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London, England: Eugrammia Press, 1965. cloth, paper wrappers, both volumes enclosed in a slipcase. Fournier, Pierre Simon. oblong 4to. cloth, paper wrappers, both volumes enclosed in a slipcase. Facsimile of the 1742 manual accompanied by the 20 page introduction. 2 volumes. Printed in an edition limited to 600 copies. Loosely inserted in this copy is the 12 page publisher's catalogue describing this book and others they published. One joint split about one inch from opening of slipcase. Minor wear to slipcase. Else a pristine copy of this scarce facsimile. Reproduced from the copy in the Printing Library of the St. Bride Institute. Thirty-three plates depict samples of the types cut by Fournier c. 1742, which then appeared in his Manuel Typographique. Introduction by Mosley, renowned typography professor and then librarian at the St. Bride Printing Library. Printed in collotype by Louis van Leer & Co. of Amsterdam on rag cream paper. A consummate artist and craftsman, Fournier (1712 - 1768)…
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ODE TO THE WEST WIND
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Florence, Italy: L-D Allen Press, The, 1951. Original pink wrappers, front cover titled in black. Celnius Press. 4to. Original pink wrappers, front cover titled in black. unpaginated. Limited to 100 copies. A fine copy. Printed by Lewis and Dorothy Allen as a Christmas keepsake for their friends from their hand press. The type face is Romanée, hand-set; the paper is English hand-made, printed damp; and the cover paper is from the Fabriano mill which is situated not far from Florence. Printed in brown with hand-colored floral decorations to every page by Dorothy Allen.
From the introduction: "This ode, described as the most perfect of English lyrics, illustrates Shelley's superior gift of expression. In 1819 he also composed Prometheus Unbound (cited as the most radiant of all Utopian visions), and The Cenci (greatest of the tragedies since Shakespeare). That these three poems, each taking a supreme place among its own kind, should have been produced by one man and in a single year of his life, is one of the astonishing accomplishments of literary biography.
From the introduction: "This ode, described as the most perfect of English lyrics, illustrates Shelley's superior gift of expression. In 1819 he also composed Prometheus Unbound (cited as the most radiant of all Utopian visions), and The Cenci (greatest of the tragedies since Shakespeare). That these three poems, each taking a supreme place among its own kind, should have been produced by one man and in a single year of his life, is one of the astonishing accomplishments of literary biography.
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MODELES DES CARACTERES DE L'IMPRIMERIE ET DES AUTRES CHOSES NECESSAIRES AUDIT ART. NOUVELLEMENT GRAVES. With an Introduction to Pierre Simon Fournier's MODELES ... by James Mosely
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BOOKBINDINGS IN THE PUBLIC COLLECTIONS OF DENMARK VOL. I, THE ROYAL LIBRARY COPENHAGEN
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Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard, 1938. quarter cloth over paste paper covered boards. Bookbinding. large 4to. quarter cloth over paste paper covered boards. 128 pages. Edition limited to 250 copies. Volume I is the only volume published. Bookbinding and its aesthetic aspects are beautifully shown with the help of books accumulated through the centuries. Illustrations with text range from the XIIth through the XIXth centuries. The Royal Library contains a wealth of specimens of Italian, French, and German Renaissance bindings, but scarcely anything of interest of early English. The descriptive text alongside the pictures draws attention to the peculiarities of the binding, the method of forming the decoration, the colors, and other features not directly observable on the illustrations.Matters of technique have been given special attention. Includes an historical note by Carl S. Petersen, Chief Librarian of the Royal Library Copenhagen. The book has been bound by Andker Kyster. Bookseller's label on…
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RARITIES OF NUMISMATA TYPOGRAPHICA, FOUR EXAMPLES OF EARLY DUTCH PRINTER'S BOOKBINDERS' & BOOKSELLERS' GUILD MEDALS, CAST IN STERLING SILVER FROM ORIGINAL SPECIMENS
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Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1996. cloth, cloth spine label. Bird & Bull Press. 8vo. cloth, cloth spine label. medals portfolio, slipcase. Descriptions by William Blades. Introduction by Henry Morris. Limited to only 120 numbered copies (Berger A58). Printed from Dante types composed by Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari at Golgonooza Letter Foundry. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the Dutch printing guilds, which included booksellers, bookbinders, publishers and artists, issued medals to their journeyman members, with the name or number of the member engraved thereon. The medal identified the holder as a qualified guild member, a sort of "union card." All "one-of-a-kind," they are highly prized and extremely difficult to find today. Few Americans have ever seen one. Henry Morris was able to identify the formerly anonymous "No.17" on one of the medals, thus adding considerable interest to what is already a fascinating subject. Due to the high cost of silver and casting, only 120 copies of this book…
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10 YEARS PICARON EDITIONS 1986-1996
by Actherberg, Roel, et. al
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(Paris, France: Picaron Editions, 1996. stiff paper wrappers, glassine front cover, string bound. Picaron Editions. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, glassine front cover, string bound. xxxvii, 99+(1) pages. Text in English, French, and German. Limited to 300 numbered copies. Table of contents, index. Color and black and white illustrations. Binding by Studio Corazza, design by Rik Gadella. Printed on recto only. Light tanning at edges of text. Two advertisement cards laid in.
