New York: St. Martin's Press, (1981). 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. xviii, 237 pages. First edition. Spine of jacket slightly fade.d. READ MORE about SELLING YOUR GRAPHIC DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
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Revised by Wayne G. Hammond and Robert L. Volz.
Williamstown: Chapin Library, 1979. 8vo. paper wrappers. (v), 87 pages. Revised by Wayne G. Hammond and Robert L. Volz. Limited to 750 copies. Includes examples of the work of Bradley, Denslow, Rogers, Pyle, Hunter, Armstrong and others with a history of their work and the development of the art in America. Illustrated. READ MORE about BOOK DECORATION IN AMERICA 1890-1910; A GUIDE TO AN EXHIBITION
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London: Faber and Faber, (1963). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 171 pages. Revised and enlarged edition. Part one on autographic methods and part two on photographic reproduction. This edition also includes a section on bookbinding. Light jacket wear. READ MORE about PROCESSES OF GRAPHIC REPRODUCTION IN PRINTING
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 22816
London: Faber and Faber, (1949). 8vo. cloth. xvi, 143 pages. Reprint of the 1947 new edition. Part one on autographic methods and part two on photographic reproduction. This edition also includes a section on bookbinding. Endpapers foxed. READ MORE about PROCESSES OF GRAPHIC REPRODUCTION IN PRINTING
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London: Faber and Faber, (1947). 8vo. cloth. xvi, 143 pages. New edition. Part one on autographic methods and part two on photographic reproduction. This edition also includes a section on bookbinding. READ MORE about PROCESSES OF GRAPHIC REPRODUCTION IN PRINTING
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N.P. The John Carter Brown Library, 1982. small 4to. stapled paper wrappers. Well annotated. READ MORE about EARLY WESTERN IMAGES OF ASIA, AN EXHIBITION MOUNTED BY THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY
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Ann Arbor, MI: Clements Library/University of Michigan, 1998. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 180, (4) pages. A visual feast of the Clements Library's treasures, selected from more than 75,000 printed titles--a large percentage of them notable and rare, thousands of maps, hundreds of thousands of manuscripts, newspapers, prints, sheet music, and photographs. Illustrated throughout with prints, facsimiles, and historical photographs. Small spot on front cover. READ MORE about ONE HUNDRED AND ONE TREASURES FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE WILLIAM L. CLEMENTS LIBRARY, A...
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London: Methuen and Co., 1904. small 4to. full vellum with top edge gilt. xlv, 208 pages. First edition, one of 50 bound thus and printed on Japanese paper. Davenport provides notes on techniques for creating mezzotints, as well as a wealth of information on the engravers who are noted for this art form. Illustrated with plates, many of which are portraits of well known figures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that are examples of... READ MORE about MEZZOTINTS
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Paris: Librarie Larousse, 1925. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 86, 106 pages and 96 plates. First edition. This Catalogue from the 1925 World's Fair features the latest innovations in the book arts. Fernand David supplies an introduction in which he outlines the most recent developments in the book arts in various countries. The international highlights are represented in 96 full color plates. Top and bottom edges of spine chipped. Rubbed. Inscription in ink on spine. Unopened copy. READ MORE about MINISTRE DU COMMERCE, DE L'INDUSTRIE, DES POSTES ET DES TÉLÉGRAPHES
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New York: Atheneum, 1981. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 59+(1) pages. First edition, hardcover. Frontispiece by Thomas W. Nason. Fine. READ MORE about BARN FEVER AND OTHER POEMS
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New York: Atheneum, 1981. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. x, 59+(1) pages. First edition, wrappered. Review copy with slip laid in. Fine. READ MORE about BARN FEVER AND OTHER POEMS
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(Paris): n.p., 1859. 8vo. later cloth with embossed seal (entwined Ls in an oval, surmounted by a crown). (ii), 10 pages. An offprint from La Revue Universelle des Arts (July 1859). The article deals with the Flemish Master ES of 1466, and challenges speculation voiced by M. Harzen regarding the artist's potential authorship of the large coats-of-arms of Charles le Téméraire, duc de Bourgogne (1). Traces of peacock blue original stiff paper wrapper visible along... READ MORE about LE GRAVEUR DE L'AN 1466 ET LES GRANDES ARMOIRIES DE BOURGOGNE
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New York: The Sandstone Press, 1981. oblong 8vo. cloth spine, decorated paper over boards, dust jacket. 200 pages. First American edition. De Mare traces the golden era and decline of the woodblock artists during the 19th century in England, including their dramatic re-emergence with the private press advocates of the 1890s. He discusses the technique of engraving on the end grain, and the relationship between the artists of the time and their engravers. With a.... READ MORE about THE VICTORIAN WOODBLOCK ILLUSTRATORS
