New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1930. thick 8vo. cloth, leather spine label, top edge gilt. xviii, 358 pages. First edition. (Hart no. 33). Lacks dust jacket, else a near fine copy. Comprehensive study on early papermaking, compiled by the dean of American hand-papermaking because of the earlier interest shown in his 1923 book, Old Papermaking, issued in a limited edition.The present volume contains more text and a greater variety of illustrations than what was included..... READ MORE about PAPERMAKING THROUGH EIGHTEEN CENTURIES

Price: $85.00  other currencies  Order nr. 12753

A CATALOG OF AN EXHIBITION HELD AT THE GROLIER CLUB SEPTEMBER 13--NOVEMBER 4, 2006, Photographs by Tom Grill.
New York: Piccolo Press, 2006. oblong 8vo. gray cloth, paper cover label, slipcase. xii, 212 pages. A CATALOG OF AN EXHIBITION HELD AT THE GROLIER CLUB SEPTEMBER 13--NOVEMBER 4, 2006, Photographs by Tom Grill. Fine in fine slipcase. With a short essay entitled "About Miniature Designer Bindings" by Priscilla Juvelis and another entitled "On Collecting Miniature Designer Bindings" by Neale M. Albert. The numerous color photographs of books are divided into sections of Traditional, Variations..... READ MORE about THE NEALE M. ALBERT COLLECTION OF MINIATURE DESIGNER BINDINGS

Price: $25.00  other currencies  Order nr. 100364

New York, NY: International Typeface Corporation, 1978, June. folio. self stiff paper wrappers. 71 pages. Scarce issue. Wrappers and pages toned. Fore corners bumped. Illustrated in black and white and color in places. Near fine condition. This issue of U&lc (Upper and Lower Case) the official journal published by the International Typeface Corporation, features the first ever appearance of the nonsensical Dingbats font, developed by Hermann Zapf in 1977-1978. Graphic designer and typeface creater Herb..... READ MORE about LUBALIN, HERB, ED. UPPER AND LOWER CASE. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TYPOGRAPHICS VOLUME 5 NO. 2

Price: $250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 138636

Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press, 2000. 8.25 x 11.4 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 136 pages. First edition. Spine of jacket lightly faded, else a near fine copy. The Cotsen Children's Library is home to one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of Japanese books and printed matter for children outside of Japan. At present, this remarkable and constantly expanding corpus consists of over 10,000 items, including not only books and magazines, but also printed..... READ MORE about THE DAWN OF WISDOM: SELECTIONS FROM THE JAPANESE COLLECTION OF THE COTSEN CHILDREN’S LIBRARY

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 130136

With a new introduction by G. Thomas Tanselle.
Winchester and New Castle, Delaware: St Paul's Bibliographies and Oak Knoll Press, 1994 (but 2012). thick 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xvi, 505 pages. With a new introduction by G. Thomas Tanselle. Reprint of the first edition. A fine copy. One of the indisputable classics of 20th-century scholarship, Bowers's work is one of the standard guides on the subject, providing a comprehensive manual for the description of printed books as physical objects. Although there has been..... READ MORE about PRINCIPLES OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION

Price: $100.00  other currencies  Order nr. 40520

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2022. 7 x 10 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 360 pages. The founding, growth, organization, and expansion of a major American university library is revealed over three and a half centuries of its history. First edition, of which this is one of 50 numbered copies signed by the author. The disparate stories of the libraries of the fledgling colleges in the colonies of the Eastern Seaboard, beginning more than one..... READ MORE about I GIVE THESE BOOKS: THE HISTORY OF YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, 1656-2022

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Kent, United Kingdom: Florin Press, The, 2021. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 134 pages. Limited hardback edition of the first trade edition. A fine copy. Typeset and designed by Susan Wightman at the Libanus Press. Printed by Gomer Press Ltd, with 23 illustrations, mostly in colour. We who draw, paint or print by any method must judge papers aesthetically and for their suitability for our way of working. We, and those who look after our work..... READ MORE about UNDERSTANDING PAPER: ASSESSMENT AND PERMANENCE FOR ARTISTS & FINE PRINTERS

Price: $50.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136649

Kent, United Kingdom: Florin Press, The, 2021. 4to. cloth clamshell box, leaves and notes loosely inserted. First edition limited to 75 numbered and signed copies, of which this is one of 34 copies numbered 41-75 to feature 35 examples on 20 papers. Also included is and regular edition of Notes to a Collection of Printing from Woodblocks on a Diversity of Papers explaining the paper, printing ink, typefaces, and woodblocks used in the project. From..... READ MORE about A COLLECTION OF PRINTING FROM WOODBLOCKS

Price: $600.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136573

With a preface by Simon Lawrence.
Kent, United Kingdom: Florin Press, 2021. 4to. cloth, engraving on front board, gilt on cover and spine. 286 pages, 437 illustrations. With a preface by Simon Lawrence. For over two hundred years Thomas Bewick's engravings have delighted every generation. His birds, animals and the scenes he saw around him have generated an enthusiasm for his work that has never waned. His influence changed wood engraving and book illustration for over a century. He showed a...... READ MORE about THOMAS BEWICK ENGRAVER & THE PERFORMANCE OF WOODBLOCKS

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n.p. n.p., n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Text in German. A brief introduction to the techniques of marbling, with four tipped-in samples of marbled paper. References included works by Paul Kersten and Josef Halfer. Includes a checklist of materials and tools required for performing various methods of marbling paper, including types of paper, inks, and brushes. A fine copy. READ MORE about DAS MARMORIEREN

Price: $30.00  other currencies  Order nr. 138624

390 illustrations, full-color
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2023. 10 x 17 in. hardcover, sewn, dust jacket. 720 pages. 390 illustrations, full-color. Third edition. Enlarged and Revised and in full-color. When Books Will Speak Plain was first published in 2010, many historic bindings were at risk of being ignored, put away, and forgotten. Since then, awareness has grown, research and publishing by numerous authors on a variety of binding types has substantially increased, and the addressing of..... READ MORE about BOOKS WILL SPEAK PLAIN: A HANDBOOK FOR IDENTIFYING AND DESCRIBING HISTORICAL BINDINGS

Price: $150.00  other currencies  Order nr. 138602

Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2021. 8vo. paper wrappers. 97 pages. First edition, 2nd printing. Fifty-two illustrations in color. From the preface by Julie Miller: We often speak of how a particular phenomenon has "reached a tipping point" - when knowledge and practice have developed in plain sight and then suddenly explodes on scene as a revolution in our thinking. Gary Frosts career with bookbinding, through his research, practice, and teaching, has been a...... READ MORE about A CRAFTED TYPOLOGY OF THE CODEX BOOK MODELMAKING AS AN APPROACH TO MATERIAL BOOK STUDY

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Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2021. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 532 pages, 370 illustrations. Edited by Francisco H. Trujillo. Theodore C. Petersen wrote Coptic Bookbindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library between 1929 and 1950, but it remained unpublished until now. The seminal work describes the binding techniques and materials of a collection of early manuscripts at the Morgan Library & Museum (MLM). The collection consists of ninth- and tenth-century bindings of over fifty manuscripts..... READ MORE about COPTIC BOOKBINDINGS IN THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY

Price: $150.00  other currencies  Order nr. 138598