PRESERVING LEATHER BOOKBINDINGS.
Washington: Library of Congress, (1975). small 4to. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Preservation Leaflets, No.3. READ MORE about PRESERVING LEATHER BOOKBINDINGS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 31558
Washington: Library of Congress, (1975). small 4to. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Preservation Leaflets, No.3. READ MORE about PRESERVING LEATHER BOOKBINDINGS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 31558
Paris: Francisque Lefrançois, 1938. small 4to. quarter red calf stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. (iv), 113, (3) pages. The sixth and last part of this famous sale (Blogie 341). Édouard Rahir (1862-1924) was a well-known antiquarian bookseller, bibliographer, and publisher in Paris (for a time the publisher for the Société des Bibliophiles François). He had a long-standing business relationship with Quaritch in London and was the author of La Bibliothèque de l'amateur (1909 &..... READ MORE about LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE FEU ÉDOUARD RAHIR, ANCIEN LIBRAIRE. SIXIÈME ET DERNIÈRE PARTIE
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 102020
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1987. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 250 pages. Reprint of the first edition of 1954. (S-K 3515). With 16 plates of bookbindings. Gives biographical information including addresses and references. READ MORE about BOOKBINDERS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (OUTSIDE LONDON) 1780-1840
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 28091
N.P. n.p., n.d. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 165-170 and one plate. Reprinted from The Book Collector. READ MORE about THE COLLECTION OF HOLLIS BINDINGS AT BERNE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 5931
London: G. Michelmore & Co., n.d. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 208 pages and many separate plates. Catalogue 19 issued by this firm. Many illustrations including some foldout plates. READ MORE about RARE OLD BOOKS, MANY IN FINE BINDINGS, OLD ASSOCIATION BOOKS, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS, HOLOGRAPH...
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 102948
(Odense, Denmark: Carl Nielsens Bogbinderi), 1959. 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards, paper spine label. 121, (3) pages. Text in Danish. Table of contents. Foreword by the author. A study of books and bookbinding in the city of Odense as of 1694. Includes chapters on the background, book collections, the social position of bookbinders and book salesmen. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about BØGER OG BOGBINDERE I ODENSE FØR 1696
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 114364
New York: Museum of Contemporary Crafts, 1964. 15 x 5 inches. stiff paper wrappers. 52 pages. Exhibition of bookbindings by French binders with 160 books described and many illustrated. (Brenni no.662). With a preface by Andre Rodocanachi and an introduction by Polly Lada-Mocarski. From the private reference collection of Howard Nixon, noted authority on bindings, with his code written in pencil on rear page. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative..... READ MORE about LA RELIURE ORIGINALE FRANCAISE, BOOKBINDINGS BY CONTEMPORARY FRENCH BINDERS. WITH A SELECTION OF...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 5935
Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1953. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xvi, 92, (12) pages. S-K 916. Exhibition of bookbindings by French binders with 352 books described and many illustrated. With 28 plates of bindings. Tanned around edges, else a well preserved copy. READ MORE about LA RELIURE ORIGINALE FRANCAISE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 29668
Verona: Edizioni Valdonega, 1994. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 368 pages. First edition. For over forty years, Anthony Hobson has occupied a commanding position in the world of books. Succeeding his father, G. D. Hobson, the great historian of bookbinding, as head of Sotheby's book department, he ran it for some twenty years with equal commercial skill and scholarly learning. Since then, he has established an independent reputation with a series of studies..... READ MORE about BOOKBINDINGS & OTHER BIBLIOPHILY
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 40610
Verona: Edizioni Valdonega, 1994. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 368 pages. First edition. For over forty years, Anthony Hobson has occupied a commanding position in the world of books. Succeeding his father, G. D. Hobson, the great historian of bookbinding, as head of Sotheby's book department, he ran it for some twenty years with equal commercial skill and scholarly learning. Since then, he has established an independent reputation with a series of studies..... READ MORE about BOOKBINDINGS & OTHER BIBLIOPHILY
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 130444
Washington: Guild of Book Workers, 1986. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 183 pages. Many illustrations with some in color. Foreword by Frank Mowery followed by exhibition descriptions of the works of 61 members. Shows fine bindings, calligraphy, decorated paper, artist's books, fine printing, models and limited edition binding. Issued to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Club. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about 80 YEARS LATER
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 17158
Washington: Guild of Book Workers, 1986. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 183 pages. Many illustrations with some in color. Foreword by Frank Mowery followed by exhibition descriptions of the works of 61 members. Shows fine bindings, calligraphy, decorated paper, artist's books, fine printing, models and limited edition binding. Issued to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Club. Covers rubbed. READ MORE about 80 YEARS LATER
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 38663
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1928. 4to. cloth, leather cover label. 32 pages. S-K 6997. With 16 plates and 29 figures in the text. A near fine copy. READ MORE about A ROD FOR THE BACK OF THE BINDER, SOME CONSIDERATIONS OF BINDING WITH REFERENCE TO THE IDEALS OF...
