Illustration and Calligraphy by David Esslemont.
Decorah, IA: Solmentes Press, 2022. 4to. illustrated paper covered boards, cloth clamshell box. unpaginated. Illustration and Calligraphy by David Esslemont. Limited to 30 numbered copies signed by the artist / printer. The typefaces used were created by designers with a connection to Ukraine. The front cover, title: Bifur - Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, digitized by Richard Kegler; the front cover, author: Arsenal - Andrij Shevchenko, Berdyansk; poem and colophon: Genau - Aleksey Popovtsev, Kyiv; and production..... READ MORE about RESISTANCE

Price: $800.00  other currencies  Order nr. 138229

Edited by William S. Peterson.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. 4to. cloth-backed boards, slipcase. xlii,134 pages. Edited by William S. Peterson. "The picture-book is not, perhaps, absolutely necessary to man's life, but it gives us such endless pleasure...that it must remain one of the very worthiest things towards the production of which reasonable men should strive." - William Morris, The Ideal Book, 1893 Long introduction by the editor, William S. Peterson, followed by reprints of most of Morris's important..... READ MORE about THE IDEAL BOOK, ESSAYS AND LECTURES ON THE ARTS OF THE BOOK BY WILLIAM MORRIS

Price: $50.00  other currencies  Order nr. 1478

London: Longmans, Green, 1916. large thick 8vo. cloth. xxiv, 732 pages. First edition. Spine faded with some age darkening along edges. Private ownership stamp on front pastedown. Endpapers and pastedowns foxed. Contents relatively clean. An absolutely momumental achievement by Legros & Grant, this mighty tome is a definitive study of technical printing for its time with encyclopedic chapters on punch-cutting, casting machines, type faces, stereotyping, and 32 other subjects (a complete breakdown of the 36..... READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHICAL PRINTING-SURFACES THE TECHNOLOGY AND MECHANISM OF THEIR PRODUCTION

Price: $325.00  other currencies  Order nr. 2222

With an Introduction by Sofus Larsen and Anker Kyster
Copenhagen, Denmark & London, England: Levin & Munksgaard Publishers / Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930. 4to. cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label. frontispiece, 53 pages followed by the plates. With an Introduction by Sofus Larsen and Anker Kyster. First edition. (Brenni no.482). Inscribed on first blank page by Clara and Hardy Steeholm to the bookbinder Alfred Knight Potter. Lacking the dust jacket. Extremities lightly worn, label chipped with small piece missing (not affecting..... READ MORE about DANISH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BINDINGS, 1730-1780

Price: $125.00  other currencies  Order nr. 5730

Boston: Harcourt Bindery, 1980. large 4to. cloth, leather spine label with title and author stamped in silver. 32 pages of text followed by 99 plates with accompanying notes, (7) pages, two full-color plates tipped in. First edition limited to 500 copies bound by hand at the bindery, of which this is one of 465 numbered copies bound in linen boards (S-K 7414). The 2-fold prospectus loosely inserted. Minor wear to the leather spine label. Cloth..... READ MORE about AN ESSAY ON THE DEVELOPMENT & USAGE OF BRASS PLATE DIES INCLUDING A CATALOGUE RAISONNE FROM...

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Introduction by Professor Jacques Millot.
Paris: Libraire Auguste Blaizot, 1965. 4to. signatures loosely inserted in a white stiff paper wrapper, brown cloth chemise with white paper spine label, brown cloth slipcase. xxxiii, 205 pages with seven plates in full color and 243 reproductions in collotype. Introduction by Professor Jacques Millot. Text in French. Printed in an edition limited to 600 numbered copies, of this is one of 500 copies numbered 101 to 600. (S-K 6509, Brenni no.657). Leather bookplate of..... READ MORE about PIERRE LEGRAIN, RELIEUR. REPERTOIRE DESCRIPTIF ET BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE DE MILLE DEUX TRENTE-SIX RELIURES

Price: $400.00  other currencies  Order nr. 5919

N.P. Van Nostrand Reinhold, (1974). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 208 pages. First U.S. edition. (Brenni no.443). Near fine in near fine jacket. 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. The book seeks to bridge the gap between the traditional structural binding, or 'bookbinding' art, to the process of bookbinding to be..... READ MORE about NEW DIRECTIONS IN BOOKBINDING

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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893. 8vo. quarter parchment over cloth covers. xvi, 188 pages. First edition, one of 150 numbered large paper copies printed on Dutch handmade paper and bound thus. Parchment spine is soiled with chip in center. Preliminary pages show some foxing, otherwise a clean interior. A near fine copy. Part of the Books about Books Series edited by A.W. Pollard (Webber p.38). Eight illustrations which seem to be on..... READ MORE about BOOKS IN MANUSCRIPT, A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO THEIR STUDY AND USE WITH A CHAPTER ON RECORDS

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4 volumes, complete set.
London: Privately printed at the Curwen Press, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1957. 4to. cloth, spine labels, top edges gilt, leather spine labels, dust jackets. xx,399; xxi,428; xiii,300; xiii,301-675 pages. 4 volumes, complete set. First editions, limited to 500, 400, and 400 copies respectively. Jacket of volume one is chipped with a spot on front cover. Lower corner clipped off of the jacket of the first volume of the travel volume. Volumes 2-4 are in absolutely fine..... READ MORE about SCENERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND [with] LIFE IN ENGLAND [with] TRAVEL

Price: $625.00  other currencies  Order nr. 15853

New York: Museum Books, 1964. oblong 4to. parchment - backed boards with parchment tips. not paginated. Limited to 500 numbered copies produced by this American publisher, and signed by Zapf on the colophon page. A fine copy in fine jacket. Set in 16 languages with the types of D. Stempel "taken from the foundry's archives" and printed by Heinrich Egenolf. A magnificent display of typography and type specimens printed in black with some part printed..... READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHIC VARIATIONS DESIGNED BY HERMANN ZAPF ON THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY BOOK DESIGN AND...

Price: $150.00  other currencies  Order nr. 17095