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. Jacket of volume one is chipped with a spot on front cover. Lower corner clipped off of the jacket of the first volume of the travel volume. Volumes 2-4 are in absolutely fine..... READ MORE about SCENERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND [with] LIFE IN ENGLAND [with] TRAVEL

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London: Elkin Mathews Ltd., 1925. 8vo. boards, glassine dust jacket. (x), 57 pages. First edition in English, limited to 310 copies. With the original glassine, which has a tear and corresponding creasing and some loss on the upper rear panel. Some darkening to board edges, minor foxing to deckled edges. Bookplate of Daniel Berkeley Bianchi on front pastedown. Overall a near-fine copy in the publisher's near-fine glassine dust jacket. Scarce in this condition as the..... READ MORE about G.B. BODONI'S PREFACE TO THE MANUALE TIPOGRAFICO OF 1818 NOW FIRST TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, WITH...

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Chicago: Caxton Club, 1901. 4to. original cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. 102 pages. First edition, limited to only 252 copies. (Mejer no.288; Brenni no.803; S-K 4201). Ex-library copy with mark on spine, spine label has pieces missing. Light wear to extremities. Only the slightest hint of offsetting to opposite pages for a handful of the color plates. All tissue guards are present. Earlham College Library bookplate stamped "withdrawn" on front free endpaper and another bookplate..... READ MORE about THOMAS BERTHELET, ROYAL PRINTER AND BOOKBINDER TO HENRY VIII, KING OF ENGLAND, WITH SPECIAL...

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Boston: Harcourt Bindery, 1980. large 4to. cloth, leather spine label with title and author stamped in silver. 32 pages of text followed by 99 plates with accompanying notes, (7) pages, two full-color plates tipped in. First edition limited to 500 copies bound by hand at the bindery, of which this is one of 465 numbered copies bound in linen boards (S-K 7414). The 2-fold prospectus loosely inserted. Minor wear to the leather spine label. Cloth..... READ MORE about AN ESSAY ON THE DEVELOPMENT & USAGE OF BRASS PLATE DIES INCLUDING A CATALOGUE RAISONNE FROM...

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Introduction by Professor Jacques Millot.
Paris: Libraire Auguste Blaizot, 1965. 4to. signatures loosely inserted in a white stiff paper wrapper, brown cloth chemise with white paper spine label, brown cloth slipcase. xxxiii, 205 pages with seven plates in full color and 243 reproductions in collotype. Introduction by Professor Jacques Millot. Text in French. Printed in an edition limited to 600 numbered copies, of this is one of 500 copies numbered 101 to 600. (S-K 6509, Brenni no.657). Leather bookplate of..... READ MORE about PIERRE LEGRAIN, RELIEUR. REPERTOIRE DESCRIPTIF ET BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE DE MILLE DEUX TRENTE-SIX RELIURES

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7 volumes.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1867. 4to. original cloth. (vi),822; (vi)786; (vi)833; (vi)815; (iv)874; vi,1017; (iv),468,(2) pages. 7 volumes. First edition. A complete list of works acquired by the Library of the Faculty of Advocates up to 1871. Presented in alphabetical order by author; or by title, key words, and subject for anonymous works. Includes a supplement containing those works published between 1860 and 1871, previously left out. All boards detached with one..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE PRINTED BOOKS

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4 volumes.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1864. thick 8vo. later quarter cloth with marbled paper covered boards. Thousands of pages. 4 volumes. First printing of the best edition, corrected by Bohn. Minor cover rubbing. Ownership name in ink on front pastedown and minor foxing to preliminary pages in all four volumes. Substantially revised and enlarged and also contains the appendix not present in earlier editions. The appendix has information on books produced by literary and scientific..... READ MORE about THE BIBLIOGRAPHER'S MANUAL OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

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Tübingen: Jäckle-Sönmez, (1987). small 4to. cloth, marbled paper specimen mounted on front cover. 107 pages. First edition, one of 230 numbered copies bound thus, signed on the colophon and containing an original marbled paper specimen which has been signed. With text in English, German and Turkish. Preface is followed by an article by Emin Bann on The Turkish Art of Ebru, Lipps-Kant on the marbled pictures of the two artists, and a section on techniques..... READ MORE about TURKISH PAPIER EBRU, TURKISH MARBLED PAPER

