München: Südwest, 1964. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. Unpaginated. A lavish book of printing specimens from German printing firms. Over 75 specimens of fine printing, most in color; specimens include full-color reproductions of paintings, illuminated manuscripts, book illustrations, and title pages. Indexed. Jacket chipped and torn. READ MORE about DEUTSCHE DRUCKKUNST I
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 49506
28 issues of this periodical.
(Rochester, NY: Eastman Kodak Company, 1972-1991. small 4to. paper wrappers. 28 issues of this periodical. Includes both the Anniversary and Centennial issues. READ MORE about KODAK STUDIO LIGHT
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 105710
Volume XXIV, No.2
New York: American Printing History Association, 2004. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 55 pages. Volume XXIV, No.2. Articles by David R. Whitesell on Thomas Jefferson and the Book Arts, Philip J. Weimerskirch on color printing in America, and David A. Hanson on John Carbutt and the Woodburytype in America. READ MORE about PRINTING HISTORY, THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOC IATION. Number 48
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 115560
Barcelona, Spain: Instituto Catalán de las Artes del Libro, 1901-1902. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 174, (2), 68, (2) pages. Text in Spanish. Limited to 1100 numbered copies. Union List 4, 3613; Bibliografia Espanola 8. Published annually by the Catalan Institute of Book Arts 1900 to c. 1918. List of members, table of contents, appendix. Advertisements follow text. Examples of color printing, engraving, lithography. Includes a tribute to Spanish illustrator and painter José Luis Pellicer... READ MORE about REVISTÁ GRÁFICA
Price: $625.00 Order nr. 128144
London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co., n.d. (circa 1900). small 8vo. original padded cloth covers with color illustration of violets on front. Printed in color in Bavaria. A gift book of poetry with full color illustrations of violets throughout. Covers slightly soiled. Front free endpaper partially detached. Ownership inscription from 1900 on free endpaper and bookstore stamp beneath it. READ MORE about VIOLETS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 118938
(Toronto, Canada): Thomas Fisher Rare Book Room, University of Toronto, 2003. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 139+(1) pages. Table of contents, introduction by library director Richard Landon. Essays by Marie Elena Korey, Yannick Portebois, Dorothy E. Speirs, and Richard Landon. Appendix, listing of items in the exhibition. Frontispiece, black and white illustrations in text along with a section in color. READ MORE about VIZETELLY & COMPAN(IES), A COMPLEX TALE OF VICTORIAN PRINTING AND PUBLISHING
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 127000
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. Filled with bibliographical descriptions of the color plate books published in England during this period and containing many plates in color. The great reference set of the subject. Jacket of volume one is... READ MORE about SCENERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY 1770-1860. With LIFE IN ENGLAND....
Price: $2,500.00 Order nr. 15853
4 volumes, complete set.
London: Privately printed at the Curwen Press, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1957. 4to. polished cloth, top edges gilt, leather spine labels. xx,399; xxi,428; xiii,300; xiii,301-675 pages. 4 volumes, complete set. First editions, limited to 500, 400, and 400 copies respectively. Filled with bibliographical descriptions of the color plate books published in England during this period and containing many plates in color. The printing by the Curwen Press of these first editions is far superior to the... READ MORE about SCENERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY 1770-1860. With LIFE IN ENGLAND....
Price: $1,950.00 Order nr. 71437
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. Filled with bibliographical descriptions of the color plate books published in England during this period and containing many plates in color. The great reference set of the subject. Jacket... READ MORE about SCENERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY 1770-1860. With LIFE IN ENGLAND....
Price: $2,400.00 Order nr. 123769
Pittsburgh: GATFPress, (1998). large 8vo. pictorial paper covered boards. (xiv), 221, (5) pages. Illustrated in color throughout. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about THE GATF PRACTICAL GUIDE TO COLOR MANAGEMENT
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 99823
Paris: Librairies-Imprimeries Réunies, n.d. (circa 1894). 8vo. modern cloth with original stiff paper wrapper bound-in. (viii), x, 379, (3) pages. First edition. A manual of reproduction processes. Includes 140 illustrations within the text and examples of each process reproducing original designs of the author. Techniques discussed in this volume include dry point, lithography, heliogravure, and various color processes. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. A xerox of the entry for Adeline in... READ MORE about LES ARTS DE REPRODUCTION VULGARISES
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 42765
Three volumes.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1984. 1988. 1989, 8vo., stiff paper wrappers. (ii),130; (ii),132; (ii),132 pages. Three volumes. Depicts a total of 423 patterns, some in color, with historical background. READ MORE about DESIGNER'S GUIDE TO JAPANESE PATTERNS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 36399
Boston: David R. Godine, (1996). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 64 pages. First color edition. Marie Angel's animated alphabet has been reproduced here in full color with twenty-eight drawings plus title and colophon page. READ MORE about AN ANIMATED ALPHABET
Price: $12.95 Order nr. 56684
7 Volumes.
New York, and Philadelphia, NY & PA: J. J. Audubon and J. B. Chevalier, [1839] 1840-1844. 8vo. full morocco bindings with gilt ornamentation around covers, five raised bands, gilt on spine, marbled edges, later cloth slipcases. variously paginated. 7 Volumes. Rinderknecht and Bruntjen 40-328, First 8vo edition. Table of contents in each volume, Introductory comments by Audubon precede text in volumes I and II. List of subscribers follows text in all volumes. Index follows text... READ MORE about THE BIRDS OF AMERICA, FROM DRAWINGS MADE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THEIR TERRITORIES
Price: $80,000.00 Order nr. 131435
with Cataloguing Records for Selected Titles prepared by Burton Van Edwards.
