This is the first in a series of lists of bibliography and books about books, drawn from a large private collection and featuring a wide variety of works, some with interesting associations. Among the notable titles are Lamesle’s specimen book, Épreuves Générales des Caractères (1742), a complete set of Pollard’s Books about Books (6 vols., 1893-4), Bauchart’s Femmes Bibliophiles de France (1886), Francis Meynell's copy of the large paper Typographia (1824) as well as another copy in 32mo, the Officina Bodoni edition of Feliciano’s Alphabetum Romanum in full binding (1960), as well as books on the Catnach Press, William Loring Andrews, and two by Claire Bolton.
New York: Privately Printed, 1921. Of this book Fifty Copies have been printed on handmade paper for Private Distribution. With the mourning card of Mrs. William Loring Andrews, laid in. Read More about In Memoriam William Loring Andrews MDCCCXXXVII-MCMXX
Price: $400
Thessaloniki: Typophilia, 1995. Second edition, after the first of 1927. Historical introduction by Victor Scholderer, edited by George D. Matthiopoulos. Printed and bound in Greece. Read More about Greek Printing Types 1465-1927. Facsimiles from an Exhibition of Books Illustrating the...
Price: $225
London: Charles Hindley [The Younger], 1886. Second edition. In Dust Jacket. Read More about The History of the Catnach Press, at Berwick-upon-Tweed, Alnwick and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in...
Price: $250
Harper Woods, Michigan: The Adagio Press, 1969. One of approx. 242 copies with the two inserted leaves on handmade paper, this copy unnumbered. Read More about C-S the Master Craftsman. An account of the work of T.J. Cobden-Sanderson … Cobden Sanderson's...
Price: $1,500
Home Farm, Culham, Oxford: Colin & Charlotte Franklin, 1977. Inscribed by Colin Franklin to Gordon Ray on the half-title. Read More about A Catalogue of Early Colour Printing: From Chiaroscuro to Aquatint
Price: $125
London: Chatto & Windus, 1886. Read More about A History of Bookselling. The Old and the New
Price: $225
London: Printed for W. Davis, 1821. First edition. Large paper. Scarce memoir of bibliographical excursions by the famed English bookseller. Read More about A Journey Round the Library of a Bibliomaniac: Or, Cento of Notes and Reminiscences concerning...
Price: $750
Paris: Curmer, 1866-7. No. 292 of 550 copies printed. A superb set reproducing the miniatures of the fifteenth century artist Foucquet, with a biography, descriptive commentary, and extensive appendix. Among the most sumptuous of Curmer's productions and described by Ray as an example of chromolithography at its best. Read More about Oeuvre de Jehan Foucquet. Heures de Maistre Estienne Chevalier. Texte restitué par M. L'Abbé...
Price: $1,500
Paris: Librairie Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1878-1884. Six volumes, each with its own supplement, in editions limited to 500 copies. Read More about Catalogue Illustré des Livres Précieux, Manuscrits et Imprimés faisant de la Bibliotheque de...
Price: $1,750
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. First edition, one of 325 copies, signed. Five essays from the influential founder of the Cummington Press, including an acount of the early years of the press. Read More about Doors of Perception. Essays in Book Typography
Price: $150
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1960. One of 50 copies bound in full morocco. ONE OF 50 IN FULL BINDING. “…after decades of research, I was able to publish the book - with my introduction, set in my type, printed on my press, and in a manner that does justice to the..... Read More about Alphabetum Romanum. Introduction and bibliogarphical notes by Giovanni Mardersteig. Italian text...
Price: $1,400
Cambridge: Privately Printed, 1973. First edition. Read More about Emery Walker: Some Light on his Theories of Printing and on his Relations with William Morris and...
Price: $250
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1978. First edition. One of 500 copies. Read More about Themes in Aquatint
Price: $250
New York: Published by Dodd, Mead & Company, 1902. First edition. One of 350 copies on deckle-edge paper. Read More about The Journals of Hugh Gaine Printer. Edited by Paul Leicester Ford. Volume I. Biography and...
Price: $375
London: Thomas Thorpe, 1832. First edition. Read More about The Life of Mr. Thomas Gent, Printer, of York; written by Himself
Price: $400
Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, 1987. One of 75 on dampened Rives (edition of 150). Includes essays by Alexander Lawson, Howard Coggeshall, Arthur Rushmore, Richard Ellis, and Earl Emmon. Read More about A Goudy Memoir. Essays by and about America's Great Type Designer
Price: $175
London: "The Studio" Ltd, 1914. With articles by Newdigate on British Types, Douglas Cockerell on Fine Binding in England, and articles on fine printing in Germany, France, Austria, Hungary, Sweden, and American. Splendidly illustrated. Read More about The Art of the Book. A Review of Some Recent European and American Work in Typography, Page...
Price: $375
London: Published Messrs. Logman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, Paternoster Row, 1824. First edition. Read More about Typographia, or Printers' Instructor: Including an Account of the Origin of Printing, with...
Price: $700
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1824. Large Paper Copy. Read More about Typographia. or the Printer's Instructor: Including an Account of the Origin of Printing, with...
Price: $650
Chicago: Caxton Club, 1927. First edition. Printed by Bruce Rogers at the press of William Henry Rudge in Mount Vernon, New York. Limited to 350 copies. Read More about Ancient Books and Modern Discoveries
Price: $650
Paris: Claude Lamesle, 1742. First edition. ‘…there is scarcely a better book’ — D.B. Updike. Fine specimen book from Lamesle’s firm, who took over the foundry of Pierre Lot in 1737 and five years later, issued this “extremely handsome and dignified specimen … This book, both in type and ornaments..... Read More about Épreuves Générales des Caractères qui se trouvent chez Claude Lamesle
Price: $7,500
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1907. First edition. Read More about Suppressed Plates, Wood Engravings, &c. Together with other Curiosities Germane Thereto …
Price: $125
New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1939. First edition in English. Inscribed. Inscribed by the author in 1957 to Ward Ritchie: "A very belated inscription to a fairly obsolete (see p. 278) edition..." Read More about The Book in America. A History of the Making and Selling of Books in the United States ... In...
Price: $125
Herning, Denmark: Printed and Published by Poul Kristensen, Printer to the Royal Danish Court, 1989. First Edition, no. 26 of 135 copies printed on Hahnemuhle Bütten, signed by George Abrams. The first book printed in Abrams Venetian, designed by George Abrams for the sole use of Poul Kristensen. Contains Lowry's..... Read More about Venetian Printing. Nicolas Jenson and the Rise of the Roman Letterform. With an Essay by George...
Price: $350
London: Pelican Press, 1923. Nonesuch Press Precursor. The book "sets forth the aims of the Press (Meynell's precursor to his Nonesuch Press), but also contains chapters on the History of Printing, Printers' Flowers..." type specimiens, borders, etc. An important book. Read More about Typography
Price: $175