London: William Heinemann, 1898, First Edition, Colonial Issue. octavo, red pebbled cloth. William Heinemann, Front pastedown + (ii) pp. front endpaper Heinemann's Colonial Library ads; (14) pp. + (i) rear pastedown endpaper Heinemann catalogue at end. Publisher's device stamped in black on back cover. Title page printed in black only... More about The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw, Covering End
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1903, First American Edition. octavo, dark green cloth. T.e.g. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Edel and Laurence A59b; BAL 10655. A very fine, clean, bright copy. Gilt stamping on spines and gilt rule along top edges of covers very bright with just a small crinkle to..... More about William Wetmore Story and His Friends. From Letters, Diaries, and Recollections. Two volumes
Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2015, First Edition. large octavo, pictorial boards. 208 pp. Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Text in German. The Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan, Armenia, has been included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register since 1997 and holds the world's largest collection of... More about Kostbare Einbandbeschläge an armenischen Handschriften. Dokumentation jüngster Massnahmen zur...
London: George Allen, 1891 (1890?), First Combined Edition. small octavo, light blue cloth. George Allen, With printed Erratum slip tipped to front free endpaper. "Cory's poetry, popularized by the two printings at the beginning of the last decade of the nineteenth century and by A. C. Benson's further edition in... More about Ionica. (Parts I and II
Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, May, 1917, First Edition. octavo, printed paper wrappers. (64)pp., sewn. Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Edited by Harriet Monroe. Poems on pages 72-75. The poems were later included in Poems Penyeach, (1927). The foot of the front wrapper is rubber-stamped "T. Oliver Jenkins." Jenkins edited the poetry magazine... More about "Simples", "Tutto e Sciolto", "Flood", "A Flower Given to My...
London: Harvey Miller, 2002, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 400 pp. Harvey Miller, This study covers the whole of the Middle Ages from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the Reformation and concentrates on the relationship "Text - Image and Viewer." Each section is firmly grounded in its historical context... More about Biblical Imagery in Medieval England, 700-1550
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 about Manuale Zapficum. Typographic arrangements of the words by and about the work of Hermann Zapf...
Brepols, 2005, First Edition. large octavo, printed boards. 254 pp. Brepols, Collectively, the contributors to Imagining the Book offer a snapshot of current research in English manuscript study in the pre-modern period on the inter-related topics of patrons and collectors, compilers, editors and readers, and identities beyond the book. This... More about Imagining the Book
Worcester [Mass]: Achille J. St. Onge, [1961], Unnumbered "Limited Edition" 6.7 x 4.7 cm, full navy blue calf stamped in gilt. A.e.g. (32) pp. Achille J. St. Onge, Photographic portrait of Kennedy tipped-in as frontispiece. Printed from Lutetia type on 'Old Kentucky Linen' paper by Joh. Enschede en Zonen Haarlem... More about The Inaugural Address of John Fitzgerald Kennedy President of the United States. Delivered at the...
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale (and) Librarie Henri Leclerc, 1902, 1911 and 1903, First Edition. large octavo, original printed paper wrappers. (vii), xxxviii. 510pp., 1 leaf; (xxiv), (88)pp; (iv), (92)pp. Imprimerie Nationale (and) Librarie Henri Leclerc, Volume 1 contains an engraved frontispiece portrait of Delisle. Delisle was curator of manuscripts and later... More about Bibliographie des Travaux de M. Leopold Delisle. (with) Supplement 1902-1910. (with) Jubile de M....
Bruxelles: de l'Imprimerie de A. J. D. de Braeckenier, 1809, First Edition, Large Paper copy printed on laid paper. octavo, rebound in red marbled boards and red leather spine. [ii], iv, 216 pp. de l'Imprimerie de A. J. D. de Braeckenier, About ten leaves with water stain along edges, including... More about Mémoire historique sur la bibliothèque dite de Bourgogne, présentement Bibliothèque publique...
Rochester, NY: The Press of the Good Mountain, 1955, First Edition, Liited to 100 copies. quarto, mauve boards and grey cloth over metal spiral binding. 46 leaves. The Press of the Good Mountain, A compilation of quotes by various printers and designers using different fonts and papers. Covers bumped at... More about The Printer Speaks. A selection of types set by various hands in the Hand Composition Laboratory...
