A catalogue of 58 items, featuring designer bindings, illustrated and private press books, and miniature books, from a 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet to newly completed miniature designer bindings.
This catalogue of our recent acquisitions contains items from across our specializations, including original artwork by Arthur Rackham and Eric Gill, a signed first edition of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, beautiful examples of titles by the Vale and Eragny Presses, and a complete set of Bernhardt Wall's miniature journal, The Etcht Miniature Monthly Magazine. The descriptions in this catalogue are in shortened form. For complete descriptions and additional images, please contact us or click on the words underlined in orange to be taken to the item description on our website.
A selection of new acquisitions that include a unique collection of Japanese surimono depicting books and scrolls, the Cresset Press Gulliver printed on vellum, several Edward Gorey items, including original artwork for the cover of Penny Candy, a group of paper books, and much more.
A catalogue of new acquisitions that includes a group of Dwiggins-related items, the best known copy of the Vale Press Daphnis and Chloe, a very fine copy of The Story of Ferdinand in the dust jacket, and much more.
A selection of items we displayed at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair, including a two-volume set of sheet music bearing wrap-around fore-edge paintings by Clare Brooksbank, an illustrated anatomical textbook with movable flaps, a letter from Peter Pan author and amateur cricketer J. M. Barrie to the captain of the 1934 Australian cricket team, and original artwork by Edward Gorey for the cover of Publisher's Weekly.
Highlighting a selection of deluxe illustrated children's books from a recently acquired private collection, Catalogue 137 contains fifty-two items, including a copy of Arthur Rackham's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with an original ink and watercolor drawing; an extraordinary illuminated manuscript on vellum of The Song of Songs, from the collection of a prominent Talmudic scholar; a powerful German linocut calendar from 1969 that pays tribute to the African-American Civil Rights Movement; and much more.
