ALBUM FROM THE 1880’s -- CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS
An attractive album almost certainly from the 1880’s, and chock full of delightful chromolithographs. Few things more evocative of Victorian charms than albums such as this one. More
Books on Books
AMERICANA. RARE ITEMS RELATING TO THE COLONIES, REVOLUTIONARY WAR, ETC. PIONEER DAYS IN CALIFORNIA, OREGON AND OTHER WESTERN STATES, MANY OF WHICH ARE THE PROPETY OF MR. H.C.HOLMES OF SAN FRANCISCO
New York: American Art Association Inc., 1924. Soft Cover. Pencilled prices noted against most items -- we presume these are prices realized [and, oh, wouldn't we like to buy them now!]; Pictorial Wrappers. More
BERTHA S. GOUDY | FIRST LADY OF PRINTING | REMEMBRANCES OF THE DISTAFF SIDE OF THE VILLAGE PRESS
The Distaff Side, 1958. A limited edition of 200 numbered copies, this being #138. Separate signatures written by different colleagues and printed at different presses: the Thistle Press;Peter Pauper Press; Jane Grabhorn; Spiral Press; Marchbanks Press; Pickering Press. Marbled boards..... More
BIBLIOTHEQUES LITTERAIRES du romantisme a nos jours
Paris: Pierre Beres. Soft Cover. Catalogue 75. No pencil or ink markings in text. Text in French. Silver colored paper binding with light edgewear to extremities; Not Ex-Libary. More
A BOOK OF FAVOURITE MODERN BALLADS.
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1860. Full Leather. A Book of Favourite Modern Ballads. With floral borders to the text, numerous engraved illustrations, frontispiece, and additional title page, illustrated with black, gray, and gilt. Scattered foxing. Contemporary inscription on..... More
THE BOOK OF LETTERS, IN VERSE.
Sold By Dorr & Howland. Miniature. Soft Cover. Facsimile. Facsimile miniature book (6.5 x 5.5 cm.) . An alphabet chapbook. In sewn stiff printed wrappers. More
A BOOK OF TYPEFACES. WITH SOME ILLUSTRATED EXAMPLES OF TEXT AND DISPLAY SETTING.
Butter MArket, Ipswich, Suffolk: W. S. Cowell Ltd., 1952. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Numbered 2627 of an unknown number of First Edition copies. Limitation/ownership plate on the front pastedown is blank, other than the numbering. With tabulated sections for many..... More
BOOKWAYS. A QUARTERLY FOR THE BOOK ARTS. NUMBER ONE THROUGH 16. OCTOBER, 1991 THROUGH SUMMER 1995.
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1991-1995. Soft Cover. 16 volumes in 14; the complete series of Bookways, from October 1991 to Summer of 1995. Paperback. Generally in Near Fine condition. Housed in a blue cloth slipcase. More
BRINGYNG IN THE BORESHEED: CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES AT ROWFANT HALL MCMLVIII A. D. [BRINGING IN THE BORES HEAD]
Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1958. Original Sewn Wrappers. Limited Edition, numbered 8 of 250 copies. 12 pages sewn into heavy printed wrappers; a stunning print job in red and black in a gothic type designed by Goudy; among the most..... More
THE CALENDAR OF PROVERBS FOR 1910
London | New York: Ernest Nister | E. P. Dutton, 1910. Hard Cover. A charming item, with colored illustrations for each month, and the calendars and proverbs printed in red and black. Bound in patterned cloth, with a colored pictorial..... More
THE CALLIGRAPHY REVIVAL, 1906-2016.
New York: The Grolier Club, [2017]. Hard Cover. The catalogue of an exhibition held at The Grolier Club, New York, 17 May to 29 July 2017. With color text illustrations. Red cloth with gilt lettering. More
CAXTON AND THE ART OF PRINTING.
Philadelphia | London: American Sunday-School Union | Religious Tract Society, n.d. Quarter Leather. The American Sunday-School Union’s Caxton and the Art of Printing. Lacking front endpaper and flyleaf, and spot of loss to the rear endpaper. Foxing. Quarter black leather..... More
THE CENTURY GALLERY: SELECTED PROOFS FROM THE CENTURY MAGAZINE AND ST. NICHOLAS
New York: The Century Co. // The De Vinne Press, 1893. Folio. Pictorial Boards. 61 of 64 prints (lacking plates: XIX, Negro Slave Dance; XXVI, A Negro of Morocco; and LXIII, Two Boys of Holland) in publisher’s portfolio with printed..... More
COURAGE. THOUGHTS OF GREAT MINDS CONCERNING TRUE COURAGE.
