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
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
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
New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1981. 8vo. cloth. ix, xviii, 281, (5) pages. Reprint of the 1910 first edition but the first edition with Friedman's introduction. Also contains additional entries to the bibliography. Chapters on Colour Printing in the 15th Century, 16th and 17th Centuries, 18th and 19th Centuries, Chromo-Lithography, Photo-Mechanical Colour Printing and Modern Colour Processes. Illustrated. Fine condition. READ MORE about COLOUR PRINTING AND COLOUR PRINTERS Introduction by Joan M. Friedman
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 35754
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
Edited and Introduced by Ruari McLean.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, (1968). square 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 92 pages. Edited and Introduced by Ruari McLean. Reprint of the 1967 first edition. Illustrated including many in color. Contains a eight page list of books containing examples of color printing by Evans. Jacket is price clipped. READ MORE about THE REMINISCENCES OF EDMUND EVANS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 27482
San Luis Obispo, CA: California Polytechnic State University, 2015. 8vo. hardcover. 227 pages. The story of the modern color printing era from its birth in the 1890s to today. Digital technology produced astonishing advances in prepress productivity, unleashing many creative possibilities and image quality improvements. Progress in printing technologies also raised color quality and productivity. Todays subsequent availability of inexpensive, high-quality color images, has greatly enriched us all. Author Gary G. Fields account of modern..... READ MORE about THE COLOR PRINTING REVOLUTION: PRODUCTIVITY! CREATIVITY! QUALITY!
Price: $49.95 Order nr. 127605
Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, (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: $8.00 Order nr. 25518
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
(Leipzig): Deutschen Buchdrucker Verein, 1919. large 4to. paper-covered boards. 32 pages plus 24 leaves of plates. First edition. Celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the German Book-Printing Society founded in 1869. Text gives an account of the history of the institution. Full page two-color chiaroscuro prints showcase the buildings or persons associated with the Society over the previous half century, including chairmen and members of the board of directors over the years. Printed on laid paper..... READ MORE about DER DEUTSCHE BUCHDRUCKERVEREIN UND SEIN WERDEN IN FÜNFZIG JAHREN (1869-1919
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 77779
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
2 volumes.
Chestertown: Chester River Press, 2009. 12.5 x 14.5 inches. cloth, dust jackets, slipcase. 550; 434 pages. 2 volumes. Acclaimed by Samuel Johnson as "a performance which no age or nation could hope to equal," Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad and Odyssey stands as one of the glories of English Literature. The Chester River Press edition of the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer has been designed and printed to reflect the epic proportions of this..... READ MORE about THE ILIAD AND ODYSSEY OF HOMER AS TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER POPE, IN GREEK AND ENGLISH. WITH AN...
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 104249
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
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., (1976). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 136 pages. Revised edition. Includes sections on color, typography and technique. Covers soiled. READ MORE about PUBLICATION DESIGN, A GUIDE TO PAGE LAYOUT TYPOGRAPHY, FORMAT AND STYLE
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 40395
