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 about HISTORIC BRANDYWINE GUIDE BOOK
Price: $6.00 Order nr. 39765
Philadelphia: T.K. Collins, Jr., 1851. 8vo. original cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Israel Acrelius; xii, 7-367 pages. B1-488. First edition. History of the settlement of Wilmington followed by the author's recollections of the town. With a lengthy section on the Gilpins and their papermill and some notes on printers and booksellers. Illustrated. This copy has been recased with original spine laid down on new cloth; new enedpapers. Old ink inscription on first blank leaf followed by..... READ MORE about REMINISCENCES OF WILMINGTON, IN FAMILIAR VILLAGE TALES, ANCIENT AND NE W
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 39629
Philadelphia: T.K. Collins, Jr., 1851. 8vo. original cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Israel Acrelius; xii, 7-367 pages. B1-488. First edition. History of the settlement of Wilmington followed by the author's recollections of the town. With a lengthy section on the Gilpins and their papermill and some notes on printers and booksellers. With a bookseller's ticket mounted on front pastedown "J.T. Heald, Bookseller, Stationer & Binder, 127 Market St., Wilmington, Del." Covers faded along spine. Foxed. READ MORE about REMINISCENCES OF WILMINGTON, IN FAMILIAR VILLAGE TALES, ANCIENT AND NE W
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 65777
Philadelphia: T.K. Collins, Jr., 1851. 8vo. original brown cloth stamped in blind. Frontispiece portrait of Israel Acrelius; xii, 7-367 pages. B1-488. First edition. History of the settlement of Wilmington followed by the author's recollections of the town. With a lengthy section on the Gilpins and their papermill and some notes on printers and booksellers. Illustrated. Pencil presentation from former owner to his brother dated 1851 in pencil on first blank page. Top of spine worn..... READ MORE about REMINISCENCES OF WILMINGTON, IN FAMILIAR VILLAGE TALES, ANCIENT AND NEW
Price: $135.00 Order nr. 28368
B1-488.
Wilmington: Johnston & Bogia, 1872. 8vo. original cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Israel Acrelius; xvi, 17-310, (2) pages. B1-488. B1-488. Second edition, actually a second printing with a two page preface by the new publishers. History of the settlement of Wilmington, De., followed by the author's recollections of the town. With a lengthy section on the Gilpins and their papermill and some notes on printers and booksellers. Contains a full-page advertisement for Johnston & Bogia as..... READ MORE about REMINISCENCES OF WILMINGTON, IN FAMILIAR VILLAGE TALES, ANCIENT AND NEW
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 28663
B1-488.
Wilmington: Johnston & Bogia, 1872. 8vo. original cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Israel Acrelius; xvi, 17-310 pages. B1-488. B1-488. Second edition, actually a second printing with a two page preface by the new publishers. History of the settlement of Wilmington, De., followed by the author's recollections of the town. With a lengthy section on the Gilpins and their papermill and some notes on printers and booksellers. With the bookplate of the Bradford family. Also contains the..... READ MORE about REMINISCENCES OF WILMINGTON, IN FAMILIAR VILLAGE TALES, ANCIENT AND NEW
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 39630
Philadelphia: T.K. Collins, Jr., 1851. 8vo. original brown cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Israel Acrelius; xii, 7-367 pages. B1-488. First edition. History of the settlement of Wilmington followed by the author's recollections of the town. With a lengthy section on the Gilpins and their papermill and some notes on printers and booksellers. Covers worn with parts of hinge covering cracked partially detached. Old ink inscription at top of title page. READ MORE about REMINISCENCES OF WILMINGTON, IN FAMILIAR VILLAGE TALES, ANCIENT AND NEW
Price: $115.00 Order nr. 68103
B1-488.