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 5938
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1928. 4to. cloth. 32 pages. Reprint of the first edition executed via photocopy and put in binding. S-K 6997. With sixteen plates and twenty-nine figures in the text. READ MORE about A ROD FOR THE BACK OF THE BINDER, SOME CONSIDERATIONS OF BINDING WITH REFERENCE TO THE IDEALS OF...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 63649
Washington, DC: United States Department of Agriculture, (1956). 8vo. self paper wrappers. 8 pages. Basic instruction in preservation techniques. Leaflet No. 398. Some cover soiling. READ MORE about LEATHER BOOKBINDINGS, HOW TO PRESERVE THEM
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 51155
Madrid: Sociedad Española de Amigos del Arte, 1934. small folio. cloth, dust jacket. 249, 61 full-page plates, (7) pages. Text in Spanish. S-K 2022. First edition, one of 100 numbered copies. A scarce history of bookbinding in Spain from the 12th to the 19th century. Some of the 61 full-page plates of bindings are in color; each is protected by a tissue guard. Each of the color plates are tipped-in. These special copies are printed..... READ MORE about EXPOSICIÓN DE ENCUADERNACIONES ESPAÑOLAS, SIGLOS XII AL XIX
Price: $750.00 Order nr. 101558
Boston: The Rose Bindery, (1925). tall 8vo. cloth-backed boards. (14) pages and seven pages with tipped-in plates of bookbindings. An advertising book issued by this American firm specializing in fine bindings. The example plates show intricately tooled fine leather bindings. Covers rubbed around edges.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about ROSE BINDERY
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 13981
In American Craft, Vol. 40, No.4, August - September 1980. pp.24-27.
4to. loose pages. 24-27 pages. In American Craft, Vol. 40, No.4, August - September 1980. pp.24-27. S-K 7035. Extracted article from American Craft. Illustrated in color. Good condition. Gérard Charrière was a stellar bookbinder who did work for the fine press printer / artist Vincent Fitzgerald, as well as others. READ MORE about BINDING AS ART: GERARD CHARRIERE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 38861
Stockholm: Föreningen för bokhantverk, 1925. folio. stiff paper wrappers. 110 pages. First edition (S-K 3639). A study in Swedish bookbinding and embroidery made for book covers. Includes 39 plates, several in color. The plates and accompanying discussions are organized by material, including sections on books bound with velvet, silk and animal skin. Edges are slightly rubbed. READ MORE about BRODERADE BOKBAND FRÅN ÄLDRE TID I SVENSKA SAMLINGAR
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 70674
Stockholm, Sweden: Föreningen för Bokhantverk, 1925. 4to. half leather, marbled paper-covered boards, spine gilt-stamped with five raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. 110, (2) pages. Text in Swedish. Introduction, bibliography. 39 color and black and white plates. Noteworthy samples of bookbinding from Swedish collections. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. READ MORE about BRODERADE BOKBAND FRÅN ÄLDRE TID I SVENSKA SAMLINGAR
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 130762
Saint Paul, MN: Rulon-Miller Books, 2006. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 44 pages. Rulon-Miller catalogue 131, 383 items. Indices of binders and designers, trade bindings, and binding styles. Color illustrations throughout. READ MORE about FINE & INTERESTING BINDINGS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 131614
London: University of London, 1937. square 8vo. later cloth. ix, 48 pages. Contains 11 full-page plates. Divided into sections on English, Scottish, French, Italian, Spanish, German and Dutch bindings. Much text accompanies each description. Foxed. READ MORE about HISTORICAL AND ARMORIAL BOOKINGS EXHIBITED IN THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 86964
Augsburg: Detlev Auvermann, 1976. tall 8vo. leather spine over marbled paper-covered boards. (viii), 178 pages. S-K 961. First edition. 126 pages of text done in photo-offset from the typed copy followed by 111 plates of bookbindings. Out of print. Text in German. READ MORE about DIE EINBANDSAMMLUNG DER STAATS- UND STADTBIBLIOTHEK AUGSBURG
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 37421
Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg, 1978. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 32 pages. Reprint of the first edition. S-K 5173. With illustrations and a bibliography. (Brenni no.1238). READ MORE about THE BOOKBINDER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WILLIAMSBURG, AN ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE & TIMES, & OF...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 38729
Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg, 1992. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 32 pages. Seventh reprint of the first edition. With illustrations and a bibliography. (Brenni no.1238). READ MORE about THE BOOKBINDER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WILLIAMSBURG, AN ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE & TIMES, & OF...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 130586
N.P. Gallery 303, (1966). small 8vo. self paper wrappers. (12) pages. Six full page illustrations of early American bindings. Near fine. READ MORE about A SAMPLER OF ORNAMENTAL LEATHER BOOKBINDINGS EXECUTED IN AMERICA PRIOR TO 1820
