Librairie Paul James / Editions des Cendres, 2006. Hardcover. Limited to 1000 copies. In FRENCH with foreword in English and French. "The type specimens described in the present catalogue offer a repertory of typographic richness that has yet to be explored." Includes 277 specimens with large pictorial samples and descriptions. Bound in light grey paper covered boards with blind stamped title to spine and front board. Clean, bright interior filled with color photographic illustrations. In illustrated dust jacket with red and cream title to spine and front panels. Size: Folio. A heavy book that may require an extra shipping fee. 393 pages. BOB/101923. Fine / Fine. More

Harper Woods, MI: Adagio Press, 1967. Hardcover. Number 60 of 473 copies. In this interesting work, Leonard Bahr explores ornamental as a fascinating aesthetic challenge. The Bradley combination ornamnets were designed 1952 by Will H. Bradley and released by American Type Founders. He states that this pamphlet was more than a year in the making. It gives the background of the creation of the ornaments, illustrates the basic four-square combinations and shows more than forty multiple combinations, including three engraved for this publication by Paul Hayden Duening. The pamphlet was printed on four colors of Italian Fabriano paper. It took about 41 different press runs to print the text pages. The pages were sewn into a white cover and a dense black wrapper. The owner of this copy bound the publication in its original wrappers in a handsome three quarter black leather binding with blue and green marbledpaper covers. Rather oddly, the owner apparently used a binding done for a different publication, as the gilt titling to the spine is for a completely different work by Albert Lantoine. This binding is in near fine condition with light wear to leather corners of covers. Marbled endpapers and an attractive bookplate on the pastedown that doesn't name its owner. Interior pages are also about fine. Accompanied by the prospectus and an undated Christmas card from Ann and Leonard Bahr. Measures 6 1/2 x 9 7/8 inches. Unpaginated [16 pages]. PRI/090123. Fine. More

The Anvil Press, 1995. Paperback. 1 of 500 copies of which 100 were reserved for the Grolier Club. Includes a 36 page introduction with notes on all seven presses as well as a bibliography of works printed at Stamperia del Santuccio, The Wells College Press, The Hammer Press, The Bur Press, The Press of Carolyn Reading, The Anvil Press, and the King Library Press. Bound in stiff cream paper wrappers with black title to spine and front panels. Bumping to top corners of wrappers and pages. Clean and bright. 85 pages. PRI/101923. Very Good. More

Riverside, CA: Bo Press Miniature Books, 2015. Pat Sweet describes herself as creating illuminated miniature books of curiosity, humor, and delight. She creates both miniature (under 3 inches) and macro-miniature (under 1 inch) books. This book is from a small open edition signed by the book artist. According to Pat Sweet: "The list makes heartbreaking reading, and I'm not sure which I resent more: the loss of books through active human malevolence, or through stupid human thoughtlessness. Each has its place here, along with forgetfulness, carelessness, accident, embarrassment, and spite. Lord Byron's memoirs being ceremonially burned in John Murray's office fireplace, Sylvia Plath's Double Exposure, which may or may not be in the Ted Hughes archives, frozen until 2022., Clisson et Eugenie, Napoleon's novella, scattered across Europe, and the massive Yongle Encyclopedia, victim of budget cuts. And all the lost books of the Greece, Rome, Timbuktu, the Bible . . ." The book is printed on Mohawk Superfine paper, and bound in the same Mohawk paper (a different shade) and in mottled brown Indian pinto lokta paper. Includes 28 illustrations. 78 pages. Size: 2 3/4 x 1 7/8 inches. ARTB/092823. More

Riverside, CA: Bo Press Miniature Books, 2021. Pat Sweet describes herself as creating illuminated miniature books of curiosity, humor, and delight. She creates both miniature (under 3 inches) and macro-miniature (under 1 inch) books. This book is from a limited edition, which is signed by the artist. Number 21 of 30 variant copies. Each copy is in a different box, bound in papers to match the box. According to the book artist: "Bo Press Miniature Books began in 2007 with a little book called Celestial Variations. Since then, another one hundred and forty-seven (one hundred and forty-eight now) books have emerged with subjects as diverse as maps of real and imaginary places, poetry, architecture, history, flea circuses, and books themselves. The History of Bo Press is a collection of every book I’ve ever written, illustrated, designed, and published (that I can remember) since then. This is a fairly easygoing bibliography, and a few lacunae are to be expected from someone like me who hates to keep records. The book listings include title, author, illustrator, pages, dime." Both volumes are bound in tan marbled paper with paper title labels to spines and front boards. Housed in a slipcase covered in marbled paper and off-white handmade paper with a metal chain lining the seams of where the papers meet. Each volume is 170 pages. Size: Books: 2 3/4 x 2 1/8 inches; Case: 3 x 2 1/4 x 1 5/8 inches. ARTB/091123. Fine. More

Riverside, CA: Bo Press Miniature Books, 2021. Hardcover. Pat Sweet describes herself as creating illuminated miniature books of curiosity, humor, and delight. She creates both miniature (under 3 inches) and macro-miniature (under 1 inch) books. This book is from a limited edition, which is signed by the artist. Number 29 of 30 variant copies. Each copy is in a different box, bound in papers to match the box. According to the book artist: "Bo Press Miniature Books began in 2007 with a little book called Celestial Variations. Since then, another one hundred and forty-seven (one hundred and forty-eight now) books have emerged with subjects as diverse as maps of real and imaginary places, poetry, architecture, history, flea circuses, and books themselves. The History of Bo Press is a collection of every book I’ve ever written, illustrated, designed, and published (that I can remember) since then. This is a fairly easygoing bibliography, and a few lacunae are to be expected from someone like me who hates to keep records. The book listings include title, author, illustrator, pages, dime." Both volumes are bound in tan marbled paper with paper title labels to spines and front boards. Housed in a clamshell box covered in tan marbled paper with black and red dragonfly accents. Lined with black and red dragonfly paper. Each volume is 170 pages. Size: Books: 2 3/4 x 2 1/8 inches; Case: 3 x 2 1/4 x 1 5/8 inches. ARTB/091123. Fine. More

