New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2014, Second Printing. quarto, boards in dust jacket. 240pp. Oak Knoll Press, This second printing of David Pearson's English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800 includes a new introduction and a number of additional references and relevant points that have come to light since the book was... More
Oxford and New Castle, DE: Bodleian Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2019, Revised and Enlarged Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 448 pp. Bodleian Library and Oak Knoll Press, This thoroughly revised edition includes a new introductory section containing additional references to update the original text. Since this handbook was... More
London: Bibliographical Society, 1991, Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. folio, blue cloth in dust jacket. xix, 405 pp. Bibliographical Society, The revision work was begun by W. A. Jackson and F. S. Ferguson and completed by Katharine F. Pantzer. The third volume is a printers' and publishers' index, with other... More
Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2001, First Edition. quarto, blue cloth in pictorial dust jacket. 204 pp. Gingko Press, Over the past 50 years Hermann and Gudrun Zapf have designed some of the modern world's most unique and innovative typefaces. In fact, so ubiquitous is Hermann Zapf's Palatino that it... More
Boston: The Stillings Press, 1893, First Edition. octavo, original printed wrappers. (10)pp., stapled. The Stillings Press, Tipped-in is a small printed car: "Kennebec Historical Society. From the Library of Hon. Joseph H. Williams. 1814-1896.". Signed "J. H. Williams March 1893". on the front wrapper. Williams was President of the Maine... More
New York: The Grolier Club, 1999, First Edition. large octavo, boards and cloth in dust jacket. 120 pp. The Grolier Club, Published in two parts in 1799 and 1800, The City of Philadelphia ...As it Appeared in the Year 1800 by William Birch was the first American color plate book... More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2017, First Edition. octavo, blue boards and black cloth. 160 pp. Oak Knoll Press, A. Edward Newton (1864-1940) was a major figure in the book-collecting world of the early twentieth-century not only for his extensive library (some 10,000 volumes) focusing on the 18th and... More
(Upper Denby, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England): Fleece Press, 2014, First Edition, Limited to 300 copies. oblong duodecimo, cloth and patterned boards; pamphlet in heavy stock paper. Fleece Press, Full reproduction of a very important pocket book once owned by the great fabric designer and printer, William Kilburn (1745-1818). Hitherto known... More
Hurricane, WV: Force Five Press, (2004), First Edition, Limited to 18 numbered copies, this being #5, SIGNED by Sewell and Imholtz. octavo, printed wrappers with printed label on front wrapper. 22 pp. Force Five Press, Very fine and clean. More
London: Shepherds and Oak Knoll Press, 2015, First Edition. large octavo, pictorial wrappers. (208) pp. Shepherds and Oak Knoll Press, This book charts the history of one of the most important craft bookbinding workshops of the twentieth century. Sangorski& Sutcliffe was founded in 1901. The founding partners, Francis Sangorski and... 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
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2005, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 452pp. Oak Knoll Press, The second volume of this series covers the historical circumstances that led to the formation of the first private book collections and then to the construction of the great monumental libraries of Rome... More
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2007, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 374pp. Oak Knoll Press, The third volume of The History of the Library spans a period of more than a thousand years and covers an area stretching from Alexandria and Trebizond to Calabria and Sicily in the... More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2012, First Edition. quarto, boards in dust jacket. 624 pp. Oak Knoll Press, With the publication of Volume V, the last stage in the development of the library is revealed. Like the rest of the books in The History of the Library series, this... More
(New Castle): Oak Knoll Press, 2004, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 374pp. Oak Knoll Press, In five well researched chapters the author explains how it was that small archival libraries evolved into the monumental libraries of the Hellenistic period: the first chapter describes the Bronze Age scripts of... More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2010, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 540 pp. Oak Knoll Press, This work is the fourth part in an important, five-volume series addressing the unique role libraries have played in building and preserving Western culture. Mr. Staikos has become one of our... More
Tallinn: Kirjastus Kunst, 1973, First Edition. quarto, black cloth stamped in white, in dust jacket. (296) pp. Kirjastus Kunst, Lettering art in Estonia. Brief biographical notes followed by full-color examples of their work. A very fine, clean, solid copy. More
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(Concord, NH): William B. Ewert, 2001, First Separate Edition, Limited to 85 signed copies, this copy not signed. 10 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches, William B. Ewert, Rainbow previously appeared in The Atlantic Monthly. The broadside was specially issued in March 2001 to honor the 35th Anniversary of the New... More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 544 pp. University of Toronto Press, What became of Erasmus’ books? The most famous scholar of his day died in peaceful prosperity and in the company of celebrated and responsible friends. His zeal for useful books was... More
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Paris: J. Hetzel, 1867, quarto, three-quarter black pebbled morocco and black textured cloth. (iv), (268); (iv), 220 pp. J. Hetzel, First published in 1863, this edition was issued with the two titles bound together and with illustrations by Riou and de Montaut. Moderate foxing throughout, scuffing to edges of boards... More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2018, First Edition. large octavo, boards in dust jacket. 200 pp. Oak Knoll Press, This book, by typographic scholar Hendrik Vervliet, is a survey of the life and work of the sixteenth-century letter-cutter Robert Granjon (1513-1590). With his contemporary Claude Garamont, he is considered... 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
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
New Castle Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2018, Second Edition, with corrections. quarto, wrappers with French flaps. xx, 245 p., 37 color plates. Oak Knoll Press, With a new Foreword by Sidney Berger. A history of the art and the craft which is the result of more than twenty-five years of... More