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 15651
Berlin, Germany: Scarabaeus, n.d. folio. paper-covered boards, front cover gilt-stamped, dust jacket. 20 pages, plates. Text in German. First volume in the publisher's "Buchkunst des Orients" series. Dedication to Wilhelm von Bode, founder of the Islamic Art Museum in Berlin. Foreword, introduction. With 36 tipped-in color plates with descriptive text, four illustrations in text. Original dust jacket slightly chipped at edges. Covers rubbed and scuffed at edges. READ MORE about ISLAMISCHE BUCHEINBÄNDE
Price: $237.50 Order nr. 130819
New York: The Grolier Club, (1990). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. Exhibition organized by The Grolier Club. Illustrations with many in color. Reliure Americaine written by Henri Paricaud and Foreword written by Kenneth A. Lohf. Some very minor rubbing along covers and edges, else fine. READ MORE about CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BOOKBINDING
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 38012
Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1921. thick folio. cloth, leather spine label. 41 pages followed by 100 full-page plates. S-K 989. Illustrations, mostly in color, of 162 bindings on 100 plates. A magnificent folio describing the bindings in this library. With explanations of the plates at the beginning. Some spotting of covers. With the Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about BUCHEINBÄNDE AUS DEM XIV - XIX JAHRHUNDERT IN DER LANDESBIBLIOTHEK ZU DARMSTADT
Price: $275.00 Order nr. 71332
Leipzig, Germany: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1921. thick folio. cloth, leather spine label, six raised bands on spine, front cover and spine gilt-stamped, marbled endpapers. 41 pages followed by 100 full-page plates. Text in German. S-K 989. Illustrations, mostly in color, of 162 bindings on 100 plates. A magnificent folio describing the bindings in this library. Explanations of the plates at the beginning. Covers spotted. Stain at the top edge of the first 20 pages. Previous..... READ MORE about BUCHEINBÄNDE AUS DEM XIV - XIX JAHRHUNDERT IN DER LANDESBIBLIOTHEK ZU DARMSTADT
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 130569
Leipzig kkkkLeipzig, Germany: Karl W. Heirsemann, 1923. 4to. cloth, spine and front cover gilt-stamped. 83+(1) pages, plates. Foreword by the author, table of contents, introduction, bibliography. A study of the 16th century German bookbinder Jakob Krause. With 76 black and white plates, 4 color plates. 21 black and white illustrations in text. Slightly tanned at edges. READ MORE about JAKOB KRAUSE: EIN KURSÄCHSISCHER HOFBUCHBINDER DES 16. JAHRHUNDERTS
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 130773
Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 1987. tall 8vo. cloth. xviii, 511 pages. The best bibliography of the literature of bookbinding published to-date. A total of 8,033 entries are given in sections of related topics. These sections cover bibliography, terminology, method, aesthetics, general history, information on specific binders and binding historians, and sections of information divided by countries concerned based on chronological periods. With four indices at the back to help the reader: author, binder, collector..... READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHIE ZUR GESCHICHTE DER EINBANDKUNST VON DEN ANFANGEN BIS 1985
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 38872
Excerpt from Archiv fur Buchbinderei. Zeitschift fur Einbandkunst. Heft 10.
n.d. 4to. self paper wrappers. pp.71-78. Excerpt from Archiv fur Buchbinderei. Zeitschift fur Einbandkunst. Heft 10. S-K 3245. Illustrated with bindings from 1454 to the 20th century with eight pages of plates. Folded; covers show wear. READ MORE about NEUES VON ALTEN EINBANDFORMEN
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 5945
N.P. Meister der Einbandkunst, Internationale Vereinigung, 1974. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 80 pages. Illustrated introduction to the study of bookbinding. Rubbed along edges. READ MORE about EINFÜHRUNG IN DIE EINBANDBESTIMMUNG
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 21078
Bern, Switzerland: Gewerbemuseum, 1972. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 120 pages. Text in German and French. Table of contents, foreword by Walter Jäger. Proceedings of a symposium at the Gewerbemuseum, Basel, focusing on the work of Ignatz Wiemeler. Biographical sketches of participants. Black and white illustrations. Two photographs laid in. Covers lightly soiled. READ MORE about SCHWEIZERISCHES GUTENBERGMUSEUM/MUSÉE GUTENBERG SUISSE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 126167
N.P. n.p., (1985). small 4to. limp boards. Not paginated. S-K 6358. Descriptions of 61 bindings with most of them illustrated. Introduction by Bertold Hack. READ MORE about SECHZIG PRESSENDRUCKE IN HANDEINBANDEN VON CHRISTIAN ZWANG
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 38544
Washington: Library of Congress, (1975). small 4to. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Preservation Leaflets number one. READ MORE about SELECTED REFERENCES IN THE LITERATURE OF CONSERVATION
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 106763
Including a story of the Great Omar, a jewelled binding of the Rub'iyat of Omar Kahyyam lost on the Titanic in 1912.
