Block Printing Techniques for Linoleum and Wood
Pennsylvania, United States: Stackpole Books, 2011. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Soft cover. First edition. Minor nicks and some small bends along the edges. Otherwise as new copy. More
Books On Books
American Picturebooks from Noah's Ark to the Beast Within
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1976. First Edition. Cloth. Thick Quarto. Pp. [viii], 615. Lavishly illustrated in colour and black & white. Original cloth, gilt spine, d/w. In fine condition. More
Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book Hunter in the Twenty-First Century
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover with added mylar covering. First edition. As new copy. More
The Tradition of Manuscripts: A Study in the Transmission of St. Cyprian's Treatises
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1961. Hardcover. Octavo. Pp. viii, 163. Original cloth, gilt spine, no d/w, neat ink signature on flyleaf, otherwise a near fine copy. More
Art of the Printed Book, 1455-1955: Masterpieces of Typography Through Five Centuries from the Collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
New York & Boston: The Pierpont Morgan Library & David R. Godine, 1978. Third Printing. Hardcover. Large Quarto. Pp. xiv, 192. With a 125 full-page black & white illustrations, one folding. Original gilt-stamped cloth binding, with dustwrapper, both in fine condition. More
Short-title Catalogue of Books Prnted in the Italy and of Italian Books Printed in Other Countries from 1465 to 1600 Now in the British Museum
London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1958. Hardcover. Stout Octavo. Pp. 992. Navy blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. Interior clean and crisp. Covers gently faded with spine faded to almost tan, otherwise a very good, clean copy. More
Short-title Catalogue of Books Prnted in France and of French Books Printed in Other Countries from 1470 to 1600 Now in the British Museum
London: By Order of the Trustees, British Museum; Bernard Quaritch, Humphrey Milford, 1924. Hardcover. Stout Octavo. Navy blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. Slightly cocked, covers along fore-edge show damp staining not affecting interior which is clean and crisp. More
Manuel du Libraire et de l'Amateur de Livres, Contenant: 1. Un Nouveau Dictionnaire Bibliographique, 2. Une Table en Forme de Catalogue Raisonné
Paris: Chez Silvestre, Libraire, 1842-44. Quatrième Édition. Hardcover. Thick Octavo. Five volumes. Pp. xxv, 823, [1]; [iv], 786; [iv], 896; [iv], 835; [iv], 846. Textual figures. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers. Moderate wear to extremities, corners rubbed and exposed, inner hinges of first volume reinforced with..... More
The Private Press
New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1971. First US Edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. Pp. 376. Frontispiece and 72 black & white plates, plus 83 textual figures. Original orange cloth, gilt spine, d/w. In fine condition. The definitive study of the history of the private press, the printers and their products, from the..... More
The Brothers Dalziel. A Record of Fifty Years' Work in Conjunction with Many of the Most Distinguished Artists of the Period, 1840-1890. With Selected Pictures by, and Autograph Letters from Leighton, Millais, Pynter, H Hunt, Dante G. Rossetti, Tenniel...
London: Methuen and Co., 1901. First Trade Edition. Cloth. Quarto. Pp. xiii, 359, illustrated throughout by Sir J.E. Millais, Sir. E. J. Poynter, Holman Hunt, Dante G. Rossetti, Sir John Tenniel, Sir E. Burne-Jones, John Ruskin, Arthur Hughes, Birket Foster, and many others. Navy-coloured cloth with gilt cover and spine..... More
The Good Ship Venus: The Erotic Voyage of the Olympia Press
Hutchinson, 1994. Hardcover. 8vo. Black boards with slver lettering to spine. Two small bumps otherwise a a very good copy in a very good dust jacket. More
The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Brown linen with black cloth backstrip, gilt lettering to cover and spine. Lightly scuffed and shaken, spine faded; hinges cracked. Internally fine. Housed in a scuffed and worn houndstooth patterned slipcase..... More
A Century of the English Book Trade
London: The Bibliographical Society, 1948. Reprint of 1905 Edition. Hardcover. Square Octavo. Pp. xxxv, 200. Original beige cloth backed taupe boards, black lettered spine, no d/w. Large ink signature on flyleaf, otherwise a fine copy. Contains, according to the subtitle: Short Notices of All Printers, Stationers, Book-Binders, and Others Connected..... More
