[Rarebooks] FS: Books about Book Design, Illustration, and Typography

Thu Jul 14 10:33:21 EDT 2011

Offered today 17 books about book design, illustration and typography.

1    GASCOIGNE, Bamber.  How to Identify Prints: A Complete Guide to Manual and Mechanical Processes from Woodcut to Ink Jet.  (London): Thames and Hudson, (1991).  FIRST EDITION, reprinted.  8vo.  10 x 9 inches.  208 pp.  Illustrated throughout (some color), glossary, index; text clean, un-marked.  Gilt-stamped beige cloth, dust-jacket; binding square and tight; jacket with shelf wear and toning to extremities, else fine.      $ 35

2    [GILL]  GILL, Evan.  Eric Gill: A Bibliography.  Foreword by Walter Shewring.  London: Cassell, (1953).  8vo.  10 x 7 inches.  xv, (226) pp.  Half-title, black-and-white photographic frontispiece portrait of Gill at work, title-page vignette, facsimiles and examples of Gill illustrations throughout, lists more than 700 items by and about Eric Gill, indexes; very light pencil marginalia.  Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt, top edge gilt, dust-jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight.  Very Good.
    $ 85
LIMITED EDITION of 1,000 copies, this is number 145, printed in Eric Gill's Perpetua type at the Cambridge University Press.  This bibliography is divided into five parts: 1) Books and pamphlets written by Eric Gill; 2) Books and periodicals to which EG contributed; 3) Books and other publications illustrated by and containing graphic contributions by EG; 4) Criticism of his work; and 5) Miscellanea. 

3    [GILL]  GILL, Evan.  Eric Gill: A Bibliography.  Second Edition Revised by D. Steven Corey and Julia MacKenzie.  Winchester: St Paul's Bibliographies; Detroit: Omnigraphics, 1991.  8vo.  9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches.  xv, 368 pp.  Illustrated throughout in black-and-white, indexes; text clean, un-marked.  Gilt-stamped blue cloth, dust-jacket in archival mylar.  Fine.
    $ 35
SECOND EDITION revised.  Originally published in 1953 by Eric Gill's brother, Evan, this book is based on new research conducted at the University of San Francisco and the Clark Library in Los Angeles and increases the original entries by one third.  Includes new discoveries and material published about Eric Gill in the intervening 38 years. 

4    [GILL]  PHYSICK, J. F.  The Engraved Work of Eric Gill.  London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1963.  At Head of Title: Victoria and Albert Museum.  8vo.  8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches.  vii, (266) pp.  Lists nearly 1,000 items with full descriptions, index; text clean, un-marked.  Navy cloth, gilt spine, dust-jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight, light use wear.  Review Copy.  Very Good.
    $ 25
FIRST EDITION.  The Victoria and Albert Museum holds more than 1,000 engravings on wood or metal of Eric Gill, the most comprehensive holdings extant; this volume is the first to list them all in chronological order with bull bibliographical references. 

5    [GILL]  SKELTON, Christopher. The Engravings of Eric Gill.  Wellingborough, UK: Christopher Skelton, 1983.  Folio.  13 5/8 x 10 3/4 inches.  xxiv, 545, [3] pp.  Title-page vignette, black-and-white portrait of Gill at work, illustrated throughout with Gill's engravings, most in black but a few printed in color(s), 3 folding, bibliography, check list of books with engravings, index; text clean, un-marked.  White cloth spine titled in gilt, boards covered in black cloth, front cover stamped in blind with illustration of 3 female nudes dancing; binding square and tight.  Original slip case.  Very Good.
        $ 500
LIMITED EDITION of 1,350 copies of the Ordinary Edition.  A Special Edition of 85 copies was issued at the same time in two volumes bound in morocco and containing a portfolio of 8 loose engravings pulled from the original blocks.  This book adds 81 entries to the Victoria and Albert Catalogue of 1963, which lists 993 numbered entries of Gill engravings.  At least one state of every pictorial block in the Victoria and Albert Catalogue has been included.