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MAKING THE RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPT: DISCOVERIES FROM PHILADELPHIA LIBRARIES
by Herman, Nicholas
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Philadelphia: Penn Libraries/Kislak Center, 2020. Paperback with French flaps. 8.5 x 11 inches. Paperback with French flaps. 352 pages. This exhibition catalogue examines the making of the hand-written and hand-illuminated book during a time of great political, religious, and technological transformation in Europe. Through approximately forty loans from ten regional institutions, as well another forty items from Penn's own collections, the exhibition examines the full intellectual and artistic depth of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries through a varied selection of extraordinary manuscripts, cuttings, and incunables, many of which have never before been exhibited. The catalogue opens with a Foreword by Constantina Constantinou and Will Noel and an Introduction, "To Hold the Renaissance in Our Hands," by curator Nicholas Herman. An essay, "Material Present Collecting Late Medieval and Early Modern Objects in (and around) Philadelphia," provides a detailed look at the history of the collections…
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OF STUDIES
by Bacon, Francis
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San Francisco: (Johnck & Seeger), 1928. paper covered boards, paper cover label. Farquhar, Samuel T.. large 12mo. paper covered boards, paper cover label. (9) pages. Printed in an edition of 50 copies to distribute to friends. Book designed and type hand set by Samuel T. Farquhar, his first work of type composition. Presswork done by well-known printer Lawton Kennedy, and the work completed in the shop of Johnck & Seeger in San Francisco. Bacon's famous brief essay on study and learning, with his famous quotation: "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. . . ." Minor abrasion to front board.
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MODELES DES CARACTERES DE L'IMPRIMERIE ET DES AUTRES CHOSES NECESSAIRES AUDIT ART. NOUVELLEMENT GRAVES. With an Introduction to Pierre Simon Fournier's MODELES ... by James Mosely
by Mosley, James
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London, England: Eugrammia Press, 1965. cloth, paper wrappers, both volumes enclosed in a slipcase. Fournier, Pierre Simon. oblong 4to. cloth, paper wrappers, both volumes enclosed in a slipcase. Facsimile of the 1742 manual accompanied by the 20 page introduction. 2 volumes. Printed in an edition limited to 600 copies. Loosely inserted in this copy is the 12 page publisher's catalogue describing this book and others they published. One joint split about one inch from opening of slipcase. Minor wear to slipcase. Else a pristine copy of this scarce facsimile. Reproduced from the copy in the Printing Library of the St. Bride Institute. Thirty-three plates depict samples of the types cut by Fournier c. 1742, which then appeared in his Manuel Typographique. Introduction by Mosley, renowned typography professor and then librarian at the St. Bride Printing Library. Printed in collotype by Louis van Leer & Co. of Amsterdam on rag cream paper. A consummate artist and craftsman, Fournier (1712 - 1768)…
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BOOKBINDINGS IN THE PUBLIC COLLECTIONS OF DENMARK VOL. I, THE ROYAL LIBRARY COPENHAGEN
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Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard, 1938. quarter cloth over paste paper covered boards. Bookbinding. large 4to. quarter cloth over paste paper covered boards. 128 pages. Edition limited to 250 copies. Volume I is the only volume published. Bookbinding and its aesthetic aspects are beautifully shown with the help of books accumulated through the centuries. Illustrations with text range from the XIIth through the XIXth centuries. The Royal Library contains a wealth of specimens of Italian, French, and German Renaissance bindings, but scarcely anything of interest of early English. The descriptive text alongside the pictures draws attention to the peculiarities of the binding, the method of forming the decoration, the colors, and other features not directly observable on the illustrations.Matters of technique have been given special attention. Includes an historical note by Carl S. Petersen, Chief Librarian of the Royal Library Copenhagen. The book has been bound by Andker Kyster. Bookseller's label on…