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43 volumes.
Boston: G.K. Hall, 1969. folio. cloth. thousands of pages. 43 volumes. First edition of this extensive catalogue describing at least 373,262 volumes and 169,336 pamphlets. The library, founded in 1847, flourished under the beneficence of Dr. Samuel Smith Purple and has now grown to be the second largest medical library in the United States. Reproduced from the card catalogue. READ MORE about NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, AUTHOR CATALOG

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3 volumes.
New Castle, Delaware and Los Angeles: Oak Knoll Press & Heritage Book Shop Inc., 1997. small 4to. full leather in slipcase. 1350 pages. 3 volumes. One of 20 sets bound thus. Originally printed and limited to only 150 copies, this legendary three-volume work describes over 1,300 English literary rare books manuscripts in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, one of the foremost American collections of early English literature. The original catalogue, extremely difficult and expensive to..... READ MORE about CARL H. PFORZHEIMER LIBRARY, ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1475-1700

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New York: Clark & Way, 1951. 8vo. blue pebbled cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, slipcase. (60) pages. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies of which this is one of the 100 signed by Bruce Rogers and bound in leather. Printed on English hand-made paper by the Thistle Press in New York City with design and hand-setting by Bruce Rogers. (Blumenthal, p.182-183). Profusely illustrated throughout with illustrations for each month printed in a...... READ MORE about THE TWELVE MONETHS AND CHRISTMAS DAY FROM `FANTASTICKES'

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New York: William E. Rudge's Sons, 1943. 4to. original cloth-backed pattern paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, glassine wrapper, slipcase, inserted in cardboard mailer. (ii), ix, 187 pages. First edition, one of the 199 numbered copies signed by Rogers constituting the large-paper edition. The large-paper copy is in a different binding than the trade edition and contains four decorations in color, all executed by Rogers. It also features one of Rogers' printer's..... READ MORE about PARAGRAPHS ON PRINTING

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Athens: AdVenture SA, 2006. 8.5 x 11.25 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 352 pages. Antonio Millo was a sixteenth-century cartographer who lived in Venice. This publication is based on one of his oldest Italian manuscripts, most likely transcribed while he was still alive. Millo's earliest dated Isolario (a manuscript description of an island and its corresponding maps) comes from the collection of Sylvia Ioannous that was devoted to the history of her homeland, Cyprus. The Isolario..... READ MORE about ANTONIO MILLO ISOLARIO

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Manor Farm: The Whittington Press, 1986. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, custom clamshell box with gilt lettering on spine. (vi), 182 pages. First edition, limited to 900 numbered copies; this is "contributor's copy. John Depol 1987." (Butcher 88). Articles by Roderick Cave on the Chiswick and Golden Cockerel Presses, paper-chasing by Tanya Schmoller, Geoffrey Wakeman on letterpress printing, John DePol and his woodcut pattern papers, etc. READ MORE about MATRIX 06

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Manor Farm, Andoversford, Gloucestershire, England: The Whittington Press, 1986. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, custom clamshell box with gilt lettering on spine. (viii), 166, (2) pages. Limited to 960 copies of which this is one of the 850 copies of the trade edition. (Butcher 92). Table of contents, frontispiece. Filled with tipped-in plates and other illustrations. Articles by Douglas Cleverdon on Morison and Gill, John Dreyfus on French Resistance printing, Sebastian Carter on Victor Hammer..... READ MORE about MATRIX 07: A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS AND BIBLIOPHILES

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Manor Farm, Andoversford, Gloucestershire, England: The Whittington Press, 1988. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, custom clamshell box with gilt lettering on spine. (viii), 166, (2) pages. Limited to 900 copies of which this is one of the 800 copies of the trade edition bound in a pattern paper by Vance Gerry. Tipped-in frontispiece, table of contents. Filled with tipped-in plates and other illustrations. Articles by Michael Taylor on Douglas Cleverdon, David Butcher on the Curwen..... READ MORE about MATRIX 08: A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS AND BIBLIOPHILES

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Manor Farm: The Whittington Press, 1990. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 237 pages. Limited to 925 copies of which this is one of the 820 copies of the trade edition bound thus. (Butcher 106). Filled with tipped in plates and other illustrations. This year's articles include "Berthold Wolpe, 1905-89" by Montague Shaw, "Gerard Meynell and the Westminster Press" by John Dreyfus, "Stanley Morison and Jan van Krimpen" by Sebastian Carter, and "From a Cambridge..... READ MORE about MATRIX 10

