(Paris): Éditions des Cendres, 2005. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 35, (3) pages. Limited to 521 copies, of which this is one of 500 printed on Vellum Fedrigoni paper Text in French. Even though this is a new book,there are a few faint creases. READ MORE about ALDE, RENOUARD & DIDOT
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 100370
Enquêtes policières et secrets bibliographiques Documents inédits
(Paris): Éditions des Cendres, 2008. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 83, (3) pages. Enquêtes policières et secrets bibliographiques Documents inédits. Limited to 521 copies, of which this is one of 500 printed on Vellum Fedrigoni paper Text in French. A new look at the Libri scandal. Even though this is a new book,there are a few creases. READ MORE about LIBRI VAINCU
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 100371
Austin: The Pemberton Press, 1981. 8vo. paper wrappers. (12) pages. Limited to 450 copies. With greeting slip loosely inserted. Bangs was the first printer in Texas. A Christmas greeting. READ MORE about THE SAGA OF SAMUEL BANGS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 6324
2 volumes.
London, England: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1824. 32mo. Volume 1 original quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper spine label; Volume 2 contemporary half leather, marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers. (xiv), xii, 610, 10; (iv), iv, 664, (16) pages. 2 volumes. First edition (Bigmore and Wyman I, 371; Hart 68). Volume 1 is the royal 8vo edition and Volume II is the 8vo edition. One of the larger paper copies with "large paper" printed..... READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHIA, OR THE PRINTER'S INSTRUCTOR INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF PRINTING. With...
Price: $500.00 Order nr. 129170
Berkeley, CA: Poltroon Press, 2012. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 178 pages. Literary Nonfiction. United States History. Book Arts. Between the American Civil War and the end of the nineteenth century a population of rootless craftsmen drifted from town to town working as typesetters, editors and printers in newspaper offices. Some like Walt Whitman, Mark Twain and Horace Greeley became famous authors; others driven by drink or personal tragedy became the stuff of legend. This collection..... READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHICAL TOURISTS: TALES OF TRAMPING PRINTERS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 109426
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1983. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 322 pages. First edition. These essays have been written by leading scholars on early bookselling, reading habits and the impact of printing in early America. Printing history in its broadest context may be viewed as a distinct form of cultural history, a synthesis combining the attention to ideas that is central to intellectual history with the emphasis on patterns of behavior and organization characteristic of..... READ MORE about PRINTING AND SOCIETY IN EARLY AMERICA
Price: $37.50 Order nr. 14220
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London: n.p. (printed by C. Whittingham), 1845. small 4to. contemporary full calf, boards ruled with foliat and double fillet roll motifs, rims of boards and turn-ins with gilt roll pattern, all edges gilt, five raised bands, red spine label, gilt-tooled spine panels. (198) pages. Printed as an Eton prize book for 1845. Sixteen satires of Juvenal, and six by Persius. Printed by Whittingham (whose device follows the text) at Chiswick. This book is a minor..... READ MORE about DECII JUNII JUVENALIS AQUINATIS SATIRAE DECEM ET SEX [ORNAMENT] AULI PERSII FLACCI SATIRA SEX
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 55179
London: Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd., 1939. tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 224 pages and 19 plates and 17 engravings. First edition. Tells primarily the story of the growth of a printing business during a 100 year period. Jacket worn with pieces missing. READ MORE about A CENTURY IN PRINT, THE STORY OF HAZELL'S 1839-1939
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 53074
London: Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd., 1939. tall 8vo. cloth. xiv, 224 pages and 19 plates and 17 engravings. First edition. Tells primarily the story of the growth of a printing business during a 100 year period. Worn spot along bottom of front hinge. READ MORE about A CENTURY IN PRINT, THE STORY OF HAZELL'S 1839-1939
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 4370