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RARITIES OF NUMISMATA TYPOGRAPHICA, FOUR EXAMPLES OF EARLY DUTCH PRINTER'S BOOKBINDERS' & BOOKSELLERS' GUILD MEDALS, CAST IN STERLING SILVER FROM ORIGINAL SPECIMENS
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Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1996. cloth, cloth spine label. Bird & Bull Press. 8vo. cloth, cloth spine label. medals portfolio, slipcase. Descriptions by William Blades. Introduction by Henry Morris. Limited to only 120 numbered copies (Berger A58). Printed from Dante types composed by Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari at Golgonooza Letter Foundry. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the Dutch printing guilds, which included booksellers, bookbinders, publishers and artists, issued medals to their journeyman members, with the name or number of the member engraved thereon. The medal identified the holder as a qualified guild member, a sort of "union card." All "one-of-a-kind," they are highly prized and extremely difficult to find today. Few Americans have ever seen one. Henry Morris was able to identify the formerly anonymous "No.17" on one of the medals, thus adding considerable interest to what is already a fascinating subject. Due to the high cost of silver and casting, only 120 copies of this book…
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Landscape Etching
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N.P.: n.p., 1822. broadside (14 1/2 by 20 1/2 inches). Etching of a rural landscape, artist unknown, but date June 3 1822, on front corner. Edges chipped and tanned.
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DEFENCE OF POETRY.|A
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Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1904. quarter vellum over paper covered boards. 8vo. quarter vellum over paper covered boards. 90, (2) pages. Limited to 508 copies, of which this is one of 500 copies printed on French hand-made paper at the press of Geo. F. McKiernan & Co. Bookplate of Charles De Von LaFollete. Minor spotting to vellum and light toning to paper-covered boards. Overall a near fine copy. Designed and printed under the supervision by Ralph Fletcher Seymour.
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Selected Poems
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New York: Macmillan, 1938. Includes selections from Masefield's books: Salt-Water Ballads; Poems and Ballads; Pompey the Great; The Everlasting Mercy; The Widow in the Bye Street; Dauber; The Daffodil Fields; Philp the King; Good Friday; Lollingdon Downs; Gallipoli; Reynard the Fox; Enslaved; Right Royal; Ester; King Cole and Other Poems; Odtaa; Midsummer Night and Other Tales in Verse; The Wanderer; Minnie Maylow's Story and Other Tales and Scenes; A Letter from Pontus. 271 toned, clean pages. Navy blue cloth with gilt facsimle signature on front cover and dull gilt titles on spine; a dozen or so pages are bumped at top corner; tanned inside covers. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Forgotten Song by Eugene Cowles Oliver Ditson Company Boston
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Forgotten Song by Eugene Cowles Oliver Ditson Company Boston
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![Reno, Land of Charm [Nevada]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/531/523/1471523531.0.m.jpg)
Reno, Land of Charm [Nevada]
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Reno, Nevada: Reno Chamber of Commerce, 1927. Stapled Binding. Very Good. Includes original sleeve. Light general wear. 1927 Stapled Binding. Unpaginated. Reno, Nevada. Early travel brochure. Briefly discusses the area surrounding Reno, and touches on each of Nevada's major cities. Numerous black-and-white photo reproductions of Reno and surrounding area, including countryside and Sparks.--Calvello Books
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EDGAR ALLAN POE IN 20 OBJECTS FROM THE SUSAN JAFFE TANE COLLECTION
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Baltimore: The Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University, 2017. paperback. 9.2 x 5.2 inches. paperback. xiv, 129 pages. This collection of short, illustrated essays by leading and emerging Poe scholars focuses on twenty Poe-related objects from a private collection, which are closely examined as a means of unpacking Poe's family history, literary preoccupations, and legacy. Published in connection with a public exhibition at Johns Hopkins University, October 2016 through February 2017, "The Enigmatic Edgar A. Poe in Baltimore & Beyond.
