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Cioranescu, Alexandre.

BIBLIOGRAPHIE DE LA LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, DU DIX-HUITIÈME SIÈCLE.

3 volumes.
Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1969. small 4to. cloth. x,760; (iv),761-1440; (iv),1441-2138 pages. 3 volumes. This is one of the best bibliographies of eighteenth-century French literature. Organized by author, it contains 67,912 entries including names such as Voltaire, Alighieri Dante, and Napoleon. Indexed. Ex library set with markings. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHIE DE LA LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, DU DIX-HUITIÈME SIÈCLE

Price: $245.00 Order nr. 119727

Guillén Y Tato, Julio F.

MONUMENTA A CHARTOGRAPHICA INDIANA.

Madrid: Publicación De La Sección De Relaciones Culturales Del Ministerio De Asuntos Exteriores, 1942. folio. paper-covered boards, cloth hinges, two paper cover labels with text loosely inserted as issued. (viii), xxxvi, 100, (xiii), xii, (iv), pages, 127 plates. Limited to 500 copies. Text in Spanish. Collection of maps and charts exploring the history of the mapping of the southern areas of South America from the 16th to the 19th centuries. With a prologue, introduction, vocabulary..... READ MORE about MONUMENTA A CHARTOGRAPHICA INDIANA

Price: $350.00 Order nr. 104159

Hargrave, Catherine Perry.

A HISTORY OF PLAYING CARDS AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CARDS AND GAMING.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1930. tall 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xxvi, 468 pages. First edition. Discussion of the history of the playing card in all countries; profusely illustrated with some in full color. In addition to the large bibliography of books on the subject, the author also includes lists of decks in the collection of the United States Playing Card Company. Pieces of jacket are missing. Name in ink on free endpaper. READ MORE about A HISTORY OF PLAYING CARDS AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CARDS AND GAMING

Price: $250.00 Order nr. 95843

Long, Basil S.

BRITISH MINIATURISTS.

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1929. large 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xxxiv, 475 pages, followed by 153 illustrations. First edition. Alphabetical list of British miniaturists and foreign miniaturists working in Britain from 1520 to 1860 with short biographical pieces and known addresses. Contains 153 illustrations, some have several to a page. Dust jacket soiled and lacking small pieces at the spine ends. Some offset from the flaps onto the endpapers. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about BRITISH MINIATURISTS

Price: $200.00 Order nr. 96389

Morison, Stanley (editor).

FLEURON, A JOURNAL OF TYPOGRAPHY.

Vol. V.
Cambridge: The University Press, 1926. 4to. cloth. xvi, 205, (21) pages. Vol. V. Limited to 1370 copies. Article on Karl Klingspor by Julius Rodenberg including a list of books printed at the Private Press of the Gebr. Klingspor, articles on Laboureur, Bulmer, and "Towards an Ideal Italick" by Stanley Morison. Small bump along bottom of front cover and small tears at spine ends. READ MORE about FLEURON, A JOURNAL OF TYPOGRAPHY

Price: $200.00 Order nr. 73564

Skeen, William.

EARLY TYPOGRAPHY.

Colombo, Ceylon: n.p., 1872. 8vo. half red calf with marbled paper covered boards, top edge gilt. (ii), 424, v pages. Revised edition. (See Bigmore & Wyman II, 364 where they note the 48 page first printing and also state that this 1872 edition is usually found with a London imprint but mention the presence of this Ceylon imprint). Skeen was the government printer for Ceylon and used his knowledge of printing practice to "originate several..... READ MORE about EARLY TYPOGRAPHY

Price: $195.00 Order nr. 118366

(Artists' Book). Temple, Frédéric Jacques & Alain Clément.

L'HIVER.

Montpellier, France: La Murene, (1966). oblong 8vo. cloth, accordian fold. unpaginated. Limited to 50 numbered copies signed by both Temple & Clément. This collaborative artists' book sets F.J. Temple's poem L'Hiver (Winter) against striking gravures by French painter and printmaker Alain Clémént. A livre accordeon, with eight oblong accordion-fold panels (7" x 5 3/8"). An exquisite production. Fine condition. OCLC locates a single copy at the Mediatheque du Montpellier. READ MORE about L'HIVER

Price: $575.00 Order nr. 133696

(Bohn, Henry George).

