Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1967. square 8vo. paper wrappers. (ii), 10 pages followed by three full-page plates of bindings. S-K 692. Brenni no.860. READ MORE about SCOTTISH 'WHEEL' AND 'HERRING-BON' BINDINGS IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, AN ILLUSTRATED HANDLIST
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 5960
San Francisco, CA: n.p., 2000. oblong 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. 21, (3) pages. Keepsake published for the Roxburghe and Zamorana Clubs, on occasion of a joint meeting in 2000. List of participants. Color and black and white illustrations. READ MORE about THE CHARM OF THE UNEXPECTED
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 126155
Avec 52 Planches dont 9 en Coleurs.
Leipzig: Librairie C.G. Boerner, n.d. (1912). 4to. later cloth-backed boards, leather spine label. xvi, 108 pages. Avec 52 Planches dont 9 en Coleurs. K-S 1461; Mejer no.1540; Brenni no.278. A superb catalogue with text in French and German, well-illustrated and with prices given. Total of 52 separately bound-in plates. "In Germany, Gustav Nebehay, partner of the firm of C. G. Boerner, commissioned his father-in-law, the bookbinder Carl Sonntag, to compile a handsome binding catalogue on..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE XXI, LIVRES DANS DE RICHES RELIURES DES QUINZIEME, SEIZIEME, DIX-SEPTIEME, DIX-HUITIEME...
Price: $185.00 Order nr. 75119
Avec 52 Planches dont 9 en Coleurs.
Leipzig: Librairie C.G. Boerner, n.d. (1912). 4to. later cloth with front paper wrapper bound-in. xvi, 108 pages. Avec 52 Planches dont 9 en Coleurs. K-S 1461; Mejer no.1540; Brenni no.278. A superb catalogue with text in French and German, well-illustrated and with prices given. "In Germany, Gustav Nebehay, partner of the firm of C. G. Boerner, commissioned his father-in-law, the bookbinder Carl Sonntag, to compile a handsome binding catalogue on the French model." - Breslauer..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE XXI, LIVRES DANS DE RICHES RELIURES DES QUINZIÉME, SEIZIÉME, DIX-SEPTIEME,...
Price: $185.00 Order nr. 75397
London, England: Sotheran's of Sackville Street, 2008. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 37, (3) pages. A catalogue featuring library sets and fine bindings. 303 items. Color illustrations. READ MORE about LIBRARY SETS AND FINE BINDINGS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 131712
Bryn Mawr: Bryn Mawr College Library & Oak Knoll Press, 1999. small 4to. cloth. 206 pages. First edition, the hardbound variant. Well-illustrated exhibition catalogue including plates in color. Foreword by Elliot Shore, Director of Libraries followed by historical information on binding. The first 219 bindings are described in great detail including information on the binder. This is followed by shorter descriptions of 485 ticketed bindings also in the collection but not pictured. An important new..... READ MORE about TICKETED BOOKBINDINGS FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN WITH AN ESSAY BY BERNARD MIDDLETON
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 86857
Bryn Mawr: Bryn Mawr College Library & Oak Knoll Press, 1999. small 4to. later quarter faux leather with marbled paper covered boards. 206 pages. First edition, a set of the sheets that have been well bound in quarter leather. Well illustrated exhibition catalogue including plates in color. Foreword by Elliot Shore, Director of Libraries followed by historical information on binding. The first 219 bindings are described in great detail including information on the binder. This..... READ MORE about TICKETED BOOKBINDINGS FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN WITH AN ESSAY BY BERNARD MIDDLETON
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 118102
London, England: John Lane, 1899. 4to. original full leather, gilt-stamped cover designs, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, five raised bands. (x), 255+(1), (x), 264, (x), 256 pages. Volume I (June 1899) of this periodical. Table of contents, introduction, list of illustrations. Note on the facsimile binding by Cyril Davenport, which features the royal arms, as adopted during the Stuart era, the work of an anonymous master as related by Davenport. In his analysis of..... READ MORE about THE ANGLO SAXON REVIEW, A QUARTERLY MISCELLANY. VOLUMES I-III
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 128672
With a Five page Introduction by Henry Kent.
