28 issues of this periodical.
(Rochester, NY: Eastman Kodak Company, 1972-1991. small 4to. paper wrappers. 28 issues of this periodical. Includes both the Anniversary and Centennial issues. READ MORE about KODAK STUDIO LIGHT
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 105710
N.P. n.p., n.d. 4to. polished buckram. 43+6 pages. Catalogue covering atlases and chart-books from the years 1477-1928 in the Macpherson Collection. Organized by date. Annotations added throughout, with many blank leaves inserted, type-written index. Corners bumped. Spine faded. Covers slightly scratched. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE ATLASES, CHART-BOOKS, ETC., IN THE MACPHERSON COLLECTION
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 104110
London, England, and New York, NY: George Newnes and F. Greenfield, n.d. (but 1912). folio. half leather, cloth boards. 40 pages. Limited to 800 numbered copies. Dedication, introduction by the author, Table with the date of different periods of architecture and decoration, with the names of monarchs and typical buildings, follows text. This table includes the Norman through the Georgian periods. Plates. Printed on recto only. Covers rubbed, scuffed, and lightly soiled. Tanning, mainly at..... READ MORE about ELIZABETHAN INTERIORS
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 131196
(Bernardston, MA and Mansfield Centre, CT: Astronomy Books and Martino Publishing Co., 2001). 4to. cloth. viii, 499+(1) pages. Facsimile reprint limited to 75 copies of an edition first published in Edinburgh by Authority of Her Majesty's Government in 1890. (Besterman 588). Donated by James Ludovic, Earl of Crawford, to the Edinburgh Royal Observatory, the collection of the Library of Dunecht Observatory started with the library of the late Charles Babbage, was augmented by a number..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE CRAWFORD LIBRARY OF THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY EDINBURGH
Price: $110.00 Order nr. 70015
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1999. large 4to. cloth with leather spine label, in special cloth solander case with leather spine. 72, (5) pages, with additional pages of color illustrations. Limited to 150 numbered copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press; this is one of the first four numbered copies and is a copy "with extra material" according to the pencil note by Henry Morris in the colophon (Berger A62). Includes chapters on..... READ MORE about VIGNETTES, AN ECLECTIC ASSEMBLAGE OF ANECDOTES ABOUT PAPERMAKING
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 120383
With a Foreword by Henry Morris.
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1996. tall 8vo. quarter dark blue morocco with cloth sides, leather spine label, slipcase. 79, (3) pages. With a Foreword by Henry Morris. Limited to 160 numbered copies (Berger A59). Printed by Henry Morris by hand at his Bird & Bull Press on Zerkall mouldmade paper and bound by Campbell-Logan Bindery. Gaylord Schanilec has become one of premier wood engravers in this country and is especially noted for his work..... READ MORE about MY COLORFUL CAREER
Price: $525.00 Order nr. 45486
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2000. 8vo. quarter leather, cloth covered boards. xx, 112, (3) pages. Limited to 150 numbered copies (Berger A64). Printed on Arches Mouldmade paper by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press. This book contains Alexander Wilson's long poem "The Foresters" describing his first "pedestrian journey" with two companions to the Falls of Niagara in the Autumn of 1804. Wilson's work is a wonderfully descriptive account of the spectacular..... READ MORE about THE FORESTERS
Price: $235.00 Order nr. 60487
London: Cassell & Co., 1954. tall 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 60 pages of text followed by 58 plates, full color frontispiece. First edition. (S-K 3516, Brenni no. 837). Ireland had a period of craftsmanship in binding that rivaled that of any other country during this brief period. Craig discusses this movement. He also describes the folio volumes of the records of the Irish Parliament which were some of the most beautifully bound books of the..... READ MORE about IRISH BOOKBINDINGS, 1600-1800
Price: $425.00 Order nr. 6183
New York: The Colophon Ltd, 1940. 4to. paper-covered boards. 113, (5) pages. William T. Hastings writes about the Ireland Shakespeare forgeries, also Lawrence Clark Powell on D.H. Lawrence and his critics, and an article on English illustrators by Hellmut Lehman-Haupt that features Cruikshank etchings nicely reproduced in color. Also a woodcut by Paul Landacre as a separate plate, cover and colophon design by Kurt Werth, and index to Numbers One through Four. Bookplate. READ MORE about COLOPHON, N.GR.S., THE Q FOR BKMN, V.I N.4
