Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1928. 4to. cloth, leather cover label. 32 pages. S-K 6997. With 16 plates and 29 figures in the text. READ MORE about A ROD FOR THE BACK OF THE BINDER, SOME CONSIDERATIONS OF BINDING WITH REFERENCE TO THE IDEALS OF...
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 5938
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1928. 4to. cloth. 32 pages. Reprint of the first edition executed via photocopy and put in binding. S-K 6997. With sixteen plates and twenty-nine figures in the text. READ MORE about A ROD FOR THE BACK OF THE BINDER, SOME CONSIDERATIONS OF BINDING WITH REFERENCE TO THE IDEALS OF...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 63649
Washington, DC: United States Department of Agriculture, (1956). 8vo. self paper wrappers. 8 pages. Basic instruction in preservation techniques. Leaflet No. 398. Some cover soiling. READ MORE about LEATHER BOOKBINDINGS, HOW TO PRESERVE THEM
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 51155
Boston: The Rose Bindery, (1925). tall 8vo. cloth-backed boards. (14) pages and seven pages with tipped-in plates of bookbindings. An advertising book issued by this American firm specializing in fine bindings. The example plates show intricately tooled fine leather bindings. Covers rubbed around edges.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about ROSE BINDERY
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 13981
In American Craft, Vol. 40, No.4, August - September 1980. pp.24-27.
In American Craft, Vol. 40, No.4, August - September 1980. pp.24-27. S-K 7035. Illustrated in color. Good condition. READ MORE about BINDING AS ART: GERARD CHARRIERE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 38861
Stockholm: Föreningen för bokhantverk, 1925. folio. stiff paper wrappers. 110 pages. First edition (S-K 3639). A study in Swedish bookbinding and embroidery made for book covers. Includes 39 plates, several in color. The plates and accompanying discussions are organized by material, including sections on books bound with velvet, silk and animal skin. Edges are slightly rubbed. READ MORE about BRODERADE BOKBAND FRÅN ÄLDRE TID I SVENSKA SAMLINGAR
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 70674
Stockholm, Sweden: Föreningen för Bokhantverk, 1925. 4to. half leather, marbled paper-covered boards, spine gilt-stamped with five raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. 110, (2) pages. Text in Swedish. Introduction, bibliography. 39 color and black and white plates. Noteworthy samples of bookbinding from Swedish collections. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. READ MORE about BRODERADE BOKBAND FRÅN ÄLDRE TID I SVENSKA SAMLINGAR
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 130762
Saint Paul, MN: Rulon-Miller Books, 2006. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 44 pages. Rulon-Miller catalogue 131, 383 items. Indices of binders and designers, trade bindings, and binding styles. Color illustrations throughout. READ MORE about FINE & INTERESTING BINDINGS
Price: $10.00 save 30% $7.00 Order nr. 131614
London: University of London, 1937. square 8vo. later cloth. ix, 48 pages. Contains 11 full-page plates. Divided into sections on English, Scottish, French, Italian, Spanish, German and Dutch bindings. Much text accompanies each description. Foxed. READ MORE about HISTORICAL AND ARMORIAL BOOKINGS EXHIBITED IN THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 86964
Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg, 1978. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 32 pages. Reprint of the first edition. S-K 5173. With illustrations and a bibliography. (Brenni no.1238). READ MORE about THE BOOKBINDER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WILLIAMSBURG, AN ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE & TIMES, & OF...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 38729
Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg, 1992. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 32 pages. Seventh reprint of the first edition. With illustrations and a bibliography. (Brenni no.1238). READ MORE about THE BOOKBINDER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WILLIAMSBURG, AN ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE & TIMES, & OF...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 130586
Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg, (1966). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xxiv, 185 pages. S-K 5179. First edition. (Brenni no.1239). A study of early bookbinding in America with emphasis on William Parks. Illustrated. Very good condition. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about BOOKBINDING IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 18938
N.P. Gallery 303, (1966). small 8vo. self paper wrappers. (12) pages. Six full page illustrations of early American bindings. Near fine. READ MORE about A SAMPLER OF ORNAMENTAL LEATHER BOOKBINDINGS EXECUTED IN AMERICA PRIOR TO 1820
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 15651
New York: The Grolier Club, (1990). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. Exhibition organized by The Grolier Club. Illustrations with many in color. Reliure Americaine written by Henri Paricaud and Foreword written by Kenneth A. Lohf. Some very minor rubbing along covers and edges, else fine. READ MORE about CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BOOKBINDING
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 38012
Leipzig kkkkLeipzig, Germany: Karl W. Heirsemann, 1923. 4to. cloth, spine and front cover gilt-stamped. 83+(1) pages, plates. Foreword by the author, table of contents, introduction, bibliography. A study of the 16th century German bookbinder Jakob Krause. With 76 black and white plates, 4 color plates. 21 black and white illustrations in text. Slightly tanned at edges. READ MORE about JAKOB KRAUSE: EIN KURSÄCHSISCHER HOFBUCHBINDER DES 16. JAHRHUNDERTS
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 130773
Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 1987. tall 8vo. cloth. xviii, 511 pages. The best bibliography of the literature of bookbinding published to-date. A total of 8,033 entries are given in sections of related topics. These sections cover bibliography, terminology, method, aesthetics, general history, information on specific binders and binding historians, and sections of information divided by countries concerned based on chronological periods. With four indices at the back to help the reader: author, binder, collector..... READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHIE ZUR GESCHICHTE DER EINBANDKUNST VON DEN ANFANGEN BIS 1985
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 38872
Excerpt from Archiv fur Buchbinderei. Zeitschift fur Einbandkunst. Heft 10.
