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
Bangor, ME: Eastern Corporation, 1946-1948. Quarto. Twenty-two folded broadside specimens, each with exemplar card bearing historical and stylistic notes on the typeface. Broadsides and cards are printed in red and black. The typefaces include Garamond, Baskerville, Perpetua, Futura, Cloister Black and the "Lost" Goudy Types. Among the designers of the..... More
Minneapolis: Pentagram Press, 1988. Octavo. (22)ff. One of 176 copies, signed by Will Powers at his contribution, and by Michael Tarachow, the printer. A group of quotations on printing, in various colors and typefaces, with many ornaments, a tipped-in sample of marbled paper, and a tipped-in photo of type. Fine..... More
NY: Typophiles, 1938. Small octavo. 64 pp. One of 190 copies designed by Thomas Perry Stricker. This copy bears a presentation inscription from Strickler on front endpaper, dated "March 11, 1938." Essays by Paul Bennet and others, including a bibliography illustrated by photographs. In publisher's buff cloth with leather spine..... 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
NY: Kurt H. Volk, Inc., (1941). Octavo. 27, (2)ff. folders. One of 1000 copies. Each folder is cut-out in a square shape on the first page to reveal the innovative "gem" on the lower page. The gems are created by printing a letter in different colors and in different configurations..... More
NY: Paul A. Bennett for The Typophiles, 1937. 12mo. xxvi, 327pp. One of 190 copies designed by John S. Fass and printed by 22 printers. This extraordinary little book is a collection of 156 proposed Typophile devices contributed to by 113 artists, designers, and printers of the day. Various ink..... More
(NY): Typophiles, 1937 (but 1938). 12mo. xxvi, 327pp. One of 190 copies, designed by John S. Fass with contributions by 22 printers. With "A Salute to Typophiles Desipient" by Christopher Morley, an Introduction by Harry Miller Lydenberg, and a Note on the Building of This Book by Paul A. Bennett..... More
Lewiston, ME: Bates College Museum of Art, 1999. Oblong octavo. 77pp. Replete with reproductions of Van Vliet's lithographs, drawings, etchings, and other works. Interview transcript with Van Vliet at the back, along with a catalogue of her works and associated bibliography. Some rubbing to edges, else fine in printed wrappers..... More
Sierra Madre, CA: Bernhardt Wall, 1946. 34pp. Number one of 200 copies, signed by Wall, who etched the entirety of this book, including the text and illustrations, and printed and bound the edition. The book is printed in several colors of ink on a variety of papers and includes numerous..... More
1988. Single sheet, matted, on German Ingres paper. A marbled flower in six colors, spread from the middle of the page outward. One of Weimann's final productions, completed in the summer of 1988 before his passing that November. Mounted on backing board. Very fine. (12 1/4 by 9 1/2 in.;..... More
1988. Marbled flower in green, red, and blue, traveling up the left margin and arching away and downward at the top. One of Weimann's final productions, completed in the summer of 1988 before his passing that November. Mounted on backing board. Very fine. (9 by 6 in.; 228 x 158..... More
Risbury, Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 1999. Large quarto. 85pp., + 38 paper specimens tipped in. One of 300 copies. In 1986, the Oxford University Press moved its paper warehouse, selling to Whittington Press many of its remaining paper specimens from books printed at OUP from the turn of the twentieth century..... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. Folio. 160pp. One of 325 copies printed by the book designer, author, and printer Adrian Wilson at the Press in Tuscany Alley. A lavishly illustrated bibliography, printed in two colors, with sample pages bound in. Spine very lightly sunned, small scuff to top edge, else..... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. Folio. 160pp. One of 325 copies printed by the book designer, author, and printer Adrian Wilson at the Press in Tuscany Alley. A lavishly illustrated bibliography, printed in two colors, with sample pages bound in. Spine very lightly sunned, else very fine in quarter-morocco and..... More
(London): Mile End Press, 2016. Small quarto. (40)ff. One of 90 special edition copies. A collection of photographs taken by Yahooda of archaeological findings of jewelery discovered in Newfoundland. Each is named for the place in which it lay, a decision, among others, which Brian Appleyard discusses in his accompanying..... More