New York: New York Public Library, 1914. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 44 pages. With a Five page Introduction by Henry Kent. S-K 1422. First edition. (Mejer no.1442). Contains a number of separate plates showing the work of Michel, Gruel, Lortic and others. The books in the collection are described in great detail. Wrappers chipped along edges. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about THE SPENCER COLLECTION OF MODERN BOOK BINDINGS
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 13982
Berlin: Deutscher Verlag fur Kunstwissenschaft, (1965). 4to. cloth. 237, (3) pages followed by 176 plates of bindings. S-K 2513. Descriptions of 127 bindings followed by multiple illustrations. Staining and wrinkling of bottom of pages at the beginning. Soiling and moisture damage to covers. Boards warped. Interior text in fine condition. READ MORE about KIRCHLICHE PRACHTEINBAND IM FRÜHEN MITTELALTER, VON DEN ANFANGEN BIS ZUM BEGINN DER GOTIK
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 130592
N.P. by the author, 2016. 4to. cloth, leather design on front cover. unpaginated. Second printing. Introduction, acknowledgments. Originally published for the author's family on the occastion of her 90th birthday. Color illustrations with descriptive text of works produced by Stein over her many years as an amateur bookbinder. Frontispiece and color illustrations throughout text. READ MORE about BINDINGS
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 134876
Cincinnati: Ye Olde Printery, (1978). oblong 8vo. plastic fabric. 272 pages. S-K 7413. First edition. (Brenni no.175). Pictorial review of binding equipment including blank book equipment, edition binding equipment, etc. Index. Near fine. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF NINETEENTH CENTURY BINDERY EQUIPMENT
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 18939
Gravenhage: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 1983. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 171 pages. S-K 1017. Illustrated exhibition catalogue tracing binding in Holland from the beginning up to the present. Corner creased. READ MORE about DE MEEST OPMERKELIJKE BOEKBANDEN UIT EIGEN BEZIT
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 32839
N.P. n.p., n.d. (but 1952). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. pp. 9-39+(1) followed by 17 plates showing bindings. Text in Swedish. Limited to 100 copies according to a handwritten note in the back. A study of the binding work executed by August Sandgren. With a presentation from the author dated 1952 on the inside of the front cover. Jacket is split along hinge. With the Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about AUGUST SANDGREN, MENNESKET OG BOGBINDEREN
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 72453
London: Bibliographical Society, 1939. 4to. half cloth, top edge gilt. xlvi, 65 pages of text followed by 99 plates. First edition. (S-K 2038; Appleton p.85; Brenni no.1156).Very fine copy of this important book. Rubbed along top edge. READ MORE about EARLY SPANISH BOOKBINDINGS XI-XV CENTURIES
Price: $135.00 Order nr. 71408
Oxford, England: The University Press for the Bibliographical Society, 1939. 4to. qiarter cloth, paper-covered boards. xlvi, 65+(1) pages, plates. Illustrated Monographs issued by the Bibliographical Society, No. XXIII. Preface, table of contents, introduction, index of authors and works, chronological index, index of localities, bibliography, plates. 100 black and white plates. A study of early Spanish bookbinding. Covers rubbed and scuffed, lightly soiled. Light tanning on endpapers. READ MORE about EARLY SPANISH BOOKBINDINGS XI-XV CENTURIES
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 130807
(Milano): Piantanida - Valcarenghi, 1923. small 8vo. paper-covered boards. 29 pages followed by the plates. First edition. S-K 3530. 29 illustrations in text and 37 plates showing Italian bindings. Ink inscription on free endpaper "To J.C. Thompson esq. in return for many pleasant and profitable afternoons. George Ray. December 1944". Covers spotted with wear at spine ends. With the Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about L' ARTE ITALIANA DELLA LEGATURA DEL LIBRO
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 72452
Asheville, NC: Earth Guild, 1989. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 58 pages. Earth Guild's Summer 1989 catalogue. Table of contents, black and white illustrations. Includes basketry, dyes, dye equipment, yarns, spinning, weaving, rug making, machine knitting, and other items. READ MORE about TOOLS MATERIALS BOOKS FOR HANDCRAFTS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134265
Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, 1979. 4to. printed paper-covered boards. 130 pages. S-K 5771. Introductory essays by Jean Gunner, Bernard Middleton and Marianne Tidcombe. (Brenni no. 429). Contains 48 pages of black-and-white illustrations and 16 pages of color illustrations. READ MORE about THE TRADITION OF FINE BOOKBINDING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 2512
London, England: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1933. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (10), 337-468, (viii) pages. New Series, Vol. XIII, No. 4 (March 1933). Features E.P. Goldschmidt's article "Some Cuir-Cisilé Bookbindings in English Libraries." Eight black and white plates. Table of contents follows text. Covers chipped at edges. READ MORE about TRANSACTIONS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 131566
With Introductions by Marianne Tidcombe and an Essay by Bernard C. Middleton.
London: Designer Bookbinders, 1994. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. Not paginated. With Introductions by Marianne Tidcombe and an Essay by Bernard C. Middleton. Limited to 1000 copies. With many illustrations in color. READ MORE about TREGASKIS CENTENARY EXHIBITION, A CATALOGUE OF THE TREGASKIS CENTENARY EXHIBITION 1994, TOGETHER...
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 44689
Paris / Rouen: Claude Guérin / Dominique Courvoisier, 1990. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. Auction sale of 105 items. With many bookbindings illustrated. Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about TRÈS BEAUX LIVRES ANCIENS, PROVENANT DU CHATEAU DE X... ET APPARTENANT A DIVERS AMATEURS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 72402
Paris: Auguste Blaizot & Fils, 1939. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 56 pages. Chromolithographed frontispiece showing a binding by Gruel and many large black-and-white plates of fine bindings throughout text (20 plates). Covers soiled. READ MORE about TRÈS BEAUX LIVRES, ILLUSTRÉS MODERNES, PUBLICATIONS DE SOCIÉTÉS DE BIBLIOPHILES... TRÉS...
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 95209
(Istanbul, Turkey): Kemal Çig, (1971). oblong 8vo. embossed cloth, dust jacket. 72 pages. Text in Turkish. Introduction, essays, bibliography. Color illustrations. Dust jacket torn at top edge and worn. READ MORE about TÜRK KITAP KAPLARI
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 130703
London: G. Michelmore, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 200 pages. A magnificent catalogue filled with illustrations including foldout plates. Many bindings are described and illustrated. Spine chipped and worn. Covers soiled. READ MORE about TWO HUNDRED EXTRAORDINARILY IMPORTANT BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 32572
