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
Zürich: Leo Worl, 1867. square folio. 19th-century half brown morocco, abraded, over marbled paper covered boards. 26, 17 pages, followed by 17 facsimiles (some in color). First edition. Ex-library with call number on spine, pressure stamps on title-page, and some library pencilling. Else a good copy. Facsimile with scholarly study and apparatus of the block book int he library of gymnasium at Grossherzogl in Konstanz, Germany. The facsimile is in color. A second edition was..... READ MORE about BIBLIA PAUPERUM, NACH DEM ORIGINAL IN DER LYCEUMS-BIBLIOTHEK ZU CONSTANZ, HRSG. UND MIT EINER...
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
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, Longman, and J. Taylor, 1832. small 8vo. brown leather. 334 pages. Part of a series entitled The cabinet cyclopaedia. Useful arts, 36 illustrations in the text. Front board detached yet present. Lacking the spine. Scratches to leather cothers. Interior clean. Bookplate on front pastedown. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books.READ MORE about THE CABINET CYCLOPEDIA. USEFUL ARTS. A TREATISE ON THE PROGRESSIVE IMPROVEMENT AND PRESENT STATE...
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?
Edited by Alice Corkran.
London: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1886. small square 8vo. publisher's paper-covered boards, paper cover and spine label. 174, (2), 4 pages. Edited by Alice Corkran. First edition. Minor edgewear. Shaken. Minor soiling. Engraved frontispiece by William Luker. Advertisements at rear. Contains musical scores.READ MORE about THE BAIRNS' ANNUAL FOR 1885-6
With an Appreciation of Andrew White Tuer
New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2010. 7 x 10 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 176 pages. With an Appreciation of Andrew White Tuer. "An admirable conspectus.... Young's checklist has certainly broken new ground." - Brian McMullin, Script & Print "As Young explores in this short but well grounded study, the firm... moved from stationery and lithographic trade work into decorative, fine art and small press printing." - David Finklestein..... READ MORE about FIELD & TUER, THE LEADENHALL PRESS: A CHECKLIST
With an Appreciation of Andrew White Tuer
New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2010. 7 x 10 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 176 pages. With an Appreciation of Andrew White Tuer. This book is the first comprehensive (and long-overdue) bibliographic study of the London partnership of Field & Tuer and their publishing imprint, Leadenhall Press (later the Leadenhall Press, Ltd.). Matthew Young makes a convincing argument for Andrew W. Tuer (1838-1900) as one of the most imaginative..... READ MORE about FIELD & TUER, THE LEADENHALL PRESS: A CHECKLIST
With an Appreciation of Andrew White Tuer
New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2010. 7 x 10 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 176 pages. With an Appreciation of Andrew White Tuer. A SIGNED COPY BY THE AUTHOR OF THIS LOVELY BOOK "As Young explores in this short but well grounded study, the firm, which was founded in 1862 by Abraham Field and Andrew White Tuer, moved from stationery and lithographic trade work into decorative, fine art and..... READ MORE about FIELD & TUER, THE LEADENHALL PRESS: A CHECKLIST
Wymondham: Brewhouse Press, 1970. 4to. half leather over marbled paper-covered boards. 64 pages. First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies (Not in Leaf Book - Chalmers). With three actual specimens inserted. With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. Boards bowed, especially the front. Leather backstrip detached and loosely inserted in book. An important history of the first commercially successful means of reproducing the printed page. With three mounted specimens demonstrating this method of reproduction. Well-printed by..... READ MORE about ASPECTS OF VICTORIAN LITHOGRAPHY, ANASTATIC PRINTING AND PHOTOZINCOGRAPHY
Mexico: Ediciones del Palacio de Bellas Artes, 1934-35. square 8vo. original wrappers. 185 pages. Illustrated study of 19th century printing in Mexico with biographical information on important printers. Includes many acsimile title pages. Front and rear covers detacht, yet present. Wear to spine with some loss. Else very good. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.READ MORE about HISTORIA CRITICA DE LA TIPOGRAIFA EN LA CIUDAD DE MEXICO, IMPRESOS DEL SIGLO XIX
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
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
With a Census of Signed Copies
New Castle, DE & Chicago, IL: Oak Knoll Press & Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, 2009. 6 x 9 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 228 pages. With a Census of Signed Copies. Fifty years ago, David Mearns at the Library of Congress wrote a twenty-page overview of the basic process that led to the publication of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Here, for the first time in a detailed and readable account focusing on Lincoln's personal involvement, Dave Leroy..... READ MORE about MR. LINCOLN'S BOOK: PUBLISHING THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES
Portland, ME: The Anthoensen Press, 1961. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 78 pages. Biography of a 19th century New Orleans printer. Table of contents, list of illustrations. 8 black and white plates. Includes a bibliography of Levy imprints 1817-41. Appendix lists Alexander Levy imprints. Presentation from the author on title page to J. Ben Lieberman. Wrappers tanned at edges.READ MORE about BENJAMIN LEVY: NEW ORLEANS PRINTER AND PUBLISHER
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....
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...
PubWest Book Design Awards 2017 Judges’ Choice, Publishing Professionals Network Best of Show, 2017 American Alliance of Museums Publications Design Competition, second prize in Exhibition Catalogues
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