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. 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

Price: $2,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 15853

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. in large sets
Folkestone: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1972. 4to. cloth, dust jackets. xx,399; xxi,428; xiii,300; xiii,301-675 pages. 4 volumes, complete set. in large sets. Reprint of the first editions. Filled with bibliographical descriptions of the color plate books published in England during this period and containing many plates in color. Jackets are worn with pieces missing. READ MORE

Price: $650.00  other currencies  Order nr. 103905

(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

Atterbury, Paul.

ART DECO PATTERNS, A DESIGN SOURCE BOOK.

London: Studio Editions, (1990). small folio. paper covered boards, dust jacket. 21 pages of text followed by 100 plates and accompanying text. First edition. Text followed by many full color illustrations to be used as design inspiration. Few small tears along top of spine of jacket. READ MORE

Price: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 126591

(Becker, Rudolf).

DER WERDEGANG EINES OFFSETDRUCKES IN 8 FARBEN.

Leipzig: Rudolph Becker, n.d. 4to. paper portfolio. (4) pages followed by (15) loose leaves of illustration. The firm of Rudolph Becker illustrates the stages of offset printing with 15 color specimens. An image is taken through the process, with examples of each color addition (printed wholly in that color and then printed with that color added to the mix). An introduction to the specimens is included. In German. Tear in portfolio at top. READ MORE

Price: $65.00  other currencies  Order nr. 61885

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. 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

Price: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 88565

Bennett, Whitman.

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO AMERICAN NINETEENTH CENTURY COLOR PLATE BOOKS.

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

Price: $40.00  other currencies  Order nr. 564

(Bignold).

THE BIGNOLD LIBRARY, CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF COLOUR-PLATE BOOKS,

London: Sotheby's, 1971. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 52 pages. Prices realized inserted. Illustrated. Fabric tape markers on spine. READ MORE

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 25629

(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 work (Taylor A21) is an excellent, scholarly study, finely printed by Henry Morris. With two original plates intended for Bigelow's book, American Medical Botany shows a plate that Bigelow had meant to use in his work but didn't. "The two illustrations mounted into this study comprise original, engraved plates--one hand-colored and... READ MORE

Price: $100.00  other currencies  Order nr. 23016

Birren, Faber.

THE TEXTILE COLORIST.

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

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 108681

(Bookbinding). Andrews, William Loring.

ROGER PAYNE AND HIS ART, A SHORT ACCOUNT OF LIFE AND WORK AS A BINDER.

New York: Privately printed at the De Vinne Press, 1892. 8vo. cloth, later slipcase. 36 pages. S-K 4985. First edition, limited to 130 copies. Contains a prefatory note by Beverly Chew, a portrait of Payne, a facsimile reproduction of one of his bills for binding and nine plates in gold and other colors showing eight Payne bindings. These plates were executed by E. Bierstadt using the Bierstadt Artotype System involving the use of collotype gelatine... READ MORE

Price: $750.00  other currencies  Order nr. 38819

(Bookbinding).

EXHIBITION OF BOOKBINDINGS.

London, England: Printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1891. large thick folio. rebound in cloth with lettered portions of original front cover cloth laid on. xlii, (2) 132 pages followed by cxiii chromolithographed full-page plates with printed tissue guards. First and only edition of this magnificent book of bookbindings (Mejer 1261, Brenni 284, Schmidt-Kunsemuller 873). Illustrated with chromolithographs by William Griggs (1832-1911). (See Wakeman & Bridson, p.52). Introductory passages authored by Edward Gordon Duff... READ MORE

Price: $650.00  other currencies  Order nr. 98788