Ankara, Turkey: Bellek Tanitim, 1998. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 92 pages. Text in Turkish. Table of contents, preface by the author, bibliography. 53 color illustrations follow text. A study of Turkish bookbinding. READ MORE about TÜRK CILT SANATI
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 130994
New York: Employing Bookbinders of America, 1927. 8vo. cloth. xx, 451 pages. First edition. (Not in Brenni). An elementary course for the practical binder. Has tipped-in paper samples and many folding plates. Minor cover rubbing. READ MORE about A COURSE IN BOOKBINDING FOR VOCATIONAL TRAINING
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 13954
(New York, NY): The Guild of Book Workers, 1996. oblong 32mo. stiff paper wrappers, metal spiral bound. unpaginated. Opening comments, list of sponsors. An exhibition of bookbindings with descriptive text and color illustration of the work of each exhibitor. READ MORE about PAPER BOUND, A SHOWCASE OF CONTEMPORARY PAPERMAKERS & BOOKBINDERS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 126417
Bruxelles: Bibliotheca Wittockiana, 1987. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 64, (4) pages. Limited to 850 numbered copies. Edited by Marianne Delvaulx-Diercxsens and Pierre Mouriau de Meulenacker. With introductory remarks by Bruno Roy and Michel Wittock and text by Michel Butor. This is followed by the illustrated (many in color) exhibition catalogue. READ MORE about PARURES POUR FATA MORGANA
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 38571
Cambridge: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1924. 4to. cloth. vii, 33 pages followed by the plates. First edition, limited to 300 numbered copies. (S-K 960; not in Brenni). The Gennadius collection contained books having a connection, direct or indirect, with Greece and the Greek people. However, it also contained 600+ historic and artistic bindings which show "...the art of bookbinding through some of its most definitely recognised stages..." The earliest binding in this..... READ MORE about SELECTED BINDINGS FROM THE GENNADIUS LIBRARY THIRTY-EIGHT PLATES IN COLOUR. WITH INTRODUCTION AND...
Price: $425.00 Order nr. 130665
Leicester: Dryad Press, (1964). small 8vo. paper wrappers. 40 pages. Second edition. With 33 illustrations in the text. READ MORE about UNSEWN BINDING
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 13935
Peoria: The Manual Arts Press, (1940). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 160 pages. First edition. A practical manual. Part of jacket missing along edge. One corner bumped. READ MORE about THE BINDING OF BOOKS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 2751
(Ascona, Switzerland): Galleria Del Bel Libro, (1970). square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Text in Italian, German, and French. 1970, No. 3. Features bookbindings of Philip Smith of London. Black and white illustrations. Invitation card laid in. READ MORE about PHILIP SMITH, LONDON
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 106944
London: Victoria & Albert Museum, (1933). 12mo. paper wrappers. 4 pages of text followed by 20 plates. Revised edition. Pictorial guide to bookbindings. Chipping to the head and tail of spine, else fine. READ MORE about PICTURE BOOK OF BOOKBINDINGS PART I. BEFORE 1550
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 11951
Paris: Libraire Auguste Blaizot, 1965. 4to. signatures loosely inserted in a white stiff paper wrapper, brown cloth slipcase. xxxiii, 205 pages with seven plates in full color and 243 reproductions in collotype. Text in French. Printed in an edition limited to 600 numbered copies. (S-K 6509, Brenni no.657). Magnificent book covering the bindings of this modern French bookbinder. Leather bookplate of Julia Parker Wightman. Minor fading of spine. Slipcase lightly bumped at bottom corners. READ MORE about PIERRE LEGRAIN, RELIEUR. REPERTOIRE DESCRIPTIF ET BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE DE MILLE DEUX TRENTE-SIX RELIURES
Price: $800.00 Order nr. 5919
Macerata: Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio della Provincia di Macerata, 1998. thick square small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 578, (14) pages. First edition. The catalogue of an international bookbinding competition and exhibition organized by the Provincia di Macerata. Competitors were asked to design bindings for the poem L'Infinito by Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837). The full range of Leopardi's scholarship in philosophy and the classics is considered outstanding, and his poetry superb. Formally imitative of Dante..... READ MORE about MAESTRI RILEGATORI PER L'INFINITO: PRIMA MOSTRA INTERNAZIONALE DI RILEGATURA D'ARTE IN ITALIA,...
