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1. [ALLEN PRESS]. BYRON, George Gordon, Lord. A Venetian Story. With Illustrations from Eighteenth Century Copperplate Engravings Selected and Introudced by Eleanor M. Garvey and Philip Hofer. [Kentfield, California:] Allen Press, 1963. Oblong folio. Leaf size: 13 x 19." 47 loose leaves, including the two red endsheets and one purple leaf separating the introduction from the text. Thirty-five full-page illustrations from 18th-century copperplate engravings, vignettes in text. Large hand-colored woodcut initial by Mallette Dean. Printed in Goudy Modern and Cochin, set by hand, on all-rage and mould-made Rives paper. Printed damp on an Acorn-Smith handpress. Brown cloth over decorative boards, a Fortuny print of an eighteenth-century design. Housed in brown cloth clamshell box. Minor soiling to box, but a fine, clean copy. $750 One of 150 copies. Allen Press Bibliography, 27.

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First English Printed work with Illustrations and the First Complete Cosmography in English 2. [ALLEN PRESS]. CAXTON, William. The Mirrour of the World. Kentfield, California: Allen Press, 1964. Folio. Hand-colored initial letters, and thirty-three woodcut illustrations

from the original work by Caxton. Three sections of unsewn signatures in the French style, each in colored paper wrappers, contained in a hinged green fabric-covered box lined with brown wood veneer. Light stain on front of box. Otherwise a fine copy. $850 One of 139 copies, printed letterpress on handmade paper, in Romanée type. A lovely edition of the first English printed work with illustrations and the first complete cosmography in English, a popular encyclopedia of knowledge in the Middle Ages. It was printed by William Caxton, the first English printer, in 1481 on the first English printing press, which he had established in 1476.

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With an Original Leaf from the Complutensian Polyglot of Acalà

3. [ALLEN PRESS]. HALL, Basil. The Great Polyglot Bibles. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1966. Folio, unpaginated. Printed in black and red in Italian Old Style type on mould-made all-rag paper. Numerous woodcuts throughout. Unbound sheets, in terra cotta paper folder. Fine in purple cloth clamshell slipcase. Slipcase has minor soiling. $650 Limited to 400 copies, printed letterpress by Lewis and Dorothy Allen at the Allen Press. Includes an original leaf, printed in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin, from the Complutensian Polyglot of Acalà, printed 1514-1517. Allen Press Bibliography, 30. Disbound and Dispersed, no. 144.

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Inspired by the Miniature Painters of Udaipur,

One of Twenty-Five Copies 4. ALLIX, Susan. The Golden Temple Mail to Bharatpur. [London: ] Susan Allix, [2001]. Quarto. [50] pp. Six color etchings accompanied by a descriptive passage or story printed by letterpress in 14pt. Baskerville. Paper for text and etchings is Saunders Waterford. Purple, yellow and cream-colored wrappers, stitched at spine in yellow. In acetate and cream-colored board covers. A fine copy. $1,200 One of fifteen regular copies out of a total edition of twenty-five copies. Of the twenty-five copies, Copy Number 1 had paintings, copies 2-15 had original etchings based on the paintings, and copies xvi to xxv had reproductions made from the etchings or paintings. This is Copy no. xxiii. Signed by Susan Allix. "Two incidents led to the making of this book. One was the opportunity to observe the miniature painters of Udaipur and to obtain some of their original pigments for painting, and the other was the strange story told by the man on the train to Bharatpur" (Susan Allix).

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With Fifty-Two Fine Plates, Including Twenty-Seven Chromolithographs by William Griggs

5. ALMACK, Edward. Fine Old Bindings. With interesting miscellanea in Edward Almack's Library. London: Blades, East and Blades, 1913. Folio (16 /8" x 11 1/2"). viii, 149 pp. Title printed in red and black. Fifty-two fine plates, twenty-seven chromolithographically printed, with gold. Numerous text illustrations. Index. Tan linen over burgundy linen boards, gilt spine and front cover lettering, gilt-ruled covers. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Corners rubbed, minor soiling. A very good copy. $950 One of 200 numbered copies. Edward Almack (1852-1917) was a noted book collector and writer on books. His publications include A Bibliography of The King's Book, or Eikon Basilike (1896), The Cavalier-Soldier's Vade-Mecum (1900), The History of the Second Dragoons: "Royal Scots Greys (1908), and Bookplates (1910). The present book features a running account of Almack's experiences as a book collector. The bindings illustrated are largely the work of Samuel and Charles Mearne, premier English binders of the seventeenth century. The color work is by William Griggs (1832-1911) chromolithographer to QueenVictoria and the inventor of a photolithographic process that brought down the cost of color printing. It involved a photolithographic transfer from a negative of the original to stone, printed as a ‘key’ in a suitable colour, superimposing thereon, in exact register, transparent tints in harmony with the original. Opaque colours, when necessary, were printed first. Griggs also produced facsimiles of old manuscripts, notably the Mahabhasya (the standard authority on Sanskrit grammar), a 4,674 page book printed in an edition of fifty copies, and reproductions of the Shakespeare quartos with critical introductions by Frederick James Furnivall and others, in forty-three volumes. Griggs was one of the first to practice halftone block making and collotype and helped to bring about rapid printing using cylinder presses.