A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1841. very thick 8vo. original half leather over marbled paper-covered boards. Frontispiece portrait of shop; engraved title page, iv, 1948, 148 pages. H.G. Bohn (1796-1884) is the best known of the London booksellers and is significant in the history of 19th-century publishing for his success in bringing out classics, standard, or useful works in inexpensive series: the "European Library," the "Standard Library," the "Scientific Library," and so on. (A few of..... READ MORE about A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS

Price: $275.00 Order nr. 35440

Cloud, Gerald W. and Peter Rutledge Koch, (eds.).

THE CODEX PAPERS: VOLUME 2.

Berkeley, CA: CODEX Foundation, The, 2020. 6.75 x 8.5 inches. Smythe sewn, letterpress printed wrapper. 144 pages. This issue features reviews of books and exhibitions, a profile on the French bookbinder Louise Bescond, a photo essay on the Bixler Typefoundry, book shopping in Paris, an artists insights to her own process, a curators favorite artists books, and a booksellers perspective on book collecting. With contributions from: Megan Adie, Tatjana Bergelt, Michael Bixler, Deirdre Brollo, Carolee..... READ MORE about THE CODEX PAPERS: VOLUME 2

Price: $75.00 Order nr. 134848

(Duensing).

TYPE: II, A LEISURELY SHOWING OF TYPEFACES AND ORNAMENTS AVAILABLE IN LIMITED CASTINGS FROM THE PRIVATE PRESS AND TYPEFOUNDRY OF PAUL HAYDEN DUENSING.

Kalamazoo: Duensing, 1968. small 8vo. envelope containing a 4 page introduction and 12 broadsides. Limited to about 260 copies. All faces and ornaments were cast at PHD's foundery. READ MORE about TYPE: II, A LEISURELY SHOWING OF TYPEFACES AND ORNAMENTS AVAILABLE IN LIMITED CASTINGS FROM THE...

Price: $150.00 Order nr. 19564

Garner, Bryan A.

TAMING THE TONGUE IN THE HEYDAY OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR (1711-1851).

New York: Grolier Club, The, 2021. 7.375 x 9.25 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 301 pages. Bryan A. Garner's Taming the Tongue in the Heyday of English Grammar (1711-1851) is the companion to the Grolier Club exhibition of the same title (March 3 to May 15, 2021). Featuring 100 items, Garner's book makes the primers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries come alive in ways their concerned and idiosyncratic authors might not have envisioned. While Garner..... READ MORE about TAMING THE TONGUE IN THE HEYDAY OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR (1711-1851

Price: $45.00 Order nr. 135437

Gehl, Paul F.

CHICAGO MODERNISM AND THE LUDLOW TYPOGRAPH: DOUGLAS C MCMURTRIE AND ROBERT HUNTER MIDDLETON AT WORK.

Australia: Opifex, 2020. 6 × 9 inches. Paperback. 144 pages. "At the core of Gehl's fascinating account of a most improbable yet successful typographic partnership is America's tentative steps toward Modernism at a time when revivalism remained prevalent and the modern spirit was considered to be culturally of dubious intent. Gehl chronicles in engrossing detail and with admirable clarity the subversive energies of McMurtrie, a modernist who would tell anyone willing to listen, and Middleton..... READ MORE about CHICAGO MODERNISM AND THE LUDLOW TYPOGRAPH: DOUGLAS C MCMURTRIE AND ROBERT HUNTER MIDDLETON AT WORK

Price: $45.00 Order nr. 135039

(Hohlwein, Ludwig). Frenzel, H.K.

LUDWIG HOHLWEIN With an Introduction by Dr. Walter F. Schubert. Translated by Herman George Scheffauer.

Berlin, Germany: Phonix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag, 1926. tall 4to. cloth. 73 pages followed by 223 plates. First edition in English. A study of this German illustrator and poster artist. Text in German and English. Many of the illustrations are in color. Spine faded. READ MORE about LUDWIG HOHLWEIN With an Introduction by Dr. Walter F. Schubert. Translated by Herman George...

Price: $400.00 Order nr. 16904

Lomazow, Steven.