London and New Castle, DE: Shepherds and Oak Knoll Press, 2015. 275 x 210 mm. paperback. 200pp + 8pp. Including a story of the Great Omar, a jewelled binding of the Rub'iyat of Omar Kahyyam lost on the Titanic in 1912. This book charts the history of one of the most important craft bookbinding workshops of the twentieth century. Sangorski & Sutcliffe was founded in 1901. The founding partners, Francis Sangorski and George Sutcliffe, established..... READ MORE about THE CINDERELLA OF THE ARTS: A SHORT HISTORY OF SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFF, A LONDON BOOKBINDING...
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 123418
London, England: Shepherds Sangorski & Sutcliffe and Zaehnsdorf, 2001. 4to. leather, cloth clamshell box, leather spine label with title and author in gilt. x, 60, (2) pages. Limited to 750 numbered copies, of which this was one of the unnumbered copies set aside in sheets for bookbinders. This particular copy is bound in full goatskin, with marbled leather onlays spelling out the title on the front cover on top of 'ribbed' textured leather grids, in..... READ MORE about LOST ON THE TITANIC
Price: $1,950.00 Order nr. 134363
N.P. n.p., 1985. oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 24 pages. Introduction followed by plates showing 20 of Ms. Rennie's bindings. Some of the plates are in color. READ MORE about SILVIA RENNIE, DESIGNER BINDINGS AN EXHIBITION OF FINE BINDINGS HELD AT KROCH'S & BRENTANO'S,...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 12481
Non-Adhesive Binding Volume II.
Rochester, NY: Keith Smith Books, (2010). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 320 pages. Non-Adhesive Binding Volume II. Reprint of the first edition. Written and drawn instructions for 122 sewings which yield four, to perhaps a hundred pages imposed as one, two or three sections. Almost all of these sewings on continuous limp paper supports were devised by Smith, as the book was written. Photos of bindings by twenty-eight contemporary binders and artists. Glossary included. READ MORE about 1-2-&3-SECTION SEWINGS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 47244
Non-Adhesive Binding Volume III.
Rochester: Keith Smith Books, (2018). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 319+(1) pages. Non-Adhesive Binding Volume III. Reprint of the first edition. Volume III of Smith's series on Non-Adhesive Binding describes a variety of techniques for sewing across the spine including Greek Binding, Celtic Weave and Caterpillar as well as nine various Coptic sewings. Illustrated with photographs by contemporary binders. READ MORE about EXPOSED SPINE SEWINGS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 46159
Volume I. Book No. 128
New York: Keith Smith Books, (2012). thick 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 351+(1) pages. Volume I. Book No. 128. Revised and expanded edition. A practical manual which demonstrates basic as well as very elaborate bindings constructed without adhesives and requiring no presses or other heavy equipment. Smith approaches binding as an integral part of the overall statement of the book so that the physical design becomes an extension of the content. This edition contains 264 drawn..... READ MORE about NON-ADHESIVE BINDING, BOOKS WITHOUT PASTE OR GLUE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 32473
Non-Adhesive Binding Volume V.
Rochester, NY: Keith Smith Books, 2018. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 317, (3) pages. Non-Adhesive Binding Volume V. First edition, third printing. The author's aim is to break away from traditional binding, yet keep the structures strong and the material archival. He strips away unnecessary steps, such as rounding and backing, and speeds up others, since he is working on books of 1-5, sections--quick leather bindings, with no paste or glue. Divided into sections on preliminaries..... READ MORE about QUICK LEATHER BINDINGS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 73122
Book No. 95
New York: Keith Smith Books, 2003. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 431+(1) pages. Book No. 95. Expanded Fourth Edition has been almost doubled in size to 432 pages. More than a revision, this is almost a new book within the previous. Contains over 450 photographs of artists books from 148 contemporary book artists from around the world. READ MORE about STRUCTURE OF THE VISUAL BOOK
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 78452
Book Number 200. An Anecdotal Bibliography.