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6. [ARCHETYPE PRESS]. The Next Millennium: Typographic Notes. Pasadena: Archetype Press, Art Center College of Design, Summer, 1998. 5 6 3/4." Twenty-eight leaves, printed on one side only. Printed letterpress in various colors. Golden brown cloth with printed paper label on front cover. Silk ribbon marker. A fine copy. $225 One of fifty copies. Typographic interpretations of transition and time by twenty-four students.

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Scarce Early Leaf Book, Limited to 85 Copies 7. ARNOLD, William Harris. First Report of a Book Collector: Comprising: A Brief Answer to the Frequent Question "Why First Editions?" With Some Remarks on the common supposition that mere scarcity is a reason for collecting them; and Five Egotistical Chapters of Anecdote and Advice addressed to the beginner in book-collecting; Followed by An Account of Book-Worms. New York: Marion Press, l897-8. Quarto. x, 98, [2] pp. Illustrated with numerous facsimiles, many in collotype, some in color. Also with two mounted original photographs, one of Bernard Quaritch and one of a bookworm, and five original leaves, including pages from Fabyan's The Chronycles of England, 1559; Samuel Rogers' Italy; a Quarich catalogue cover; Hugh Blair's Rhetoric; and Froissart's Chronycles of England, 1523-25. The first four are tipped in, and the final specimen, a double-leaf, is in the back pocket. Original limp vellum with gilt spine. Minor soiling. Bookplate of collector John Percival Jefferson (1852-1934). Near fine. $1,500 Limited to eighty-five copies. Signed by the author and by Frank E. Hopkins of the Marion Press. Disbound and Dispersed, 7.

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8. [ASHENDENE PRESS]. THUCYDIDES. [History of the Peloponnesian War]. Translated into English by Benjamin Jowett. Chelsea: Printed at the Ashendene Press, 1930.

Large folio, 16" x 11 1/2." [2], 364 pp. Printed in black and red in Ptolemy type with chapter summaries in the margins printed in Blado Italic type. Decorative initial letters and opening lines of each of the eight books designed by Graily Hewitt. Full cream-colored pigskin with gilt spine. Covers very lightly soiled, a hint of foxing to the endpapers. Otherwise a fine, clean copy of one of the highlights of the Ashendene Press. $4,500 One of 260 copies on handmade paper out of a total edition of 280 copies. This is the last of the great folios printed by the Ashendene Press, following Spenser's Faerie Queen and Minor Poems, Malory's Morte D'Arthur, and Cervantes' Don Quixote. "In February 1931 a Notice was sent out to subscribers announcing the forthcoming issue of 'Thucydides' and in it was foreshadowed the closing down of the Press. After referring to the projected edition of Daphnis and Chloe, it goes on to say: 'It is more than probable that these two books will be the last to be issued from the Ashendene Press, with the possible exception of a Descriptive Bibliography of the Press, containing a number of specimen pages from the books printed between 1895 and the date of the closing down, and also specimens of the woodcut illustrations and initials used therein. It is ifficult to speak with certainty about the giving up of a hobby which has for more than 35 years occupied so many of my leisure hours, and I may be tempted to add yet another volume to the list. The chances are against it, but time alone will show'" (Ashendene Bibliography, p. 89). Ashendene Bibliography, XXXVII.

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One of the Scarcest Bird & Bull Publications

9. [BIRD & BULL PRESS]. MORRIS, Henry, compiler. The Paper Maker: A Survey of Lesser-Known Hand Paper Mills in Europe and North America. North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1974. Quarto. [130] pp., with a separate title-page for pp. [110] and following, which is printed: “The Paper Maker. An Account of a Unique Publication, with a Selective Index.”

With nineteen pages of illustrations and samples from each of the “lesser-known mills,” including a papyrus sample from Hassan Ragab at the Papyrus Institute in Cairo. The other mills discussed include the Twinrocker Press in San Francisco, Papeterie Saint-Gilles in Quebec, and Richard de Bas in France. Printed on handmade paper, with the title of the book in the watermark. Quarter tan goatskin over red paper-paper boards, gilt spine. Spine slightly toned. A near fine copy of one of our favorite Bird and Bull Press titles that is quite scarce on the market. $1,500 One of 175 copies. The first part of this book consists of a survey made by Morris of the lesser-known contemporary paper makers, with short histories of eleven of these. The second part of the book includes an account of the periodical, The Paper Maker, which was published by Hercules, Incorporated, from 1932 to 1970. The helpful index was compiled by James L. Anderson and Henry Morris. Taylor A15.

