(Bird & Bull Press). Morris, Henry.

TRADE TOKENS OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS & BOOKMAKERS, WITH SPECIMENS OF ELEVEN ORIGINAL TOKENS STRUCK ESPECIALLY FOR THIS BOOK.

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 save 20% $200.00  other currencies  Order nr. 133743

(Bird & Bull Press). Schmoller, Tanya.

REMONDINI AND RIZZI, A CHAPTER IN ITALIAN DECORATED PAPER HISTORY.

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1990. 8vo. cloth-backed boards covered with patterned paper, in facsimile of an original Remondini pattern specially executed by Henry Morris, leather spine label. 55, (5) pages. A first edition limited to 215 numbered copies. A fine copy with prospectus loosely inserted. Remondini and Rizzi is set in Perpetua and printed by letterpress on Johannot mouldmade paper by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press (Berger B36). Italian block-printed..... READ MORE about REMONDINI AND RIZZI, A CHAPTER IN ITALIAN DECORATED PAPER HISTORY

Price: $400.00 save 20% $320.00  other currencies  Order nr. 29914

(Bird & Bull Press). Sumner, James.

THE MYSTERIOUS MARBLER WITH AN HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION, NOTES AND 11 ORIGINAL MARBLED SAMPLES BY RICHARD J. WOLFE.

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 save 20% $320.00  other currencies  Order nr. 120869

(Bird & Bull Press). Sumner, James.

THE MYSTERIOUS MARBLER WITH AN HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION, NOTES AND 11 ORIGINAL MARBLED SAMPLES BY RICHARD J. WOLFE.

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 save 20% $320.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134718

(Bird & Bull Press). Wolfe, Richard J.

ON IMPROVEMENTS IN MARBLING THE EDGES OF BOOKS AND PAPER, A NINETEENTH CENTURY MARBLING ACCOUNT EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED WITH FOURTEEN ORIGINAL MARBLED SAMPLES.

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 save 20% $200.00  other currencies  Order nr. 462

(Bookbinding). Nicholson, James B.

A MANUAL OF THE ART OF BOOKBINDING Originally issued with 7 hand-marbled specimens by Mr. Charles Williams.

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 50% $112.50  other currencies  Order nr. 118156

(Bookbinding). Wolfe, Richard J.

GEHEIMEN DER BOEKBINDERIJ, SECRETS OF BOOKBINDING, AN ANONYMOUS 19TH CENTURY DUTCH BOOKBINDING MANUAL, REPRODUCED IN FACSIMILE WITH TRANSLATION, INTRODUCTION AND NOTES.

Boston: Richard J. Wolfe, 1991. 8vo. marbled paper over cloth-backed boards. xix, 15, 23, (7) pages, one folded plate. 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. Four tipped in specimens of gilt stamping and four..... READ MORE about GEHEIMEN DER BOEKBINDERIJ, SECRETS OF BOOKBINDING, AN ANONYMOUS 19TH CENTURY DUTCH BOOKBINDING...

Price: $125.00 save 50% $62.50  other currencies  Order nr. 34250

Brown, H. Glenn and Maude O. Brown.

DIRECTORY OF THE BOOK-ARTS AND BOOK TRADE IN PHILADELPHIA TO 1820, INCLUDING PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.

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 save 50% $37.50  other currencies  Order nr. 20568

GUILD OF BOOK WORKERS JOURNAL. INDEX VOLUMES I - VIII. 1962-1970.

This issue is devoted to being an index for the first eight volumes.
New York, NY: Guild of Book Workers, 1972. 8vo. paper wrappers. 44 pages. This issue is devoted to being an index for the first eight volumes. A fine copy. READ MORE about GUILD OF BOOK WORKERS JOURNAL. INDEX VOLUMES I - VIII. 1962-1970

Price: $20.00 save 20% $16.00  other currencies  Order nr. 138748

(Marbling).

AMERICAN DECORATIVE PAPERMAKERS, THE WORK & SPECIMENS OF TWELVE CRAFT ARTISTS.

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 save 20% $280.00  other currencies  Order nr. 5313

(Marbling). Chambers, Anne.

THE PRACTICAL GUIDE TO MARBLING PAPER.

(New York): Thames and Hudson, (1988). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 88 pages. Reprint of the first U.S. edition. Contains 82 illustrations with 54 in color. Introduction by Bernard C. Middleton. Excellent for professionals and amateurs. Shows the technique of marbling paper in the classic tradition, using ox gall and water colors on a size of carragheen moss. Fine copy. READ MORE about THE PRACTICAL GUIDE TO MARBLING PAPER

Price: $20.00 save 50% $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 133810

(Marbling). Frigge, Karli.

ALCHEMY & MARBLING.

Joppe, the Netherlands: Karli Frigge, (1996). large oblong 4to. quarter leather, stiff paper boards, cardboard slipcase with paper cover label. 65, (11) pages. One of an edition of 100 of this incredibly rare title. A very personal look at the art of marbling by the Dutch artist Karli Frigge. The text, which describes the working methods of the artist, and her interactions with the monks of the monastery where she has her studio, is accompanied..... READ MORE about ALCHEMY & MARBLING

Price: $1,500.00 save 20% $1,200.00  other currencies  Order nr. 45864

(Marbling). Frigge, Karli.

MARBLED PAPER.

(Buren, The Netherlands: Antiquariaat Frits Knuf, 1985). oblong 8vo. calf leather spine, harness leather covers with laced leather straps, paper slipcase. unpaginated. Text in English and Dutch. Limited to 100 numbered copies. English text translated from the Dutch by Roger Andrews, and Tanya and Hans Schmoller. Introductory comments, entitled "The Story," with tipped-in black and white illustrations. With thirty-four tipped-in specimens, produced during the summers of 1983 and 1984, of Frigge's work. Bound with a...... READ MORE about MARBLED PAPER

Price: $2,500.00 save 20% $2,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 129280