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 124355
London: British Museum, (1946). 12mo. limp cloth. 24 pages. First edition. Illustrated. READ MORE about THE PRESERVATION OF LEATHER BOOKBINDINGS
Price: $22.50 Order nr. 71972
London: British Museum, 1970. 12mo. cloth-backed boards. 32 pages. Reprint of the first edition (imposed in this new format in 1967). READ MORE about THE PRESERVATION OF LEATHER BOOKBINDINGS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 123845
London: British Museum, 1967. 12mo. cloth-backed boards. 32 pages. Reprint of the first edition (imposed in this new format in 1967). Spots on front cover. READ MORE about THE PRESERVATION OF LEATHER BOOKBINDINGS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 126248
London: British Museum, (1953). 12mo. limp cloth. 24 pages. Reprint of the first edition. READ MORE about THE PRESERVATION OF LEATHER BOOKBINDINGS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 2752
Chicago: The Inland Printer Co., 1914. 8vo. cloth-backed boards. xiv, 110 pages. First edition. (Brenni no.63). The second part of this four part series by Pleger. Illustrated. Rubbed around edges. READ MORE about BOOKBINDING AND ITS AUXILIARY BRANCHES. PART TWO. PUNCHING, CRIMPING, EYELETTING, PAMPHLET AND...
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 126749
Paris: Les Editions G. Van Oest, 1929. square 8vo. paper wrappers. xii, 84, (16) pages, 16 plates. A major exhibition catalogue featuring bindings through the nineteenth century. (Brenni no.532). The emphasis is on French 16th century bindings with a great deal of bibliographical and narrative details. New paper spine. READ MORE about LES PLUS BELLES RELIURES DE LA REUNION DES BIBLIOTHEQUES NATIONALES CATALOGUE DE L'EXPOSITION
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 5923
Paris: Les Editions G. Van Oest, 1929. square 8vo. paper wrappers. xii, 84, (16) pages, 16 plates. A major exhibition catalogue featuring bindings through the nineteenth century. (Brenni no.532). The emphasis is on French 16th century bindings with a great deal of bibliographical and narrative details. Wrappers chipped, detached and with pieces missing along spine and corners. READ MORE about LES PLUS BELLES RELIURES DE LA REUNION DES BIBLIOTHEQUES NATIONALES CATALOGUE DE L'EXPOSITION
Price: $14.00 Order nr. 119872
Paris, France: Éditions des Bibliothèques Nationales de France, n.d. folio. paper-covered boards. unpaginated. Text in French. Introduction by Émile Dacier, list of plates, description of plates with bibliography, 42 plates. Ex-library with markings. Boards separated, rubbed, scuffed, and soiled. READ MORE about LES PLUS BELLES RELIURES
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 131197
Continued by Esther Potter.
Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1984. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xxv. 60 pages. Continued by Esther Potter. S-K 7276a. New bibliography issued as Occasional Publication No.18 by the Society. A fine copy. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about EARLY BOOKBINDING MANUALS, AN ANNOTATED LIST OF TECHNICAL ACCOUNTS OF BOOKBINDING TO 1840
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 7112
Oxford: The Library, 1970. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp.193-218 with 7 plates. An article in the Library, Fifth Series, Volume XXV, Number 3. READ MORE about THE NAMES OF SOME ENGLISH FIFTEENTH-CENTURY BINDERS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 72513
N.P. n.p., n.d. (but 1997). small 4to. typescript. 12 pages. Dr. Randeria sponsored an annual bookbinding lecture for the Bibliographical Society named in honor of his brother, Homee Randeria. This is a typescript of the 1997 lecture by Potter with a handwritten note by her to Dr. Randeria enclosing this copy for him. READ MORE about BENJAMIN WEST - 1804-1883
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 72472
N.P. n.p., 1980. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 302-309+(1) pages. Reprint from the Gutenberg-Jahrbuch (1980). Presentation by the author on inside front cover. A study of English bindings on books with continental imprints. Bibliography. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about ENGLISH BINDINGS ON CONTINENTAL BOOKS: FACTORS IN THE STUDY OF THE EARLY BOOK TRADE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 126465
New York: Bruce Publishing Co., (1940). 8vo. cloth. ix, 137 pages. First edition. Step-by-step approach to bookbinding with over 100 illustrations and a glossary of terms. Lacking dust jacket. Head of spine worn. Shaken. READ MORE about LET'S BIND A BOOK
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 31143
New York: Bruce Publishing Co., (1948). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. ix, 147 pages. Revised edition, third printing. Step-by-step approach to bookbinding with over 100 illustrations and a glossary of terms. Near fine. Previous ownership inscription in ink on front pastedown. READ MORE about LET'S BIND A BOOK
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 2753