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One of 120 Copies Printed by the Bird & Bull Press

10. [BIRD & BULL PRESS]. TWISS, Richard. A Trip to Paris in July & August 1792. With a Preface by Henry Morris and wood engravings by Wesley Bates. Newtown: Bird & Bull

Press, L'An CCXX [2012]. Octavo. 82, [4] pp. Four wood engravings in text, two mounted photographic reproductions, and facsimile title-page. Printed on Arches laid paper, with decoration in red and blue. Quarter crimson morocco over dark blue Japanese cloth boards, front cover and spine stamped in gilt. A fine copy. $400 One of 120 copies. "In 1793 he published A Trip to Paris in July and August, 1792, which is the basis for the present book. Twiss' tendency to be overly-critical appears here and there in the Paris book, but alongside the mundane details of transport, sight-seeing, food and lodging and currency exchange, which all travelers want to know, he is on the ground reporting the bloody events of a violent revolution in progress…" (Henry Morris).

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Wood-Engravings by Alan James Robinson

11. [CHELONIIDAE PRESS]. POE, Edgar Allan. The Black Cat. [Williamsburg, Massachusetts: Cheloniidae Press, 1984]. Octavo. [28] pp. Eleven wood-engravings by Alan James Robinson. Set in Bulmer Monotype by Mackenzie-Harris of San Francisco. The book was printed by Harold Patrick McGrath at Hampshire Typothetae. Handmade black paper wrappers by Rugg Road over black boards. A fine copy. $750 One of 250 copies on Rives Lightweight and vintage Bodleian papers out of a total edition of 325 copies

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One of 190 Copies Printed at the Auk Press

12. CHENEY, Will. Autobiography of W.M.C. Downey: [Published by Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, Printed at the Auk Press], 1983. Miniature book, 3 x 2 1/2." 26 pp. Half-tone illustrations throughout. Includes a section entitled "How to Print in One Easy Lesson," featuring five photographic reproductions by Grant Dahlstrom of Jake Zeitlin and Will Cheney in a print shop in 1955, with an extra photographic reproduction of Cheney and Dahlstrom taken by Zeitlin. Brown cloth, with "AUK" printed in black and gilt on spine, black device of the Auk Press on front cover. A fine copy. $125 One of 190 copies printed. Bradbury, 20th Century US Miniature Books, 682. 13. [CHENEY, Will]. FLEECESTREET, Jason Augustus [pseudonym]. Fleecestreet’s Improved Pig Latin Grammar For Modern Scholars. Adapted From Gen. Cyclops Stonebone’s Four Basic Dialects of Pig Latin by Judge Jason Augustus Fleecestreet. Los Angeles: The Press in the Gatehouse,1963. 2 7/16 x 1 11/16 inches. 30, [4] pp. Title page printed within a ruled border. With bibliography and index; text clean, unmarked. Quarter brown calf, marbled paper over boards, spine titled in gilt; binding square and tight. Fine. $350 One of 200 copies, printed letterpress by William M. Cheney and bound by Bela Blau. “Cheney’s typography stands out in his miniature books. ‘Of the fine printers of the Southern California Renaissance, Cheney is arguably the most unusual,’ wrote Bruce Whiteman. ‘He is devoted to type.... His obsessions are thankfully tempered by a fine sense of irony, and he clearly knows very well that a life devoted to printing small editions of small books about recondite subjects (Pig Latin, pocket knives, Greek, etc.) is an odd life indeed, however fulfilling’” (Bradbury, p. 47).

Bradbury, 20th Century US Miniature Books, no. 686. Jones, A Los Angeles Typesticker, no. 54.

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With Eleven Pieces of Pre-Production Material,

Including Proofs, Mock-Ups, a Production Timeline, Etc. 14. [COLOR PRINTING]. My Favourite Alphabet. London: Renwick of Otley, [n.d., ca. 1930s.] Quarto. 9 7/8: x 6 1/4." [8] pp., including two-page color central spread and color-printed covers. Self-wrapper, stapled. Very good or better.

[Together with:]

Pre-production proofs and mock-ups for the same book. Eleven pieces, including a manila envelope, annotated as to production costs [£10 - 10 - 0] and timeline for production (e.g. "June 19th. 4 originals & color schemes from L & P"]. There is some wear to some of the proofs, but the condition is generally excellent, especially considering the fragility of the material. $750 The author and artist are not credited. There is no copy of the finished book in OCLC. Renwick of Otley published a number of children's books from the 1890s through the mid-twentieth century. They are known for their very colorful color-printed covers. Because of the fragile nature of many of them, and the fact that they were used by children, the titles listed in OCLC are mostly known in small numbers, and many titles have no doubt virtually disappeared from record.

