[SPECIAL PRESS] OLD REAM WRAPPERS. AN ESSAY ON EARLY REAM WRAPPERS OF ANTIQUARIAN INTEREST

Henk Voorn

North Hills, Pa. Bird & Bull Press, 1969.

Quarto; in burgundy half-morocco over marbled boards, lettered vertically on the spine in gilt; two blank leaves; [I] half-title; [5], Contents 7-8; Introduction [9]; tipped on illustration; 11-101, text; 102, Conclusion; 103-108, Note from the Printed; 109-110, Index; [III], colophon; very light rubbing to the edges of marbled paper-covered boards.~~From the colophon: “Three hundred and seventy-five copies of this book were printed with Baskerville types at the Bird and Bull Press. The paper is my hand made 15 x 20 coarse laid. The printing was finished on February 23, 1969, and I am sorry to say that the question of binding being not yet settled, I can not supply any information in that regard. This is copy number 82.” This copy with a handwritten inscription on the colophon from Henry Miller to a collector of Bird & Bull Press.~~This copy is lacking containing two copper plate prints of different 19th-century Dutch ream wrappers.~~ (Bird & Bull, Bibliography 1958-1979 , A 8 (33)).

Item #296967

Price: $150.00