THE BOOKBINDER.
N.P. The Clinker Press, n.d. broadside (7 by 9 3/4 inches). Broadside with a poetic descriiptioin of a bookbinder's mission. Illustrations and decorations. READ MORE about THE BOOKBINDER
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 132588
N.P. The Clinker Press, n.d. broadside (7 by 9 3/4 inches). Broadside with a poetic descriiptioin of a bookbinder's mission. Illustrations and decorations. READ MORE about THE BOOKBINDER
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 132588
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1985. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. paperback. 140 pages. Revised edition. An excellent exhibition catalogue and one of the best guides to the subject. Identification of binding tools is provided when known. With contributions by Nicolas Barker and Marcus McCorison. READ MORE about EARLY AMERICAN BOOKBINDINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF MICHAEL PAPANTONIO
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 32006
New York: Center for Book Arts, 1987. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 28 pages. An exhibition of 45 works by innovative French bookbinder de Gonet was held in New York from May 16 to June 16, 1987. According to Jan van der Marck in the introduction, innovation is a radical attack on the continuity of thought and action that distinguishes culture and informs tradition. There are two ways in which to detect it: by deduction and..... READ MORE about AN EXHIBITION OF BOOKBINDINGS BY JEAN DE GONET
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 103926
New York: Center for Book Arts, 1984. 4to. stiff paper wrappers with illustration on front cover. 56 pages. An exhibition held at the New York Public Library from September 7 to November 29, 1994 celebrated the first ten years of the Center's existence. Including 132 works by 112 artists, it was not intended as a retrospective, but rather as an overview of traditional book forms, paper arts, bookbinding and art works based on, or alluding..... READ MORE about THE FIRST DECADE, CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS, AN EXHIBITION AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY SEPTEMBER 7...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 103186
New York: Center for Book Arts, 1993. 4to. stiff paper wrappers with paper structure in center. 8 pages. An exhibition was held in New York from October 1 to November 27, 1993 featuring works by Kyle and twenty contemporary book artists that have been inspired by Ms. Kyle's unique and creative bindings. The essay by Brian Hannon maintains that "All the works in the exhibition in some way challenge established notions about this cultural icon..... READ MORE about HEDI KYLE & HER INFLUENCE: 1977 - 1993
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 103927
UK: LOGOS, 2005. 6" x 9" stiff paper wrappers. 120 pages. First edition. This 120-page book was created and published by Logos: The Journal of the World Book Community. Fifteen corresponding contributors helped to cast a useful descriptive bibliography, which would inform the book professions about the best books written by, about and for them. This book becomes the overall critical guide for the world of Books About Books. This guide is an overall collection..... READ MORE about THE LITERATURE OF THE BOOK
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 86935
New York: Center for Book Arts, 1994. square 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 24 pages. This is a catalogue for an exhibition held in New York from January 14 to March 25, 1994, which contained the work of printers, bookbinders and papermakers who are all instructors of the book arts, as well as artists in their own right. Some of the participating artists were Marcia Ciro, Nadja Press, Peter and Donna Thomas, and Mary Phelan. Contemporary..... READ MORE about MASTERS OF THE CRAFT: WORKS BY INSTRUCTORS OF BOOK ARTS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 103179
(Sacramento, CA): Deconstructed Artichoke Press, 2013. oblong 12mo. paper wrappers. unpaginated. Limited to 50 numbered copies. Printed inkjet. Images of women binding books from Library of Congress photos and the tools they used from woodcuts dating to the 1800s. Collaged with a background of decorative paper and tables from Mary Van Kleeck's Women in the Bookbinding Trade. Green vellum envelopes bound to an accordion structure. READ MORE about METHODS OF WORK
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 136677
Tubingen: N. Sonmez & Y. Jackle-Sonmez, (1987). small 4to. paper wrappers. 107 pages. First edition. With text in English, German and Turkish. Preface followed by an article by Emin Bann on The Turkish Art of Ebru, Lipps- Kant on the marbled pictures of the two artists, a section on technique of marbling and 47 plates showing their work with 38 in full color. READ MORE about TURKISH MARBLED PAPER. NEDIM SÖNMEZ, YVONNE JÄCKLE-SÖNMEZ, TÜRKISCH PAPIER EBRU
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 22028
London: Printing Historical Society, (1969). 8vo. cloth. xxi, 631, (ii), 311-369, xxv-xxvii pages. Reprints of the 1859 and 1878 editions with additional material. With a prefatory note by James Harrison. A very important and useful work in the study of early printing processes. The 1859 edition contains Samuel Pope's 1731 essay on marbling. READ MORE about PRINTING PATENTS, ABRIDGEMENTS OF PATENT SPECIFICATIONS RELATING TO PRINTING, 1617-1857. FIRST...
