London: British Museum, 1939. 8vo. boards. 146 pages. The section on bookbinding contains 9 full-page illustrations of bookbindings (S-K 1041). Wear at head of spine. READ MORE about GUIDE TO THE EXHIBITION IN THE KING'S LIBRARY ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF PRINTING,...
Price: $8.00 other currencies Order nr. 5806
London: British Museum, 1926. 8vo. boards. 180 pages. The section on bookbinding contains 9 full-page illustrations of bookbindings (S-K 1041). Covers spotted and age darkened. READ MORE about GUIDE TO THE EXHIBITION IN THE KING'S LIBRARY ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF PRINTING,...
Price: $10.00 other currencies Order nr. 49671
London: British Museum, 1901. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 149 pages. The section on bookbinding contains 7 illustrations of bookbindings (S-K 1041). READ MORE about GUIDE TO THE EXHIBITION IN THE KING'S LIBRARY ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF PRINTING,...
Price: $32.50 other currencies Order nr. 62282
London: The Studio, 1914. 4to. cloth covered boards. viii, 276 pages. First edition. 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. Soiling to covers and spine. Very minor fraying to the cloth of the head and tail of the spine. Bookplate on front paste down. READ MORE about THE ART OF THE BOOK A REVIEW OF SOME RECENT EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN WORK IN TYPOGRAPHY, PAGE...
Price: $35.00 other currencies Order nr. 38718
London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1921. tall 12mo. paper wrappers. 40 pages of text followed by 16 plates of bookbindings and examples of fine printing. S-K 7326; Brenni no. 98. Some soiling and with name in ink along top edge of front cover. READ MORE about NOTES ON PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING, A GUIDE TO THE EXHIBITION OF TOOLS AND MATERIALS USED IN THE...
Price: $45.00 other currencies Order nr. 5929
(Tours, France: MAME, 2001). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Text in French. Reprint of original published in Paris, (n.d., but 18th century), part of the Diderot-d'Alembert L'Encyclopédie, covering printing and bookbinding. Black and white illustrations. Price list laid in. READ MORE about RECUEIL DES PLANCHES, SUR LES SCIENCES, LES ARTS LIBÉRAUX, ET LES ARTS MÉCHANIQUES, AVEC LEUR...
Price: $25.00 other currencies Order nr. 126930
London: Odhams Press Ltd., 1946. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 448 pages. First edition. Full of practical information.Jacket chipped and rubbed with pieces missing. READ MORE about PRACTICAL PRINTING AND BINDING, A COMPLETE GUIDE
Price: $10.00 other currencies Order nr. 5924
(Betzdorf/Sieg: Walter Remy REMIGIUS-Antiquariat, 1993). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 376 pages. Katalog No. 2, slanted towards the book arts, from the antiquarian bookseller. Handsomely produced with black-and-white figures throughout; 40 color plates. 476 entries. Price list inserted. READ MORE about MODERNE DRUCKE
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London: ABA, 1979. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 85, (3) pages. Fourth edition, revised. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF THE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS' ASSOCIATION
Price: $10.00 other currencies Order nr. 87063
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 other currencies Order nr. 70866
Austin, TX: W. Thomas Taylor, 1993. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 68 pages. With special articles by Tom Taylor giving a survey of American typefounders, a look at the private collection of Travis Beck, a description of the Barrois collection of printing ephemera and a history of the Providence Public Library by Philip J. Weimerskirch. READ MORE about BOOKWAYS. 7
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 43040
Frankfurt am Main: Polygraph Verlag, (1958). 8vo. cloth. 526 pages. First edition. An illustrated lexicon of terms related to graphic priocesses such as photography, lithography, offset printing, etc. Includes some fold-out diagrams. A thorough and detailed reference source. In German. Ex-library copy with label removed from spine and ink stamp on title page. READ MORE about LEXICON FÜR DAS GRAPHISCHE GEWERBE
Price: $45.00 other currencies Order nr. 62594
Hungary: Kossuth Printing House, 1973. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 224 pages of which this articles is on pages 77-89. An article inThe New Hungarian Quarterly by Kopeczi and Borsa. Vol. xiv. No 51. Autumn 73. READ MORE about " FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF HUNGARIAN BOOK- PRINTING."
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 78092
With a Treatise on the Art of Collecting and Describing Early Printed Books, and a Latin- English and English-Latin Topographical Index of the Earliest Printing Places. Edited by H. Grevel.
Detroil: Gale Research Co, 1971. 8vo. cloth. xv, 383 pages. With a Treatise on the Art of Collecting and Describing Early Printed Books, and a Latin- English and English-Latin Topographical Index of the Earliest Printing Places. Edited by H. Grevel. Reprint of the revised edition of 1890 printed in London by H. Gevel. Ex library copy with markings. READ MORE about THE BOOK: ITS PRINTERS, ILLUSTRATORS, AND BINDERS, FROM GUTENBERG TO THE PRESENT TIME
Price: $30.00 other currencies Order nr. 119463
Paris: Maison Quantin, n.d. (circa 1886). 8vo. contemporary quarter cloth over marbled paper-covered boards. 320 pages. First edition. The history of the book and its printing, illustration and binding. Over 100 illustrations. Printed on cheaper paper. Covers rubbed along edges. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about LE LIVRE, L'ILLUSTRATION - LA RELIURE, ETUDE HISTORIQUE SOMMAIRE
Price: $35.00 other currencies Order nr. 22529
Poitiers: Imprimerie Blais, Roy & Ci, 1895. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 142, (2) pages. Text in French. This book gives short biographies and bibliographies of books published by printers from the fifteenth to nineteenth century in the areas of Loudun, Châtellerault, Montmorillon, Civray, Lusignan, Ingrande, and Ligugé. Includes six plates reproduced from their work. A loosely laid-in plate indicates that this copy came from the reference library and stock of H.P. Kraus. Cracked, Upper..... READ MORE about LES IMPRIMEURS ET LES LIBRAIRES DU DÉPARTEMENT DE LA VIENNE (HORS POITIERS
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London: London Society of Compositors, 1898. 8vo. original stiff paper wrappers. 162, (2) pages. First edition. (St.Bride catalogue p.563). Covers worn with spine tape repaired. READ MORE about JUBILEE OF THE LONDON SOCIETY OF COMPOSITORS, A BRIEF RECORD OF EVENTS PRIOR TO AND SINCE ITS...
