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![Image for Forty Etchings on Copper, Reproduced from the Most Noted Examples of Modern Art and Photographs of English Landscapes. Series I [1].](/assets/images/product/2083653.jpg)
By: N/A
Price: $125.00
Publisher: The Osborne & Murphy Company, Art Publishers, Red Oak:
Seller ID: 2083653
Boards faintly soiled, front hinge just beginning to weaken, portion of front free endpaper removed, front flyleaf creased. All image pages excellent with no marks, foxing, stains, or toning. Forty half-tone images photographically reproduced from original photographs, and copper plate etchings by various artists. In 1888, two enterprising young men, Edmond Osborne and Thomas D. Murphy, purchased a woodcut of the Montgomery County Courthouse that was under construction a... View more info
By: Azarian, Mary
Price: $8.00
Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher: 1981
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2263410
2nd printing. Edges lightly rubbed with minimal loss from spine base, front corners lightly creased. 1981 Large Softcover. 61, [3] pp. A children's book highlighting the letters of the alphabet, by a full-time printmaker and woodcut illustrator. The Vermont Board of Education commissioned Azarian to create the 26 letters of the alphabet and illustrations depicting scenes little scholars find familiar. In book form, the work is virtually guaranteed success, for the artist... View more info
By: Bidwell, John
Price: $20.00
Publisher: The American Antiquarian Society: 1978
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2266266
Last leaf loose but included. 1978 Trade Paperback. 299-342 pp. An overview of the relationship book dimensions and descriptive bibliography, focusing on a particular paper manufacturer in Philadelphia. View more info
By: Burch, Johansen
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Millbrook Press: 1991
Seller ID: 2266428
A fine copy. 1991 Soft Cover. 64 pp. Recounts the story of the German printer credited with the invention of printing with movable type. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Charles Francis Press: 1939
Seller ID: 2201160
Spine head rubbed, ink stamp on page base. 1939 Hard Cover. 357 pp. Gilt titles, photographic portrait frontispiece. Francis founded the Printers' League of America in 1906 and the International Joint Conference Council in 1919; introduced arbitration for trade war, and built up one of the world's greatest printing houses. View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: 1929
Seller ID: 1296545
Lightly rubbed. 1929 Soft Cover. Shoestring binding. 31 pp. 8 3/8 x 5 1/2. Original wrappers. A brief ephemeral piece sent by Comstock to friends for Christmas 1929, which describes the life and works of Geofroy Tory (I have also seen the first name spelled Geofrey). Famous for the advances he introduced in typography, Tory was also an author, designer, printer and binder. This volume includes important information on monograms and other devices Tory employed; Tory's ins... View more info
![Image for A Text-Book of Paper-Making [Textbook of Papermaking]](/assets/images/product/2197665.jpg)
Price: $30.00
Publisher: E. & F.N. Spon, Ltd.: 1920
Edition: 5th Printing
Seller ID: 2197665
Boards rubbed and somewhat soiled, shallow chip from spine head. Binding tight and square, interior clean with pages only lightly toned. 1920 Hard Cover. xi, 527, 12 pp. 8vo. An extensive guide to the manufacture of paper, originally published in 1888. This edition, according to the preface 'has been carefully revised with reference to technical and scientific progress. The disturbance of the Paper-making Industry under the stress of war conditions [referring to World Wa... View more info
By: Darley, F.O.C.
