Bath: Museum of Bookbinding, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. pp.152-162. Purchased at the Museum by the former owner. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about REPRINT OF AN ARTICLE ON BOOKBINDING FROM THE CYCLOPAEDIA OF USEFUL ARTS 1854 AS DISPLAYED IN THE...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 102923
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1928. 4to. cloth. 32 pages. Reprint of the first edition executed via photocopy and put in binding. S-K 6997. With sixteen plates and twenty-nine figures in the text. READ MORE about A ROD FOR THE BACK OF THE BINDER, SOME CONSIDERATIONS OF BINDING WITH REFERENCE TO THE IDEALS OF...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 63649
Bern, Switzerland: Gewerbemuseum, 1972. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 120 pages. Text in German and French. Table of contents, foreword by Walter Jäger. Proceedings of a symposium at the Gewerbemuseum, Basel, focusing on the work of Ignatz Wiemeler. Biographical sketches of participants. Black and white illustrations. Two photographs laid in. Covers lightly soiled. READ MORE about SCHWEIZERISCHES GUTENBERGMUSEUM/MUSÉE GUTENBERG SUISSE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 126167
N.P. n.p., (1985). small 4to. limp boards. Not paginated. S-K 6358. Descriptions of 61 bindings with most of them illustrated. Introduction by Bertold Hack. READ MORE about SECHZIG PRESSENDRUCKE IN HANDEINBANDEN VON CHRISTIAN ZWANG
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 38544
(Valetta Malta): Biblioteca Magistrale, n.d. postcards (4 1/4 by 5 3/4 inches). Text in Italian. Six postcards illustrating bookbindings at the Biblioteca Magistrale, Sovrano Militare Ordine di Malta. READ MORE about Set of six postcatds depicting Maltese Bookbindings
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 131018
Florence: Giulio Giannini & Figlio, (1931). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (x), 42 pages. Illustrations of their work including many bindings. Tipped onto the inside back cover is a four page "Price List" issued by Giannini & Figlio for their artistic leather work. Minor rubbing of covers. READ MORE about A SHORT HISTORY OF ARTISTIC LEATHER-WORK IN FLORENCE, A CATALOGUE OF ARTISTIC FLORENTINE...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 31434
N.P. n.p., 1985. oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 24 pages. Introduction followed by plates showing 20 of Ms. Rennie's bindings. Some of the plates are in color. READ MORE about SILVIA RENNIE, DESIGNER BINDINGS AN EXHIBITION OF FINE BINDINGS HELD AT KROCH'S & BRENTANO'S,...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 12481
With a Five page Introduction by Henry Kent.
New York: New York Public Library, 1914. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 44 pages. With a Five page Introduction by Henry Kent. S-K 1422. First edition. (Mejer no.1442). Contains a number of separate plates showing the work of Michel, Gruel, Lortic and others. The books in the collection are described in great detail. Wrappers chipped along edges. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about THE SPENCER COLLECTION OF MODERN BOOK BINDINGS
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 13982
Asheville, NC: Earth Guild, 1989. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 58 pages. Earth Guild's Summer 1989 catalogue. Table of contents, black and white illustrations. Includes basketry, dyes, dye equipment, yarns, spinning, weaving, rug making, machine knitting, and other items. READ MORE about TOOLS MATERIALS BOOKS FOR HANDCRAFTS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134265
Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, 1979. 4to. unbound signatures. 130 pages. S-K 5771. Introductory essays by Jean Gunner, Bernard Middleton and Marianne Tidcombe. Illustrations. Toned along hinges. READ MORE about THE TRADITION OF FINE BOOKBINDING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CATALOGUE OF AN EXHBITION
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 38692
London, England: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1933. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (10), 337-468, (viii) pages. New Series, Vol. XIII, No. 4 (March 1933). Features E.P. Goldschmidt's article "Some Cuir-Cisilé Bookbindings in English Libraries." Eight black and white plates. Table of contents follows text. Covers chipped at edges. READ MORE about TRANSACTIONS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 131566
Paris: Ader Tajan, 1993. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 130 pages. Auction held June 4th, 1993. Includes seciton on 16th century bindings by Parisian binders, plaque bindings produced in Lyon and decorated 17th and 18th century bindings. Many illustrations including a number in color. READ MORE about TRÈS BEAUX LIVRES ANCIENS, BIBLIOTHÈQUE D'UN AMATEUR
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 72461
Paris / Rouen: Claude Guérin / Dominique Courvoisier, 1990. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. Auction sale of 105 items. With many bookbindings illustrated. Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about TRÈS BEAUX LIVRES ANCIENS, PROVENANT DU CHATEAU DE X... ET APPARTENANT A DIVERS AMATEURS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 72402
Paris: Auguste Blaizot & Fils, 1939. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 56 pages. Chromolithographed frontispiece showing a binding by Gruel and many large black-and-white plates of fine bindings throughout text (20 plates). Covers soiled. READ MORE about TRÈS BEAUX LIVRES, ILLUSTRÉS MODERNES, PUBLICATIONS DE SOCIÉTÉS DE BIBLIOPHILES... TRÉS...
