Volume I, no. 1 to Volume 5, no.4
London: Printing News Ltd., 1958-1961. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Volume I, no. 1 to Volume 5, no.4. With twenty issues in all, complete from the first issue to the fourth issue of the fifth volume. The first issue has the following in ink on the front cover "Benham's marked copy" - Benham was the printer. The illustrations in this issue have a cross drawn through many of them. READ MORE about BOOK DESIGN AND PRODUCTION. Edited by James Moran

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10 volumes.
London, England: James Bettenham, 1734-41. folio. contemporary quarter leather, marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-stamping and six raised bands on spine. (xii), 712; (vi), 718; (iv), 724; (iv), 715+(1); (iv), 716; (iv), 716; (iv), 828; (iv), 832; (iv), 716; (xxxiv), 588 pages with unpaginated index. 10 volumes. New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature II, 1503-4, notes this is the fourth edition of this work in English. Earlier editions in French cited in Graesse I, 314. Translated from... READ MORE about GENERAL DICTIONARY, HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL: IN WHICH A NEW AND ACCURATE TRANSLATION OF THAT OF...

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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 "Richly... READ MORE about PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE 1851 GREAT EXHIBITION

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2018. 7.5 x 10 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 200 pages. This book, by typographic scholar Hendrik Vervliet, is a survey of the life and work of the sixteenth-century letter-cutter Robert Granjon (1513-1590). With his contemporary Claude Garamont, he is considered one of the best and most influential figures in the history of type design. Vervliet begins with a biography, recounting Granjon's career as a punchcutter and publisher during periods... READ MORE about ROBERT GRANJON, LETTER-CUTTER, 1513-1590: AN OEUVRE-CATALOGUE

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2018. 5.75 x 8 inches. cloth spine over paper-covered boards. 144 pages, 17 tipped-in marbling swatches. Josef Halfer practiced and taught marbling roughly three centuries after the craft had appeared in Europe, at a time when paper marbling was in decline and being replaced by mechanically-produced substitutes. However, his innovations coincided with recent advances in chemistry, biochemistry and bacteriology, and he was able to apply those recent advances to... READ MORE about JOSEF HALFER AND THE REVIVAL OF THE ART OF MARBLING PAPER

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4 volumes in 1.
Los Angeles: n.p., 1964. thick 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. v,338; (ii),339-704; (iv),705-825; (iv),827-926 pages. 4 volumes in 1. (Besterman I, 1085). Reprint of the first editions of this impressive bibliography of California. READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA 1510-1930

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Copenhagen: Forening for boghaandvaerk, 1944. small 8vo. patterned paper-covered boards, paper labels on spine and front cover. 36 pages. Besterman 2839. Brief essay on wood engraver F. Hendriksen as a writer, with four illustrations, followed by a bibliography of 109 numbered entries for his written works, or for works to which he contributed, plus seven unnumbered entries for works in which he was editorially involved. READ MORE about XYLOGRAF F. HENDRIKSEN BIBLIOGRAFI, MED EN INLEDNING OM F. HENDRIKSEN SOM SKRIBENT [THE WOOD...

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Two volumes.
Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1956. small 4to. and 4to. paper wrappers. Two volumes. Limited to 400 copies. (Cheever no.117; Leaf Book - Chalmers 111) However, this is one of "a few sets" bound in stiff yellow wrappers made from "Rives Chana / handmade in France." The first volume contains a 20 page biography of Amerbach; the second contains one page of text and an original page printed by Amerbach taken from LECTURA SUPER QUINQUE... READ MORE about JOHANN AMERBACH

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Lunenburg, VT: The Stinehour Press, 1958. 8vo. cloth. xvii, 165 pages. Limited to 500 copies. Contains 125 fully annotated descriptions of items relating to Michigan. Illustrated throughout with facsimiles of title pages of some of the items. Library bookplate and label removed from spine. READ MORE about A SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF IMPORTANT BOOKS PAMPHLETS AND BROADSIDES RELATING TO MICHIGAN HISTORY

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(Boston: Pendle Press, The, 1967). folio. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. 6 pages. Limited to 20 copies (Peich 1). McCurdy's first published work. The 2nd and 3rd chapters of the book of Genesis in the Old Testament of the Bible. Bound in quarter blue patterned cloth and light blue-gray Fabriano paper boards. Handprinted on double-fold Japanese Masa paper by McCurdy. Pendle Press on colophon. The press' name was changed to Hillside Press, then the Penmaen Press... READ MORE about GENESIS

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New York: Targ Editions, 1982. 4to. two-tone cloth. 47, (3) pages. Limited to 250 copies signed by the author. This first edition in the English language is a collection of Marguerite Yourcenar's poetry translated into English by Edith R. Farrell. Frontispiece is tipped in photograph of the author. Printed on Frankfurt paper using Centaur type set by M. Bixler, designed by Leslie Miller, and bound by A. Horowitz. Fine condition. READ MORE about THE ALMS OF ALCIPPE

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Lower Marston Farm, England: The Whittington Press, 1999. small 8vo. quarter cloth with decorated paper-covered boards. (16) pages followed by 36 leaves of plates. Printed in an edition limited to 375 numbered copies set in Van Dijck type and printed at Whittington on Zerkall Rosa paper. A beautiful collection of 36 wood-cut engravings from John O'Conner's sixth decade of engraving. The engravings in this volume have been appearing in the magazine "Oldie" since 1992. They... READ MORE about PEOPLE & PLACES

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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 about MARBLED PAPER: ITS HISTORY, TECHNIQUES, AND PATTERNS

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