6    HOUFE, Simon.  Fin de Siecle: The Illustrators of the 'Nineties."  London: Barrie & Jenkins, (1992).  4to.  11 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches.  [viii], 200 pp.  Half-title, frontispiece, illustrated throughout in black-and-white with toned backgrounds, bibliography, index; text clean, un-marked.  Navy cloth, gilt spine, dust-jacket; binding square and tight with very minor rubbing.  Near Fine.      $ 35

7    KENT, Rockwell (1882-1971) and ZIGROSSER, Carl (1891-1975).  Rockwellkentiana: Few Words and Many Pictures by R. K. and, by Carl Zigrosser, A Bibliography and List of Prints.  New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1933.  4to.  10 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches.  [x], 64 pp.  Half-title, color frontispiece, title-page vignette, chapter headpieces and tailpieces with additional illustrations in the text, list of wood-engravings and lithographs with full descriptions, bibliography of the writings and illustrations of Rockwell Kent, 85 pages of drawings, woodcuts, lithographs and paintings by Rockwell Kent; text clean, un-marked, pages lightly toned.  Illustrated cloth, added mylar jacket; binding square and tight, rubbed.  Gift inscription on front paste-down.  Very Good. 
        $ 25

8    [LANDACRE]  LEHMAN, Anthony L.  Paul Landacre: A Life and a Legacy.  Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1983.  Series: Los Angeles Miscellany, No. 15.  8vo.  9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches.  198, [2] pp.  15 photographic illustrations, 23 reproductions of wood engravings, plus numerous chapter headings and tailpieces printed in color, list of prints by Landacre, as list of bookplates, a list of Christmas cards, bibliography; text clean, un-marked.  Quarter black cloth, decorative paper over boards, gilt-titled spine; binding square and tight.  INSCRIBED by the author on the half-title to John and Margaret Class.  Prospectus included.  Fine.
    $ 300
FIRST EDITION printed by Richard Hoffman in Janson type on Mohawk Superfine paper, and bound by Bela Blau.  A loving tribute to the master wood engraver. 

9    MORISON, Stanley.  A Tally of Types by Stanley Morison.  With Additions by Several Hands.  Edited by Brooke Crutchley.  London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1973.  8vo  10 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches.  (138), [4] pp.  Black-and-white frontispiece portrait, printed on laid paper, title within a decorative border, chapter heads with decorations, index; text clean, un-marked.  Quarter beige cloth, brown patterned cloth over boards, gilt-ruled covers, gilt-titled spine; binding square and tight.  Comes in a brown cloth-covered slip case.  Fine 
    $ 75
LIMITED EDITION of 300 copies, this is number 45.  A Tally of Types was first circulated in a privately printed edition in 1953.  Though only a few copies were distributed, it became widely influential and achieved a degree of fame among aficionados of type design.  In 1973, Cambridge University Press published a version edited and expanded by Brooke Crutchley and others, in paperback, hardback in dust-jacket, and this limited edition format in slip case; the last two appear on-line with the same ISBN.  A Tally of Types is a historical, critical and functional account of the types cut under Morison's direction in the 1920s and early 1930s during a typographical revival conducted by the Monotype Corporation.  This copy is as fresh as the day it was issued.

10    [MORISON]  JONES, Herbert.  Stanley Morison Displayed: An Examination of His Early Typographic Work.  Foreword by Sir William Emrys Williams.  London: Frederick Muller, 1976.  8vo.  10 x 7 1/2 inches.  127 pp.  95 figures, index; text clean, un-marked, pages lightly toned.  Navy cloth, gilt spine, dust-jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight, jacket price-clipped.  Very Good.      $ 25

11    [MORISON]  MORAN, James.  Stanley Morison: His Typographic Achievement.  London: Lund Humphries, (1971).  4to.  12 x 8 1/2 inches.  Illustrated throughout in color and black-and-white, list of Morison's works, index; text clean, un-marked.  Black cloth, dust-jacket; binding square and tight, jacket with shelf wear.  Very Good.    $ 25

12    [MORRIS]  ROBINSON, Duncan.  William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and the Kelmscott Chaucer.  London: Gordon Fraser, (1982).  4to.  12 1/2 x 10 inches.  116 pp.  Illustrated throughout in black-and-white, index; text clean, un-marked.  Quarter green cloth, green patterned paper after a Morris design, spine titled in green, dust-jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight.  Very Good.      $ 35

13    REESE, William S.  Stamped with a National Character: Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books: An Exhibition.  New York: The Grolier Club, 1999.  4to.  11 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches.  120 pp.  107 color images describe 114 items in the exhibition, index; text clean, un-marked.  White linen, spine titled in black, dust-jacket.  Binding square and tight.  Fine.
    $ 85
FIRST EDITION.  This volume documents a Grolier Club Exhibition which traced the history and development of American color plates books in the nineteenth century, by a leading authority and dealer in Americana. 

