The Making of the Book of Common Prayer of 1928. Accompanied by an Original Leaf Printed on Vellum at the Merrymount Press.
Hutner, Martin

Folio. 75pp. One of 285 copies printed at A. Colish, Inc., with typography by Jerry Kelly. A handsome and exhaustive account of the publication of what is considered by many to be D. B. Updike's "magnum opus," together with a vellum leaf from the original edition, which was underwritten by J.P. On the verso of the vellum leaf is the opening of "The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony," with the familiar lines of the marriage service. Morgan Jr. As new in linen boards with leather spine label, in linen and paper slipcase.

Champagne and Shoes. An Essay on John T. Little's Coloma Emporium with an Original Double Leaf from Its Journal: 1850-1851.
Johnson, Kenneth M.

Quarto. 20pp. One of 76 copies printed and illustrated by Henry Evans at the Peregrine Press for the Porpoise Bookshop. With illustrations throughout in pale terracotta. This leaf book explores the contents of a journal recording the business of a Gold Rush-era shop owned by John T. Little. The original double leaf from the journal is dated June 1851 on the first three pages, and July 1851 on the last page. The leaf records purchases, including hats and gloves, clay pipes, wine, brandy, and all kinds of comestibles. The accompanying text by Kenneth M. Johnson describes the history of Coloma, California, where the store was located, and the emporium itself, which, as the title suggests, sold everything from champagne to shoes. Spine faintly sunned, else fine in blue boards and housed in the original blue slipcase.

The Revival of Printing. A Bibliographical Catalogue of Works Issued By the Chief Modern English Presses. With an Introduction by Robert Steele.
Steele, Robert

Octavo. xxxiv, 92pp., with (17)ff. of type facsimiles bound in. From an edition of 350 copies, this is one of twelve copies on vellum. Contains bibliographies of presses, such as the Kelmscott, Vale, Ashendene, Doves, and Merrymount Press, accompanied by facsimiles of type used by each press. Nine of the facsimiles are letterpress on vellum, and eight are collotype on paper. Printed by Charles Jacobi in the Riccardi font designed by Herbert Horne, with title in blue. An important reference, and a beautiful book about beautiful books. Very fine in gilt-titled limp vellum, with green ribbon ties. Bookplate.

The Spider and the Flie, with an original leaf from the edition of 1556.
Heywood, John

12mo. (9)pp. One of fifty-five copies. Tipped in after the title page, the leaf features a large woodcut of John Heywood at his desk. On the window behind him, several spiders observe a fly trapped in a web. On the verso of the page are three verses above a woodcut ornament. This leaf book was printed as a Christmas keepsake for David Magee, who provided context for the leaf in the accompanying text. Magee described the woodcut scene of Heywood at his desk as "a refreshing picture of peace and leisure to be regarded with envy in these troubled days of 1939." First published in 1556, Heywood's long, involved allegory of religious controversy in sixteenth-century England, written in verse, used flies to represent Catholics and the spiders Protestants. Stab-bound in marbled paper wrappers. Occasional light soiling, else fine.

Original Leaf from the Kleine Print Bybel c. 1750.
Adomeit, Ruth

21pp. One of 60 copies printed by Pall Bohne for Dawson's Book Shop. With an engraved, illustrated leaf from an extremely rare two-volume picture-Bible, printed in The Hague by Daniel Langeweg, circa 1750. The original leaf is tipped in and contains a full-page wood engraving executed by Jan Besoet. Includes a brief essay by Ruth Adomeit on the history of this Bible. Pall Bohne has added a note explaining how he made the endpapers using a technique called "Dutch Gilt," which is contemporary with Langeweg's "Bybel." Extremely fine in leather-backed patterned boards. (Adomeit C51; Bradbury p. 66). (2 1/2 by 1 7/8; 64x48mm).

You Can't Choose Your Progeny.
Milroy, Rollin

Quarto. 13pp. One of twenty-three copies. With an original vellum leaf from the Doves Press edition of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Hand-set and printed on dampened paper by Milroy. Bound and tooled by Claudia Cohen in a limp paper vellum case with gilt rules. This is the final chapter from the author's book, Elements in Correlation-- Printing on the Handpress at Heavenly Monkey. Extremely fine.

Miniature Leaf Books.
Thomas, Peter

23pp. One of 126 copies. A brief history of leaf books by Peter Thomas, with three tipped-in leaves from miniature books, one each from a Thumb Bible, a Bryce Shakespeare, and an American Tract Society title. Frontispiece also tipped-in. Beautifully printed on handmade paper and hand bound in tan boards with a printed label pasted over what apparently is another specimen leaf. Mint. (2 15/16 by 2 1/8; 74x55mm).

