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
Harvey Miller, 2021, First Edition. quarto, pictorial boards. 524 pp. Harvey Miller, The results achieved by the research of the pioneering MINIARE research project based at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge led to the ground-breaking and acclaimed 2016 exhibition "COLOUR: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts." This was followed..... More
Baltimore: A. Neal, 1819, First Baltimore Edition. duodecimo, full sheep, gilt rule on flat spine. 180 pp. A. Neal, First published in 1775, Perrin's Fables was in wide demand as a French primer. There is a one page Publisher's Advertisement where he descirbes the "important improvements" that have been made..... More
London: E. Menken, no date, c. 1890, Ninth edition. small octavo, brown cloth stamped in blind and lettered in gilt. 254, (ii) pp. E. Menken, Part of Wyman's Technical Series. In-text illustrations. A handful of pencil marginal notations. Small hole to cloth at front outer hinge. Front inner hinge a...... More
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1982, First Edition. quarto, maroon cloth stamped in gilt. x, (298)pp. Library of Congress, With drawings by Margaret R. Brown. With full color photographic plates of bookbindings. Corners bumped, binding faded at edges, still a nice clean copy. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903, Limited to 425 numbered copies. duodecimo, rose boards with printed paper spine label. xxxvi, 137, [3] pp. Houghton Mifflin, Translated into English verse by Curtis Hidden Page. Designed by Bruce Rogers. The Work of Bruce Rogers, 101. A solid copy of a book most often found..... More
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016, First Edition. quarto, pictorial boards. 368 pp. Harrassowitz Verlag, Medieval manuscripts were conceived to move from one set of hands to the next. Holding a book presented possibilities, and possessing a book implied power. Thus, books functioned as potent connectors. They bound producers with consumers, givers with..... More
London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, 1805, octavo, full mottled leather, spines stamped in gilt with maroon title label, covers with gilt roll and dentelle edges. Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, Frontispiece of Shakespeare (foxed) in Volume I, all half-titles present. This issue of the 1805 edition did..... More
Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1863, 1863, 1863, 1864, 1864, 1865, 1865,1866, 1866, First Printings of this important edition. octavo, three-quarter maroon morocco and cloth, five raised bands. T.e.g. xliv, 464; viii, 434; xii, 356; xiv, 658; xx, 648; xiv, 524; xx, 600xxxii, 672 pp. Macmillan and Co., Vol 3, Addenda..... More
Ann Arbor: The Legacy Press, 2016, First Edition. large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 696 pp. The Legacy Press, This history of 19th- and early 20th-century paper-conservation practices in the United States and Western Europe weaves together two story lines. The development and character of the profession unfolds in descriptions..... 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
(Sommerville, MA: Kallistos Press, 1984), First Edition Limited to 100 copies signed by John Kristensen. small quarto, plain heavy paper wrappers in printed wrap-around dust wrapper. (20)pp., sewn. Kallistos Press, First Edition Limited to 100 copies signed by John kristensen of the Firefly Press. A very fine, clean copy, pretty..... More
Tampa: University of Tampa Press, 2009, First Edition, Limited to 200 copies. 3" x 2.75" Japan mulberry paper. 56 pp. University of Tampa Press, This miniature book has been set in metal type and hand printed letterpress on J. J. Lankes’s 1848 Hoe Washington Press at the Tampa Book Arts..... More
Tampa: University of Tampa Press, 2009, First Edition, Limited to 75 copies signed by Taylor and Agelasto. 3" x 2.75" full leather. 56 pp. University of Tampa Press, This miniature book has been set in metal type and hand printed letterpress on J. J. Lankes’s 1848 Hoe Washington Press at..... More
Fribourg, Switzerland: Editions d'Art Ebory, (1983-1984), duodecimor facsimile with small octavo pamphlet, full leather facsimile, suede binding on pamphlet and matching clamshell box. (46) pp.; 240 leaves, (vii) pp. Editions d'Art Ebory, Commentary in French. Reproduced by Laser scanner on special paper. Vatican coat of arms on the facsimile cover..... More
Ann Arbor: The Legacy Press, 2021, First Edition. large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 446 pp. The Legacy Press, In 2020, Peter and Donna marked the forty-sixth year of their remarkable collaboration. This Bibliography features more than 163 editioned books by them, 374 one-of-a-kind books by Donna, and 63 unique..... More
Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1988, 1988, 1988,1994, First Edition. octavo, red cloth. (x), 524; viii, (525) - 1099; (x), 1101-1698; (xiv), 610 pp. The Arthur H. Clark Company, This set includes the Supplement, Volume 4. From the Introduction, "Candidates for inclusion in the Compendium therefore include people..... More
London: Elliot Stock, 1896, First printing of this edition. duodecimo, olive green cloth. x, 246 pp. Elliot Stock, Le Gallienne contributes a 10 page Preface which is followed by the facsimile. Cloth faded to tan, especially at spine, also with overall soiling and a faint white spot on spine. Contents..... More
New York: The Grolier Club, 1896, First Edition, Limited to 385 copies. quarto, three-quarter green morocco and boards stamped with the printer's device. 344 pp. The Grolier Club, "The foremost name in Victorian book design is that of the Chiswick Press...The Imprint was first used in 1811 by its founder..... More
Suffolk, Eng: D. S. Brewer, (1992), (1994), First Edition. large quarto, boards; cloth. lxii, (426), (vi)pp.; (xxiv), (184)pp. D. S. Brewer, Pepys' ballad collection is the largest surviving collection of English ballads printed in London in the seventeenth century, and is an outstanding source for English popular culture of the..... More
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, (1954), First Edition, Limited to 975 numbered copies signed by the artist, Antonio Franconi, author Glenway Wescott and printed, Joseph Blumenthal. quarto, decorated paper boards and red cloth. (28) pp. The Museum of Modern Art, This book, the first in a series of..... 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
Carbon typescript with an ink manuscript correction in White's hand and a six line pencil note by White that this poem "...is for a song in a play about Tristram & Isolde which I am writing..." He notes that this can be sung in 40 seconds. On 8" x 10"..... More
Brepols Publishers, 2010, First Edition. large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. vi, 319 pp. Brepols Publishers, In 2006, 500 years after his death, the Royal Library of Belgium organised an exhibition revealing treasures from the era of Philip the Fair (1478-1506), last duke of Burgundy. This volume reunites most of..... More
New York: Scribners, 1929, First Edition. small octavo, brown boards and black cloth spine, in dust jacket. (vii), 78 pp. Scribners, Wilson's first book of poetry. Minor chipping to top of jacket spine,not price clipped. Book in fine condition. More