London: Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd., 1939. tall 8vo. cloth. xiv, 224 pages and 19 plates and 17 engravings. First edition. Tells primarily the story of the growth of a printing business during a 100 year period. Wear at spine ends. Preliminary pages foxed. READ MORE about A CENTURY IN PRINT, THE STORY OF HAZELL'S 1839-1939
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 96451
London: Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd., 1939. tall 8vo. cloth. xiv, 224 pages and 19 plates and 17 engravings. First edition. Tells primarily the story of the growth of a printing business during a 100 year period. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about A CENTURY IN PRINT, THE STORY OF HAZELL'S 1839-1939
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 98618
Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society Volume 117
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 2008. 6 x 9 inches. paperback. 162 pages. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society Volume 117. The topic of this new book from the American Antiquarian Society is printing in New England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. More specifically, the author focuses on three printers who were active during that period: Nathaniel Coverly, Sr.; Nathaniel Coverly, Jr.; and Joseph White. Through a close examination of..... READ MORE about PRINTERS OF BALLADS, BOOKS, AND NEWSPAPERS: BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES AND CHECKLISTS FOR NATHANIEL...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 100615
Gezeichnet und auf Stein radirt von Eugen Klimsch. Heft 1. Bound together with DEVISEN VIGNETTEN UND ALLEGORIEN FÜR DECORATIONSMALER, GRAVEURE, LITHOGRAPHEN, ETC. entworfen und gezeichnet von F.C. Klimsch. Heft 1. Klimsch & Co. Frankfurt a/M. 1864.
Frankfurt a/M. Kunst-Verlag Klimsch & Co., n.d. (circa 1868). large 4to. later cloth. (ii), 12 plates; (ii), 72 plates. Gezeichnet und auf Stein radirt von Eugen Klimsch. Heft 1. Bound together with DEVISEN VIGNETTEN UND ALLEGORIEN FÜR DECORATIONSMALER, GRAVEURE, LITHOGRAPHEN, ETC. entworfen und gezeichnet von F.C. Klimsch. Heft 1. Klimsch & Co. Frankfurt a/M. 1864. Written in German. Title page and 12 plates with Putti-style infants. Eugen Klimsch was the son of Ferdinand Karl Klimsch..... READ MORE about KINDERGRUPPEN
Price: $750.00 Order nr. 100361
New York: J.J. Little and Ives, 1938. 8vo. cloth-backed boards. xii, 120 pages. First edition. With a number of interesting illustrations of equipment used during this early period. READ MORE about THE ERA OF CHARLES MAHON, THIRD EARL OF STANHOPE, STEREOTYPER 1750 - 1825
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 4388
New York: J.J. Little and Ives, 1938. 8vo. cloth-backed boards. xii, 120 pages. First edition. With a number of interesting illustrations of equipment used during this early period. Ink ownership inscription. READ MORE about THE ERA OF CHARLES MAHON, THIRD EARL OF STANHOPE, STEREOTYPER 1750 - 1825
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 42242
Stockholm: Litografiska Anstalt, 1923. 4to. quarter vellum, paper-covered boards. (14), 169, (3) pages, with 44 additional leaves of plates. A festschrift, limited to 600 copies, for A. Lagrelius, and signed by him under his portrait. Contains five articles: An historical survey of reproduction of illustrations in Sweden, photographic methods, 3-color photography and printing, Swedish cartography in the last half century, and the reproduction of illustrations and modern man. Forty-four plates (mostly of the works of..... READ MORE about BILDREPRODUKTIONEN I SVERIGE FRAN BORJAN AV NITTONDE ARHUNDRADET
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 51246
London: Walton & Maberly, 1859. small 8vo. modern pamphlet holder with extract bound-in. Extracted from The museum of science and art, volume 11, pp. 1-32. With 13 illustrations including some full-page. With the ink signature of Gavin Bridson. Bridson has added a printed title page. READ MORE about THE PRINTING PRESS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 98499
London: Philip Allan, 1922. tall 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, leather spine label. (xviii), 125, (7) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 275 copies. Introduction by Campbell Dodgson, Keeper of Prints at the British Museum. Careful study of how Pierre Lombart (1613-1682) lifted the horse and rider from Van Dyck's painting of King Charles I. Under an Archway for his famous engraving of Cromwell on Horseback. Illustrated. With a short summary of the..... READ MORE about THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN, PIERRE LOMBART'S ENGRAVING, CHARLES OR CROMWELL?