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Two Anti-Communist Newsletters
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Evanston, IL: Church League of America, 1950. Pamphlet. Fine. This is a lot of 2 pamphlets from the early 1950s published by the right wing Church League of America based out of the Chicago suburbs from 1937-1984. Both pieces are in fine condition. THOMPSON, Dorothy. "What Is Behind the Immigration Furor?"; News and Views, January 1953, No. 230. Evanston: National Laymen's Council of the Church League of America. Broadsheet. 4 pp. A newsletter decrying the New Deal and the threat of Communist immigrants. RADCLIFFE, Cy. "A little business fights Big Government". Evanston: National Laymen's Council of the Church League of America. Broadsheet. 2 pp. A newsletter describing the writer's efforts to prevent his employees from unionizing and the ensuing lawsuit. Includes a photo of Radcliffe captioned "CRUSADER."
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THE CALIFORNIA-ARIZONA CITRUS STORY
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Redlands, California: Pure Gold, [1955]. Stapled wraps. Very good. [12p.] Small chips to wrap edges. The Mutual Orange Distributors (MOD) was founded in Redlands, California, in 1906 as a cooperative marketing association representing citrus growers in California. Within a few years, the coop included citrus growers in western Arizona. In 1955, MOD changed its name to Pure Gold, originally the brand name for fruit grown by the approximately 2,500 MOD growers. Sunkist took over the Pure Gold trademark when the co-op closed in 1987 due to housing developments replacing the citrus fields and the shrinking number of packing plants. This booklet explains the history of the citrus-growing culture in California and Arizona and provides information on the variety of oranges, lemons, and grapefruit grown and their cultivation and packaging. A map on the back shows the regions represented by the Pure Gold cooperative. Scarce, none located in OCLC. B&w illustrations and halftone photographs. (11"x8-1/2")
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Leopold Von Ranke A Review of his Life
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Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volumes 22-23 pages 542-558, signed "H. B. A" Leopold Von Ranke a review of his life. by Herbert Baxter Adams;Adams was born to Nathaniel Dickinson Adams and Harriet (Hastings) Adams in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. On his mother's side, he was a descendant of Thomas Hastings who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634.[1] Adams received his early training in the Amherst, Massachusetts public schools and Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated from Amherst College in 1872. In 1873 Adams traveled to Europe to study and write. In 1874 he then moved to Heidelberg, Germany to pursue the Ph.D. degree. There he was influenced by Johann Gustav Droysen and Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, the latter also becoming his mentor. Heidelberg did not then require a thesis from its doctoral candidates, instead it required an oral examination, for which he chose political science for his major field (Hauptfach), with two minors… Read More
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Butterflies in gilded frame
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handmade exhibit of butterflies gold frame
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Number 30. Shelter Lullaby, by Helen Thomas sheet music Boston Music, drawing by Edwina Dumm
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![[BOWLING] [WOMEN] Annual Reception Queen Pin League Sat. June 6 1959 9:00 PM Flame Lounge [cover...](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/532/334/1477334532.0.m.jpg)
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[BOWLING] [WOMEN] Annual Reception Queen Pin League Sat. June 6 1959 9:00 PM Flame Lounge [cover title]
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[no place, but Cleveland, OH], 1959. Staplebound. Very good. Octavo, 4pp. Side-stapled with decorative ribbon added. Mimeographed cover and contents. Very good, with some creasing to covers. There is pen and pencil writing internally, and with the numerous corrections to dates and times, we presume that this program was used to draft the program for the coming season; that is, the corrections to dates, times, sponsors, and the league officers are indicated so that the new season's program will be updated. We could find no information about the "Queen Pin League," but it clearly seems to have been an all-women bowling league in the Cleveland area (with all Cleveland city businesses as sponsors). A light pencil drawing on the rear cover might be a mock-up for a new cover design. Highly ephemeral piece of Cleveland women's bowling history.
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