N.P. Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 1995. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 66-82. Offprint from the Yearbook. Nineteen illustrations in the text. READ MORE about VENETIAN XYLOGRAPHIC AT THE JOHN RYLANDS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 75434
Melbourne, Australia: Zimmer, 1997. square small folio. black paper wrappers, title in gilt, six loosely inserted wood-engravings, decorated patterned paper covered boards clamshell box. (iv), 15, (1) pages. Limited to 15 numbered copies signed by Tate Adams, of which this portfolio is unnumbered on the colophon. The five included plates are each numbered #6 of 15. A fine copy in fine clamshell box. Four full-spread and one smaller plate wood-engravings by Adams. The text was..... READ MORE about TATE ADAMS: TROPICAL WOOD-ENGRAVINGS
Price: $4,950.00 Order nr. 136522
Berlin: Amsler & Ruthardt, (1897). 8vo. half cloth, paper-covered boards, paper spine label. (iv), 76 pages. Written in German. An old auction catalogue of 1256 entries with the original stiff paper wrappers bound-in. Wear and rubbing at extremities, paper spine label worn, original front cover and some leaves at front separated. Laid-in is the bookplate of Oak Knoll designating this as from the library of H. P. Kraus. READ MORE about KATALOG WERTHVOLLER UND SELTENER KUPFERSTICHE HOLZSCHNITTE UND SCHABKUNSTBLÄTTER ALTER MEISTER...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 101518
Berlin: (Amsler & Ruthardt, 1896). 8vo. half cloth, marbled paper-covered boards, all edges marbled. (ii), 175+(1) pages. Written in German. An auction catalogue with 2416 entries. Bound together is the original front paper wrapper. Minor wear at extremities. Laid-in is the bookplate of Oak Knoll designating this as from the libary of H. P. Kraus. READ MORE about KATALOG WERTHVOLLER UND SELTENER KUPFERSTICHE RADIRUNGEN UND HOLZSCHNITTE, ALTER UND NEUER MEISTER
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 101555
Endgrain Editions four.
(Mission, BC, Canada): The Barbarian Press, 2013. folio. quarter Japanese cloth and a pattered paper commissioned from the artist. unpaginated. Endgrain Editions four. This edition one of 175 copies, of which this is one of 120 regular copies bound thus. Endgrain Editions Four. Table of contents, publisher's foreword by Crispin Elsted, introduction by the Brett, Appendices include endnotes, a catalogue of wood engravings 1961-2013, and lists of exhibitions and publications. Tipped in frontispiece and black..... READ MORE about SIMON BRETT: AN ENGRAVER'S PROGRESS
Price: $800.00 Order nr. 135839
N.P. n.p., n.d. broadside (9 3/4 x 12 inches). Facsimile. Basire (1730-1802) was an English engraver who apprenticed William Blake. See Michael Bryan, Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Vol. 1 (London: George Bell and Sons, 1886), 91. READ MORE about A VIEW FROM THE INSIDE OF BRAZEN NOSE COLLEGE QUADRANGLE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 120588
Nürnberg: n.p., 1877. 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards with stiff paper wrapper bound in. vii, 214+(1) plus 11 leaves of illustration. Catalogues objects relating to a variety of topics connected to the book arts in Bavarian collections. Chapters on prominent publishers, seventeenth century book decoration, woodcuts, metalcutting, lithography, photography and different types of presses and printing technology. All chapters divided in two sections: a general overview followed by a bibliography usually arranged chronologically, sometimes..... READ MORE about AUSSTELLUNG VON ARBEITEN DER VERVIELFÄLTIGENDEN KÜNSTE IM BAYRISCHEN GEWERBEMUSEUM
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 77520
Princeton: Friends of the Princeton University Library, 1967. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 141-203+(1) pages, 4 plates. From The Princeton University Library Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Number 3. Several articles, two discussing Alfred Chester Beatty. A few markings in red pen near the middle of the text. Slight shelf wear. READ MORE about " SIR A. CHESTER BEATTY AND HIS LIBRARY"
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 97421
Philadelphia: Beck Engraving Co., n.d. (circa 1929). 4to. paper covered boards. (16) pages. One page of text followed by examples of the gravure work executed by Beck. Beautiful cover printed in silver and dark blue against a light blue background. Near fine, lacking slipcase. READ MORE about BECK GRAVURE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 41222
8 volumes.
N.P. Libraire Grund, (1954). 8vo. cloth. Thousands of pages. 8 volumes. New edition, revised and enlarged, with 32 illustrations. An excellent reference tool for the study of artists, engravers, and scupturers. Light wear to the heads of the spines, some volumes shaken. Volume 8 has the spine along the front hinge loose. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about DICTIONNAIRE CRITIQUE ET DOCUMENTAIRE DES PEINTRES, SCULPTEURS, DESSIN ATEURS ET GRAVEURS, DE...