Wilmington: Johnston & Bogia, 1872. 8vo. original green cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Israel Acrelius; xvi, 17-310, (2) pages. B1-488. B1-488. Second edition, actually a second printing with a two page preface by the new publishers. History of the settlement of Wilmington, De., followed by the author's recollections of the town. With a lengthy section on the Gilpins and their papermill and some notes on printers and booksellers. Contains a full-page advertisement for Johnston & Bogia..... READ MORE about REMINISCENCES OF WILMINGTON, IN FAMILIAR VILLAGE TALES, ANCIENT AND NEW
Price: $135.00 Order nr. 126879
N.P. United States Department of the Interior, 1975. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. vii, 47+(1) pages. Preliminary inventory by Tommy Guider and illustrations by Bruce Cavin. With descriptions of various historic structures throughout the state including the Augustine Paper Mills, Curtis Mills, the Rockland Mills and the Harrington Journal Printing Office. READ MORE about DELAWARE, AN INVENTORY OF HISTORIC ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL SITES
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 39496
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 about EXHIBITION OF BOOKS ON PAPERMAKING, A SELECTION OF BOOKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF LEONARD B. SCHLOSSER
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 39894
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1970. 4to. hand-sewn paper wrappers. 54 pages. Taylor A10. Printed in an edition limited to 300 copies. Second issue lacking the protective box because the publisher's supply ran out. This fact is not mentioned in the bibliography. READ MORE about PROCEEDINGS AT A MEETING OF THE VAT PAPER MAKERS HELD AT THE BELL HOTEL, MAIDSTONE ON TUESDAY...
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 1352
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1970. 4to. hand-sewn paper wrappers in a stiff blue paper box. 54 pages. Taylor A10. Printed in an edition limited to 300 copies. Copied from a hand-written manuscript, this account of a meeting of workers in a hand-made paper mill accurately depicts the working conditions of the day. Social problems brought along by mechanical paper making and allowing women to do certain jobs are discussed. Outer folder is foxed..... READ MORE about PROCEEDINGS AT A MEETING OF THE VAT PAPER MAKERS HELD AT THE BELL HOTEL, MAIDSTONE ON TUESDAY...
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 120205
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, n.d. broadside (11 by 7 3/4 inches). bottom edge uncut. Prospectus for Hans Schmoller, Tanya Schmoller, and Henry Morris, Chinese Decorated Papers. Based on a collection purchased by the Schmollers from May Crittall. Cited in Heaney A44. READ MORE about PROSPECTUS FOR CHINESE DECORATED PAPERS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 126560
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2011. 8vo. self paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut. (4) pages. Prospectus for Sidney E. Berger, Chiyogami Papers, a study of Japanese papermaking. READ MORE about PROSPECTUS FOR CHIYOGAMI PAPERS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 126559
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, n.d. Single sheet. READ MORE about PROSPECTUS TO PROCEEDINGS AT A MEETING OF THE VAT PAPERMAKERS IN 1853
Price: $6.50 Order nr. 466
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 about DARD HUNTER & SON
Price: $850.00 Order nr. 53318
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..... READ MORE about BIRD & BULL PEPPER POT: INGREDIENTS, CHOICE BITS OF UNCOMMON PAPERMAKING PUBLISHING AND...
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 123188
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 about BROADSIDE VIGNETTES
Price: $950.00 Order nr. 131086
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 about GUILFORD & GREEN
Price: $400.00 Order nr. 12587
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 about NICOLAS LOUIS ROBERT AND HIS ENDLESS WIRE PAPERMAKING MACHINE
Price: $185.00 Order nr. 58400
(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 about OMNIBUS, INSTRUCTIONS FOR AMATEUR PAPERMAKERS WITH NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS OF PRIVATE PRESSES,...
Price: $400.00 Order nr. 96732
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 about TRADE TOKENS OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS & BOOKMAKERS, WITH SPECIMENS OF ELEVEN...
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 133743
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 about VIGNETTES, AN ECLECTIC ASSEMBLAGE OF ANECDOTES ABOUT PAPERMAKING
Price: $240.00 Order nr. 56850
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 about VIGNETTES, AN ECLECTIC ASSEMBLAGE OF ANECDOTES ABOUT PAPERMAKING
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 120383
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 about PRACTICAL REMARKS ON MODERN PAPER. WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY LEONARD B. SCHLOSSER
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 464
