BOEHM, BARBARA DRAKE

Choirs of Angels: Painting in Italian Choir Books, 1300-1500

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2009. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Art periodical, 64 pages; numerous color illustrations. Illuminated choir books: gorgeous. The Met Bulletin, Winter 2009. Small area of the front cover - about 1-inch square - is discolored from label removal. Very Good.

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Book number: 003779

Catalogue: Books on Books

Keywords: Art Italy Italian Illuminated Books Metropolitan Museum Bulletin Art-Italy

BRESLAUR, B.H.; J. TOULET (INTRODUCTION)

Historic & Artistic Bookbindings from the Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana

Brussels, Bibliotheca Wittockiana. 1986. Pictorial Wrappers (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Handbook, 167 pages; 75 books illustrated full-page with full catalogue entry opposite. Clean throughout; tight binding. Covers faded a bit. Very Good.

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Book number: 005062

Catalogue: Books on Books

Keywords: Breslauer Fine Bookbindings Thomas Wotton Michel Maittaire Typography Fournier Bibliography Bibliographies Martin Breslauer Antiquarian & Rare

CAMILLE SOURGET

55 Livres Et Manuscrits Du Xve Au Xxe Siècle - Catalogue de Livres

Paris, Camille Sourget. Pictorial Wrappers (softcover), 11.5" x 8.5". Auction Catalogue, c. 2006. With Liste des Prix. Merlin to Mao Zedong. Clean and bright throughout; tight binding. Mostly French text; some English added. Very Good.

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Book number: 005167

Catalogue: Books on Books

Keywords: Manuscrpts Rare Books Illustrated Books Catalogue de Livres Antiquarian & Rare

DRIVER, CLIVE E.

A Selection from Our Shelves: Books, Manuscripts and Drawings from the Philip H. & A.S. Rosenbach Foundation Museum

Philadelphia, Philip H. & A.S. Rosenbach Foundation. 1973. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4t. 210 catalogued items, many illustrated in b&w; Index. Clean and tight. Very Good.

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Book number: 003211

Catalogue: Books on Books

Keywords: Rosenbach Collection

FAWCETT-TANG, ROGER (COMPILED AND EDITED BY); CAROLINE ROBERTS (INTRODUCTION)

New Book Design

London / New York, Laurence King Publishing / Harper Design International. 2004. (ISBN: 185669366x). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 11.25" x 9". 192 ages; filled with color illustrations; works by more than 100 designers and design teams. Clean throughout; tight binding. corners creased on four leaves. Very Good.

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Book number: 004679

Catalogue: Books on Books

Keywords: Book Design Designing Books 185669366x

GARWOOD, DUNCAN; KRISTIN KIMBALL

The Arts of the French Book, 1900-1965: Illustrated Books of the School of Paris

Dallas, Texas, Southern Methodist University Press. 1967, First Edition. quarter-cloth and faux leather, 9 1/2"x 8". Exhibition Catalogue, 120 pages; more than 76 catalogued books, most illustrated, b&w or color. Beaux livres, livres de peintre, de luxe limited editions. Illustrations by many of the prominent artists of the day. Arrangement is chronological begiining with several 19th-century examples as "forerunners" to the 20th-century expansion of interest and technology. Deep blue cloth backing with cream embossed boards; the front board with an embossed design after Etienne Hajdu. Edges of the boards are darkened, otherwise clean throughout, tight binding. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 004399

Catalogue: Books on Books

Keywords: French Art Books Artist Books Artists' Books Beaux Livres Livre de Peintre éditions de Luxe Illustrated Books School of Paris Art-France, Belgium

HARTHAN, JOHN

The History of the Illustrated Book, the Western Tradition

New York, Thames and Hudson. 1981, First USA Edition. (ISBN: 0500233160). Cloth, 11 3/4" x 9 1/2". 288 pages; 465 illustrations, including 33 color. The narrative begins 1370 B.C. and carries through to our time. What genre would you guess were among the earliest manuscript illustrations? Clean throughout; tight binding; as new. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 004303

Catalogue: Books on Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books History Manuscripts Printing Durer 0500233160

KRAMER, CHARLOTTE

MIL años de Arte Miniado: Una Retrospectiva Milenaria

Madrid, Ars Millenii. 2000. (ISBN: 84-930211-6-4). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Square 8vo. 218 pages; color illustrated throughout. The offered examples sometimes take us back more than 1000 years. Spanish text. Fine.

