Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, (1929), First Edition, Limited to 600 numbered copies. folio, contents set within a folding flaps case with printed boards cover. 42 pp. text and 42 plates. Bibliotheque Nationale, Text in French. "...as valuable for its text as for its superb reproductions." Hobson, The Literature of Bookbinding. 10..... More
Ann Arbor: The Legacy Press, 2020, First Edition. large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 528 pp. The Legacy Press, Morgan Simms Adams on Identifying Evidence of Textile Curtains in Medieval Manuscripts in the Morgan Library & Museum; Katherine Beaty on Tackets, Buckles, and Overbands: Italian Stationery Bindings of the HBS..... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mexico: Monografías Bibliográficas Mexicanas, 1932, First Edition. octavo, rebound in full black leather gilt stamped with tulips, marbled endpapers. xxviii, 25 pp. ; XLVIII plates. Monografías Bibliográficas Mexicanas, Mexican artistic bindings: 16th to 19th centuries. The gloss paper plates are wavy from damp at lower right-hand corner, slight musty smell..... More