250th ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN PAPERMAKING, 1690-1940, PAPER PROMTES ECONOMY AND CULTURE.
1940. A block of 25 commorative stamps issued by Pennsylvania celebrating this event. READ MORE
Price: $25.00 other currencies Order nr. 107476
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A-D., AN INTIMATE JOURNAL FOR ART DIRECTORS, PRODUCTION MANAGERS, AND THEIR ASSOCIATES. VIII, 2.
(New York, NY: Advertising Art Now), n.d., but 1942. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. VIII, 2. A continuation of PM. name changed to AD in 1940 (Union List 2). With a feature article by E. McKnight Kauffer, "Advertising Art Now." Black and white illustrations. Includes advertisement with paper specimens and an advertising supplement "Design and Paper Number 7" by the Marquardt & Company of New York. READ MORE
Price: $25.00 other currencies Order nr. 126911
A-D., AN INTIMATE JOURNAL FOR ART DIRECTORS, PRODUCTION MANAGERS, AND THEIR ASSOCIATES. VII, 4.
(New York, NY: Advertising Art Now), n.d., but 1942. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. VIII, 4. A continuation of PM. name changed to AD in 1940 (Union List 2). With notice that publication would be suspended during World War II. Black and white illustrations. Includes advertisement with paper specimens and an advertising supplement "Design Paper Number 9" by the Marquardt & Company of New York. Bottom edge of spine chipped. Back cover lightly soiled. READ MORE
Price: $25.00 other currencies Order nr. 126912
ALASKAN FLOWER PAPERS,
Anchorage, AK: Karen Stahlecker, 1993. oblong miniature book (5.0 x 7.6 cm). paper-covered boards, Japanese bound. unpaginated. Limited to 10 copies (Bradbury, Karen Stahlecker 1). "Gathered from the land to celebrate and preserve a bit of the brief, fertile Alaska summer for the long dormant season to come." A collection of handmade papers with list of papers included. READ MORE
Price: $350.00 other currencies Order nr. 118354
HISTORIC BRANDYWINE GUIDE BOOK.
West Chester: The Bradford Village Press, (1960). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 72 pages. With contributions by Henry Pleasants, Jr., William M. Scheffey, Roy R. Fuller, and Norman B. Wilkinson (information on paper mills). Contains an advertisement for "Book & Things," the Wilmington bookstore owned by Arthur and Jean T. Dobbs. READ MORE
Price: $6.00 other currencies Order nr. 39765
THE BIRD & BULL COMMONPLACE BOOK.
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1971. 4to. cloth spine, marbled paper over boards, slipcase. 65, (6) pages and with envelope on inside rear cover with brass token inserted. One of 255 numbered copies (Taylor A11). Designed as a collection of "various short pieces which were almost all connected in some way to papermaking or printing, and generally written in a humorous or informal manner." It contains an article on Schaeffer's wasp nest paper, a.... READ MORE
Price: $250.00 other currencies Order nr. 5504
ERNIE THE CAVE KING AND SHERLOCK THE SMART PERSON IN THE INVENTION OF PAPER.
N.P. Western Publishing Co., 1971 (1975). square 12mo. pictorial paper-covered boards. (26) pages. In 1979, Henry Morris published a book by Timothy Barrett on Japanese papermaking entitled Nagashizuki. Morris decided to add an additional title to the list of reference books to see if anyone ever really consulted these lists. Thus the last entry was "Wilcox, Daniel. The Invention of Paper. New York: Western Publishing Co., 1971" and was a direct reference to a little... READ MORE
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 39600
EXHIBITION OF BOOKS ON PAPERMAKING, A SELECTION OF BOOKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF LEONARD B. SCHLOSSER.
Philadelphia: Free Library of Philadelphia, 1968. large 8vo. double salmon colored paper wrappers. 24 pages. One of 300 copies (Taylor B1). This was the first commissioned work done for another institution by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press. The printed cover design is repeated on a second sheet of salmon colored paper as a watermark. The catalogue describes 75 landmark books on papermaking and is an excellent "high spot" bibliography of the field... READ MORE
Price: $250.00 other currencies Order nr. 39894
AN EXHIBITION OF BOOKS ON PAPERMAKING, A SELECTION OF BOOKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF LEONARD B. SCHLOSSER.
Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1968. large 8vo. double salmon colored paper wrappers; self paper wrappers with both pieces in clamshell red cloth box with title in gilt on spine. 24 pages. One of 300 copies (Taylor B1). This was the first commissioned work done for another institution by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press. The printed cover design is repeated on a second sheet of salmon colored paper as a watermark... READ MORE
Price: $175.00 other currencies Order nr. 120359
AN EXHIBITION OF BOOKS ON PAPERMAKING, A SELECTION OF BOOKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF LEONARD B. SCHLOSSER.
Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1968. large 8vo. double salmon colored paper wrappers. 24 pages. One of 300 copies (Taylor B1). This was the first commissioned work done for another institution by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press. The printed cover design is repeated on a second sheet of salmon colored paper as a watermark. The catalogue describes 75 landmark books on papermaking and is an excellent "high spot" bibliography of the field. Scarce. READ MORE
Price: $100.00 other currencies Order nr. 125866
FIVE ON PAPER, A COLLECTION OF FIVE ESSAYS ON PAPERMAKING, BOOKS AND RELEVANT MATTERS.
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1963. small 4to. original full morocco. 59+(1) pages. Limited to 169 numbered copies. (Taylor A4). Contains "A Collection of Notes Written in the Vat-House of an Old Devonshire Paper Mill" by Dard Hunter, "A Letter from Kent" by J. Barcham Green, "Adventures in Papermaking, the Founding of the Twelve by Eight Mill" by John Mason, and "The Pleasures of Paper are Infinite" by Norman H. Strouse. Included are six... READ MORE
Price: $1,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 74432
DARD HUNTER & SON.
N.P. (but Newtown, PA): Bird & Bull Press, 1998. 4to. quarter black morocco, leather spine label, Japanese cloth-covered boards, cloth-covered clamshell box with leather spine label. 152, (6) pages, with 30 additional pages and 6 additional leaves of paper & printing samples and reproductions. This fine letterpress work is an edition limited to only 225 numbered copies, of which 180 are pre-subscribed (Berger A61; Leaf Book - Chalmers 215). Henry Morris's Bird & Bull Press... READ MORE
Price: $750.00 other currencies Order nr. 53318
PAPER JOURNEY, TRAVELS AMONG THE VILLAGE PAPERMAKERS OF INDIA AND NEPAL.
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1993. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper over boards, leather spine label. 103, (i) pages. First edition, limited to 210 numbered copies (Berger B41); this is copy "2" and has the following note by Henry Morris in ink "Given to me by Oak Knoll, Oct 28/1993." This book is a fascinating and entertaining account of contemporary hand papermaking in India and Nepal. The reader is led on a journey from Rajasthan... READ MORE
Price: $275.00 other currencies Order nr. 120310
BIRD & BULL PEPPER POT: INGREDIENTS, CHOICE BITS OF UNCOMMON PAPERMAKING PUBLISHING AND PRINTING HISTORY SIMMERED IN A TASTY BROTH OF POETRY, CURRENT EVENTS AND AMUSING ANECDOTES. LIGHTLY SEASONED WITH A DASH OF OBSCENITY, AND WITH SELECTED PORTIONS OF TRIPE ADDED AS IN THE OLD ORIGINAL RECIPE.
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1977. 4to. leather spine, paste paper-covered boards. 86, (4) pages. Limited to "approximately 250 copies." 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 four tinted plates showing raw material for papers. READ MORE
Price: $200.00 other currencies Order nr. 123188
BROADSIDE VIGNETTES.
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1997. elephant folio. 10 page introductory booklet, 27 poster/broadsides (each 19 x 25 inches) in 21 folders, gathered in a cloth clamshell box with paper cover label. Printed in an edition limited to only 145 numbered copies by Henry Morris (Berger A60). Broadside Vignettes joins the typographic aspect of the poster/broadside format with the contentual character of the book, creating a hybrid with some of the best qualities of... READ MORE
Price: $450.00 other currencies Order nr. 131086
GUILFORD & GREEN.
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1970. 8vo. quarter morocco over patterned paper-covered boards. (ii), 88, (4) pages. Limited to 210 numbered copies. (Taylor A9). The first part of the book describes a visit made by Henry Morris to J. Barcham Green, the famous hand papermaking firm in England. Gives a history of the firm and reproduces correspondence between William Morris and Joseph Batchelor regarding production of paper. The second section of the book reprints... READ MORE
Price: $400.00 other currencies Order nr. 12587
NICOLAS LOUIS ROBERT AND HIS ENDLESS WIRE PAPERMAKING MACHINE.
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2000. folio. cloth-covered portfolio with paper cover label and accompanied by small 4to. cloth-covered book with a paper cover label. Both inserted in a folio clamshell box with a leather spine label. 41, (3) pages and additional plates. Printed in an edition limited to 150 numbered copies (Berger A63). The actual inventor of the paper machine was a thirty-three year old former artilleryman named Nicolas Louis Robert (1761-1828). The... READ MORE
Price: $250.00 other currencies Order nr. 58400
OMNIBUS, INSTRUCTIONS FOR AMATEUR PAPERMAKERS WITH NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS OF PRIVATE PRESSES, BOOK PRINTING AND SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE INVOLVED IN THESE ACTIVITIES.