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With 120 Chromolithographic Illustrations

15. [COLOR PRINTING]. Souvenir of Scotland: Its Cities, Lakes, and Mountains. One Hundred and Twenty Chromo Views. London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1890. Small quarto. Frontispiece and sixty pages of chromolithographed plates, two per page, of views of Scotland. Publisher's turquoise cloth with front cover and spine elaborately decorated in gilt, black and red, back cover stamped in blind. All edges gilt. Binding extremities lightly worn, flyp-leaves browned. Former owner's ink signature, with the annotation: "Purchased on the Steamer Loch Lommond, July 16, 1890." A very good, bright copy. $600 This work was apparently first printed in 1889. Several other editions appeared between that date and 1897.

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16. [COLT PRESS]. ROTH, William M. The Colt Springs High: a Publishing Memoir of the Colt Press 1938-1942. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2004. Large octavo. xii, [216] pp. Orange cloth over tan cloth boards, printed in brown. Fine. $175 First edition. One of 500 copies. Designed by Andrew Hoyem and printed at the Arion Press.

Finely Bound by McLeish 17. [CURWEN PRESS]. Catalogue Raisonné of Books Printed at the Curwen Press 1920-1923. With an introduction by Holbrook Jackson. London: The Medici Society Limited, 1924. Octavo. 27 pp. + [9] sample pages, some with color illustrations. Finely bound by C. and C. McLeish in full reddish-brown morocco, ruled in gilt. Spine with raised bands and title in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine faded, minor rubbing to edges. A very good copy. $350 Charles McLeish the elder (1859-1949) was a finisher for the Doves Press, and this binding is indeed reminiscent of the work of the Doves Bindery.

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One of Fifty Copies

18. [D'AMBROSIO, Joseph]. GOLDEN, Harry. Four from 'Only in America.' Phoenix: D'Ambrosio, 1995. 2 x 2 1/2." [viii], 57, [2] pp. Decorative borders and initial letters, flag vignettes in blue and red. Designed and produced by Joseph D'Ambrosio using computer typesetting and a combination of laser and letterpress printing. Quarter dark blue morocco over blue cloth boards, spine leather cut-out to display a white cloth, six-pointed star. Housed

in a drop-back box, covered in red and dark blue with white cloth, with the spine cut out to display a five-pointed star, printed paper label on box. A fine copy. $450 One of fifty copies. "Reprinted here in a miniature book are three short stories of a Jewish immigrant writer's American experiences. The author is Harry Golden, and the original book contains many short stories, humorous as well as delightfully charming, which had previously appeared in printed form as a book with the same title…The ambiguity of the binding is meant to entice the reader into a realm of delightful ethnological equivocation. I, too, emanate from an immigrant parent (my father was born in Italy), so I can easily relate to the minor faults of trying to look and be American while maintaining a separate heritage" (Joseph D'Ambrosio, A Memoir of Book Design, p. 160).

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19. [D'AMBROSIO, Joseph]. ROATCAP, Adela Spindler. Lunch at Adler's: Reflections on Joe D'Ambrosio's A Memoir of Book Design. [San Francisco:] Joseph D'Ambrosio, 2005. 2 1/2 x 2." [6], 40 pp. Vignette of a piece of cake in pink and tan on title-page and first page of text, mounted photos of Albert Sperisen and Joseph D'Ambrosio, one other mounted photograph. Star spangled cloth with color photograph of D'Ambrosio in recessed area on front cover, printed paper spine label. Binding extends past back cover to form a covering for front cover, making a kind of case. A fine copy. $300 One of fifty numbered copies, plus ten artist's proofs. This copy is labeled "A.P." Signed on the inside back cover by Joseph D'Ambrosio.

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One of 130 Copies,

A Reprint, Without the Music, of a Unique Copy of the Book Published in 1601 20. [DANIEL PRESS]. JONES, Robert. The Muses Gardin for Delights Or the fift Booke of Ayres, onely for the Lute, the Base-vyoll, and the voice. Composed by Robert Jones. Edited with an introduction by William Clay Squire. Oxford: Daniel Press, 1901. Quarto. [8], vi, [2], 44, [4] pp. One plate, a facsimile of the title-page of the 1610 edition of this work. Blue printed wrappers, torn at foot of spine, with a few chi8ps around the edges. Some staining to covers. A good copy of a fragile book. $350 One of 130 copies. The editor’s preface states that this is a reprint, without the music, of a unique copy of the 1610 of Robert Jones’s Muses Gardin, in Lord Ellesmere’s library at Bridgewater House in London. That copy is now in the Huntington Library. Robert Jones (fl. 1597-1615) graduated BMus at Oxford in 1597. Nothing is known of his family background. In January 1610 he and three others were granted a patent to found a children's theatre company called “Children of the revels to the Queen within Whitefriars”, and in May 1615 permission to build a playhouse for their performances on the site of Jones's house near Puddle Wharf in Blackfriars was added. However, objections from civil authorities prevented its opening its doors. The nearly completed building was eventually demolished and the patent withdrawn. He published five books of lute songs, the first being The First Booke of Songes and Ayres (1600). The present book is his last collection of lute songs. He also published numerous madrigals. “Jones was not one of the more distinguished composers of his time. His harmonic technique was limited (though some of the blatant inaccuracies in his lute parts may arise from printers' errors) and he showed little interest in the more radical trends already displayed in some of John Dowland's songs. But he had a flair for the simple, tuneful lute air, and, judging from his unmatched flow of volumes, he was the most popular composer of such songs in the first decade of the seventeenth century” (Oxford DNB)