A Leaf History of British Printing From 1610 to 1774.
Wakeman, Geoffrey

Folio. (6)pp., followed by ten annotated folders containing type and paper specimens. One of 110 copies. Intended to demonstrate some of the most important characteristics of nearly two hundred years of printing in England and Scotland. Leaves include The Optick Glasse of Humors by T. Walkington (1664), G. P. Bolzani's Hieroglyphica, with a woodcut illustration (early 17th Century), an engraved plate from a Bible (c. 18th Century), and Quintilian's De Insitutione Oratoria (1663) with two type slugs. In addition to highlighting the improvements in English commercial printing's inkwork and presswork, the text also addresses the shift from the woodcut to the more advanced copper engraving technique and the art of papermaking. Unbound, as issued, and housed in a tan linen clamshell box with gilt-stamped green leather spine label. Very fine. Publication announcement laid in.

A Leaf From the 1497 Edition of the Pirated Nuremberg Chronicle Printed at Augsburg.

Small folio. (1) pp. Referred to "the highest form of flattery" by Adrian Wilson, the pirated edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle was printed at Augsburg by Johann Schoensperger four years after the original Latin and German editions. This is leaf represents folii CXIX and CXX from "Sexta etas mudi" [sic], illustrated with images of various martyrs and popes, and includes of list of martyrs. All woodcuts have been very neatly hand-colored, and many letters in the main text are rubricated. Text in Latin. Light soils to bottom page edge, else a very fine and crisp specimen.

Saint Dominic's Press: A Bibliography 1916-1937.
Taylor, Michael and Brocard Sewell

Small quarto. 180pp. From an edition of 400 copies, this is one of 100 bound in quarter morocco and printed boards. A separate chemise includes a bifolium from Horae Beatae Virginis printed at Saint Dominic's Press. A facsimile of Daisy and Marguerite is also included. In all, there are three separate volumes in boards, with the bibliography backed in morocco. Compiled by Michael Taylor and Brocard Sewell, and printed at the Whittington Press. Signed by Taylor, Sewell, and the author of the memoir, Susan Falkner. Extremely fine in matching slipcase.

A Leaf from "The First of May," a Fairy Masque. With an Essay on Walter Crane by Carolyn Johnson.

Folio. iv,9 ff. One of 50 copies designed and bound by Joseph D'Ambrosio, signed by him, Carolyn Johnson, and Carmen Voss, the handcolorist. This twentieth-century leaf book contains a leaf from Act II scene one, from a portfolio edition of John R. Wise's poem "The First of May," illustrated and designed by Walter Crane (London, Sotheran, 1881). Crane's drawings, layout, and his lettering of the text were done in pencil, and printed in Paris. Sotheran's proudly announced "The process adopted has been the Photo-gravure of Messrs Goupil & Co., a process well-known to Artists for its absolute faithfulness and exquisite softness, but hitherto comparatively unknown to the general public." The Walter Crane plates were handcolored by Carmen Voss. The unbound leaves are laid-into a linen clamshell box designed by D'Ambrosio to serve as a frame for the leaf, with a plexiglass panel and gold leaf inserts. Very light soiling to linen, else very fine.

Two Chaucer Leaves.

Folio. (4) ff. One of 88 copies printed as a keepsake for the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco by Duncan H. Olmstead and Roger Levenson. Contains two leaves, one from the undated edition of Chaucer's works from around 1551 and one from the Kingston edition of 1561. In total, the leaves contain three six- and eight-line decorative initials. In 1963, the Book Club of California published its leaf book, The Book of Geoffrey Chaucer, with each copy containing a leaf from either the 1551 or 1561 editions. The remaining leaves from this endeavor were utilized to make up this keepsake. Faint scratches to front panel, light soil to one leaf, else fine in cream paper wrappers.

The Complete Writings (with) The Journals.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Twelve octavo volumes. Autograph Centenary Edition. One of 600 copies signed by the publisher, and with an autograph manuscript leaf by Emerson bound-in. The original leaf, which has been expertly and invisibly repaired along the crease, is from "Man The Reformer", a lecture read before the Mechanics Apprentices' Library Association January 25th, 1841. Together with The Journals. Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1909-14.Ten octavo volumes. Large paper edition. One of 600 copies. A touch of sunning to several volumes, else both are fine sets in brown buckram cloth with paper spine labels.