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Manor Farm, Andoversford, Gloucestershire, England: The Whittington Press, 1990. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 237 pages. Limited to 925 copies of which this is one of the 820 copies of the trade edition bound thus. (Butcher 106). Table of contents. Filled with tipped-in plates and other illustrations. This year's articles include "Berthold Wolpe, 1905-89" by Montague Shaw, "Gerard Meynell and the Westminster Press" by John Dreyfus, "Stanley Morison and Jan van Krimpen" by Sebastian..... READ MORE about MATRIX 10: A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS AND BIBLIOPHILES

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Manor Farm: Whittington Press, 1991. 4to. quarter leather, marbled paper over boards, in slipcase with separate bound copy of additional material. (v), 207, (14) pages. Limited to 955 copies, this being one of 105 copies bound thus. (Butcher 110). Filled with tipped-in plates, photographs and samples of private press items. Some of the articles in this issue are "Reynolds Stone and Cambridge" by Brooke Crutchley, "Stanley Morison and Jan van Krimpen, a Survey of their..... READ MORE about MATRIX 11

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Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 1992. 4to. stiff decorated paper wrappers. (vi), 222 pages. Limited to 925 copies, this being one of 825 copies bound thus. (Butcher 116). Filled with tipped-in plates, photographs and samples of private press items. Some of the articles in this issue are "The Library of Emery Walker" by William Peterson, Simon Lawrence on "The Fleece Press", Roderick Cave on the "Ceremonial Papers of the Chinese, Part One," "Dennis Cohen and the Cresset..... READ MORE about MATRIX 12

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Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 1993. 4to. quarter Oasis leather with marlbed paper-covered covers and including a separate portfolio of Chinese ceremonial papers, all enclosed in a slipcase. (vi), 234 pages. Limited to 925 copies, this being one of 35 copies bound thus and containing the separate portfolio of paper. Filled with tipped in plates, photographs and samples of private press items. Some of the articles in this issue are "Epinal's Imagerie - the Pochoir Image Factory..... READ MORE about MATRIX 13

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Risbury, Herefordshire, England: The Whittington Press, 1993. 4to. limp decorated boards, dust jacket, in custom clamshell box with gilt-stamped spine. (vi), 234 pages. Limited to 925 copies, this being one of 835 copies bound thus. Filled with tipped-in plates, photographs and samples of private press items. Some of the articles in this issue are "Epinal's Imagerie - the Pochoir Image Factory of France" by Peter Allen, "The Vine Press, 1957-1963" by John Dreyfus, James Mosely..... READ MORE about MATRIX 13: A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS AND BIBLIOPHILES

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Risbury, Herefordshire, England: The Whittington Press, 1994. 4to. limp boards, dust jacket, custom clamshell box with gilt lettering on spine. (vi), 236, (2) pages. Limited to 925 copies. Filled with tipped in plates, photographs and samples of private press items. Some of the articles in this issue are "One Day in Alpignano: a Visit to Alberto Tallone Editore" by Roderick Cave, "Edward Anthony Craig, Wood-Engraver" by L.M. Newman, "Stanley Morison's Handwriting" by Ruari McLean, "Sydney..... READ MORE about MATRIX 14: A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS AND BIBLIOPHILES

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Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 1998. 4to. paper-covered limp boards, dust jacket. (vi), 236, (2) pages, with many additional pages of plates and other materials. Limited to 825, including 745 in "stiff covers" (limp boards). Some contents of this issue: Ruari McLean on Jan Tschichold, WM Erik Voss on LA Type, David McKitterick on The Fanfare Press (with type specimens), "Bruce Rogers and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Michael Johnson, "Researching the Revival of the..... READ MORE about MATRIX 18

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(Lower Marston Farm, Risbury: Whittington Press, 2009). 4to. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. (vi), 180, (2) pages. One of 630 copies bound thus. Matrix is the longest surviving and probably the last typographical journal to be printed by letterpress. It is an eclectic mix of fine printing, type design, and small press lore, forming a record of events and personalities whose memory would otherwise have died with their recorders. It is no exaggeration to say..... READ MORE about MATRIX 28

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New York: Museum Books, 1964. oblong 4to. parchment - backed boards with parchment tips. not paginated. Limited to 500 numbered copies produced by this American publisher, and signed by Zapf on the colophon page. A fine copy in fine jacket. Set in 16 languages with the types of D. Stempel "taken from the foundry's archives" and printed by Heinrich Egenolf. A magnificent display of typography and type specimens printed in black with some part printed..... READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHIC VARIATIONS DESIGNED BY HERMANN ZAPF ON THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY BOOK DESIGN AND...

Price: $150.00  other currencies  Order nr. 17095