Price: $500.00
Publisher: James G. Gregory: 1862
Seller ID: 2267734
Printed on flyleaf is the following text: 'Presented to Chas. Knickerbocker, by the Steel Plate Engravers of the Western Bank Note & Engraving Co. 'as a mark of esteem' and dated 1872, which seems to indicate this volume was custom-bound for Mr. Knickerbocker in that year. Professionally rebacked with original backstrip laid down, reinforcement to edges of first and last few pages. Two photographs and two engravings laid in. Foxed throughout, boards a bit rubbed with som... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Rochester Club of Printing House Craftsmen: 1986
Seller ID: 2204852
No jacket. A fine copy. 1986 Hard Cover. 52 pp. A history of printing in Rochester, New York with separate sections for the most notable printers including Augustine G. Dauby, Elihu F. Marshall and Luther Tucker. Map showing Dauby's printshop and a fold-out image of the Rochester Gazette, which he published.KEYWORDS: AUGUSTINE DAUBY HISTORY OF PRINTING IN ROCHESTER 1816 1834 NEW YORK LOCAL REGIONAL BOOKS ON BOOKS PRINT HISTORY View more info
By: Follett, Frederick; Eames, Wilberforce (Preface)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Harrison, Harbor Hill Books: 1973
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2133136
Jacket lightly toned with sticker remnant on rear panel, 1 inch closed tear on front jacket corner. 1973 Hard Cover. xv, 65 pp. 8vo. 1973 reissue of the original, which was released as a pamphlet in conjunction with the annual Printers' Festival in Rochester. Also includes a facsimile of the front page of the earliest extant newspaper from Western New York. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Cambridge: 1955
Seller ID: 2187656
Ex-Library with usual marks. Light rubbing to boards. 1955 Hard Cover. E.P. Goldschmidt (1887 1954) was a prominent bookseller and scholar well known for his research on early printing and the spread of humanist ideas in Europe. First published in 1955, this volume originated in the proofs for Goldschmidt's inaugural lecture series as Sandars Reader in Bibliography at Cambridge. Although his health was failing, and he was consequently unable to give the lectures, Goldsch... View more info
By: Harrison, James
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Printing Historical Society: 1969
Seller ID: 2269971
No jacket, ink stamp on rear endpaper. 1969 Hard Cover. Contents include: prefatory note, index of names, a supplement of additional abridgements omitted from the original volume, index. View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Cornell University Press: 1989
Seller ID: 1538984
First section of pages dog-eared. 1989 Trade Paperback. 288 pp. This handsome volume surveys bird-book publishing in Britain from just before 1660, when metal-plate printing was introduced, to the mid-nineteenth century, when the process was superseded by lithography. In this period, most of the bird books published in Britain were illustrated by the authors themselves, who learned to etch their drawings of birds on metal plates. It was a time when hundreds of previously... View more info
By: Johnson, Pauline
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Washington: 1973
Seller ID: 2205244
Wrappers lightly rubbed. 1973 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. A book bound by hand can be a work of art in a way that machine-bound books can never be. And in this comprehensive, profusely illustrated guide to hand bookbinding, a noted expert in the field explains the techniques needed to create your own choice specimens of the binder's art. Directed especially toward beginners, Creative Bookbinding shows how this ancient craft offers a satisf... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2151866
First edition. An exceptional copy.Fine. 2003 Large Hardcover. [40 pp.] If a book was published 600 years ago, it would have been copied out by hand by a scribe in a monastery and probably would have taken months to produce. But thanks to Johann Gutenberg in the fifteenth century, modern printing was born and nowadays it can take only a few seconds to print a book. Gutenberg invented the printing press as well as a new type of ink and a new way to cast type. Learn the in... View more info
By: Lambert, J.W.; Ratcliffe, Michael
Price: $12.00
Publisher: The Bodley Head: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200444
First edition. 1987 Hard Cover. 364, [1] pp. 8vo. A history of the prominent London publishing house originally founded by John Lane, which printed works by such notable authors as: Oscar Wilde; Aubrey Beardsley; Max Beerbohm; G.K. Chesterton; C.S. Forester; Agatha Christie; James Joyce; Graham Greene; Alistair Cooke; Georgette Heyer; Winston Graham; William Trevor; Muriel Spark; Alexander Solzhenitsyn; Kenneth Grahame; Maurice Sendak; and Charlie Chaplin. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Russell & Russell Inc.: 1965
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2200893
1965 Hard Cover. viii, [2], 11-352 pp. 8vo. 1965 reissue of 1904 original. An account of early education in colonial America, beginning with the origins of its educational system in Europe, and focusing specifically on schools in Massachusetts and books used during the colonial period. Includes reproductions of title pages of numerous well-known works such as Eliot's Indian Primer, Noah Webster's American Spelling Book, etc. View more info
By: Massachusetts Historical Society
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston: 1937
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 2048848
Second edition, revised and corrected. 1937 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. [ii], 144 pp. A descriptive list of the publications of the Massachusetts Historical Society, including the collections, proceedings, and special volumes. View more info
By: Morison, Stanley
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Humphrey Milford, London: 1937
Seller ID: 1723622
Wrappers rubbed, corners creased, front hinge reinforced with clear tape. 1937 Trade Paperback. 30 pp., 16 plates. Original wrappers, sewn binding. Includes reproductions of 15th & 16th century calligraphy, coins, and printed material. View more info
By: Musee Conde, Chantilly; Longnon, Jean; Cazelles, Raymond; Meiss, Millard
