(Bibles). Fawtier, Robert.

LA BIBLE HISTORIÉE TOUTE FIGURÉE DE LA JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY. REPRODUCTION INTÉGRALE DE MANUSCRIT FRENCH 5 ACCOMPAGNÉE D'UNE ÉTUDE.

Paris: Pour les Trustees et Gouverneurs de la John Rylands Library, 1924. folio. stiff paper wrappers accompanied by plates all loosely inserted in printed portfolio, slipcase. 54, (2) pages and plates xix-xlvii (complete thus). Limited to 250 copies. Uncommon. Originally appeared in the Bulletin of the Société Française for 1923, which is why the plates are numbered as they are. It forms a part of the work of "Société Française de Reproductions de Manuscits a.... READ MORE

Price: $225.00  other currencies  Order nr. 80202

Coverdale, Mildred.

FREDERICA TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH AND THE TWO CHARGES, SARDIS (MILFORD NECK), SAXTON (BOWERS BEACH), A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CHURCHES AND THEIR ACTIVITIES, 1856-1978.

(Frederica: Milford Coverdale, 1978). 8vo. simulated leather. 163 pages. With a foreword by the author who has signed this copy. Filled with illustrations that are reproductions of photographs taken by Melva Jane Bradford. Boards soiled, some foxing to front and rear pastedowns and free endpapers. READ MORE

Price: $125.00  other currencies  Order nr. 72944

(Deep Wood Press). Traver, Robert.

THE INTRUDER.

(Mancelona, MI): Deep Wood Press, 2012. 4to. full contemporary leather with leather panels in the form of fish. unpaginated. Limited to 150 numbered copies, signed by designer and printer Chad Pastonik. This copy has been specially bound by Don Etherington. Reflections of quiet days trout fishing in rural Michigan, originally published as a chapter in the book Trout Madness (St. Martin's Press, 1960). Wood engravings by Jim Westergard from original maple blocks. Foreword by Richard... READ MORE

Price: $3,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 122880

(Fleece Press). Lee, Brian North (editor).

DEAREST JOANA, A SELECTION OF JOAN HASSALL'S LIFETIME LETTERS AND ART.

2 volumes.
Denby Dale, West Yorkshire: The Fleece Press, (2001). small 4to. quarter natural vellum with marble paper-covered boards, slipcase. 147+(1); (ii),(4),154-300,(3) pages. 2 volumes. Limited to an edition of 40 copies. The life of artist Joan Hassall is celebrated through the many letters she wrote to family and friends throughout her life. Her attitude toward life, her beliefs, her love of music and art, her frail health, and her devotion to cats all are laid out... READ MORE

Price: $900.00  other currencies  Order nr. 63885

Glick, William J.

IN THE SERVICE OF SCHOLARSHIP: HAROLD HUGO & THE MERIDEN GRAVURE COMPANY.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. 7.375 x 10.5 inches. Cloth with dust jacket. 208 pages. "This work skillfully demonstrates that the aura of unsurpassed quality around the work of Harold and Meriden was both hard earned and richly deserved.... a handsome book that alludes in choice of type, layout, printing quality, and binding to a Meriden Gravure publication." - Paul M. Wright, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America "Throughout its nearly century-long... READ MORE

Price: $75.00  other currencies  Order nr. 128978

Hamber, Anthony.

PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE 1851 GREAT EXHIBITION.

New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and V&A Publishing, 2018. 8.75 x 12 inches. cloth, dust jacket. xx, 396 pages, with folding floor plan of the Crystal Palace in pocket at rear. "Any student of early photography -- or of the international exposition housed in the famous Crystal Palace in London -- will covet this magisterial work of careful scholarship and beautiful bookmaking." - Michael Dirda, "best books list," The Washington Post "Ever... READ MORE

Price: $95.00  other currencies  Order nr. 129325

Lalllier, Monique.

MONIQUE LALLIER: A RETROSPECTIVE.

