1976. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1976. Folio, 99 pages. Richly illuminated and illustrated throughout, with 43 specimen leaves. Original quarter red cloth and boards, fine, original plain dust-jacket, age toned and lightly worn. § Limited to 400 copies printed at the Arion Press and signed by Angelo... More about Valenti Angelo Author Illustrator Printer
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1906. Berkeley: California Bookplate Society (Sheldon Cheney), 1906-1907. 4 vols, 12mo, (16); (16); (18); (16) pp. First issue of this booklet with 9 facsimile bookplates; the 3 remaining volumes each with at least 1 bookplate tipped in, the remaining examples in line-drawn facsimile. Wrappers of Vol. 1 No. 1 with... More about California Book Plates [with] 3 Issues of The California Book-plate Booklet
1860. New York: Thaddeus Davids & Co., 1860. Sm. 8vo, 72, 4,[6]pp., with an elaborate chromolithographic titlepage, and 16 lithographic plates (1 colored). Original brown boards lettered in gilt, rebacked and hinges strengthened. § First Edition, a scarce and interesting book on the subject. An early and handsome history... More about The History of Ink, Including its Etymology, Chemistry, and Bibliography
1946. London: James Shand at the Sheaval Press, 1946. 8vo, 92 pp. Color and black and white illustrations with 4 folding plates. Original stiff orange wrappers, spiral bound. Light chipping, pages browned. Very good. § Issue 3 of the short-lived post-war periodical devoted to typography and graphic design. Published quarterly... More about Alphabet and Image: 3
1930. London: Seeley & Service & Co. Ltd., 1930. 4to, 336 pp. Original white buckram, gilt lettering to backstrip. Signed by Hewitt on the colophon. Binding a little spotted, gilt faded but legible, internally clean and bright. § Number 297 from the deluxe edition of 380 copies, signed by... More about Lettering for Students and Craftsmen by Graily Hewitt B.A., LL.B., Lecturer on Writing and...
1932. Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1932. Tall folio, 71 pp. with 15 specimens of paper made from bamboo, mulberry, china grass and mitsuma, 3 specimens of bark, and numerous color and black and white illustrations. Three quarter buckram and decorated paper boards, printed paper label to upper board, occasional light... More about Old Papermaking in China and Japan
1936. New York: Pynson Printers, 1936. Quarto, 148, (4)pp., plus 51 paper specimens. With frontispiece, three woodcut and 65 photogravure illustrations. Quarter leather with paper over boards printed in gilt from 18th century wood blocks acquired by Hunter in Korea, backstrip tooled in red and lettered in gilt, insignificant wear... More about A Papermaking Pilgrimage to Japan, Korea and China
1928. Cambridge and New York: 1928. Thick 4to, xiii, 264, (1) pp. With 10 plates, 60 line blocks in the text, 6 typographical insets, 3 broadsides, and an 8pp. type specimen printed on pale green paper; many in two or more colors; two original prints by David Jones including one... More about The Fleuron. A Journal of Typography. Edited by Stanley Morison. No. VI
2012. Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 2012. Roy. 8vo, 144 pp. of which 127 are numbered. Letterpress printed. Tip-ins and fold outs. Set in Bell, Bodoni, Goudy Modern, Arrighi, Romulus, Poliphilus. Fournier and Caslon types. Printed on Somerville Laid & Zerkall mould made paper. Case bound in light boards. Printed dust wrapper... More about Matrix 31 Winter 2012