Price: $45.00 other currencies Order nr. 9294
New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1974. thick tall 8vo. cloth. (viii), viii, 666, 11, 16 pages. Reprint of the 1782 first edition. (Bigmore & Wyman II,74). Written by his partner and successor, John Nichols, this is a collection of anecdotes pertaining to the life and times of Bowyer, regarded as one of England's most learned 18th-century printers. Nichols was also an antiquarian who published many articles on topics relating to history, and this often-plagiarized volume... READ MORE about BIOGRAPHICAL AND LITERARY ANECDOTES OF WILLIAM BOWYER. 1782 WITH TWO MEMOIRS OF JOHN NICHOLS
Price: $250.00 other currencies Order nr. 103064
New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1991. 8vo. cloth. (13), x, 209 pages. Reprint of the first edition, with a new introduction by Joseph Rosenblum. This work first appeared in 1932 to celebrate the 125th anniversary of its publisher, John Wiley and Sons. Boynton was interested in the colorful figures that populated the book world of early America and tells their fascinating story in an entertaining manner. His account begins with the establishment of the Cambridge... READ MORE about ANNALS OF AMERICAN BOOKSELLING, 1638-1850
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Plakate und Andere Arbeiten.
Halle: (Staatlichen Galerie Moritzburg Halle), 1987. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 132, (4) pages. Plakate und Andere Arbeiten. Written in German. Exhibition catalogue. A collection of placards and other works by or about Helmut Brade, from the gallery of the Staatlichen Galerie Moritzburg in Halle, in conjunction with the Galerie 84 des Kultur- und Freizeitzentrums Moskauer Platz in Erfurt and the Theater im Palast, TiP-Galerie in Berlin, with captions and text. Contains a biography, and various... READ MORE about HELMUT BRADE
Price: $25.00 other currencies Order nr. 99927
New Castle, Delaware and Boston, Massachusetts: Oak Knoll Press and Thomas G. Boss Fine Books, 1995. 8vo. cloth. xxiii, 216 pages. First edition. Will H. Bradley (1868-1962) is widely regarded as one of the masters of design during the Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts periods. His typographic and illustrative work pushed the boundaries of these fields into new directions. In addition, his re-introduction and use of Caslon type brought it back into popularity. The... READ MORE about WILL H. BRADLEY: HIS WORK, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE
Price: $75.00 other currencies Order nr. 41678
Accompanied by an original copy of BRADLEY HIS BOOK.
New Castle, Delaware and Boston, Massachusetts: Oak Knoll Press and Thomas G. Boss Fine Books, 1995. 8vo. quarter leather with paste paper over boards, leather spine label. Booklet is stiff paper wrappers held in porfolio. Both inserted in a cloth-covered clamshell box. xxiii, 216 pages. Accompanied by an original copy of BRADLEY HIS BOOK. First edition. One of 44 special signed and numbered copies. Will H. Bradley (1868-1962) is widely regarded as one of the... READ MORE about WILL H. BRADLEY: HIS WORK, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE
Price: $450.00 other currencies Order nr. 41679
New Castle, Delaware and Boston, Massachusetts: Oak Knoll Press and Thomas G. Boss Fine Books, 1995. 8vo. cloth. xxiii, 216 pages. First edition. Presentation from the author on the verso of the half-title. Will H. Bradley (1868-1962) is widely regarded as one of the masters of design during the Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts periods. His typographic and illustrative work pushed the boundaries of these fields into new directions. In addition, his re-introduction and... READ MORE about WILL H. BRADLEY: HIS WORK, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE
Price: $85.00 other currencies Order nr. 115708
Accompanied by an original copy of BRADLEY HIS BOOK.
New Castle, Delaware and Boston, Massachusetts: Oak Knoll Press and Thomas G. Boss Fine Books, 1995. 8vo. quarter leather with paste paper over boards, leather spine label. Booklet is stiff paper wrappers held in porfolio. Both inserted in a cloth-covered clamshell box. xxiii, 216 pages. Accompanied by an original copy of BRADLEY HIS BOOK. First edition. One of 44 special signed and numbered copies. Will H. Bradley (1868-1962) is widely regarded as one of the... READ MORE about WILL H. BRADLEY: HIS WORK, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE
Price: $450.00 other currencies Order nr. 129307
New York: Charles Rollin Brainard, 1886. 8vo. paper wrappers. 8 pages. Contains an editorial in favor of the formation of a proofreaders' union, a discussion of constitutional guarantees of a free press, miscellaneous notes, and an essay on the upcoming unveiling of the Statue of Liberty, with praise for the efforts of The New York Worldin raising funds for the project. Soiled, chipped, torn at spine. READ MORE about THE PRINTING PRESS, THE MEN THAT USE IT AND THE WORK THEY DO
Price: $65.00 other currencies Order nr. 47582
