Printing, Typography, Fine Press from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Boston: Merrymount Press, no date [1904]. First edition. Octavo (9" x 5.75"), [6], 22, & [4] pages plus two photogravure plates, the title page, designed by T.M. Cleland, printed in black ink within an elaborate ornamental border in green depicting vines on a trellis surmounting a fountain. Publisher's brown paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered black cloth. Binding moderately soiled, edges… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Privately Printed, [The De Vinne Press], 1908. Limited edition, number 396 of 425 copies on handmade Italian paper, this copy inscribed, signed, & dated in ink by Ira Hutchinson Brainard to artist Wilford Seymour Conrow at the ffep & additionally signed by Mary Brainard French on a following leaf. Tall octavo (9.75" x 7"), xiii & 95 pages… Saber más sobre este artículo

[Staten Island, New York]: Stone Street Press, (1990). Three volumes, first editions. 24mos (5.75" x 4.75"), unpaginated. Publisher's textured black light card stock with applied, gilt-lettered labels, "Handmade by Malachi McCormick," housed in a hand made paper over thick card slipcase with gilt-lettered labels. Text in Gaelic & English. Fine copies in slightly rubbed slipcase. "Prepared for the tenth anniversary of the… Saber más sobre este artículo

No place [Philadelphia ?]: published by the library, engraved by S. Allardice, no date [1795 - 1803]. Letterpress bookplate measuring approximately 3.75 inches by 2.75 inches, the text, with flourish below, within an oval ornamental border, signed in print at the lower right by the engraver. No evidence of removal, left & bottom edges untrimmed, toned, foxed, otherwise good. The Library Company… Saber más sobre este artículo

Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society, 1971. First edition, one of 1590 copies, this out of series & unnumbered. Folio (14.5" x 10.5"), 18 unnumbered pages & 60 facsimiles with adjacent descriptive text. Publisher's brick cloth backed in gilt-lettered blue cloth, in slipcase with applied title label at the front panel. Binding very slightly spotted, otherwise fine in good or better slipcase… Saber más sobre este artículo

Saint Paul, [Minnesota]: Hand-printed at Midnight Paper Sales Press, 1981. First edition, limited to 70 copies of which this is no. 62, signed "Gaylord" at the colophon. 16mo (approx. 6" x 4¾"), three unbound sheets folded once vertically forming 12 unnumbered pages plus plain grey end sheets, laid-in to blue pictorial wraps decorated with a diminutive Schanilec woodcut. The title… Saber más sobre este artículo

[London]: Raphael Tuck, [1894]. Die cut, thick card stock. [London]: Raphael Tuck, no. 1212 [1894]. Die-cut six piece calendar printed on thick card stock presenting the months of the year two to a panel, each panel measuring approximately 2.5 inches by 5 inches, with pastoral illustrations in color & bible quotes. The panels were originally attached by ribbon, now… Saber más sobre este artículo

New Haven, Connecticut: Philistine Press, 1954. Complete in two volumes. First edition, number 42 of one thousand copies signed by Jones & Kent at the colophon. Tall quartos (12.5" x 10.5"), unpaginated. Plastic comb bound Chinese grass cloth over paper with ribbon ties, in a corrugated box with illustration and printed label. Fraying at edges, moderate foxing & toning, box… Saber más sobre este artículo

Washington, DC: Library of Congress, (1982) 4to, xv, 260 pp, illustrated (some in color) Publisher's decorated paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered brick cloth, in pictorial dust jacket. Slight edge wear, otherwise near fine in like dust jacket "The splendid gift from Lessing J Rosenwald to the Library of Congress is one of the greatest collections of illustrated books to… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Leonard C Bowles, 1832 Second edition 24mo, iv, [5] - 88 pp, with engraved frontis after Gabriel Beranger by Edward Gallaudet. Publisher's printed paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered maroon roan This copy with Mahlon Day "Printer & Bookseller" label at the front pastedown Binding rubbed & soiled, internally foxed, otherwise good An engaging biography intended for a juvenile audience,… Saber más sobre este artículo

No place [Arlington, Virginia ?]: The Winter Wheat Press, printed by E.L. Hildreth & Co., [Brattleboro, Vermont], "Second printing, December, 1936, two hundred copies, all coloured by hand." Single sheet, lithographed & hand colored, measuring 12.5 inches by 10.5 inches folding to 6.25 inches by 5.25 inches (as issued) forming vii pages plus cover. Lightly toned, trace edge wear, "313"… Saber más sobre este artículo

Chicago, Nov[ember] 30, [1947 ?] to "Archer" [H. Richard Archer]. 8vo, 1 page on illustrated "The Stevens, Chicago" letterhead, approximately 31 words recorded in ink, signed by Armitage. With: Exhibition Notice: "Gardner Cowles, President and Editor of Look Magazine, presents an exhibition of Books & Typography by Merle Armitage, April 29 - May 5, Lilienfeld Galleries ..." Single sheet measuring 10… Saber más sobre este artículo

Amsterdam: Gerard Th. van Heusden, 1969. 4to, xxvii & 463 pp, plus illustrations. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth. Lightly soiled, brief wear at bottom corners, text modestly toned, otherwise very good. Originally published in 1891.

Pacific Palisades, California: Melville Press, 1996. First edition, number 29 of 200 copies signed by Kanner & initialed by Shelton. Small 4to, unpaginated, accordian bound, "letter-press printed by John Robinson at the Toroise Press on Arches 88 paper ... Handbound by Allwyn O'Mara ... Silver foil stamping by Custom Bindery, Los Angeles, End-papers handmade by the artist and editor."… Saber más sobre este artículo

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1924 - 1925. First edition of volume 3, early printings of volumes 1 & 2. Complete in three octavo volumes, variously paginated, with frontispieces, plates, portraits, & facsimiles. Contemporary three-quarter crushed brown morocco & marbled paper by R.R. Donnelley & sons (with label tipped to the first blank page of all volumes), the spines… Saber más sobre este artículo

[Stockholm, Wisconsin: Midnight Paper Sales, not dated but published in 2002]. First edition, limited to 200 copies, this number 180, signed & titled by Schanilec in pencil just below the image. Original multi-color wood engraving printed on paper measuring 9.5 inches by 5.25 inches (sheet size), the image measures 7 inches by 3.5 inches Rulon-Miller/ Quarter to Midnight: Gaylord Schanilec… Saber más sobre este artículo