morris, Henry.

MY LOG & DIARY, 1994-2005.

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: $500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 90233

(Bookbinding). Nicholson, James B.

A MANUAL OF THE ART OF BOOKBINDING Originally issued with 7 hand-marbled specimens by Mr. Charles Williams.

Sussex: I. Nevins, (1986). 8vo. cloth with marbled paper specimen on front cover. (iv), 318 pages. Limited to 300 numbered and signed copies.This reprint of the first practical bookbinding manual (1856) contains 18 hand-marbled specimens, marbled according to directions given in the text by Iris Nevins. She has also written a two page introduction. READ MORE about A MANUAL OF THE ART OF BOOKBINDING Originally issued with 7 hand-marbled specimens by Mr. Charles...

Price: $225.00  other currencies  Order nr. 118156

Burke, Clifford.

PRINTING POETRY.

San Francisco: Scarab Press, 1980. small 4to. cloth spine with decorated paper-covered boards. xvi, 150 pages. First edition. A handbook discussing tools, type design, printing, binding, etc. used to produce a finely printed book of poetry. Introduction by William Everson. A tight, bright, and unmarred copy. READ MORE about PRINTING POETRY

Price: $250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 96890

Byers, Reid.

THE PRIVATE LIBRARY: THE HISTORY OF THE ARCHITECTURE AND FURNISHING OF THE DOMESTIC BOOKROOM.

First edition, third printing with corrections
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2021. 7 x 10 inches. cloth with dust jacket. xii, 540 pages. First edition, third printing with corrections. Featured in The New York Times, alongside an interview with author Reid Byers, in the article "How Many Books Does It Take to Make a Place Feel Like Home?" "... a profusely illustrated, detail-crammed, Latin-strewn and yet remarkably unstuffy book ... goes to the heart of why physical books continue to..... READ MORE about THE PRIVATE LIBRARY: THE HISTORY OF THE ARCHITECTURE AND FURNISHING OF THE DOMESTIC BOOKROOM

Price: $85.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134228

A CATALOGUE OF THE COTSEN CHILDREN'S LIBRARY: COMPREHENSIVE INDEX.

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Library, 2021. 12.375 x 9 inches. light gray Japanese cloth with front covers stamped in gold, with illustrated endpapers. 2 vol.: [xiii], 622, [2]; [6], 623-1252, [2]. The Comprehensive Index volumes cover all 20,082 descriptive entries published in the previous six volumes, all well illustrated: Twentieth Century (2 vol.: 12,403 entries, v.1 issued in 2000 and v.2 issued in 2003), Nineteenth Century (2 vol.: 6,370 entries, issued in 2019) and..... READ MORE about A CATALOGUE OF THE COTSEN CHILDREN'S LIBRARY: COMPREHENSIVE INDEX

Price: $125.00 save 50% $62.50  other currencies  Order nr. 136109

Dansten, Esli; Birkelund, Palle; Nielsen, Lauritz.

NORDISK LEKSIKON FOR BOGVAESEN.

2 volumes
Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm: Nyt Nordisk, Dreyers, Förlaget Forum, 1951, 1962. large 8vo. half leather, marbled paper-covered boards, speckled edges. xii,564; (iv),535+(1) pages. 2 volumes. A bibliography and dictionary published as a reference tool for librarians and book dealers. Also published in Swedish and Norwegian. Some rubbing on spine corners, there is a tear in marbled paper on the cover board of volume two. READ MORE about NORDISK LEKSIKON FOR BOGVAESEN

Price: $125.00  other currencies  Order nr. 73827

Feller, F-X. De.

BIOGRAPHIE UNIVERSELLE OU DICTIONNAIRE HISTORIQUE.

8 volumes.
Paris: J. Leroux, Jouby Et. C, Libraries, 1847. large 8vo. 19th century quarter leather with marbled paper-covered boards. 620; (iv),7 16; (iv), 670; (iv), 646; (iv), 636; (iv), 636; (iv), 616; (iv), 459, (9), 152 pages. 8 volumes. Revised edition. A biographical dictionary of men who have accomplished something through their genius and talents or their errors and crimes. A. Edmund Randolph bookplate is on the front pastedown of all volumes. Covers rubbed, especially along..... READ MORE about BIOGRAPHIE UNIVERSELLE OU DICTIONNAIRE HISTORIQUE

Price: $135.00  other currencies  Order nr. 58632

(Kat Ran Press). Hill, Jennifer.

OVERPASS, SIX DRAWINGS BY JENNIFER HILL.

