Washington, DC; New Castle: Library of Congress; Oak Knoll Press, 2016, First Edition. square octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 240 pp. Library of Congress; Oak Knoll Press, Fabriano: City of Medieval and Renaissance Papermaking by Sylvia Albro explores how the Arab art of papermaking by hand came to the Italian... More
Ann Arbor: The Legacy Press, (2014), Second Impression. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 432 pp. The Legacy Press, Nowhere in the world did the industrial revolution occur faster and to such a degree than in the United States. The American pulp-and-paper and printing industries not only grew exponentially, but also... More
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2018, First Edition. large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 352 pp. The Legacy Press, The first 500 hardcover copies include three paper specimens measuring 8.5 x 6.5" in a glassine envelope at back. In this important and long-awaited book, Timothy Barrett, internationally known authority... More
Ann Arbor: Legacy Press, 2018, First Edition. large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 292 pp. Legacy Press, Prior to the invention of the papermaking machine in the late-eighteenth century, all paper was manufactured by hand using relatively unchanged processes and techniques that originated in China more than 2000 years ago... More
Leiden: Brill, 2016, First Edition. quarto, printed boards. vi, 175 pp. With 428 illustrations. Brill, The knowledge of papermaking spread slowly over Italy from the start of the thirteenth century. Scholarly interest in the history of Italian paper manufacture has concentrated especially on the earliest period. Research into paper from... 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
Brepols Publishers, 2013, First Edition. octavo, pictorial boards. 235 pp. Brepols Publishers, This collection of essays makes an original contribution to medieval manuscript studies through deep engagement with the material side of book creation. The volume brings together major scholars of medieval manuscripts with leading contemporary book artists. The result... 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
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2018, First Edition, Limited to 250 copies. octavo, cloth and boards. 144 pp. Oak Knoll Press, Josef Halfer practiced and taught marbling roughly three centuries after the craft had appeared in Europe, at a time when paper marbling was in decline and being replaced... More
