[London]: The Pierpont Morgan Library / Cornell University Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, folio size, 598 pp. Per the jacket flap: "These volumes constitute the first comprehensive history in English of French book illustration from 1700-1914. By their inclusion of Romantic lithographic albums, indeed they go beyond any..... More
[Laguna Beach]: Lagune Verde Imprenta, [1988]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of fifty copies, quarto size, [72] pp., with errata slip, signed by Ward Ritche. Harry "Ward" Ritchie (1905-1996) founded The Ward Ritchie Press, a fixture in the Southern California literary landscape, in 1932. He was responsible for publishing thousands of..... More
New Castle [and] London: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), first printing, quarto size, approx. 1050 total pp. "This remarkable book represents over twenty years of research and scholarship by one of the most celebrated fine press printers of the twentieth-century. With..... More
Folio Society, 2007. Hardcover. Quarto size, 472 pp. The Folio Society was founded in 1947 by Charles Ede, Christopher Sandford (of the Golden Cockerel Press), and Alan Bott (founder of Pan Books). This is the definitive history of The Folio Society as told through its raison d' the books. As..... More
Seal Beach, California: Mel Kavin/Kater-Crafts Bookbinders, 1994. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, miniature book, 167 pp., signed by the eight contributers. A stunning book which can indeed be judged by its cover...bound in full black leather, red and blue leather abstract designs cut in on both boards, the..... More
Newton: Bird & Bull Press, 1988. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies, with portfolio of ephemera, with prospectus, quarto size, 103 pp. This is the second bibliography of Bird & Bull Press; the initial twenty one year bibliography went out of print very quickly and after only nine years..... More
[North Hills, Pa.]: Bird & Bull Press, 1980. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 170 copies of the special edition, with portfolio of ephemera, includes prospectus, first printing, octavo size, 108 pp. A bibliography that is so much "more than a mere compilation, with Henry Morris commentaries, it is also a...... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed by Mastercraft Press], 1993. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, folio size, 74 pp., with prospectus. This bibliography comprises ninety-nine titles published by The Book Club of California, from 1958 to 1993, this title itself being the two hundredth book. With..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed by The Grabhorn Press], 1958. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 copies, folio size, 96 pp. This bibliography comprises ninety-nine titles published by The Book Club of California, from 1912 to 1958 with the bibliography itself being "the hundredth book";..... More
Cambridge University Press, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 295 pp. Anthony Hobson (1921-2014) was the Director and Associate of Sotheby's, President of the Association Internationale de Bibliophoile, Honorary President of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, and a past President of the Bibliographical Society. This book studies, and compares, two sixteenth-century..... More
Berkeley, California: Peter Koch Printers, Hormone Derange Editions, 2001. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 100 copies, quarto size, [124] pp. A specimen book of the antique and wood type, electrotypes and wood engravings in the collection of Peter Koch Printers. Peter Koch is considered by many to be "one..... More
Berkeley: The Book Arts Club, University of California, 1934. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 copies, quarto size, 307 pp. An indispensable bibliography for any collector of the smaller Northern California private presses. While some of the included presses have their own bibliographies (such as the Grabhorn Press and John..... More