Munich: Kurt Wolff Verlag, (1920). 4to. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, triple gilt band, stamped gilt title. 89, (3) pages. Text in German. Translation of Voltaire's classic. With 26 pen and ink illustrations by Paul Klee. An important book in German expressionism (Artist and the Book 143). Boards sunned at spine and scuffed at corners. READ MORE about KANDIDE ODER DIE BESTE WELTE
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 107249
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1977. 4to. leather spine, paste paper-covered boards. 86, (4) pages. Limited to "approximately 250 copies", of which this copy is numbered. Being the second commonplace book issued by the press. (Taylor A19) Printed by hand by Morris on Green's handmade Bird & Bull paper. Seven articles including an autobiographical sketch and the first English translation of sections of Jacob Christian Schaeffer's famous 18th-century text on papermaking. The latter contains..... READ MORE about BIRD & BULL PEPPER POT: INGREDIENTS, CHOICE BITS OF UNCOMMON PAPERMAKING PUBLISHING AND...
Price: $195.00 Order nr. 106465
(Upper Denby, Huddersfield, England): The Fleece Press, 2013. 4to. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards, label on spine. 113, (5) pages. Limited to 240 copies. Includes recollections of Walters as "father and teacher" by the authors, and a checklist of his work by John Gray. Printer's note and acknowledgments. Frontispiece, fifty blocks printed from wood, forty color illustrations. Some illustrations tipped-in. A fine copy. READ MORE about EDWARD WALTERS PRINTER & ENGRAVER
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 122992
(Upper Denby, Huddersfield, England): The Fleece Press, 2014. square 8vo. illustrated paper-covered boards, cloth slipcase with illustration. unpaginated. Limited to 250 copies, signed by artist on colophon. A collection of 25 watercolor paintings by Emily Sutton, showing transferware patterns from her own collection of Victorian pottery. In a slipcase made by Smith Settle of Yeadon. Accordion fold pages measure 8 meters when fully extended. A fine copy. READ MORE about TRANSFERWARE TREASURES
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 123488
Vancouver/Sheffield: FPBA, 2008. small 4to. cloth spine, paper covered boards, cloth portfolio, slipcase. 64 pages. Autumn 2008 / Number 15 / Paul Razzell, Editor THIS IS THE DELUXE EDITION and is hardbound in a slipcase. Also includes fourteen loose pieces included in a hardcover portfolio. News and Commentary Editorial | Paul Razzell Chairmans Column | Robert McCamant Letter to the Editor | Paul W. Nash Parenthesis Turns 10 | David Jury Society of Wood Engravers..... READ MORE about PARENTHESIS 15: THE JOURNAL OF THE FINE PRESS BOOK ASSOCIATION
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 135829
N.P. Fine Press Book Association, 2017. 4to. cloth, dust jacket, cloth portfolio, slipcase. 64 pages. Spring 2014 / Number 26 / Sebastian Carter, Editor NOTE: THIS IS FOR THE DELUXE EDITION which is printed in an edition of 95 deluxe copies, hardbound, and accompanied with a portfolio containing nine pieces of ephemera. Editorial | Sebastian Carter Chairmans Letter | Martyn Ould Book Fair report Printing Historical Society | Ian Bain and David Chambers Private press..... READ MORE about PARENTHESIS 26
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 135831
Paris, France: Editions de l'Ibis, 1925. 4to. illustrated chamis cover. xxv, 75 pages, 20 plates. One of 500 numbered copies, of which this is one of 415 copies numbered and signed by the author. Portfolio somewhat faded and rubbed, the pochoir cover illustrations remain bright. Three owner's bookplates on a front blank. Lacking three plates. Else a well preserved copy. The plates include work by Lepape, Rodin, Albert Besnard, Halouze, Andre-Morisset and others. The introductory..... READ MORE about TRAITÉ D'ENLUMINURE D'ART AU POCHOIR
Price: $2,250.00 Order nr. 136240
Frankfurt, Germany: Trajanus Presse, 1966. small 4to. decorated paper covered boards, leather spine label with author and title stamped in gilt, publisher's paper covered boards slipcase. 112, (4) pages. Limited to 300 numbered and signed copies. Spine lightly faded, slipcase lightly spotted, else near fine in near fine slipcase. Signed by the printer, Fritz Kredel. Kredel's woodcuts were made by the Silwar coloring workshop in Pfungstadt. READ MORE about DER ROMAN VON TRISTAN UND ISOLDE IN DER ÜBERTRAGUNG RUDOLF G. BINDINGS. MIT VIERZEHN...
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 136260
London, United Kingdom: Chapman & Hall, 1891. 8vo. leather, five raised bands, chemise, half leather and cloth slipcase with five raised bands. xx, 160; [1], iii, 161-432 pages. First edition, of which this is one of twenty limited edition copies with over a 130 extra illustrations (many india proofs, steel plate engravings & etchings), 16 of which are hand-colored, five illustrations of the author and Kitton, and signed by the author William R. Hughes. Additionally..... READ MORE about A WEEK'S TRAMP IN DICKENS-LAND. TOGETHER WITH PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF THE 'INIMITABLE BOZ'...
Price: $7,500.00 Order nr. 134409
Five Volumes
Paris, France: G. Charpentier, 1878-1879. 5 x 7.5 inches. full embossed morocco with gilt tooling on covers and spine. Variously paginated. Five Volumes. A set of uniformly bound works by this nineteenth century French dramatist, poet and novelist. Fabulous and scarce set of five volumes by Musset, bound by the Guild of Women-Binders. Each volume signed by the Guild in their characteristic gilt pallet on front dentelle: "Guild of Women Binders." Marbled endpapers. Top edges..... READ MORE about COMEDIES ET PROVERBES with PREMIERES POESIES with POESIES NOUVELLE
Price: $4,500.00 Order nr. 134203
London, UK: George Routledge, 1846. large 8vo. full leather, gilt tooling on covers and spine, five raised bands. viii, 104 pages. Later edition. Beautiful full burgundy morocco, covers tooled in gilted panel design with floral motif at corners built up from small gouges and circles, by the Guild of Women-Binders, with stamp in gilt on front turn-in and label on verso of front free endpaper. A most desirable copy with a royal association. Inscribed on..... READ MORE about SEYMOUR'S HUMOROUS SKETCHES COMPRISING NINETY-TWO CARICATURE ETCHINGS
Price: $4,500.00 Order nr. 134222
(London): Bradbury, Agnew and Co. Ld. n.d. (but 1851). 8vo. leather, edges gilt, five raised bands, gilt lettering on spine. (iv), xii, 308 pages. First edition (Tooley 298. Not in Field). Illustrated by John Leech with 10 full-colored etchings and 98 woodcut vignettes. John Leech was a staff artist for "Punch" from its early issues in 1841. Gilbert Abbott à Beckett was one of the original staff members for "Punch." One of the Victorian era's..... READ MORE about THE COMIC HISTORY OF ROME
Price: $1,250.00 Order nr. 94242
Edinburgh, Scotland: for Adam Black, 1827. 8vo. cloth, front cover and spine gilt-stamped, top edge gilt. xlvi, 331, (3) pages. Third edition. Advertisement to the first edition, table of contents, introduction, author's preface. Notice to the binder follows text. Black and white plates throughout text. Binder's tag on front pastedown attributes binding to the Guild of Women-Binders (Tidcombe 115-130). The Guild of Women-Binders very rarely used cloth covered boards for their bindings, which gives evidence..... READ MORE about AN ESSAY ON NAVAL TACTICS SYSTEMATICAL AND HISTORICAL
Price: $1,000.00 Order nr. 134071
