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
London: G. Michelmore, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 152 pages. A magnificent catalogue filled with illustrations including foldout plates. Many bindings are described and illustrated. Covers chipped around edges with part of spine covering missing. Pages wrinkled. READ MORE about TWO HUNDRED EXTRAORDINARILY IMPORTANT BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 35225
London: G. Michelmore, n.d. 4to. rebound in cloth with paper spine label. 162 pages. A magnificent catalogue filled with illustrations including foldout plates. Many bindings are described and illustrated. Lacks original covers. READ MORE about TWO HUNDRED EXTRAORDINARILY IMPORTANT BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 126225
(Veenendaal): Gaade Uitgevers, (1987). small 8vo. cloth. xii, 170+(1) pages. First edition. A study of Dutch bookbinding from 1840-1940. Chapters address such topics as binding in the early part of the 19th century, the different functions of bindings and the various forms of binding at the fin de siècle. A Catalogue of 284 bindings follows. Many are illustrated here in color and black & white. In Dutch. READ MORE about IN LINNEN GEBONDEN. NEDERLANDSE UITGEVERSBANDEN VAN 1840 TOT 1940
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 62629
(Veenendaal): Gaade Uitgevers, (1987). small 8vo. later cloth. xii, 170, (4) pages. First edition, one of 300 numbered copies containing two bound-in samples in the back. A study of Dutch bookbinding from 1840-1940. Chapters address such topics as binding in the early part of the 19th century, the different functions of bindings and the various forms of binding at the fin de siècle. A Catalogue of 284 bindings follows. Many are illustrated here in color..... READ MORE about IN LINNEN GEBONDEN. NEDERLANDSE UITGEVERSBANDEN VAN 1840 TOT 1940
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 71281
(Luxembourg City, Luxembourg): Bibliothèque Nationale de Luxembourg, 2000. 8vo. paper-covered boards. 276 pages. Preface by Monique Kieffer, introduction by the author, bibliography, indices of authors and provenances, table of contents. Illustrations and descriptive text about bookbindings in the Luxembourg library from the Gothic era through the 17th century. READ MORE about RELIURES DES XVIE ET XVIIE SIÈCLES CONSERVÉES À LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE DE LUXEMBOURG
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 131258
Three parts bound in four volumes.
Utrecht: Hes & De Graaf, 2006. large 4to. single sheet, folded twice. Three parts bound in four volumes. NOTE: THIS IS FOR THE PROSPECTUS ONLY. A fine copy. This new book is a significant contribution to Dutch book history. Parts I, IIA & IIB give an elaborate general historical picture, by province, of every town where luxury bindings were manufactured in the bookbinders' workshops and binderies. Part III is a catalogue of approximately 2000 relevant..... READ MORE about Prospectus for DUTCH DECORATED BOOKBINDING IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 138830
Een Tentoonstelling van Gesigneerde 19e-eeuwse banden.
Gravenhage: Museum van het Boek, 1978. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers enclosed in handmade cloth case with paper cover label. 83, (3) pages. Een Tentoonstelling van Gesigneerde 19e-eeuwse banden. S-K 1015. Illustrated exhibition catalogue. READ MORE about VORSTELIJKE BOEKBAND EN UIT DE KONINKLIJKE BIBLIOTHEEK
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 37449
Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co Ltd, 1961. 4to. cloth. 29 pages, with 71 leaves of plates. First edition (S-K 2174). The Chester Beatty Library in Dublin has one of the largest collection of bookbinding examples in the world. Many books had been published on bindings of various countries of Western Europe, but none on oriental bindings until this book was published. The bindings are divided into three sections: Christian bindings of the Near East (plates..... READ MORE about SOME ORIENTAL BINDINGS IN THE CHESTER BEATTY LIBRARY
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 57363
Avant-Propos de Jacques Guignard. Avec La Collaboration de Pavlina Hamanova et Howard M. Nixon.
Luxembourg: Editions de l'Imprimerie Saint-Paul, 1978. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 121, (3) pages. Avant-Propos de Jacques Guignard. Avec La Collaboration de Pavlina Hamanova et Howard M. Nixon. S-K 4188.Text in French. Study of the armorial bindings in the collection of this early Luxembourg collector. Many illustrations including a number in color. READ MORE about RELIURES AUX ARMOIRIES DE PIERRE ERNEST DE MANSFELD
Price: $80.00 Order nr. 38668
New York: Bell Publishing Company, (1963). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 93 pages. With 255 illustrations by the author. Reprint of the first edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about HAND BOOKBINDING, A MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 5985
Wolfenbüttel, Germany: Herzog August Bibliothek, 1984. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 31, (1) pages. Text in German. Foreword by Paul Raabe. Exhibition of the works of the Peter-Hahne workshop. Black and white illustrations throughout. READ MORE about WERKSTATT PETERS-HAHNE HAMBURG 1927-1982
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 126335
London: Odhams Press Ltd., (1948). 8vo. cloth. 448 pages. Reprint of the 1946 first edition. Full of practical information. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Spine slightly faded. READ MORE about PRACTICAL PRINTING AND BINDING; A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN ALL BRANCHES OF...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 5925
Bibliographical Descriptions by Peter A. Wick ... Introduction by Eleanor M. Garvey ... Photographs by Mark Sexton.
