Meriden, CT: Meriden Gravure Company, (circa 1940's), First Edition. quarto, printed heavy paper wrappers. various. Meriden Gravure Company, 8 issues of this portfolio in supplement form. No 2, A Portfolio of Additional Specimen Plates and a General Discussion of Photographic copy. (8)pp., plus 4 plates; No 3, A portfolio of..... More
[Bloomington, IN: unpublished, 1972], Unpublished. quarto, blue cloth with printed title/compiler paper label on spine. [670] + [22] containing addenda, notes and errata. unpublished, A detailed bibliography reproduced from typescript recto only. No title page text starts with Almayer's Folly A1. Bound in later full cloth. Bill Cagle worked at..... More
Davenport, IA: St. Ambrose University, (1991), Second edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (xii), 310pp. St. Ambrose University, Edited by Mary W. Gilroy. Illustrated and printed with accents and capitals and headlines in green or rust or both. The serif originated with Roman inscription letters, its history and development here..... More
Harvey Miller, 2017, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 264 pp. Harvey Miller, This fascinating book offers a most engaging and fresh glimpse into the world of the Middle Ages. It accompanies an exhibit of some thirty diverse illuminated manuscript pages, and in a series of short descriptive essays..... More
Brepols, 2017, First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. 320 pp. Brepols, Bookbindings: Theoretical Approaches and Practical Solutions is a collection of twelve studies encompassing considerations on bookbinding structures, practices of binders in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, as well as theoretical reflections on the cataloguing of bindings, and on the..... More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2017, First Edition. quarto, pattern boards and cloth. xii, 276 pp. Oak Knoll Press, George Macy started the Limited Editions Club with backing from investors in the heyday of the stock market of 1929. After enlisting founding subscribers and collaborators and preparing the initial..... More
Paris: Librairie Plon, [1895], First Edition, and only edition. oblong quarto, gold cloth with pictorial label on front cover, all edges stained red. (48) pp. Librairie Plon, Lovely, and amusing, circus themed drawings in pastel colors. Front endpaper has a vertical fold, front inner hinge weak but holding, Fingerprint soiling..... More
Milan: Gorlich, (1948 -1950), Reprint. octavo, pale green cloth. Gorlich, An essential bibliography of incunabula. This set complete with the Copinger supplement. Exlibrary from the Reading Public Libraries (UK) with their bookplate and copyright page rubber-stamp in each volume. Acidic paper used has browned, spines faded. More
Rochester: Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2009, First Edition, Limited to 100 copies. quarto, Fabriano paper and vellum spine. 24 pp. Cary Graphic Arts Press, Manuale Zapficum, the new limited edition book, commemorates the ninetieth birthdays of typographers Hermann Zapf and Gudrun Zapf von Hesse through beautiful typeface specimens set in..... More
Ann Arbor: The Legacy Press, 2022, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 620 pp. The Legacy Press, CONTENT: The Burning of the Butterfly: A Plaquette Binding at the University of Michigan Library; Working on the Best Material and by the Best Methods: Douglas Cockerell and Son, and the Bindery’s..... More
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2023, Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 720 pp.; DVD; access to pdf with ca. 1,500 color images. The Legacy Press, "Books Will Speak" is published at a time when the historical book is at risk of being ignored, put..... More
Ann Arbor: The Legacy Press, 2018, First Edition. large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 707 pp. The Legacy Press, Julia Miller’s second book grew out of the experience of writing Books Will Speak Plain: A Handbook for Identifyingand Describing Historical Bindings, now a recognized classic text on the subject. Meeting..... More
Ann Arbor: The Legacy Press, 2021, First Edition. large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 661 pp. The Legacy Press, Tradition and Individuality came about as the result of an irresistible invitation: to examine and describe the bindings on 100 Greek manuscripts in the University of Michigan Library’s rare-book collection, which..... More
London: Cambridge University Press, 1926, First Edition. quarto, ochre cloth stamped in red and blue. xvi, 206 pp, + xxpp. advertisements. Cambridge University Press, Contributors include Julius Rodenberg, Paul Istel, H. V. Marrot, Beatrice Warde and Stanley Morison. "A significant, learned, and copiously documented periodical. Only seven numbers were issued..... More
Harvey Miller, 2019, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 224 pp. Harvey Miller, VISION, COLOUR AND MEANING: Vision and Colour in the Works of Giotto and His Contemporaries - Donal Cooper; Robert Grosseteste's De iride and its Addendum in the Vatican Manuscript Barb. Lat. 165: Transmission, Reception, Meaning -..... More
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2021, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 532 pp. The Legacy Press, Theodore C. Petersen wrote Coptic Bookbindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library between 1929 and 1950, but it remained unpublished until now. The seminal work describes the binding techniques and materials of..... More
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Kyoto, Japan: Kyoto Shoin, Showa 39, [1964], 1964 (third) edition. folio, blue cloth with an orange, yellow and white floral pattern reminiscent of the plates within; paper title labels in Japanese characters pasted to front cover of each volume, red silk ties complete the Japanese-style binding. [8] pp. of text;..... More
Suffolk, Eng: Boydell & Brewer, 1989, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 205pp. Boydell & Brewer, Pepys's music collection ranges from psalm-books to operas, includes treatises on the subject of musical theory and items of historical interest. The map collection concentrates on material related to navigation and the `Calligraphical..... More
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Windham, CT: Hawthorn House, 1940; 1942, First Edition, each Limited to 250 numbered copies;. octavo, pictorial boards with blue cloth spine; blue cloth with pictorial label on front cover. 66 pp.; 111 pp. Hawthorn House, Both volumes illustrated with maps, some fold-out. The first volume is signed by Edmund Thompson..... More
Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2001, First Edition. large quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 288 pp. D. S. Brewer, This catalogue reveals many of the riches of this collection for the first time. Its srengths are in scholastic theology, biblical studies and preaching between the 13th and 15th centuries. Noteworthy features..... More
San Francisco: John Howell, 1925, First Separate Edition Limited to 200 copies. octavo, original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. 95, (5)pp. John Howell, With eight maps reproduced. Originally published as No. 4 of Vol. III of the Quarterly of the California Historical Society. Wagner..... More
Harvey Miller, 2017, First Edition. quarto, in dust jacket. 456 pp. Harvey Miller, The Gutenberg Bible is widely recognized as Europe's first printed book, a book that forever changed the world. However, despite its initial impact, fame was fleeting: for the better part of three centuries the Bible was virtually..... More
[The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff], 1927, folio, boards and cloth with printed paper label on front cover. Ribbon ties. Martinus Nijhoff], Cover title. Text pages numbered 27 to 50, describing plates numbered 26-38. Plates 26-38 bear inscription: "Petrus Plancius, World map published in Amsterdam by Cornelis Claesz and in Antwerp by..... More