London: Federation, 1975. square 8vo. stiff paper folder containing a series of 4 page brochures describing each of the Societies in this organization including one for the Designer Bookbinders. Also includes the Society of Scribes and Illuminators and 25 others. READ MORE about FEDERATION OF BRITISH CRAFT SOCIETIES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 38824
Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America, 1989. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Introduction. A catalogue of gold-tooled bindings and gilt papers in the collections of the Clementine Library, acquired from the Bibliotheca Albana in Urbino, Italy. One color plate. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about FESTINA LENTE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134615
London: National Book League, 1951. 8vo. later quarter cloth with patterned paper covered boards. 224 pages. 772 books are described. This exhibition was meant to co-incide with other exhibitions in London to celebrate the "Festival of Britain." With a six page section on binding by Howard M. Nixon. (S-K 877). READ MORE about THE FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN, EXHIBITION OF BOOKS
Price: $18.00 Order nr. 123842
N.P. n.p., n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (20) pages. Introductory comment by Mowery, chronology of Mowery's career. 14 black and white illustrations with descriptive text. READ MORE about FINE BINDINGS BY J. FRANKLIN MOWERY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 126469
European Handbound Books in the Princeton University Library Together with the William H. Scheide Library and the Robert H. Taylor Collection.
Princeton: Princeton University Library, 1978. small 8vo. paper wrappers. 32 pages. European Handbound Books in the Princeton University Library Together with the William H. Scheide Library and the Robert H. Taylor Collection. S-K 1125. Introduction by Jamie Shalleck (Kamph). One hundred books are listed with eight illustrations, four in color. READ MORE about FINE BINDINGS GOTHIC TO MODERN
Price: $7.50 Order nr. 5780
London: Christie's, 1996. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 160 pages. Sale held May 1. A fine copy. Items include painted and gold-blocked Jena bindings by Lukas Weischner, a 16th century German silver-gilt binding on a prayer book, and illuminated calligraphic manuscript on vellum by Nicholas Jarry. Color photographs. READ MORE about FINE HISTORICAL AND MODERN DECORATED BOOKBINDINGS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 87529
N.P. Guild of Book Workers, 1992. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (120) pages. Introductions by Peter D. Verheyen, J. Franklin Mowery, etc. Illustrated in color. Spine faded. READ MORE about FINE PRINTERS FINELY BOUND TOO, THE 86TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION OF THE GUILD OF BOOKWORKERS
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 79882
New York: Thomas J. Watson Library, 1987. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (20) pages. With a woodcut by John DePol. Books selected by Ken Botnick and Steve Miller. READ MORE about FINE PRINTERS FINELY BOUND, FINELY MADE BOOKS IN EXCEPTIONAL EDITION BINDINGS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 33549
2 Volumes.
London, England: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1895-1896. folio. original cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut, decorated endpapers. xviii pages of introductory material, unpaginated thereafter; xxiv pages of introductory material, unpaginated thereafter. 2 Volumes. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. (Mejer no.1345). Preface and introduction by the author in both volumes. First volume with 63 plates of works bound in Britain. Second volume with 65 plates of works bound elsewhere. Magnificent examples of..... READ MORE about ENGLISH BOOKBINDINGS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM and FOREIGN BOOKBINDINGS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
Price: $625.00 Order nr. 130532
New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1990. 4to. cloth. xviii, 252 pages. Ever since W. H. James Weale laid the foundations for the scholarly study of panel-stamped bindings in 1894, it has been universally assumed that the stamps were hand-engraved, and thus, that each panel was a unique artifact. However, Fogelmark discovered that virtually everything written since Weale's study has been based on a fundamental mistake. In Fogelmark's search for literature on blind panels..... READ MORE about FLEMISH AND RELATED PANEL-STAMPED BINDINGS, EVIDENCE AND PRINCIPLES
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 32487
New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1990. 4to. cloth. xviii, 252 pages. First edition. A fine copy. Ever since W. H. James Weale laid the foundations for the scholarly study of panel-stamped bindings in 1894, it has been universally assumed that the stamps were hand-engraved, and thus that each panel was a unique artifact. However, Fogelmark discovered that virtually everything written since Weale's study has been based on a fundamental mistake. In Fogelmark's search for..... READ MORE about FLEMISH AND RELATED PANEL-STAMPED BINDINGS, EVIDENCE AND PRINCIPLES
Price: $49.95 Order nr. 71394
Paris, France: Collections Fontaine, Leclercq, et X, 1978. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Text in French. Blogie 442. 107 lots. Auction, December 15, 1978. Includes a number of fine bindings. Estimated price list laid in. Covers bent at lower fore-edge. READ MORE about IMPORTANTS LIVRES ILLUSTRÉS ET OEUVRES ORIGINALES D'ARTISTES MODERNES, GOUACHES, DESSINS, GRAVURES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 126416
Volume II, A Catalogue of North-European Bindings.
