Eine Arbeitsbeschreibung mit Angaben der Fehlerquellen und Rezeptvorschriften. Volume 12.
Halle (Saale): Veb Wilhelm Knapp, 1953. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. viii, 154, (6) pages. Eine Arbeitsbeschreibung mit Angaben der Fehlerquellen und Rezeptvorschriften. Volume 12. Written in German. Volume 12 of "Der Grafische Betrieb Wissen und Praxis". With a foreword, introduction, and index of topics. With 44 black-and-white illustrations throughout, as well as six pages of advertisements. A description of the work of offset lithography, with information about the sources of trouble and prescriptions for..... READ MORE about HANDBUCH DER OFFSETKOPIE

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Praze: Ceských bibliofilu, 1933. 4to. cloth. 88, (6) pages and 12 separate plates. Volume Five. Finely letterpress printed in an edition limited to 500 copies. (Ulrich & Kup, p.17). An important Czech annual devoted to book design, typography, and the graphic arts. Finely illustrated with many illustrations and title pages printed in color. With a table of contents in English in the back. Small hole in cloth along front hinge. READ MORE about CESKY BIBLIOFIL, 1933

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n.p. (but Easthampton, MA): Chamberlain Press, 1978. small square 8vo. paste-paper covered boards. unpaginated. Limited edition of 120 numbered copies signed by the printer and illustrator, Sarah Chamberlain. Lower spine with some light damage, else very good. A scarce title. Bound by Gray Parrot. The paper is Rives and the type is Goudy Bold. Wood engravings by Chamberlain. A Grimm Fairy Tale. Printed in black and red. READ MORE about THE BREMEN TOWN MUSICIANS

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New & Improved Edition. Volume II
Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers, 1842. large 8vo. half-calf. cloth, protective modern dust jacket with paper spine label. [ii], 800 pages. New & Improved Edition. Volume II. Volume two only.Contains No. 90: Printing-Engraving-Lithography, pp. 625-640. Illustrated. Worn and boards faded, pages tanning, scattered foxing. Signature "Sedgwick," on front pastedown. HInges reparied. With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about CHAMBERS'S INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE

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New York: The Typophiles, 1974. tall 12mo. paper wrappers, dust jacket. (iv), 18 pages. A Typophile keepsake designed and produced by Bert Waggott. An autobiographical story of type design and calligraphy.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about MY LIFE WITH LETTERS

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n.p. n.p., n.d. 5.5" by 3" broadside. An engraving by Chase. A fine copy. READ MORE about SPANISH PEASANT

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Vienna: Herbert Reichner, 1937. 8vo. cloth. 102+(1) pages plus 368 leaves of plates. First edition (Besterman 1306). Numbered (but not limited) edition. Boards faded and slightly warped, spine lightly sunned. Ink signature to front free endpaper, interior age-toned. The front panel of the original dust jacket (age-toned and edgeworn) is laid in. Bibliography of German children's literature, especially from the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. 368 entries. Color plates interspersed through introductory..... READ MORE about ALTE DEUTSCHE KINDERBÜCHER, MIT BIBLIOGRAPHIE UND EINHUNDERTFÜNFZIG BILDTAFELN

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1986). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 112 pages. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. A tribute to Randolph Caldecott as an illustrator who created such books as Jack and the Beanstalk and Hey Diddle Diddle. Includes many illustrations. Also includes a bibliography and indexed. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about SING A SONG FOR SIXPENCE

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(London): The British Library, (1986). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 80 pages. First edition. A near fine copy. This book "describes and reproduces a selection of the interesting, beautiful and amusing illustrations in children's books published down to the 1920s." Includes the work of Kate Greenaway, Randolph Caldecott, Walter Crane and Beatrix Potter. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOKS

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Boston: Horn Book, 1968. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 295 pages. First edition. With illustrated articles by Marcia Brown, Adrienne Adams, Grace Allen Hogarth and Rumer Godden. Biographies and selected bibliography of artists and authors. Jacket torn at head of spine. READ MORE about ILLUSTRATORS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS, 1957-1966

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Boston: The Horn Book, (1961). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 528 pages. Reprint of the first edition. Gives the history and development of illustrated books plus biographies and bibliographies of illustrators and their works. Jacket chipped at spine ends. READ MORE about ILLUSTRATORS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS, 1744-1945

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London: Collins, 1948. 8vo. boards. 50 pages. First edition. With 4 plates in color and 33 illustrations in black-and-white. Jacket chipped along spine. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED BOOKS

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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1903). large 8vo. Bound in decorative blue cloth with gilt cover and spine author and title. 152+ (1) pages. First appearance of the Christy illustrations. Frontispiece detached but present. Minor wear to extreminities. Overall a good copy. Longfellow's The Courtship of Miles Standishillustrated by Howard Chandler Christy. Head and tail of spine show signs of wear. READ MORE about THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH

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