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 45449
New York: Vincent FitzGerald, 1986. oblong 4to. blue-green silk over boards, lettered in orange, by Gérard Charriere, inserted in specially constructed black cloth clam-shell box with paper spine label. Unpaginated. Limited to only 40 numbered copies, all signed by the artist. Text and Linocuts by Mark Beard. 42 Handcolored linocuts pulled by Mark Beard and Marjorie Van Dyke at The Printmaking Workshop assisted by Zahra Partovi, George Osterman and Robbin Silverberg. 32 Japanese papers are..... READ MORE about THE UTAH READER
Price: $4,500.00 Order nr. 124120
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 8.5.x 11 inches. Hardcover, printed paper-covered boards. 232 pages. "Now Johnson has authored a deeper, more descriptive guide to film script identification. It's jam-packed with 130 examples of easily recognized American and British films in nearly every genre, documenting phase after phase of script development. ... landmark research and organization." - Kurt Brokaw, The Independent Foreword by Tony Bill, Academy Award-winning producer (The Sting), director and actor. The..... READ MORE about THE CELLULOID PAPER TRAIL: IDENTIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FILM SCRIPTS
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 130880
Paris, France: René Kieffer, (1924). 8vo. stamped leather, suede clamshell box with leather spine label. (x), 183, (3), illustrations. Text in French. Table of contents. Illustrations by Jacques Touchet. Signed binding by René Kieffer. Leather with gilt, green, blue, red, and orange stamping on both covers. A touch of humor in the depictions of birds, three trees, and grass on the covers. Spine gilt stamped with title, author, and decorations. Gilt decorated turn-ins with plaid..... READ MORE about MERVEILLEUSES HISTOIRES DE NASR' EDDINE
Price: $3,500.00 Order nr. 134441
2 volumes.
London: Dawsons, 1954. small 4to. cloth, dust jackets. xxiv, 491; xvi, 173, (4) pages. 2 volumes. First editions. This is the definitive bibliography of this famous 18th-century chemist whose life was cut short by the French revolution. Minor chipping. READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF ANTOINE LAURENT LAVOISIER, 1743-1794 With SUPPLEMENT
Price: $300.00 Order nr. 11271
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1959. 4to. quarter black calf over red cloth, red leather spine label, black leather cameo device in front cover, slipcase. 295 pages. Limited to 2250 numbered copies (LEC 294). Many illustrations, including quite a few in color. Near fine in near fine slipcase. READ MORE about QUARTO-MILLENARY, THE FIRST 250 PUBLICATIONS AND THE FIRST 25 YEARS 1929 - 1954 OF THE LIMITED...
Price: $145.00 Order nr. 123754
New York, NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1938. small 4to. cloth with raised design on front cover, slipcase. xv, 72, (2) pages. Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by Parker (LEC 106). With an Introduction by Sir Hugh Walpole. Decorated with Wood-engravings sketched in the same country church- yard by Agnes Miller Parker. Designed by Robert Ashwin Maynard and printed at his Raven Press. Original clear plastic dust jacket is present. Spine faded. Slipcase sound..... READ MORE about ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 16575
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 7.125 x 9.25 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 216 pages. "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." - William Morris Society Magazine "Simon Loxley invites the reader to get to know Emery Walker through letters to and from family and friends, political comrades, artists, poets..... READ MORE about EMERY WALKER: ARTS, CRAFTS, AND A WORLD IN MOTION
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 133470
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 7.5 x 10.75 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 256 pages. Sir Emery Walker (1851-1933) was a leading figure of the Arts and Crafts movement and the inspiration for the revival of fine printing in Britain, the Continent, and America. His November 1888 address to the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society (summarized in Appendix 1 of this book; the original text of the speech is lost) prompted William Morris to..... READ MORE about PRINTING FOR BOOK PRODUCTION: EMERY WALKER'S THREE LECTURES FOR THE SANDARS READERSHIP IN...