London: The British Library, (1983). small 4to. cloth with leather spine label. 368 pages. Volume II, A Catalogue of North-European Bindings. First edition. (S-K 1241). Covers bindings made in the British Isles, the Netherlands (including Belgium), Germany, Austria and Denmark. There are 368 entries with excellent bibliographical notes on each binding and the binders who executed them. Each entry has an accompanying illustration, many occupying a full-page. An excellent reference work, finely printed by The..... READ MORE about THE HENRY DAVIS GIFT, A COLLECTION OF BOOKBINDINGS. VOLUME II
Price: $160.00 Order nr. 2542
3 Volumes.
(London, England): The British Library, (1982, 1983, 2010). 4to. cloth, gilt-stamped leather spine label. 352; 446; 527+(1) pages. 3 Volumes. Studies in the History of Bookbinding. Volume I, second impression (one of 250 copies); Volumes II and III, first edition. A near-fine set. Each volume includes a table of contents, introduction, list of abbreviations, indices of binders and owners, list of illustrations. Black and white plates in each volume. Henry Davis spent twenty five years..... READ MORE about THE HENRY DAVIS GIFT, A COLLECTION OF BOOKBINDINGS
Price: $500.00 Order nr. 130795
Volume II: A Catalogue of North-European Bindings.
London: The British Library, (1983). 8.5 x 10.75 inches. cloth with leather spine label. 368 pages. Volume II: A Catalogue of North-European Bindings. First edition. The Henry Davis Gift, A Collection of Bookbindings, Volume II covers bindings made in the British Isles, the Netherlands (including Belgium), Germany, Austria and Denmark. There are 368 entries, arranged by country of origin, as well as chronologically, with excellent bibliographical notes on each binding and the binders who executed..... READ MORE about THE HENRY DAVIS GIFT: A COLLECTION OF BOOKBINDINGS (VOL. II
Price: $120.00 Order nr. 104824
Volume III: A Catalogue of South-European Bindings
New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2009. 8.5 x 10.75 inches. cloth with leather spine label. 528 pages. Volume III: A Catalogue of South-European Bindings. This much anticipated third and final volume of The Henry Davis Gift focuses on South and East European fine bindings, with additional sections on Oriental and American bindings. It includes many new identifications, and owners and binders are discussed comprehensively. Not only have the..... READ MORE about THE HENRY DAVIS GIFT: A COLLECTION OF BOOKBINDINGS (VOL. III
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 102273
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1986. 4to. cloth. xxiv, 230 pages. First edition. Contains previously published and unpublished works by Hannah French. Articles on Andrew Barclay, an early Boston binder, Henry B. Legg, Caleb Buglass, a Philadelphia binder, John Roulstone's Harvard bindings, and Thomas Jefferson's last binder, Frederick August Mayo. Also contains catalogues of bookbinding tools by Willman Spawn. Foreword by Marcus A. McCorison. Many illustrations. READ MORE about BOOKBINDING IN EARLY AMERICA
Price: $49.95 Order nr. 38017
N.P. U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1933. small 8vo. self paper wrappers. 8 pages. Revised edition. Leaflet no.69. Was folded at one point which has left a crease mark. READ MORE about THE PRESERVATION OF LEATHER BOOKBINDINGS
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 18781