Fifteenth Century English Books: A Bibliography of Books and Documents Printed in England and of Books for the English Market Printed Abroad
Germany: Hain, Meisenheim, 1964. Reprint. Cloth. Small Quarto. Reprinted from original edition of the Bibliographical Society, Oxford University Press, 1917. Pp. ix, 136. Title in red and black, with 53 facsimile plates printed in red and black. Original blue cloth, gilt spine, no d/w (as issued). Ink signature on flyleaf..... More
Fifty Years. Being a Retrospective Collection of Novels, Novellas, Tales, Drama, Poetry, and Reportage and Essays ... All Drawn from Volumes Issued During the Last Half-Century By Alfred and Blanche Knopf. (Borzoi Books 1915-1965)
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1965. 1st Edition. Cloth. Octavo. GIlt lettered quarter black cloth over green cloth boards in decorative price-intact, chipped dust jacket. Illustrated Retrrospective collection of Knopf publishing history. Nice copy. More
A Miscellany for Bibliophiles
New York: Grastorf & Lang, 1979. Hardcover. 8vo. 303pp. Blue/grey cloth with red spine label lettered in gilt, black and white illustrations, no dust jacket. Good, clean copy. More
An Essay on Prints. The Fifth Edition
London: T. Cadell, Jun. And W. Davies, 1802. 8vo. xv, 187, [1]pp. Recent rebind in half green leather over marbled boards, with gilt lettering to the spine. Small hole in the first blank, half title present. Very little foxing throughout. A good clean copy. More
Ugaritic Manual: I. Newly Revised Grammar. II.Texts in Transliteration. III. Cuneiform Selections - Paradigms - Glossary - Indices - Additions & Corrections - Bibliography. Analecta Orientalia 35
Rome: Pontificum Institutum Biblicum, 1955. Hardcover. Quarto. Three parts in one volume. Pp. xv, 361. Bound in quarter leather over cloth boards, gilt-titled spine, original front card cover and section titles bound in. Minor wear to extremities, spine rubbed with a couple of small chips out of head of spine..... More
Reminiscences of Leonid Andreyev. Translated from the Russian By Katherine Mansfield and S.S. Koteliansky
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. Limited Edition, First Thus. Hardcover. 12 mo. Limited edition of 400 copies, printed under the direction of Frederic Warde. Pp. [85]. Gilt-stamped black cloth spine over plain grey paper boards. Very lightly soiled and scuffed, bit of sunning to top edge of rear panel, spine..... More
Victorian Novelists and their Illustrators
New York: New York University Press, 1971. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pp. xi, 240. With 76 black and white illustrations. Blue cloth with gilt lettered spine. Minor edgewear to dustwrapper but overall a near fine copy. More
Illuminated Manuscripts
London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1912. Second Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Pp. xiii, [1] errata, 356. Colour frontispiece and 50 black & white plates, with tissue guards. Bound in contemporary half crimson crushed levant over red cloth boards, spine divided into six panels with simple gilt-ruled compartments between raised bands, titled..... More
The Making of Books
London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1973. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Thick Octavo. Pp. 554. With 209 mainly black & white illustrations. Original grey cloth with gilt lettering on blue spine labels, d/w. In fine condition. A comprehensive and generously illustrated survey of the printing, binding, and design of books. More
Portrait of a Publisher 1915-1965 (2 Volumes)
New York: The Typophiles, 1965. Limited, First Edition. Cloth in Slipcase. 12 mo. Both volumes signed by Knopf to David J.E. Scrivens (a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Programme Representative, English Network, out of New York): "Signed with please & my signature (yes it is my name) for David J.E. Scrivens, Esq..... More
An Essay on a Bibliography of California and the Pacific West 1510-1906 By Robert Cowan
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1993. 1st Edition. Cloth & Boards. Quarto. Quarter black lettered grey buckram over light grey paper boards. Clear acetate cover. Edition limited to 300 copies only. Nice copy. More
The Dictionary of National Biography Founded in 1882 By George Smith. The Concise Dictionary From the Beginnings to 1911. Being an Epitome of the Main Work and Its Supplement ... 1901-1911
London: Oxford University Press, 1925. Reprint. Hardcover. Stout Octavo. Pp. 1456, 129. Green satin cloth with gilt spine lettering. Signature of Dr. Charles D. Parfitt on front blank, and handwritten "Calydor Library" on front pastedown. Friend of Sir Wm. Osler, he ran the Calydor Santatorium for tuberculosis in Gravenhurst, Ontario..... More