New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1958. small 4to. cloth. xxi, 266 pages. First edition. A practical manual. Over 150 illustrations. Ink inscription on front pastedown. READ MORE about PRINTMAKING TODAY, AN INTRODUCTION TO THE GRAPHIC ARTS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 41763
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, (1958). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xxi, 266 pages. First English edition. A practical manual. Over 150 illustrations. Jacket chipped. READ MORE about PRINTMAKING TODAY, AN INTRODUCTION TO THE GRAPHIC ARTS
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 45057
N.P. University of Maryland Department of Art, 1973. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 103 pages. With introductaory notes by Don Denny and James D. Farquhar. An exhibition catalogue devoted to this text. Illustrated including one in color. Minor cover soiling. READ MORE about THE APOCALYPSE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 115482
Zurich: The Graphis Press, (1979). 4to. pictorial paper-covered boards. pp.465-615. With text in English, French and German. Filled with illustrations including many in color. READ MORE about 4TH INTERNATIONAL SURVEY OF CHILDREN'S BOOK ILLUSTRATION
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 27528
N.P. Advertising Typographers Assoc. of America, (1947). small 4to. cloth. 71 pages. First edition. Sections on printing, book illustration, typography, etc. Inscribed by Maurice Annenberg on front pastedown. READ MORE about ATA ADVERTISING PRODUCTION HAND BOOK
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 8396
Paris: La Renaissance du Livre, (1927). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 227+(1) pages. First edition. Filled with illustrations. READ MORE about LE LIVRE D'ART DU XIXE SIÈCLE À NOS JOURS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 119871
Parts I and II.
N.P. n.p., n.d. 4to. later cloth, paper label on spine. variously paginated. Parts I and II. Removed from the Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Illustrated & Published Monthly, Volume XV--April to September 1909, London, for which there is a title page bound in at the end, as well as an alphabetical list of contributors to Vol. XV. An essay on engravings. Contains 16 black-and-white plates. Part I--Methods and Minutiae. Part II--States in Actual Life. Bound in..... READ MORE about ENGRAVINGS AND THEIR STATES
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 100558
New York: Dover, (1963). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xlii,395; (viii),396-838,(22) pages. Volume one only of the reprint of the 1935 edition. An excellent and inexpensive reprint of an important study. Ink ownership inscription in corner of first blank page. READ MORE about AN INTRODUCTION TO A HISTORY OF WOODCUT WITH A DETAILED SURVEY OF WORK DONE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 126329
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, (1926). small 8vo. cloth. (ii), xiii, (iii), 253, (3) pages, with 44 pages of plates. First edition. The memoirs of Hurd and the authors that influenced him throughout the years. It is illustrated with 44 pages of black-and-white plates of several authors, his parents, paintings and more. Indexed. Slight foxing throughout with rubbing along the spine. READ MORE about NAPHTALI, BEING INFLUENCES AND ADVENTURES WHILE EANING A LIVING BY
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 60902
New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1929. 8vo. cloth. xviii, 315 pages. Second edition, revised. With a preface by Frederic Melcher. Includes a large section covering different aspects of binding. READ MORE about THE BUILDING OF A BOOK A SERIES OF PRACTICAL ARTICLES WRITTEN BY EXPERTS IN THE VARIOUS...