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 70039
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1855-73. 8vo. contemporary quarter calf over marbled paper-covered boards. x, 440 pages. First edition. (Bigmore & Wyman I, 428). Has two folding plates and numerous figures in the text. Detailed descriptions of composition and includes work on the printing press, functions of the overseer, stereotype, electrotype and setting type in foreign languages. With 26 wood-engravings and various tables. Ex-library with markings. Covers worn with covers detached. The "Table Synoptique" between pages..... READ MORE about GUIDE PRATIQUE DU COMPOSITEUR D'IMPRIMERIE TYPOGRAPHE
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 40529
Paris: Ch. Lorilleux & Cie. 1896. 4to. modern quarter calf, marbled paper-covered boards. xxiv, 358 pages. Twenty-eight plates, some in color, and many illustrations in the text. Originally published in 12 parts; here bound together. Some internal spotting. Contains information regarding the history of lithography, chromolithography, photogravure, and zincography. Illustrations focus on both art work reproductions and handwritten documents and manuscripts. READ MORE about LA LITHOGRAPHIE FRANÇAISE DE 1796 À 1896 ET LES ARTS QUI S'Y RATTACHENT; MANUEL PRATIQUE...
Price: $1,250.00 Order nr. 99477
Frankfurt am Main: August Osterrieth, 1956. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 49, (3) pages. First edition. 125 years of the printing firm August Osterrieth are marked by this commemorative publication. They begin their story in the 18th century with Samuel Friedrich Osterrieth. llustrated with images of the Osterrieth family, the various company locations, and factory operations. In German. Small tear at top right edge of cover. READ MORE about SCHWARZ UND BUNT
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 63299
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., (1928). tall 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt. xxxvi, 405 pages and 61 plates. First edition. The definitive study of the subject with chapters devoted to Baxter, Charles Knight, Vizetelly, Leighton Brothers, Edmund Evans, Benjamin Fawcett and others. Recased. Ex-library, with card catalogue on rear pastedown still present under the new endpapers. Original covers stained. The recasing made this an incredibly solid book. READ MORE about THE STORY OF PICTURE PRINTING IN ENGLAND DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; OR, FORTY YEARS OF WOOD...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 22464
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., (1928). tall 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt. xxxvi, 405 pages and 61 plates. First edition. The definitive study of the subject with chapters devoted to Baxter, Charles Knight, Vizetelly, Leighton Brothers, Edmund Evans, Benjamin Fawcett and others. Bumped at head of spine. An excellent book. READ MORE about THE STORY OF PICTURE PRINTING IN ENGLAND DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; OR, FORTY YEARS OF WOOD...
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 120873
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd., 1920. small 8vo. cloth. xv, 138 pages. First edition. Le Blond, according to this author, is by far the best printer by the Baxter method of producing coloured pictures. Covers the history of color printing and a complete description of many of the Le Blond prints. Illustrated. Minor spine fading. READ MORE about LE BLOND BOOK, 1920, BEING A HISTORY & DETAILED CATALOGUE OF THE WORK OF LE BLOND & CO....
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 20382
San Marino, California: Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2016. 8 x 11.875 inches. Hardcover, three-piece case binding with debossed and tipped-on title. 176 pages. A catalogue issued in conjunction with "Gardens, Art, and Commerce in Chinese Woodblock Prints" at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, September 17, 2016-January 9, 2017. The exhibition and catalogue explore the art, craft, and cultural significance of Chinese woodblock prints made during their golden age, from..... READ MORE about GARDENS, ART, AND COMMERCE IN CHINESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS
Price: $49.95 Order nr. 129157