MAGAZINES AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE COLLECTION OF STEVEN LOMAZOW, M.D.

New York: Grolier Club, The, 2021. 12 x 9 inches, oblong. Hardcover with jacket. 325 pages. "A remarkable exhibition at the Grolier Club in Manhattan which can also be viewed online and more carefully examined in an accompanying catalogue provides an impressively comprehensive a view of this important fold of U.S. history." - Jonathan Keats, Forbes "Through 200 rare and unique magazines, this exhibition offers the definitive story of magazines in America." - J.V., Air..... READ MORE about MAGAZINES AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE COLLECTION OF STEVEN LOMAZOW, M.D

Price: $75.00 Order nr. 135333

Loxley, Simon.

EMERY WALKER: ARTS, CRAFTS, AND A WORLD IN MOTION.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 7.125 x 9.25 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 216 pages. Author Simon Loxley will be providing an online presentation with The William Morris Society on June 19, 2021, 5:00pm-6:00pm, titled Emery Walker: Typographer. Sign up here: https://williammorrissociety.org/event/online-talk-emery-walker-typographer/. "This new study offers an insight into his work, the personality that drove his long career, and the fascinating, highly-charged social and political backgrounds against which that career was played out." -..... READ MORE about EMERY WALKER: ARTS, CRAFTS, AND A WORLD IN MOTION

Price: $95.00 Order nr. 133470

Mathews, Richard and Joseph Rosenblum (editors).

PRINTING FOR BOOK PRODUCTION: EMERY WALKER'S THREE LECTURES FOR THE SANDARS READERSHIP IN BIBLIOGRAPHY, DELIVERED AT CAMBRIDGE, NOVEMBER 6, 13 & 20, 1924.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 7.5 x 10.75 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 256 pages. "The texts of the three lectures are given with a plethora of well-reproduced visual aids: almost every manuscript, piece of printed matter or artefact that Walker referred to is illustrated close to the reference, from a wide variety of sources." - Sebastian Carter, Journal of the Printing Historical Society Sir Emery Walker (1851-1933) was a leading figure of the..... READ MORE about PRINTING FOR BOOK PRODUCTION: EMERY WALKER'S THREE LECTURES FOR THE SANDARS READERSHIP IN...

Price: $95.00 Order nr. 131955

(Midnight Paper Sales). (Schanilec, Gaylord).

BOKEH: A LITTLE BOOK OF FLOWERS.

(Saint Paul, MN): Midnight Paper Sales, 2020. small 8vo. cloth, decorated paper covered boards, slipcase with paper label on spine. 68 pages. Printed in an edition of 119 copies (this being one of the 80 standard copies) on Velké Losiny and Zerkall papers. Eight multiple color wood engravings with poems handset in Polipholis, Bembo, and Blado types. Bound at Booklab 2 by Marc Hammond, Keri Schroeder, and Craig Jensen in two editions: a standard edition..... READ MORE about BOKEH: A LITTLE BOOK OF FLOWERS

Price: $780.00 Order nr. 134683

(Miniature Books). Walcott, Paul and Betty and Marion Soliday.

CHATS ABOUT MINIATURE BOOKS.

(Boston): privately printed, (1932). miniature book (4.0 x 3.5 cm). stiff paper wrappers, front cover gilt, slipcase. (viii), 30, (2) pages. Limited to 250 numbered copies. (Bradbury, Paul and Betty Walcott 1). A book about publishing and collecting miniature books. According to Bradbury, this is the apparently the first miniature book about miniature books published in the United States. Wrappers lightly worn along spine. Gilding on front wrapper faded. Front free endpaper bent. READ MORE about CHATS ABOUT MINIATURE BOOKS

Price: $550.00 Order nr. 117237

(Old School Press). Chambers, David and Martyn Ould.

THE DANIEL PRESS IN FROME.

(Bath, England): The Old School Press, 2011. 8vo. paper wrappers. x, 61+(1) pages. Limited to 175 numbered copies, signed by the authors on colophon. This is the paper wrapper variant of the hardcover binding. Table of contents, preface, introduction, bibliography. An effort to bring together the varied publications of the Daniel family in Frome, England, including the Ruthven Press. List of sizes of editions and their printers. Also with an addenda to the Madan bibliography..... READ MORE about THE DANIEL PRESS IN FROME

Price: $175.00 Order nr. 128924

(Papermaking). Le Clert, Louis.

