The Week-End Book.
London: Nonesuch Press, 1924. 8vo, xii, 319, [1]; game board endpapers, original blue cloth, spine gilt; near fine. Poems, songs, advice on food and drink and first aid. More
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The work of the Merrymount Press and its founder Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941). An exhibition prepared by Gregg Anderson.
San Marino, Ca. The Huntington Library, 1942. 8vo, pp. [2], 32, [2]; 3 illus. on rectos and versos of 2 plates, 2 facsimiles in text; fine in orig. printed orange wrappers. Attractive exhibition catalogue printed at the Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles. More
Wulling, Emerson. A comp's-eye view of...punctuation.
La Crosse: 1962. Edition limited to 200 copies, small 8vo, pp. [23]; printed in red and black; fine in orig. blue printed wrappers. Press Preterite, no. 95. "The marks of punctuation are by printers called points. Interestingly, both words come from the Latin root punct..." (Opening line). More
You are now my enemy. A brief monograph regarding the friendship & correspondence of two journeymen, including what drew them together, what split them apart, & how their trade reunited them
Kirkwood, [Missouri]: The Printery, 1972. Edition limited to 100 copies, 8vo, pp. [28]; printed in red, blue and black, two mounted portraits within typographical borders, fine copy in original half blue leather over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. From the library of Kim Merker. The politically dictated on-again off-again relationship between..... More
![Item #55652 エ藝[Kougei] 96, the art of Kawakami Sumio](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/55652_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1613418364)
エ藝[Kougei] 96, the art of Kawakami Sumio
[Tokyo: Nihon Mingei Kyokai, 1938]. Edition limited to 1000 copies, 8vo, pp. [4], 63, [9] (ads), plus two stencil illustrations by Kawakami and 17 laid in plates of Kawakami's work; original printed dust jacket, also illustrated by Kawakami. Some discoloration of title from the ink, dust jacket spine with small..... More
![Item #63767 夾江造紙 / Jia jiang zaozhi [= Jia Jiang paper] (Hansheng no. 77](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/63767_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1686949550)
夾江造紙 / Jia jiang zaozhi [= Jia Jiang paper] (Hansheng no. 77)
Taipei: Hansheng Magazine, 1995. Large 8vo, pp. 96; text in Traditional Chinese; color illustrations throughout; pictorial paper wrappers; light bump to bottom corner, else fine. Hansheng Magazine is an award winning project dedicated to highlighting a specific aspect of Chinese cultural arts with each issue. It was founded in 1971..... More
In the beginning ... (The A. B. Hirschfeld Press, 1907-1957)
Denver: 1957. Square 8vo, pp. [50]; illustrated throughout; original gold foil covers with Hirschfeld crest and title in blue on the upper cover; foil a little rubbed, but very good. With a typed letter from the president of the company Edward Hirschfeld laid in, as issued. The 50-year celebration publication..... More
Molly make-believe.
[New York]: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1931. Edition limited to 250 copies, none of which were for sale; 12mo, pp. [8], 155; title page with press device printed in blue; very good in original blue morocco-backed blue cloth-covered boards, gilt title on spine, light wear to spine ends and..... More
The magnum opus of Joseph Florimond Loubat...a leaf book
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 2007. Edition limited to 150 copies, this being the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery, and out-of-series; 8vo, pp. 59, [7]; 2 original specimen leaves from Loubat's Medallic History, folding facsimile title page, 6 specimen pages from Morris' own Comitia Americana; original red morocco-backed blue..... More
The works of the late right honorable Joseph Addison, Esq.
Birmingham: John Baskerville for J. & R. Tonson, 1761. 4 volumes, large 4to, engraved portrait, 7 plates of medals (the three engraved plates in volume 1 lacking); full contemporary polished calf, gilt decorated spine, red and green morocco labels; joints split, spine rubbed. Gaskell 17. More
The works of the late right honorable Joseph Addison, Esq.
Birmingham: John Baskerville for J. & R. Tonson, 1761. 4 volumes, large 4to, engraved portrait, 3 plates plus 7 plates of medals; contemporary mottled calf, neatly rebacked to style; bookplates abraded, hinges reinforced, edges rubbed, corners bumped, a very good, sound copy. Gaskell 17. More
The works of the late right honorable Joseph Addison, Esq.
Birmingham: John Baskerville for J. & R. Tonson, 1761. 4 volumes, large 4to, engraved portrait, 3 plates plus 7 plates of medals; contemporary specked calf, gilt decorated spine with green and red morocco labels; bookplates of Daniel Callighan on pastedowns; joints starting, corners rubbed, internally a bright and sound copy..... More
The works of the late right honorable Joseph Addison, Esq.