(North Hills, PA): Bird & Bull Press, 1967. large 8vo. quarter leather over decorated paper-covered boards. 121 pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies. Chapters on The Mould, The Beater, Other Necessary Equipment and Beating Pulp, Some Observations on Private Presses, Making, Drying and Sizing Paper, Notes on Printing and Binding. Includes six samples of paper used by Morris for his books. READ MORE
Price: $400.00 other currencies Order nr. 96732
TRADE TOKENS OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS & BOOKMAKERS, WITH SPECIMENS OF ELEVEN ORIGINAL TOKENS STRUCK ESPECIALLY FOR THIS BOOK.
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1989. 8vo. quarter morocco leather with paper-covered sides and leather spine label. 83, (3) pages. Accompanied by a heavy die-cut board folder containing 11 different copper tokens minted by individual booksellers & bookmakers especially for this book, all enclosed in a slipcase. First edition. Limited to 300 numbered copies, 250 of which are for sale (Berger A47). Morris provides a history of these tokens that includes many illustrated reproductions... READ MORE
Price: $475.00 other currencies Order nr. 50341
VIGNETTES, AN ECLECTIC ASSEMBLAGE OF ANECDOTES ABOUT PAPERMAKING.
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1999. large 4to. cloth with leather spine label, in special cloth solander case with leather spine. 72, (5) pages, with additional pages of color illustrations. Limited to 150 numbered copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press (Berger A62). Includes chapters on Bird & Bull Incunabula, 19th-Century Security Papers, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Numismata Typographica, Farewell to Papermaking, A History of Die Cutting, The Wurzburg Lithography and more. Includes a.... READ MORE
Price: $200.00 other currencies Order nr. 56850
VIGNETTES, AN ECLECTIC ASSEMBLAGE OF ANECDOTES ABOUT PAPERMAKING.
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1999. large 4to. cloth with leather spine label, in special cloth solander case with leather spine. 72, (5) pages, with additional pages of color illustrations. Limited to 150 numbered copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press; this is one of the first four numbered copies and is a copy "with extra material" according to the pencil note by Henry Morris in the colophon (Berger A62). Includes chapters on... READ MORE
Price: $200.00 other currencies Order nr. 120383
PRACTICAL REMARKS ON MODERN PAPER. WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY LEONARD B. SCHLOSSER.
North Hills, Pennsylvania: Bird & Bull Press, 1981. 8vo. leather spine, decorative paper-covered boards. 120, (3) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 300 numbered copies (Taylor 30). A reprint of a book by John Murray in 1829 on the state of papermaking at that time. It discusses the impact on the usefulness and longevity of paper of some of the practices used by the industry. The book is prophetic in tone in light of... READ MORE
Price: $65.00 other currencies Order nr. 464
PRACTICAL REMARKS ON MODERN PAPER. WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY LEONARD B. SCHLOSSER.
North Hills, Pennsylvania: Bird & Bull Press, 1981. 8vo. leather spine, decorative paper-covered boards. 120, (3) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 300 numbered copies; this copy is not numbered and has the following statement written in ink by Morrs "Binding sample H1, 7-10-81." (Heaney A30). A reprint of a book by John Murray in 1829 on the state of papermaking at that time. It discusses the impact on the usefulness and longevity of... READ MORE
Price: $115.00 other currencies Order nr. 120252
PRACTICAL REMARKS ON MODERN PAPER. WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY LEONARD B. SCHLOSSER.
North Hills, Pennsylvania: Bird & Bull Press, 1981. 8vo. leather spine, decorative paper-covered boards. 120, (3) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 300 numbered copies; this copy is not numbered and has the following statement written in ink by Morrs "Binding sample #2, 7-10-81." (Heaney A30). A reprint of a book by John Murray in 1829 on the state of papermaking at that time. It discusses the impact on the usefulness and longevity of... READ MORE
Price: $100.00 other currencies Order nr. 120253
VARIETIES OF SPANISH MARBLING, A HANDBOOK OF PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION WITH TWELVE ORIGINAL MARBLED SAMPLES.
N.P. Bird & Bull Press and Iris Nevins, 1991. 8vo. quarter cloth, Spanish marbled sides, leather spine label. 79 pages. First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies; this copy has "K" in place of a number (Berger A49). Composed in Cochin types and printed on Johannot mouldmade paper. Of all the marbled patterns, the Spanish is the most difficult to achieve. This book contains detailed instructions for making twelve different patterns, as well as original... READ MORE
Price: $295.00 other currencies Order nr. 126684