Los Angeles: Saul & Lillian Marks, The Plantin Press, 1953. Hard Cover.
Bookplate of Phillip C. Duschnes Rare Books on rear endpaper, minor wear along board edges.
44, [2] pp. A transcription of a speech given by Elmer Adler about book collecting, addresses to the first annual public lecture on.....
Rochester, New York: Press of the Good Mountain, Rochester Institute of Technology. Soft Cover.
A fine copy.
26 pp. A chronology of print history in18th century Europe.
Rochester, New York: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2011. Soft Cover.
A fine copy.
47 pp. Ismar David belonged to a group of accomplished calligraphers who established themselves as jacket designers in New York in the 1950s. David's jacket designs are distinguished from other work of the period as powerful.....
London: House & Maxwell, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket lightly foxed. Page ridges and pages foxed.
256 pp.William Caxton, (born c. 1422, Kent, England—died 1491, London), the first English printer, who, as a translator and publisher, exerted an important influence on English literature. In 1438 he was.....
Boston, Massachusetts: David R. Godine, 1977. Large Hardcover.
A few faint spots on top page ridge.
xvi, 250 pp. "...a narrative of how printing arrived, spread, and flourished in the American colonies--of how it gradually attained, in its finest manifestations, the status of an art--of how in this century it.....
New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1966. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
2nd printing. Includes publisher's slipcase. Top edge lightly foxed, a few minor blemishes to slipcase.
359, [1] pp. 8vo. 8 1/2 x 6. Hardcover in publisher's slipcase. Numerous beautiful color plates throughout. "When this magnificent volume first appeared in 1966.....
New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1966. Hard Cover.
Includes publisher's slipcase. Minor blemish on front endpaper, otherwise an excellent copy.
359, [1] pp. 8vo. 8 1/2 x 6. Hardcover in publisher's slipcase. Numerous beautiful color plates throughout. "When this magnificent volume first appeared in 1966, it was celebrated for its.....
New York: James G. Gregory, 1862. Darley, F.O.C. Full-Leather.
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.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Edges rubbed, pencil notes on rear free endpaper.
524 pp. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; Ancient Methods of Book Illustration; Early West-Christian--Byzantine and Allied Illumination; Hiberno-Saxon, Carolingian, and Ottonian Illumination; Islamic, Hebrew, and Mozarabic Illumination; The Golden Age of.....
Rochester, New York: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2010. Soft Cover.
A fine copy.
88 pp. Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig is a colorful and well-researched representation of Lustig s book cover designs that were created primarily for New Directions Books and Noonday Press, among.....
Rochester, New York: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2012. Large Softcover.
Still in original plastic wrap.
66 pp. "Edges of Books examines a familiar form from an unfamiliar perspective. When books are on display it is usually their spines, covers, text, or illustrations that are featured. These are the familiar.....
Rochester, New York: RIT Press, 2018. 2nd Printing. Soft Cover.
Second printing. A fine copy.
83 pp. Since its founding in 1969, the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology has grown from the personal library of its namesake Melbert B. Cary Jr., to one of the nation's.....
Rochester, New York: RIT Press, 2014. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. A fine copy.
83 pp. Since its founding in 1969, the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology has grown from the personal library of its namesake Melbert B. Cary Jr., to one of the nation's.....
Chicago: The Cuneo Press, Inc., 1933. Limited Edition. Soft Cover.
Limited edition, #140 of 500 copies, hand-numbered on colophon. Laid in is a 1934 broadside folded once on the top edge detailing the history of the work, as well as a newspaper article with more background. Faint crease on rear.....
. The Press of the Good Mountain, 1987. Large Hardcover.
No jacket. Near fine.
xix, 592 pp. 10 7/8 x 7 7/8. A fifty year history of RIT's printing school. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Printing Education in America - A Survey; 2. The Empire State School of Printing; 3. Athenaeum.....
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. Hard Cover.
Former library copy - usual marks. No jacket.
xiv, 628 pp. CONTENTS: American Publishing to 1865; Genteel Publishing in the Gilded Age; "The Commercialization of Literature:" 1900-1945; Publishing Goes Public: 1945-1965; Chronology of Publishing Events; Bibliography; Index.
Boston: The Boston Book Company, 1915. Hard Cover.
Spine toned, loss to spine head and spine base, front free endpaper loose but included.
vii, 263 pp. Forming a supplement to F. K. Walter's abbreviations and technical terms used in book catalogs and in bibliographies. Includes terms in nine languages. CONTENTS.....
Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1918. 5th Printing. Hard Cover.
5th printing. Spine toned, top corner lightly bumped.
xxvii, [1], 373 pp. 8vo. Beige cloth spine, brown paper-covered boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece caricature of Thackeray and Dickens. Plates, illustrations, photographs, and facsimile reproductions of documents.....
Geneve: Impremeries Populaires et Kundig a Geneve, 1978. Large Hardcover.
Front joint repaired.
French text. Red boards with gilt decor. Red ribbon. Pages d'histoire composees, illustrees, imprimees et reliees, par des maitres et compagnons en hommage aux praticiens d'un noble corps de metier. [Pages of history composed, illustrated, printed and.....
New York: Hacker Art Books, 1968. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Reissue. Lacks jacket.
A complete overview of the printing press in the Americas, from the earliest printing of the 16th century through the present day.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1942. Large Hardcover.
Very good in fair jacket. Jacket toned with several small chips and tears along edges, light stain on jacket spine.
xvi, 192 pp. 12 x 9. Color plate on front cover, color and black-and-white plates throughout. "Currier and.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1943. Large Hardcover.
1943 printing. Edges lightly foxed and toned, bookplate on front endpaper.
xvi, 192 pp. 12 x 9. Color plate on front cover, color and black-and-white plates throughout. "Currier and Ives was a printmaking firm headed by Nathaniel Currier.....
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1941. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Lacks jacket. Spine faded.
viii, [4], 143, [3] pp. 8vo. A history of printing including chapters on: the invention of printing; the development of printing; the printer's tools; the evolution of type design; characteristics of a good book type;.....
New York: American Heritage Press, 1972. First American Edition. Large Hardcover.
First American edition. No jacket. Spine lightly faded.
303 pp. 12 x 8 1/2. "With clarity and authority, this volume tells what original prints are and shows how they are created; discusses in detail every graphic technique; gives guidelines.....
Charlottesville, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg / The University Press of Virginia, 1966. Trade Paperback.
Covers lightly rubbed.
xxi, 185 pp. A two-fold account of this colonial craft: a history drawn from the remaining eighteenth-century records and an analysis of the technique based on an examination of books bound in Annapolis, Williamsburg.....