Birmingham: John Baskerville for J. & R. Tonson, 1761. 4 volumes, large 4to, engraved portrait, 3 engraved plates and 13 plates of medals; full contemporary diced calf neatly rebacked, red morocco labels; some wear and rubbing but generally a good, sound set. Gaskell 17. More
Forty modern fables.
New York: R. H. Russell, 1901. 8vo, printed at the Merrymount Press, pp. vii-[viii], 303-[304]; ornamented title-page printed within dec. border, historiated initials throughout; orig. green cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, worn, scuffed, and stained, binding askew, good only. With the bookplate of the Tabard Inn Library, ""under the business management..... More
Forty modern fables.
New York: R. H. Russell, 1901. 8vo, printed at the Merrymount Press, pp. vii-[viii], 303-[304]; ornamented title-page printed within dec. border, historiated initials throughout; orig. gray cloth printed in red and black, top edges stained red, binding slightly askew, but firm and sound, else very good. More
An introduction to the Press of the Nightowl, private press of Dwight E. Agner
Pittsburgh: Press of the Nightowl, May, 1965. First edition limited to 120 copies, oblong 12mo, pp. 9, [3]; printed in blue and black; original blue-green pictorial wrappers, slightly sunned spine, else fine. From the library of Kim Merker. The Press's first publication, also serving as a mission statement. Laid in..... More
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From the sign of the centaur [cover title]
Continental, Ohio: Centaur Press, September, 1959. Edition limited to 175 copies, bifolium, 12mo; fine. Plea from printer to "vote no" on a proposed amendment (concerning what is unclear). Press news printed on back. Not in OCLC. More
Shop talk [heading title]
Continental, Ohio: Centaur Press, June, 1960. 12mo, unpaginated; photographic illustrations throughout; printed self-wrappers, loss from removed staple not affecting text. Brief newsletter annoucning, among other things, the arrival of a second press. "Lead pi 7" - cover title. Not in OCLC. More
Uncle Dan's family album [cover title]
Continental, Ohio: Centaur Press, July, 1959. Edition limited to 150 copies, miniature book (76 x 51 mm.), [5] leaves of plates; original yellow wrappers printed in red and black, fine. Comprised of "portraits" "made from ATF Penline Flourishes and miscellaneous pieces of type" - colophon. Not in OCLC. More
Benjamin Franklin: anecdotes and eulogies: adapted from Franklin and his French contemporaries
New York, N.Y. Printing Week Library, 1983. 12mo, pp. 95; wood-engraved title-page vignette, head- and tail-pieces, and illustrations by John de Pol printed in rust brown throughout; as new in original yellow cloth and glassine jacket. This Keepsake is the thirty-first in the Printing Week Library of Benjamin Franklin Keepsakes..... More
Printing with the handpress
New York: Van Norstrand Reinhold Company, [1969]. 4to, pp. 75, [3]; Reprint of The Allen Press limited edition; near fine in original decorated brown cloth, in worn and chipped dust jacket. More
Printing with the handpress. Herewith a definitive manual...to encourage fine printing through hand-craftsmanship
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., [1969]. 4to, pp. 75, [3]; printed in blue and black; 10 illustrations plus other decorations and initials; near fine in original pictorial brown cloth, without the dust jacket. Reprint of The Allen Press limited edition. More
Where did you get that hat? A symposium...Edited with some comments by J. Christian Bay
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: privately printed for the friends of the Torch Press, 1945. Edition limited to 400 copies, small 8vo, pp. 46; black and white photographic frontispiece; original green cloth-backed boards, paper cover lable printed in red and green; fine. Compliments from the editor laid in. A collection of humorous..... More
Notes on printers and printing in the provincial towns of England and Wales
Oxford: printed for private circulation by J. Vincent, 1878. 8vo, pp. 12; self-wrappers; ex-Harpur College Library with withdrawn stamp on front, an accession slip removed from inside on the final blank, rubberstamp marked withdrawn on the last page of the text, and a small hole in the last blank; all..... More
A type miscellany. Twentieth anniversary broadside portfolio
N.p. American Printing History Association, 1994. Edition limited to 200 copies, folio, consisting of a bifoliate title with introduction, a list of the 28 contributors, and 28 broadsides, all contained in a natural linen folding box with a red morocco label on the upper cover; fine. From the library of..... More
