In their broadest sense, the book arts are at the core of our inventory. To be sure, the category encompasses the specialties that you see on our homepage, such as Fine Printing, Fine Binding, and Illustrated Books. However, it also includes such things as writing books and calligraphy, fore-edge paintings, books on papermaking, and leaf books.
Read more about one of the book arts, Fore-edge Painting
Geneva: Patrick Cramer, 1983. Quarto. 429pp. Facsimile prints of Picasso's illustrations, in black-and-white and color, throughout. French edition of the catalog, with deep descriptions of works in which Picasso's illustrations appear, complete with references and collations. Bound in burlap cloth over boards with brown stamping to upper cover and spine..... More
Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1883. Octavo. An elaborate birthday card, with two color illustrations of flowers in vases on the interior panels. The left-hand panel bears a short poem, and the right-hand panel offers the recipient best wishes for their next year. Both are printed on pillowed silk. Bound..... More
Athens, GA: Press of the Nightowl, 1990. Octavo. 34pp. One of thirty-three copies. Signed by the author, Alexander Lawson, and the printer, Dwight E. Agner. Four wood engravings by Joseph Sanders, one of which is the frontispiece. A brief history of the function and techniques of type compositors. Fine in..... More
Middletown, CT: Robin Price, 1998. Quarto. (36)pp. One of 150 copies. Signed by the illustrator, Keiji Shinohara, below the colophon. Decorated throughout with woodcuts in soft grays, greens, browns, and reds. The woodcuts interplay with the text itself, recreating in a visual way the experience of sitting in person for..... More
Middletown, CT: Price, Robin, 1996. Quarto-sized wooden triptych hinged with vellum strips. With original Polish text calligraphed by Paul Shaw. Titling and the English translation are letterpress printed by Robin Price in Guild Samson uncial and Perpetua. This work is Price's response to Górecki's Symphony No. 3, which is also..... More
Saint Paul, MN: Blinc Publishing, 2008. Broadside measuring 19 by 12 1/2 inches. One of 150 numbered copies, signed by the printer, Bill Moran. Printed on the occasion of APHA's 33rd Annual Conference, October 10-12, 2008, this broadside is decorated with wood type printed in various fonts, sizes, and colors..... More
Mapplewood, NJ: Hammond Incorporated, 1981. Broadside measuring 25 by 18 3/4 inches. A map showing the different parts of a book, illustrated with three black & white photographs showing a hardcover book, softcover book, and a book's interior. The photographs are labeled with every aspect of book structure, from the..... More
Vienna: 1978. Quarto. Second enlarged edition. (230)pp. Brimming with original illustrations in various media, including pen and ink, graphite, engraving, and watercolor, some signed and colored, plus a mounted copper plate. The illustrations are then presented as reproductions in tandem with text descriptions, thus providing a unique work explicating different..... More
Nappanee: Private Press of the Indiana Kid, 1982. Octavo. 71pp. One of 65 copies written, printed, and bound by James Lamar Weygand. Hagreen, who worked between 1918 and 1959, was a fine wood engraver who studied with Eric Gill. Illustrated with 118 bookplates designed by Hagreen and printed in a...... More
Austin: Taylor, W. Thomas, 1983. Folio. 67pp. Limited to 325 copies printed at the Wind River Press. The presses represented range from Abattoir to Zephyrus Image. This handsome book is illustrated with photographs and eight tipped-in specimens, including Allen, Arion, Bird & Bull, Cummington, Perishable and Laguna Verde Imprenta, which..... More
London: Bertram Rota, (1983). Folio. 50pp. One of 80 copies signed by Lubbock. Designed and printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. Lubbock's text is illustrated with eight full-page plates by him, six of which are double-page. Printed from copper-plates worked by aquatint, etching, and engraving, these colored..... More
(N.p. Rebecca Press, c. 1985). Oblong broadside. One of nineteen copies. Signed by the artist, Alan James Robinson. A printing of all six woodcuts featured in the miniature Rebecca Press publication, Nightingale and the Rose, showing the story from the nightingale taking flight to its fall on the thorn of..... More
NY: Abrams, 1996. First edition. Contains an interview with Gorey, analysis by art critic Karen Wilkin, and 200 illustrations. Very fine in illustrated dust wrapper. More
NY: Abrams, 1996. First edition. One of 300 copies, signed by Edward Gorey, Karen Wilkin, and Clifford Ross. Contains an interview with Gorey, conducted by Ross, with analysis by art critic Wilkin and 200 illustrations of Gorey's work. Fine in an illustrated dust wrapper. Housed in a black cloth slipcase..... More
San Francisco: Word Play Publications, 1996. First edition. One of 226 copies signed by Gorey and by the authors. This illustrated reference work includes ephemera and collectibles, dramatic productions, a list of pseudonyms, and more. The first true Gorey bibliography. Annotated in pencil throughout, front endpaper creased. Bound in cloth-covered..... More
Oxford: Oxford Polytechnic Press, 1984. Revised first edition. Robinson’s classic introduction to the craft of bookbinding, with the inclusion of the original artwork for the book’s jacket design. The artwork is rendered in oil on board, painted in black and white on a gray background, and is framed in natural..... More
Oxford: University Press, 1935. Two folio volumes. xix, 1216pp., continuous pagination. One of 200 copies printed on Batchelor's handmade paper in modified Centaur type. This copy includes the limitation leaf, which is often missing. Morison and Day note that "every book designed by Rogers was an individual accomplishment... The monument..... More
(London): 1932. Quarto. Unpaginated. One of 530 copies, printed and published by Rogers, Sir Emery Walker, and Wilfred Merton. Illustrated with twenty-six 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..... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1968. 103pp. One of 400 copies printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem. This was to have been the last book designed by Bruce Rogers begun in his 87th year, but the corrected page proofs did not reach him until the day of his death in 1957. They gathered..... More
London: Lanston Monotype Corp, 1929. Quarto. 14, (4)pp. One of 130 copies bound in gilt-decorated cloth designed by Rogers. This copy bears a presentation inscription from Bruce Rogers to noted printer William Edwin Rudge, under whose imprint Rogers designed eighty publications. Pollard's paper marks the first appearance in print of..... 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
Chicago: Banghart & Fischer Craft Materials, 1912. Octavo. (8)pp., accordion-fold. Each page bears four samples, each labeled with its name, size, and price per sheet. For each style, the samples of every color option are stacked atop one another and stapled to the page. At the rear is tipped in..... More
Leipzig: Poensgen & Heyer, Feinpapier, (c. 1900). Quarto. (28)pp. Catalogue from Poensgen & Heyer, a fine paper company, with seven advertisements for German companies printed in brilliant color, gold, and silver on heavy Mitsumata paper. The paper is made from the short fibers of the Mitsumata bush, and therefore has..... More
NY: Stevens-Nelson Paper Corporation, (c. 1952). Quarto. (196)pp. A lovely collection of handmade and mouldmade papers, each sample showcasing the work of a different press or typographer, including Bruce Rogers, Saul & Lillian Marks of the Plantin Press, the Curwen Press, and Hans Mardersteig of Officina Bodoni. A price list..... More
NY: 1960, 1980. Two 64mo. volumes. (30); (20) ff. One volume, entitled European and Oriental Decoratives, produced by Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead, features samples from Cockerell and Bertini, as well as many examples of French marbling, a sheet of lace papers, and two Japanese tea chest papers. The other, entitled Bertini Decorative Papers..... More
