New York: The Grolier Club, 2012, First Edition. 7" X 5" printed envelope with tie. 10 cards plus folding broadside. The Grolier Club, For thirty-five years Gosin has collaborated with artists on two and three-dimensional art in hand-made paper and has published numerous limited editions of fine artists’ books. Through..... More
Caracas: C. A. Tabacalera Nacional/Editorial Arte, (1978), First Edition. quarto, printed and embossed wrappers in original glassine. 44 pp. C. A. Tabacalera Nacional/Editorial Arte, Designed by Alvaro Sotillo. Text in Spanish. Arroyo was director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Caracas from 1959 until 1976. A very fine copy..... More
Ann Arbor: The Legacy Press, 2010, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. xiv, 389 pp. The Legacy Press, No where 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..... More
London: British Library, 1993, First Edition. octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. 206 pp. British Library, Essays include John Bidwell on "American Papermakers and the Panic of 1819" ; "Bookbinding and the History of Books" by Mirjam M. Foot; "A New Model for the Study of the Book" by Thomas..... More
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2019, Second Edition. large octavo, pictorial wrappers. 352 pp. The Legacy Press, In this important and long-awaited book, Timothy Barrett, internationally known authority in hand papermaking and Director of the University of Iowa Center for the Book, offers the first comprehensive “how-to” book about..... More
(New York): Thames & Hudson, (1989), First American Edition. quarto, wrappers. (80)pp. Thames & Hudson, Illustrated. Moving from the simplest techniques of paste and vinegar paste papers to block printing and more difficult stenciling, craquelure and oil marbling, the book gives step by step processes for each method. With color..... More
Ann Arbor: Legacy Press, 2019, First Edition. large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 294 pp. Legacy Press, Little critical attention has been given to the history of the library and archives conservation field and specialization. Mooring a Field addresses this historical silence, narrating the period from the 1950s through the..... 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
Ann Arbor: The Legacy Press, 2009, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 217 pp. The Legacy Press, The invention of paper in China more than 2,000 years ago was a wondrous discovery. Worn out fishnets, hemp rags, and rope were soaked, beaten to a pulp, and then the watery..... More
Ann Arbor: The Legacy Press, 2023, First Edition. octavo, wrappers. 232 pp. The Legacy Press, This book chronicles the beautiful and moving story of Recycling: Washi Tales, a theatrical performance first conceived in 2009 by American theater maker, Elise Thoron, and Japanese paper artist, Ibe Kyoko. Inspired by washi (Japanese..... More
Ann Arbor: Legacy Press, 2021, Second Printing, wrappers issue. octavo, printed wrappers. 208 pp. Legacy Press, With a history of well over 1,500 years, Korean handmade paper, known as hanji, is familiar to Koreans but a mystery outside its home country. This lustrous paper that comes in a wide array..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Library, 1973, Third Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. (xxxvi), 171 pp., followed by 16 plates. Harvard College Library, Decorated Book Papers, first published in 1942, remains one of the standard works on its subject. In it, Rosamond Loring, collector and maker of decorated papers, explores..... More
(Princeton): Princeton University Press, (1987), First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (xviii), 439pp. Princeton University Press, Illustrated. A technological and social history. Very fine. More
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2022, First Edition, Second Printing. quarto, pictorial wrappers. 292 pp. The Legacy Press, Eight Essays: Mary Hark, Peter Boakye • Adinkra-Stamped Handmade Paper in Ntonso, Ghana; Nicholas Cladis • Uchigumo: A Choreography of Clouds; Tran Hong Nhung • Dó Paper: Breathing New Life into..... More
Milan: Olivetti, (1988), First Edition. quarto, printed wrappers. (50)pp. Olivetti, Illustrated. An interesting discussion in the introduction on the use of watermarks for help in dating old master drawings from the sixteenth century, or help, in fact, in ascribing a drawing to an artist. The dictionary reproduces watermark, location and..... More
Ann Arbor: The Legacy Press, 2021, First Edition. octavo, pictorial wrappers. 196 pp. The Legacy Press, Reams in the Desert is the first book to explore the complete story behind the West’s pioneer attempt at paper production. The unlikely site was a desert valley in northern Utah. Paper had been..... 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
The Legacy Press, 2017, Second Edition. octavo, pictorial wrappers. 120 pp. The Legacy Press, A self-taught hand papermaker, Peter Thomas became interested in knowing how apprentice-trained hand papermakers working in production hand papermills made paper. He especially wanted to learn the “vatman’s shake,” the series of motions that papermakers used..... More
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2016, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 496 pp. The Legacy Press, In Waters Rising: Letters from Florence, renowned calligrapher Sheila Waters recounts the story of the role that her husband Peter Waters (1930–2003) played as the person in charge of organizing the..... 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