Daniel Press Bibliography, 50. 21. DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall. Bibliomania; or Book Madness: A Bibliographical Romance, in Six Parts. Illustrated with Cuts. London: Printed for the Author, By J. McCreery…and sold by Messrs. Longman, Hurst…[et al.], 1811. Octavo. [xii], 762, [1, errata] pp. Woodcut frontispiece, engraved title-page vignette, engraved plate of Calvin and Luther opposite p. 158, and numerous text illustrations, as well as borders decorative initials and tail-pieces. Chronological, bibliographical, and general index. Contemporary paneled calf, gilt-decorated spine, all edges gilt. Neatly rebacked, with old spine laid down. Corners worn, some rubbing to edges of boards. Two bookplates. A former owner has written in a "Key to the characters" in ink on a preliminary blank. A very good, clean copy. $950 Second edition of Dibdin's most popular work, a cornerstone of book collecting literature.

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Presentation Copy from Leonard Baskin,

With Ten Additional Loose Leaves from the Book 22. [GEHENNA PRESS]. Culs de Lampe. [Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1972]. 6 12" x 5 3/4." 20, (2) leaves printed on recto only. A selection of sixteenth and seventeenth century printers' culs de lampes, printed in various colors. The papers are Nideggen and Fabriano blue and white. Marbled boards with tan paper backstrip, gilt burgundy morocco spine label. Slight dampstain in lower margin of back endpapers and a few text leaves. Very good or better. With ten additional loose leaves of from the book included $375 One of 250 copies. Presentation copy, inscribed by the printer, Leonard Baskin: "for Anne from Leonard 1972."

Brook 55. Hosea Baskin, The Gehenna Press: The Work of Fifty Years 1942-1992, " 56.

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Fine Photographic Work on Alamos, Mexico

23. [GRABHORN PRESS]. ELKUS, Richard J. Alamos: A Philosophy in Living. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1965. Folio, unpaginated. Twenty-four black and white photographs by the author. Printed in black and red on all-rag paper. Introduction by Barnaby Conrad. Quarter brown suede over Mexican decorative cloth with blindstamped front cover. A fine copy. $450 First edition. Limited to 487 copies, signed by the author and by Robert and Edwin Grabhorn. This is the last major work by the Grabhorn Press. Grabhorn Bibliography 653.

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In a Striking Binding, Designed by Paul Nash

24. [GREGYNOG PRESS]. SHAW, George Bernard. Shaw Gives Himself Away: An Autobiographical Miscellany. {Newtown:] Gregynog Press, 1939. Octavo. xi, 188 pp. Wood-engraved frontisportrait by John Farleigh. Printed in Monotype Baskerville on Arnold & Foster green tinted hand-made paper. Full dark green crushed morocco with onlaid design in orange morocco, featuring the author's initials, spine printed in orange. Horizontal band of orange onlay at foot of both covers. Binding design by Paul Nash for the Gregynog Bindery. A few minor scuffs, but a near fine, unfaded copy. $1,250 One of 300 copies. Harrop 40; Davies 40.

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Large Paper Copy

25. [GRIFFITH, Acton Fredrick, compiler]. Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica; or, A Descriptive Catalogue of a Rare and Rich Collection of Early English Poetry: In the possession of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. Ilustrated by Occasional Extracts and Remarks, Critical and Biographical. London: Printed by Thomas Davison, for the Proprietors of the Collection, 1815. Large octavo (264 x 169 mm.). viii, 481, [1] pp. Woodcut frontispiece in three states, hand-colored, black and white on regular paper, and on finer paper, mounted. Title-page in black and red with mounted vignette. Numerous engraved portraits, mostly mounted. Woodcut decorative initial letters, head-bands and tail-pieces. Full calf, professionally rebacked with old spine laid down. Red morocco spine label, all edges gilt. Front hinge cracking, but holding. A very good, attractive copy. With the armorial bookplate of historian Henry Thomas Buckle (1821-1862). $1,500

First edition. One of 50 large paper copies. A collection of 956 books, priced, as catalogued by Acton Frederick Griffith for Thomas Park (1759- 1834) the English antiquary and bibliographer, who, short of cash, had to sell the collection. The books found their way into the hands of Longman (et al.) who subsequently turned many of them over to auction. De Ricci (pp. 90-92) states that “the larger portion of the book described were subsequently brought together again in the Britwell Library.”

