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A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS BOUND BY S.T. PRIDEAUX

BETWEEN MDCCCXC AND MDCCCC WITH TWENTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS Publisher/Date: Bronxville: Nicholas T. Smith (1979) Reprint of the first edition which was limited to 300 copies. Format/Condition: New cloth hardcover in fine condition. 20 pages and 26...

$ 15.00

Alphabets to Order

The Literature of Nineteenth-Century Typefounders’ Specimens Author: Alastair Johnston Publisher/Date: Oak Knoll/British Library 2000 (stated First Edition) Format/Condition: Burgandy cloth hardcover with dust jacket in fine condition. 213 pages, index. bibliography, glossary. Measures 9×11 inches....

$ 20.00

American Books on Food and Drink

A Bibliographical Catalog of the Gernon Collection Housed in the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana Author: William R. Cagle, Lisa Killion Stafford Publisher/Date: Oak Knoll Press 1998 (1998, stated 1st ed) Format/Condition: NEW...

$ 28.00

American Iron Hand Presses The Story of the Iron Hand Press in America

Author: Stephen O. Saxe, with wood engravings by John DePol Publisher/Date: Oak Knoll (1995 reprint) Format/Condition: NEW softcover book in fine condition, 108 pages, 15 b/w wood engravings, measures 7×10 inches. Description: The technology of...

$ 15.00

American Watermarks 1690 -- 1835

Author: Thomas Gravell, George Miller and Elizabeth Walsh, Foreward by Keith Arbour Publisher/Date: Oak Knoll (2002 Second Edition revised and expanded) Format/Condition: NEW cloth bound hardcover book with dust jacket in fine condition. 363 pages,...

$ 40.00

Architectural Books in Early America

Architectural Treatises & Building HandbooksAvailable in American Libraries & Bookstores through 1800 Author: Janice G. Schimmelman Publisher/Date: DE: Oak Knoll, 1999 (First edition, second printing revised and expanded, as stated on copyright page) Format/Condition: NEW...

$ 16.00

Art & History of Books

Author: Norma Levarie Foreword: Nicolas Barker Publisher/Date: Oak Knoll Press/British Library (1995) Format/Condition: NEW large softcover is in fine condition. 316 pages, measures 8 ½ x 11 inches; b/w illustrations. Description: A well written and...

$ 28.00

Artist & Alphabet 20th Century Calligraphy & Letter Art in America

Author: Edited by Alice Koeth and Jerry Kelly Publisher/Date: David R Godine (January 1, 2000) Format/Condition: NEW softcover book is in fine condition. 132 pages, measures 8×11 inches Description: Over the past quarter century, calligraphy...

$ 15.00

Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870-2000

The Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books Author: Robert Flynn Johnson Publisher/Date: Fine Arts Museums San Francisco, 2001 ISBN: 088401102X Format/Condition: NEW softcover book is in fine condition. 302 pages Description: Occupying a...

$ 19.00

Biography of Ottmar Mergenthaler

Inventor of the Linotype First Reprinting of the 1898 Original Work, plus New Material A New Edition, With Many Rare Photos and New Facts Added,Based on Recent Discoveries Editor & Researcher: Carl Schlesinger Publisher/Date: DE:...

$ 18.00

Book of Books

Author: Abdelardo Morell, photos. Nicholson Baker, preface Publisher/Date: Bulfinch, 2002, stated First Ed, NAP. Format/Condition: NEW large hardcover book with dust jacket is in fine condition. 108 pages, measures 12×12 inches. Description: Perhaps you’ve imagined,...

$ 28.00

Book Row An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade

Author: Marvin Mondlin & Roy MeadorForeword: MadelineStern Publisher/Date: Carroll & Graf (2005, 1st paperback edition) Format/Condition: NEW softcover book is in fine condition. 405 pages measures 6×9 inches Description: To a booklover, the only thing...

$ 10.00

Booking Pleasures

Author: Jack Matthews Publisher/Date: Ohio University Press (1996, 1st) Format/Condition: NEW hardcover book with dust jacket is in fine condition. 185 pages, measures 6×9 ¼ inches. Description: “The covetous foraging for old and rare books,”...

$ 15.00

Century for the Century Fine Printed Books from 1900 to 1999

Author: Martin Hutner & Jerry Kelly Publisher/Date: NH: David R. Godine/ Grolier Club (2004 1st of revised and expanded edition) Format/Condition: New oversized hardcover with dust jacket in fine condition. Full black cloth with gilt...

$ 30.00

CHAUCER ILLUSTRATED Five Hundred Years of The Canterbury Tales in Pictures

Author: ed. William Finley & Joseph Rosenblum Publisher/Date: Oak Knoll/British Library 2003 First Edition Format/Condition: NEW hardcover book with dust jacket, 445 pages, illustrated throughout in b/w with 12 pages of color plates Description: This...

$ 40.00

Christina Rossetti and Illustration

Author: Lorraine Janzen Kooitra Publisher/Date: Ohio Univ Press, 2002 Format/Condition: NEW hardcover book with dust jacket is in fine condition. 322 pages, Description: “Christina Rossetti and Illustration: A Publishing History maps the production and reception...

$ 18.00

Decorated Paper Designs

Author: Pepin van Roojen, ed. Publisher/Date: Pepin Press (2002, later printing) Format/Condition: NEW softcover book in near fine condition: light crinkle/wrinkle at top corner. , 199 pages, measures 9×11 inches. Text in English, German, French,...

$ 18.00

Eric Gill Bibliography

Author: Evan Gill, Second edition revised by D. Stephen Corey and Julia Mackenzie Publisher/Date: Omni 1991 Format/Condition: New blue cloth hardcover with dust jacket in near fine condition: bumped corner, gilt on spine with dust...

$ 24.00

For the Love of the Binding

Studies in Bookbinding History Presented to Mirjam Foot Author: ed. David Pearson Publisher/Date: Oak Knoll/British Library, (2000, 1st) Retail $135.00 Format/Condition: Hardcover book . Issued with clear dust jacket. 378 pages, measures 9×11 inches. profusely...

$ 48.00

ILLUMINATING THE EPIC

The Kassel Willehalm Codex and the Landgraves of Hessein the Early Fourteenth Century College Art AssociationMonographs on the Fine ArtsVolume LIV [54] Author: Joan A. Holladay is an associate professor in the Department of Art...

$ 25.00