(Brooklyn: c. 1910). Octavo. Unpaginated. A collection of forty-six examples of paper-weaving from students at Bedford Academy in Crown Heights. The selection demonstrates an imaginative use of color, showing throughout a broad palette, as well as a range of skills, from simpler squares to complex geometric designs and, in one..... More
(N.p. c. 1830s). Peepshow of six layered panels, one of which serves as the background and is pasted into the lower lid of the peepshow's self-covering. The upper lid displays a rather triumphant image of a statue of Napoleon on a pedestal, watched by two French guards and surrounded by..... More
1965. An original abstract painting signed and dated by the artist, Morris Cox, measuring 37 by 23 inches. Executed in acrylic on masonite in a palette of green, red, blue, and black, the image suggests a mountain range and setting sun with a crashing wave in the foreground. Framed in..... More
London: MacMillan, 1895. Octavo. xxxviii, 260, (4)pp. With Frank Calderon's ten black & white plates, and many smaller illustrations in the text. Introduction and notes by Joseph Jacobs. In an attractive publisher's binding of blue cloth, liberally gilt-stamped with a picture of the fox and some chickens among twining Art..... More
(Portland, OR: Chamberlain Press, 1980-85). Small octavo. (112)ff. A collection of 105 engravings, all signed and numbered in pencil by Sarah Chamberlain. These hail from her major publications printed in the early 1980s via the Chamberlain Press: The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1979), A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go (1981)..... More
Staplehurst, Kent, UK: Florin Press, 1980. Oblong 32mo. 36pp. Of a total edition of 130 copies, this is one of eighty accompanied by a suite of proofs. Nineteen proofs of Bewick's headpieces are here printed from the original wood-blocks by R. Hunter Middleton. An additional four engravings were likewise printed..... More
(Moscow: 1929). Six pen-and-ink drawings colored with watercolor, with an expressionistic look, each measuring 7 3/4 by 6 1/2 inches. These delicate, stylized illustrations are tinted with shades of orange, purple, and green. The first drawing has the title and illustrator’s name, Ausbrey, below it in Russian. The images recount..... More
(Boston): Boston Public Library/Society of Printers, 2001. Octavo. First edition. One of 500 copies. Thirty-two pages of color and black & white illustrations from photographs. The story of Dorothy Abbe's contributions to printing, book design, typography, photography, writing, and teaching is gathered from her archives at the Boston Public Library..... More
London: R. Ackermann and Co., 1830. Two octavo vols. viii, 136; vi, 136pp. + 146 color engravings. An aesthetically charming, patriotically pastoral tour through the country estates of England's noble class. Each site boasts its own engraving, and is accompanied by a short historical and architectural description. As a whole..... More
NY and Toronto: Frederick A. Stokes, 1941. 32mo. (10)pp. A pleasantly illustrated children's book demonstrating a young girl's education in the use of "please," by means of asking for a miniature book. In a clever publication move, the miniature book itself appears at the final page, tucked in a pocket..... More
Philadelphia: Taylor & Hessey, 1981. Octavo. 28pp. One of 400 copies. A humorous analysis of the travel agency industry, rendered even more amusing when read by those of us in the twenty-first century. Fine in plain wrappers. More
Erwinna, PA: 1955. One-and-a-half pages on a single sheet of Colophon stationery, folded into fourths. Dated 16 June 1955 and addressed to Paul Bennett, Adler opens with an apology of sorts, noting that "I am not able to say what my address will be in another two weeks." The reason..... More
NY: American Jewish Historical Society, 2001. Small quarto. 60pp., + sixteen plates housed in separate sleeve. One of 600 copies. Adler's sixteen woodcuts, crafted in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, offer a harrowing and personal look at life and death inside the Nazi camps. The darkness of the images..... More
London: David Nutt, 1889. Two small octavo volumes. xx, 283; (v), 322pp. One of 550 copies. Frontispiece engravings preface both volumes, the first of which discusses the history of Aesop's Fables, and the latter of which contains the text, after William Caxton's edition of 1483. Both bound in plain wrappers..... More
Japan: Miyako Akai, 2008. (62)pp. From an edition of 100 copies, this is one of 90 regular copies. An original story about a winter trip written in Japanese by Miyako Akai, who also designed the book, with editing and translation into English by Larry Seidman. Circles have been cut out..... More
Marcham, Oxford: Alembic Press, 1995-1997. Six volumes, each (28)pp. One of 100 numbered copies. Titles include: Old Style Italic Type Designers, Playbill Type Faces, Round Serif Typefounders, Sans Condensed Typographic Words, Winchester Type Casting, and Sans Bold Italic Parts of the Press. Each little book highlights a different type face..... More
Oxford: Alembic Press, 1992. Octavo. (38)ff. One of 150 copies. Contains a brief introduction on the development of the firm, and seventeen tipped-in samples of marbled papers produced for specific purposes, for customers ranging from Harrod's to a woman who wanted her lampshades to look like the feathers of her..... More
Marcham (England): Alembic Press, 1998. 71pp. One of 140 copies. A collection showcasing the six elegant and versatile typographic border units, or arabesques, designed by Robert Granjon in Antwerp in 1565. These units can be combined in seemingly infinite ways to create intricate page decorations, as illustrated here with many..... More
Marcham, Oxford: Alembic Press, 1995. (20)pp. One of 110 copies. Six woodcuts by Brett, printed in burgundy and black. These punctuate the Te Deum hymn, which is tidily presented using type from St. Mary's Press, the private press of the Community of St. Mary the Virgin. The music rests on..... More
Marcham: Alembic Press, 2000. Octavo. 119pp. From an edition of 180 copies, this is one of twenty bound in leather and with extra samples tipped in. Bolton's oevre is a comprehensive and highly illustrated summation of all the Alembic Press' borders. It is, in its own way, a love letter..... More
Marcham, Oxfordshire: Alembic Press, 1994. (45)pp. One of 100 copies. Illustrated with charming line drawings following the story of a plush alligator who endears himself to a young girl. Entirely printed in green. Bound in quarter green cloth with glazed green paste-paper boards; googly eyes affixed to the upper cover..... More
Marcham: Alembic Press, 1999. Five unfurling spreads, all bordered by lush and colorful illustrations of a burgeoning spring garden. The accompanying text, printed in green, provides learned descriptions of the joys and perils of gardening in an English climate. The spreads are cleverly bound in an origami-styled accordion, and their..... More
Marcham, Oxford: Alembic Press, 1999. (16)pp. One of 100 copies. In an alternating accordion-fold that unfurls in a spiral to show a poppy on the verso. Around the text—a diaristic narrative of Lawson-Hall's summer season in her garden—are quaint agrarian borders. Bound in maroon patterned paper over boards, with paper..... More
Marcham: Alembic Press, 2001. 37pp. One of 100 copies. A small and tender journal of wintertime of garden activities. Illustrated with hand-colored etchings by Lawson-Hall. Stab-bound in gray wrappers with title stamped on upper cover. Fine. (2 7/8 by 2 13/16; 73x71mm). More
Marcham: Alembic Press, 1998. (7)ff., leporello. One of 140 copies. Includes thirteen stitched-in samples of miniature paste papers from Maziarczyk Paperworks, which illustrate an essay about the process of creating paste paper and the challenges of working on a miniature scale. Fine in boards covered with Maziarczyk's luminous "Copper Sponge"..... More
