The Bookbinder: An Illustrated Journal for Binders, Librarians, and All Lovers of Books. Volume 1

London, W. Clowes and Sons, 1888. Hardcover. Bound in 3/4 burgundy leather and burgundy cloth boards; gilt spine lettering, marble illustrated end papers, bw illustrated frontispiece, bw illustrated title page; VIII, 192 pp, 21 unnumbered leaves of plates, illustrations, facsimiles (some color). A monthly journal, this volume from July 18, 1887 through June 25, 1888. Includes a list of the full page coloured, tinted, and plain illustrations and also a list of the wood engravings. VG- (signature of William H. Cope on ffep, pages are clean and clear) .

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Book number: 190349

Catalogue: Books and Manuscripts and Printing

Keywords: Books and Manuscripts and Printing ; Bookbinding, Bookbinders ; ;

How to Buy and Sell Money

[Plaistow & London], The Curwen Press, E. 13, 1929. Original patterned-paper wrappers designed by Bawden (Knole Park wallpaper) around sewn contents (34) pp. many by Edward Bawden, one by John Nash, a few colour, 1 with pochoir colouring, 2 tipped-in samples, etc. A sample book of the work of the Curwen Press for distribution to prospective clients; includes illustrations by Edward Bawden, John Nash, T.L. Poulton, and D.M. Batty. Amazing illustrations. VG+ with slight curling to the mounted covers, hard to imagine a cleaner brighter copy only a small tear at the very top of the spine easily repaired .

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Book number: 173872

Catalogue: Books and Manuscripts and Printing

Keywords: Books and Manuscripts and Printing ; Advertising ; ;

Modern Book Production

New York, A. & C. Boni, 1928. Hardcover. Mylar cover; illustrated boards. (viii), 186 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles. Contents: Great Britain / B.H. Newdigate -- The United States / W. Ransom -- France and Belgium / Clément-Janin -- Germany / J. Zeitler -- Holland / S.H. De Roos -- Italy / A. Calabi -- Russia / P. Ettinger -- Austria / R. Junk -- Czechoslovakia / J. Krecar -- Hungary / J. De Végh -- Poland -- Switzerland / A. Altherr -- Jugo-Slavia / A. Schnieder -- Scandinavia / A. Billow. Cool reference of well-produced books of the time. G+/G. covers show moderate wear. Front hinge cracked but intact; pages and plates clean and tight. Gilt top edge.

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Book number: 182141

Catalogue: Books and Manuscripts and Printing

Keywords: Books and Manuscripts and Printing; Book Production ; Book Production ; ;

Ader, Etienne; Leopold Carteret

Bibliotheque Henri Beraldi. Troisieme Partie. Epoque Romantique, Editions Originales, Classiques Et Livres Illustres En Reliures D'Eopque; Dessins Originaux, D'Horace Vernet, Duplessi-Bertaux, Raffet, Eugene Lami, Garnerey, Lafitte, Desenne, Deveria, Johannot, Morel-Fatio, Etc. Etc. Reliures Mosaiquees Et Provenances Celebres. Albums Ornes de Dessins Et Vignettes Romantiques, Caricatures de Daumier, Gavarni, Dore, Etc.

Paris, Etienne Ader, 1934. Softcover. Tan wraps with brown lettering; color illustrated frontispiece; iv, 252 pp, 72 unnumbered leaves of plates in color and bw, bw illustrated throughout. Text in French. Third of a five part sale, 511 lots. Sale held December 18-21, 1934 in Paris. VG- (overall wear and soiling to wraps, spine of wraps is chipped along bottom and top, pages of text and illustrations are otherwise very clean and clear.) .

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Book number: 181975

Catalogue: Books and Manuscripts and Printing

Keywords: Books and Manuscripts and Printing ; Rare Book Auction; Henri Beraldi ; ;

Adler, Elmer et al (eds.)

The Colophon (Issues I-IV, VI-XX) 19 Total Issues

New York, Pynson Printers, 1930. Hardcover. Variably colored boards. Unpaginated, Illustrations. Some glassine covers remain. Issue 5 is not present. Very Good/ Poor. Covers have general wear, some discoloration, corner edge damage. Bookblocks have age toning. Most Glasine covers are missing, the ones that remain have heavy tearing.

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Book number: 190293

Catalogue: Books and Manuscripts and Printing

Keywords: Books and Manuscripts and Printing, Collecting ; Bok Collecting ; ;

Adler, Elmer et al (eds.)

The Colophon (Issues VI-VII, IX-XX) 14 Issues

New York, Pynson Printers, 1930. Hardcover. Variably colored boards. Unpaginated, Illustrations. Some glassine covers remain. Very Good/ Poor. Covers have general wear, some discoloration, corner edge damage. Bookblocks have age toning. Most glasine covers are missing, the ones that remain have heavy tearing.

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Book number: 190344

Catalogue: Books and Manuscripts and Printing

Keywords: Books and Manuscripts and Printing, Collecting ; Bok Collecting ; ;

Adler, Elmer (Ed.)

The New Colophon (8 Issues)

New York, Duschnes Crawford Inc, 1950. Hardcover. Color illustrated boards. Each issue individually paginated. Contains issues 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, over size 1950 issue. Very Good/ Fair -. Covers have general wear, discoloration. Only three issue have original glasseen covers.

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Book number: 189959

Catalogue: Books and Manuscripts and Printing

Keywords: Books and Manuscripts and Printing, Periodicals ; Books ; ;

Adler, Elmer (Ed.)

The New Colophon (Issues I-IV, VIII)

New York, Duschnes Crawford Inc, 1950. Hardcover. Color illustrated boards. Each issue individually paginated. Contains issues 1,2,3,4,8. Very Good/ Fair -. Covers have general wear, discoloration. only issue number 8 has glassine cover .

