Royal College of Art: The Lion and Unicorn Press, 1954. Limited Edition. Quarto. No pagination. Limited to 100 copies. The present copy is number 7. Inscription from Arthur Houghton for Robin Darwin, a British artist and Rector of the Royal College of Art and son of the British artist golf..... More
Boston, New York and Chicago: Houghton Mifflin and Co./The Riverside Press, 1899. First Edition. Octavo. xxiv, 205pp. Includes an extensive index. This book was to include other authors, so the publisher issued a supplement for customers who purchased the book. The present copy has the 6 page supplement bound in..... More
Unknown. 78 unnumbered pages, circa 1940's. A curious item from either a serious bookseller or collector of American authors' first books. Neither is the author identified nor is there a date in this carefully typed list. Since the latest item we noted is Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, we..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979. First Edition. Octavo. 182pp. Published after author's death. Wiht foreword by Wayne Gard. Text. Index. Black and gold lettered red cloth. Printed dust jacket. More
London; 1932-1933: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. First Edition. Small Octavos. In six volumes. This set was either bound from the original 26 parts or the publisher had left over sheets from the weekly parts, showing the original stab marks for the parts. This work covers all aspects of printing..... More
New York;: W.R. Benjamin Autographs. Quarto. A complete issue of the 1895-1896 issue of Walter Benjamin's marvelous magazine for the serious collector. Early copies are rare. For instance, the New York Historical Library has only the last issue, no. 11 of Volume XV. This copy according to OCLC is lacking..... More
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Torch Press, 1932. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 100 copies printed on hand made paper. Engraved frontispiece, 391p. including index, illustrated with photographic images and engravings of Hunt and several title pages of those books he collected using the exact principles of descriptive bibliography. Essential for..... More
Cambridge, Nd[ca.1933]: [Cambridge University Press]. Quarto. 30 pages. Front cover: Specimens of Oriental Founts Cambridge. Scholars and learned societies needed precision with the founts (also spelled fonts) in the early 20th Century. Cambridge had begun with Greek characters in 1521 and by 1738 produced Arabic characters. While F.C. Burkitt was..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1901. First Edition. Octavo. 476pp., inscribed slip tipped in "With the compliments of /Theo. L. De Vinne. An exceptional work devoted to composition and layout of letters, paragraphs, indentations and more. Bound in brown cloth, red spine label gilt and worn, top edge gilt, wear..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1904. First Edition. Octavo. 477pp., Inscribed by the author "With the compliments of/Thos. L. De Vinne" tipped in. Illustrated with several examples. An excellent and useful work. Bound in brown cloth, red spine label gilt and worn, top edge gilt, light wear to spine ends..... More
An Arbor: The William L. Clements Library, 1925. Limited Edition. Quarto. Printed by Benjamin Franklin at his Passy Press (in facsimile) printed by Bruce Rogers in a limited edition of 505 copies. 10pp. This publication contains addenda to the volume on "Franklin and his Press at Passy", prepared by Luther..... More
New Town: Bird and Bull Press, 1988. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 300 copies. The present copy is number 252. A bibliography of the works from the Bird and Bull press compiled by Howell J. Heaney with a foreword and commentary by Henry Morris and includes samples of works from..... More
Maryland: University of Maryland And The Johns Hopkikns University, 1977. First Edition. Quarto. 234pp., [77] pages of illustrations situated at the rear. This scholarly work describes manuscripts and the printing press before and after the movable type by Gutenberg. It describes the process of the beautiful printing, and art of..... More
New York: Bennet Studios, 1929. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 750 copies. 114pp. The present copy is number 366. Published just before the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the author analyzed the most essential American first editions with descriptive bibliography. While it has Louise May Alcott's Little Women, it also..... More
London: Printed for the Nonesuch Press, 1931. Limited Edition. Small Octavo. Limited to 875 copies. The present copy is # 68 Inscribed twice by the Author to his friend, John Fulton with Fulton's bookplate. xxv, 289 pages [4] leaves of plates. One of the great association copies by Sir Geoffrey..... More
Tokyo: Keiogijuku Library, 1929. First Edition. Thick Octavo. 701pp. with an index of an additional 215 pages. A huge printed catalogue of the holdings of the library in 1929. A remarkable way to see the extent of the best Western scholarship present in the library's holdings. A good copy bound..... More
London: Longman, Green and Co, 1901. Octavo. In two volumes; 375 and 364pp., illustrated. A marvelous account of the man, his passion and depiction of his genius. The author was encouraged by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and he was able to examine the early materials from the firm of Morris &..... More
Philadelphia: Mackellar, Smiths and Jordan, 1885. Octavo. Fifteenth edition enlarged. 384pp., (6)pp. publisher's ad, illustrated. The present edition has been abridged and condensed in some respects, and considerably enlarged in others. As it stands at present, it will be found the most practical manual of printing extant. The pages have..... More
Los Angeles: The Plantin Press, 1972. Limited Edition. Small Octavo. 44 pages. Limited to 140 copies. Portrait of Plantin, after an engraving by Hendrik Golzius, with three of Plantin's press marks. This translation of the "Rules" was first printed by Muir Dawson and Saul Marks at the Plantin Press as..... More
(Cambridge at the University Press, Cambride, 1992, 1998 and 2004). Large Octavo. This marvelous set covers the period not only of the English Reformation but the subsequent history drawing on previously unknown materials, the attitude of the university towards printers, author, and the unique and even strange conditions under which..... More
(Chicago; 1963): The University of Chicago Press. First American Edition. Quarto. . 2nd printing. 299pp. including index. A study of fine typography through five centuries exhibited in upwards of three hundred and fifty title and text pages drawn from presses working in the European tradition with an introductory essay by..... More
Los Angeles, CA: William Dailey Rare Books Ltd., 2000. First Edition. Quarto. Limited to only 100 copies signed by Morris and Levin, the present copy is number 13. 127pp. beautifully illustrating various publishers' fine decorative bindings. An exhibition of the Grolier Club held May 17-July 29, 2000. Bound in 1/4..... More
Paris: for the Author and His Friends, 1902. Limitd Edition. Octavo. Limited to 375 copies. The present copy is unnumbered. 227 pages. The hunger for erotica was strong while the forces in power in late 19th century England and America attempted to prevent the sale of literature that dealt openly..... More
New York; Nov. 5th and Nov. 20, 1918: The Oswald Publishing Co. Quarto. Two issues, printed twice a month with the American printer have been consolidated the master printer. The western printer, the Chicago Printer, the printing trade news and the international printer. Designed by Guido Rosa and Lawrence Rosa..... More
Flagstaff; (1976): Northland Press. First Edition. Octavo. Limited edition of only 100 copies. The present copy the "publisher's" copy, signed by Lawrence Clark Powell and illustrator Bettina Steinke,167pp., specially bound in 1/4 brown leather over rust cloth, spine lettering gilt. A fine bright copy housed in publisher's slipcase. A very..... More