Republic of San Serriffe: 1977. 9 x 10.5 inches. Single sheet. A stock certificate printed by Henry Morris for 1000 shares in the Bird & Bull Press incorporated under the laws of his mythical kingdom (Taylor C11), San Serriffe. Printed by hand at the press in two colors. READ MORE about BIRD & BULL PRESS, S.S
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 36342
N.P. Bird & Bull Press, n.d. 4to. cardboard frame with title and Bird & Bull insignia printed at the bottom enclosing 12 broadsides printed on different colored paper. Each broadside shows a different example of typography and is printed in two colors. Meant as a gift for standing order customers of his fine private press. Displays Henry Morris's design work and sense of humor. Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about BON MOT
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 15851
Republic of San Serriffe: 1986. 4.5"x 6" Single small broadside sheet. Another piece of printing ephemera from the Bird & Bull Press of Henry Morris. This is a banknote printed by hand on both sides by Morris for his mythical kingdom of San Serriffe. Printed in two colors with a very interesting calligraphic border. READ MORE about REPUBLIC OF SAN SERRIFFE WILL PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND TWENTY-FIVE CORONAS
Price: $7.50 Order nr. 36343
4 1/4" x 3 3/4" Single sheet. Finely printed bookplate for the Wormser Collection of Graphic Satire at Fairleigh Dickinson University Library, with comic engraving. Printed by John Anderson at his Pickering Press. READ MORE about RICHARD S. WORMSER COLLECTION OF GRAPHIC SATIRE BOOKPLATE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 48621
4" x 2 7/8" Single sheet. Finely printed bookplate for the William W. Weinstone Collection at the Fairleigh Dickinson University Library. Interesting engraving depicts hammer-and-sickle device above an anvil. Printed by John Anderson at his Pickering Press. READ MORE about WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE COLLECTION BOOKPLATE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 48617
New York: Center for Book Arts, 2010. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. paperback. 110 pages. This collection brings together the art and combination of image and language. Poems and Pictures was organized by guest curator Kyle Schlesinger and examines the relationship between seeing and reading, and language and visual art. Featuring 90 artworks from presses in operation between 1945 and 1981, the work is committed to provocative writings with equally inspiring imagery. In order to provide..... READ MORE about POEMS & PICTURES: A RENAISSANCE IN THE ART OF THE BOOK (1946-1981
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 105200
New York: Center for Book Arts, 2010. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. paperback. 110 pages. This collection brings together the art and combination of image and language. Poems and Pictures was organized by guest curator Kyle Schlesinger and examines the relationship between seeing and reading, and language and visual art. Featuring 90 artworks from presses in operation between 1945 and 1981, the work is committed to provocative writings with equally inspiring imagery. In order to provide..... READ MORE about POEMS & PICTURES: A RENAISSANCE IN THE ART OF THE BOOK (1946-1981
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 128319
N.P. n.p., n.d. (1991). 4.75" x 4.25" single sheet. unpaginated. Wood engraving originally published in An Anthology of Delaware Papermaking. Shows the Curtis Paper Mill in Newark, Delaware. Block signed with a "D" in the right corner. Minor wear. READ MORE about The Curtis Paper Mill
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 95685
Wilmington: The Delaware Art Center, n.d. (circa 1956). Single sheet folded three times and printed on both sides. Gives an illustrated view of the Delaware Art Musuem including information on its history. READ MORE about DELAWARE ART CENTER (THE
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 47385
Maple Shade: Pickering Press, n.d. 7" x 9.75" Single sheet. This small broadside promises satisfaction with high quality work from the engraving block of John DePol and the presswork of John Anderson at the Pickering Press, which combines DePol's engravings with Mother's Day, Father's Day or Valentine's Day greetings. According to this leaf, DePol's "fees are modest in view of the Great Care and Precision exersized and is work is ready, more often than not..... READ MORE about ADVERTISEMENT FOR JOHN DEPOL AND THE PICKERING PRESS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 79290
N.P. Pickering Press, 1982. 24" x 15" Single broadside sheet, folded once. Object size: 18 x 9.25 inches. Advertises multiple sessions to be held during the Book Arts Workshop. Features: Lecture Series with presentations by James Fraser, Walter Goldwater, David Godine, Joe Kubert, Renee Weber, and Fulton MacArthur. The Typography and the Handpress, taught by Leonard Seastone; Hand Binding Techniques Introductory Course, taught by Jeffrey Rigby; Wood Engraving taught by John DePol; and Hand Composition..... READ MORE about FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY INVITES YOU TO ATTEND ITS FIRST SECOND ANNUAL BOOK ARTS WORKSHOP