Brepols, 2012, First Edition. large octavo, printed wrappers. xx, 564 pp. Brepols, Glossing was a scribal practice in use since antiquity, but it was in the Middle Ages that it acquired a wider meaning and a different role, becoming one of the most widespread forms of literacy in the Germanic... More about Rethinking and Recontextualizing Glosses. New Perspectives in the Study of Late Anglo-Saxon...
(New Castle, DE): Oak Knoll Press, 2015, First English language edition. large octavo, red boards in dust jacket. 336 pp. Oak Knoll Press, Bound to Be Modern is the most comprehensive study to date on the emergence and function of publishers' cloth bindings. It brings together issues of aesthetics, technique... More about Bound to be Modern. Publishers' Cloth Bindings and the Material Culture of the Book, 1840-1914
(London): Sheila Markham Rare Books, (2014), First Edition Limited to 500 copies. octavo, boards in pictorial dust jacket. 256pp. Sheila Markham Rare Books, The antiquarian book trade-- the last resort of the English eccentric--is rich in colorful and entertaining characters. Since 1991, Sheila Markham has been interviewing some of its... More about A Second Book of Booksellers: Conversations with the Antiquarian Book Trade
New Rochelle, NY: The Myriade Press, 1986, "Preliminary Edition" quarto, printed wrappers. xvi, 395 pp. The Myriade Press, A history of approximately 300 typefaces which are shown in upper and lower cases with numerals and punctuation. The history, aims, and purpose behind many of these typefaces are also described, along... More about American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century
New Rochelle, NY: The Myriade Press, 1986, "Preliminary Edition" quarto, printed wrappers. xvi, 395 pp. The Myriade Press, A history of approximately 300 typefaces which are shown in upper and lower cases with numerals and punctuation. The history, aims, and purpose behind many of these typefaces are also described, along... More about American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century
Ann Arbor: Legacy Press, 2013, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 534 pp. Legacy Press, Nine authors writing on nine topics. This collection of essays, published as the first volume of a series of studies on the history of bookbinding, sets a high standard for interesting and groundbreaking scholarship... More about Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding. Volume 1
Ann Arbor: Legacy Press, 2015, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 454 pp. Legacy Press, Cathleen A. Baker on "Examination and Image-Capturing Techniques"; "Binding at Midcentury: The Rivers of America Competition of 1946" by Thomas E. Conroy; "Bio-Bibliographical List of Individual Bookbinders" (on DVD) by Thomas E. Conroy; "Finding... More about Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding. Volume 2
Ann Arbor: Legacy Press, 2016, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 517 pp. Legacy Press, Erin Albritton & Christina Amato on "A Study of Two Semi-Limp Parchment Binding Styles in the Rare Book Collection at The New York Academy of Medicine Library"; "Historical Bindings of the Chamberlain-Warren Samaritan Collection"... More about Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding. Volume 3
Ann Arbor: Legacy Press, 2017, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 350 pp. Legacy Press, Ashley Cataldo, "Catalog of the Finishing Tools of the Eighteenth-Century Binder Henry Bilson Legge"; Jana Dambrogio, "Trickett’s Tickets"; Gary Frost, "Book Interventions: Books Remade by Use"; Marieka Kaye, "Diamond in the Rough: A Study... More about Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding. Volume 4
Ann Arbor: Legacy Press, 2019, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 464 pp. Legacy Press, Pictures in Your Pocket: A History of the American Tintype Album; Samaritan Manuscript Bindings from Four Collections in the United States; A Previously Unrecorded Sewing Technique Deciphered During a Study of a Twelfth-Century, Limp... More about Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding. Volume 5
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2014, Second Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 632 pp.; DVD. The Legacy Press, "Books Will Speak" is published at a time when the historical book is at risk of being ignored, put away, and forgotten. This handbook combines an overview of the history... More about Books Will Speak Plain. A Handbook for Identifying and Describing Historical Bindings
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 about Meeting by Accident. Selected Historical Bindings
Bodleian Library, 2016, First Printing. duodecimo (4 x 6 inches) cloth in matching slipcase. facsimile + 240 pp. commentary and translation. Bodleian Library, William Morris had a lifelong fascination with illuminated books. He collected thirteenth- and fourteenth-century manuscripts and became one of the foremost experts on the art of bookmaking... More about The William Morris Manuscript of The Odes of Horace. Two volumes