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Paris: Mourlot Press, 1964. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. Illustrated stiff wrappers (original color lithograph by Chagall). Fine. 64 pages in text. 25 x 19.5 cm. 19 original lithographs, fifteen in color. Limited edition, one of 2000. Preface by Jean Adhemar. Original lithographs by Chagall, Picasso, Miro, Braque, Matisse, Cocteau, Calder, Giacometti, Minaux et al -- all are… Read more about this item

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

Np: Hen Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pebble grained light brown cloth decorated in a dark brown motif. Fine. 10 leaves. 26 x 17 cm. Ellor-gast, or alien spirit explores the theme of the monster in Beowulf. The book was hand-set Baskerville type and printed on Rives mould-made paper. A relief etching from one of the plates… Read more about this item

Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1987. leather_bound. Dos-A-Dos bindings fine housed in a fine beige cloth clamshell box with brown leather spine label. 130 pages. 24 x 16 cm. With an Introduction by John P. Chalmers and Edited by Elaine B. Smyth. Dos-A-Dos binding -- Limited edition, one of 40 copies printed on Gampi Torinoko and specially bound in… Read more about this item

London: Sold by the Housekeeper at the Society's House in the Adelphi, 1819. First edition. Hardcover. Later, quarter light green cloth and darker green boards. Very good. 72 pages. 25.5 x 16.5 cm. T.C. Hansard's Plan for a Typographic Bank Note; finely engraved plate of a Bank of England £1 note design submitted by Thomas Ransom; an exceptional… Read more about this item

Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1892. leather_bound. Orig. limp vellum, yapp edges and cloth ties. Fine. 251 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 300 copies, printed in red and black in Golden Type. There is a separate title to each of the four parts into which the poems are divided. William Morris border on page… Read more about this item

Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893. leather_bound. Orig. limp vellum, yapp edges and cloth ties. Near fine. 287 pages. 20.8 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 250 printed in red and black in Golden type. Woodcut ornaments and initials designed by William Morris. Transcribed after the autograph manuscript of the author, now in the British Museum. PETERSON… Read more about this item

London: Alexandria Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Fine in rubbed dust wrapper. 416 pages. 28.5 x 22 cm. 360 illustrations, including forty-eight in color. Ten informative essays by experts. Bibliography. Index. Excellent essay on Charles Joseph Hullmandel an early English printer.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in slightly nicked dust wrapper. 259 pages. 29 x 24 cm. 226 illustrations, with twenty in color. Traces the history starting with Alois Senefelder. Bibliography and Index. Interior clean and fresh.

Cincinnati: Earhart & Richardson, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth, spine and front cover decorated in gilt and blind with front cover center capsule in three colors. Near fine. 137 pages. 28 x 21.5 cm. Signed by Earhart and laid-in a pre publication announcement initialed by the author in red ink asking recipient for an opinion of… Read more about this item

Lemont, Pa: Atlantic Papers. Hardcover. Housed in fine beige cloth folding box with brown leather spine label in gilt. Hand Paper Newsletter 8 1/2 by 11 inches and Hand Papermaking Magazine 9 x 12 inches. Newsletter: No.1, January 1988 - No. 51, July 2000. The Magazine with paginations of 26 to 36 pages contains Vol. 5 No.2 1990… Read more about this item

London: Essex House Press (Edward Arnold), 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth front cover lettered in black. Very good. 45 pages. Oblong folio, 29 x 39 cm. Limited edition, copy 16 of 300 with color lithograph illustrations after Edith Harwood of which 17 are full-paged. Ashbee created the Essex House Press after Morris's Kelmscott Press closed in 1897,… Read more about this item

Frankfort, Ky: Whipporwill Press, 1983. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth with front cover paper label. Fine. 13 pages. 7.5 x 5.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 32 of 125 in Garamond type, signed by j. Hill Hamon.

Frankfort, Ky: Whipporwill Press, 1983. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth with front cover paper label. Fine. 6 pages. 5.5 x 7 cm. Limited edition, copy 33 of 100 in Caslon type, signed by j. Hill Hamon. A story printed during the summer dog days of 1983.

Frankfort, Ky: Whipporwill Press, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cream cloth with front cover paper label. Fine. 7 pages. 7.5 x 5.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 77 of 100 on hand-made paper in Caslon type with linocuts by Bonie Baris.

Hanover: Friends of the Dartmouth Library, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth portfolio, spine lettered in black. Fine in fine matching slipcase. Folio, 36 x 28 cm. Ten folded sheets in two or three color type, alphabets and varying type formats, the calligraphy chosen suit the varying ten titles and authors. Each sheet housed in their own… 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.

London: Ernest Benn, 1927. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Fine. Blake, William. Unpaginated. 25 x 18 cm. Reproduced in color from a copy in the British Museum. There are twenty seven pastel colored illustrations printed recto only. Bright, very fresh copy.

London: The Pleiad Press, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue/green cloth. Fine. 51 pages. 27.5 x 19.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 79 of 500 printed under the direction of Frederic Warde by Joh. Enschede en Zonen at Harlem. Type is a 15th century roman letter of Peter Schoeffer von Gernsheim (Guttenberg's son-in-law).