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Classic Printer’s Manual

26. HANSARD, Thomas Curson. Typographia: An Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Art of Printing; With Practical Directions for Conducting Every Department in an Office. With a description of stereotype and lithography. Illustrated by Engravings, Biographical Notices, and Portraits. London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1825. Octavo. xvi, [10], 939, [1], [28] pp. Numerous plates and text illustrations. Index. Half later tan calf over marbled boards, gilt black morocco spine label, marbled edges. New endpapers. A hint of foxing to preliminaries. A very good copy. $950 First edition. Hansard (1776-1833) was the son of Luke Hazard (1752-1828), printer to the House of Commons, and established his own career as a Parliamentary publisher, though he and his father were estranged for many years because the younger Hansard held much more liberal views. “A lively interest in his craft led Hansard to publish Typographia (1825); this fine manual, written in a clear style, is an outstanding guide to the printer's craft and an important source for historians of printing…Hansard also described with pride an apparatus which he invented and patented for the improvement of the hand-press. He was, however, quick to adopt the machine presses, which superseded his ingenuity” (Oxford DNB).

Bigmore and Wyman I, 301.

With 112 Fine Chromolithographic Plates 27. JONES, Owen. The Grammar of Ornament. Illustrated by Examples from Various Styles of Ornament. One Hundred and Twelve Plates. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1910. Folio. [2], 157 pp. Chromolithographic title and 111 chromolithographic plates. Burgundy cloth, with front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Top edges lightly bumped, first gathering slightly loose. A near fine copy, bright and clean. $850 First published in 1856, this is one of the great monuments in Victorian color printing. Quaritch published subsequent editions in 1868, 1910, and 1928. "To us today, inundated with photographic references for almost every work of art or kind of decoration in the world, The Grammar of Ornament is still a superb picture-book: but in the 1850s it was the first time in England that anything like so many illustrations or ornament had ever been assembled in colour in on work, and certainly the first time in England that any systematic and serious reproductions in colour of historical ornament had ever been printed, apart from Owen Jones's Alhambra, and works by Digby Wyatt and Noel Humphreys…Owen Jones's book was by far the most ambitious in scope yet attempted…" (McLean, Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing, pp. 122-4).

Item #27

28. [MARION PRESS]. LARREMORE, Thomas A., and Amy Hopkins Larremore. The Marion Press: A Survey and a Check-List. With Incidental Alarums, and Excursions Into Collateral Fields. Check-List Compiled by Joseph W. Rogers. Jamaica, New York: The Queens Borough Public Library, 1943. Octavo. xx, 270, [1] pp. Charcoal cloth. Bookplate of another owner. Very good. $175 First edition. One of 228 copies. This is one of 210 copies on Strathmore All Rag paper. This book belonged to Carl Purrington Rollins, and is signed by him and dated 1956. Rollins

is one of three persons to whom the book was dedicated, the others being Will Ransom and D.B. Updike.

One of 140 Copies Printed by Saul Marks, Presentation Copy, Inscribed by Marks

29. MARKS, Saul. Christopher Plantin & The Officina Plantiniana. A sketch by Saul Marks, and a translation by Peter van der Pas of the Flemish text describing the Office Rules at the Golden Compasses, Antwerp, c. 1563. Los Angeles: The Plantin Press, 1972. Octavo. [10], 44, [4] pp. Woodcut device of a compass in brown on the title-page, decorative initial letters in blue-green, second compass device in black on the colophon. Full-page portrait of Plantin. Original tan printed boards. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. With an eight-page list from Dawson's, offering books printed by the Plantin Press. $450 One of 140 copies printed by Saul and Lillian Marks. Presentation copy, inscribed by Marks on the colophon.

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"One of the More Important Treatises on Stair Building…"

With Forty Plates, Printed in Black and Red, and Ten Chromolithographic Samples of Floor Tiles 30. MONCKTON, James H. The National Stair-Builder, A Complete Work on Stair-Building and Hand-Railing, With Designs for Staircases, Newels, Balusters and Hand-Rails. New York: Geo. E. Woodward, 1873. Quarto. 14 pp. of text, forty-one plates to scale, printed on rectos only, each with a facing page of descriptive text. Plates printed in red and black. Three pages of advertising for Minton's floor tiles, with ten chromolithographic samples. Publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt. Light shelfwear. A very good copy. $1,000 First edition.