14    [ROGERS]  American Institute of Graphic Arts.  The Work of Bruce Rogers.  Jack of All Trades: Master of One.  A Catalogue of an Exhibition Arranged by the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Grolier club of New York with an Introduction by D. B. Updike, A Letter from John T. McCutcheon, and an Address by Mr. Rogers.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1939.  8vo.  9 1/2 x 6 inches.  liv, 127 pp.  Half-title, black-and-white photographic frontispiece portrait of Rogers, title-page vignette, number plates (most black-and-white, but some color facsimiles of draft designs by Rogers), the bibliography lists nearly 770 items, index, printed on laid paper; text clean, un-marked.  Blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine, dust-jacket in archival mylar, binding square and tight, rubbed, end-papers toned.  Very Good.      $ 35

15    [ROGERS]  HAAS, Irwin.  Bruce Rogers: A Bibliography.  Hitherto Unrecorded Work 1889-1925.  Complete Work 1925-1936.  With a Letter of Introduction by Beatrice Warde.  Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1936.  LIMITED EDITION of 425 copies set in Centaur type.  8vo.  9 x 6 inches.  vii, 72, [2] pp  Title-page vignette in brown ink, index; text clean, un-marked.  Brick red cloth, printed paper spine label; binding square and tight, rubbed.  PROVENANCE: "From the Library of Robert Grabhorn, 1900-1973, Printer" on front paste-down.  Very Good.
    $ 50

Hand-Colored by Valenti Angelo
Inscribed by Edwin Grabhorn

16    ROTHCHILD, Herbert Lionel.  A Survey of Modern Bookmaking: Pages From Contemporary Presses of England and the Continent Together with Four Examples by San Francisco Printers.  San Francisco: (Grabhorn Press), 1931.  Folio.  390 x 262 mm.  [3 blank leaves], [vi, 44, 1 blank] pp.  Printed in red and black, introduction by Herbert Rothchild, paragraph marks in red and blue, illumination for nineteen facsilie pages, whenever necessary, by Valenti Angelo, printer's device printed in red on the colophon; occasional light off-setting from the illustrations, else text is un-marked.  Quarter tan cloth, fleur-de-lis designed cloth over boards, printed paper spine label "A Survey of Modern Bookmaking, for the Friends of Herbert Lionel Rothchild"; binding square and tight, light shelf wear, some foxing to the cloth.  INSCRIBED ON THE COLOPHON by Edwin Grabhorn: "For Dr & Mrs Bloomfield, I hope its not to shabby for your new shelves. E. Grabhorn."  Very good.  SCARCE.
        $ 500
LIMITED EDITION of 70 copies privately printed, handset in Lutetia type, on Whatman paper.  One of a few copies bound in the fleur-de-lis cloth.  The introduction was written by Herbert L. Rothchild, the descriptive matter was written by Robert Grabhorn.  The text highlights nine English, six Continental, and four publications from San Francisco, of exceptional works produced by private presses in the 1920s.  Opposite the text is a facsimile of the presswork under consideration.  The text includes historical and technical data about the various presses and the individual works.  The facsimile pages have been hand colored by Valenti Angelo.  An elegant presentation of some of the world's most sumptuous books printed in the 1920s.  Reference: Heller and Magee: Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, No. 152.

17    WAKEMAN, Geoffrey.  Victorian Book Illustration: The Technical Revolution.  Newton Abbot: David & Charles, (1973).  8vo.  8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches  182 pp.  Black-and-white illustrations throughout, tables, bibliography, index; text un-marked.  Red cloth, gilt spine, dust-jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight, light use wear.  Very Good.      $ 25

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