Bookplate Designed By Aubrey Beardsley
2 1/2" X 3 1/2" illustrated in black & white. More about Bookplate Designed By Aubrey Beardsley
Fine Printing and Illustrated Books
History of the Vermont Press in The Vermonter, XI, 1 (August 1905), Tenth Anniversary Issue
St. Albans, Vermont: Charles D. Forbes. 40p. The most important history of Vermont newspapers from the 1780's when there were three to the greatest period of expansion in the 1880's when there were with the advent of technology 59. By 1905 there were less than 10. Besides listing all of... More about History of the Vermont Press in The Vermonter, XI, 1 (August 1905), Tenth Anniversary Issue
Ten Basic Treatments: Morocco Covers
Watertown, New York: Knowleton Bros. Octavo. 24 unnumbered pages, fan folded with rich color examples. While Knowleton Brothers can trace their work to 1824, it was in the mid-1920's, they began creating the richest preparatory covers for the top designers. This volume is exquisite both in its materials used and... More about Ten Basic Treatments: Morocco Covers
A Father & Son
Red Wing, MN: Verna Press; Red Dragonfly Press, 2006. Original Wraps. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Limited to 90 copies. Signed by the author as "Pete". The only copy recorded by OCLC is at the University of Iowa. The first book of the Verna Press using Dante metal... More about A Father & Son
The Puppet Show (in Scarce Dust jacket)
Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1922. First Edition. Small Octavo. Limited to 1200 copies. 153(1)pp. unopened. The author's first collection of short fiction; fables and sketches, many ironic, including the delightful "Biography: A Study in Circumstantial Evidence." He was one of the Georgian Poets along with Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, and... More about The Puppet Show (in Scarce Dust jacket
Our World in Space
New York Graphic Society, 1974. Cloth. Square Quarto. A beautiful pen and colored ink watercolor over two pages with rich blues, greys, brown and black with exploding sun out of planets. Inscribed "to Hugh Downs ...in appreciation for his generous contribution to the Science Center." signed, Robert McCall, 26 Sept 1980. More about Our World in Space
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Bresdin to Redon, Six Letters 1870 to 1881 [with 1/100 Etched Plates Signed By Leonard Baskin]
(Np. 1932): The Gehenna Press, 1969. Limited Edition. Tall Octavo. Limited to four hundred copies printed on Japanese paper. A double portrait of Bresdin and Redon, etched by Leonard Baskin. The first hundred copies, specially bound, have an additional impression of the etching signed by the artist Leonard Baskin. The... More about Bresdin to Redon, Six Letters 1870 to 1881 [with 1/100 Etched Plates Signed By Leonard Baskin
Japanese Papermaking; Traditions, Tools, and Techniques with an Appendix on Alternative Fibers By Winifred Lutz (signed By the author)
New York; (1983): Weatherhill. First Edition. Small Quarto. 316 pages, three paper samples tipped in, index, bibliography, glossary, appendices. As a young man Timothy Barrett traveled to Japan on a Fullbright Fellowship to research washi, Japanese handmade paper. He worked with the craftspeople of Ogawa-machi who forced him to send... More about Japanese Papermaking; Traditions, Tools, and Techniques with an Appendix on Alternative Fibers By...
Select Poems/ Divine and Human
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. Limited Edition. Small Octavo. 52, [vi] pp. #365 of 1250 copies on Van Gelder paper, Introduction. Poems. Notes. Bound in white parchment stamped in gilt, spine lettering gilt. A very nice copy. More about Select Poems/ Divine and Human
Naissance Des Signes: Trois Eaux-Fortes Originales De Max Papart
Paris: Michel Bohbot, 1978. Limited Edition. 12mo. 15 leaves. A portfolio of prints; #47 of 60 copies, signed by the artist and author. Three color prints, each numbered and signed by Max Papart, with tissue guards. An exquisite production, all laid into a light green wrapper and housed within a.... More about Naissance Des Signes: Trois Eaux-Fortes Originales De Max Papart
The Ninety-First Psalm with Wood Engravings By Dorothea Braby
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 300 copies. 8 unnumbered pages, 5 wood engravings. the first and last pages are blank/ Published just after D-Day, it is the Psalm of God's protection. Beautifully engraved by Dorothea Braby, produced by Christopher Sandford and Owen Rutter at... More about The Ninety-First Psalm with Wood Engravings By Dorothea Braby
Verse for Christmas
San Francisco: The Pocket Press By Jackson Burke, 1938. Limited Edition. Small Quarto. Limited to only 50 copies. The present copy is #37 printed by Jackson Burke, no pagination, fan-folded and stitched, bound in plain boards backed in paper, in tan dust jacket printed in red, small stain to upper... More about Verse for Christmas
The Jolly Beggars-A Cantata
Northhampton: The Gehenna Press, 1963. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 300 un-numbered copies edited by John C. Weston which is preceded by 300 copies bound in cloth backed marbled covered boards. This copy bound in full gray cloth, spine lettering gilt, text printed in red and black. small bump with... More about The Jolly Beggars-A Cantata