n.d. 4to. self paper wrappers. pp.71-78. Excerpt from Archiv fur Buchbinderei. Zeitschift fur Einbandkunst. Heft 10. S-K 3245. Illustrated with bindings from 1454 to the 20th century with eight pages of plates. Folded; covers show wear. READ MORE about NEUES VON ALTEN EINBANDFORMEN
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 5945
N.P. Meister der Einbandkunst, Internationale Vereinigung, 1974. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 80 pages. Illustrated introduction to the study of bookbinding. Rubbed along edges. READ MORE about EINFÜHRUNG IN DIE EINBANDBESTIMMUNG
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 21078
Bern, Switzerland: Gewerbemuseum, 1972. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 120 pages. Text in German and French. Table of contents, foreword by Walter Jäger. Proceedings of a symposium at the Gewerbemuseum, Basel, focusing on the work of Ignatz Wiemeler. Biographical sketches of participants. Black and white illustrations. Two photographs laid in. Covers lightly soiled. READ MORE about SCHWEIZERISCHES GUTENBERGMUSEUM/MUSÉE GUTENBERG SUISSE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 126167
N.P. n.p., (1985). small 4to. limp boards. Not paginated. S-K 6358. Descriptions of 61 bindings with most of them illustrated. Introduction by Bertold Hack. READ MORE about SECHZIG PRESSENDRUCKE IN HANDEINBANDEN VON CHRISTIAN ZWANG
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 38544
Washington: Library of Congress, (1975). small 4to. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Preservation Leaflets number one. READ MORE about SELECTED REFERENCES IN THE LITERATURE OF CONSERVATION
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 106763
London, England: Shepherds Sangorski & Sutcliffe and Zaehnsdorf, 2001. 4to. leather, cloth clamshell box, leather spine label with title and author in gilt. x, 60, (2) pages. Limited to 750 numbered copies, of which this was one of the unnumbered copies set aside in sheets for bookbinders. This particular copy is bound in full goatskin, with marbled leather onlays spelling out the title on the front cover on top of 'ribbed' textured leather grids, in..... READ MORE about LOST ON THE TITANIC
Price: $2,500.00 save 30% $1,750.00 Order nr. 134363
Florence: Giulio Giannini & Figlio, (1931). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (x), 42 pages. Illustrations of their work including many bindings. Tipped onto the inside back cover is a four page "Price List" issued by Giannini & Figlio for their artistic leather work. Minor rubbing of covers. READ MORE about A SHORT HISTORY OF ARTISTIC LEATHER-WORK IN FLORENCE, A CATALOGUE OF ARTISTIC FLORENTINE...
Price: $65.00 save 30% $45.50 Order nr. 31434
N.P. n.p., 1985. oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 24 pages. Introduction followed by plates showing 20 of Ms. Rennie's bindings. Some of the plates are in color. READ MORE about SILVIA RENNIE, DESIGNER BINDINGS AN EXHIBITION OF FINE BINDINGS HELD AT KROCH'S & BRENTANO'S,...
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Non-Adhesive Binding Volume III.
Rochester: Keith Smith Books, (1995). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 315, (3) pages. Non-Adhesive Binding Volume III. First edition. Volume III of Smith's series on Non-Adhesive Binding describes a variety techniques for sewing across the spine including Greek Binding, Celtic Weave and Caterpillar as well as nine various Coptic sewings. Illustrated with photograph by contemporary binders. READ MORE about EXPOSED SPINE SEWINGS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 93906
