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
1940. A block of 25 commorative stamps issued by Pennsylvania celebrating this event. READ MORE
Price: $25.00 other currencies Order nr. 107476
(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
(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
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
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 save 20% $4.80 other currencies Order nr. 39765
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
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
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
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
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1963. small 4to. original full morocco. 59+(1) pages. This collection of essays is limited to 169 numbered copies (Taylor A4) and 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... READ MORE
Price: $950.00 other currencies Order nr. 23346
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
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' Bird & Bull Press... READ MORE
Price: $750.00 other currencies Order nr. 53318
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1982. 16mo. boards, slipcase. (23) pages. Also inserted in the slipcase is a foldout diagram of a paper balloon bomb in paper wrappers. This first edition work limited to 375 copies was the last book produced at Morris's Elm Street address (Heaney A36). Japanese Paper Balloon Bombs tells the history of this bizarre bombing method used by the Japanese in 1944 against America. One of these balloons actually resulted... READ MORE
Price: $200.00 other currencies Order nr. 131085
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 book is a fascinating and entertaining account of contemporary hand papermaking in India and Nepal. The reader is led on a journey from Rajasthan in the northwest of India to Pondicherry in the south, from the cotton growing country of Gujarat to the boulder-strewn plateau of... READ MORE
Price: $240.00 other currencies Order nr. 37908
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
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
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; this is copy "1." (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... READ MORE
Price: $475.00 other currencies Order nr. 120374
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
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
(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
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
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 save 20% $160.00 other currencies 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
Price: $200.00 save 20% $160.00 other currencies 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
Price: $65.00 other currencies Order nr. 464
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