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 4763
2 volumes.
New York: James Cummins, 1993. large 8vo. cloth. 840 pages. 2 volumes. 2 volumes. Limited to 350 sets. Reprint of the very scarce first edition. Some facsimiles. An important reference book describing 18th century works by English authors as Rothschild has provided excellent bibliographical descriptions of his collections of all the major authors. Also includes separate appendices on English private presses with sections on the Baskerville Press, Foulis Press and Strawberry Hill Press and over..... READ MORE about THE ROTHSCHILD LIBRARY, A CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF EIGHTEENTH -CENTURY BOOKS AND...
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 75345
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2006. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover, quarter leather binding w/ slipcase. 104 pages. This book, limited to an edition of 300 copies, tells the story of Edward Seymour and his firm, The Fancy Paper Company. This British company manufactured marbled and other decorated (fancy) papers for the bookbinding and related industries from about 1919 to 1971. With eighteen illustrations showing their methods and copies of correspondence, and twenty tipped-in..... READ MORE about EDWARD SEYMOUR AND THE FANCY PAPER COMPANY: THE STORY OF A BRITISH MARBLED PAPER MANUFACTURER
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 90944
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2022. large 8vo. pictorial paper covered boards. 352 pages, 424 illustrations. First edition. A fine copy. Printed in full color. The term endbands designates the two bands worked with thread(s) at the head and tail edges of the spine of a book. The techniques with which they are worked and the ways with which they are connected to a bound codex vary greatly over time and geography. The purpose..... READ MORE about ON THE EDGE: ENDBANDS IN THE BOOKBINDING TRADITIONS OF THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Price: $80.00 Order nr. 138601
New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1990. 8vo. cloth. 254 pages. The history of the book trade in Medieval London before the age of print has long remained a matter of speculation. Few records survive that name the book artisans and entrepreneurs involved with this early trade venture or that document directly their methods of producing books and creating markets for them. In this directory, C. Paul Christianson assembles an extensive body of alternative..... READ MORE about A DIRECTORY OF LONDON STATIONERS AND BOOK ARTISANS 1300-1500
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 29985
Plains, PA: Boss Dog Press, 2017. 9" x 12" quarter leather with paste-paper covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, slipcase. 68, (3) pages. Limited to 96 copies, of which this is one of 26 lettered and signed copies bound thus. The Bone Folder is the fifth, and most ambitious, publication of the Boss Dog Press. A letterpress edition of Ernst Collin's Der Pressbengel, translated from the original German by Peter D. Verheyen, the text is..... READ MORE about THE BONE FOLDER
Price: $600.00 Order nr. 132336
Plains, PA: Boss Dog Press, 2017. 9" x 12" paste-paper covered boards, paper label on cover and spine, slipcase. 68, (3) pages. Limited to 96 copies, of which this is one of 50 numbered and signed copies. The Bone Folder is the fifth, and most ambitious, publication of the Boss Dog Press. A letterpress edition of Ernst Collins Der Pressbengel, translated from the original German by Peter D. Verheyen, the text is a dialog between..... READ MORE about THE BONE FOLDER
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 132337
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Rare Books from the John Carter Brown Library
Providence: The John Carter Brown Library, 2008. 8 x 11 inches. cloth. 86 pages. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Rare Books from the John Carter Brown Library. Curated by Susan Danforth, the exhibition that formed the basis for this catalogue demonstrated how the urge to collect, preserve, and ultimately share books can, however subtly, affect the physical character of the book itself. With a focus on acquisitions made in the nineteenth century - including several..... READ MORE about A. MATTER OF TASTE: DISCRIMINATION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOOK COLLECTING
Price: $50.00 save 50% $25.00 Order nr. 100943
2 volumes in 1.
