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Two Volumes. Illustrated with copper engravings by Carl Schultheiss; pulled by Anderson-Lamb, New York; designed by Saul Marks and printed at The Plantin Press, set in monotype Garamond on Collins special paper. Title pages printed in red and black. Wide margins. 4to. 7 1/4 x 10 inches. Volumes bound by Russell-Rutter Company in half red sheepskin stamped in gold in a panel with printed Fabriano paper sides in a special design by Mr. Marks. Original slip case, spine faded. Number 769 of an edition limited to only 1500 copies, signed in blue ink by Carl Schultheiss. Very good set. The books published by the Limited Editions Club are justly treasured for the quality of the texts, the beauty and artistry of the illustrations, the creativity of design, and the overall excellence of the paper, presswork, and binding. Each book would make a wonderful gift for any occasion. W36
Two Volumes. Illustrated with copper engravings by Carl Schultheiss; pulled by Anderson-Lamb, New York; designed by Saul Marks and printed at The Plantin Press, set in monotype Garamond on Collins special paper. Title pages printed in red and black. Wide margins. 4to. 7.25 x 10 inches. Both volumes bound by Russell-Rutter Company in half red sheepskin stamped in gold in a panel with printed Fabriano paper sides in a special design by Mr. Marks. Original slip case, spine faded. Number 769 of an edition limited to only 1500 copies, signed in blue ink by Carl Schultheiss. Very good set. The books published by the Limited Editions Club are justly treasured for the quality of the texts, the beauty and artistry of the illustrations, the creativity of design, and the overall excellence of the paper, presswork, and binding. Each book would make a wonderful gift for any occasion. W36
1979194210Easton Press 1979-01-01. Leather Bound. Very Good. Full brown leather binding with gilt stamped design and page edges. 4 raised bands to the spine. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Easton Press hardcover books
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 241 pages on glossy paper with a great many color photos, lots of detail to the carved beasts all about: green man, dragons, snail with a goat head, lavish stained glass, wood and stone carvings
1988012539Wakefield: Fleece Press 1988. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. Fine. 225 copies with 160 for sale quarter cloth. Fine apparently unused copy in light blue cloth slipcase that has a modestly faded edge. Dedicated to wood engraver Stanley Lawrence 1900-1987. Fleece Press hardcover books
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Heavily illustrated with color and b&w illustraitons, 240 pages.
169847512Amstelodami Amsterdam: Apud Abrahamum a Someren 1698. Altero Editio priori auctior & emendatior. Hardcover. good to vg. Large octavo 8 x 6 3/4". 72 344 1 40pp. Indices Errata of Vol. I 6 plates one folding; 4 345-752 60pp Indices Errata of Vol. II 14 plates one folding. Bound in full vellum. Red edges. Volume one with engraved half-title. Both title pages with publisher's device. Engraved Ex-Libris of Philipp Wilhelm Grimm father to the Brothers Grimm on verso of title page volume one. Decorative initials and headpiece. Originally published in 1680 Johannes Braun's "Vestitus sacerdotum Hebraeorum" was the standard work on Hebrew priestly vestiments; how they were produced and their ritual use. The text is accompanied with 20 striking full page one in-text engraving and numerous in-text tablets plus frontispiece by Bastiaan Stoopendaal-Schulz a celebrated Dutch engraver and mapmaker. Penciled note on "The Dress of the Hebrew Priests" on verso of engraved half-title in English. Text in Latin. Binding with light wear along edges rubbed with light line indentations. Red edges faded. First folding plate with two inch closed tear at fold near gutter light creasing at lower edge. Inked note in margin of page 384 of volume two. Some parts age-toned mostly indices. Front endpaper missing back endpaper with small chips. Binding and interior in overall good to very good condition plates very good. Apud Abrahamum a Someren hardcover
1951JC9113New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Black cloth ornately stamped in silver on spine; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 131 with beautiful b/w wood engravings. Some light scuffing at spine tips and along edges of boards; silver spine somewhat darkened. Dust jacket tanned moreso along spine; some light chipping and small closed tears along joints and edges; VG in mylar not price-clipped. <br/><br/> Pellegrini & Cudahy hardcover books
400p. + Plus frontis and numerous engraved plates of sailing ships, tools, blocks, rigging, and knots, etc. Numerous text woodcuts. Foxed. Some damp stain. Perforated XLib stamp on title page. 8vo. Modern cloth back over the original cloth boards. Modern spine gold lettered. Hardbound. Very good. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! NAVAL/2
199497008Hamburg, Sautter & Lackmann, 1994. 112 nn. S. Mit zahlr., tls. farb. Abb. 33 cm. OKart.
199492376Hamburg, Sautter & Lackmann, 1994. 112 nn. S. Mit zahlr., tls. farb. Abb. 33 cm. OKart.
1954TK233576Rodale Press London 1954. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. No 102 of 1000 copies. 4to in faux vellum backed burgundy cloth covered boards gilt lettering to spine and gilt embossed portrait sketch to front cover after a design by Braby. 99 pp on thick art paper frontispiece and 5 other full page colour wood engravings by Braby. 1st printing with these illustrations __CONDITION : An extremely well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy in not far from new condition top edge of page block slightly dusty in the original plain semi-opaque tissue wrapper which is a very little edge-nicked. The book was published without a slip-case or printed dust jacket. An excellent copy. . __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS Rodale Press, London hardcover
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece and 5 wood-engraved plates, free endpapers lightly spotted; original cloth, paper label, uncut, label browned as usual else a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 750 COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 326).
