1972. London: Trianon Press, 1972. 3 volumes, folio, with 116 color facsimile leaves reproduced by collotype and hand-stencil color, the text of the poems reproduced from copper-plate with 3 additional printings to reproduce Blake’s pencillings and the tone of the paper. Marbled boards, morocco backstrips, slipcases, backstrips stained, slipcases worn..... More
1972. London: Trianon Press, 1972. 3 volumes, folio, with 116 color facsimile leaves reproduced by collo-type and hand-stencil color, the text of the poems reproduced from copper-plate with 3 additional printings to reproduce Blake's pencillings and the tone of the paper. Marbled boards, morocco backstrips, slipcases, a very good set..... More
1956. Northampton, Mass.: Gehenna Press, 1956. Small 4to, [11 inc. the first blank]pp. 18 b/w plates printed on Japan vellum with a title-sheet printed in red on plain paper preceding each image. Stapled into wrappers, very good. § “Fifty copies of this book have been printed by Esther and Leonard..... More
1976. London: Trianon Press: 1976. 4to, 155 pp., 51 plates. Original quarter brown morocco, a bit worn. § The Trianon Press mock-up for the published edition which was limited to 562 copies. The definitive work on all known portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Blake, this example annotated by Arnold Fawcus..... More
1977. London: Trianon Press: 1977. 4to, 155 pp., 51 plates. Original quarter brown morocco, slipcase. § Copy 5 of 500 in quarter morocco, from the limited edition of 562 copies. The definitive work on all known portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Blake. Not in Bentley BB or supplement... More
1926. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. 2 vols. in 1, 8vo, [viii], 283; [xii], 359 pp. Title pages in sepia and black, 27 black-and-white plates. Full stiff vellum, gilt-lettered backstrip, covers slightly bowed and spotted in the vellum. Two gift inscriptions at front. § De luxe edition, limited to 95..... More
1987. Paris: Trianon Press for the Blake Trust, 1987. 22 separate plates, approx. 15.75 x 12.25 inches (30 x 31 cm) each, printed in color on Arches, housed in a tri-fold paper folder. Very good condition. § The New Zealand Set are careful watercolor copies of the central designs..... More
1987. Paris: Trianon Press for the Blake Trust, 1987 Publisher’s proofs in a box, including three copies of vol. 2 in variant bindings, one copy of vol. 1 black and white reproductions, and a suite of progressive proofs of plate 2. All within a quarter morocco box with gilt backstrip..... More
1946. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1946. 8vo., 38, (31) pp. frontispiece and feather decorations in green and brown, designed by Mallette Dean. Original patterned paper boards and white cloth, backstrip with printed title. Ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper, backstrip slightly faded, else very good... More
1946. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1946. 8vo, 38, (31) pp. frontispiece and feather decorations in green and brown, designed by Mallette Dean. Original patterned paper boards and white cloth, backstrip with printed title. Ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper, backstrip slightly faded, else very good... More
1899. Oxford: Henry Daniel, 1899. 4to., [4], 62, [10] pp., English black letter leaded, Daniel Press publisher's device on rear wrapper and last page, tailpiece. Original printed blueish-gray wrappers, handmade paper untrimmed. Some foxing and chipping to edges of wrappers; very good. With original handwritten receipt from C.H. Daniel to..... More
2016. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2016. 8vo, 292, (1, colophon)pp. With a frontispiece and 200 illustrations printed offset in 5 colors, and letterpress portions printed by Jerry Kelly in two colors. Original blue cloth, two-color typographic endpapers and letterpress titling label on upper cover, backstrip lettered in gilt..... More
1991. The Windowpane Press, 1991. Broadside, 10 x 13”, hand printed in blue, with color printed lithographic illustration, deckled fore-edge; very good. § Copyright 1974. 120 copies printed for the Alliance for Contemporary Book Arts by Bonnie Thompsn Norman at The Windowpane Press. More
1900. East Aurora, NY: Roycroft Press, 1900. 8vo, untrimmed, unpaginated. Title page and each stanza with gilt-ruled borders filled with elaborate, hand-colored Art Nouveau designs. Three quarter brown morocco with marbled paper boards, backstrip ruled and lettered in gilt. Pages with traces of the usual offsetting from the gilt, marbled..... More
1932. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1932. 27 pp. Fold-out facsimile of one of Scott's letters and 3 illustrations. Bound in green paper-covered boards with a rust colored leather spine. Some wear on the spine, otherwise fine. § Unnumbered edition of 300 copies. More
1968. San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem for The Book Club of California, 1968. 4to, 128pp. Original quarter green cloth with decorative paper-covered boards, paper label affixed to backstrip; illustrated throughout by means of facsimiles in sepia tone within the text from drawings and photographs. Original prospectus loosely inserted, bookbinder’s stamp to base..... More
1989. Northampton: ABCedary Letterpress, 1989. Folio, 35 leaves, including a map of the Magdalen Islands, and 11 aquatint & drypoint etchings in black, blue, & green. Wood engravings in the text. Full limp vellum, window in upper cover frames a wood engraving of a harp seal pup. With a separate..... More
1960. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1960. 8vo, 48pp. In cream-colored wrappers with printers' logos in red, title in black. Covers lightly soiled, spine sunned. Very good. § First edition. "An exhibit of representative examples from the collections of members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco held in the Palace..... More
1971. New York: Watson Guptill, 1971. 4to, 376pp. With a frontispiece, 60 line illustrations and 80 pages of b/w illustrations. Original orange cloth, d/j, as new. § The definitive account of private press printing from the earliest books to the present. Reprinted and revised in 1983. More
1976. London: The Scolar Press, 1976. Folio, [8], cxlii pp. With illustrations in woodcut throughout. Full brown morocco ruled in black, backstrip lettered in black and four raised bands, slipcase, as new. § De luxe edition, # XLIII of 50 printed on paper specially made by hand by Barcham, Green..... More
1981. Paris and San Francisco: The Trianon Press and Genesis Publications, 1981. 5 vols., sm. 8vo, 34; 44; 64; 32; 49 pp., 4 reproducing Constable’s sketches, and 1 with Introduction and commentary by Graham. Full morocco with paper label on front, each in a brownish-red, cloth covered slip case, all..... More
1981. Paris and San Francisco: The Trianon Press and Genesis Publications, 1981. 5 vols., sm. 8vo, 34; 44; 64; 32; 49 pp., 4 reproducing Constable’s sketches, and 1 with Introduction and commentary by Graham. Quarter morocco and hand-marbled paper, with paper label on front, each in a brownish-red, cloth covered..... More
1954. Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1954. Small 8vo., 63 pp. printed in dark green and red with linocut of a skier on the title page. Parchment-backed patterned boards. Slight toning to backstrip, else fine. § One of 210 copies. The biography of Snow-Shoe Thompson, “The Skiing Mailman of the Sierra”..... More
1936. San Francisco: George Fields, 1936. 8vo, xii, 96 pp. Illustrated by Charles Lindstrom. Seven initials in sepia, eight headpieces and title page illustration in color. Orange paper over boards with an illustration of a Native American on the front and back covers. White cloth backstrip with paper label... More
2014. Northampton, MA: Double Elephant Press, 2014. Large 4to (9 x 11.5 ins.), 29 leaves with 13 relief etchings (including the calligraphy) with hand painted marginalia, around a passe partout, revealing the 13 mezzotints of invented martyrs. Bound in molded board covered in more relief etchings and edged with copper..... More
