Oslo: Den Norske Bokhandlerforening, 1945. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 172 pages. First edition. The Norweigan Booksellers society have put togeher this volume on selling books in Norway. They are interested in all isues related to the book: from the quality of the paper to the price they sell for. Some pages unopened. In Norweigan. READ MORE about EN BEDRE BOKHANDEL
Price: $11.00 Order nr. 62779
Paris: Libraire Hachette, 1922. tall 8vo. decorated cloth. 208 pages. First edition. A history of the production of the book with 120 illustrations. Covers faded and spotted with a tear along top of back hinge. Paper is browned; With the Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about ÉTAPES D'UN LIVRE LE PAPIER, L'ENCRE, LE MANUSCRIT, LA TYPOGRAPHIE, LA RELIURE, LA LIBRAIRIE,...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 3541
N.P. United States Department of the Interior, 1975. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. vii, 47+(1) pages. Preliminary inventory by Tommy Guider and illustrations by Bruce Cavin. With descriptions of various historic structures throughout the state including the Augustine Paper Mills, Curtis Mills, the Rockland Mills and the Harrington Journal Printing Office. READ MORE about DELAWARE, AN INVENTORY OF HISTORIC ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL SITES
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 39496
London: G. Virtue, 1852-1854. 8vo. modern marbled paper wrappers with paper spine label. 565-620, 355-488 pages. Two volumes bound in one. Vol. I: Electro-metallurgy, Embossing-press, Engraving, Envelope-folding machine; Vol. II: Pantograph, Paper, Photography, Photometry, Printing.) With special title page listing these bound in at the beginning. Many illustrations. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about Excised articles from:) CYCLOPÆDIA OF USEFUL ARTS, MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL, MANUFACTURES, MINING...
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 98187
Kassel: J.G. Oncken, (1959). square 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 286, (2) pages. Third printing of the first edition. A general history of the book and its production. Many illustrations. Jacket chipped. READ MORE about 6000 JAHRE UND EIN BUCH
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 41714
Leipzig: T.O. Weigel, 1886. small 8vo. contemporary half leather with four raised bands and marbled paper-covered boards. xii, 348, (4) pages. Second edition. The history and technique of printmaking. Wessely covers various types of techniques, from woodcuts to lithography and photography. Papermaking and printing are addressed. The author devotes a section to collecting practices: what, who, and where one should collect. Illustrated with 11 plates. Includes a new preface, an impressive bibliography arranged by subject..... READ MORE about ANLEITUNG ZUR KENNTNISS UND ZUM SAMMELN DER WERKE DES KUNSTDRUCKES
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 59904
Paris: Payot, 1928. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers with front cover missing as is most of the spine covering, enclosed in a cloth slipcase. 391 pages. First edition. A glossary of terms and guide to the practice of selling antiquarian books. Discusses the sale of books, commissions, production of books, book-keeping for the bookseller, paper, etc. READ MORE about MANUEL D'EDITION ET DE LIBRAIRIE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 22654
Paris: Payot, 1928. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 391 pages. First edition. A glossary of terms and guide to the practice of selling antiquarian books. Discusses the sale of books, commissions, production of books, book-keeping for the bookseller, paper, etc. Covers worn and chipped. READ MORE about MANUEL D'EDITION ET DE LIBRAIRIE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 32380
Paris: Payot, 1928. tall 8vo. later cloth. 391 pages. First edition. A glossary of terms and guide to the practice of selling antiquarian books. Discusses the sale of books, commissions, production of books, book-keeping for the bookseller, paper, etc. READ MORE about MANUEL D'EDITION ET DE LIBRAIRIE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 45692
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, (1976). 8vo. cloth. xxvii, 84 pages. Second printing of second edition. Chapters on inks, paper, storage, deacidification, lamination, etc. READ MORE about MANUSCRIPTS AND DOCUMENTS, THEIR DETERIORATION AND RESTORATION
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 28103
New York: School of Library Service, Columbia University, 1983. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. ix, 121 pages. With four major sections; Paper, Bookbinding, Ink and Type. Illustrated. Fine condition. READ MORE about PROCEEDINGS OF THE FINE PRINTING CONFERENCE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HELD MAY 19-22, 1982
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 389
Hamden: Archon Press, (1967). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 129 pages. First U.S. edition. Two major sections; The History of Books and The Analysis and Description of Books. Chapters on printing, illustration, paper, binding, the book trade, etc. Bookplate. READ MORE about HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $22.50 Order nr. 20638
Philadelphia: Free Library of Philadelphia, 1968. large 8vo. double salmon colored paper wrappers. 24 pages. One of 300 copies (Taylor B1). This was the first commissioned work done for another institution by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press. The printed cover design is repeated on a second sheet of salmon colored paper as a watermark. The catalogue describes 75 landmark books on papermaking and is an excellent "high spot" bibliography of the field..... READ MORE about EXHIBITION OF BOOKS ON PAPERMAKING, A SELECTION OF BOOKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF LEONARD B. SCHLOSSER
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 39894
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1970. 4to. hand-sewn paper wrappers. 54 pages. Taylor A10. Printed in an edition limited to 300 copies. Second issue lacking the protective box because the publisher's supply ran out. This fact is not mentioned in the bibliography. READ MORE about PROCEEDINGS AT A MEETING OF THE VAT PAPER MAKERS HELD AT THE BELL HOTEL, MAIDSTONE ON TUESDAY...
