Philadelphia, PA: J.W. Pepper, n.d. broadside (13 3/4 by 9 3/4 inches). Advertisement for a new journal for orchestral and band music. Includes price list for various works. With illustrations of Wm. F. Kretschmer and Maurice Akst, composers and arrangers. Folded. READ MORE
Price: $75.00 other currencies Order nr. 130607
N.P. Cornell University Press, (1979). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 250 pages. First U.S. edition. Centers on the life of Aldus Manutius (1450-1515), Italian printer and man of letters. Minor soiling to dust jacket, else fine. READ MORE
Price: $85.00 other currencies Order nr. 31737
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1913. tall 8vo. cloth-backed boards. xiv, 56 pages. First edition, limited to 300 copies. History of the collection followed by detailed descriptions of these incunabula and 16th century books. Minor wear to covers. Near fine. READ MORE
Price: $60.00 other currencies Order nr. 75
Harftord: Watkinson Library, 1979. 8vo. paper wrappers, cord-tied. (16) pages. Limited to 500 copies. Designed, printed and bound by Carol Blinn. READ MORE
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 130
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (1994). tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 461 pages. First U.S. edition. 450 entries written by specialists in various fields to help explain different collecting areas such as: art, architecture, bibliography, auctions, bookselling, children's books, binding and many others. Illustrated. READ MORE
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 100979
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, (1968). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xiv, 192, (2) pages. First edition. Designed as a textbook to introduce the history and organization of the world of books, the means of access to them, and the formal principles of describing them. Includes series of practice exercises for each chapter. Slight wear to edges of cover. READ MORE
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 64107
(Paris: Nuit de Jour, 1993). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 73 pages. Special Issue 55 of Beaux Arts. General information and an in-depth look at the history and functions of the Bibliothèque Nationale in France. Lavishly illustrated with both color and black and white prints. Illustrated endpapers. Covers printed in color. READ MORE
Price: $10.00 other currencies Order nr. 86918
Manchester, Englsnd: Rylands University Library, University of Manchester, (2002). 4to. unbound sheets. unpaginated. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by Anthony Dowd on colophon. Unbound sheets. Table of contents, foreword, preface. index, bibliography. Color illustrations. READ MORE
Price: $20.00 other currencies Order nr. 130613
(Madrid, Spain): Ollero y Ramos, (2003). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 219, (3) pages. Text in Spanish. Limited to 750 numbered copies. Table of contents, introduction. Black and white frontispiece. 50 black and white plates follow text. Unopened. READ MORE
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 130627
Paging, Numbering, End-name Printing, Bookbinders' Tools and Machinery.
(Summit, NJ: Mid-West Tool Collectors Association, 1985). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 46 pages. Paging, Numbering, End-name Printing, Bookbinders' Tools and Machinery. Facsimile reprint of 1911 catalogue produced by Hoole of Brooklyn, New York. Illustrated throughout. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE
Price: $20.00 other currencies Order nr. 102933
London: Mansell Publishing Limited, 1991. small 8vo. paper-covered boards. xi, 146 pages. Examines the history and vocabulary of European paper-covered bindings from their origin in fifteenth-century Germany and Italy until the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The multilingual glossary includes terms in English, German, Italian and French. READ MORE
Price: $50.00 other currencies Order nr. 55491
Portland, OR: Ma Nao Books, (2017). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 190, (4) pages. Exploring the origins of the book, Margaret E. Davis traces the early history of communicating by paper pages. She offers illustrated instructions for four of the first forms of books on paper, developed by the Chinese, which can be replicated today using simple tools and available materials. China Under the Covers blends history, how-to expertise, and a journalist's eye for detail... READ MORE
Price: $24.95 other currencies Order nr. 129628
Norwood: The Holliston Mills, 1926. 8vo. red cloth. viii, 144 pages. S-K 1827. First edition. Five chapters; Beginnings of Bindings, and Binding in Italy, France, England and America. Moderate chipping to the binding at the tail of the spine. Spine sunned. READ MORE
Price: $20.00 other currencies Order nr. 5759
