Now that we have turned the calendar page to a shiny new year, we thought it a fitting occasion to present our first list for 2023, which we have filled with shiny new acquisitions. We therefore offer for your consideration twenty-five recent arrivals in the area of American and English fine printing.
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1973. Folio. (68)ff. Illustrated with twelve full-page etchings and sixteen wood engravings by Leonard Baskin. According to the Gehenna Press bibliography, from a planned edition of 400, including 150 deluxe copies with extra suites and 250 regular copies, only the latter regular edition copies were ever..... More
NY: Vincent FitzGerald & Co., 1989. Folio. (32)pp. One of fifty copies, signed by the artist, Susan Weil. Throughout the text are scattered collages, cut papers, and etchings that work together to create an interactive, multimedia experience for the reader, who thus physically engages with the work in a manner..... More
(London): Essex House Press, 1902. Small quarto. 87pp. One of 250 copies on paper. Each of the 150 Psalms opens with a woodcut initial, often related to the theme of the particular passage. A court jester stands around a "T" at Psalm 53, which proclaims that "the foolish body hath..... 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
(Newtown, Montgomeryshire): Gregynog Press, 1937. Quarto. 157, (8)pp. One of 200 copies. Translated from the French text by Joan Evans. Printed in red and black, with four- and five-line initials throughout in red and pale blue, designed by Alfred J. Fairbank. The first text page, starting with three sizes of..... More
(Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1897). Quarto. 91pp. One of 300 copies on paper. Illustrated with two full-page woodcuts by Edward Burne-Jones and numerous ornamental initials and borders by William Morris. With pale blue foliate initials. This was one of only two books printed in three colors at the Kelmscott Press, in..... More
West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, 1982. Two folio volumes. 150pp.; xxv, 160pp. Each one of 350 copies signed by Barry Moser. Alice is illustrated with 75 wood engravings by Moser, and Through the Looking-Glass contains 95 engravings by Moser. Some of the engravings are full-page plates, while others are beautifully integrated..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: Douglas Pepler, 1917. Fifteen sheets with multiple diagrams in pencil, ranging in size from 5 1/2 by 4 1/2 to 11 by 7 1/4 inches; eight sheets of pencil tracings on tracing paper, one of which is clipped to a woodcut proof; and one diagram rendered in blue..... More
(Chillicothe): Mountain House Press, 1937. Quarto. (82)pp. One of only 125 copies "due to the limited number of original specimens available," numbered and signed by the author. "The present volume deals not only with the use of paper in Chinese sacrificial offerings, but a part of the book, with illustrations..... More
NY: William Edwin Rudge, 1930. Octavo. (65)pp. One of fifty copies, containing an ALS from Ruskin tipped-in to a front flyleaf, and signed by the artist below the caption to the frontispiece. In addition to the frontispiece are five additional engravings by Horvath, all full-page and all evincing a keen..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: St. Dominic's Press, 1925. Octavo. viii, (36)pp. Second edition. Eric Gill's copy of this treatise on the craft of engraving on wood, which contains an introduction, ten engravings, and two diagrams by him. The Introduction of this copy has been annotated by Gill, with pencil corrections to his..... More