Early Routines
Np/1981: Cadmus Editions. Limited Edition. Octavo. The present copy "Z" is one of 26 copies lettered and signed by William S. Burroughs and David Hockney who did the portrait of Burroughs. 54pp., bound in beige cloth, portrait illustration mounted to upper board, paper spine label, in glassine and clear mylar... More about Early Routines
Alice in Wonderland
Paris: Black Sun Press, 1930. [6], 114 pages, 6 orignal color lithograph plates by Marie Lurencin and printed by Desjobert of Paris. No. 229 of 300 printed on Rives paper (European Edition). Marie Lurencin (1883-1956) was a French painter and printmaker, associated with the cubists circle of Georges Braque, Picasso... More about Alice in Wonderland
The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford
London, (: George Routledge and Sons, 1875. Thick Octavo. A new edition. Two books in one. Phillip Massinger was English dramatist and who also collaborated much with Beaumont and Fletcher and others. Engraved vignette title page and regular title page, frontispiece portrait of Massinger, 450pp., including glossary. The Dramatic Works... More about The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford
The Hundreth Story of A.E. Coppard
(Waltham Saint lawrence) 1931: The Golden Cockerel Press. Limited Edition. royal Octavo. . Limited to 1000 copies and the first book with Golden Cockerel type. The book was first to be published in a limitation of 750 copies but with swift sales from subscribers, they decided to do the limitation... More about The Hundreth Story of A.E. Coppard
The First Editor: Aldus Pius Manutius
[New York, 1983]: Targ Editions. Limited Edition. Small Quarto. Limited to 250 copies. The present copy is number 36 signed by the designer-illustrator Antonio Frasconi who illustrated this work with woodcuts and signed by the printer Leslie Miller at the Grenfell Press on Rives mould-made paper; the type is monotype... More about The First Editor: Aldus Pius Manutius
A Mirror for Witches in Which is Reflected the Life, Machinations and Death of Famous Doll Bilby Who with a More Than Feinine Perversity Preferred a Demon to a Mortal Lover.....
London: (1928): William Heineman. First Edition. Octavo. First issue. Limited to 2000 copies. 228pp., illustrated with twelve wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. The story of Doll Bilby, a beautiful and sensitive girl whom popular superstition regards as a witch. A book of horror in which we see witchcraft from the... More about A Mirror for Witches in Which is Reflected the Life, Machinations and Death of Famous Doll Bilby...
A Portrait of Lady Hester. From Alexander William Kinglake's Eothen
Marlbiorough Wiltshire: Libanus Press, 1987. Limited Edition. Tall Octavo. . #83 of 300 copies. Illustrated by Robert Gibbings. This work was first commissioned for illustrating the Kynoch Press Diary 1941. in 1940 during the war, paper was rationed. The Kynoch Works were under bombardment and a bomb had hit the... More about A Portrait of Lady Hester. From Alexander William Kinglake's Eothen
The Engravings of Eric Gill
Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton, 1983. First Edition. Large Quarto. Limited to 1350 copies printed on Mohawk Superfine paper. Illustrated throughout with facsimile wood engravings by Eric Gill, some folding. Bound in 1/4 white cloth over pictorial black cloth depicting three nude women in blind, spine lettering gilt, a fine copy in... More about The Engravings of Eric Gill
Drawings From Life
London; (1940): Hague & Gill Ltd. First Edition. Octavo. xv pp. 36 full page line drawings of nude women. Bound in blue cloth stamped in silver, spine lettering silver, some light scattered foxing to plates. A very good copy in very good unclipped dust jacket with toning to spine and edges. More about Drawings From Life
PRIVATE PAPERS OF HENRY RYECROFT
Portland, Maine: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1921. Limited Edition. Small Octavo. Limited to 700 copies. Title page printed in red and black, 246 pp. unopened and uncut. Introductory essay by Thomas Seccombe. Bound in blue paper covered boards, back in white paper, paper spine label letered in black, some toning to... More about PRIVATE PAPERS OF HENRY RYECROFT
The Reluctant Dragon (illustrated and Signed By Michael Hague in a Limited Edition of 350 copies)
New York; (1983): Holt, Rinehart and Winston. First Edition. Quarto. Limited to only 350 copies numbered and signed by the author. 41(1)pp., illustrated in color by Michael Hauge and with a reproduction of a specially commissioned pen and ink drawing. A fine copy bound in green cloth backed in brown... More about The Reluctant Dragon (illustrated and Signed By Michael Hague in a Limited Edition of 350 copies
A Bibliography of Father Richard's Press in Detroit
Ann Arbor, MI: William L. Clements Library, 1955. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, 48pp. Introduction. Annotated bibliography. In dark blue cloth spine, gilt; and blue paper over boards. In original celophane wrapper (yellowed, with some chips). More about A Bibliography of Father Richard's Press in Detroit