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Paris: Librairie De France, 1934. leather_bound. Full black morocco, raised bands, spine in gilt and colors, front cover lettered in gilt. Teg. Fine. 387 pages. 24 x 19 cm. Eight full page pochoir plates executed by Jacomet, 55 full page black and white plates by Victor MIchel, and a host of black and white text illustrations. Boule de… Read more about this item

London: Bell And Daldy, 1856. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth decorated in blind and gilt, beveled edges. Aeg. Very good. 112 pages. 23 x 16.5 cm. Revised by Joseph Cundall with his monogram. Text by Charles Willingham at the Chiswick Press with Birket's illustrations (engravings) printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Initial letters also colored by hand.… Read more about this item

London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown decorated cloth, front cover in gilt and blind design, beveled edges. Aeg. Very good. 84 pages. 22.5 x 17 cm. Twenty seven numbered leaves of plates, engravings in color by Edmund Evans, plus uncolored designs in the text within a bordered page. Interior clean and fresh. Nicks… Read more about this item

London: Bell And Daldy, 1856. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth decorated in blind and gilt, beveled edges. Aeg. Very good. 112 pages. 23 x 16.5 cm. Revised by Joseph Cundall with his monogram. Text by Charles Willingham at the Chiswick Press with Birket's illustrations (engravings) printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Initial letters also colored by hand.… Read more about this item

London: Cassell & Co, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. 20th century full tan calf. Aeg. Fine in very good matching cloth slipcase. 232, 239, 232 pages 19 x 13 cm. Bound by Baynton of Bath. 12 pages of publisher ads end of Vol. ! with original cloth covers and spines laid-in. First book form edition. First published serially in… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1912. leather_bound. Full green morocco. Aeg. Fine. Unpaginated. 27.5 x 22 cm. 22 tipped in plates by Dulac with lettered tissue guards. Blind stamp on title page "Presentation Copy." Elegant unsigned binding, raised bands, spines richly gilt in bell motifs, outer and inner border panels with gilt corner floral designs at latter, dentelles carry… Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie Artistique H. Launette & Cie, 1887. First edition. leather_bound. Full decorated mustard calf. Aeg. Fine in fine marbled cloth and brown morocco chemise, backstrip with color onlays and lettered in gilt in matching slipcase, corners rubbed. 206 page. 29 x 20.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 31 of 50 on Japan paper. 110 illustrations by Hector Giacomelli, 2 extra… Read more about this item

Paris: Le Livre Contemporain, 1925. leather_bound. Full decorated black morocco. Fine in matching fine slipcase. 80 pages. 34 x 26 cm. 22 lithographic illustrations by Raphael Drouart. Limited edition, copy 56 of 120, signed by Paul Valery and Raphael Drouart. This copy dedicated to M.R. Delaine. Rouart was proficient in all the printmaking techniques; etching, engraving, mezzotint, relief… Read more about this item

London: Privately Printed (Temple Sheen Press), 1914. leather_bound. Full red morocco, front covers in geometric and floral designs. Teg. Fine. 109 pages. 22.5 x 17.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 300 hand-printed by Arthur K. Sabin on Batchelor hand-made paper. Made with the idea of giving, for the first time collectively, each Stanza in the full text of… Read more about this item

Np: Np, Nd. leather_bound. Green morocco with matching marbled endpapers. Fine. 25 x 30 cm. Blank book interleaved with tissue guards. Full green morocco by Dan St. John in Art Deco motif, offset marbled cover medallion in swirls of green and yellows, two matching morocco onlay orbs, vertical gilt double-rule. Endpapers by Chena River Marblers (Dan & Regina St.… Read more about this item

Np: Np, Nd. leather_bound. Brown morocco with matching marbled endpapers. Fine. 25 x 30 cm. Blank book interleaved with tissue guards. Full brown morocco by Dan St. John in Art Deco motif, offset marbled cover medallion in swirls of copper, gold and browns, three rays of matching morocco onlay rays extending around a flat spine. Endpapers by Chena… Read more about this item

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press Book, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter navy morocco and red cloth. Teg. Fine. 900 pages. 23.5 x 16.5 cm. Lovely gift copy of reference classic in a fine binding, or Wikipedia between two covers. Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, marbled endpapers.

Paris: Librairie Auguste Blaizot, 1965. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. printed stiff wrappers. Fine in fine in near fine brown cloth chemise in very good, slightly worn matching cloth slipcase. 204 pages. 33 x 27 cm. Limited edition, copy 315 of 600 printed on Velin de Rives. Introduction by Professeur Jacques Millot. 243 reproductions of bindings in heliogravure,… Read more about this item

New York: Reynal, 1960. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 180 pages. More than 200 half-tone plates and more than forty line drawings. Index.

Paris: Librairie Polytechnique, Baudry et Cie, 1890. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary half navy morocco and marbled boards, backstrip uniformly faded to brown. Very good. 324 pages. 25 x 16 cm. Sixteen plates hors texte and seventeen text figures. Glossary. Index. Authoritative treatise on bookbinding by a prominent expert. Illustrations of bindings and binding equipment. Minor age-toning mostly marginal,… Read more about this item

New York: Reynal, 1957. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Near fine in worn, repaired dust wrapper. 180 pages. More than 200 half-tone plates and more than fifty line drawings. Index.

Stockholm: Foreningen For Bokhantverk, 1925. First edition. Paperback. Orig. stiff wrappers printed in red and black. Very good. 110 pages. Folio, 33 1/2 x 26 cm. Thirty-nine plates in black and white and color of embroidered book bindings, 16th - 18th centuries. Text in Swedish. Bibliography. Clean, bright copy, backstrip nicked head and foot.

Paris: Edouard Rouveyre, 1880. First edition. leather_bound. Three quarter taupe morocco and marbled boards with matching endpapers. Teg. Fine. Malval. 178 pages. 22 x 13 cm. Etchings in sepia and black and white by Malval. Limited edition, copy 70 of 100 on Whatman paper. Lovely binding by R.W. Smith, raised bands, gilt spine panel florets and lettering. … Read more about this item

Paris: Scripta Et Picta, 1951. leather_bound. Full green morocco, covers and spine inlaid with light green, tan and gray morocco, ruled in colors and gilt, all edges gilt, green suede doublures, uniform morocco edged chemise. Fine in slightly nicked slipcase. 221 pages. Folio, 47 x 29 cm. Fifty-eight colored lithographs by Kees Van Dongen. Text printed in red… Read more about this item

New York: Hispanic Society of America, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 18 pages in text. 28 x 21 cm. Illustrated in black and white with sixty plates and eight figures in the text. Glossary of Bookbinding Terms. Examples of the binders' craft in Spain through six centuries.