PAPIER, RECHERCHES ET NOTES POUR SERVIR A L'HISTOIRE DU PAPIER, PRINCIPALEMENT A TROYES ET AUX ENVIRONS DEPUIS LE QUATORZIEME SIECLE.

2 volumes.
Paris: L'Enseigne du Pegase, 1926. folio. paper-covered stiff paper wrappers. xiv, 268; (iv), 269-530+(1) pages. 2 volumes. First edition, limited to 711 numbered copies. With seventy-eight fold-out plates reproducing watermarks and over 300 figures in the text. Some of the plates are in color. Bidwell, in his article entitled "Paper and Papermaking: 100 Sources," says that this book "with its de luxe format and abundant facsimile documentation, ... rivals the Dard Hunter productions." Paper covering..... READ MORE about PAPIER, RECHERCHES ET NOTES POUR SERVIR A L'HISTOIRE DU PAPIER, PRINCIPALEMENT A TROYES ET AUX...

Price: $950.00 Order nr. 91964

(Philobiblon). Debury, Richard.

PHILOBIBLON, A TREATISE ON THE LOVE OF BOOKS.

London: Thomas Rodd, 1832. 8vo. original cloth with paper spine label. viii, 152 pages. First translation into English of this classic book on the love of books. The translation was done by John Bellingham Inglis from the text of the 1473 edition. MacLagan calls the translation "a work of more spirit than accuracy..." Wear at spine ends with some lose of cloth at head of spine. Spine label partially chipped off. Old ink note on..... READ MORE about PHILOBIBLON, A TREATISE ON THE LOVE OF BOOKS

Price: $450.00 Order nr. 123366

(Rather Press). Rather, Lois.

DUMSMUIR HOUSE.

Oakland: Rather Press, (1982). large 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. 75 (3) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 100 numbered copies. Researched, written, designed, hand-set in Bembo type printed on Tweedweave paper, hand-sewn, and cased by Clif and Lois Rather. Illustrated with wood engravings by Stanley H. Cohen. Continues the author's series of books dealing with California history. Dunsmuir House is a thirty-seven room mansion built in the San Leandro section of Oakland..... READ MORE about DUMSMUIR HOUSE

Price: $150.00 Order nr. 96339

(Red Ozier Press). Davenport, Guy.

THE BICYCLE RIDER.

New York, NY: Red Ozier Press, 1985. 8vo. quarter cloth over paper covered boards. unpaginated. Limited to 150 numbered and signed copies, of which this is one of 30 copies bound in boards (Peich, 68). Spectrum type is printed on Nideggen mouldmade paper. Fine condition. READ MORE about THE BICYCLE RIDER

Price: $500.00 Order nr. 135239

Tanselle, G. Thomas.

DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2020. 6.125 x 9.25 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 630 pages plus 8 pages of illustrations. "A masterwork. ...Tanselle has gathered his own fact-rich essays from a lifetime's worth of reflection on the physical nature of books. The result is a true summa of bibliographical insight, information and guidance. There are, for example, chapters about paper, typography and layout, typesetting and presswork, bindings, endpapers and dust jackets. Throughout..... READ MORE about DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY

Price: $60.00 Order nr. 134700

Thomas, Peter.

BIKUPAN, THE STORY OF A TRIP TO VISIT A HAND PAPER MILL IN SWEDEN, WITH A BIT OF HISTORY ADDED IN FOR GOOD MEASURE.

Santa Cruz: Peter & Donna Thomas, 1992. small 4to. quarter blue leather over marbled paper-covered boards, slipcase. (viii), 13, (3) pages. Limited to 119 numbered copies printed by hand by Peter and Donna Thomas on paper handmade by Peter using white and black rags with blue pigment. This particular copy has been rebound by Don Etherington in full crimson morocco with an original papermaking mesh on the front cover. The modified stiched binding has marbled..... READ MORE about BIKUPAN, THE STORY OF A TRIP TO VISIT A HAND PAPER MILL IN SWEDEN, WITH A BIT OF HISTORY ADDED IN...

Price: $175.00 Order nr. 36707

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