Paris: Éditions de Livres de Pierre Lecuire, 1977. Oblong 24mo. (16)ff. One of twenty copies with an additional suite of seven engravings, bound in at rear. Of these, two are abandoned earlier attempts. All images in the suite are signed and numbered out of twenty or our of thirty. The..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822. Octavo. (iv), 397pp. Eleventh edition. Here, Moore's wildly popular, and subtly pro-Irish nationalism, poem receives an impressive foreedge painting. The poem's titular heroine stands before her poet suitor, and behind them are Arabesque archways framing an imaginative city in Bukhara. Bound in..... More
(N.p.): Letterpress Guild of New England, 1992. Octavo. (10)ff., + 13pp. booklet. All gathered in a portfolio, designed by Dorothea Black and limited to 200 copies. Pillars of the New England letterpress printing community here contribute broadsides—or, in the case of John Kristensen, a folio, and in that of Scott..... More
NY: Keller-Dorian Paper Co., Inc., 1939. Oblong small octavo. (4)ff. A sample catalog of foils, with forty-eight embossed examples tipped-in. These are grouped by style, displaying patterns of checks, leaves, florals, and waves, and ranging in color from customary silver and gold metallics to pinks, greens, and blues. Each section..... More
Sheffield: W. Ford for Robt. Taylor, (c. 1840). 21pp. Engraved frontispiece. Fifty-six spiritual desires are here presented in numbered, rhyming couplets. The beseeched blessings are then summarized in a final stanza further emphasizing religious devotion through life's trials. A popular publication in its day, here presented in a miniature edition..... More
NY: Baker, Crane & Day. 64mo. 8pp. A sweet collection of lyrics using a question-and-answer motif to laud the wonderful characteristics of the author's mother. Each stanza is headed by an engraving showing mother and child at progressive stages in the child's development, from sleeping in a bassinet to praying..... More
London: William Foster, (c. 1840). 13pp. A reprinting of the twelfth chapter of the New Testament's book of Romans, which the printer sums up at the verso of the title page as "An exhortation to humility, unity, and peace." Charmingly bound in full blue morocco with, on both covers, leather..... More
Glasgow: David Bryce & Son, (c. 1900). 64mo. 512pp. Engraved frontispiece shows the Burns monument and the new Brig O'Doon, located in Ayr, Scotland. A complete anthology of Burns' poetry, a testament to his legacy among the Scots. This copy bound by G. T. Bagguley, and later finished by Thomas..... More
1928. Engraved print by Eric Gill illustrating a celebratory Christmas card for 1928. Affixed to cardstock. Fine. (Printed sheet measures 5 1/2 by 3 3/8; 141x86mm). More
(N.p.): 1929. Printed card, with wood engraving by Eric Gill depicting a coy couple searching for each other among vines. Printed to advertise the marriage of Constance Fry and Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, a bibliographer and writer who wrote a bibliography of Edward Gordon Craig. Fine. (4 1/8 by 5 1/8;..... More
Paris: Janet, (1816). 24mo. (xi), 402pp. First edition, regular issue. Illustrated with five stippled engravings of Christ and various saints. Engraved title page. An elegant printed book of hours, with sections for saints' days, daily prayers, readings for communion, confession, and a variety of spiritual and mortal events, plus an..... More
Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey, 2012. Quarto. (28)pp. From an edition of fifty copies, this is one of forty that comprise the regular edition. Frontispiece wood engraving by Minegishi depicts "Mr. Milroy's Gate to a Wonder World". An impressive, comprehensive specimen book displaying the nine roman and eleven italic types that..... More
(Vancouver): Heavenly Monkey, 2019. Square octavo. (64)ff. One of six A.P. copies, signed by Hodgson and Cohen at the colophon. An astonishing compilation of designs representing a study of patterns as individual specimens. Conceived as a successor to Hodgson and Cohen's other productions, including Decorating Paper (2015) and Folding Paper..... More
Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey, 2013. Octavo. (32)ff. From an edition of thirty copies, this is the studio copy. The text in the book is from the fifth part of Updike's essay, "The Seven Champions of Typography," in which he describes how one's choice of paper influences the printing on it..... More
(Vancouver, BC): Heavenly Monkey, 2011. Quarto. 96pp. From an edition of thirty copies, this is one of two optioned for a test binding. Signed by the author/illustrator, Jim Westergard. Illustrated with forty wood engravings immortalizing infamous people, ranging from well-known oddballs such as Lizzie Borden and Hunter Thompson, to more..... More
Vancouver: Heavenly Monkey, 2018. Quarto. 63, (ii)pp. One of twenty-five copies (Series 3). With two leaves tipped in, one originating from George Wither's A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient & Moderne (London, 1635), and the other from the Nucleus Emblematum Selectissimorum of Gabriel Rollenhagen. This expansion on the leaf-book motif provides..... More
(Vancouver): HM Editions, 2017. Quarto. 81pp. From an edition of thirty-six, this is one of thirty numbered copies signed by the two authors. Binder Claudia Cohen and book designer Barbara Hodgson present yet another stunning colaboration on paper. Following in the pattern of Decorating Paper and Cutting Paper, Folding Paper..... More
(Vancouver, BC): Heavenly Monkey, 2013. Small quarto. (26), (9)ff. From an edition of thirty-five copies, this is "not Rollin's." This work celebrates the many varieties of metal type "purchased for, adopted by, & abandoned at Heavenly Monkey during the studio's first fifteen years" and is printed on a selection of..... More
(Vancouver): Heavenly Monkey, (2015). Two large quarto volumes. (55); (50)ff. From an edition of thirty-six, this is one of thirty numbered copies signed by the two authors. Binder Claudia Cohen and book designer Barbara Hodgson, makers of The WunderCabinet, Cutting Paper, and a four part series on color, come together..... More
Slanted Publishers, 2014. Folio. (27)ff. One of twenty-six copies. Signed by both artists. A highly stylized, almost-mechanical alphabet, originating from designer Raban Ruddigkeit's "Elements" type. Developed in 2013 for the "We Create Berlin" exhibition, "Elements" consisted of only five characters conceived to be freely combined into letters, numbers, and images..... More
London: London County Council Central School of Arts & Crafts, 1938. Small quarto. 14, (2)pp. A sharp example of student work, with Hilken's six wood engravings capturing the dreamy romance and tragedy of Shakespeare's play-within-a-play. Hilken's instructors, Noel Rooke and John Farleigh, themselves impressive engravers, offered due inspiration and weight..... More
Seattle: Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, 2006. Small octavo. (9)pp. From an edition of 100 copies, this is one of twenty-five with a tipped-in frontispiece printed by the artist, Shinsuke Minegishi. Signed by the author/artist at the colophon. A short, touching reflection on the Nomi no Kai, the six Japanese wood..... More
(Rockport, ME): Gehenna Press, 1998. Folio. (65)pp. From an edition of fifty, this is one of ten deluxe copies, accompanied by a page of Hecht's manuscript, three watercolor drawings by Baskin, one of the original woodcut blocks, and a suite of woodcuts printed in black with several colored by Baskin..... More
(N.p.): Ward Ritchie, 1933. Octavo. (8)ff. One of fifty copies. A collection of six poems by Lynn Riggs, a poet best known as the author of Green Grow the Lilacs, the basis for the seminal musical Oklahoma! Riggs' lifelong attachment to his western roots is here abstractly expressed in passionate..... More
Buren: Frits Knuf, 1980. Folio. (71)pp. One of 55 copies. Signed by the author at the colophon, and also inscribed by him at the half-title: "For Faith Shannon, with kind regards! / May 1981". Twenty large samples of van Daal's marbled papers exhibit his skillful precision, his eye for both..... More
