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London: Grafton, 1924. First edition. Orig. taupe cloth and boards. Very good. 292 pages. Limited edition, one of 500. 284 illustrations cover borders, head-pieces, tail-pieces, ornaments, initials and modern printer ornaments. Index. The author conjectures whether the early printers employed their own artists to design and engraved blocks, or whether they obtained them from the typefounders, but opting… Read more about this item

New York: Pynson Printers, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter black morocco, spine lettered in gilt and red over patterned boards. Fine in near fine brown slipcase. 148 [2] pages. 29 x 24 cm. Limited edition, copy 119 of 375 signed by Dard Hunter and Elmer Adler, the binding by Gerhard Gerlach -- the only limited edition of… Read more about this item

London: Cresset Press, 1928. Hardcover. Orig. thick black boards lettered in gilt. Teg. Near fine in fine matching slipcase. 2 vols. Hughes-Stanton, Blair. 174 & 162 pages. Large 4to, 36 x 25 cm, ten full-page wood-engraved plates: six by Blair Hughes-Stanton, and four by Gertrude Hermes. Printed by the Shakespeare Head Press under the direction of Bernard Newdigate.… Read more about this item

Paris: Gumuchian & Cie, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pictorial wrappers. Near fine in fine brown chemises housed in matching, solid, worn slipcases. 2 Vols. [XXIV] 446, 336 pages. 28 x 22.5 cm. Copy one of 100 on Hollande, from an edition limited to 1100. A long honored and standard reference for Children's Literature. Text in French. Vol.… Read more about this item

Portland: Southworth Press, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue morocco front cover decorated in blind. Spine evenly sunned to brown. Aeg. Near fine in fine felt lined slipcase with front cover pictorial paper plate. 354 pages. 27 x 20 cm. Limited edition, copy 61 of 88 Roman numeral copies printed on Zerkall Halle paper, signed by Rosenbach on… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon linen cloth. Teg. Fine in fine beige linen slipcase. 149 pages. Folio, 51 x 36 cm. With twelve color plates, 192 black and white text illustrations. Limited edition, copy 384 of 1000. This work presents an exhaustive study of how two twelfth-century Winchester bibles were designed and produced.… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth and brown boards. Near fine. Unpaginated. 28 x 23 cm. Title page printed in red and black. List of Facsimiles. Alphabetical Index of Printers. The monograph indicates the gradual predominance of Antwerp and the Low Countries over France as a centre of type production. The period also… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth with spine paper label. Near fine. 145 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Edited by Harry Carter & Christopher Rickes. Plates,Text illustrations. Index Oxford Bibliographical Society: New Series, Vol. IX. Lirary bookplate with no other ex-library marking.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth, large gilt decoration front cover. Fine in very good dust wrapper. IX, 15, [20] pages. Limited edition, copy 420 of 760. Text printed at University Printing House, Cambridge. Copies 1-344 were printed for the Bodley Head, London, and nos. 345-760 for the University of Toronto Press.… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark brown cloth. Fine in fine illustrated dust jacket mylar protected. Beerbohm, Max. 258 pages. 25 x 19 cm. 100 illustrations, 2052 entries. Index of Titles. Index of Books and Periodicals. Index of Owners. Hart-Davis has also added explanatory notes to elucidate the point of jokes which are now forgotten or… Read more about this item

London: John C. Nimmo, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter maroon morocco, marbled endpapers and matching endpapers. Teg. Fine. 136 pages in text. 28 x 18 cm. Limited edition, copy 187 of 520. Title page printed in red and black. Very crisp, clean copy both images and text. Bound by Birdsall -- raised bands, spines richly gilt… Read more about this item

Np: Frederick Arthur Crisp, 1915. First edition. Wraps. Orig. gray illustrated wrappers. Near fine. 30 pages. 20 x 15 cm. The author, a noted book collector, genealogist, printer and academic. Contents include Parish Registers, A List of Genealogical and other works entitled "Visitation Of England And Wales." Appears to be a self promotional work. Interior clean and fresh.… Read more about this item

Pasadena: Typophiles, 1949. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. gray stitched stiff wraps. Very good.. 21 pages. 24 x 15 cm. Limited edition, one of 300 printed by Grant Dahlstrom on Maidstone and Fabriano Cover with the four page supplement laid-in. Frontispiece, mostly unopened with illustrations in the text.

New York: Grolier Club, 1899. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. stitched stiff wraps. Near fine. 32 pages. 18 x 11 cm. 162 entries from 1533 - 1796. Clean copy, front cover printed in black and red.

Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1970. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Near fine in nicked dust wrapper at heqd and foot. 192 pages. 29 x 22 cm. Forty-three pages in text. 149 black and white reproductions of Baroque Book Illustrations. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER N33. "An excellent visual outline of the complicated mass of 17th century illustrated books." This edition with… Read more about this item

Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1966. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. publisher's red calf lettered in gilt. Fine. 28 unnumbered pages. 3 cm. 2.5 cm. Title page printed in red and black, marbled endpapers. Design and typography by the author.

Los Angeles: Press at the Gatehouse, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. orange/red cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine in fine decorated dust wrapper house in publisher's clear plastic case. 22 pages. 7 x 5 cm. Limited edition, one of 150 copies bound by Bela Blau. Color lithograph frontispiece and black an white illustrations in the text. The story… Read more about this item

New York: Miniature Dictionary Publishers, Inc. Sole agent, M. Minkus, 1930. First edition. leather_bound. Full black morocco, all edges red. Very good. [3] 765 pages. 5.5 x 3.5 cm. A tiny puncture hole at center of front cover which appears to be part of the original design as there is no impression to endpaper.

Berkeley: Tamalpais Press, 1962. Wraps. Orig. publisher's gray/green wrappers printed in red, and saddle sewn. Fine. 3 pages in text. 34 x 23.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 22 of 100 issued with a leaf having one or more woodcuts and reserved for the members of The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco. The original leaf from Jacobus de Voragine's… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown cloth and marbled boards. Fine. [xxv] 64 pages. 25 x 17,5 cm. Two photographic facsimiles. Extensive Index and Word List. Edited critically for the first time from the holograph ms. in the Henry E. Huntington Library. Besides the introduction signed by the editors, Samuel A. Tannenbaum and Hyder… Read more about this item