Providence: The John Carter Brown Library, 2004. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xxvi, 184, (3) pages. with Cataloguing Records for Selected Titles prepared by Burton Van Edwards. First edition. Based on an exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library in 1998-99, this richly illustrated work presents the full range of New World animals as recorded by early naturalists. The book deals with North American, Caribbean, and Latin American species as presented in various narrative contexts, and... READ MORE about ANIMALS & AUTHORS IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAS, A HEMPISPHERIC LOOK AT THE WRITING OF...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 88565
with Cataloguing Records for Selected Titles prepared by Burton Van Edwards.
Providence: The John Carter Brown Library, 2004. 4to. cloth. xxvi, 184, (3) pages. with Cataloguing Records for Selected Titles prepared by Burton Van Edwards. First edition. Based on an exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library in 1998-99, this richly illustrated work presents the full range of New World animals as recorded by early naturalists. The book deals with North American, Caribbean, and Latin American species as presented in various narrative contexts, and comments on... READ MORE about ANIMALS & AUTHORS IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAS, A HEMPISPHERIC LOOK AT THE WRITING OF...
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 88566
New York: Bennett Book Studios, 1949. 8vo. red cloth. xxii, 132 pages. An important listing of American color plate books with well annotated descriptions. Loosely inserted is the eight-page supplement. Endpapers and pastedowns show some foxing. READ MORE about A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO AMERICAN NINETEENTH CENTURY COLOR PLATE BOOKS
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 564
2 volumes bound in 1.
London: Stephen Couchman for J. Johnson, 1791. thick 8vo. modern leather spine with marbled paper covered boards and leather tips, red leather spine label. xxxvii, 302; v, 385 pages. 2 volumes bound in 1. First edition in English. Folding engraved plate of dyeing apparatus to volume two (Cohen 118; Bolton 306; Lawrie 303; Ron's Bibliotheca Tinctoria #100). Berthollet (1748-1822) was a noted chemist in France and collaborated with Lavoisier on his pioneering chemical nomenclature. He... READ MORE about ELEMENTS OF THE ART OF DYEING TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY WILLIAM HAMILTON, M.D
Price: $750.00 Order nr. 102216
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, (1980). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 64 pages. Guide to color effects for all kinds of textiles. Bibliography and index. 16 color plates; black and white illustrations throughout. Wrappers tanned. READ MORE about THE TEXTILE COLORIST
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 108681
(Lille, France: Imprimerie de Blocquel), n.d., but circa 1830. oblong 32mo. contemporary sheep, gilt-stamped. (viii), 96 pages. Text in French. Attributed to Lille printer Simon-François Blocquel. A guide for children, in two sections. The first entitled "Savant de huit ans: sciences, arts et métiers;" the second entitled "Petit coloriste: de enluminure." Describes the printing trades. With six color plates entitled Peintre (frontispiece), Sculpture, Graveur en taille-douce, Relieur, Imprimeur en caractères mobiles. Also with color title..... READ MORE about LE SAVANT DE HUIT ANS, SUIVI DU PETIT COLORISTE
Price: $2,750.00 Order nr. 129509
Gütersloh: C. Bertelsmann Verlag, (1976). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 192 pages. A collection of essays on all aspects of the book and its production. Filled with illustrations in color of mostly modern work. READ MORE about BUCHER UND MENSCHEN
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 37506
New York: John Wiley & Sons, (1963). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 249 pages. First edition. Illustrated including a number in color. READ MORE about COLOR: A GUIDE TO BASIC FACTS AND CONCEPTS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 31310
Paris: Gauthier-Villars; Masson & Cie, (1898). small 8vo. modern marbled paper wrappers, paper spine label. 190, (xvi), xvi pages. First edition (Roosens & Luc Salu 2218). Part of the series entitled "Encyclopédie scientifique des aide-mémoire." 18 text illustrations. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about LA PHOTOGRAPHIE DES COULEURS. AVEC UNE PRÉFACE DE M. GABRIEL LIPPMANN
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 98568
Paris: Bibliothèque Larousse, n.d. (circa 1907). 12mo. printed stiff paper wrapper. 95, (17) pages. Troisième mille. 22 text illusustrations. Text in French. Lower margin of the first few pages waterstained, but not affecting text. Wrappers soiled with some creases and chips. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about LA PHOTOGRAPHIE DES COULEURS
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 98247
With Illustrations by G. Bowers.
London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1882. 8vo. full brown calf (by Root & Son London), five raised bands, sporting scenes blind stamped on spine, top edge gilt, original red cloth bound-in at end. (x), 361 pages. With Illustrations by G. Bowers. D'Avigdor (1841-1895) wrote a number of hunting novels under the pseudonym of "The Wander." He was educated as an engineer and supervised many construction projects in the Middle East. D'Avigdor was an avid sportsman... READ MORE about ACROSS COUNTRY BY "WANDERER"
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 90239