New York: Keith Smith Books, 2000. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 335+(1) pages. Book Number 200. An Anecdotal Bibliography. First edition, second printing. Printed in an edition limited to 1000 copies. An annotated bibliography of all of the books made by Smith, which range from artist books to poetry and textbooks to dictionaries. Most of his 150 one of a kind books are in his own collection. He has published over two dozen small edition artist..... READ MORE about TWO HUNDRED BOOKS BY KEITH SMITH
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 59655
London: Studio Vista, (1974). 4to. cloth. 208 pages. First edition. Lacking the dust jacket, else near fine. (Brenni no.443). Introduction by Edgar Mansfield and foreword by Emilio Brugalla. With many illustrations of modern bindings, binding techniques and photos of binding shops. Some of the binding plates are in full color. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about NEW DIRECTIONS IN BOOKBINDING
Price: $90.00 Order nr. 2756
N.P. Bibliothèque Nationale, 1947. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 194, (18) pages. A catalogue for an exhibition of hand-made leather bindings from the tenth to the twentieth centuries. The catalogue describes 313 bindings, 40 of which are shown in full-page plates. Near fine. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about CATALOGUE DE L'EXPOSITION LA RELIURE ORIGINALE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 47123
Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1967. square 8vo. paper wrappers. (ii), 10 pages followed by three full-page plates of bindings. S-K 692. Brenni no.860. READ MORE about SCOTTISH 'WHEEL' AND 'HERRING-BON' BINDINGS IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, AN ILLUSTRATED HANDLIST
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 5960
San Francisco, CA: n.p., 2000. oblong 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. 21, (3) pages. Keepsake published for the Roxburghe and Zamorana Clubs, on occasion of a joint meeting in 2000. List of participants. Color and black and white illustrations. READ MORE about THE CHARM OF THE UNEXPECTED
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 126155
Avec 52 Planches dont 9 en Coleurs.
Leipzig: Librairie C.G. Boerner, n.d. (1912). 4to. later cloth with front paper wrapper bound-in. xvi, 108 pages. Avec 52 Planches dont 9 en Coleurs. K-S 1461; Mejer no.1540; Brenni no.278. A superb catalogue with text in French and German, well-illustrated and with prices given. "In Germany, Gustav Nebehay, partner of the firm of C. G. Boerner, commissioned his father-in-law, the bookbinder Carl Sonntag, to compile a handsome binding catalogue on the French model." - Breslauer..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE XXI, LIVRES DANS DE RICHES RELIURES DES QUINZIÉME, SEIZIÉME, DIX-SEPTIEME,...
Price: $185.00 Order nr. 75397
New Castle and Bryn Mawr: Oak Knoll Press & Bryn Mawr College Library, 2007. 4to. cloth. 300 pages. First edition. In this the first major study of American signed bookbindings, Willman Spawn and Thomas E. Kinsella describe and illustrate 315 bookbinder's tickets, stamps, and engraved designations dating from the 1750s through 1876. The details of the study reveal a vibrant segment of the book trade, deeply enmeshed with the related trades of booksellers, stationers and..... READ MORE about AMERICAN SIGNED BINDINGS THROUGH 1876
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 93148
New Castle and Bryn Mawr: Oak Knoll Press & Bryn Mawr College Library, 2007. 4to. unbound. 300 pages. First edition. Smyth-sewn book block complete with end sheets but without a case. In this the first major study of American signed book bindings, Willman Spawn and Thomas E. Kinsella describe and illustrate 315 bookbinder's tickets, stamps, and engraved designations dating from the 1750s through 1876. The details of the study reveal a vibrant segment of the..... READ MORE about AMERICAN SIGNED BINDINGS THROUGH 1876
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 93878
Bryn Mawr: Bryn Mawr College Library & Oak Knoll Press, 1999. small 4to. cloth. 206 pages. First edition, the hardbound variant. Well-illustrated exhibition catalogue including plates in color. Foreword by Elliot Shore, Director of Libraries, followed by historical information on binding. The first 219 bindings are described in great detail, including information on the binder. This is followed by shorter descriptions of 485 ticketed bindings also in the collection but not pictured. An important reference..... READ MORE about TICKETED BOOKBINDINGS FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN WITH AN ESSAY BY BERNARD MIDDLETON
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 54990
Bryn Mawr: Bryn Mawr College Library & Oak Knoll Press, 1999. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 206 pages. First edition. The paper wrappers depict various binder's tickets in color. Well-illustrated exhibition catalogue including plates in color. Foreword by Elliot Shore, Director of Libraries, followed by historical information on binding. The first 219 bindings are described in great detail, including information on the binder. This is followed by shorter descriptions of 485 ticketed bindings also in..... READ MORE about TICKETED BOOKBINDINGS FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN WITH AN ESSAY BY BERNARD MIDDLETON
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 54991
Bryn Mawr: Bryn Mawr College Library & Oak Knoll Press, 1999. small 4to. unbound signatures. 206 pages. First edition. Unbound sheet variant of this book. Suitable for binding. READ MORE about TICKETED BOOKBINDINGS FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN WITH AN ESSAY BY BERNARD MIDDLETON
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 54992
Bryn Mawr: Bryn Mawr College Library & Oak Knoll Press, 1999. small 4to. cloth. 206 pages. First edition, the hardbound variant. Well-illustrated exhibition catalogue including plates in color. Foreword by Elliot Shore, Director of Libraries followed by historical information on binding. The first 219 bindings are described in great detail including information on the binder. This is followed by shorter descriptions of 485 ticketed bindings also in the collection but not pictured. An important new..... READ MORE about TICKETED BOOKBINDINGS FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN WITH AN ESSAY BY BERNARD MIDDLETON
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 86857
Bryn Mawr: Bryn Mawr College Library & Oak Knoll Press, 1999. small 4to. later quarter faux leather with marbled paper covered boards. 206 pages. First edition, a set of the sheets that have been well bound in quarter leather. Well illustrated exhibition catalogue including plates in color. Foreword by Elliot Shore, Director of Libraries followed by historical information on binding. The first 219 bindings are described in great detail including information on the binder. This..... READ MORE about TICKETED BOOKBINDINGS FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN WITH AN ESSAY BY BERNARD MIDDLETON
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 118102
London, England: John Lane, 1899. 4to. original full leather, gilt-stamped cover designs, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, five raised bands. (x), 255+(1), (x), 264, (x), 256 pages. Volume I (June 1899) of this periodical. Table of contents, introduction, list of illustrations. Note on the facsimile binding by Cyril Davenport, which features the royal arms, as adopted during the Stuart era, the work of an anonymous master as related by Davenport. In his analysis of..... READ MORE about THE ANGLO SAXON REVIEW, A QUARTERLY MISCELLANY. VOLUMES I-III
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 128672
With a Five page Introduction by Henry Kent.