Price: $9.00
Publisher: George Braziller, Inc., New York: 1989
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2041018
First printing of revised paperback edition. 1989 Large Softcover. 224 pp. From the flap: 'Cited as 'one of the miracles of art history' by Kenneth Clark, the Tres Riches Heures is the most luxurious and most famous of such books and marks the zenith of manuscript illumination in late medieval Europe. Commissioned by the influential patron, Jean de Berry, in the early years of the fifteenth century, this masterpiece was executed by the three Limbourg brothers, the greate... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Verlag von Klinkhardt & Biermann: 1919
Seller ID: 1524614
German text. Includes original jacket. A bit rubbed, spine sunned, page ridges foxed, union stamp on front endpaper, jacket rubbed with a few large chips.Good. 1919 Large Hardcover. 77 pp of German text, 49 pages of etched plates. 12 1/2 x 9 3/8. Jacques Callot (c. 1592–1635) was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine (an independent state on the North-Eastern border with France). He is an important figure in the development of the old master pri... View more info
By: Roden, Robert F.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Dodd, Mead, and Company: 1905
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 2260202
Limited edition, one of 750 copies. Spine toned. 1905 Hard Cover. 193 pp. A history of the printing press most well-known for producing the Bay Psalm Book in 1640, with a bibliographical list of works produced on the press (which features useful notes about locations of known copies). Includes a frontispiece and nine plates (two of which are fold-outs) in text, among which are images of the Daye Press, and the title pages of the Bay Psalm Book and other notable early pub... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Boston: S.D. Warren Company: 1920
Seller ID: 2066627
Front & end matter faintly foxed. 1920 Large Hardcover. 12 pp., plus [32 pp.] (16 sheets) of blank 80 lb. sheets perforated along binding edge. From the advertisement following text: 'Printers and advertisers have in the Warren Service Library the material to lay out new work and to show how it will appear when finished. Specifications for the production of work similar to this volume, except for such variations as may be made in end leaves and cover papers, are as follo... View more info
By: Schad, Robert O.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Henry E. Huntington Library & Art Gallery, San Marino: 1963
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 2048770
1967 2nd printing. Spine faded, tiny crease on back corner. 1963 Stapled Binding. 32 pp. Stapled binding. Includes photographs, illustrations, and facsimiles of pages from the Huntington Gutenberg Bible and Ellesmere Chaucer. A brief overview of Henry Edwards Huntington and the library he founded, which houses many important works honoring the history of books and printing. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Printing House of Leo Hart: 1948
Seller ID: 2266772
No jacket, large stain on front board, small stain on front and rear board corners, pages faintly toned. 1948 Hard Cover. xii, 94 pp. Isaiah Thomas (January 19, 1749 – April 4, 1831) was an American newspaper publisher and author. He performed the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence in Worcester, Massachusetts, and reported the first account of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. He was the founder of the American Antiquarian Society. View more info
By: Silver, Rollo G.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia / The University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville: 1967
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2161229
First edition. Boards very slightly bowed. 1967 Hard Cover. xii, 189 pp. Tall 8vo. Includes 24 plates. A forty-year history of printing in the United States, with sections on apprentices, journeymen, and masters, printing offices, the practice of printing, relationships between printers and authors, expansion of the press, typography, and illustration. Appendix detailing number of copies in editions of various notable works, and index follow text. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., New York: 1957
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2048829
1963 2nd printing. Top page ridges lightly stained. 1957 Hard Cover. xxxi, 521; xix, 527 pp. 8vo. 1957 reissue of 1898 original. A history of American literature as it relates to the revolutionary era. Extensive bibliography and index follow text. View more info
By: Unwin, Stanley
Price: $3.00
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin Ltd: 1947
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 1913424
Fifth edition. Lacks jacket. Minor scuffs on boards. Pages lightly toned. 1947 Hard Cover. 352 pp. This is an excellent overviev of what it was to be a book publisher,particularly in Britain.This book was first published in 1926 and revised several times up to 1960.It is heavily influenced by the authors personal experiences as a book publisher who worked the trade from the early part of the 1900's .He was the founder of Unwin and Co.Ltd.of London.He was President of the... View more info
By: Waldman, Milton
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company: 1925
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2048802
First edition. Small dealer bookplate on rear endpaper, Goodspeed catalog number on verso of front endpaper. 1925 Hard Cover. xviii, 271 pp. 8vo. Includes maps, illustrations, and facsimiles of title pages of significant works. A discussion of various early books related to American history from the earliest explorations through the eighteenth century. Index follows text. View more info
By: Waldman, Milton
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company: 1925
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2206627
First edition. Front hinge just starting. 1925 Hard Cover. xviii, 271 pp. 8vo. Includes maps, illustrations, and facsimiles of title pages of significant works. A discussion of various early books related to American history from the earliest explorations through the eighteenth century. Index follows text. View more info
