Manchester: At the University Press, 1939. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. ix, 70, (2) pages. With preface by Guppy followed by the catalogue. With separate plates in black-and-white. 17 illustrations. READ MORE about JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY MANCHESTER: CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF MEDIAEVAL MANUSCRIPTS AND JEWELLED...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 75585
White Plains: Louis J. Haas, 1943. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 13 leaves. First edition, second printing.Two leaves devoted to equipment and ten on technique. Bookplate of "Occupational Therapy Department" with other information loosely inserted. Water stain along edge of back cover and pages. READ MORE about GRAPHIC BOOKBINDING A COMPLETE TEXT DESIGNED FOR SELF-INSTRUCTION AND PRESENTED THROUGH NUMBERED...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 126862
2 volumes in one.
(Mansfield Centre: Martino Fine Books, 2008). thick 8vo. cloth. xi,518 pages with 2 plates; (vi),480 pages with 8 plates. 2 volumes in one. Reprint of the two-volume first edition published by Otto Harrassowitz in Leipzig in 1928-1929. Study of the binding tools used on various 16th-century books. Thousands of rolls and stamps are described, as are their users and manufacturers. Important book. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate..... READ MORE about ROLLEN-UND PLATTENSTEMPEL DES XVI. JAHRHUNDERTS. UNTER MITWIRKUNG VON DR. ILSE SCHUNKE
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 59546
Wolfenbüttel, Germany: Herzog August Bibliothek, 1979. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 11+(1) pages. Text in German. Text of the opening lecture of an exhibition of Londenberg's work at the Herzog August Library. Lecturer was Director of the Gutenberg-Museums, Mainz. Covers slightly sunned. READ MORE about VORTRAG ZUR ERÖFFNUNG DER AUSSTELLUNG KURT LONDENBERT/BUCHEINBÄNDE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 126156
Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., n.d. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 42 pages. Discusses their bookbinding work and restoration work. Illustrated. Near fine. READ MORE about THE HAND BINDERY AT DONNELLEY'S
Price: $22.50 Order nr. 13984
An Exhibition
San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1978. oblong 8vo. paper wrappers. 94 pages with numerous plates of bookbindings by the foremost modern practioners of the art. An Exhibition. S-K 5766. First edition, limited to 2500 copies. Many plates in color. Spine lightly soiled, else fine. READ MORE about HAND BOOKBINDING TODAY, AN INTERNATIONAL ART
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 5810
Stanford: Standford University Libraries, 1992. square 4to. stiff paper wrappers with spiral binding. (ii), 96, (4) pages. An catalogue of the exhibition held in the memory of Leah Wollenberg (1906-1990), who played a leading role in the community as a binder, an organizer, and a donor. She helped nurture and develop the finest traditions of European, chiefly French binding. The bindings in this exhibition represent a full range of the diversity of work crated by..... READ MORE about HAND BOOKBINDING TODAY
Price: $22.50 Order nr. 58764
(San Francisco: University of California, Berkeley, 1982). 4to. cloth. 194 pages. Scarce book on bindings by this noted author and binder. A fine copy. This book is part of the Books and Printing in the San Francisco Bay Area Series and features Leah Wollenberg, Stella Patri, Duncan Olmsted, Stephen Gale Herrick, and Barbara Fallon Hiller, with an introduction by the noted bookbinder Deborah M. Evetts. The interviews were conducted by Ruth Teiser and Catherine Harroun..... READ MORE about THE HAND BOOKBINDING TRADITION IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
Price: $90.00 Order nr. 107061
Hamburg, Germany: Maximilian-Gesellschaft, 2004. 4to. cloth. 193, (3) pages. Text in German. Limited to 1100 copies. Foreword. Color illustrations of 79 bindings from 1970 to 2000 with descriptions of each following illustrations. READ MORE about HANDEINBÄNDE INTERNATIONALE BEISPIELE AUS DEN JAHREN 1970 BIS 2000: VORGESTELLT VON DER...
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 126325
London: The Book Collector, 1971. 8vo., stiff paper wrappers. pp.483-495. In The Book Collector, Volume 20, No.4, Winter 1971. S-K 3521. A collector tells of his binding collection. Illustrated. READ MORE about NOTES ON A SMALL COLLECTION OF BRITISH BINDINGS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 38807
1976. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp.45-52. S-K 6679. In The Book Collector, Volume 25, No.1, Spring 1976. Illustrated. READ MORE about " CRAFT BINDERS AT WORK VI, IVOR ROBINSON ."