New York: New York Public Library, 1914. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 44 pages. With a Five page Introduction by Henry Kent. S-K 1422. First edition. (Mejer no.1442). Contains a number of separate plates showing the work of Michel, Gruel, Lortic and others. The books in the collection are described in great detail. Wrappers chipped along edges. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about THE SPENCER COLLECTION OF MODERN BOOK BINDINGS
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 13982
Berlin: Deutscher Verlag fur Kunstwissenschaft, (1965). 4to. cloth. 237, (3) pages followed by 176 plates of bindings. S-K 2513. Descriptions of 127 bindings followed by multiple illustrations. Staining and wrinkling of bottom of pages at the beginning. Soiling and moisture damage to covers. Boards warped. Interior text in fine condition. READ MORE about KIRCHLICHE PRACHTEINBAND IM FRÜHEN MITTELALTER, VON DEN ANFANGEN BIS ZUM BEGINN DER GOTIK
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 130592
London: Bibliographical Society, 1939. 4to. half cloth, top edge gilt. xlvi, 65 pages of text followed by 99 plates. First edition. (S-K 2038; Appleton p.85; Brenni no.1156).Very fine copy of this important book. Rubbed along top edge. READ MORE about EARLY SPANISH BOOKBINDINGS XI-XV CENTURIES
Price: $135.00 Order nr. 71408
Oxford, England: The University Press for the Bibliographical Society, 1939. 4to. qiarter cloth, paper-covered boards. xlvi, 65+(1) pages, plates. Illustrated Monographs issued by the Bibliographical Society, No. XXIII. Preface, table of contents, introduction, index of authors and works, chronological index, index of localities, bibliography, plates. 100 black and white plates. A study of early Spanish bookbinding. Covers rubbed and scuffed, lightly soiled. Light tanning on endpapers. READ MORE about EARLY SPANISH BOOKBINDINGS XI-XV CENTURIES
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 130807
(Milano): Piantanida - Valcarenghi, 1923. small 8vo. paper-covered boards. 29 pages followed by the plates. First edition. S-K 3530. 29 illustrations in text and 37 plates showing Italian bindings. Ink inscription on free endpaper "To J.C. Thompson esq. in return for many pleasant and profitable afternoons. George Ray. December 1944". Covers spotted with wear at spine ends. With the Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about L' ARTE ITALIANA DELLA LEGATURA DEL LIBRO
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 72452
Asheville, NC: Earth Guild, 1989. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 58 pages. Earth Guild's Summer 1989 catalogue. Table of contents, black and white illustrations. Includes basketry, dyes, dye equipment, yarns, spinning, weaving, rug making, machine knitting, and other items. READ MORE about TOOLS MATERIALS BOOKS FOR HANDCRAFTS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134265
Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, 1979. 4to. printed paper-covered boards. 130 pages. S-K 5771. Introductory essays by Jean Gunner, Bernard Middleton and Marianne Tidcombe. (Brenni no. 429). Contains 48 pages of black-and-white illustrations and 16 pages of color illustrations. READ MORE about THE TRADITION OF FINE BOOKBINDING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 2512
London, England: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1933. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (10), 337-468, (viii) pages. New Series, Vol. XIII, No. 4 (March 1933). Features E.P. Goldschmidt's article "Some Cuir-Cisilé Bookbindings in English Libraries." Eight black and white plates. Table of contents follows text. Covers chipped at edges. READ MORE about TRANSACTIONS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 131566
With Introductions by Marianne Tidcombe and an Essay by Bernard C. Middleton.