New Castle, DE and Greensboro, NC: Oak Knoll Press and Guilford College Art Gallery, 2018. 8.5 x 11 inches. paperback. 120 pages. "A prolific and endlessly inventive designer with flawless technical mastery, Lallier has also been a generous and influential teacher to scores of students around the globe." - Theresa Hammond, Director and Curator, Guilford College Art Gallery, from the Foreword Catalogue for an exhibition at the Guilford College Art Gallery in Greensboro, NC from... READ MORE

Price: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 130456

Millet, Gabriel.

RECHERCHES SUR L'ICONOGRAPHIE DE L'ÉVANGILE AUX XIVe, XVe, ET XVIe SIÈCLES D'APRÈS LES MONUMENTS DE MISTRA, DE LA MACÉDOINE ET DU MT-ATHOS.

Paris: Éditions E. de Boccard. 1960. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. lxiv, 809, (3) pages. Text in French. 2nd edition. Reprint of 1916 edition, published in the Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome. Author was a member of L'Institut. A study of iconography in manuscripts of the Gospels in the 14th-16th centuries. Introduction by the author, bibliography, table of contents. Addenda and corrigenda. Indices of mosaics and frescoes, icons, miniatures, sculptures, painters, iconographers and... READ MORE

Price: $650.00  other currencies  Order nr. 109463

Patkus, Ronald.

THE PRIVATELY PRINTED BIBLE: PRIVATE AND FINE PRESS PRINTINGS OF BIBLICAL TEXTS, 1892-2000.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, cloth spine over paper-covered boards. 264 pages. The Privately Printed Bible is the first book to offer a broad survey of the history of private and fine press printings of biblical texts. Author Ronald Patkus focuses on English-language examples from the United Kingdom, Ireland, and North America, and includes more than 500 works in his study. He begins with the late nineteenth century... READ MORE

Price: $95.00  other currencies  Order nr. 129283

(Pré Nian). Paterson, Alistair.

TOUCHINGS.

(Rétaud): Pré Nian, (1998). 12mo. loose sheets contained in a folder. unpaginated. Limited to 80 copies. Signed by the author and illustrator. The text, in English, is illustrated with four silkscreens by Bertrand Bracaval. Bracaval has been awarded many prizes through nearly four decades beginning with the Prix Lafont in 1967 and most recently the Prix Robert Beltz in 2002. His works are continually exhibited and are held in such public collections as the Centre... READ MORE

Price: $220.00  other currencies  Order nr. 93030

(Reid, James).

JAMES REID: SELECTED WOOD ENGRAVINGS.

3 volumes.
(Boston, MA): Brier Hill Press, 2013. folio. stiff paper wrappers in clamshell box with label on spine. variously paginated. 3 volumes. Limited to 125 numbered copies, signed by publisher Robert Strossi on colophon. Introductory remarks, with biographical sketch by Strossi. First volume includes frontispiece wood engraving by Reid, tipped-in tissue-protected portrait of Reid, reproductions of Reid woodcuts printed from the original blocks, and the introductory remarks. Second volume is Reid's The Life of Christ in... READ MORE

Price: $1,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 122881

(Whittington Press). Cave, Roderick.

CHINESE CEREMONIAL PAPERS. AN ILLUSTRATED BIBLIOGRAPHY.

(Whittington): The Whittington Press, (2002). folio. quarter cloth, decorated paper boards, black paper envelope, slipcase. not paginated. First edition, limited to 250 copies of which this is one of the out-of-series trade copies. "Roderick Cave has described his quest for Chinese ceremonial papers over three issues of Matrix (12, 13 and 18). For the past twenty years he has been collecting the mock money, prayer sheets, new year prints and other forms of paper which... READ MORE

Price: $225.00  other currencies  Order nr. 71558

Wolfe, Richard J.105671.

MARBLED PAPER: ITS HISTORY, TECHNIQUES, AND PATTERNS.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2018. 9 x 12 inches. stiff paper covers with French flaps. xx, 245 p., 37 color plates. "With a new foreword by Sidney Berger, this second edition meticulously tracks the rise and fall of paper marbling." - Printmaking Today, Fall 2018 Subtitle: with special reference to the relationship of marbling to bookbinding in Europe and the Western world. Second edition with corrections, from the original edition published in 1990... READ MORE

Price: $95.00  other currencies  Order nr. 128896