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[CHARRIÈRE, GÉRARD]. Leiris, Michel. Marrons Sculptés pour Miró. (Geneva), Edwin Engelberts, (1961).
One of 138 copies signed by the artist and the poet. An original color lithograph by Miro, in blue, black, red, and green, forms the wrappers. Loosely contained in a stunning green morocco chemise by Gérard Charrière, on which onlays of crimson, yellow, blue, and black morocco as well as cork create a light, Miro-like composition.... [Details]
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(Miniature). [D'AMBROSIO, JOSEPH]. The Song of Demeter and Her Daughter Persephone. (2008).
A reprint of the 1902 version calligraphed by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. With red and gold initial and border illumination by Joseph d'Ambrosio. This copy is in a unique designer binding, also by d'Ambrosio, featuring 23-karat gold leaf panels sunk into the front and back covers,... [Details] |
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[DE BELLEFROID, MICHELINE]. Terence. A Comedy Called Andria. Verona, Officina Bodoni, 1971.
One of 170 copies with the prose translation of 1598 by Richard Bernard. This copy features a striking binding by Micheline de Bellefroid completed in 1971. Bound in full red morocco with onlays of cream, beige, olive, and black and aggrandized by onlays of explosive metallic blue, tooled in blind.... [Details]
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[DE COSTER, GERMAINE AND HÉLÈN DUMAS]. Denault, Lucien. Lieux Communs. Paris, 1957.
Signed by Lucien Denault and Germaine de Coster. With illustrations by de Coster and a binding by her and her collaborator Hélèn Dumas, who together were a prominent bookbinding and illustrating team in the French art deco movement... [Details]
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DE GONET, JEAN. Jean de Gonet, Reliures. (Paris), Claude Guérin, 1982.
A catalogue of de Gonet's designer bindings, with fifteen black and white and color plates of his work. Bound by de Gonet in 1986 in one of his customized "Révorim Atelier" bindings of a black, industrial material resembling rubber, stamped with grids of small squares and circles.... [Details] |
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[EBERHARDT, FRITZ]. White, William Jr. (Trans.). A Babylonian Anthology. North Hills, PA, Bird & Bull Press, 1966.
One of 200 copies. In a unique binding by Eberhardt of full dark brown morocco, with an exotic design displaying a native princess and a king, highlighted with onlays of red, blue, and black morocco, as well as stamping in gilt and blind.... [Details]
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(Embroidered binding). Formulaire des Prières Journalières, avec la Manière de le Confesser & Communier. Liege, la Vefve de Bauduin Bronckart, 1661.
Bound in contemporary white silk embroidered with a relief design of flowers and berries on a central vine. This pattern appears on both panels and the spine, and incorporates green, silver, gold, and blue threads with silver flecks, with gold sequins in the background.... [Details]
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[HALSKA, VÉRONIQUE]. Arrabal, F. Ardeur. Paris, Moreau, (1983).
From an edition of 220 copies, this is one of forty signed by the author and by the illustrator, and handcolored. In a unique binding by Véronique Halska of full red snakeskin, with a nickel-plated brass tubular spine.... [Details]
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[KELLIEGRAM BINDING]. Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. London, Nathaniel Cook, 1853.
Illustrated edition, with numerous full-page engravings and vignettes after drawings by George Thomas and T.R. MacQuoid. This copy features a Kelliegram binding of full red morocco with the figure of Uncle Tom writing at a table.... [Details]
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[LEGRAIN, JACQUES ANTHOINE]. de Montherplant, Henri. Pasiphaë. Tunis, Editions de Mirages, 1936.
From an edition of 380 copies, this is one of twenty-two large paper copies printed on Hollande paper. Beautifully bound by Jacques Anthoine Legrain in full tan morocco, with the front and back covers featuring a delicate swirling pattern of gilt tooling accented by onlaid slivers of red morocco.... [Details]
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[LUBETT, DENISE]. Pindar. Pythian Odes. Translated by H.T. Wade-Gery and C.M. Bowra. London, Nonesuch Press, 1928.
One of 1550 copies. This copy is in a designer binding by Denise Lubett of full black morocco with onlays of terra cotta leather. The design incorporates the title in ancient Greek on the front and the original author's name on the spine and back.... [Details] |
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[LUBETT, DENISE]. Wagner, Richard. The Flying Dutchman. (London, Corvinus Press, 1938).
Limited to 130 copies. In a unique binding by Lubett of full black morocco. On the covers and spine are onlays of bluish green morocco, puckered and highlighted with white to give the impression of a stormy sea.... [Details]
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[PEARSON, JOHN]. Sermon of the Plough. A Sermon of the Reverend Father Master Hugh Latimer Preached in the Shrouds at Paul's Church London eighteenth day of January Annon Domini 1548. Birmingham, England, Leonard Jay, (c. 1940?).
One of 65 copies. This copy was specially bound by John Pearson, one of today's most accomplished binders and a member of Designer Bookbinders. The binding is full tan morocco, and features a design of a red-tinted wooden cross... [Details]
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[ROBINSON, IVOR]. The XI Bookes of the Golden Asse Containing the Metamorphosie of Lucius Apuleius. Interlaced with Sundry Pleasant and Delectable Tales: with an Excellent Narration of the Wedding of Cupid and Psyches . . . Translated out of Latine into English, by William Aldington. Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1924.
One of 165 copies printed by Charles St. John Hornby, with initials in color by Graily Hewitt. This copy was specially bound by Ivor Robinson in full levant mustard morocco, with red and black levant and calf onlays,... [Details] |
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[SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE]. Byron, (George Gordon) Lord. The Prisoner of Chillon. London, John Murray, 1816.
First edition. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full navy levant morocco. On the inside front doublure is a fine Cosway-style miniature portrait on ivory of a youthful Byron, in a recessed frame with elaborate tooling in blind and gilt.... [Details] |
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[SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE]. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. London, W. Kent & Co., 1860.
First English illustrated edition. With twenty-four wood engravings after designs by George H. Thomas. This copy features a jeweled binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe of dark green morocco, the outer borders with elaborately emblematic tooling featuring teepees, horse and deer heads, and leafy sprays.... [Details]
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[SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE]. Walton, Izaak. The Complete Angler. Boston, C.E. Goodspeed & Co., 1928.
One of 600 copies. Printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, and with decorations designed by W.A. Dwiggins. Sumptuously bound in full maroon morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with delicate stem-and-leaf decorations in gilt to the corners of both boards along with a small gilt-tooled fish amid the leaves.... [Details] |
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(Silver binding). SPANGENBERG, JOHANNES. Postilla. Das ist: Auslegung der Episteln und Evangelien, Auf alle Sontage und vornehmsten Feste durch das gantze Jahr, Für die einfältigen Christen in Frag-Stücke verfasset. Luneburg, Sternische Buchdruckerey, 1794.
Illustrated with wood engravings throughout. Bound in an elaborate silver binding featuring engraved and repoussé work depicting Old Testament scenes... [Details]
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[THIELEN, PIERRE]. Nevjéstic, Virgil. Un Peu D'Amour. (Paris, Christian Labbaye, 1977).
One of 138 copies signed by the artist and the poet. An original color lithograph by Miro, in blue, black, red, and green, forms the wrappers. Loosely contained in a stunning green morocco chemise by Gérard Charrière, on which onlays of crimson, yellow, blue, and black morocco as well as cork create a light, Miro-like composition.... [Details]
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