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 20535
N.P. Designer Bookbinders Publications Ltd., 2008. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 12 pages. Pamphlet No. 1. Reflections on the life of Philip Smith and his contributions to bookbinding. Includes listing of contributions by or about Smith in The New Bookbinder. from 1981 to 2008. One illustration. READ MORE about PHILIP SMITH AT EIGHTY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 106936
London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1961. small 8vo. cloth. 33 pages of text followed by 72 pages illustrating a selection of the Museum's holdings. S-K 1042. Revised edition. Rubbed along edge. READ MORE about BOOKBINDINGS
Price: $6.00 Order nr. 6184
Hamburg: n.p., 1992. 12mo. stiff paper marbled wrappers. 31+(1) pages. Presented to Deborah M. Evetts by participant in the exhibition. Catalogue of exhibition in Hamburg, September 1992. Foldout of illustrations laid in rear wrapper. Foreword by Eva-Marie Hanebutt-Benz. Vita and list of publications by author. READ MORE about DAS GESICHT DER BUCHER
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 106901
Reprinted from Allgemeiner Anzeiger fur Buchbindereien, Jg.78, Heft 5, 1965, square 8vo., paper wrappers. 27 pages set in double column.
Reprinted from Allgemeiner Anzeiger fur Buchbindereien, Jg.78, Heft 5, 1965, square 8vo., paper wrappers. 27 pages set in double column. With 13 illustrations of binding and rubbings of tools. READ MORE about BUCHBINDERHANDWERK IN HEIDELBERG IN HISTORISCHER SICHT
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 5812
Two volumes bound as one
Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1962. 8vo. cloth with original stiff paper wrappers bound in. xx,351+(1); xxiii,428 pages. Two volumes bound as one. S-K 7781. First editions. "A monumental social history of the German bookbinding trade." Over 50 illustrations in the text. Both volumes bound together in a library buckram binding. Bookplate on front pastedown. READ MORE about DEUTSCHE BUCHBINDER-HANDWERK, HANDWERKS-UND KULTURGESCHICHTE
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 32876
Six parts.
(Paris): Colette Creuzevault, (1983). folio. paper wrappers. (xiii), 14 plates. Six parts. First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies. Very scarce. Loosely-bound (as issued). Light dampstaining on the spine. White paper sticker attached to the slipcase. Else near fine. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about HENRI CREUZEVAULT 1905-1971
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 135760
Stanford: Stanford Libraries Associates, 1978. 8vo., paper wrappers. pp.29-32. In The Imprint of the Stanford Libraries Associates, Volume IV, Number 1, April 1978. History of this group of bookbinders which was founded in 1902. READ MORE about "THE HAND BOOKBINDERS OF CALIFORNIA."
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 38860
New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1988. 8vo. later quarter cloth, marbled paper covered boards with original stiff paper wrappers printed in two colors bound-in. (16) pages. Reprint of the 1852 magazine article which had appeared in Godey's Magazine with a foreword by Robert Fleck. One of the best references to what a trade binding house looked like in the middle of the 19th century. Enhanced by 17 illustrations by Hinckley showing various scenes in the..... READ MORE about A DAY AT THE BOOKBINDERY OF LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO, & CO
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 118133
København: Edmont H. Petersens Kg. Hof-Bogtrykkeri, 1924. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 71, (7) pages. Exhibition catalogue describing 420 books. Illustrated. Covers faded. Ink inscription on inside front cover. With a few textual corrections in ink. READ MORE about HISTORISKE OG MODERNE BOGBIND UDSTILLEDE AF UNIVERSITETSBIBLIOTEKET I FORENING MED...
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 72426
København: Egmont H. Petersens, 1924. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 12, viii, 13-71, (7) pages. Exhibition catalogue devoted to bookbinding. 420 items described with illustrations of many. READ MORE about HISTORISKE OG MODERNE BOGBIND, UDSTILLEDE AF UNIVERSITETSBIBLIOTEKET I FORENING MED...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 72269
Baltimore: Walter Art Gallery, 1957. 4to. paper wrappers. xi, 275 pages. First edition, limited to 3000 copies. A good copy. 56 pages of plates. A valuable reference book on the subject of binding. The paper bound edition. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING 525-1950 A.D., AN EXHIBITION HELD AT THE BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 5814
Baltimore: Walter Art Gallery, 1957. 4to. paper wrappers. xi, 275 pages. First edition, limited to 3000 copies. Very good conditino. 56 pages of plates. A valuable reference book on the subject of binding. The paper bound edition. READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING 525-1950 A.D., AN EXHIBITION HELD AT THE BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 115267
New York: Cambridge University Press, (1989). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xix, 296 pages. First edition. Spine of jacket lightly faded, with very tears to edges, else fine. An important new study of north Italian and Parisian bindings which examines the transformation of decorative binding in the later half of the fifteenth century. Successive chapters discuss the influence of Islamic sources; classical sources; coins, medals and plaquettes; etc. Included in the appendices is an interesting article..... READ MORE about HUMANISTS AND BOOKBINDERS, THE ORIGINS AND DIFFUSION OF THE HUMANISTIC BOOKBINDING 1459-1559 WITH...
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 28120
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1929. folio. original turquoise cloth, top edge gilt. (xii), 60 pages followed by 55 full page plates of bindings. Printed in an edition limited to 500 copies for sale by Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press. (Appleton p.81, S-K 2194). Lacking the dust jacket. Minor rubbing to the boards, else a near fine copy. This book is divided into two sections: Early Bindings, before 1300 and the Gothic Bindings, c.1450-1500..... READ MORE about ENGLISH BINDING BEFORE 1500
Price: $165.00 Order nr. 5818
