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
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
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
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
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
With Illustrations by G. Bowers.
London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1884. 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. viii, 360 pages. With Illustrations by G. Bowers. D'Avigdor (1841-1895) wrote a number of hunting novels under the pseudonym of "The Wanderer." He was educated as an engineer and supervised many construction projects in the Middle East. D'Avigdor was an avid sportsman..... READ MORE about FAIR DIANA BY "WANDERER"
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 90237
Los Angeles: Raymond C. Gould, (1911). 12mo. cloth-backed boards. (15) pages. With 3 tipped-in plates that show colored mezzotint printing executed by Dickins at his London publishing house. A variant printing. Foxing of title page. READ MORE about A NOTE ON THE ART OF MEZZOTINT AND MEZZOTINT PRINTING IN COLOURS
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 98734
Bayreuth: Lorenz Ellwanger, n.d. 8vo. paper wrappers. 72 pages. Fourth edition. Many examples of various kinds of printing, including color printing. Wrappers rubbed. READ MORE about MERKSTOFF ZUR GEHILFENPRUFUNG
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 48833
Bath: Kingsmead Reprints, (1973). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xxiv, 340 pages. Reprint of the first edition. With colored illustrations. An important text book in the understanding of the developments of color printing. With an introduction by James Laver. Jacket faded, especially spine. READ MORE about ENGLISH COLOURED BOOKS
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 123729
Düsseldorf, Wien and New York: ECON Verlag, (1988). folio. cloth, dust jacket. 208 pages. First edition. English translation by Jutta Heins and Richard Beer. French translation by Louis Lippert and Jean-Luc Grandmontagne. Covers many important aspects of book design including type, screens from printing, color printing, and artwork. Also gives examples of finished pieces and specific typefaces. Fully illustrated in color and black-and-white. Two sheets of punch-out aids for perspective and shading loose inside front..... READ MORE about DIGITAL DESIGN
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 77861
Breamore, England: The Forest Press, 1927. 8vo. cloth- backed boards, paper cover label. xv, 211 pages. First edition. A manual issued as a series of 98 illustrations with accompaning text showing all steps in the production of a color block print. Some illustrations in color. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about COLOUR BLOCK PRINT MAKING FROM LINOLEUM BLOCKS
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 22155
London, England: Bernard Quaritch, 1868. folio. original cloth, edges uncut. xvi, 216 pages. Second issue with the section on references at the end of the book in the first issue suppressed because of errors (Bigmore & Wyman I, 350). Preface to the second issue, table of contents, errata, appendix. Contains 106 facsimiles in photolithography produced by Day & Son which are the highlight of this book. The text contains numerous errors but the fine color..... READ MORE about A HISTORY OF THE ART OF PRINTING FROM ITS INVENTION TO ITS WIDE-SPREAD DEVELOPMENT IN THE MIDDLE...
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 126809
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Detroit, MI: Detroit Photographic Co., 1898. 6.75 inches by 9 inches. two mounted photographs on thick card paper. THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS OF THESE ICONIC SCENES TO BE PRINTED IN COLOR. Pair of photochrom photographs. The photochrom is a color photo lithograph created from a black and white photographic negative. Color impressions are achieved through the application of multiple lithograph stones, one per color. The process was developed in Switzerland and brought to the United States..... READ MORE about YOSEMITE VALLEY, GENERAL VIEW [53003] with EL CAPITAN, YOSEMITE VALLEY [53013
Price: $4,500.00 Order nr. 134695
London: Portman Books, (1989). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. x, 262 pages. Reprint of the first edition. Well-illustrated history of this type of book production. Some plates in color. Extended bibliographies after each chapter. READ MORE about NATURAL SCIENCE BOOKS IN ENGLISH, 1600-1900
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 28094
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., (1974). small folio. cloth, dust jacket. 318 pages. First edition. Detailed look at the best contemporary firms in North America and Europe engaged in producing lithography. Many illustrations in black-and-white and 68 pages of color plates. READ MORE about CONTEMPORARY LITHOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP AROUND THE WORLD
Price: $49.50 Order nr. 9324
London: Bickers and Son, n.d. (circa late 19th century). thick small 4to. quarter red leather with cloth. xix, 549 pages. Second edition in English, fourth thousandth. (See Brenni no.366). This English edition was revised and re-arranged by W. Armstrong. Profusely illustrated including 400 wood-engravings and 12 full color plates executed by F. Kellerhoven. Contains a chapter on bindings (pages 372-384). Ex library copy with stamps and perforations and tape repairs to spine. READ MORE about THE ARTS IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 116290
New York: The Grolier Club, 1924. 8vo. paper-covered boards, paper spine label, fore and bottom edges uncut, slipcase. xiv, 89 pages, with 28 additional leaves of illustrations. Printed in an edition limited to 300 copies on Van Gelden Zonen paper at the Gillis Press. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Grolier Club tracing the development of color printing in Japan. Annotated in detail, often with historical commentary and translations of poems appearing on the prints..... READ MORE about A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF JAPANESE FIGURE PRINTS FORM MORONOBU TO TOYOKUNI
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 98081
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., (1928). tall 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt. xxxvi, 405 pages and 61 plates. First edition. The definitive study of the subject with chapters devoted to Baxter, Charles Knight, Vizetelly, Leighton Brothers, Edmund Evans, Benjamin Fawcett and others. Recased. Ex-library, with card catalogue on rear pastedown still present under the new endpapers. Original covers stained. The recasing made this an incredibly solid book. READ MORE about THE STORY OF PICTURE PRINTING IN ENGLAND DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; OR, FORTY YEARS OF WOOD...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 22464
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., (1928). tall 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt. xxxvi, 405 pages and 61 plates. First edition. The definitive study of the subject with chapters devoted to Baxter, Charles Knight, Vizetelly, Leighton Brothers, Edmund Evans, Benjamin Fawcett and others. Bumped at head of spine. An excellent book. READ MORE about THE STORY OF PICTURE PRINTING IN ENGLAND DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; OR, FORTY YEARS OF WOOD...
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 120873
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd., 1920. small 8vo. cloth. xv, 138 pages. First edition. Le Blond, according to this author, is by far the best printer by the Baxter method of producing coloured pictures. Covers the history of color printing and a complete description of many of the Le Blond prints. Illustrated. Minor spine fading. READ MORE about LE BLOND BOOK, 1920, BEING A HISTORY & DETAILED CATALOGUE OF THE WORK OF LE BLOND & CO....
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 20382
