We are very pleased to offer the first of several lists of recent acquisitions in this season of harvest and bounty. The following list contains the fruits of our labors in the area of fine printing and illustrated books, reflecting a fair amount of range and variety—from Cranbrook to Janus; from Jewish fables illustrated with 16th century woodcuts, to a modern rendering of five psalms illustrated with colorful silkscreens.
Newark, NJ: Barton Press, 1969. Octavo. Seven folders, printed on three sides, + 5 silkscreen sheets. One of 200 copies, signed by the illustrator, Henry Pearson. Five colorful silkscreens, in a design form that is much like "op art," each signed on the back by Pearson, are laid-into folders on..... More
San Francisco: Greenwood Press, (1940). Large octavo. (13)pp. Woodcut from Gorrico's Contemplaciones (1495) at title page. Printed in red and black by Bern Porter of Berkeley. Loose in wrappers. Faint soiling, else near fine in original glassine, which is torn along spine. More
Flansham Bognor: Pear Tree Press, 1919. Quarto. 14ff. One of thirty copies signed by James Guthrie on the colophon. With sixteen illustrations by Guthrie printed in single, two, or three colors directly from the plates. Six plates feature calligraphic text and illustration; seven plates contain calligraphic text only; three plates..... More
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1959. 12mo. (12)ff. One of 200 copies. With original woodcuts to title and colophon by Leonard Baskin. Printed in green, black, and orange. Some rubbing, else a near fine copy in stiff floral-patterned wrappers with printed label. More
(London: Ballantyne Press, 1897). Octavo. lxxxipp. One of 210 copies. Remarkable opening spread, with historiated initials and frontispiece engraved on wood by Charles Ricketts. Following are Blake's verses set in commendable typography. Spine and edges toned, else a near fine copy in blue boards and paper label. More
Detroit: Cranbrook Press, 1901. Small quarto. (viii), 108pp. Illustrated throughout with colored and illuminated initials and borders featuring a sweeping color pallette, all crafted after those found in books and missals from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Interspersed are engraved portraits of notable printers and designers, from Gutenberg to William..... More
Newark, NJ: Carteret Book Club, 1917. Quarto. 52pp. One of 200 copies. Illustrated with five full-page color illustrations, printed by hand and each signed by Ruzicka. Also includes twelve black & white engravings produced by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Born in Bohemia in 1883, Ruzicka arrived in Chicago..... More
Rahart, France: Atelier d'Images, 2002. Oblong 24mo. (11)ff. One of 50 copies, signed by the artist, Patrice Goré. An imaginative tale of the discovery of the alphabet, with "A" as the genesis to a typographic, pictorial, and poetic journey through letters. Bound in paper boards with a bold "A" embracing..... More
London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893. Tall octavo. XXXVIIIpp. From an edition of 275 copies, this is one of 250 copies on Spalding paper and bound in full cloth. Silverpoints is considered to be Ricketts' most successful trade book and a precursor to the Vale Press. The slender format..... More
(Flansham, Bognor: Pear Tree Press, 1937). Quarto. 32, (ii)pp. One of 250 copies. Illustrated with a colored wood-engraved frontispiece portrait of Edward Thomas by Robin Guthrie, and with several engravings, colored vignettes, and two intaglio plates by James Guthrie. One of these intaglio plates reproduces an advertisement for Thomas's first..... More
Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1972. Oblong octavo. 22ff. One of 125 copies. Inscribed by Hamady to Ed Gulesserian, and with a TLS laid in from Hamady to John Scheffler, explaining his connection to Gulesserian and remarking upon Scheffler's long career as a typesetter. The unbound leaves of the book..... More
(Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1969). Octavo. 25ff., housed in paper wrapper. One of 250 copies. With 21 woodblock illustrations of creatures fantastic and familiar printed in a variety of colors on nine different oriental papers, each print signed by the artist, Wang Hui-Ming. Box shows some rubbing, but sheets all pristine..... More
(NY): Artist's Limited Edition, 1975. Small folio. xiv, 272pp. One of 1500 copies, signed by Jacques Cousteau, who contributed the Preface, and LeRoy Neiman, the artist. Illustrated with reproductions of thirteen original paintings by Neiman. The twelve in-text illustrations are all double-page spreads, rendered in vivid colors. The frontispiece is..... More
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1930. Octavo. xxiii, (55)pp. One of 200 copies. Facsimile edition of Mercator's writing book with English text, a biographical introduction by Jan Denuc, and a note on his work as a calligrapher by Stanley Morison. Printed in collaboration with De Sikkel of Antwerp and The Pegasus Press..... More
Basel: Franklin Éditeur, 1997. Oblong 24mo. (22)ff., unbound, printed rectos only. One of 50 copies, signed by the artist, Richard Franklin, below the colophon and inscribed as an hors d'commerce copy. Franklin's haunting woodcuts of wasted and deformed figures—often skeletal, and as horrified as they are horrifying—bookend the text and..... More
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Woodmere, NY: Pardes Rimonim Press, 1987. Octavo. (281)pp. One of 100 copies. Eighty woodcuts inset to the text, all recut after those appearing in the original 1546 edition of Sahula's work, printed in Venice. Sahula, active in the 13th century, produced this work of fables as a specifically Jewish, moralistic..... More
Newark, VT: Janus Press, 2011. Twenty-four 16mo. chapbooks, housed in quarto trifold portfolio. Each chapbook (8)ff. One of 120 copies, signed by Peter Schumann, whose charcoal-and-ink drawings illustrate the interiors and whose crayon drawings grace the covers. Here, Schumann explores the format of Latin American cordells, chapbooks traditionally sold by..... More
Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1983. Oblong 16mo. (10)ff. From an edition of 55, this is one of thirty copies bound in full leather and signed by all concerned in its production: Margaret Adams, the illustrator; George Percival, the binder; Jenny Hancox, the calligrapher; Dame Hildelith Cumming, the manager of the..... More