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 135528
Kent, United Kingdom: Florin Press, 2021. 4to. cloth, engraving on front board, gilt on cover and spine. 286 pages, 437 illustrations. The first 100 copies sold will also include a loose hand printed leaf with at least one Bewick engraving printed by hand from the original woodblock by Graham Williams (of which this one is thus). With a preface by Simon Lawrence. For over two hundred years Thomas Bewicks engravings have delighted every generation. His..... READ MORE about THOMAS BEWICK ENGRAVER & THE PERFORMANCE OF WOODBLOCKS
Price: $185.00 Order nr. 135705
Los Angeles: The Bieler Press, 1992. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (19) pages. Limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by the author and the artist. A fine copy. Handset using ATF Garamond Bold & Trump Medieval Bold and printed on Invicta English mould made paper. Contains 12 poems dealing with the printer and the printshop. Featuring a five color engraving by Gaylord Schanilec. READ MORE about A PRINTER'S DOZEN
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 36529
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1991. 4to. Japanese cloth with leather spine label. 56 pages. First edition, limited to 230 numbered copies (Berger A50). Henry Morris printed only 160 copies of this book (Leaf Book - Chalmers 198). With introduction by Henry Morris. Discusses the history and invention of one the lesser-known graphic processes. Includes an original complete folio leaf from Achille Collas' Tresor de numismatique-- which was illustrated by this process-- and photographic..... READ MORE about THE ART OF MEDAL ENGRAVING
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 61557
London: Spring Books, (1964). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 263 pages. Reprint of the 1928 first edition. Excellent history with 120 illustrations. Jacket shows minor rubbing. Ink inscription. READ MORE about A HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 3399
London: Spring Books, (1964). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 263 pages. Reprint of the first edition. Excellent history with 120 illustrations. Jacket worn with tears. READ MORE about A HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 29748
Paging, Numbering, End-name Printing, Bookbinders' Tools and Machinery.
(Summit, NJ: Mid-West Tool Collectors Association, 1985). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 46 pages. Paging, Numbering, End-name Printing, Bookbinders' Tools and Machinery. Facsimile reprint of 1911 catalogue produced by Hoole of Brooklyn, New York. Illustrated throughout. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about CATALOGUE NO. 79. HOOLE MACHINE AND ENGRAVING WORKS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 102933
Frederikshavn: Exlibristen, 1986. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 58 pages. Limited to 350 numbered copies; this copy out of series. This essay describes the bookplates designed by these three eighteenth century English engravers including detailed information on specific bookplates. Well-illustrated throughout. READ MORE about THE BOOKPLATES OF ROBERT HANCOCK, JAMES ROSS AND WILLIAM BACHE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 33638
London: The Bookplate Society/Forlaget Exlibristen, 1987. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 28 pages. Trade edition. Limited to 650 numbered copies. This work contains a biographical essay and one-hundred sixty-eight descriptions of Hagreen's bookplates. Well-illustrated with reproductions of the bookplates in different colors. READ MORE about THE EX-LIBRIS OF PHILIP HAGREEN
Price: $22.00 Order nr. 33694
London: The Bookplate Society/Forlaget Exlibristen, 1987. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 28 pages. Trade edition. Limited to 650 numbered copies. This work contains a biographical essay and one-hundred sixty-eight descriptions of Hagreen's bookplates. Well-illustrated with reproductions of the bookplates in different colors. Covers soiled and tear in front cover. READ MORE about THE EX-LIBRIS OF PHILIP HAGREEN
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 86957
3.25" x 4.75" small 12mo bookplate. Isaiah Thomas altered to "Isaac Rand Thomas" as indicated on the plate itself. Faint notation below 'TUS" in NEC-ELATUS reads, "S.L.S after P.R." Printed on early watermarked laid paper. Exceptional eye appeal and workmanship. The printer was Sidney Lawton Smith (1845-1929). Smith was an American designer, etcher, engraver, illustrator, and bookplate artist. This bookplate for Isaiah Thomas was first engraved by Paul Revere and subsequently name altered by Sidney..... READ MORE about C. 1870 PRODUCTION, RENDITION OF PAUL REVERE'S ENGRAVED BOOK PLATE
Price: $550.00 Order nr. 135358
London and New Castle: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 1999. large 8vo. hardcover, dust jacket. 384 pages. Forty years before the turn of the 18th century, a small, prestigious bookplate workshop was established, the likes of which were never to be seen again after its employment of one man: Thomas Bewick. To this day, the works of the bookplate shop of Beilby & Bewick are highly collectible and valued in the antiques world..... READ MORE about BOOKPLATES BY BEILBY & BEWICK, A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 54988
Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1758. 8vo. period marbled calf binding, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, five raised bands, all edges stained red. xxxii, 205, (3) pages. The fourth and most extensive edition, expanded from the original edition of 1645 by the noted engraved Cochin. (Cicognara 255. Bigmore / W. 72. Cohen / R. 177). When issued in 1645, the work was "notable for its completeness for the time of its production, and for its plates, which have..... READ MORE about DE LA MANIERE DE GRAVER A L'EAU FORTE ET AU BURIN. ET DE LA GRAVURE EN MANIERE NOIRE
Price: $1,950.00 Order nr. 135914
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. 11.75 x 12.75 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 204 pages. In the late nineteenth century, wood-engraving was the principle medium of illustration employed by publishers. From this beginning, print collector Bill Brandt goes on to recount the story of the Society of American Wood-Engravers. He reveals the medium's intricacies, the controversies sparked between traditional wood-engravers and America's New School, and the international acclaim rightly bestowed on these innovative American..... READ MORE about INTERPRETIVE WOOD-ENGRAVING: THE STORY OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN WOOD-ENGRAVERS
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 102011
Cambridge: Silent Books, 1987. 8vo. paper wrappers. 112 pages. A collection of 90's wood engravings and their creators. Foreword by Simon Brett. READ MORE about ENGRAVERS, A HANDBOOK FOR THE NINETIES
Price: $22.00 Order nr. 104821
1983. 8vo. later pamphlet binder. pp.31-62. Removed from the Journal of the Printing Historical Society Number 17 (1982/1983). With the ink signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about BRITISH WOOD-ENGRAVERS C. 1820- C. 1860: A CHECKLIST
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 100081
