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
London: Trübner & Co., 1877. Octavo. viii, 383pp. This copy extra-illustrated with thirty-three plates, including engravings, and facsimiles of Caxton typography and woodcuts. These additions flesh out a truly engaging and thorough study of Caxton and his press. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in full brown morocco. Gilt to edges and turn-ins..... More
Loughborough: Plough Press, 1981. Quarto. (62)ff. One of 120 copies. Contains nineteen fascicles with actual samples of eighteen different printing methods, from woodcut to photomechanical printing, and ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Explanatory text is printed on the wrappers, and the samples are loose so as to..... More
London: J. S. Publishing & Stationery, (c. 1860). 32mo. 8pp. Decorated throughout with borders and captioned engravings. The primer's eight pages provide a fairly comprehensive introduction to reading and rhetoric, beginning with the English alphabet (including dipthongs) and concluding with narratively coherent sentences. Bound in teal wrappers with printed covers..... More
NY: McLoughlin Bros. (c. 1900). Small quarto. (6)ff. The bulk of the book is devoted to paper toy soldiers, among them infantrymen, cavalrymen on horseback, cannons, and a drummer, all in the 19th-century uniforms of the British army. All are set on perforated pages, on each of which is printed..... More
New York: Minard W. Wilson, c. 1850. Octavo. 24pp. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts and wood engravings of various sizes, and likely from a variety of sources. The final engraving—a portrait of John Wesley—is signed "Jocelyn NY." According to OCLC, this primer was issued under at least three New York imprints..... More
Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner, (c. 1810). 12mo. (4)pp. Contains the alphabet (excluding j and u) with illustrations and street vendors' cries, printed in six compartments per page. A very fine copy in the original olive wrappers, on which are printed upper and lower-case alphabets and two unattributed woodcuts. Mild edgewear and..... More
Portland: S. H. Colesworthy, 1839. 64mo. 16pp. A fascinating, meandering collection of engravings and descriptive text. The images are common stock, but the text belies a childlike directness; about an illustration of a man in armor, the narrator states, "I am not able to give you the name of this..... More
London: Macmillan, 1872. 12 mo. (xii), 224pp. First edition, first issue, with "wade" for "wabe" on page 21. Like its predecessor, this continuation of the adventures of Alice is charmingly illustrated with 50 engravings by John Tenniel. Also like its predecessor, Carroll attempted to have the edition suppressed after the..... More
Paris: Gruel Engelmann, 1870; 1889. Three 12mo. vols, each a distinct copy of Engelmann's production; one from the 1870 first issue, and two from the later 1889 issues. (iv), 628; (xii), 649, (ii); (vi), 649, (2)pp. Two- and three-line initials, woodcut illustrations in the fashion of medieval religious imagery, and..... More
St-Zotique, Quebec: Cat's Head Press, 2008. Quarto. (48)pp. One of 114 copies. Illustrated throughout with a signed pochoir print by Jef Aerosol, a relief print by Melissa Schulenberg, a stencil by Guy Berard, and an abundance of found images and stencils by the staff at the Cat's Head Press. Printed..... More
Vancouver, BC: Muddy Foot Press, (1990). Oblong quarto. (64)pp. One of fifty copies. Illustrated with tipped-in color photographs by Kendall Townend. The photographs were taken between 1984-87 at different seasons in Toronto in the area south of Finch and east of Bayview along the Don River valley. Title page, colophon..... More
Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. Small quarto. v, (i), 94, 1pp. A collection of Aesop's much-celebrated and much-cited fables, some illustrated with bold wood engravings by Celia M. Fiennes. In keeping with the Golden Cockerel Press's tradition of creating limited editions of classic masterworks, this representation was reprinted from Sir..... More
(Columbus, OH): Logan Elm Press, 1990. Quarto. (38)pp. One of 115 copies, printed on handmade paper and signed by the poet, David Citino, the artist, Anthony Rice, and the designer of the book, Robert Tauber. A stunning production crafted in advance of the quincentennial celebration of Columbus’s voyage. Illustrated throughout..... More
Middletown, CT: Price, Robin, 1998. Quarto. (36)pp. One of 150 copies. Signed by the illustrator, Keiji Shinohara, below the colophon. Decorated throughout with woodcuts in soft grays, greens, browns, and reds. The woodcuts interplay with the text itself, recreating in a visual way the experience of sitting in person for..... More
(Los Angeles): Turkey Press, 1988. Small quarto. (60)pp. One of 125 copies, signed by the poet and the illustrator. William T. Wiley's drawings, which face each of Hannon's poems, encapsulate chaos through discordant lines and endow their paired verses with a sense of foreboding. Bound in black cloth with brown..... More
London: Florence Press, 1915. Two octavo volumes. xviii, 338; viii, 371pp. One of 250 copies. Keats' entire corpus, including an appendix for "Verses jocular or trivial" extracted from letters and notes. All are lovingly printed on hand-made paper, with sharp black ink and two-line initials to start each poem. With..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1990. Elephant folio. 44ff., + 24pp. booklet. From an edition of 180 copies, this is one of only a few that has been hand-colored "at the heart of the book" (leaf 27) by the artist, Jim Dine. Signed by Dine on the colophon page. Illustrated with..... More
Montagnola: Officina Bodoni, 1924. Quarto. 151pp. One of 224 copies. Shakespeare's late, iconic comedy, printed in Catania, an original Bodoni type, on Fabriano handmade paper. Book designed by G. Mardersteig. Bound in green-dyed vellum over boards, with the Press's device stamped in gilt on the front cover. Upper board slightly..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2015. Quarto. 169pp. One of 400 copies, signed by the illustrator. The sixty-seven images created by William Kentridge depict figures created by brush and ink over dictionary pages, which could then be spread over a stage scene or rearranged to suggest new positions or gestures. Some..... More
Mysore [Mysuru, India]: (c. 1950). Two sheets, each with six wooden figures affixed. The figures show various craftspeople at their work; the papermaker moulds pulp into sheets, the fruit seller presides over a basket of goods, the mat weaver plies strips into their final product. The craftspeople are dressed in..... More
Madrid: Editorial Voluntad, 1927. Quarto. (vi), (121)ff., + 120 plates. Each plate shows a drawing by de Azpiazu, who in each captures the beauties of Spanish architecture, life, and landscape. The Quinteros provide commentary for each, and Serafina Alvarez Quintero contributed the frontispiece portrait of de Azpiazu. The book is..... More
(N.p. c. 1900). A collection of paper weaving and embroidery samples, which evince a careful study of Froebel's gifts. While the paper weaving section adopts a repetitive color palette (green, yellow, lavender) for what appear to be a relatively rote set of patterns, the larger embroidery section presents an array..... More
NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1995. First edition. One of 776 sets, signed by the author/artist, Edward Gorey. Contains twenty tarot-like cards with a booklet of interpretations. The cards include "The Écorché," "The Bundle," "The Ladder," and "The Limb." Fine in illustrated box, as issued. (Toledano A113b). More
(N.p.): Fandod Press, 1994. First edition. One of twenty-six lettered copies, signed by Gorey in his role as Aedwyrd Goré. The alphabet as interpreted by a Figbash. Very fine in illustrated wrappers, housed in original Gotham Book Mart envelope, which shows only scant wear. (Toledano A110a). More
