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
NY: Harrison of Paris, 1932. Octavo. 43pp. One of 595 copies. A collection of literary and philosophical quotations, poems, and short essays, presented using creative typography. This was the eleventh publication of Harrison of Paris, designed by Monroe Wheeler. Some fading to spine and trace edgewear, else near fine. More
Rijswijk, Netherlands: Gentenaar & Torley, 1998. Oblong small quarto. 255pp. Together with a smaller "child" book containing seventeen artistic paper samples, measuring 2 3/4 inches square, nested within the center of the "parent" book. Published on the occasion of the second Holland Paper Biennial in the Rijswijk Museum in 1998..... More
(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
Los Angeles: Plantin Press, 1983. Quarto. 190pp. One of 850 numbered copies printed by the Plantin Press for Dawson's Book Shop. Signed and dated by the author, Phoebe Jane Easton. Illustrated with six tipped-in specimens of marbled paper, mounted color frontispiece, and color plates. Some foxing to upper cover and..... More
Seattle: Bras Galley Press, 1988. Oblong octavo. 19pp. Drawings of a marbler at work throughout the text. Specimen tipped in to title page. A concise and useful guide to suminagashi marbling, with troubleshooting, a bibliography, and a list of suppliers. Light toning to pale gray wrappers, else near fine. More
Cambridge, MA: Houghton Library, Harvard College, 1942-2007. Octavo. xciii, (14), 171, (84)pp. One of 250 copies. Eight plates of pre-1800 decorative papers, and twenty-five samples of marbled, pattern, and paste papers from a range of eras. Bound in quarter-cloth with paste paper covers. Slight rubbing to edges, else fine in..... More
Boston: Club of Odd Volumes, 1933. Octavo. 22pp., + (16)ff. One of 149 copies. Illustrated with five mounted samples of paste papers and seven samples of marbled papers by Rosamond B. Loring, showing the progression of steps to achieve combed-marbled paper. Loring was a maker, collector, and historian of decorated..... 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
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. Quarto. 245pp. Heavily illustrated with diagrams and drawings of tools and papers, photographs of artists and locations, and reproductions of advertisements, along with thirty-eight plates of papers. Faint sunning to bottom edges of boards, else fine in full blue cloth and dust wrapper. Prospectus..... 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
Marlborough-on-Hudson: Dard Hunter (for the Chicago Society of Etchers), 1915. Small quarto. 13, (2)pp. One of 250 copies. Lengthy inscription by Dard Hunter at front flyleaf, dated April 10, 1932. Hunter's first publication using his own paper and type, the volume begins with an original etching by William Auerbach Levy..... 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, 1987). Four volumes. Unpaginated. One of 50 numbered copies printed by Dard Hunter II at the Mountain House Press. The text, written in 1915, is reprinted from the quarterly published by Alfred Fowler entitled The Miscellany, Volume II, No. 1. It was written by Dard..... 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
Cincinnati: The Stratford Press, (c. 1938). Small octavo. 34pp. One of 210 copies. Hunter's text was originally printed in the magazine Paper Progress. The biographical sketch was printed in the Chillicothe Gazette on the occasion of Mr. Hunter's leaving that city to establish the Dard Hunter Papermaking Museum at M.I.T...... 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