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Paris, France: Émile Guérin, n.d. (circa 1902). 4to. original gilt-stamped cloth, all edges gilt. (iv), 217, (3) pages. Text in French. With a preface by J.T. de Saint-Germain. A collection of the short stories of a 17th century French novelist. Table of contents and list of other works by the publisher follow text. Engraved frontispiece and plates in text by S.C. Lefrancq. Borders of text illustrated with pastoral scenes in different colors. Covers rubbed and..... READ MORE about LES CONTES
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New York: Pandick Press, 1977. 4to. wood-engraving loosely inserted in paper portfolio. A wood engraving of Hawthorne's house. Text by Don Wesely. Portfolio shows fading. Bumped at top. READ MORE about THE OLD MANSE, A WOOD ENGRAVING
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New York: Pandick Press, 1977. 4to. wood-engraving loosely inserted in paper portfolio. Text by Don Wesely. READ MORE about THE PORTLAND HEAD LIGHTHOUSE, A WOOD-ENGRAVING
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Paris: Éditions Klincksieck, 1970. 4to. paper-covered boards. 117, (3) pages with plates. Text in French. No. V in the Bibliothèque des Cahiers Archéologiques series, published under the direction of André Grabar and Jean Hubert. Author was Professor Emiritus at Dunbarton Oaks. An examination of the Psalter at the British Museum, London, Add. 19,352. Color frontispiece, illustrating Psalm 76: 20-21. Preface by Grabar. Foreword. Includes a general description of the manuscript with a detailed examination of..... READ MORE about L' ILLUSTRATION DES PSAUTIERS GRECS DU MOYEN AGE II
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Westminster: J. B. Nichols, 1895. slim 4to. original stiff paper wrappers. 12 pages. Reprinted from Archaelogia Vol. LIV. Two plates. Chipped around edges. READ MORE about ON A M. S. PSALTER FORMERLY BELONGING TO THE ABBEY OF BURY ST. EDMUNDS. COMMUNICATED TO THE...
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Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries.
Westminster: Nichols and Sons, 1895. 4to. original paper wrappers. 14 pages. Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries. Reprint from Archaeologia, Vol. XIV, pp.411-424. With nine photographic plates. Chipped along spine with cover partially detached. READ MORE about ON A MS. PONTIFICAL OF A BISHOP OF METZ OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
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Los Angeles: Raymond C. Gould, (1911). 12mo. cloth-backed boards. (15) pages. With 3 tipped-in plates that show colored mezzotint printing executed by Dickins at his London publishing house. A variant printing. Foxing of title page. READ MORE about A NOTE ON THE ART OF MEZZOTINT AND MEZZOTINT PRINTING IN COLOURS
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London: Faber & Faber, (1967). thick 8vo. cloth. 514 pages. Revised edition. "Virtually an encyclopedia of the hand-illuminated book." An historical account. Many illustrations including some in color. READ MORE about THE ILLUMINATED BOOK, ITS HISTORY AND PRODUCTION
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Weinheim, Germany: Beltz, (1975). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 542, (2) pages. Text in German. Second edition. A history of the development of the picture book in Germany. Foreword to the first and second editions by the editors. Table of contents, bibliography compiled in part by Maria Voigt, photographic credits, index of persons. Black and white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket slightly chipped at edges. READ MORE about DAS BILDERBUCH: GESCHICHTE UND ENDWICKLUNG DES BILDERBUCHS IN DEUTSCHLAND VON DEN ANFÄNGEN BIS...
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London: The Print Collector's Club, 1933. large 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. 59, (5) pages. Limited to an edition of 500 numbered copies. Both students of Alphonse Legros at the Slade School, Strang and Holroyd were friends whose talents as etchers took them in different directions. The text of the lecture is accompanied by 17 black and white collotypes, eleven by Strange and six by Holroyd. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about THE ETCHINGS OF WILLIAM STRANG AND SIR CHARLES HOLYROOD BEING A LECTURE DELIVERED TO THE PRINT...
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N.P. n.p., 1907. 4to. half cloth with paste paper-covered boards, leather spine label. 21-34 pages plus 1 leaf of plates in black and white. Offprint from the journal, Jahrbuch d. K. Preussischer Kunstsammlung from 1907. The Swiss woodcutter and painter Master DS was active in the beginning in the sixteenth century. This study of Master DS's woodcuts is illustrated with six plates. With a memorial bookplate on the front pastedown which indicates that this copy... READ MORE about DIE HOLZSCHNITTE DES BASELER MEISTERS DS
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New York: The Century Co., (1930). 8vo. cloth. xx, 232 pages. First edition. Study of American print making and makers from colonial days through the Civil War period. Filled with illustrations. Spine slightly faded. READ MORE about EARLY AMERICAN PRINTS
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