London: Designer Bookbinders, 1994. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. Not paginated. With Introductions by Marianne Tidcombe and an Essay by Bernard C. Middleton. Limited to 1000 copies. With many illustrations in color. READ MORE about TREGASKIS CENTENARY EXHIBITION, A CATALOGUE OF THE TREGASKIS CENTENARY EXHIBITION 1994, TOGETHER...
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 44689
Paris / Rouen: Claude Guérin / Dominique Courvoisier, 1990. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. Auction sale of 105 items. With many bookbindings illustrated. Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about TRÈS BEAUX LIVRES ANCIENS, PROVENANT DU CHATEAU DE X... ET APPARTENANT A DIVERS AMATEURS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 72402
Paris: Auguste Blaizot & Fils, 1939. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 56 pages. Chromolithographed frontispiece showing a binding by Gruel and many large black-and-white plates of fine bindings throughout text (20 plates). Covers soiled. READ MORE about TRÈS BEAUX LIVRES, ILLUSTRÉS MODERNES, PUBLICATIONS DE SOCIÉTÉS DE BIBLIOPHILES... TRÉS...
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 95209
(Istanbul, Turkey): Kemal Çig, (1971). oblong 8vo. embossed cloth, dust jacket. 72 pages. Text in Turkish. Introduction, essays, bibliography. Color illustrations. Dust jacket torn at top edge and worn. READ MORE about TÜRK KITAP KAPLARI
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 130703
London: G. Michelmore, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 152 pages. A magnificent catalogue filled with illustrations including foldout plates. Many bindings are described and illustrated. Covers chipped around edges with part of spine covering missing. Pages wrinkled. READ MORE about TWO HUNDRED EXTRAORDINARILY IMPORTANT BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 35225
London: G. Michelmore, n.d. 4to. rebound in cloth with paper spine label. 162 pages. A magnificent catalogue filled with illustrations including foldout plates. Many bindings are described and illustrated. Lacks original covers. READ MORE about TWO HUNDRED EXTRAORDINARILY IMPORTANT BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 126225
(Veenendaal): Gaade Uitgevers, (1987). small 8vo. cloth. xii, 170+(1) pages. First edition. A study of Dutch bookbinding from 1840-1940. Chapters address such topics as binding in the early part of the 19th century, the different functions of bindings and the various forms of binding at the fin de siècle. A Catalogue of 284 bindings follows. Many are illustrated here in color and black & white. In Dutch. READ MORE about IN LINNEN GEBONDEN. NEDERLANDSE UITGEVERSBANDEN VAN 1840 TOT 1940
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 62629
(Veenendaal): Gaade Uitgevers, (1987). small 8vo. later cloth. xii, 170, (4) pages. First edition, one of 300 numbered copies containing two bound-in samples in the back. A study of Dutch bookbinding from 1840-1940. Chapters address such topics as binding in the early part of the 19th century, the different functions of bindings and the various forms of binding at the fin de siècle. A Catalogue of 284 bindings follows. Many are illustrated here in color..... READ MORE about IN LINNEN GEBONDEN. NEDERLANDSE UITGEVERSBANDEN VAN 1840 TOT 1940
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 71281
(Luxembourg City, Luxembourg): Bibliothèque Nationale de Luxembourg, 2000. 8vo. paper-covered boards. 276 pages. Preface by Monique Kieffer, introduction by the author, bibliography, indices of authors and provenances, table of contents. Illustrations and descriptive text about bookbindings in the Luxembourg library from the Gothic era through the 17th century. READ MORE about RELIURES DES XVIE ET XVIIE SIÈCLES CONSERVÉES À LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE DE LUXEMBOURG
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 131258
Een Tentoonstelling van Gesigneerde 19e-eeuwse banden.
Gravenhage: Museum van het Boek, 1978. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers enclosed in handmade cloth case with paper cover label. 83, (3) pages. Een Tentoonstelling van Gesigneerde 19e-eeuwse banden. S-K 1015. Illustrated exhibition catalogue. READ MORE about VORSTELIJKE BOEKBAND EN UIT DE KONINKLIJKE BIBLIOTHEEK
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 37449
Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co Ltd, 1961. 4to. cloth. 29 pages, with 71 leaves of plates. First edition (S-K 2174). The Chester Beatty Library in Dublin has one of the largest collection of bookbinding examples in the world. Many books had been published on bindings of various countries of Western Europe, but none on oriental bindings until this book was published. The bindings are divided into three sections: Christian bindings of the Near East (plates..... READ MORE about SOME ORIENTAL BINDINGS IN THE CHESTER BEATTY LIBRARY
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 57363
Avant-Propos de Jacques Guignard. Avec La Collaboration de Pavlina Hamanova et Howard M. Nixon.