Mansfield Centre: Martino Fine Books, 1999. thick 4to. cloth. xviii, (4), 462; 463-818, lxii pages. 2 volumes in 1. Reprint of the 1962 first edition, in small size. Seymour de Ricci called this work a "Bibliographical monument of lasting importance." Originally issued in an edition of 250 copies, the first edition has become scarce (Brenni no. 678). The word "German" in the title refers to books produced in countries with a non-Latin European base; thus..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF EARLY GERMAN BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY OF C. FAIRFAX MURRAY
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 55015
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 about CHINA UNDER THE COVERS: A BINDER'S JOURNEY TO THE ROOTS OF BOOKS
Price: $24.95 Order nr. 129628
Foreword by Bernard Middleton
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2010. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 180 pages. Foreword by Bernard Middleton. This new autobiography by renowned bookbinder Don Etherington takes the reader through his lifelong journey of bookbinding and conservation. Etherington documents his experiences teaching these trades and traveling throughout Europe and to the United States. He tells of his generous contribution to the conservation effort in Florence, Italy, following the great flood that caused incredible..... READ MORE about BOOKBINDING & CONSERVATION: A SIXTY-YEAR ODYSSEY OF ART AND CRAFT
Price: $49.95 Order nr. 102815
Foreword by Bernard Middleton
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2010. 8.5 x 11 inches. unbound signatures ready for binding. 156 pages. Foreword by Bernard Middleton. This new autobiography by renowned bookbinder Don Etherington takes the reader through his lifelong journey of bookbinding and conservation. Etherington documents his experiences teaching these trades and traveling throughout Europe and to the United States. He tells of his generous contribution to the conservation effort in Florence, Italy, following the great flood that..... READ MORE about BOOKBINDING & CONSERVATION: A SIXTY-YEAR ODYSSEY OF ART AND CRAFT
Price: $24.95 Order nr. 104070
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 8.5 x 11 inches. Paperback. 96 pages. "Design Bindings: a Retrospective, is a testament to Don Etherington's legacy as a fine binder. The books it illustrates depict an unbroken chain of work spanning a lifetime and reflecting the stylistic influences of their period-each an elegant feat of craftsmanship. The underlying principles embodied in Etherington's conceptualization and execution of these works are monumental, his influence on professional standards-timeless." -..... READ MORE about DESIGN BINDINGS: A RETROSPECTIVE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 127152
Edited by Richard J. Wolfe
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2010. 5 x 7.25 inches. hardcover. 242 pages. Edited by Richard J. Wolfe. New and Complete Manual on the Making of Fancy Papers was originally written in French by M. Fichtenberg in 1852. Richard Wolfe has translated the book into English and added a new preface. The craft of marbling paper was introduced into Europe and the Middle East from Turkey and Germany during the last two decades of..... READ MORE about NEW AND COMPLETE MANUAL ON THE MAKING OF FANCY PAPERS BY M. FICHTENBERG
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 106047
New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1990. 4to. cloth. xviii, 252 pages. Ever since W. H. James Weale laid the foundations for the scholarly study of panel-stamped bindings in 1894, it has been universally assumed that the stamps were hand-engraved, and thus, that each panel was a unique artifact. However, Fogelmark discovered that virtually everything written since Weale's study has been based on a fundamental mistake. In Fogelmark's search for literature on blind panels..... READ MORE about FLEMISH AND RELATED PANEL-STAMPED BINDINGS, EVIDENCE AND PRINCIPLES
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 32487
Volume III: A Catalogue of South-European Bindings
New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2009. 8.5 x 10.75 inches. cloth with leather spine label. 528 pages. Volume III: A Catalogue of South-European Bindings. This much anticipated third and final volume of The Henry Davis Gift focuses on South and East European fine bindings, with additional sections on Oriental and American bindings. It includes many new identifications, and owners and binders are discussed comprehensively. Not only have the..... READ MORE about THE HENRY DAVIS GIFT: A COLLECTION OF BOOKBINDINGS (VOL. III
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 102273