Allibone, S. Austin (and John Foster Kirk for supplement).

CRITICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AND BRITISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS, LIVING AND DECEASED, FROM THE EARLIEST ACCOUNTS TO THE MIDDLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Containing Thirty Thousand Biographies and Literary Notices... With A SUPPLEMENT TO ALLIBONE.

5 volumes.
Detroit: Gale Research Co. 1965. thick 8vo. cloth. thousands of pages. 5 volumes. Reprint of the 1858 and 1891 editions. Still a very valuable reference tool. Ex library set with markings. READ MORE

Price: $125.00  other currencies  Order nr. 119535

(Bookplates).

THE BOOKPLATES & MARKS OF ROCKWELL KENT.

With a Preface by the Artist.
New York: Pynson Printers, 1929. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 79+(1) pages. With a Preface by the Artist. Limited to 1250 numbered copies signed by Kent. "With more than 100 proofs of bookplates, initials and marks presented in two colors on one side of an all rag imported paper." Jacket shows minor chipping along edges. READ MORE

Price: $300.00  other currencies  Order nr. 36120

(Delaware).

LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE. REVISED EDITION.

Wilmington: Printed by R. Porter and Son, 1829. 8vo. contemporary full calf, red leather spine label. vii, 760 pages. B1-2526. Shaw & Shoemaker 38363. With a three page preface by Willard Hall giving a short history of the printing of the Laws of Delaware and summarizing why this "Revised Edition" was issued. Took the first six volumes and 496 pages of the seventh volume and printed only laws still active. Bookplate of the Delaware collector... READ MORE

Price: $300.00  other currencies  Order nr. 126893

Dufrenne, Suzy.

L' ILLUSTRATION DES PSAUTIERS GRECS DU MOYEN AGE.

Paris: Librairie C. Klincksieck, 1966. 4to. paper-covered boards. 66, (2) with plates. Text in French. No. I in the Bibliothèque des Cahiers Archéologiques series, published under the direction of André Grabar and Jean Hubert. A study of three medieval Greek psalters: Pantocrator 61, Paris Grec 20 and British Museum 40731. Preface by Grabar. Foreword and bibliography. Description of the general characteristics of each psalter, with detailed descriptive information on each folio. Two pages of color... READ MORE

Price: $145.00  other currencies  Order nr. 109436

(Fleece Press).

THE LAST AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES OF THOMAS BEWICK RECORDING HIS JOURNEY WITH HIS DAUGHTERS TO LONDON & BUXTON SPA, IN 1828.

Upper Denby, England: The Fleece Press, 2015. square 16mo. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards, in cloth chemise. unpaginated. Deluxe copy. Limited to 100 deluxe copies, with facsimile signature of Bewick and signed by Iain Bain. Prefatory note and commentary by Bain. Transcribed from an unpublished manuscript by Bain. Tipped in color frontispiece with tipped-in illustrations throughout text. With original print of Bain's "Waiting for Death." READ MORE

Price: $185.00  other currencies  Order nr. 127792

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. "Throughout its nearly century-long history, no company printed black and white reproductions better than the Meriden Gravure Company.... William Glick's book is an excellently written, comprehensive account of this important chapter in the history of 'the black art'." - Jerry Kelly, Parenthesis 34 "In his article in Print Quarterly, Ruari McLean wrote, 'Meriden's work in their chosen field... READ MORE

Price: $75.00 save 15% $63.75  other currencies  Order nr. 128978

(Illuminated Manuscripts). Van Oest, G. (Editor).

LES TRÉSORS DES BIBLIOTHÈQUES DE FRANCE.

4 volumes.
Paris, France: Van Oest, 1925-1926. 4to. text loosely inserted in stiff paper wrappers, chemise, slipcase. variously paginated. 4 volumes. Printed in an edition of 600 copies. Includes Vol I, 1925; Vol. II, 1926; Vol III, 1926; Vol IV, or Tome I, 1926. Series begun in 1925 by Librairie Nationale d'Art et d'Histoire to reveal to the public by faithful reproductions the treasures hidden in France's librairies. Treated are drawings, engravings, and woodcuts, some original, as... READ MORE

Price: $200.00  other currencies  Order nr. 130556

Muir, Percy.

MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS.

London, England: Chatto & Windus, 1956. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 224 pages. Table of contents, list of illustrations, index. Black and white frontispiece and illustrations in text. Presentation by Muir on front free endpaper. The story of the firm Elkin Matthews. Dust jacket chipped at edges. READ MORE

Price: $200.00  other currencies  Order nr. 130539

(Papermaking). Imberdis, J.

PAPYRUS, OR THE CRAFT OF PAPER. Translated by Eric Laughton.

Hilversum, Holland: The Paper Publications Society, 1952. 8vo. stiff hand-made paper wrappers, marbled paper-covered cardboard slipcase with paper cover and spine labels. (ii), 68, (2) pages. First edition in English, limited to 200 numbered copies. With a three page foreword by E.J. Labarre. This is the first translation of this 17th century poem on hand-papermaking into English and one of the best guides that we have to the technical aspects of papermaking during the early... READ MORE

Price: $450.00  other currencies  Order nr. 20081

(Press of Appletree Alley). Feldman, Irving.

ALL OF US HERE.

(Lewisberg, PA): Bucknell University & Press of Appletree Alley, 1990. tall 8vo. quarter cloth with printed paper-covered boards. 57+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 145 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator. Finely illustrated with five full-page woodcut illustrations by George Zoretich. Issued as part of The Bucknell University Fine Editions: A Series in Contemporary Poetry. The series logo was engraved by John DePol and appears on the first printed page. READ MORE

Price: $200.00  other currencies  Order nr. 79782

(Sore Dove Press). Menebroker, Ann.

THE FISH WHO SWALLOWED THE STARS.

San Francisco, CA: Sore Dove Press, 2015. large 4to. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Limited to 20 numbered copies. The signed portfolio contains 16 poems selected by the poets from the body of her work (including new poems). Each portfolio carries an original painting/collage by Soheyl Dahi. READ MORE

Price: $100.00  other currencies  Order nr. 127551

TIIPOFILOLOGICA RIVISTA INTERNAZIOINALE DI STUDI FILOLOGICI E LINGUISTICI SUI TESTI A STAMPA.

Pisa: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2012. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. 95, (11) pages. Text in Italian with one article in English. An international, peer-reviewed journal, edited by Antonio Sorella, on the philological and linguistic studies of printed texts. Includes articles by José Manuel Lucia Megias, Elisa Treccani, Gennaro Tallini and Pierluigi Ortolano. Also includes updates on research in the field. Articles footnoted. Black and white illustrations. In print at considerably more money. READ MORE

Price: $125.00  other currencies  Order nr. 109594

Wolfe, Richard J.

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. 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 by the University of Pennsylvania Press (a publication of the A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography). With over 350 color and 80 black-and-white illustrations, and... READ MORE

Price: $95.00  other currencies  Order nr. 128896