Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1989. 8vo. quarter morocco leather with paper-covered sides and leather spine label. 83, (3) pages. Accompanied by a heavy die-cut board folder containing 11 different copper tokens minted by individual booksellers & bookmakers especially for this book, all enclosed in a slipcase. First edition. Limited to 300 numbered copies, 250 of which are for sale (Berger A47). Morris provides a history of these tokens that includes many illustrated reproductions..... READ MORE about TRADE TOKENS OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS & BOOKMAKERS, WITH SPECIMENS OF ELEVEN...

Price: $250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 133743

N.P. Bird & Bull Press and Iris Nevins, 1991. 8vo. quarter cloth, Spanish marbled sides, leather spine label. 79 pages. First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies; this copy has "K" in place of a number (Berger A49). Composed in Cochin types and printed on Johannot mouldmade paper. Of all the marbled patterns, the Spanish is the most difficult to achieve. This book contains detailed instructions for making twelve different patterns, as well as original..... READ MORE about VARIETIES OF SPANISH MARBLING, A HANDBOOK OF PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION WITH TWELVE ORIGINAL MARBLED...

Price: $295.00  other currencies  Order nr. 126684

North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1976. 8vo. quarter blue leather over marbled paper-covered boards. 71 pages. First edition, one of about 250 numbered copies (Taylor A18). A reprint of this manual on marbling which first appeared in 1854. Marbling had been practiced as a "secret art" until the 1850s. This little manual supplemented an earlier manual by Charles Woolnough published in 1851. This particular copy displays the exlibris bookplates of E. Harold Hugo..... READ MORE about THE MYSTERIOUS MARBLER WITH AN HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION, NOTES AND 11 ORIGINAL MARBLED SAMPLES BY...

Price: $400.00  other currencies  Order nr. 120869

North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1976. 8vo. quarter blue leather over marbled paper-covered boards. 71 pages. First edition, one of about 250 numbered copies (Taylor A18). A reprint of this manual on marbling which first appeared in 1854. Marbling had been practiced as a "secret art" until the 1850s. This little manual supplemented an earlier manual by Charles Woolnough published in 1851. This particular copy displays the exlibris bookplate of George Cunha, noted..... READ MORE about THE MYSTERIOUS MARBLER WITH AN HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION, NOTES AND 11 ORIGINAL MARBLED SAMPLES BY...

Price: $400.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134718

Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1983. oblong 12mo. quarter leather over marbled paper-covered boards, leather tips. 64 pages followed by the tipped-in samples. First edition, limited to 350 numbered copies (Heaney A37). Reprints the first American Treatise on Marbling, an account which appears in the April 1829 issue of the Journal of the Franklin Institute with additional text by Wolfe. Beautifully printed on handmade paper. Prospectus loosely inserted. READ MORE about ON IMPROVEMENTS IN MARBLING THE EDGES OF BOOKS AND PAPER, A NINETEENTH CENTURY MARBLING ACCOUNT...

Price: $250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 462

Sussex: I. Nevins, (1986). 8vo. cloth with marbled paper specimen on front cover. (iv), 318 pages. Limited to 300 numbered and signed copies.This reprint of the first practical bookbinding manual (1856) contains 18 hand-marbled specimens, marbled according to directions given in the text by Iris Nevins. She has also written a two page introduction. READ MORE about A MANUAL OF THE ART OF BOOKBINDING Originally issued with 7 hand-marbled specimens by Mr. Charles...

Price: $225.00 save 20% $180.00  other currencies  Order nr. 118156

Boston: Richard J. Wolfe, 1991. 8vo. decorated paper over cloth-backed boards. xix, 15, 23, (7) pages. Limited to 250 signed copies, 200 for sale. Text is a facsimile of original Dutch text with translation on facing page. Gives information on gilding of leather, paper, and silk, velvet and fore edge, marbling on edges of calf and sheepskin, and dyeing of calf and sheepskin. Tipped-in are 8 samples of some of the processes explained in the..... READ MORE about GEHEIMEN DER BOEKBINDERIJ, SECRETS OF BOOKBINDING, AN ANONYMOUS 19TH CENTURY DUTCH BOOKBINDING...

Price: $250.00 save 20% $200.00  other currencies  Order nr. 34250

New York: The New York Public Library, 1950. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 129 pages. First separate edition, reprinted from the Bulletin. Excellent source document. With information on marblers. Name in ink on free endpaper. READ MORE about DIRECTORY OF THE BOOK-ARTS AND BOOK TRADE IN PHILADELPHIA TO 1820, INCLUDING PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS

Price: $75.00  other currencies  Order nr. 20568

N.P. Busyhaus Publications, (1983). oblong 8vo. half leather over cloth. 65, (3) pages. One of 200 numbered copies bound in half leather by the Harcourt Bindery. A study of marbling with an introduction by Don Guyot, including essays and original tipped-in specimens by ten marblers made just for this edition, along with technical notes and a bibliography of the subject. Finely printed at the Naiman Press. Includes a wood engraving by Michael McCurdy. READ MORE about AMERICAN DECORATIVE PAPERMAKERS, THE WORK & SPECIMENS OF TWELVE CRAFT ARTISTS

Price: $350.00  other currencies  Order nr. 5313

Winterthur: (Alex Schneebeli), 1971. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, plastic jacket with gilt lettering on cover, paper slipcase. (ii), 102+(1) pages. Limited to only 220 numbered copies. Text in German. Ten different sections on the different variations of marbled and decorated paper. Difficult book to find. With 205 tipped-in specimens of marbled paper. READ MORE about BUNTPAPIERE, GESCHICHTE UND REZEPTE DES BUNTPAPIERS MIT 205 ORIGINAL-BUNTPAPIER-MUSTERN

Price: $2,250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 95572

Joppe, the Netherlands: Karli Frigge, 2020. 25 x 25 cm. paper covered boards in a glued and sewn binding with five leather endbands, paper cardstock slipcase with paper label on the cover and spine. (8), 9-12, followed by 59 samples of marbled paper. First edition limited to 110 numbered copies. Translated by Erik Zuurbier and edited by Sidney Berger. Typography by Willie Bosch. The book is bound by Karli Frigge herself, with assistance from Steintje..... READ MORE about THE MAGIC OF MARBLING

Price: $900.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135351

New York, NY: Dover Publications, (1992). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 32 pages. Table of contents, introduction. Black and white illustrations throughout. Color illustrations on inside endpapers. READ MORE about TECHNIQUES FOR MARBLEIZING PAPER

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 130802

Budapest, Hungary: Im Selbstverlage des Verfassers, 1885. 8vo. original embossed cloth. (ii), 202, (4) pages. Ein Praktisches Handbuch für Buchbinder und Buntpapierfabrikanten. Nach technisch-wissenschaftlichen grundlagen bearbeitet von Josef Halfer, Buchbinder in Budapest. First edition of this seminal work on marbling by the Budapest based bookbinder and marbler Josef Halfer. This edition was first published without specimen papers; the second edition of 1891 had specimens. "The Halfer system is so important that marbling history is broken..... READ MORE about DIE FORTSCHRITTE DER MARMORIERKUNST

Price: $3,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 102059