AT SUNDOWN by Whittier, John Greenleaf - 1892

Berkeley, CA: Archetype Press, 1939. cloth with printed design on front cover. Archetype Press. folio. cloth with printed design on front cover. 19+(1) pages. Limited to 105 copies, set up and printed on a handpress by Wilder Bentley ("and his faithful spouse, Ellen") on dampened Strathmore Wayside Text for at The Archetype Press in Euclid Court, Berkeley, Ca and issued for private distribution among members of The Arts Club & their friends. Printed in "a bastard version" of Caslon Oldface italic and Goudy Modern roman. Wood-engraved abstraction of the initial i for the Prolegomena, vignette on the title-page, and design for the front cover by John C. Haley. Excerpts from chronicles of The Arts Club's past season. "It is not primarily designed to explain to the world in general what we are, what we do, how well we reason, or how badly we sing. Rather it is a souvenir, intended to revive some of our very happy memories." Finely printed. Bottom corner bumped, else near fine.

France: The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation through Trianon Press, 1959. cardboard slipcase. Trianon Press. folio. cardboard slipcase. variously paginated. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. The Tsisab Ravine in the Brandberg Mountain range of South-West Africa, which is the site of the famous 'White Lady of the Brandberg," is also the site of a great number of painted rock shelters clustered together nearby. This volume is the outcome of the labors of Abbe Breuil and his companions who camped in the Tsisab Ravine in 1947 and again in 1948 in order to study the sites and to take tracings directly from the rock face. The Abbe's color copies are reproduced by the collotype and hand-stencil process in 77 plates, including one double-page, and are documented by 50 photographs reproduced in monochrome collotype, including two double-page photo-montages. It also includes introductory and topographical material, as well as a detailed description of the plates with the collaboration of Mary E. Boyle, Dr.… Read More

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.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. Hardcover, dust jacket. 7.5 x 10.75 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 256 pages. "The texts of the three lectures are given with a plethora of well-reproduced visual aids: almost every manuscript, piece of printed matter or artefact that Walker referred to is illustrated close to the reference, from a wide variety of sources." - Sebastian Carter, Journal of the Printing Historical Society Sir Emery Walker (1851-1933) was a leading figure of the Arts and Crafts movement and the inspiration for the revival of fine printing in Britain, the Continent, and America. His November 1888 address to the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society (summarized in Appendix 1 of this book; the original text of the speech is lost) prompted William Morris to found the Kelmscott Press. With Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, Walker established the Doves Press in 1900, and Walker advised other fine presses as well. In 1935 Charles Harry St. John Hornby wrote, "Walker was a mine… Read More

(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.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1930. half brown leather over cloth-covered boards, five raised bands, gilt on spine, top edge gilt. 8vo. half brown leather over cloth-covered boards, five raised bands, gilt on spine, top edge gilt. xii, 314, (2) pages. First impression of the trade edition. This copy has been rebound by Whitman Bennett in a lovely half-brown leather over cloth boards, with gilt on spine, for Korner & Wood (binder's ticket on front free endpaper). Spine slightly faded. Very minor rubbing to the spine, else a near fine copy. Studies of the Vatican Library, Sweynheym and Pannartz, Bodoni, etc. A beautiful book.

Oldham, England: Incline Press, n.d.. quarter cloth, illustrated paper-covered boards, top edge cut, other edges uncut, paper slipcase with spine label. Incline Press. 4to. quarter cloth, illustrated paper-covered boards, top edge cut, other edges uncut, paper slipcase with spine label. 53, (3) pages. Limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by the author and illustrator Nick Wonham on colophon. Acknowledgments, table of contents, glossary of terms employed in the North Sea Oil fields, Linocut illustrations by Nick Wonham. A collection of poetry inspired by oil exploration and drilling in the North Sea. Upper corner bumped, else a fine copy.

N.P.: n.p., 1901. Vigers, Allan F.. broadside (6 by 5 3/4 inches). Engraving that appeared on verso of title page of Francis Bacon, On Gardens (Chiswick PressS Original hand-colored plate, signed "A.F.V."' and dated.by the author. A floral pattern. With hand-printed transcript of card catalogue entry.

New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and V&A Publishing, 2018. cloth, dust jacket. 8.75 x 12 inches. cloth, dust jacket. xx, 396 pages, with folding floor plan of the Crystal Palace in pocket at rear. "...an impressive work of scholarship with beautiful visuals that will appeal to anyone interested in early photography... Hamber's splendid book may be regarded for generations as the authoritative account of photography at the 1851 Great Exhibition. Scholars of photographic history will want to add this title to their libraries, and anyone interested in the study of photography will delight in its compelling text and beautiful images..." - Robert Desmarais, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada "Any student of early photography -- or of the international exposition housed in the famous Crystal Palace in London -- will covet this magisterial work of careful scholarship and beautiful bookmaking." - Michael Dirda, "best books list," The Washington Post "Richly illustrated… Read More

Liberty, WI: Heavy Duty Press, 2022. sewn stiff paper wrappers, cloth string bag. Heavy Duty Press. 11 x 7 cm. sewn stiff paper wrappers, cloth string bag. 28 pages. Limited to 88 numbered copies signed and numbered by the printer. A fine copy. From the printer: Eight quotations from eight tea bags amidst eighty Bags set in eighty fonts, annotated for reference in the forthcoming title, JUST MY TYPE: SPECIMENS from The Type Store at Der Klubhaus. The hand set type is primarily genuine ATF Century Expanded, Oldstyle, and Schoolbook, but also includes every last font of the type inventory held by The Heavy Duty Press as of January 2022. Printed silently with Spiffy the Vandercook SP 15 on Kitakata paper and bound by hand with a pamphlet stitch, tucked into Bugra covers, and slipped into muslin tea bags screen printed by The Factory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.