Abbey, J.R.

SCENERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY 1770-1860. With LIFE IN ENGLAND. With TRAVEL.

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

Price: $1,950.00  other currencies  Order nr. 71437

(Adagio Press).

THE COLLECTED EPHEMERA OF THE ADAGIO PRESS.

Harper Woods, MI: The Adagio Press, (1972). six loose folded sheets in a 7.5" x 10.5" printed envelope. Fiirst edition, limited to 153 numbered sets. Tanner and Alstrom 28. One in a series of numbered sets of ephemera. Includes type specimens, typographic exercises, and announcements for various times and reasons. Each item is printed in two to five colors. READ MORE

Price: $25.00  other currencies  Order nr. 57117

Adeline, Jules.

LES ARTS DE REPRODUCTION VULGARISES.

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

Price: $150.00  other currencies  Order nr. 42765

Audubon, John James.

THE BIRDS OF AMERICA, FROM DRAWINGS MADE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THEIR TERRITORIES.

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

Price: $110,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 131435

(Beddington, G.E.).

CATALOGUE OF THE G.E. BEDDINGTON COLLECTION OF COLOUR-PRINTS.

Cambridge: Fitzwilliam Museum, 1959. 8vo. library pamphlet holder with original stiff paper wrappers bound in. iv, 31+(1) pages. Catalogue of the collection of color-engravings belonging to Gerald E. Beddington (1867-1958). Preface by the museum director. Essay by S.W. Grose. List of abbreviations. Catalogue organized alphabetically by artist. Inscription of previous owner on front board. READ MORE

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 108723

Been, Anita Cavagnaro.

ANIMALS & AUTHORS IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAS, A HEMPISPHERIC LOOK AT THE WRITING OF NATURAL HISTORY.

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

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 88566

Berthollet, Claude Louis.

ELEMENTS OF THE ART OF DYEING TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY WILLIAM HAMILTON, M.D.

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

Price: $750.00  other currencies  Order nr. 102216

(Bird & Bull Press). Schanilec, Gaylord.

MY COLORFUL CAREER.

With a Foreword by Henry Morris.
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1996. tall 8vo. quarter dark blue morocco with cloth sides, leather spine label, slipcase. 79, (3) pages. With a Foreword by Henry Morris. Limited to 160 numbered copies (Berger A59). Printed by Henry Morris by hand at his Bird & Bull Press on Zerkall mouldmade paper and bound by Campbell-Logan Bindery. Gaylord Schanilec has become one of premier wood engravers in this country and is especially noted for his work... READ MORE

Price: $425.00  other currencies  Order nr. 45486

(Bird & Bull Press). Wolfe, Richard J.

JACOB BIGELOW'S AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANY, 1817-1821, AN EXAMINATION OF THE ORIGIN, PRINTING, BINDING AND DISTRIBUTION OF AMERICA'S FIRST COLOR PLATE BOOK. WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE MANNER OF MAKING AND PRINTING ITS COLORED PLATES.

North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1979. tall 8vo. quarter leather over decorated paper-covered boards. 123 pages. Limited to 300 numbered copies; this copy is not numbered but has "binder's sample 2/20/79" written on the colophon (Taylor A21). This work is an excellent, scholarly study, finely printed by Henry Morris. With two original plates intended for Bigelow's book, Jacob Bigelow's American Medical Botany shows a plate that Bigelow had meant to use in his... READ MORE

Price: $400.00  other currencies  Order nr. 120357

(Blocquel, Simon-François).

LE SAVANT DE HUIT ANS, SUIVI DU PETIT COLORISTE.

(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

Price: $2,750.00  other currencies  Order nr. 129509

(Bookbinding). Bailey, Henry Turner.

BOOKLET MAKING, AN ART-CRAFT PROBLEM.

New York: The Prang Company, 1912. 8vo. cloth. 48 pages. Designed to aid a teacher in teaching school children to make a booklet as an arts and crafts project, this book tells how to design the booklet using many steps and examples. Illustrated. READ MORE

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 35795

(Bookbinding). Fletcher, William Younger.

ENGLISH BOOKBINDINGS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM and FOREIGN BOOKBINDINGS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

2 Volumes.
London, England: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1895-1896. folio. original cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut, decorated endpapers. xviii pages of introductory material, unpaginated thereafter; xxiv pages of introductory material, unpaginated thereafter. 2 Volumes. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. (Mejer no.1345). Preface and introduction by the author in both volumes. First volume with 63 plates of works bound in Britain. Second volume with 65 plates of works bound elsewhere. Magnificent examples of... READ MORE

Price: $1,250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 130532