Boston: Riverside Press, 1900. Octavo. (iv), 92pp. Although not stated, this is one of 250 copies printed, of which 150 were for sale. Number 32 in the Young of Heart series, translated from the original French by Mary B. Richards. Illustrated with black & white images of the titular two..... More
NY: Lansha Studios, (c. 1922-1934). This collection contains 128 individual pencil designs and 51 photographs of manufactured fixtures used to create department store window and floor displays. The bulk of the designs were made for Lansha Studios, a New York firm established by Lionel Schacht and Eugene P. Lanfranchi as..... More
Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, (1936). Folio. One of twenty copies. Six color engravings illustrating Oscar Wilde's text, each signed by the artist and mounted on a 13 by 10-inch off-white mat. This suite of prints comprises the full set of the engravings that appeared in the edition of the book..... More
Minor Confluence, WI: Perishable Press, 1976. 12 1/2 by 20 inches. One of an edition of 50 copies. A black & white drawing by Sarah Freckelton of a sock thrown over the back of a chair on the seat of which sits a flowerpot of crocuses illustrates a journal entry..... More
Goshen, NH: Phineas Press, 1973. Small broadside measuring 12 7/8 by 6 3/8 inches. One of 100 copies. Illustrated and designed by Caldecott Award-winner Nonny Hogrogian, with a line drawing of two sleeping cats. A dreamy poem about the anticipation of starting a new garden after moving to New Hamphire..... More
NY: Thomas Nelson, 1928. Oversized proof plate from Willy Pogany's Mother Goose, illustrating the numbers one through five and a child's finger in the mouth of a caught fish. Below the image is the rhyming text, whose simple, clever meter assists a young learner in remembering their numbers. Plate shows..... More
(N.p. c. 1970). Silkscreen broadside. The image shows Richard Nixon, printed in blue with his arm raised and two fingers extended in his trademark salute, under the red word "Impeachment." Nixon's form is cleverly constructed from various post office stamps, including "Void" taking the shape of his mouth, "Cancelled" standing..... More
Cambridge, MA: Pomegranate Press, 1972. Broadside. About 300 copies. A striking presentation of this fanciful poem, silkscreened in turquoise, purple and orange by Karyl Klopp. Very fine. (Measures 25 inches wide by 19 inches tall). More
Cambridge, MA: Pomegranate Press, 1973. Folio broadside. One of fifty copies. Signed by Karyl Klopp, proprietor of the press. A twenty-five-line poem by Mark Van Doren, beautifully printed on cream-colored paper and featuring an illustration by Karyl Klopp beside the text. Van Doren's long career as a poet and writer..... 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
(N.p. n.d.). Color woodcut by Lynd Ward, portraying a cherub hovering over a cannon. Signed by Ward and inscribed to "DBJ"—presumably Dan Burne Jones, who was working on a bibliography of Ward's work alongside one of Rockwell Kent's. Although the latter reached publication, the former apparently did not. Fine. Matted..... More
Ditchling: 1915. Print on tissue. An image of a crucified Christ, here with arms at forty-five degrees to the hortizontal beam of the cross, "INRI" appearing in mirror on the halo, and blood from the spear-wound pouring directly into a chalice. Likely a proof impression, due to the variation in..... More
Ditchling: 1919. Two prints by Gill. The first appears to be perhaps a ghost monotype, printed on tissue; it shows black in the quadrants divided by the crucifix where other printings show white (or neutral). The second is a variant, likely an early mockup toward the finished product and lacking..... More
1924. Measures 4 by 3 15/16 inches. Intaglio engraving on hard endgrain boxwood, so that the finish mimics a copper engraving. This process is discussed in detail in an article by Gill entitled "Intaglio Printing from Wood Blocks." This image is a slightly different version of an engraving Gill made..... More
1928. Engraved print by Eric Gill illustrating a celebratory Christmas card for 1928. Affixed to cardstock. Fine. (Printed sheet measures 5 1/2 by 3 3/8; 141x86mm). More
Petrograd: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, (1920). Framed poster measuring 19 inches by 26 inches. This two-color lithograph was printed in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) by the Petrograd State Publishing House and shows a man and a woman reading books while a hammer rests against the man's leg and more books lay in..... 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
(Vienna: c. 1810). Single folio sheet, on which is printed twenty rebus cards, to be cut out. Each card has a very fine hand-colored stipple engraving. A few examples are: a man bowing before a statue of Cupid, a sunset, three children sledding, and Napoleon sitting on an upper-case “B.”..... More
NY: Red Ozier Press, 1981. Broadside measuring 14 by 29 inches. One of 75 copies. Illustrated with a black & white collage by John Digby. Text printed in burgundy and black on gray paper. Fine. (Peich 28). More
(Vancouver, BC): Heavenly Monkey, 2011. Quarto portfolio of two broadsides. One of ten copies. Broadsides #1 and #2 display majuscules from a font issued by Lettergieterij Amsterdam, preserved for years by András Fürész, and given to Rollin Milroy in the summer of 2011. Between the lines of letters is text..... More
(Albany: Print Club of Albany), 1992. Broadside measuring 16 1/2 by 21 inches. One of 125 copies, signed by the artist. The Print Club of Albany's Annual Print for 1991-1992. This lithograph is in honor of the 500th anniversary of Columbus's voyage to the New World. Prospectus included, with very..... More
(N.p. n.d.). Slender broadside. Inscribed "Happy Pesach/Ben Shahn." Shahn's stylized header, showing hands embracing Hebrew text, leads into Edward Taylor's poem, "Infinity." In this Jewish and religious context, the choice to use a poem from Taylor, a colonial American poet and pastor, may seem odd, but an analysis of the..... More
(c. 1999). Two posters, one featuring an armed young man beneath the Vietnamese flag watching an American fighter plane crash, and the other depicting Ho Chi Minh amidst the flags for North Vietnam and the Viet Cong. Though reproductions, these posters mark a shift in post-war Vietnam, in which propaganda..... More
London: Warren Editions, 1982. 16mo. One of 75 copies. Twenty-four engravings, individually matted and loose. Nineteen of the engravings were originally printed in Boxwood, the Monotype Corporation's 1957 type specimen for Dante. The rest of the currently present images were added to the initial nineteen in the Boxwood reprint issued..... More