"one of the more important treatises on stair building published in the second half of the nineteenth century. The plates of newels and balusters are of particular interest" (Karpel B285). Not in Hitchcock.

Item #30

Designed by Bruce Rogers

31. NAUDEUS, Gabriel. Instructions Concerning Erecting of a Library: Presented to My Lord The President De Mesme. And now Interpreted by Jo. Evelyn, Esquire. Cambridge: Printed for Houghton, Mifflin & Company, at the Riverside Press, 1903. Octavo. xxxii, 160, [2] pp. Pages within double-ruled borders. Title-page in black and red. Running titles, paragraph marks, tail-pieces and initial letters in red. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Calf-backed decorative boards. Spine rubbed in places, but a very good copy in publisher's slipcase. $250 One of 419 copies. Gabriel Naudé (1600-1653) was librarian to Cardinal Mazarin. His influential book on library building was first published in 1627. The first English edition appeared in 1657.

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32. [OFFICINA BODONI]. MARDERSTEIG, Giovanni. The Officina Bodoni: An Account of the Work of a Hand Press 1923-1977. Edited and translated by Hans Schmoller. Verona: Edizioni Valdonega, [1980]. Small folio. LIX, [288] pp. Numerous text illustrations and facsimiles, some in color. Index. Original tan cloth with burgundy label on spine. Fine in slipcase. $250 One of 1,500 copies.

Plantin Press Ephemera Collected by Vance Gerry

33. [PLANTIN PRESS]. Twenty-eight items of ephemera printed by or relating to the Plantin Press, Los Angeles. Various dates. Includes: 3 catalogues for Dawson's Book Shop printed by the Plantin Press, booklet for dinner in commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the founding of Union Bank & Trust Co. (illustrated), Rod Maclean's California Mistology (1948, limited edition), Bret Harte's A Night at Wingdam (Los Angeles, 1936, engravings by Henry Shire, limited edition of 500 copies), A Relstion of a Brave & Resolute Sea-Fight (Los Angeles, 1974, limited to 250 copies), business cards designed by the Plantin Press for Maxwell Hunley and Michael R. Thompson Rare Books, etc. Contained in folding case created by Vance Gerry, patterned boards. Bookplate of Vance Gerry. Fine condition. $600

With Eight Full-Page Vibrant Color Lithographs 34. [PRANG] COOKE, Rose Terry. The Old Garden (From "Grandma's Garden" arranged by Kate Sanborn.). Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1888. Folio (27.5 x 24 cm.) Eight full page chromolithographs by Prang printed recto only, descriptive text framed by pictorial image of botanical. Illustrated by Harriet D. A. Andrews and Mary K. Talcott. A beautiful example of

Prang's craft, with lovely floral images in vibrant color. Publisher's silk decorated binding, front cover decorations in gold, green and cream, cloth patterned endpapers. Binding extremities lightly rubbed, more so to backstrip where the silk binding is thinned. A very good copy, with the contents fresh and clean. $1,500 First edition.

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35. ROBERTS, W. Printer's Marks: A Chapter in the History of Typography by W. Roberts, Editor of "The Bookworm." London: George Bell & Sons, 1893. Octavo. xv, [1], 261, [3] pp. Title-page and frontispiece in black and red, over 200 illustrations of printer's marks from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Later half burgundy morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine. Top edge gilt, new endpapers. Spine faded. A very good, clean copy. $200 36. [SCRIPPS COLLEGE PRESS]. Manu Script. [Claremont, California:] Scripps College Press, 2011. 5 1/2" x 4 1/2." [100] pp. Illustrations throughout of glyphs, carved into linoleum representing characters, words and phrases. Highlights were produced by pochoir. The book was printed four-up and cut and folded to form signatures. Oak boards, stitched together with heavy red string, to evoke books still made up through the 19th century in Ethiopia. As new. $225 One of ninety-five copies, produced by the students of Scripps College under the direction of Kitty Maryatt. Students include MikaBar-Chaim, Allyson Healey, Kenny Huang, Nelda Kerr, Marian Miller, Sam Plakun, Sophie Saouma, Danielle Shubat, Denis Tupper, Molly Wassel and Jaya Williams.

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Limited to 450 Copies

37. STAUFFACHER, Jack W., compiler. Porter Garnett: Philosophical Writings on the Ideal Book. [San Francisco:] The Book Club of California, 1994. Octavo. 251, [3] pp. With 42 illustrations and a chronology of Garnett’s life. Title in black and red. Black cloth with printed paper spine label. Fine in acetate dust jacket. With Xeroxes of two letters to Stauffacher, one from Herman Zapf and one from William A. Bostick, laid in. Both have laudatory comments about this book. $150 One of 450 copies. Designed by the author, of the Greenwood Press, San Francisco. Printing by Phelps/Schaefer of Brisbane, California. Porter Garnett (1871-1951), a native of San Francisco, was a member of the Bohemian Club and was a friend of Jack London, Dorothea Lange and Maynard Dixon. He founded the Laboratory Press at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh in 1922 and directed it until its closing and his retirement in 1935.

