Photographs by Bayard Wootten.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939. 4to. cloth, slipcase. xviii, 27 pages followed by 47 plates with facing page of text. Photographs by Bayard Wootten. B1-618. Limited to 765 copies of which 750 are numbered and signed by Higgins and Wootten. History followed by full-page photographs of important buildings. Spine slightly faded. Slipcase is present but in pieces. READ MORE about NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE, 1651-1939

Price: $75.00  other currencies  Order nr. 65991

Stuttgart and Tübingen: Hermann Leins, 1948. 8vo. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards. (viii), 619+(1) pages. Text in German. Autobiography of Walter Hofmann (1879-1952), engraver and librarian. Former book from the reference library of H.P. Kraus, bookplate on front paste down endpaper. Edges of boards are lightly rubbed, with slight bump to corners, cloth is worn through in small places at head and heel of spine - larger amount of wear at heel. Top of text..... READ MORE about WALTER HOFMANN MIT GRABSTICHEL UND FEDER, GESCHICHTE EINER JUGEND

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London: The Holland Press, 1977. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. vii, 205 pages. First edition. With bibliographical descriptions of 168 books including complete lists of the plates in each. READ MORE about STEEL ENGRAVINGS IN NINETEENTH CENTURY BRITISH TOPOGRAPHICAL BOOKS A BIBLIOGRAPHY

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(Ann Arbor, MI): Legacy Press, The, 2020. square 8vo. softcover. 202 pages. Jim Horton has been practicing the art and craft of wood engraving for more than 40 years. His mentor was David M. Sander (1923-1999) of the Sander Engraving Co., one of most well-known of the commercial engravers whose work was featured in mail-order catalogs, such as those published by Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Montgomery Ward. The commercial side of the Sander business..... READ MORE about COMMERCIAL WOOD ENGRAVING IN THE 20TH CENTURY

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N.P. Chanticleer Press, 1968. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 112 pages, including 70 plates. Catalogue of an exhibit of prints, dating from the early fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries, which appeared in various East Coast venues in the 1960's. Preface by A. Hyatt Mayor, foreword and essay on LANGUAGE OF THE PRINT by Richard V. West, Catalogue commentary by Donald H Karshan, president of the Museum of Graphic Art in New York City. Illustrated with..... READ MORE about LANGUAGE OF THE PRINT, A SELECTION FROM THE DONALD H. KARSHAN COLLECTION

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N.P. n.p., circa 1827. folio. leather, marbled endpapers. unpaginated. A selection of proof engravings. Bookplate of Mr. Chas. T. Tallent Bateman on front pastedown. Written inscription on that bookplate notes that this volume includes 140 steel plate impressions. An apparently later notation notes that this volume is "unique," with "no copy in the British Museum." Consecutive dated engravings range from 1827 to 1835, showing title pages and illustrations of The Keepsake, (1828-1835) an illustrated anthology..... READ MORE about Volume containing the 140 steel-plate engravings used for the British Annual entitled The Keepsake

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Paris, France: (published by the author), 1977. oblong 8vo. full suede, agate, and reptile skin, title in gilt on spine, cloth clamshell box with leather spine label with title, author, and artist in gilt. 22 pages, plus one additional engraving. Limited to 60 numbered copies, of which this is one of 33 copies accompanied by a numbered and signed engraving in the rear. Signed by the artist and author. Original engravings by Annie Proszynska. Binding..... READ MORE about PORTES SUD

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Chicago: American Photo-engravers Assoc. 1947. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, paper cover label. ix, 124 pages. First edition. Guide to the pricing of photo-engraving work. Covers soiled. Ink inscription on free endpaper. READ MORE about STANDARD SCALE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

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Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1882. 4to. later cloth. x, 71+(1) pages followed by one printed leaf and 15 blank pages. First edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies signed by the author. With 20 full-page plates reproducing woodcuts from such artists as Anderson, Linton, Cole, Kruell, Closson and others. The text is followed by a page printed in red ink which states that extra blank pages have been bound in that can be used to mount..... READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING IN AMERICA

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Turnbridge Wells, Kent, England: Midas Books, (1973). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. x, 116 pages. First edition. Preface, table of contents, list of illustrations, foreword by John Francis Macnab, acknowledgments, index of persons, subject index, selected bibliography. Black and white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket lightly chipped at top edge, and lightly soiled. READ MORE about WOOD ENGRAVINGS AND DRAWINGS OF IAIN MACNAB OF BARACHASTLAIN

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London: Maggs Brothers, 1928. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 144 pages. Maggs Brothers catalogue 507. Includes Americana, engravings, etchings, drawings and aeronautica. 670 items. Frontispiece, 51 black and white plates. List of "current catalogues" with topics on inside back wrapper. Wrappers and spine soiled and bent at edges. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF RARE AND INTERESTING ENGRAVINGS BY EARLY AND MODERN MASTERS WATER COLOUR DRAWINGS

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Wilmington: Aldine Publishing and Engraving Co., 1882. thick 4to. original full leather stamped in blind, all edges gilt. (ii), 572 pages. B1-1493, Historical sketches of various aspects of Delaware life by W.W. Taylor, N.B. Smithers, George P. Fisher, James H. Groves and Henry C. Conrad followed by individual chapters on different church histories by such authorities as Bishop Alfred Lee. Separate chapters devoted to "Public Improvements and Industries'' followed by a large number of biographical..... READ MORE about HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF DELAWARE

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N.P. (but Stockholm, WI): Midnight Paper Sales, (2006). large 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, slipcase, paper spine label. (viii), 15, (5) pages. Limited to an edition of "a possible 150 copies" per the colophon. Hand numbered on the colophon as an edition of 128. Signed by Gaylord Schanilec. Signed on the title page by Jim Heynen. This is the seventh in the Little Book Series. Per the Midnight Paper Sales website: "The engraving is of Patti..... READ MORE about OLD SWAYBACK

Price: $85.00  other currencies  Order nr. 92965