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 138120
N.P. The Typophiles, 1984. small 8vo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. With a full color woodcut by John DePol of Leslie on front cover. READ MORE about TO DR. ROBERT LINCOLN LESLIE ON HIS NINETY-NINTH BIRTHDAY. THE TYPOPHILES. DECEMBER 1984
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 88420
New York: Marchbanks Press, 1925. 9.25" x 4" Single sheet. With 3 inch square drawing by Dwiggins printed in brown ink at the head of the calendar. READ MORE about MARCHBANKS PRESS CALENDAR FOR JUNE, 1925
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 2274
New York: Harrison of Paris, n.d. (circa 1933). folio. Single sheet. With descriptions of four books available from the press including Katherine Anne Porter's French Song-Book. Printed on gray paper with red ink and containing two illustrations. READ MORE about OFFERINGS FOR THE PERSON OF TASTE WHO HAS EVERYTHING (ELSE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 41192
N.P. Meriden-Stinehour, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrapper folder with five broadsides loosely inserted. Booklet issued by Meriden-Stinehour as a holiday greeting. Each of the broadsides contains a design in color followed by text explaining the device reproduced. READ MORE about Booklet issued by Meriden-Stinehour as a holiday greeting
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 39176
Los Angeles: Roxburghe-Zamorano Club, 1986. 9.5" x 12.5" Single sheet. Printed in an edition limited to 200 copies from a letter from The Sanford & Helen Berger Collection, printed at The Scenic Road Press. Morris writes to Dearle about estimates for the east window. READ MORE about WILLIAM MORRIS'S LETTER TO DEARLE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 58243
19.7 x 13.4 cm. Single sheet framed behind glass. This plate was suppressed by the publisher from Newton's book as being too indicative of Newton's opinion of Woodrow Wilson.This is the state with 7 lines of text under the caricature of Wilson (Fleck A.6.A.1b). READ MORE about Suppressed plate from A MAGNIFICENT FARCE AND OTHER DIVERSIONS OF A BOOK-COLLECTOR
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 11442
Newark: Curtis Paper Company, n.d. 12" x 10" Single sheet. Blank certificate, to be awarded by the "Curtis Paper Company for the exercise of outstanding skill and craftsmanship in the field of the Graphic Arts." Printed with teal, yellow and black. READ MORE about CERTIFICATE OF MERIT
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 79476
N.P. Pickering Press, n.d. 6 1/8" x 8 1/8" Single sheet. Broadside with wood engraving. Text is a quotation from The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalre, or Knyghtehode, originally translated and printed by William Caxton in 1552. READ MORE about ALAS, WHAT DOO YE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 48600
N.P. Pickering Press, 1983. 6 1/4" x 3 1/8" Single folded leaf. John and Ruthmae Anderson's Christmas card for 1983, finely printed with a handsome engraving on the front of the card. READ MORE about CHRISTMAS GREETINGS 1983
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 48625
N.P. Pickering Press, n.d. 7 1/16" x 4 9/16" postcard. Postcard serving as the prospectus for the Pickering Press broadside of reflections on the quality of labor by Porter Garnett. READ MORE about CREDO FOR CRAFTSMEN PROSPECTUS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 48630
N.P. Pickering Press, n.d. 8.5" x 11" Single sheet. Advertisment for an event at Fairleigh-Dickinson University, printed in Western style by John Anderson at the Pickering Press. READ MORE about AN EVENING OF WESTERN SONG
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 48612
N.P. Pickering Press, n.d. 4 1/4" x 5 5/16" Single sheet. An invitation to a cocktail party finely printed by John Anderson at the Pickering Press, with a wood engraving by John DePol. READ MORE about INVITATION
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 48603
N.P. Pickering Press, 1983. 8.25" x 6.25" Single sheet. Set and printed for friends of the engraver and printer in June 1983. A handsome broadside set in Delphin. Wood-engraved initial by John DePol. Text is a statement attributed to Aldus Manutius. READ MORE about WHOEVER THOU ART
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 48595
N.P. Pickering Press, 1984. 6 1/4" x 15 1/8"; folded size 6 1/4" x 7 5/8" Single sheet. Prospectus for the Pickering Press edition of Joseph Blumenthal's essay on the 19th-century English printer William Pickering. Gives some historical background on Pickering as well as a description of the book. Verso has quotation from Blumenthal. Engraved head- and tail-piece reproducing the Pickering Press printer's mark in blue. READ MORE about WILLIAM PICKERING PROSPECTUS
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 48601
