New York: Transcribed and Illustrated at Cooper Union, 1952. Small folio (261 x 167 mm). Calligraphic manuscript on paper. [2], 8 pp. Loosely inserted ink and watercolor drawing. Original hand-sewn blue wrappers; stitched to upper wrapper is a paper label lettered in manuscript: "The Harper and Other Fables." Old scribbles..... More

Philadelphia: W.W. Harding, 1865 (or after). Album 5 x 6 x 2.5 in. Title-page (a little foxed, verso blank), Index to portraits (2 pp.), followed by 25 thick cards creating 50 slots; all are filled, with 47 cartes-de-visite, 2 views, and one chromolithograph (a little foxed). Bound in original blue-green..... More

London: E. Rascol, 1866. First Edition. Large 8vo (260 x 165 mm). Contemporary Roxburghe binding, top edges gilt, others uncut (spine and binding extemities somewhat worn, 3 cm. crack at top of front cover). Inside back cover an early bookseller's label of the firm of [William] Downing, The Chaucer's Head..... More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003. Hardcover. Quarto, 247 numbered pages, with dustjacket. Profusely illustrated with 200 color photographs. ¶ A photographic tour of twenty-three of the world's most precious libraries, representing twelve countries and ranging from the great national monuments to scholarly, religious, and private libraries. De Laubier..... More

London and New York: Verso, 2010. Softcover. Octavo, 378 pages. ¶ Highly important study on the advent of moveable type and its subsequent impact on Western culture. Originally written in French, the present work was translated into English by David Gerard, and edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and David Wootton. More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 123 pages, original cloth, gilt. With 24 color illustrations. ¶ Bamber Gascoigne offers a broad historical survey of advancements in colour printing from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. From Marie Korey's review in PBSA: "Gascoigne provides an overview of the..... More

Wittenberg: Lorenz Seuberlich, 1598. 4to. Album (263 x 195 mm) containing 62 woodcuts by Hans Brosamer, various sizes but generally 140 x 140 mm, each with Fraktur titles above, tipped onto blank leaves (some woodcuts printed on two sides and thus hinged) + title-page as above printed in red and..... More

Cambridge: University Press, 1931. First Edition. Large 4to. Engraved frontispiece ("La belle ecriture demande un esprit gai"), xl, 226 pp. 81 plates. Original light-brown quarter cloth over decorated ("marbled") cloth boards (very small abrasion at tail of spine). Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Dust-wrapper soiled and defective, inside lined with..... More

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 320 pages, original cloth with gilt letter on spine, no dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in black and white and color. ¶ An authoritative survey of the world's greatest libraries and their holdings, profusely illustrated in black / white and color. Multiple..... More

Poughkeepsie, NY: Eastman National Business College, 1882. Oblong 8vo. (100 x 170 mm; 4" x 7"). 102 leaves (fol. 12 blank, fol. 98 loose). "Autographs" album bound in contemporary full green morocco (spine expertly rebacked). ALBUM AMICORUM MANUSCRIPT FROM THE HUDSON VALLEY, NEW YORK, CA. 1872, FEATURING FIVE EXCEPTIONAL EXAMPLES..... More

Parma: Bodoni, 1786. 4to (300 x 218 mm). Engraved title-vignette and head-piece, [8], lxxiii, [3], 164 pp. Preliminary leaves: title-page with engraved vignette, verso blank + dedication leaf to Jose Nicolas de Nibiano, verso blank + 2 unnumbered leaves dedication to Anton Raphael Mengs with half-page engraving signed "Lucatelli inv..... More

Venice: Domenico Giglio; Paolo and Aldo Manutius, 1558; 1564. Ad 1: 8vo. Part 1: [1], 2-138, [4] = 142 ff. Part 2: [1], 2-122, [2] = 124 ff. Contemporary limp vellum with "yapp" edges, title in MS on spine, singular "1" at bottom of spine indicating the first of two..... More

Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Press, 1967. 8vo. 138 pp., printed on fine paper. Included in the pagination is a complete reproduction of the original Kollack Narrative and other reproductions. With initial letters illuminated by the author's wife, Carolyn Phelps. Original cloth, fitted with a (unique?) leather book jacket, extensively tooled to..... More