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 1352
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1970. 4to. hand-sewn paper wrappers in a stiff blue paper box. 54 pages. Taylor A10. Printed in an edition limited to 300 copies. Copied from a hand-written manuscript, this account of a meeting of workers in a hand-made paper mill accurately depicts the working conditions of the day. Social problems brought along by mechanical paper making and allowing women to do certain jobs are discussed. Outer folder is foxed..... READ MORE about PROCEEDINGS AT A MEETING OF THE VAT PAPER MAKERS HELD AT THE BELL HOTEL, MAIDSTONE ON TUESDAY...
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 120205
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, n.d. broadside (11 by 7 3/4 inches). bottom edge uncut. Prospectus for Hans Schmoller, Tanya Schmoller, and Henry Morris, Chinese Decorated Papers. Based on a collection purchased by the Schmollers from May Crittall. Cited in Heaney A44. READ MORE about PROSPECTUS FOR CHINESE DECORATED PAPERS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 126560
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2011. 8vo. self paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut. (4) pages. Prospectus for Sidney E. Berger, Chiyogami Papers, a study of Japanese papermaking. READ MORE about PROSPECTUS FOR CHIYOGAMI PAPERS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 126559
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, n.d. Single sheet. READ MORE about PROSPECTUS TO PROCEEDINGS AT A MEETING OF THE VAT PAPERMAKERS IN 1853
Price: $6.50 Order nr. 466
N.P. (but Newtown, PA): Bird & Bull Press, 1998. 4to. quarter black morocco, leather spine label, Japanese cloth-covered boards, cloth-covered clamshell box with leather spine label. 152, (6) pages, with 30 additional pages and 6 additional leaves of paper & printing samples and reproductions. This fine letterpress work is an edition limited to only 225 numbered copies, of which 180 are pre-subscribed (Berger A61; Leaf Book - Chalmers 215). Henry Morris's Bird & Bull Press..... READ MORE about DARD HUNTER & SON
Price: $850.00 Order nr. 53318
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1977. 4to. leather spine, paste paper-covered boards. 86, (4) pages. Limited to "approximately 250 copies." Being the second commonplace book issued by the press. (Taylor A19). Printed by hand by Morris on Green's handmade Bird & Bull paper. Seven articles including an autobiographical sketch and the first English translation of sections of Jacob Christian Schaeffer's famous 18th-century text on papermaking. The latter contains four tinted plates showing raw material..... READ MORE about BIRD & BULL PEPPER POT: INGREDIENTS, CHOICE BITS OF UNCOMMON PAPERMAKING PUBLISHING AND...
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 123188
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1997. elephant folio. 10 page introductory booklet, 27 poster/broadsides (each 19 x 25 inches) in 21 folders, gathered in a cloth clamshell box with paper cover label. Printed in an edition limited to only 145 numbered copies by Henry Morris (Berger A60). Broadside Vignettes joins the typographic aspect of the poster/broadside format with the contentual character of the book, creating a hybrid with some of the best qualities of..... READ MORE about BROADSIDE VIGNETTES
Price: $950.00 Order nr. 131086
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1970. 8vo. quarter morocco over patterned paper-covered boards. (ii), 88, (4) pages. Limited to 210 numbered copies. (Taylor A9). The first part of the book describes a visit made by Henry Morris to J. Barcham Green, the famous hand papermaking firm in England. Gives a history of the firm and reproduces correspondence between William Morris and Joseph Batchelor regarding production of paper. The second section of the book reprints..... READ MORE about GUILFORD & GREEN
Price: $400.00 Order nr. 12587
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2000. folio. cloth-covered portfolio with paper cover label and accompanied by small 4to. cloth-covered book with a paper cover label. Both inserted in a folio clamshell box with a leather spine label. 41, (3) pages and additional plates. Printed in an edition limited to 150 numbered copies (Berger A63). The actual inventor of the paper machine was a thirty-three year old former artilleryman named Nicolas Louis Robert (1761-1828). The..... READ MORE about NICOLAS LOUIS ROBERT AND HIS ENDLESS WIRE PAPERMAKING MACHINE
Price: $185.00 Order nr. 58400
(North Hills, PA): Bird & Bull Press, 1967. large 8vo. quarter leather over decorated paper-covered boards. 121 pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies. Chapters on The Mould, The Beater, Other Necessary Equipment and Beating Pulp, Some Observations on Private Presses, Making, Drying and Sizing Paper, Notes on Printing and Binding. Includes six samples of paper used by Morris for his books. READ MORE about OMNIBUS, INSTRUCTIONS FOR AMATEUR PAPERMAKERS WITH NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS OF PRIVATE PRESSES,...
Price: $400.00 Order nr. 96732
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1989. 8vo. quarter morocco leather with paper-covered sides and leather spine label. 83, (3) pages. Accompanied by a heavy die-cut board folder containing 11 different copper tokens minted by individual booksellers & bookmakers especially for this book, all enclosed in a slipcase. First edition. Limited to 300 numbered copies, 250 of which are for sale (Berger A47). Morris provides a history of these tokens that includes many illustrated reproductions..... READ MORE about TRADE TOKENS OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS & BOOKMAKERS, WITH SPECIMENS OF ELEVEN...
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 133743
