Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-1931. Four quarto volumes. 151; 189; 197; 219pp. One of 485 copies printed in red, black, and blue on handmade paper. Illustrated on every page with wood engravings by Gill, including leafy borders with figures, vignettes, and decorated initials. All of these are beautifully... More
(London): 1932. Quarto. Unpaginated. One of 530 copies, printed and published by Rogers, Sir Emery Walker, and Wilfred Merton. Illustrated with 26 decorations of Homeric figures printed in black on round backgrounds of gold. It was Rogers who, upon reading Seven Pillars of Wisdom, decided that T.E. Lawrence would be... More
Cambridge, MA: John Bartlett, 1851. 12mo. 12ff. Illustrated with six drawings by Edward Wehnert, engraved by W.G. Mason, several of which have been hand-colored . A reverse rags-to-riches story that shows the titular character shedding material possessions on his journey home from seven years' labor, this fairy tale from Grimm... More
London: Dean's Rag Book Co. Octavo. (8)pp. First edition. A full color pictorial cloth rag book, illustrated by Albert Ernest Kennedy, who was a prolific illustrator of children's books and artwork that contained images of domestic animals. Country Life is number 283 in a series of children's books produced by... More
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1974. Small quarto. 128pp. One of 175 copies. One of the most important and beautiful books of the Bird & Bull Press. The first section of the text consists of Morris' survey of lesser-known contemporaneous papermakers, with brief histories, photographic illustrations, and paper samples... More
(Paris: c. 1240). Manuscript leaf, on vellum, with text in Latin. The leaf contains 50 lines of double-column text in fine Gothic script. On the recto, it includes a five-line initial in blue and red inks with flourishes radiating along the center margin, while another red and blue initial with... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1995. Quarto. lxxxiv, 242pp., leaf tipped in at rear. One of 100 copies of the special first edition distributed for the Friends of the Brigham Young University Library by W. Thomas Taylor. Specially bound in quarter goatskin, with an original leaf from the 1524 Colines edition... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1938. Quarto. 53pp. One of 297 copies printed for the Book Club of California by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. Tipped-in is a leaf from the Polycronicon, with a rubricated initial on the recto and verso. It contains a passage on the campaigns of Cyrus the Great... More
Los Angeles: Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc. 1985. Quarto. ix, 22, (2)pp. One of 159 copies with an original leaf inserted from the elder Zainer's edition of Hugo Ripelin's Compendium Theologiae Veritatis, Liber Quintus, printed in Ulm circa 1478-81. Translated from the German by Ruth Schwab-Rosenthal and with an introduction by... More
Los Angeles: Plantin Press for Dawson's Book Shop, 1950. Tall quarto. 62pp. One of 300 copies printed by the Plantin Press for Dawson's Book Shop. The leaf is from the portion of the Chronicle on the sixth age of the world. It bears two woodcuts on the recto and six... More
(Southbury, CT): Chiswick Book Shop, 1990. 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... More
Los Angeles: Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, 1981. Quarto. 28pp. One of 164 copies. Scriptores Astronomici Veteres is a collection of Greek and Roman astrological texts, of which the most important is Maternus's Mathesis, the most extenstive astrological book from antiquity. Here, the original leaf is from Liber Octavus, printed by Aldus... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press for David Magee, 1958. Octavo. 30pp. One of 200 copies printed for David Magee at the Grabhorn Press. This original leaf from a Book of Hours was likely written and illuminated in Paris during the first portion of the fifteenth century. It bears four initials accented... More
NY: Society of Foliophiles, (1925). Quarto. One of 200 copies printed for the Society of Foliophiles, containing 20 original leaves from notable books of English literature from the 16th to the 20th centuries. Unbound, as issued, with each leaf in its respective, annotated folder measuring 12 1/2 by 9 1/2... More
Boston: Stinehour Press for Charles E. Goodspeed & Co, 1979. Octavo. (i), 10pp. One of 87 copies. With a tipped-in leaf from the Eliot Indian Bible, the first complete Bible printed in North America. John Eliot, a Puritan minister in Roxbury, Massachusetts, was known as the "Apostle to the Indians."... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem for the Book Club of California, 1971. Quarto. 84, (4)pp. One of 500 copies printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem for the Book Club of California. Illustrated with original leaves from A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson (1755) and An American Dictionary of the English Language by... More
(McMinnville, OR): Bird & Bull Press for Philip J. Pirages, 1991. Octavo. 132pp. One of 275 copies printed for Philip J. Pirages. The leaf is from a copy of Volume I of the Sweynheym and Pannartz first edition of Nicholas of Lyra's Postilla super totam bibliam, completed on 18 November... More
San Francisco: Arion Press for John Windle, Bookseller, 1994. Folio. (4), (2)pp, (1)ff. From an edition of 100 copies, this is one of twenty-eight copies that includes an opening leaf with one full-page illustration, initials, and border, with plain text on the reverse. The illustration was designed by Edward Burne-Jones... More
New York: Ben Abramson, 1946. Small quarto. 48pp. One of 112 copies, each containing an original leaf from the 1497 edition of Hieronymus Brunschwig's Book of Chirurgia. The original leaf bears a nearly full-page woodcut on the recto, which shows evidence of having been created by piecing together two separately-carved... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1938. Quarto. (2)ff.,15pp. One of 260 copies. The original leaf is from folio ccxiii of the Pynson 1509 edition. The essay by James D. Hart is decorated on each page with charming color-printed facsimiles of woodcut fools. Leaf lightly stained, else fine. Bound in linen-backed printed... More
San Francisco: Lawton and Alfred Kennedy for the Book Club of California, 1974. Folio. 45pp. One of 425 copies printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy for the Book Club of California. The leaf is from the Book of John. Religious controversy in England made it necessary for Myles Coverdale to... More
Los Angeles: Plantin Press for Dawson's Book Shop, 1956. Folio. 31pp. One of 290 copies printed at the Plantin Press for Dawson's Book Shop. Though this title usually only includes one original leaf, this particular copy contains two, one from the Book of Proverbs and another from the Book of... More
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1992. Quarto. 40, (21)pp. One of 138 copies, each containing an original leaf from the first book printed on paper made in England. This book, the De Proprietatibus Rerum, was printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1495. Written in the thirteenth century by Bartholomaeus... More
Los Angeles: Plantin Press for Dawson's Book Shop, 1965. Folio. (1),14pp. From an edition 140 copies printed for Dawson's Book Shop by the Plantin Press, this is one of 100 copies accompanied by an original broadside and signed by the author. The document is a "carta de pago," or promise... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press for David Magee, 1939. Small quarto. 17pp. One of 71 copies printed for David Magee at the Grabhorn Press. Apropos of its subject matter, Schulz's essay on Medieval culture and Gothic script is printed in an intricate script with a large opening initial in gold. Tipped... More