(Rome): Fratellil Palombi, (1988). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 154 pages. Prefazioni de Leonard Boyle e Francesco Sicilia. Contributi di Paul Canart, Francesca Pascalicchio e Gaetano Sabatini. Sommario: Le Legature Bizantine Della Biblioteca Vaticana; Archeologia Del Libro E Studio Delle Legature; Il Rilevamento; La Decorazione Delle Coperte; Sintesi Del Rilevamento; Studio Statistico Delle Caratteristiche Quantitative e Qualitative; Conclusioni. Illustrated throughout. With the bookplate from the reference library of Brazier-Randeria. READ MORE
Price: $85.00 other currencies Order nr. 72201
London: Seeley and Co. 1894. small 4to. later half leather with marbled paper covered boards. 80 pages with 31 illustrations and 8 chromolithographs of bindings. S-K 1925. Mejer no.345; Brenni no.541. Ownership inscription in ink. Vellum shows very minor soiling. Minor shelf wear; minor bumped corner. READ MORE
Price: $75.00 other currencies Order nr. 13938
N.P. n.p. n.d. (but 1991). 8vo. quarter cloth, paper covered boards. pp, 18-42. Here bound separately, an article from Bulletin du Bibliophile. With black-and-white photographs of bindings. Bookplate on front pastedown. READ MORE
Price: $25.00 other currencies Order nr. 101535
London: The British Library, 1997. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 112 pages, with 83 additional plates. First edition. The published record of the 13th series of Panizzi Lectures, delivered by Dr. Foot at The British Library in the Autumn of 1997. A well illustrated survey exploring the use and purpose of bookbindings and the purpose of the study of the book as a physical object. Mirjam M. Foot shows "how the technique of binding... READ MORE
Price: $225.00 other currencies Order nr. 55597
Festgabe der Bayerischen Stattsbibliothek fur Karl Scholttenloher.
Munchen: Karl-Zink-Verlag, 1953. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. (ii), 58 pages followed by 13 plates. Festgabe der Bayerischen Stattsbibliothek fur Karl Scholttenloher. S-K 2713. Festschrift for Karl Schottenloher on his 75th birthday. Introduction by him. The plates show 10 old bindings and the tools that were used to produce them. Ex-library. READ MORE
Price: $45.00 other currencies Order nr. 30985
Two volumes bound as one
Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1962. 8vo. cloth with original stiff paper wrappers bound in. xx,351+(1); xxiii,428 pages. Two volumes bound as one. S-K 7781. First editions. "A monumental social history of the German bookbinding trade." Over 50 illustrations in the text. Both volumes bound together in a library buckrum binding. Bookplate on front pastedown. READ MORE
Price: $100.00 other currencies Order nr. 32876
London: The First Edition Club, 1926. 4to. red cloth stamped in gilt. xii, 68 pages plus 30 full-page plates of bindings. S-K 875. Printed in an edition limited to 600 numbered copies (this copy is unnumbered) at the Chiswick Press, being the tenth book published by the First Editions Club.This exhibition of about 300 bindings was held over two days at the house of Sir Philip Sassoon and featured books from private libraries in or... READ MORE
Price: $60.00 other currencies Order nr. 37698
Reliures de Femmes de 1900 à Nos Jours
Paris: Librairie Jean-Claude Vrain, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 128 pages. Reliures de Femmes de 1900 à Nos Jours. Text in French. Bookseller's catalogue showcasing 103 books bound by female bookbinders, 83 published between 1900 and 1950 and 20 from 1960 to publication of the catalogue. All items extensively described and illustrated in color. Prefaces by Jean Toulet and Jean de Gonet. Crease to back cover corner. READ MORE
Price: $45.00 other currencies Order nr. 95007
Catalogue 1014
London: Maggs Bros. 1981. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 100 pages. Catalogue 1014. S-K 3526b. Many plates of illustrations. Indexed. READ MORE
Price: $25.00 other currencies Order nr. 2948
Catalogue 407.
London: Maggs Bros. 1921. square 8vo. later marbled paper covered boards. 336 pages. Catalogue 407. S-K 1481. Large number of full-page illustrations. One of the earlier catalogues issued by Maggs on binding. READ MORE
Price: $25.00 other currencies Order nr. 4240
Catalogue 966
London: Maggs Bros. 1975. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 292 pages. Catalogue 966. S-K 3524a. Profusely illustrated with photos of bookbindings for sale with covers from most of the major binders reproduced. READ MORE
Price: $25.00 other currencies Order nr. 2959
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, (1955). 8vo. cloth. xii, 150 pages followed by 48 full-page plates. S-K 3518. First edition. (Appleton p.83). Contains a bibliography and a census of bindings. Alphabetical list of 85 binders working in Scotland before 1650 is also given. Ex library copy with markings. Minor spotting to the covers. READ MORE
Price: $20.00 other currencies Order nr. 119306
