(London/Andoversford): Acorn Press/Whittington Press, 1975. Oblong quarto. (28)ff., frenchfold. One of 60 copies signed by the artist, Hellmuth Weissenborn. Illustrated with twenty-seven linocuts printed in two colors. Weissenborn's colorful alphabet is accompanied by quotations about various aspects of printing from philosophical and literary luminaries, such as Byron, Nietschze, and Southey... More about Picture Alphabet, with Quotations in Praise of Print

Kenfield, CA: Allen Press, 1974. Large quarto. (86)pp. One of 140 copies. Illustrated with a woodcut portrait of St. Anthony and numerous woodcuts throughout the text. Flaubert's text, based on a fifteenth-century Persian motif, is translated by Lafcadio Hearn, and edited by Francis Carmody. Minor glue offsetting to endleaf gutters... More about The Temptation of Saint Anthony

San Francisco: Arion Press, 1996. Folio. (50)pp. One of 200 copies, signed by the translator and the artist. Michael Mazur has supplied a single etching as the frontispiece. Translated by Robert Alter from Hebrew into English, with facing text from Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (1967). Fine with minimal edgewear in purple... More about Genesis

San Francisco: Arion Press, 1999. Folio. (164)pp. One of 200 copies, signed by the artist. Illustrated with twelve images by Wayne Thiebaud reproduced on transparent mylar sheets using different ink colors. The colors are matched to the sheet underneath so that the images are revealed only when the transparent sheet... More about Invisible Cities

Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1930. Folio. 363pp. One of 260 copies printed in red and black on handmade paper. The opening line of each of the eight books is designed by Graily Hewitt and printed in red, and the other red initial letters are from an alphabet designed by Eric Gill... More about History of the Peloponnesian Wars. Translated into English by Benjamin Jowett, M.A

Mission, British Columbia, Canada: Barbarian Press, 2013. Folio. (50)pp., + 134ff. plates. One of 120 copies of the regular edition. Illustrated with 134 examples of Brett's wood engravings. Number four in the Barbarian Press Endgrain Edition series of books on individual wood engravers. This volume includes an autobiographical Introduction by... More about Simon Brett: An Engraver's Progress. A Selection of Engravings with an Introduction by the...

North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1979. Small quarto. 120pp. One of 300 copies printed on handmade Bird & Bull "Nagashuzuki" paper. Illustrated with twenty-four drawings by Richard Flavin and fourteen 4" x 5" samples of paper. Fine in quarter-morocco and floral decorated Japanese paper. (Bird & Bull Bibliography A22). More about Nagashizuki, The Japanese Craft of Hand Papermaking

Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1984. Quarto. x, 49, 24 pp. + (31)ff. One of 500 copies. Contains three foldout plates, nineteen color reproductions of Japanese watercolors, and 30 illustrated facsimile pages of an eighteenth century Japanese papermaking manual. These woodcut facsimiles are printed on handmade Japanese gampi paper... More about Mr. Gladstone's Washi. A Survey of Reports on the Manufacture of Paper in Japan, "The Parkes...

(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 about Songs

London: Harding & Lepard, 1827. Two octavo volumes. xiii, 562; 579pp. Fourth edition, greatly enlarged and corrected. Inscribed by the book collector and businessman Albert M. Todd of Kalamazoo, Michigan, to noted librarian William Warner Bishop, who was head of the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan from... More about An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics....

San Francisco: Lawton Kennedy, 1958. Small quarto pamphlet. (6)ff. One of 175 copies. A tongue-in-cheek guide to the lexicon of the rare book trade. For example, the entry for "Fore-Edge Painting" states "These are always 'exquisitely executed' even when done by someone's Aunt Esmerelda on a wet Sunday afternoon." Fine... More about A Course in Correct Cataloguing or Notes to the Neophyte

(Wakefield, Yorkshire): Fleece Press, (1986). Large quarto. (10)pp., + (19)ff. From an edition of 200 copies, this is one of twelve bound by James Brockman. Illustrated with twenty wood engravings printed on handmade paper from the original blocks that were cut by Underwood in the 1920s and ‘30s. Underwood’s Brook... More about Leon Underwood: His Wood Engravings

Bromer Booksellers. (96) pp. Our most ambitious catalogue to date, featuring fifty exemplary works in literature, illustration, miniature and children's books, fine printing and artistic bindings. Includes many rare, unique, and autographed items from the 16th century to the present. More about Catalogue 127: An Extraordinary Gathering