New York and Paris: VLE Antique Books, (1985). 4to. cloth. Not paginated. Bookseller's catalogue describing 55 books and illustrating them in color. Price list loosely inserted. Introduction by Yves Le Sueur. Inside front hinge partially cracked. READ MORE about FROM THE 16TH CENTURY TO THE 20TH CENTURY, 55 RARE BOOKS
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 38566
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2021. 8vo. paper wrappers. 97 pages. First edition, 2nd printing. Fifty-two illustrations in color. From the preface by Julie Miller: We often speak of how a particular phenomenon has "reached a tipping point" - when knowledge and practice have developed in plain sight and then suddenly explodes on scene as a revolution in our thinking. Gary Frosts career with bookbinding, through his research, practice, and teaching, has been a...... READ MORE about A CRAFTED TYPOLOGY OF THE CODEX BOOK MODELMAKING AS AN APPROACH TO MATERIAL BOOK STUDY
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 138600
A Bilingual Treatise on Bookbinding Translated from the French by Claude Benaiteau. With an Introduction by John P. Chalmers. Edited by Elaine B. Smyth.
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1987. tall 8vo. quarter cloth over boards, paper spine label. 130, (4) pages. A Bilingual Treatise on Bookbinding Translated from the French by Claude Benaiteau. With an Introduction by John P. Chalmers. Edited by Elaine B. Smyth. Limited to 300 copies printed letterpress on Frankfurt White mouldmade paper. A reprint of the very scarce first edition of this French bookbinding manual, printed by its author in 1763. Translated into English and..... READ MORE about TRAITÉ DE LA RELIEURE DES LIVRES
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 20856
Ausgewählt und Beschrieben.
Munchen: F. Bruckmann, (1959). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 46 pages followed by 108 plates with many in color. Ausgewählt und Beschrieben. S-K 1082. First edition. (Brenni no.299). The 108 plates show 162 illustrations of bindings. With a foreword by Dr. Gustav Hofmann. Text in German. READ MORE about BUCHEINBÄNDE AUS ELF JAHRHUNDERTEN
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 5792
Ausgewählt und Beschrieben.
Munchen: F. Bruckmann, (1959). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 46 pages followed by 108 plates with many in color. Ausgewählt und Beschrieben. S-K 1082. First edition. (Brenni no.299). The 108 plates show 162 illustrations of bindings. With a foreword by Dr. Gustav Hofmann. The spine of the jacket is stained. READ MORE about BUCHEINBÄNDE AUS ELF JAHRHUNDERTEN
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 75115
Ausgewählt und Beschrieben.
Munchen: F. Bruckmann, (1959). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 46 pages followed by 108 plates with many in color. Ausgewählt und Beschrieben. S-K 1082. First edition. (Brenni no.299). The 108 plates show 162 illustrations of bindings. With a foreword by Dr. Gustav Hofmann. Jacket worn with piece missing at top of back panel. READ MORE about BUCHEINBÄNDE AUS ELF JAHRHUNDERTEN
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 98784
Ausgewählt und Beschrieben.
Munchen: F. Bruckmann, (1959). 4to. cloth-backed paper covered boards. 46 pages followed by 108 plates with many in color. Ausgewählt und Beschrieben. S-K 1082. Second edition. (Brenni no.299). The 108 plates show 162 illustrations of bindings. With a foreword by Dr. Gustav Hofmann. Covers rubbed and faded and cloth split along hinges in places. READ MORE about BUCHEINBÄNDE AUS ELF JAHRHUNDERTEN
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 126221
