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
(Northampton and Cambridge, MA): Catawba and Kat Ran Press, 2011. Small octavo. 24ff. One of 300 copies. With an Introduction by David Bourbeau, to whom this work is a tribute. Noting its fertile ground for book artists, Bourbeau attributes much of the fecundity of the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts to..... More
Letchworth, Hertfordshire: G. W. Russell and Son, (n.d.). 16mo. 16pp. An introductory pamphlet to the process of marbling paper, with four line drawings of a young marbler at work, and two samples by William Chapman of Douglas Cockerell and Son. Number five in a series of pamphlets about the art..... More
Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University, 2008. Folio. 79pp. One of 250 printed in softback at Northend Creative Print in Sheffield. Vibrantly illustrated with various papers from the collection from a variety of locations and eras. Preface by Colin Harris and Foreword by Mirjam Foot. Covers replicate marbled paper from Tirzah (Garwood)..... More
(Paris: Perrigot-Masure, c. 1922). Framed sheet of handmade paper with a chiaroscuro watermark portrait of Dard Hunter as a young man, based on a photograph by Clara Ragna Johnson. To the left, his name is lettered in the style characteristic of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Sheets of this handmade..... More
(Salem: Colonial Society, 1939). First separate edition, which consisted of fewer than 100 copies. A single folded sheet with one page of type, printed by Dard Hunter II at the MIT Paper Museum Press. Inscribed by Frost to Martin K. Howes at foot of poem. Frost read this delightful piece..... More
(Chillicothe): Mountain House Press, 1937. Quarto. (82)pp. One of only 125 copies "due to the limited number of original specimens available," numbered and signed by the author. "The present volume deals not only with the use of paper in Chinese sacrificial offerings, but a part of the book, with illustrations..... More
Chillicothe, OH: Mountain House Press, 1932. Folio. 71pp. One of 200 copies signed by Hunter. Illustrated with 20 black and white text printed illustrations, one in reddish-orange, eleven in colors; tipped in are 15 specimens of old paper, three examples of raw bark and five photogravures. This history spans the..... More
(Chillicothe: Mountain House Press), 1936. Quarto. (36)pp., + 25ff. plates and specimens. One of 115 copies printed on Hunter's handmade paper and signed by the author. Hunter was the first Occidental traveler to visit the Niltongkum family, who had been "making paper by hand along the small canals of Southern..... More
NY: Pynson Printers, 1936. One of 370 copies printed on Shogun paper and signed by the author and the publisher. Dard Hunter was granted access to even the most obscure papermaking locations, being one of the first foreigners many of the mills had ever encountered. This placed him on the..... More
(Vienna): Jugend & Volk Wien Verlag, (1969). Oblong quarto. 210pp. One of 99 copies, signed and numbered by the artist, Wolfgang Hutter. Bound-in are three original lithographs, also signed and numbered by Hutter. An essay on the style of the Austrian neosurrealist artist, followed by a catalog of his works..... More
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Boston: Bromer Booksellers, 2011. Octavo. 408pp. First trade edition. Aun Aprendo: A Comprehensive Bibliography of the Writings of Aldous Leonard Huxley is the culmination of over twenty years of research, fact-finding, and detective work undertaken by David J. Bromer. With over 2,000 entries, Aun Aprendo is the most current and..... More
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Boston: Bromer Booksellers, 2011. Octavo. 408pp. One of 50 deluxe copies signed by the bibliographer, of which 40 are available for sale. The deluxe edition includes a previously unpublished poem by Huxley dedicated to his first wife Maria. Aun Aprendo: A Comprehensive Bibliography of the Writings of Aldous Leonard Huxley..... More
(France): 1883. Miniature-sized illuminated manuscript on vellum of a Mass for the Virgin Mary. The volume begins with a full-page miniature of the Virgin and her husband Joseph surrounding and blessing a church official, in the company of an awed congregation. The manuscript itself is replete with elaborate borders, unique..... More
Offenbach am Main: Gebr. Klingspor, 1930. Oblong 32mo. 24pp., frenchfold. Illustrated with elegant silhouettes of men and women dressed in the height of fashion, each framed by a colorful border. Facing each silhouette or pair of silhouettes is a passage of German verse. This particular copy is specially bound as..... More
(London): Fortune Press, (1922). One of 100 deluxe copies with a limited, signed color etching. Warmly inscribed by Jean de Bosschère, "with greetings of spiritual brotherhood." With a color frontispiece, twenty-one full-page plates printed in black & white and sanguine, and numerous black & white illustrations throughout. The volume opens..... More
East Barnard, VT: Hand and Spoon, 1971. Oblong 48mo. (9)ff. One of twelve copies. Inscribed by the artist at the front flyleaf, "for Georgia with love/from Diane". Meaker's four glossy prints pair color spectrums and repeated images of stars, flowers, and menorah-like trees with the lines of Sandburg's hopeful poem..... More
Oldham: Incline Press, 1999. 32mo. 10pp. An extract from a talk given at the Typophiles, illustrated with figures contorted into the shapes of letters. Fine in decorative paper wrappers. More
Newark, VT: Janus Press, 2011. Twenty-four 16mo. chapbooks, housed in quarto trifold portfolio. Each chapbook (8)ff. One of 120 copies, signed by Peter Schumann, whose charcoal-and-ink drawings illustrate the interiors and whose crayon drawings grace the covers. Here, Schumann explores the format of Latin American cordells, chapbooks traditionally sold by..... More
(London): Sotheby's Publications, (1987). Quarto. 2 volumes. 1-608; 609-1131pp., numbered continuously. Illustrated with 225 color plates and numerous black & white illustrations throughout. This detailed reference work also contains a glossary and indexes of works and authors. Hillier was the leading authority in Europe on the Japanese woodblock print, working..... More
Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. Four woodcut initials, separately matted and framed, from the Golden Cockerel Press edition of Jonathan Swifts' Gulliver's Travels. The "I", "A", "O", and "T" appear as part of symmetrical black-and-white designs, with lines falling in simple sweeps and patterend with dots and stars..... More
Tokyo: One Stroke, 2007. Oblong small quarto. (13)ff. Cloud-shaped cut-outs layer over one another, evoking the mutability of the sky and, more largely, of time and relationships. Printed on papers of varying textures and weights. Bound in white boards. Minor bumps at corners, else near fine with original plastic. More
Postenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 2018. Quarto. (12)pp., accordion-fold. One of only fourteen copies. Kaldewey’s interpretation of Rilke’s poem invokes the transformative power of music by showcasing the German text, which is deeply imprinted in yellow ink. The lines are paired with bright watercolors that amplify the atmospheric and affective quality..... More
NY: Kaldewey Press, 2011. Small quarto. (18)ff. One of thirty-five copies, inscribed by the artist and printer, Gunnar Kaldewey. Kaldewey's seventy-fifth publication, lovingly detailing the origins of his press and its evolution over time. Bound as loose sheets on aqua-colored cotton rag paper made by Gangolf Ulbricht, interleaved with thin..... More
(Cambridge): Rampant Lions Press, 1986. Octavo. 58pp. From an edition of 505 copies, this is one of fifty copies on Barcham Green Canterbury handmade paper. Inscribed by the author, Colin Franklin. An exploration by Colin Franklin of the pre-Kelmscott inspirations for Morris and his fine book production thereafter. Bound in..... More
(Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1897). Quarto. (xii), 340, (viii)pp. One of 250 copies on paper. With numerous initials and ornaments. Printed in Chaucer type, with chapter titles and marginal notes in red. Each of the six parts begins with a wide border and a fourteen-line initial block containing the entire first..... More
