An exceptional memento, from the founder of the Laboratory Press at the Carnegie Institute of Technology to the noted typographer. Three items including the cover letter dated Dec. 21, '25 : "Dear Gress: I'm sending you two copies of our Xmas card. One is of the regular "edition" on 18th century French paper, the other is one of only five copies on 15th century paper. Two of these I am keeping one goes to the author of the poem [Leon Josiah Richardson, former Professor of Latin UC Berkeley] and another to a student who helped me at the press. There is no one I know who would be more interested... View More...
Designed and illustrated by Harry B. Matthews. Beige card stock; 97 leaves. No indication of use. Small 'Hints for Keeping this Book' leaf laid in, with residue of paper along left margin of Contents page where originally it was tipped in. Touch of rubbing; loss of some white paint to titles on spine; else fine. View More...
Leaf measuring 5 x 3.2 inches, printed recto: Boston Library Society. Substance of the Rules voted by the Society for regulating the Loan of their Books, &c. Circa 1796. March 16th inked lower left. Typically found as a bookplate in volumes owned by the Society, this example appears not to have been so used. Comparing the examples of similar printings, found by searching "Boston Library Society. Substance of the Rules", we note in our example the lower case title, use of 'set' rather than 'book' in 6th Art., and a five week (vs one month) borrowing time. View More...
Wooden boards, 20th century accordion style binding with ten hand-coloured paintings on silk mounted on paper. Top and bottom edge gilt. Text in Chinese and English on facing page. Pastedowns bubbled and lightly foxed; contents clean and binding sound. View More...
An impressive array of sample sheets and booklets of paper from the Japan Paper Company, collected by Burl Osburn in the 1930s. 53 loose sheets most of which (folded) measure between 12.25 x 9.75 inches and 9.5 x 6.3 (two of the 53 are smaller). Most deckle-edged; occasional light soil and foxing. One duplicate. As well: 16 more comprehensive items, as follows: St. Martin or The Blessings of Rags (5 x 4 inches, 6 leaves, 1931). Navarre: An all rag paper from France (9 x 6.2, 6 leaves, 1927). Shoreham Papers: Orange, Turquoise, Madder, Cobalt (9.25 x 5.75, 8 leaves, n.d.). Lombardia Covers (11... View More...
Oh Christmas Pine. A Christmas greeting on Japanese tissue, signed in red, measuring 7 x 5 inches folded. From the collection of Burl Osburn. View More...
[24] pages. One of 150 issued. An excellent example, retaining the glassine wrapper (short closed tear to rear panel), and with Will Ransom Library Record ticket at rear (received from Frank Altschul). No inscriptions. 5.75 x 3.9 inches. View More...
Wooden boards, 20th century accordion style binding with ten hand-coloured paintings on silk mounted on paper. Top and bottom edge gilt. Text in Chinese and English on facing page. Boards bowed. Pastedowns bubbled and lightly foxed. 4 inch closed tear to first leaf with ghost of adhesive, and same leaf splitting along fold from bottom. Else very good. View More...
xv, 88, [iii] pages and ten plates with tissue guards titled in red. Paper Copy Number 106 of 500 [there were 12 copies printed on vellum of which 10 were for sale]. This copy bound in the more expensive limp vellum. Top edge gilded; ribbon marker intact, all ties secure. Jacket spine with VELLUM 106 handwritten, sunned. Jacket rubbed at head of spine and splitting for an inch from head of spine along upper hinge and from lower right corner up fore-edge. Pictorial bookplate of Gwendolen Jefferson to front pastedown; front pastedown bubbled. light offsetting to first free endpapers from jacket ... View More...
Original proof of what would become the title page "for a privately printed edition of part of E. V. Rieu's translation of the New Testament. It [the book] was distributed by Sir Allen and Richard Lane as a Christmas present. Printed at the Curwen Press, 1951" [Clark]. Signed in pencil lower right: R. Stone. Formerly tipped with two tabs along upper margin (now free) to non-archival board with frame. A few slight differences from the final state (compare Kenneth Clark's Reynolds Stone Engravings: xxx, 72); and note two additions on this lower left in white. Sheet measures 6.5 x 4.4 inches; ima... View More...
The Hammer Creek Press at the Sign of the Turtle: For, lo! The winter is past, the rain is over and gone.... Measuring 6.25 x 4 inches folded. From the collection of Burl Osburn. View More...
xlviii, 432 pages. Attractive binding, with inlay to front cover, all edges gilt, and each page pictorially bordered. Landscape Series of Poets. Sympathetic professional repair to hinges; head of spine rubbed with loss. Binding sound; no inscriptions. 7.75 x 5.5 inches. View More...
No stated date of issue. Unpaginated; eleven panels (22 sides accordion fold-out) demonstrating the wood-block printing process of layering shade and vivid color. Blue covers with paper labels to front and rear. One page of text in English, thereafter pictorial. Small chips to covers' edges; lower board detached. 4 x 5.8 inches. View More...
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