Paris: Christie's, October 21, 2005, quarto, pictorial boards. (327) pp.; 62 pp. Christie's, Christie's auction catalogue offering 209 lots with the separate supplement auction catalogue containing the works of Hans Bellmar, 25 lots. Both of these sales are Christie auctions #5410 representing Part Two of the three part Daniel Filipacchi... More about Le surréalisme et ses alentours. Livres, manuscrits, photographies, et oeuvres sur papier....

(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

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, 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, 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

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 about English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800

Brill, 2018, Second Edition, Revised. octavo, pictorial boards. xiv, 442 pp, Brill, The Technique of Islamic Bookbinding is the first monograph dedicated to the technical development of the bookbinding tradition in the Islamic world. Based on an assessment of the extensive oriental collections in the Leiden University Library, the various... More about The Technique of Islamic Bookbinding. Methods, Materials and Regional Varieties

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2017, First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. 384 pp. Oak Knoll Press, Between the 14th and 16th centuries a little-known book format, now called the girdle book, was used throughout various European countries. The girdle book is distinguished by a cover that extends... More about The Medieval Girdle Book

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 about Marbled Paper. Its History, Technique, and Patterns. With special reference to the relationship...