New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and V&A Publishing, 2018. 8.75 x 12 inches. cloth, dust jacket. xx, 396 pages, with folding floor plan of the Crystal Palace in pocket at rear. "Any student of early photography -- or of the international exposition housed in the famous Crystal Palace in London -- will covet this magisterial work of careful scholarship and beautiful bookmaking." - Michael Dirda, "best books list," The Washington Post "Richly..... READ MORE about PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE 1851 GREAT EXHIBITION

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New Castle, DE and Greensboro, NC: Oak Knoll Press and Guilford College Art Gallery, 2018. 8.5 x 11 inches. paperback. 120 pages. "For each book displayed, often with multiple photographs, Monique tells us about the binding. ... These brief little stories will draw you in and make you feel as if you are there with her as she talks." - John Neal, Bound & Lettered, Spring 2019 "A prolific and endlessly inventive designer with flawless..... READ MORE about MONIQUE LALLIER: A RETROSPECTIVE

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2018. 5.75 x 8 inches. cloth spine over paper-covered boards. 144 pages, 17 tipped-in marbling swatches. Josef Halfer practiced and taught marbling roughly three centuries after the craft had appeared in Europe, at a time when paper marbling was in decline and being replaced by mechanically-produced substitutes. However, his innovations coincided with recent advances in chemistry, biochemistry and bacteriology, and he was able to apply those recent advances to..... READ MORE about JOSEF HALFER AND THE REVIVAL OF THE ART OF MARBLING PAPER

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2018. 8.5 x 11 inches. cloth. 338 pages, with CD. A Directory of Delaware Photographers is an extensively researched study of historical information about photographers working in the state of Delaware from the dawn of practical photography through the developmental of the photographic trade up to the early twentieth century. William A. McKay began to research his subject upon discovering a monograph by Jon Williams, formerly of Hagley Museum..... READ MORE about A DIRECTORY OF DELAWARE PHOTOGRAPHERS, 1839-1900 AND BEYOND

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. 7.375 x 10.5 inches. Cloth with dust jacket. 208 pages. "This work skillfully demonstrates that the aura of unsurpassed quality around the work of Harold and Meriden was both hard earned and richly deserved.... a handsome book that alludes in choice of type, layout, printing quality, and binding to a Meriden Gravure publication." - Paul M. Wright, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America "Throughout its nearly century-long..... READ MORE about IN THE SERVICE OF SCHOLARSHIP: HAROLD HUGO & THE MERIDEN GRAVURE COMPANY

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, cloth spine over paper-covered boards. 264 pages. "Surprisingly, despite the many presses covered, a satisfying amount of detail about each is provided.... Over 100 attractive images successfully support Patkus remarks about the aesthetics of layout, design, and illustration produced by the presses. The book contains a number of helpful checklists, tables, and graphs that present the reader with opportunities to consider the books..... READ MORE about THE PRIVATELY PRINTED BIBLE: PRIVATE AND FINE PRESS PRINTINGS OF BIBLICAL TEXTS, 1892-2000

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. 7.375 x 10.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 384 pages. "In this lavishly illustrated study, Margit J. Smith uncovers the largely untold story of a very different model of medieval book use: she has written the definitive account of the 'girdle book', a small, portable volume designed for quick access and consultation. ...In this intriguing study, Smith helps us to see the book as a mobile commodity long before..... READ MORE about THE MEDIEVAL GIRDLE BOOK

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. 7.25 x 10.5 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 240 pages. "A fascinating and detailed account of the shared goal of these different Shakespearian publishers, alongside an analysis of how printing technology shaped their ability to carry out this mission." - Katherine Scheil, PBSA "This is a scholarly as well as readable account of the efforts of five publishers in the years 1838 to 1864 to bring Shakespeare to the..... READ MORE about STEAM-DRIVEN SHAKESPEARE OR MAKING GOOD BOOKS CHEAP: FIVE VICTORIAN ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. 7 x 10 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 368 pages. "An exemplary piece of modern library history... while An Actors Library will quickly become required reading for Garrick specialists and those interested in the history and dispersal of eighteenth-century private libraries, it is also about much more than that, not least as an intimate account of the centrality of books to social relationships and family life in the eighteenth..... READ MORE about AN ACTOR'S LIBRARY: DAVID GARRICK, BOOK COLLECTING AND LITERARY FRIENDSHIPS

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New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 6.625 x 9.875 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 176 pages. "The detailed research and design process behind all these fonts (as well as the evolving technology) is conveyed through the many half-tone illustrations in Nancy Stock-Allen's excellent study." - Nancy Campbell, TLS "Carol Twombly... has been billed as 'the first book on type design centered around the career of one woman.' I would argue that it is more important..... READ MORE about CAROL TWOMBLY: HER BRIEF BUT BRILLIANT CAREER IN TYPE DESIGN

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 5 x 8 inches. Cloth, dust jacket. 264 pages. "Not to be missed, both because it is a beautiful material object but also because it holds important new information. The ninth edition of ABC for Book Collectors is greatly enhanced by the inclusion of images: some beautiful full-color photographs, others clearly labeled black-and-white reference drawings. I know I will be turning to this reference work for years to..... READ MORE about ABC FOR BOOK COLLECTORS 9TH ED

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Hardcover. 368 pages. (TDR). "A functional, comprehensive, postmodern approach... This reference source places clearly written, succinct explanations at the reader's fingertips." - Miriam, Kahn, SHARP News The Typographic Desk Reference (aka TDR) is an encyclopedic reference guide of typographic terms and classification with definitions of form and usage for Latin based writing systems. The second edition, in the works since 2010, has more than..... READ MORE about THE TYPOGRAPHIC DESK REFERENCE

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 10.5 x 8 inches. Cloth, dust jacket. 232 pages. "Alastair Johnston's engaging and all-embracing survey of California printing takes us from its early beginnings in the 1870s (San Francisco's first type foudry opened in 1874), and covers all the printers we encountered in California, including himself, and a great many others besides." - John Randle, Matrix "Johnston is well situated to view the various intersections of of printing..... READ MORE about DREAMING ON THE EDGE: POETS AND BOOK ARTISTS IN CALIFORNIA

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