New York: John F. Fleming and Boston: Priscilla Juvelis, (1983). small 4to. cloth. 219 bindings described. Bibliographical Descriptions by Peter A. Wick ... Introduction by Eleanor M. Garvey ... Photographs by Mark Sexton. Limited to 850 copies. Filled with full color tipped-in plates of modern bindings. READ MORE about THE BOOK BEAUTIFUL AND THE BINDING AS ART
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 21074
(Toronto): (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto), 1998. oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 70, (2) pages. Catalogue of exhibition held at Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 1998. Essay by Landon. Memoir by Wilcox. 20 color plates, including one foldout. Black and white illustrations. Ink ownership inscription in corner of half-title. READ MORE about IN RETROSPECT: DESIGNER BOOKBINDINGS BY MICHAEL WILCOX
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 106485
With Remarks on the Bindings by Michael Wilcox & on the Books by Elaine Smyth & W. Thomas Taylor.
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1985. tall 4to. cloth, paper spine label. (42) pages. With Remarks on the Bindings by Michael Wilcox & on the Books by Elaine Smyth & W. Thomas Taylor. First edition, limited to 225 numbered copies. Near fine. Printed by David Holman on Guarro mould-made paper with design by Taylor. Each book is described in detail with the physical description and philosophy behind the binding and is pictured in full color with..... READ MORE about TWELVE BINDINGS. WITH REMARKS ON THE BINDINGS BY MICHAEL WILCOX & ON THE BOOKS BY ELAINE...
Price: $180.00 Order nr. 14135
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1985. tall 4to. full leather, clamshell box. (42) pages. First edition, limited to 225 numbered copies. This copy is bound in a full artist-binding by Don Etherington, bookbinder and former director of Conservation at both the Library of Congress and the Harry Ransom Center (Austin, TX). The binding is a full crushed red moracco with black goat leather and blue crushed moracco onlaid leather strips. Gilt dotted tooling. Duel moracco and..... READ MORE about TWELVE BINDINGS. WITH REMARKS ON THE BINDINGS BY MICHAEL WILCOX & ON THE BOOKS BY ELAINE...
Price: $2,950.00 Order nr. 135133
Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1990. small 4to. cloth. xiv, 230, (4) pages. First edition. Near fine condition. Provides an historical discussion of American embossed leather bindings, the manufacturing techniques, considerations influencing their design, and the people and firms involved in their production. Contains an illustrated catalogue of every known American embossed binding design identified as being used prior to 1855. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate..... READ MORE about FROM GOTHIC WINDOWS TO PEACOCKS: AMERICAN EMBOSSED BINDINGS 1825-1855
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 31988
Boston: Richard J. Wolfe, 1991. 8vo. marbled paper over cloth-backed boards. xix, 15, 23, (7) pages, one folded plate. Limited to 250 signed copies, 200 for sale. Text is a facsimile of original Dutch text with translation on facing page. Gives information on gilding of leather, paper, and silk, velvet and fore edge, marbling on edges of calf and sheepskin, and dyeing of calf and sheepskin. Four tipped in specimens of gilt stamping and four..... READ MORE about GEHEIMEN DER BOEKBINDERIJ, SECRETS OF BOOKBINDING, AN ANONYMOUS 19TH CENTURY DUTCH BOOKBINDING...
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 34250
Salzburg: Werkstätte für Buchkunst, 1982. small oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (69) pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies, initialed by Mr. Stock. Catalogue for an exhibition listing twenty-one art bindings and two "book walls" (holders for sets of small paperbacks). Eleven black-and-white illustrations and twelve color illustrations. Stock's bindings represent a generally conservative approach to the book as art, in which the book has a more-or-less conventional structure and retains its function as a book..... READ MORE about WOLFGANG STOCK BUCHEINBANDE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 53855
Stuttgart, Germany: Max Hettler, 1969. oblong 32mo. stiff paper wrappers. 66 pages. Text in German. Bibliography, foreword by Otto Wächter. German terms relevant to bookbinding translated into English, French, and Italian. Alphabetical indices in all four languages. A few pencil and ink notations in text. Wrappers slightly tanned. READ MORE about WÖRTERBUCH DER HANDBUCHBINDEREI UND EIN BANDRESTAURIERUNG
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 126398
San Francisco: Hand Bookbinders of California, 1976. 4to. typescript enclosed in pamphlet holder. (1), 37, 7 leaves. Very scarce publication regarding bookbinding references. A fine copy.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about BOOK-BINDING NOTES, 1875-1943 With Notes added by Mrs. Young and by Leah Wollenberg, who was a...
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 14018
Seven Issues
Austin, TX: Booklab, Inc., 1989-? 8vo. paper wrappers. variously pagianted. Seven Issues. Seven issues of the Booknote periodical. Spines faded. Issues include: 1) Catalogue of Services and Products 2) Salvage of Library Materials from Water or Insect Damage 3) Collection Maintenance Repair for Publishers' Cased Books 4) Safe Handling and Exhibition of Books 5) Advantages of Protective Enclosures: The Drop-Spine Box 6) Survey, Assessment and Planning for Library Conservation 7) A Glossary for the Structure..... READ MORE about Seven issues of 'Booknote', by Booklab, Inc
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 136422
January 7, 1963. large 8vo. cloth, marbled endpapers. 114, (2) pages. This issue of Publisher's Weekly from January 7, 1963 Vol. 183 No. 1 features articles on the outlook for the new year and as reflections on the year just past, as well as the usual weekly record of books for sale and news. Of special interest is the article on Bookmaking, with sections on bookbinding, book cover design, art books, and a new way..... READ MORE about " BOOKMAKING"
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 95270
New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1996. 8vo. metal ring binder with illustrated paper-covered boards. 45+(1) pages. First Scholastic edition, issued as volume 18 in the Voyages of Discoveryseries. Text and color illustrations on laminated paper, that describe the process of making books from clay tablets, papyrus rolls, and illuminated manuscripts to the printing press, with sections on machinery, color printing, bookbinding, booksellers and censors, and children's books. With a time-line chart and reusable vinyl stickers. READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF MAKING BOOKS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 70866