Toronto: The Coach House Press, 2000. Paperback. Number 221 of 300 copies. Signed and inscribed by the author to Nina Matheson and her husband. Nina is a bibliophile, ex-rare book dealer, and the director emerita of the Johns Hopkins Welch Medical Library.With laid in card reading "with compliments of Marie Korey and David Mason." Originally presented as a talk at Alumni Hall, Victoria College, University of Toronto, 30 November 1999, under the auspices of the Toronto Centre for the Book and the Friends of Victoria University Library. Bound in cream paper wrappers with red title to front panel. Clean and bright. Laid in is another speech given by David Mason in 2002 at the L.M. Montgomery Institute University of Prince Edward Island titled "Anne's Adventures on Her Way Home" printed on 8.5 x 11 paper, stapled, and folded with a few handwritten edits and a note on the front that it was printed pre-publication. A handwritten letter from David to Nina and her husband is with the printed speech. 27 pages. PRI/102623. Fine. More

Oak Knoll Press, Books of Kells, Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 2012. Hardcover. "Reminisces of an author, bookseller, and publisher, written at the age of eighty-eight, Colin Franklin's newest book is perhaps his most entertaining ... [It includes] serious essays on diverse characters who have fascinated him, the book discusses the Bowdlers and their 'Family Shakespeare'; William Flowler of Winterton, who neglected his humble calling and privately produced books of teh greatest magnificence on Roman Mosaic Floors; a little-known Oxford antiquary and print-maker Joseph Skelton; the once-so-popular Robert Surtees and John Leech, ... and on his lifelong hero William Morris ... [and more]" (jacket). Fine in orange cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Clean and bright. In black dust jacket with white title to spine and front panels. 262 pages. BOB/101923. Fine / Fine. More

London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1994. Hardcover. This handsome book traces the history of the medium known as xylography, encompassing both wood engraving and woodcut techniques. During the 20th century xylography emerged as one of the most expressive forms of British art. The author James Hamilton places its leading practitioners within their artistic and social contexts, providing 185 illustrations in black and white and eight pages in color that demonstrate the continuing vitality of this medium. The dust jacket states that this is the first book in many years to trace the history of this art from the Arts and Crafts movement up to the present day. With notes, appendices, bibliography and list of articles on the medium. This is a very useful and engaging reference work. Bound in gray cloth with black titling to spine. In a cream paper dust jacket with the text of the preface on the cover and red titling to spine. Jacket is lightly creased and bumped. Cloth binding and text pages are about fine. Measures 7.5 x 9.75 inches. 224 pages. BOB/112023. Near Fine. More

New York: The Grolier, 2021. Hardcover. One Hundred Books Famous in Typography, the latest entry in the Grolier Club’s prestigious Grolier Hundred series, is the story of art and technology working in harmony with each other, all the way from Johannes Gutenberg’s ingenious development of a system for reproducing texts through the introduction of newer technologies like hot-metal line casting, phototype, and digital type. Featuring scholarly yet accessible context for the works discussed and their typographical significance, and illustrated with more than two hundred images, Jerry Kelly’s book is the most comprehensive exploration yet of this essential facet of bookmaking and publishing [From the University of Chicago Press] The Grolier Club mounted an exhibition for this book, which offered an important exploration and documentation of pivotal books on the subject of typography. The show highlighted milestones in the development and study of the art and discipline of printing, surveying five hundred years of major publications relating to this significant art form. Drawn from major institutional libraries and private collections, the one hundred books were selected by noted typographer and book designer Jerry Kelly in consultation with an international panel of experts. The book includes a section showing the 50 most famous type faces in typography, suggestions for further reading, and a selected bibliography. Bound in black cloth with gilt ornament of a letterpress typecase on the cover and a red leather title label to spine. Slightest hint of handling. Interior pages are clean and bright. Typeset in Palatino nova types designed by Hermann Zapf. In fine condition. Measures 8.75 x 11.25 inches. 334 pages that include 215 color plates. BOB/102623. Fine. More

Oxford: The Oxford Bibliographic Society, 2016. Hardcover. An extensive and detailed catalog of the manuscript collection at Queen's College in Oxford with many full page illustrations. The introduction gives a brief history of the library and its holdings. Fine in cream cloth with navy blue title to spine. Gentle bumping to corners. Illustrated throughout with color plates to rear. In navy blue dust jacket with white title to spine and front panels. Light wear to edges of jacket. Size: Quarto. 301 pages plus plates. BOB/101923. Fine / Fine. More

Boston: Thomas G. Boss Fine Books, 1995. Hardcover. A definitive bibliography by noted Beardsley scholar Mark Samuels Lasner. Based on examination of public and private collections, recent scholarship, and archival materials, this is the first bibliography to be published in half a century, resolves longstanding ambiguities, corrects oft-repeated errors, and provides a wealth of new information [dust jacket]. An essential reference for research on Beardsley. Bound in black cloth with gilt titling to spine. In a white pictorial dust jacket. As new in original shrinkwrap. Measures 6.25 x 9.25. 128 pages. BOB/111623. As New / As New. More