London | New York: Ernest Nister | E. P. Dutton, [c. 1906]. 64mo. Hard Cover. Text in red and black, with initials and borders to each page of text; color illustrations throughout. Personal inscription in pencil and date in ink..... More
DECORATIVE LETTERING | COVER DESIGNING | NEWPAPER ILLUSTRATING | CARICATURING AND CARTOONING | MAGAZINE AND BOOK ILLUSTRATING | WHERE AND HOW TO OBTAIN A POSITION [INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF TECHNOLOGY; 150]
Scranton: International Textbook Company, 1920. Hard Cover. Illustrated throughout. Sturdy copy in red buckram over green buckram; marbled endpapers. Many illustrations, some in color; some folding. More
DESERT AS DWELLED ON BY L.C.P.
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1973. Miniature. Soft Cover. One of 250 copies printed at the Press in the Gatehouse; gray paper boards with printed label and paper sleeve. More
![EDITION DELUXE] LONGFELLOW PORTFOLIO, BEING A SELECTION OF SEVENTY-FIVE ARTIST PROOFS FROM THE...](/pictures/thumb/264786.JPG?v=1500737095)
[EDITION DELUXE] LONGFELLOW PORTFOLIO, BEING A SELECTION OF SEVENTY-FIVE ARTIST PROOFS FROM THE ORIGINAL WOOD-CUTS ILLUSTRATING THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION EDITION OF LONGFELLOW’S POETICAL WORKS
Houghton Mifflin, 1881. Three Quarters Leather. A beautiful copy of the Longfellow Portfolio [Deluxe Edition] bound in three quarter morocco over green pebbled cloth. All edges gilt. All of the numbered plates are present, but none have the artist’s pencilled..... More
ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JOHN DEWEY, ON THE OCCASION OF HIS SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY OCTOBER 20, 1929.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1929. Three Quarters Leather. First Edition. Essays in Honor of John Dewey, on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday. Portrait frontispiece. Penned price on the front flyleaf. Wear to the joints and slight loss..... More
THE GARDENER AND THE BEAR: TOGETHER WITH, THE HUNTER, THE FOX AND THE LEOPARD AND, THE CARPENTER AND THE APE
Evesham: Red Apple Press, 1968. Limited Edition. In a limited edition of 26 lettered copies, of which this is letter “A”. [24] pages, each with a border of printer’s flowers printed in red; the half-title bordered in bronze colored printer’s..... More
THE GARDENER AND THE BEAR: TOGETHER WITH, THE HUNTER, THE FOX AND THE LEOPARD AND, THE CARPENTER AND THE APE
Evesham: Red Apple Press, 1968. Limited Edition. In a limited edition of 26 lettered copies, of which this is letter “A”. [24] pages, each with a border of printer’s flowers printed in red; the half-title bordered in bronze colored printer’s..... More
GIFT OF PIETY: OR, DIVINE BREATHINGS IN ONE HUNDRED MEDITATIONS.
Boston: J. Buffum, n.d. Miniature. Hard Cover. Stereotyped Edition. A miniature book of one hundred Christian adages. Some toning to the endpapers only, and very slight foxing. Sunning and some wear to the spine. Red cloth with gilt lettering. All..... More
GOLDEN WORTE.
Genf. Herausgegeben von Andre Kundig, Buchdrucker, 1957. Miniature. Full Leather. From the colophon: “Dieses Buchlein in Format 128 enthalt 96 Seiten in 5 Punkt Schrift Auf Dunndruck-papier gedruckt von Kundig, Genf. Oktober 1957.” Slight bowing to the boards. Flexible leather..... More
GOODSPEED’S CATALOGUE OF GENEALOGIES AND LOCAL HISTORIES. NO. 171. ALSO COMPLETE SETS OF NEARLY ALL THE IMPORTANT HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL PERIODICALS BLANKS AND BLANK BOOKS FOR GENEALOGICAL RECORDS ENGLISH LOCAL HISTORY AND GENEALOGY COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS BOOKS ON SURNAMES HERALDRY, ETC.
Boston, Massachusetts: Goodspeed’s Book Shop, [c. 1927]. Soft Cover. Catalog no. 171 of Goodspeed’s Book Shop, on Genealogies and Local Histories. 168 pp. Green paperback. More
GROLIER 2000. A FURTHER GROLIER CLUB BIOGRAPHICAL RETROSPECTIVE IN CELEBRATION OF THE MILLENNIUM - 2000.
New York: The Grolier Club, 2000. Hard Cover. Biographical essays on numerous members of the Grolier Club. With no marks. Mild sunning to the spine. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and design. More
THE GROLIER CLUB OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. | OFFICERS; COMMITTEES; CONSTITUTION BY-LAWS; HOUSE RULES; MEMBERS; ANNUAL REPORTS; ALSO LIST OF BOOKS AND ARTICLES RELATING TO BOOKBINDING TO BE FOUND IN THE LIBRARY.
New York: The Gilliss Press, 1907. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. A clean copy of a Limited Edition of 500 copies. Quarter bound in paper vellum over paper covered boards. Rough trimmed edges. Leaves are unopened at the top edge. Front..... More