The Legacy Press, 2018, First Edition. large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 466 pp. The Legacy Press, Pablo Alvarez offers the first complete English translation of Alonso Víctor de Paredes’ Institucion, y origen del arte de la imprenta, y reglas generales para los componedores [Institution, and Origin of the Art..... More
New York: The Grolier Club, 2000, First Edition, Limited to 250 numbered copies. octavo, linen-backed boards. 82pp., 11 plates. The Grolier Club, Catalogue of an exhibition of the author's extensive collection of works by W. B. Yeats, his father John Butler Yeats, his sisters Lily and Lolly, and his brother..... More
(Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Fine Books, no date, circa 2000, Facsimile reprint. octavo, grey cloth. CCLIX, 607 pp. Martino Fine Books, The reprint includes the two Berghman supplements. Very fine and clean. More
New York: Burt Franklin, 1968, Facsimile reprint of the Caxton Club edition of 1911 which was limited to 300 copies. large quarto, red boards and cloth. xviii, 204 pp. Burt Franklin, Edited with historical Introduction and with the original Latin text with English translation on opposite pages and with notes..... More
Ann Arbor: The Legacy Press, 2020, First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. 340 pp. The Legacy Press, Juliana Castro Varon — Cita: A Feminist Open-Access Digital Library and Print-on-Demand; E. Haven Hawley — Women’s Work in the 19th-Century Economy of Pornography; Karen Holmberg — Case Studies: How a Generation of Women..... More
Baltimore: Maran Publishing Co., (1977), First Edition. quarto, decorated cloth. 720pp. Maran Publishing Co., Illustrated with facsimiles of every extant type foundry's specimens of their newest types. Some of these type faces never again appeared in any publication or type catalogue. Reprints of the stories from the Inland Printer magazine..... More
Los Angeles: Department of Special Collections, University of California, 1991, First Edition. octavo, blue wrappers with gilt printing and decoration. (xvi), (162)pp. Department of Special Collections, University of California, The Publications of Aldus the Elder's Heirs 1515-1529. Illustrations in black and white. Fine. More
New Castle: Oak Knoll, (1989), Reprint, Limited to 350 numbered copies signed by Schlesinger. octavo, boards in dust jacket and in slipcase. xviii, (126) pp. Oak Knoll, With many rare photos and new facts added, based on recent discoveries. With an introduction by Elizabeth Harris. Inside back cover is a...... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902, octavo, maroon cloth. lxxii, 393. Longmans, Green, and Co., Christie was an enthusiastic book collector, and bequeathed to Owens College his library of about 15,000 volumes, rich in a very complete set of the books printed by Étienne Dolet, a series of Aldine Press..... More
(Boston): David R. Godine, (2016), First Edition. quarto, boards in dust jacket. 120 pp. David R. Godine, Roughly fifteen years after Gutenburg printed the first book in Maintz in 1455, Nicolas Jenson of Venice produced what has been universally recognized as among the most beautiful typefaces ever created. Based on..... More
Los Angeles: Univ Research Library, UCLA, 1992, First Edition. octavo, wrappers. (xxii), 273pp. Univ Research Library, UCLA, followed by (x) of plates. A scholarly attempt to date and order Aldine Press publications through a study of internal evidence, and when this fails, to fall back to Renouard because "we are..... More
New York: October House, (1966), First American Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. xxiii, (287)pp. October House, A section devoted to palaeography includes original work by Professor B. L. Ullman, and Dr. R. W. Hunt, who writes a fascinating account of a Pliny which once belonged to the scribe Coluccio..... More
New York: Garland Publishing, 1981, Reprint of the 1818 edition. small octavo, brown cloth. (290) pp. Garland Publishing, With a new introduction by Carey S. Bliss. Illustrated. Bigmore & Wyman, III, 42. Very fine and clean, issued without a jacket. More
Privately Printed for Napier College of Commerce and Technology, 1976, octavo, dark blue cloth. (xxxii), 330; (xiv), (351) pp. Privately Printed for Napier College of Commerce and Technology, With typographical notes by Harry Carter and an essay on the Printing of Illustrations by Frank P. Restall. Illustrated. This collection, and..... More
Rochester, NY: Leo Hart, (1950), First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (xviii), 146pp. Leo Hart, From the Introduction: "Peter Schoeffer worked his way through college by copying manuscripts to become one of Europe's foremost printers, publishers and booksellers. As an assistant to Gutenberg he saw and shared in the..... More
Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, (1967), First Edition. octavo, cloth. (viv), 190pp. The University Press of Virginia, A description of the conditions of the American printer during the period 1787-1825, his methods of work, the equipment he used, and the policies by which he conducted his business. This is..... More
(Amsterdam: Pepin Press, 1997), Second edition. quarto, printed wrappers. 240 pp. Pepin Press, Text in English, Italian, French, German, and Spanish. Second edition. Brief introductory comments. Thousands of examples from the early days of printing to the 1930s. Curl to upper corner, else fine and clean. More
(Prague: 1968), First Edition. oblong octavo, white cloth stamped in black and red, in dust jacket. (252) pp. Text in Czech, Russian, German and English. The history is followed by 94 examples of Czech printing, each with one illustration and briefly described. Dust jacket with tear at back panel repaired..... More
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, (2009), First Edition, wrappers issue. octavo, pictorial wrappers. 640 pp. University of North Carolina Press, The fifth volume of A History of the Book in America addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from World War II to the present..... More
New York: Sotheby's, 11.9-10.89, large quarto, cloth. (444)pp, 308 items listed. Sotheby's, This magnificent sale has a 4pp. Foreword by Nicolas Barker followed by a 10pp. Preface by the book collector (as he liked to be addressed), Haven O' More. A fantastic [auto]biographical statement, written in the third person, ends..... More
New York: Burt Franklin, (1968), Reprint. octavo, red cloth. 78 pp. Burt Franklin, A fine introduction to this great English type-founder and printer, with a short-title list of the Baskerville editions in Benton's collection. Fine. More
Oxford: Plough Press, 1984, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 250 pp. Plough Press, A bibliography of the history and technic of printmaking and picture printing for both book illustration and single issue prints. Each chapter is preceded by an historical introduction. With a detailed, useful index. Very fine..... More
Philadelphia: MacManus, 1979, First Edition. octavo, green cloth. xii, 179pp. MacManus, Limited to 500 copies. Fully illustrated. A fine bibliography of this important American publisher. With title page design by Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press. Very minor foxing to top edge, else a fine copy. More
New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1951, Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Third Printing. octavo, oatmeal cloth stamped in brown. (xvi), 493 pp. R. R. Bowker Company, Part I: Book Production and Distribution from the Beginning to the American Revolution; Part II: Book Production and Distribution from the American Revolution..... More
Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, (1967), First Edition. octavo, cloth. (viv), 190pp. The University Press of Virginia, A description of the conditions of the American printer during the period 1787-1825, his methods of work, the equipment he used, and the policies by which he conducted his business. This is..... More