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Book number: 190297

Catalogue: Books and Manuscripts and Printing

Keywords: Books and Manuscripts and Printing, Periodicals ; Books ; ;

Alderson, Brian and Felix de Marez Oyens

Be Merry and Wise: Origins of Children's Book Publishing in England, 1650-1850

New York/ London/ New Castle, DE, Pierpont Morgan Library; British Library; Oak Knoll Press, 2006. Hardcover. Navy cloth boards with gilt lettering; light blue dj, color illustrated; xiv, 318 pp; illustrated in bw and color. "The child as the audience for books in the English language is the subject of this bibliographical study, which had its origins in an exhibition held at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. From this beginning, Felix de Marez Oyens and Brian Alderson have compiled Be Merry and Wise and shown how certain creative talents, driven by a sense of purpose, or a wish to make some money, attempted to appeal directly to children, and how the publishing industry came to realise that this audience might prove to constitute a profitable market."--Jacket. Contents: Vestibulum : theory and practice -- The salvation of souls -- Enter Tom Thumb -- Serious business -- The house that Newbery built -- Rivals and imitators, London -- Frances Laetitia Earle : her books -- Rivals and imitators, the Provinces -- Begged, borrowed, or stolen -- "The dawn of levity" -- The innovators -- Epigones -- "Chapbooks" for children -- Tracts and transition -- The road to Paflagonia -- The rose and the ring -- Marketing -- Bindings -- Special markets -- Marks of possession. VG/VG (very clean and clear, binding tight) .

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Book number: 187026

Catalogue: Books and Manuscripts and Printing

Keywords: Books and Manuscripts and Printing ; Children's Literature ; ;

Allen, Charles Dexter

Ex Libris: Essays of a Collector

Boston/ New York/ London, Lamson, Wolffe, and Company, 1896. 327/750. Hardcover. Light blue cloth boards with gilt bordering and lettering; bw illustrated frontispiece; top edge gilt, xxxv, 157 pp; bw illustrations. "This edition is limited to 750 copies of which this is number 327" -title half page verso. Includes a mounted signature of author on frontispiece verso along with a bookp plate mounted on frontispiece verso. Contents: Introduction; Remarks Upon Some Book-plates of Special Interest: Germany, France, England, America; Conclusion; and Index. Also includes a list of the illustrations. Good (shelfwear to boards, light age toning. Binding is tight and pages are otherwise clean.) .

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Book number: 186751

Catalogue: Books and Manuscripts and Printing

Keywords: Books and Manuscripts and Printing ; Bookplates ; ;

American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)

The Library of the Late George Allison Armour - April 22-23, 1937

New York, American art Association, Anderson galleries, Inc, 1937. Hardcover. Card boards. 4 preliminary leaves, 165, [2] pages frontispiece, illustrations (including portraits, facsimiles). Sale number 4323. Estate of: George Allison Armour, Princeton, N.J. 489 lots. VG, normal wear on covers.

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Book number: 181656

Catalogue: Books and Manuscripts and Printing

Keywords: Books and Manuscripts and Printing; Auction Catalogs; 4323; George Allison Armour ; George Allison Armour ; ; Auction Catalogues - American

American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)

The Splendid Art Library of the Late Thomas Fortune Ryan, New York - November 21-22, 1933

New York, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, 1933. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. 62 pages, 346 lots. Sale number: 4064. The splendid art library of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan, New York : comprising histories of engraving, painting, ceramics, furniture, and other works of reference : with other properties : unrestricted public sale, November 21 and 22. VG, edge wear on covers and slight soiling.

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Book number: 181652

Catalogue: Books and Manuscripts and Printing

Keywords: Books and Manuscripts and Printing; Auction Catalogs; Thomas Fortune Ryan; 4064 ; Thomas Fortune Ryan ; ; Auction Catalogues - American

Ars Libri, Ltd

Early Art Literature: Catalogue 139

Boston, Ars Libri Ltd, 2007. Softcover. White wraps with B&W illustration. Profusely illustrated in B&W and color. [30] pp. Catalogue containing "a selection from Ars Libri's stock of rare books on art." Includes prices. VG-, generally somewhat worn, some rubbing on wraps .

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Book number: 178815

Catalogue: Books and Manuscripts and Printing

Keywords: Books and Manuscripts and Printing, Catalog, Early Art Literature ; Early Art Literature ; ;

Artcurial-Briest

Bibliothèque Gastronomique de M. Philippe Messager

Paris, Artcurial-Briest, 2002. Softcover. Gray wraps with color illustration and purple rear wrap. 84 pp. Illustrated in B&W and color. French. Ephemera laid-in. Catalog for an auction which took place at Hotel Dassault on Friday, 20 December 2002. Includes laid-in list of prices realized. VG, some shelf wear and rubbing on wraps and edges, small pen mark on title page, interior clean and tight .

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Book number: 178814

Catalogue: Books and Manuscripts and Printing

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Arundel, Thomas Howard; Charles Burney and Josiah Forshall

Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum. New Series. Volume I. Part III, Index

London, Printed By Order of The Trustees, 1840. Hardcover. Oversized, bound in blue paper over boards, off-white title block with black lettering on front cover, tan cloth spine, 234 pp, no illustrations. This is part 3 only of a 3 part set of volume 1, the index. It contains a preface by J. Forshall. Fair (heavy wear to covers, cloth spine heavily worn with front cover loose, pages lightly age toned especially along edges but otherwise clear to read) .

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Book number: 190983

Catalogue: Books and Manuscripts and Printing

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