Structure, Verses, Agency Books

French Bookbinders 1789 - 1848

Ramsden, Charles · 1950

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

London, England, Printed for the author by Lund Humphries, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Laid in is a folded page of a leading bookseller's offering of this book, undated, but from perhaps the 1990s, complete with price ($135.00)! Sterling condition ...

Symbols, Signs and Letters

Andersch, Martin · 1989

$25.60 (€23.23 | £19.38 | ¥4,088)

New York, Design Press, 1989. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Translated into English from the original German by Ingrid Li, a magnum opus of social history and deep typographical analysis of handwriting and calligrahy. The color photographs drawn ...

Histoire de la Presse Franã§Aise, Complete in Two Volumes: I - Des Origines ã  1881; II - de 1881 ã  Nos Jours

Livois, René de · 1965

$33.60 (€30.48 | £25.43 | ¥5,365)

Lausanne, Switzerland, Editions Spes, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A superior set of two hardcover volumes, complete in two, with unbruised tips, tight bindings, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, w...

Bookbinding 2000 Proceedings

Pankow, David · 2002

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Rochester, New York, RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. A fine collection of conference ...

English Book Illustration 1800-1900

James, Philip · 1947

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, King Penguin Books, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Philip James has penned a short, accessible, fun-to-look-at account of English book illustration and with special focus on children's books and the book illustrations of J. Leech, K. Greenawa...

William Bulmer and the Shakspeare Press

Timperley, Charles Henry · 1957

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A biography of William Bulmer, drawn from A Dictionary of Printers and Printing, by C.H. Timperley, London, 1839, together with an Introductory Note On The Bulmer-Martin Ty...

Winterthur Library Revealed: Five Centuries of Design and Inspiration

Thompson, Neville, with Bert Denker, E. Richard McKinstry, Lois Olcott Price and Jeanne Solensky · 2003

$30.40 (€27.58 | £23.01 | ¥4,854)

New Castle, Delaware, Oak Knoll Press, in association with Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. The editor, Neville Thompson, and Bert Denker, E. Richard McKinstry, Lois Olcott Price and Jeanne Solensky have contribute...

The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914

Ray, Gordon N. · 1976

$35.20 (€31.94 | £26.64 | ¥5,621)

New York, The Pierpont Morgon Library, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Gordon N. Ray has penned a definitive account of book illustration and book illustrators, printers and presses, a social history of the English book trade, and featuring the work ...

Jo Delahaut Et la Reliure / En de Boekband

Baronian, Jean-Baptiste et al. · 1986

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Brussel, Bibliotheca Wittockiana, by Credit Communal Gemeentekrediet, 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Jo Delahaut homage, a fine and amply illustrated copy, complete with bibliography, displaying his estimable grasp of the book arts, a treatise in bo...

The Tradition of Fine Bookbinding in the Twentieth Century: Catalogue of an Exhibition 12 November 1979 to 15 February 1980

Callery, Bernadette and Elizabeth Mosimann · 1979

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie-Mellon University, in collaboration with Davis & Warde, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine-looking, structurally sound catalogue of gorgeous book-bindery, edited by Be...

To Be a Good Printer: Our Four Commitments

Donnelley, Gaylord · 1977

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Laid in is a signed letter from the Chairman and President of The Lakeside Press of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Charles W. Lake, Jr., to "Donnelley Retiree" and who knew/knows the author, ...

A Century of Innovative Book Design: Influences of Art, Design Theory & Technology on Book Design

Hoot, Christopher · 1998

$10.40 (€9.44 | £7.87 | ¥1,661)

Akron, Ohio, University of Akron, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Bound unusually in tall, narrow quarto fashion...

Fine Illustrations in Western European Printed Books

MacRobert, T.M. · 1969

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, Her Majesty's Stationary, by the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1969. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the illus...

Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press Limited

Hamady, Walter · 1984

$20.80 (€18.87 | £15.74 | ¥3,321)

Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin, The Perishable Press Limited, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of an exhibition catalogue, with very lightly furled front panel tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight ...

The Diaries of James Simmons, Paper Maker of Haslemere 1831-1868

Crocker, Alan and Martin Kane · 1990

$96.00 (€87.10 | £72.66 | ¥15,330)

Oxshott, England, Tabard Private Press, 1990. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Special Limited Edition of only 180 copies printed thus, this being #84. Composed in Monotype Baskerville, and printed letterpress on T.H. Saunders mould-made pap...

Steel-Engraved Book Illustration in England

Hunnisett, Basil · 1980

$13.60 (€12.34 | £10.29 | ¥2,172)

Boston, David R. Godine, 1980. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A list of the 66 fine plates, printed on high-gloss paper, shows the depth and breadth of this scholarly and accessible history of British steel-engraving of books. A superior copy inside an...

The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning 1478-1978: An Illustrated History

Barker, Nicolas · 1978

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Oxford, England, The Clarendon Press at Oxford, 1978. . Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy in tall quarto format, with printed, illustrated card stock wraps, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight s...

Intertype Faces: One-Line Specimens Arranged by Point Size, 1948

Intertype Corporation · 1948

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

New York, Intertype Corporation, 1948. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Condensed Book Number Four in a larger series. Type font-face geeks will surely gork on this one, featuring hundreds and hundreds of fine font faces rendered in-between full points. Sturd...

Fournier: The Compleat Typographer

Hutt, Allen · 1972

$15.20 (€13.79 | £11.51 | ¥2,427)

London, Frederick Muller, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to The Ars Typographica Library, James Moran, General Editor, and this copy in original publisher's hardcover, cloth over boards format is particularly lovely, with gil...

Inventing Wonderland: The Lives and Fantasies of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, J.M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame and A.A. Milne

Wullschlager, Jackie · 2001

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, The Free Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Jackie Wullschlager has penned a loving homage to the real and imagined Victorian childhoods and Victorian literatures of, among others, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, J.M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame,...