New York: The Grolier Club, 1971. First edition, one of 1000 copies. With the former owner's signature of legendary, Washington Irving scholar, Andrew Breen Myers. Read More about The Library of Jean Grolier. A Preliminary Catalogue … With an Introductory Study "Jean...

Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902. No. 458 of 500 copies. "an unfinished binding done by me at Miss Emily Preston's bindery, N.Y. Patty P.L. Sesler" and below in another hand J.S. Brown. Emily Preston was a Cobden-Sanderson student who ran a bindery at 223 East 17th St., NYC and was..... Read More about The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn

Saint Louis: Privately Printed for W. K. Bixby [By D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press], [October], 1922. One of 250 copies printed. Mrs. Frances Washington was the widow of George Augustus Washington. The original of this letter was in Bixby's fine collection. Read More about Martha Washington's Letter Written from Philadelphia, June 15, 1794 to Mrs. Frances Washington...

[Boston: [Printed by D. B. Updike, the Merrymount Press ] Privately Printed by W. K. Bixby for Historical Societies and Personal Friends, 1922. One of 250 copies printed. Privately Printed. Read More about Two Letters: I. Anthony Wayne and Lake George. Letter from General Anthony Wayne to General...

[New York]: [William Edwin Rudge; The Viking Press], 1928-1937. One of 570 numbered copies, this being no. 252, designed by Bruce Rogers. This set was designed by Bruce Rogers in the last of his eight years at William Rudge's plant. The acquisition of the papers by Isham is itself a...... Read More about Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle in the collection of Lt.-Colonel Ralph...

Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1915. One of 475 copies printed on japan Vellum paper. Read More about The Cotter's Saturday Night

London: Chiswick Press, 1893. No. 11 of 13 copies printed on vellum (there were also 88 copies printed on paper). One of 13 Copies on Vellum. This work consists of two important ordinances issued by the Spanish monarchy on November 20, 1542, and June 4, 1543. Under the active influence..... Read More about The New Laws of the Indies for the Treatment and Preservation of the Indians Promulgated by the...

Kew Richmond Surrey: 22 April, 1954; 20 October, 1954; 30 January, 1955. Cockerell to Paul Standard. Charming letters from the aging museum director, collector, and calligrapher, to his American counterpart Paul Standard, founding member of the Typophiles and champion of calligraphy. In the first, Cockerell expresses his delight on receiving..... Read More about 3 Autograph Letters, signed (“Sydney Cockerell”), to Stella and Paul Standard

London: Joseph Masters, 1850. PRINTED ON VELLUM, apparently the only copy thus. Printed on Vellum. Following the manuscript tradition, liturgical printing in both the Catholic and Anglican churches frequently employed vellum as well as paper. D.B. Updike writes that economic considerations were also a factor: “As early printed books were..... Read More about A List of Printed Service Books, according to the ancient uses of the Anglican Church

[Boston, Mass.]: Printed for W.K. Bixby [at the Merrymount Press], [April, 1922]. First edition, one of 250 copies. Inscribed by Bixby on ffep to Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Homer t Bolton Landing. Read More about Two Poems...Reproduced from the Original MSS. See'n Things at Night & To M.L. Gray

Pigotts, North Dean, High Wycombe: June 9, June 17, and July 2, 1933; and May 13, 1936. To the secretary of the Men's Dress Reform Party. Three letters to Dr. Alfred Charles Jordan (1872-1956), British radiologist, co-founder of the New Heath Society, and Honorary Secretary of the Men's Dress Reform..... Read More about A group of 3 Autograph Letters Signed and 1 Typed Letter Signed ("Eric Gill"), to Dr....

New York: Grolier Club, 1894. One of 312 copies on hand-made paper. Printed by the De Vinne Press. With pencil note on pastedown by “CF” that it was from the library of Pennsylvania governor Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946); bought at Dauber & Pine from a collection of Pinchot family books. Gifford..... Read More about Facsimile of The Laws and Acts of the General Assembly for Their Majesties Province of New York...