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Book number: 002956

Catalogue: Books on Books

Keywords: Illumination Illuminated Art 8493021164

LEVARIE, NORMA; NICOLAS BARKER (FOREWORD)

The Art & History of Books

New Castle, DE and London, Oak Knoll Press & The British Library. 1995. (ISBN: 1884718027). Cloth, 4to. 316 pages; 176 b&w facsimile book pages. Utterly comprehensive; cultural history as well as thorough history of illustrated and unillustrated books. Clean throughout; the dustjacket's only flaw is the faded spine. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 003954

Catalogue: Books on Books

Keywords: Book Books History 1884718027

LOXLEY, SIMON

Printer's Devil: The Life and Work of Frederic Warde

Boston, David R. Godine. 2013, First Edition. (ISBN: 9781567923674). quarter cloth-decorated boards, 8vo. 194 pages; color and b&w illustrations. Warde, one of the finest American book designers and typographers worked mainly between the world wars. Clean throughout; tight binding. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005077

Catalogue: Books on Books

Keywords: Frederic Warde Printer Type Book Design Book Designer Typographer Biography & Autobiography 9781567923674

MEYERSON, CAROL AND EVERT VOLKERSZ (EDITORS)

Journal of the Long Island Book Collectors, No. 5, Twenty Five Years, 1966-1991

Rockville Centre, Long Island Book Collectors. 1993. Printed Wrapper (softcover), 9" x 6". 158 pages; 30 essays or stories about collecting snd selling books of many genres. Clean throughout; tight binding. Fine.

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Book number: 005238

Catalogue: Books on Books

Keywords: Long Island Book Collectors Illustrated Books Collecting Specialties Art Books

POPOVA, OLGA

Russian Illuminated Manuscripts

New York, Thames and Hudson. 1984. (ISBN: 0-500-27310-3). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 48 full-page color plates each with a facing page of text; another 21 b&w text illustrations. Gift inscription on the half-title page, otherwise clean and tight. Very Good.

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Book number: 001513

Catalogue: Books on Books

Keywords: Russian Illuminated Manuscripts 0500273103

RYSKAMP, CHARLES (INTRODUCTION)

Art and the Development of Taste, Collecting & Connoisseurship

New York, Ursus Rare Books, Ltd. 1993. Pictorial Wrappers (softcover), Square 8vo. Catalogue, A catalogue listing antiquarian books (238 items) and refernce works (516 items). The antiquarian books fully described, many with images. The reference works with basic description often with a line of commentary. Clean within throughout; tight binding; back panel of the covers is chipped at the corner; covers are rubbed. Very Good.

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Book number: 005244

Catalogue: Books on Books

Keywords: Frick Collection Benefit Ursus Rare Books Catalogue 170

SPITZ, ELLEN HANDLER

Inside Picture Books

New Haven, Yale University Press. 1999. (ISBN: 0-300-07602-9). Cloth, 8vo. 230 pages with black and white text illustrations. A study of the impact on children of picture books with a focus on the relationship of the child and an adult reader. Dozens of picture books are sited; many are examined in depth. Clean throughout; tight binding. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 000919

Catalogue: Books on Books

Keywords: Childrens Picture Books Goodnight Moon Babar Sambo Psychology 0300076029

STEPHENSON, DIANA

Bookshops of London (with, the Bookshops of London, Martha Redding Pease)

Middlesex, Roger Lascelles. 1986. (ISBN: 0903909529). Printed Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. 990 bookshops listed and described. Index; Shop index. "New, second hand and antiquarian books: specialized and general booksellers." The Bookshops ,1987, 372 pages, hundreds of unnumbered shops categorized, such as, Nutical, Museum, Children's. Both books clean throughout, tight bindings. Very Good.

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Book number: 005072

Catalogue: Books on Books

Keywords: London Bookshops Bookstores Used Book Dealers 0903909529