Port Clarendon: Bird & Bull Press, 1978. Small quarto. (8)pp., with ten double-page samples. One of 400 copies, all numbered Copy 1. Printed by San Serriffe Publishing Company, Henry Morris's fictitious press based in the "Republic of San Serriffe." Wrappers fairly sunned, else near fine. More

North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1971. Quarto. 67pp. One of 255 copies. Contains some amusing essays on paper-making, and some paper samples, including two made "with the cooperation of certain local wasps." A brief history of printing gives credit to "a man named Gutenberg, probably a foreigner," who "wanted..... More

(North Hills): Bird & Bull Press, 1967. Octavo. 121pp. From an edition of 500 copies, this is an out-of-series copy in a 1968 trial binding by Jean Millard. According to a penciled note on the front endpaper, there were two copies bound thus, and the note mentioned that "L. Schlosser..... More

North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1975. Oblong 16mo. 62pp. One of "approximately 215 copies." Contains 24 tipped-in samples of colorful handmade paste papers. An account of methods and materials is illustrated with photographs. Bound in paste paper boards backed in vellum, gilt. Minor rubbing to edges, faint soiling to..... More

(N.p.): Bird & Bull Press, 1991. Octavo. 82pp. One of 250 copies. Determined to "preserve worthwhile skills and artifacts from the past," Iris Nevins has focused on the art of marbling. "Many wonderful intricate patterns fell out of use after about 1870," and Spanish marbling is among the most difficult..... More

North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1964. Octavo. 91pp. One of 200 copies. A biography on the life and work of Thomas Bird Mosher, the remarkable New England publisher and literary pirate. The Passionate Pirate is one of Henry Morris's earlier titles. In making it, he was plagued with both..... More

North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1980. Small quarto. 78pp., + 14ff. One of 300 copies. Translated from the German with an Introduction and fourteen original marbled specimens by Richard J. Wolfe. Illustrated with numerous black & white photographs showing Weisse at work. The large marbled samples by Wolfe are..... More

Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1987. Octavo. 108pp. One of 310 copies, of which 275 copies were for sale. With an introduction and thirteen original marbled samples by Richard J. Wolfe. Printed in red and black on the sumptuous Italian handmade "Umbria" paper. Bound in paper marbled by Wolfe, backed..... More

(San Francisco: Black Stone Press, 1980). Oblong 24mo. (30)pp. One of fifty copies, signed by author Kate Pond and printer Shelley Hoyt-Koch. Each letter, printed in red, is accompanied by an illustration in black. Rhymes by Kate Pond, clever and at times unexpected, run across each page spread (e.g. "HORSE..... More

(NY): Center for the Book Arts, (2007). Octavo. 18ff. One of thirty-nine copies. A collection of thirteen poems from Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, beautifully printed by nine compositor-printers at the Center for the Book Arts. Each printer’s work occupies a single bifolium sheet, forming nine loose signatures. All..... More

Concord, MA: Sign of the Vine, (1903). 24mo. (20)pp. Titles and initals printed in red. The title page features a geometric design of rules and roses, reminiscent of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Mild toning to spine, else near fine in gray paper over boards with paper spine label. More

Munich: Bremer Presse, 1931. Quarto. 238, (2)pp. One of 275 copies. A collection of sonnets by various English poets, from Sir Thomas Wyatt to Christina Rossetti, handsomely printed, with initials designed by Anna Simons. Includes Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Keats, E.B. Browning, Spenser, Donne, and Milton, among others. Minor edgewear and slight..... More

(Munich): Bremer Presse, (1923-1924). Two folio volumes. 486; 372pp. One of 615 copies printed in Greek with titles by Anna Simons. These beautiful volumes are printed on Zanders handmade paper in a 16-point Greek type designed for the Press. Colin Franklin describes the Bremer "Homerou poiesis" as “magnificent examples of..... More