Hillsborough, CA: L-D Allen Press, 1950. 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards. (iv), 76, (4) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 200 copies (Allen Press Bibliography no.9). A small hairline crack along top hinge, else a fine copy. Designed, hand-set, printed and bound by Dorothy and Lewis Allen. Pen and ink illustrations by Mallette Dean. Paper boards printed with a repeat design consisting of a railroad track meandering through the plains and mountains. Very fine copy..... READ MORE about ACROSS THE PLAINS

Price: $235.00  other currencies  Order nr. 45009

North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1977. 4to. leather spine, paste paper-covered boards. 86, (4) pages. Limited to "approximately 250 copies", of which this copy is numbered. Being the second commonplace book issued by the press. (Taylor A19) Printed by hand by Morris on Green's handmade Bird & Bull paper. Seven articles including an autobiographical sketch and the first English translation of sections of Jacob Christian Schaeffer's famous 18th-century text on papermaking. The latter contains..... READ MORE about BIRD & BULL PEPPER POT: INGREDIENTS, CHOICE BITS OF UNCOMMON PAPERMAKING PUBLISHING AND...

Price: $195.00  other currencies  Order nr. 106465

(Upper Denby, Huddersfield, England): The Fleece Press, 2014. square 8vo. illustrated paper-covered boards, cloth slipcase with illustration. unpaginated. Limited to 250 copies, signed by artist on colophon. A collection of 25 watercolor paintings by Emily Sutton, showing transferware patterns from her own collection of Victorian pottery. In a slipcase made by Smith Settle of Yeadon. Accordion fold pages measure 8 meters when fully extended. A fine copy. READ MORE about TRANSFERWARE TREASURES

Price: $225.00  other currencies  Order nr. 123488

N.P. Fine Press Book Association, 2017. 4to. cloth, dust jacket, cloth portfolio, slipcase. 64 pages. Spring 2014 / Number 26 / Sebastian Carter, Editor NOTE: THIS IS FOR THE DELUXE EDITION which is printed in an edition of 95 deluxe copies, hardbound, and accompanied with a portfolio containing nine pieces of ephemera. Editorial | Sebastian Carter Chairmans Letter | Martyn Ould Book Fair report Printing Historical Society | Ian Bain and David Chambers Private press..... READ MORE about PARENTHESIS 26

Price: $225.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135831

Montagnola di Lugano, Italy: Officina Bodoni, 1924. 4to. green-dyed vellum over boards, with the Press's device stamped in gilt on the front cover, publisher's paper covered boards slipcase. 151 pages. One of 224 copies. Mardersteig 7. Barr 9. Light fading to the spine, with some slight discoloration to the front panel along the fore-edge. Publisher's slipcase shows light shelfwear. Else a tight and bright copy. Shakespeare's late, iconic comedy, printed in Catania, an original Bodoni..... READ MORE about THE TEMPEST

Price: $1,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136246

Frankfurt, Germany: Trajanus Presse, 1966. small 4to. decorated paper covered boards, leather spine label with author and title stamped in gilt, publisher's paper covered boards slipcase. 112, (4) pages. Limited to 300 numbered and signed copies. Spine lightly faded, slipcase lightly spotted, else near fine in near fine slipcase. Signed by the printer, Fritz Kredel. Kredel's woodcuts were made by the Silwar coloring workshop in Pfungstadt. READ MORE about DER ROMAN VON TRISTAN UND ISOLDE IN DER ÜBERTRAGUNG RUDOLF G. BINDINGS. MIT VIERZEHN...

Price: $150.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136260

London, United Kingdom: Chapman & Hall, 1891. 8vo. leather, five raised bands, chemise, half leather and cloth slipcase with five raised bands. xx, 160; [1], iii, 161-432 pages. First edition, of which this is one of twenty limited edition copies with over a 130 extra illustrations (many india proofs, steel plate engravings & etchings), 16 of which are hand-colored, five illustrations of the author and Kitton, and signed by the author William R. Hughes. Additionally..... READ MORE about A WEEK'S TRAMP IN DICKENS-LAND. TOGETHER WITH PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF THE 'INIMITABLE BOZ'...

Price: $5,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134409

London, UK: George Routledge, 1846. large 8vo. full leather, gilt tooling on covers and spine, five raised bands. viii, 104 pages. Later edition. Beautiful full burgundy morocco, covers tooled in gilted panel design with floral motif at corners built up from small gouges and circles, by the Guild of Women-Binders, with stamp in gilt on front turn-in and label on verso of front free endpaper. A most desirable copy with a royal association. Inscribed on..... READ MORE about SEYMOUR'S HUMOROUS SKETCHES COMPRISING NINETY-TWO CARICATURE ETCHINGS

Price: $2,950.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134222

(London): Bradbury, Agnew and Co. Ld. n.d. (but 1851). 8vo. leather, edges gilt, five raised bands, gilt lettering on spine. (iv), xii, 308 pages. First edition (Tooley 298. Not in Field). Illustrated by John Leech with 10 full-colored etchings and 98 woodcut vignettes. John Leech was a staff artist for "Punch" from its early issues in 1841. Gilbert Abbott à Beckett was one of the original staff members for "Punch." One of the Victorian era's..... READ MORE about THE COMIC HISTORY OF ROME

Price: $1,250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 94242

London, UK: Printed for the Guild of Women-Binders & Williams & Norgate, 1902. small 4to (10" by 7.75"). later half morocco over marbled paper covered boards, all edges stained brown, gilt lettering on spine, four raised bands. [i-vii], viii-xxxii pages followed by 50 full page chromolithographs of bindings each accompanied by a page of text. S-K 5468. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. (Mejer 645). With a Critical Introduction by G. Elliot Anstruther, who..... READ MORE about THE BINDINGS OF TO-MORROW, A RECORD OF THE WORK OF THE GUILD OF WOMEN-BINDERS AND OF THE...

Price: $1,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 123956