(Florence, Massachusetts): Kat Ran Press, 2001. large 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 6, (3) leaves. First edition. Limited to 15 lettered and 50 numbered copies, of which this is one of the 50. Intended to be the first in a series of number books. Indeed, each of Hill's six black-and-white illustrations depicts an increasing number of objects from one to five. Hand embellishments done on every copy in pencil by the artist's hand. Printed by the..... READ MORE about OVERPASS, SIX DRAWINGS BY JENNIFER HILL

Price: $180.00  other currencies  Order nr. 77670

(Solmentes Press). Armitage, Simon.

RESISTANCE.

Illustration and Calligraphy by David Esslemont.
Decorah, IA: Solmentes Press, 2022. 4to. illustrated paper covered boards, cloth clamshell box. unpaginated. Illustration and Calligraphy by David Esslemont. Limited to 30 numbered copies signed by the artist / printer. The typefaces used were created by designers with a connection to Ukraine. The front cover, title: Bifur - Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, digitized by Richard Kegler; the front cover, author: Arsenal - Andrij Shevchenko, Berdyansk; poem and colophon: Genau - Aleksey Popovtsev, Kyiv; and production..... READ MORE about RESISTANCE

Price: $800.00  other currencies  Order nr. 138229

Staikos, Konstantinos Sp.

THE MOUSEION AND THE LIBRARY OF THE PTOLEMIES IN ALEXANDRIA: ALEXANDER THE GREAT'S VISION OF A UNIVERSAL INTELLECTUAL CENTRE.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2021. 8.26 x 11 inches (21x28 cm). hardcover. 568 pages. The Mouseion and the Library of the Ptolemies in Alexandria, which comprises 14 chapters in all, begins by taking a look at the relations between the Greeks and the peoples of the East, mainly the Egyptians and the Persians, until the end of the classical period. Next, Alexander the Great's campaign of conquest to the East is summarized and..... READ MORE about THE MOUSEION AND THE LIBRARY OF THE PTOLEMIES IN ALEXANDRIA: ALEXANDER THE GREAT'S VISION OF A...

Price: $95.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135334

Thomas, Isaiah.

A HISTORY OF PRINTING IN AMERICA, WITH A BIOGRAPHY OF PRINTERS AND AN ACCOUNT OF NEWSPAPERS, TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A CONCISE VIEW OF THE DISCOVERY AND PROGRESS OF THE ART IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD.

Two volumes.
Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1810. small 8vo. library brown buckram. 487; 576 pages. Two volumes. First edition. (Bigmore & Wyman III, 9; S-K 3602 for binding references). All five plates are present. An invaluable book to the student of American printing and certainly the cornerstone in any collection of books on U.S. printing and publishing history. Also has information on newspapers and publishing. Thomas was the right person to write this title as he was one..... READ MORE about A HISTORY OF PRINTING IN AMERICA, WITH A BIOGRAPHY OF PRINTERS AND AN ACCOUNT OF NEWSPAPERS, TO...

Price: $2,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 36656

(Whittington Press).

MATRIX 28.

(Lower Marston Farm, Risbury: Whittington Press, 2009). 4to. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. (vi), 180, (2) pages. One of 630 copies bound thus. Matrix is the longest surviving and probably the last typographical journal to be printed by letterpress. It is an eclectic mix of fine printing, type design, and small press lore, forming a record of events and personalities whose memory would otherwise have died with their recorders. It is no exaggeration to say..... READ MORE about MATRIX 28

Price: $117.50  other currencies  Order nr. 128677

Zeitlinger, Heinrich and Henry Cecil Sotheran.

BIBLIOTHECA CHEMICO-MATHEMATICA: CATALOGUE OF WORKS IN MANY TONGUES ON EXACT AND APPLIED SCIENCE.

2 volumes bound in 1.
Mansfield Centre: Martino Publishing, 2005. thick 8vo. cloth. xii,428; (iv),429-964 pages. 2 volumes bound in 1. Reprint of the 1921 first edition published by Henry Sotheran in London. With 127 plates containing 247 portraits and facsimiles. With a Subject Index. This catalogue was started in 1906 based on a large collection of books in exact and applied science and was expanded to reach about three hundred pages. It grew as it went, and, by the..... READ MORE about BIBLIOTHECA CHEMICO-MATHEMATICA: CATALOGUE OF WORKS IN MANY TONGUES ON EXACT AND APPLIED SCIENCE

Price: $125.00  other currencies  Order nr. 90795