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 19368
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, (1962). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 232 pages. First edition, second impression with a few changes. Biographical and bibliographical descriptions of many artists and over 300 of their creations. Well illustrated. Jacket soiled and chipped. READ MORE about THE ARTIST & THE BOOK 1860-1960 IN WESTERN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 41729
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, (1961). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 232 pages. First edition. Biographical and bibliographical descriptions of many artists and over 300 of their creations. Well illustrated. Some jacket soiling and chipping. Name in ink on free endpaper. READ MORE about THE ARTIST & THE BOOK 1860-1960 IN WESTERN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 79636
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, (1972). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 232 pages. Revised from the 1961 edition. Biographical and bibliographical descriptions of many artists and over 300 of their creations. Well-illustrated. Fine condition. READ MORE about THE ARTIST & THE BOOK, 1860-1960: IN WESTERN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 15407
An Illustrated History
(Greenwich, Connecticut): New York Graphic Society, (1973). 4to. cloth, dust jacket, original cardboard slipcase. (vi), 96 pages, plus 96 pages of plates. An Illustrated History. English version of Die Welt der Spiel Karte (Edition Leipzig, 1972). This comprehensive survey of the history of playing cards from 16th through the 20th century includes examples from China, India, Persia, Japan and Turkey as well as Italy, Spain, Germany, and France. It contains numerous black & white and..... READ MORE about THE PLAYING CARD
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 108414
(Rockport, MA: Rockport/Allworth Editions, 1997). 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 245+(1) pages. Thirty-seven design firms and individual graphic designers, representing an extraordinary cross section of top design talent in the United States, display their portfolios in full color. With visual essays by Sam Silvio (Chicago), Susan Silton (Los Angeles), Gary Keopke (Portland), and Peter Good (Chester, CT). READ MORE about GRAPHIC DESIGN: AMERICA TWO
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 64952
London, England: B.T. Batsford, (1955). 8vo. cloth. 200 pages. Table of contents, dedication, acknowledgments, list of illustrations, notes on selected illustrations, index. Five color plates, including frontispiece. Black and white illustrations throughout. Includes a listing of fashion-related periodicals. READ MORE about HAND COLOURED FASHION PLATES 1770 TO 1899
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 125389
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1986). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 34 pages. Some illustrations. With glossary. READ MORE about BOOK MANUFACTURING
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 109820
London: Peerage Books, (1985). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 324 pages. Reprint of the 1982 first edition. Short history of advertising followed by hundreds of full color reproductions of the advertisements that appeared in the 19th century and 20th century. Presented in chronological order and indexed. READ MORE about THE ART OF ADVERTISING
Price: $17.00 Order nr. 18669
New York: Dorset Books, (1990). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 284 pages. Reprint of the 1914 first edition. S-K 122. With sections on British types, Fine Bookbinding in England, the Art of the Book in Germany, France, Austria, Hungary, Sweden and America. Many illustrations including a number in color. Jacket has piece missing along top of front cover. READ MORE about THE ART OF THE BOOK A REVIEW OF SOME RECENT EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN WORK IN TYPOGRAPHY, PAGE...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 126982
London, Paris, New York: The Studio LTD., 1908. small 4to. cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. (iv), viii, (2), 279 pages. The special summer number of The Studio. More than 200 plates from illustrators in Europe and the United States, including Brangwyn, Holroyd, Menpes, Moran, Pennell, Whistler, Kollwitz, Klinger, etc. This could possibly be a publisher's binding. This title is usually found in paper wrappers. Rubbed along edges and at spine ends. READ MORE about MODERN ETCHINGS MEZZOTINTS AND DRY-POINTS
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 124951
New York: Dorset Books, (1990). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 284 pages. Reprint of the 1914 first edition. S-K 122. With sections on British types, Fine Bookbinding in England, the Art of the Book in Germany, France, Austria, Hungary, Sweden and America. Many illustrations including a number in color. Jacket chipped with small tears along edges. READ MORE about THE ART OF THE BOOK A REVIEW OF SOME RECENT EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN WORK IN TYPOGRAPHY, PAGE...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 42116
London: Studio, n.d. 8vo. cloth spine, paper-covered boards. (iv), 96 pages. This is a simple art appreciation book for children with large print and fairly simple text. The pictures progress from simple to complex with many tipped-in examples as well as those printed on the pages. Some color. Spine of the book a little faded. Dust jacket is worn with some paper loss at the corners and heel of spine, closed tear upper front panel..... READ MORE about THE CHILDREN'S ART BOOK
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 89378
London: Constable, (1936). 8vo. cloth. xviii, 404 pages. First edition. Experiences with the Vale Press, Rivingtons, the Ballantyne Press, John C. Nimmo, the Slade professorship, National Portrait Gallery, etc. Bookplate. READ MORE about SELF & PARTNERS (MOSTLY SELF), BEING THE REMINISCENCES OF C.J. HOLMES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 21651
2 volumes.
Chestertown: Chester River Press, 2009. 12.5 x 14.5 inches. cloth, dust jackets, slipcase. 550; 434 pages. 2 volumes. Acclaimed by Samuel Johnson as "a performance which no age or nation could hope to equal," Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad and Odyssey stands as one of the glories of English Literature. The Chester River Press edition of the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer has been designed and printed to reflect the epic proportions of this..... READ MORE about THE ILIAD AND ODYSSEY OF HOMER AS TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER POPE, IN GREEK AND ENGLISH. WITH AN...
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 104249
Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, (1981). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 520 pages. Revised edition. Illustrated with many fine color prints. Over 200 pages on the history of the art followed by a dictionary of some 500 illustrators which includes a biography and a list of the work of each. Jacket spine is faded. READ MORE about DICTIONARY OF BRITISH BOOK ILLUSTRATORS AND CARICATURISTS 1800-1914
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 123836