With Illustrations and Tipped in Specimens, One of 100 Copies, Signed by Vance Gerry

38. [WEATHER BIRD PRESS]. GERRY, Vance. Twenty-five Years of the Weather Bird Press At various locations but under one master: V.Gerry. With a critical introduction by Bunston Quayles (pseud.). [Pasadena:] The Weather Bird Press, 1993. Octavo. [48] pp. Two tipped in samples of paste papers, two full-page color illustrations, one quarter-page color illustration, one folding black and white plate of a hand press, one tipped in color illustrations, one tipped in black and white illustration, four black and white illustrations, two full-page reproductions of title-pages, color and black and white head- and tail-pieces. Aqua cloth over decorative boards, spine stamped in black. Fine in fine dust jacket. Binding by Mariana Blau. $750 One of l00 copies. Signed by Vance Gerry.

This book includes a bibliography of works produced by the Weather Bird Press between 1968 and 1993. There seventy-seven entries of large and small pieces from the press, including commissioned works done by the Press. There is an preface by Vance Gerry, with a short history of his printing endeavors and an introductory comment by "Bunston Quayles."

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With Fifty Fine Chromolithographic Plates

39. WESTWOOD, J.O. Palaeographia Sacra Pictoria: Being a Series of Illustrations of the Ancient Versions of the Bible, Copied from Illuminated Manuscripts Executed Between the Fourth and Sixteenth Centuries. London: Published by Henry G. Bohn, [1849?]. Large quarto. xvii, [1], [183] pp. Fifty chromolithographic plates, some heightened in gold. Half red morocco over marbled boards, rubbed. Spine somewhat faded, binding extremities rubbed, small wormholes at bottom outer joint, endpapers and some tissue guards lightly foxed. Armorial bookplate of William Betts. A good clean, copy, with the plates bright and clean. $950 First edition. "Chromolithography quickly established itself as a medium suitable for the reproduction of medieval manuscripts in antiquarian publications of the sort popular in the nineteenth centjury…The opaque, flat tones of the style of chromolithography which prevailed were ideal for the uniformly bright, clearly-defined areas of color typical of early manuscripts. The modulated tones which Boys had struggled to achieve were not necessary for this sort of publication" (Friedman, Color Printing in England 1486-1870, 138). John Obadiah Westwood (1805-1893) was an entomologist and paleographer who devoted his life to antiquarian pursuits. He became an esteemed authority on Anglo Saxon and medieval manuscripts. His other publications include Illuminated Illustrations of the Bible (1846), On the Distinctive Character of the…Ornamentation employed by the early British Anglo-Saxon, and Irish artists (1854), A Descriptive Catalogue of the Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (1876), Lapidarium Walliae: the Early Inscribed and Sculptured Stones of Wales (1876–9), and The Book of Kells: a Lecture (1887).

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40. WILSON, Adrian. The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle. Introduction by Peter Zahn. Amsterdam: Nico Israel, [1978]. Folio. 255 pp. Full- and partial-page illustrations, some in color. Cloth. Fine in fine d.j. $175 Second printing.

With 39 Marbled Paper Samples

41. WOOLNOUGH, C.W. The Whole Art of Marbling as Applied to Paper Book-Edges Etc. Containing a full description of the nature and properties of the materials used, the method of preparing them, and of executing every kind of marbling in use at the present time, with numerous illustrations and examples. [Oxford: The Plough Press, 1985]. Octavo. 82 pp. Facsimile reprint or the larger second edition of 1881 printed by George Bell, with 39 pages of marbled samples reproducing the patterns of the original, made by Katherine Davis of Payhembury. Green cloth with front cover and spine stamped in gilt. A fine copy. $600 One of 150 copies.

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One of 125 Copies 42. WROTH, Lawrence C. A History of Printing in Colonial Maryland 1686-1776. Baltimore: Printed by the Typothetae of Baltimore, 1922. Large octavo. [18], 275, [3] pp. Decorations by Edward Edwards. Index. Full green crushed morocco. Gilt-decorated spine with raised bands, gilt-panelled covers, top edge gilt. Gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Spine a little browned. Ink signature. Otherwise a fine, clean copy. $350 One of 125 copies printed on Rives handmade paper, signed by the author. Laid in was piece of paper, signed by John McLean, Sr. of New Rochelle, New York. McLean writes: “This is one of many such Books that I Hand-Tooled. it is covered in the Best French Levant. M.McL.” Also laid in is a black and white photograph of McLean and an unidentified man. A note on the verso reads: “You don’t need to keep this. Just thought you would like to see two good men, now in a happier land. Taker Nov 30-1949 when John retired.”

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