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 95209
(Istanbul, Turkey): Kemal Çig, (1971). oblong 8vo. embossed cloth, dust jacket. 72 pages. Text in Turkish. Introduction, essays, bibliography. Color illustrations. Dust jacket torn at top edge and worn. READ MORE about TÜRK KITAP KAPLARI
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 130703
London: G. Michelmore, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 152 pages. A magnificent catalogue filled with illustrations including foldout plates. Many bindings are described and illustrated. Covers chipped around edges with part of spine covering missing. Pages wrinkled. READ MORE about TWO HUNDRED EXTRAORDINARILY IMPORTANT BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 35225
London: G. Michelmore, n.d. 4to. rebound in cloth with paper spine label. 162 pages. A magnificent catalogue filled with illustrations including foldout plates. Many bindings are described and illustrated. Lacks original covers. READ MORE about TWO HUNDRED EXTRAORDINARILY IMPORTANT BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 126225
London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1978. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 14 pages of text and 8 plates of bookbinding examples. S-K 6689. With portraits of each man and articles on their work. An exhibition catalogue issued for a Spring 1978 display. Front cover spotted. Brenni no.934. READ MORE about TWO MODERN BINDERS, WILLIAM MATTHEWS & EDGAR MANSFIELD
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 54949
Amsterdam, Netherlands: Galerie Goltzius, 1986. 4to. text loosely laid in folder. unpaginated. Text in Dutch. An exhibition of Dutch bookbinding. Black and white illustrations of binders. Postcard advertisement laid in. READ MORE about VERKOOPTENTOONSTELLING VAN BOEKBANDEN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 126330
(New York, NY: Guild of Book Workers, 2005). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xiv, 44 pages. Introduction by Amy LeePard, curator's statement, jurors' remarks. Color illustrations throughout. Catalogue of a travelling exhibition. READ MORE about VESSEL: GUILD OF BOOK WORKERS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134659
Wolfenbüttel, Germany: Herzog August Bibliothek, 1984. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 31, (1) pages. Text in German. Foreword by Paul Raabe. Exhibition of the works of the Peter-Hahne workshop. Black and white illustrations throughout. READ MORE about WERKSTATT PETERS-HAHNE HAMBURG 1927-1982
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 126335
Stuttgart, Germany: Max Hettler, 1969. oblong 32mo. stiff paper wrappers. 66 pages. Text in German. Bibliography, foreword by Otto Wächter. German terms relevant to bookbinding translated into English, French, and Italian. Alphabetical indices in all four languages. A few pencil and ink notations in text. Wrappers slightly tanned. READ MORE about WÖRTERBUCH DER HANDBUCHBINDEREI UND EIN BANDRESTAURIERUNG
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 126398
New York: H.P. Kraus, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 98, (2) pages. Illustrations in text and 28 full page plates, the first 8 of which show bindings. Rubbed along edges and hinges. READ MORE about ILLUSTRATED BOOKS & FINE BINDINGS, CATALOGUE 163
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 11985
London: Maggs Bros. 1919. square 8vo. paper wrappers. (ii), 120 pages. Catalogue 385. Covers show wear and wrinkling of pages. With a number of plates of the bindings. Ink writing on cover and throughout. Minor wear, else near fine. READ MORE about RARE BOOKS, HISTORIC & DECORATIVE BINDINGS, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 3033
Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1980. 4to. cloth. xvi, 304 pages. Denkmaler der buchkunst band 4. With an introduction, a fully-illustrated catalogue of more than 450 incunabula bindings, appendices, and biblilography. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. READ MORE about CORPUS DER GOTISCHEN, LEDERSCHNITTEINBANDE AUS DEM DEUTSCHEN SPRACHGEBIET
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 69788