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with fine wood-engraved illustrations throughout; Facsimile in ivory cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper; Essay 4pp; the whole housed in publisher's custom-made blue board solander case lettered in gilt with mounted illustration (repeated from text). EDITION LIMITED TO 750 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 96). Splendid facsimile reissue of the renowned Golden Cockrel Press edition of 1926.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with fine wood-engraved illustrations throughout; Facsimile in black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper; Essay 4pp; the whole housed in publisher's custom-made terracotta board solander case lettered in gilt with mounted illustration (repeated from text). EDITION LIMITED TO 750 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 96). Splendid facsimile reissue of the renowned Nonesuch Press edition of 1924.
16449413Lyon, Jean-Antoine Huguetan, 1644 ; in-8, réemboité dans un vélin ancien du XVIIe siècle ; (32), 746 pp., (plus 2 pages répétées : 95 et 96), (34) pp. de table et 2 tableaux dépliants ; fleuron gravé de titre "à la sphère" et 45 figures gravées sur bois représentant un ou plusieurs sujets.
First edition, [4], 80pp., with half-title, orig. printed wrappers bound-in, Middle Hill boards, spine torn, uncut. An early monograph on the restoration of engravings and old bindings. Provenance: The library of Sir Thomas Phillipps; the library of Graham Pollard and Esther Potter.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous half-tone plates from photographs in the text; original buckram, backstrip faded else a very good, clean copy of an uncommon work. A standard reference . Read 2699.
1982005329New York NY U.S.A.: James Pott & Company 1982 1982. Hardcover. Near Fine. Dark Rose Cloth Gilt. Very Good/NA. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. ND 1870's/90's . probable First edition. Beveled and Illustrated front cover. Very Scarce one by this author with over 200 Wood Engravings many are full-page. A very nice Early Poetry & Prose gift book. <br/> <br/> New York, NY, U.S.A.: James Pott & Company, 1982 hardcover
The monumental catalogue raisonne of all prints by and after Moreau le jeune. XII, 4, 752 pp. plus frontispiece engraved portrait of Moreau, by St Aubin after Cochin. Edition limited to 525 numbered copies, of which this is one of 500 printed on fine laid paper. Over 2,000 items exhaustively described. Thick folio. Elegantly bound in quarter vellum and marbled boards. Original wraps preserved. ENTIRELY UNCUT. FINE AND BRIGHT. A scarce and important book, extremely rare in such fine condition.
199123986Greenbrae: The Allen Press 1991. Limited edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's small exlibris label to front free endpaper else fine. 71 pp. illustrated with 4 wood engravings by John DePol; 8vo. 11 x 7.5 inches bound in brown cloth and hand-blocked Fortuny fabric. Text set in Goudy's Italian Old Style and printed in 2 colors on handmade Whatman cotton rag paper. Acetate jacket. <br/><br/>Edition of 116 copies The Allen Press hardcover
24061405Santa Rosa: Nawakum Press 2010. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Cranmer Keith. One of 20 deluxe copies quarto size 32 pp. signed by Robert Bly with extra print signed by Cranmer in a clamshell box. An early publication by the Nawakum Press run by the inimitable David Pascoe whose name has become synonomous throughout the world of fine press publishing with meticulous craftsmanship and design often paired with original art work by contemporary artists. As is stated on their web site "While incorporating the very best from the fine press tradition the Press also chooses to stretch the boundaries of the modern day book." <br /> <br /> This work presents fifteen poems by Robert Elwood Bly 1926-2021 renowned poet and activist who won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1968 for his book "The Light Around the Body". Per the prospectus "It has been said that Bly has taken on many roles among them groundbreaking poet and remains one of the most hotly debated artists of the past half century The psychologist Robert Moore has said that 'when the cultural and intellectual history of our time is written Robert Bly will be recognized as the catalyst for a sweeping cultural revolution.' "<br /> <br /> Presented with two original wood engravings by Berkeley artist Keith Cranmer who began engraving by hand in 1975. He "works on paper with drawing gouache ink and painting.his main interest is representational figurative drawing with at times a surreal edge" n.b. quote from the web site of the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers. <br /> <br /> This one of twenty deluxe copies with a separate engraving in a wallet numbered and signed by Cranmer the engraving and book in a clamshell box. <br /> <br /> ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter bound in foil stamped rich brown leather with burnt orange Cave Paper over boards paper label on the front board with a wood engraving of the Indigo Bunting patterned endpapers the frontispiece a two-colour wood engraving both this and the engraving on the front board printed letterpress directly from the blocks title page in brown and black poem numbers and titles in brown signed by Robert Bly in ink at the colophon; monotype Walbaum on Hahnemühle Biblio quarto size 10 3/4" by 6 3/8" 32 pages limited edition this no. 9 of 20 deluxe copies total edition 100. Enclosed in a paper chemise is an engraving of the Indigo Bunting also used for the cover signed and numbered in pencil by Keith Cranmer. Both contained in a clamshell box of Japanese brown book cloth leather spine label with gilt lettering inset. <br /> <br /> ___CONDITION: Volume fine with clean boards straight corners without rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; as new directly from the Press. Separate print and chemise also fine clean and without wear; clamshell box fine also clean and without wear. Overall a stunning production. <br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br /> <br /> ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Nawakum Press hardcover
S102817Paris-Bruxelles, Vanoest viii + 92pp. + 78 planches hors-texte, 33cm., brochure originale (peu tachée), qqs. rousseurs, bon état, poids: 2.1kg., S102817
viii + 92pp. + 78 planches hors-texte, 33cm., brochure originale (peu tachée), qqs. rousseurs, bon état, poids: 2.1kg., S102817