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 131955
(Flansham, Bognor Regis, Sussex, England: The Pear Tree Press, 1929). 16mo. silver paper-covered boards printed in black, paper front cover label. (14) pages. Limited to 150 numbered copies (Modern British and Private Presses 141). The first volume of the Black Letter Series. Printed in silver and black inks. Format, decorations, and woodcut illustrations by James Guthrie. Decorations in silver ink. Covers rubbed and scuffed along spine and at corners. READ MORE about TE DEUM LAUDAMUS AND NUNC DIMITTIS, FROM THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 130435
New Castle, DE and Oxford, England: Oak Knoll Press and The Bodleian Library, 2019. 6.14 x 9.2 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 448 pages. "Anyone interested in the provenance of books would be well advised to obtain a copy of the new edition, even if they own the previous one... what has changed the most are the increased awareness of its importance as a field of study, and the research tools available, especially online ones. The..... READ MORE about PROVENANCE RESEARCH IN BOOK HISTORY: A HANDBOOK
Price: $86.00 Order nr. 130824
Chicago, IL: Will Ransom, 1922. 12mo. cloth, paper spine label, dust jacket, top edge cut, other edges uncut. (ii), 71, (3) pages. Limited to 280 numbered copies, signed by Ransom on colophon (British Library 151). Presentation by the author on front free endpaper. Number 3 in Ransom's "Series of First Volumes." Table of contents. A collection of poetry. Top edge of back cover of dust jacket chipped. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. READ MORE about ORIOLES & BLACKBIRDS
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 128497
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 10.5 x 8.5 inches. printed paper-covered boards. 400 pages. "Frank Romano's History of Desktop Publishing is an essential book for anyone studying the field and for many just generally interested in the history of printing and typesetting. You will find information in this book on and around desktop publishing that you are unlikely to find anywhere else -- certainly not all collected in one place." - David Walden..... READ MORE about HISTORY OF DESKTOP PUBLISHING
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 133473
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 8.125 x 10.75 inches. Hardback with dust jacket. 160 pages. "This meticulously researched volume untangles the complicated and confusing history of American first editions of Dickens. It will be of interest to all students of Dickens, and invaluable for specialists. ... Highly recommended." - J. D. Vann, Choice This bibliography traces the history of Charles Dickens's Christmas books and other works published in America during his lifetime. Meticulously..... READ MORE about CHARLES DICKENS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS, THE CHRISTMAS BOOKS AND SELECTED...
Price: $64.00 Order nr. 133475
2 volumes
(Paris): Jules Meynial, 1931. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, unopened pages. (v),xiv,325,(3) pages with an additional 2 plates of illustrations; 36 plates of illustrations. 2 volumes. First edition, limited to 350 numbered copies. A catalogue of books, ephemera and objects of art in the collection of Mrs. George T. Bliss, which was offered to the Bibliothèque Nacional, after the collector's death, by Miss Susan Dwight Bliss. Frontispiece is a tipped-in plate reproducing a portrait of Marie..... READ MORE about COLLECTION DE MANUSCRITS, LIVRES, ESTAMPES ET OBJETS D'ART RELATIFS A MARIE STUART REINE DE...
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 71706
4 volumes, complete.
New York: R.R. Bowker, 1972, 1975, 1978, 1981. large 8vo. cloth. xvi, 646; xiv, 813; xiii, 774; xiv, 830 pages. 4 volumes, complete. First edition. An excellent history of publishing in the United States. Each volume covers a different chronological period. Presentation from the author on free endpaper of volumes 1 "for Mark- with admiration and affection John," and in volume 3 "for Mark with affection, admiration and very best wishes, John, Southbury, MA, Dec..... READ MORE about HISTORY OF BOOK PUBLISHING IN THE UNITED STATES. VOLUME I - VOLUME 4
Price: $550.00 Order nr. 46760
Herefordshire, UK: Whittington Press, 2004. small 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (vi), 169, (3) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 800 copies, this being one of 720 trade copies. 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..... READ MORE about MATRIX 24, WINTER 2004, A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS & BIBLIPHILES
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 79769