Luxembourg: Editions de l'Imprimerie Saint-Paul, 1978. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 121, (3) pages. Avant-Propos de Jacques Guignard. Avec La Collaboration de Pavlina Hamanova et Howard M. Nixon. S-K 4188.Text in French. Study of the armorial bindings in the collection of this early Luxembourg collector. Many illustrations including a number in color. READ MORE about RELIURES AUX ARMOIRIES DE PIERRE ERNEST DE MANSFELD
Price: $80.00 Order nr. 38668
New York: Bell Publishing Company, (1963). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 93 pages. With 255 illustrations by the author. Reprint of the first edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about HAND BOOKBINDING, A MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 5985
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1962. large 8vo. original stiff paper wrappers. x,193+(1) pages; 42 plates. Volume 10 of the series Beiträge zum Buch- und Bibliothekswesen established by Carl Wehmer and edited by Walter Bauhuis. Noted Arabist and philologist Weisweiler introduces the text with commentary on particulars of Islamic bookbinding, then lists 387 detailed entries by library and country. 42 black and white plates depicting Islamic bookbindings. Discolored around the edges of the covers and spine. Ex-libris..... READ MORE about DER ISLAMISCHE BUCHEINBAND DES MITTELALTERS NACH HANDSCHRIFTEN AUS DEUTSCHEN, HOLLÄNDISCHEN UND...
Price: $110.00 Order nr. 65574
Wolfenbüttel, Germany: Herzog August Bibliothek, 1984. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 31, (1) pages. Text in German. Foreword by Paul Raabe. Exhibition of the works of the Peter-Hahne workshop. Black and white illustrations throughout. READ MORE about WERKSTATT PETERS-HAHNE HAMBURG 1927-1982
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 126335
London: Odhams Press Ltd., (1948). 8vo. cloth. 448 pages. Reprint of the 1946 first edition. Full of practical information. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Spine slightly faded. READ MORE about PRACTICAL PRINTING AND BINDING; A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN ALL BRANCHES OF...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 5925
(Toronto, Canada): Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 1998. oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 70, (2) pages. Preface, acknowledgments. Catalogue of exhibition held at Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 1998. Essay by Landon. Memoir by Wilcox. 20 color plates, including one foldout. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about IN RETROSPECT: DESIGNER BOOKBINDINGS BY MICHAEL WILCOX
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 127001
With Remarks on the Bindings by Michael Wilcox & on the Books by Elaine Smyth & W. Thomas Taylor.
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1985. tall 4to. cloth, paper spine label. (42) pages. With Remarks on the Bindings by Michael Wilcox & on the Books by Elaine Smyth & W. Thomas Taylor. First edition, limited to 225 numbered copies. Near fine. Printed by David Holman on Guarro mould-made paper with design by Taylor. Each book is described in detail with the physical description and philosophy behind the binding and is pictured in full color with..... READ MORE about TWELVE BINDINGS. WITH REMARKS ON THE BINDINGS BY MICHAEL WILCOX & ON THE BOOKS BY ELAINE...
Price: $180.00 Order nr. 14135
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1985. tall 4to. full leather, clamshell box. (42) pages. First edition, limited to 225 numbered copies. This copy is bound in a full artist-binding by Don Etherington, bookbinder and former director of Conservation at both the Library of Congress and the Harry Ransom Center (Austin, TX). Prospectus loosely inserted. A fine copy. The binding is a full crushed red moracco with black goat leather and blue crushed moracco onlaid leather strips..... READ MORE about TWELVE BINDINGS. WITH REMARKS ON THE BINDINGS BY MICHAEL WILCOX & ON THE BOOKS BY ELAINE...
Price: $2,950.00 Order nr. 135133
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 Order nr. 34250
Salzburg: Werkstätte für Buchkunst, 1982. small oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (69) pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies, initialed by Mr. Stock. Catalogue for an exhibition listing twenty-one art bindings and two "book walls" (holders for sets of small paperbacks). Eleven black-and-white illustrations and twelve color illustrations. Stock's bindings represent a generally conservative approach to the book as art, in which the book has a more-or-less conventional structure and retains its function as a book..... READ MORE about WOLFGANG STOCK BUCHEINBANDE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 53855
Stuttgart, Germany: Max Hettler, 1969. oblong 32mo. stiff paper wrappers. 66 pages. Text in German. Bibliography, foreword by Otto Wächter. German terms relevant to bookbinding translated into English, French, and Italian. Alphabetical indices in all four languages. A few pencil and ink notations in text. Wrappers slightly tanned. READ MORE about WÖRTERBUCH DER HANDBUCHBINDEREI UND EIN BANDRESTAURIERUNG
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 126398
San Francisco: Hand Bookbinders of California, 1976. 4to. typescript enclosed in pamphlet holder. (1), 37, 7 leaves. Very scarce publication regarding bookbinding references. A fine copy.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about BOOK-BINDING NOTES, 1875-1943 With Notes added by Mrs. Young and by Leah Wollenberg, who was a...
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 14018