Printing, Engraving And Book Production from Ariadne Books

Pinner: The Private Libraries Association, 1988. Paperback. Paginated from p49 t0 p100. Original yellow card covers. Signed by the author on the front cover with a dedication to Pat Jaffe (art historian and wood engraver), dated 1/6/90. There is also a ms letter enclosed written by the author to Pat Jaffe. Very good condition. Very minor soiling to… Read more about this item

Oldham & St. John's Newfoundland: Incline Press and Running the Goat, 2007 - 2009. Limited edition of approx 250 unnumbered copies. Card wrappers with a printed paper title band. 10 leaves. Woodcut of a device by Andrew Myllar as frontispiece and a woodcut taken from the 'Introduction of the Art of Printing into Scotland' by Robert Dickson, Aberdeen 1885,… Read more about this item

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company Ltd, 1896. Limited edition of 500 copies, this being number 325. Hardback. Folio. [i - vi], vii - xvii, [xviii], xiv - xxiv pp. Thereafter unpaginated but with plates numbered I - LXV. Paper guards to chromo-lithographs. Publisher's original blue moire covered boards with gilt to upper board and spine. Top edge… Read more about this item

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co Ltd., 1903. Undated but circa 1903. Hardback folio. 106pp. Chromolithograph and photogravure plates and illustrations, including two folding. Dark green cloth binding and 'metallic' endpapers to pastedowns. Front blind stamped with art nouveau style tree symbol. The book is divided into nine "fragments":- Concerning Bristol; A Ceramic Street Front; Oil… Read more about this item

Paris: Edition des Cendres, 2012. Limited edition of 999 copies. Hardback. 'square' (25 x 25cms) 4to. 446pp. Original decorated boards. No jacket. Text in French. Gilded papers from Germany. Illustrated with many examples of gilded papers from both private and public collections. Such papers were used to cover both prestigious books, where they protected fine bindings, and much more… Read more about this item

Rome: Istituto Poligrafico E Zecca Dello Stato, 1989. Paperback. 282pp. No jacket (as issued). Text in Italian. Beautifully illustrated catalogue of decorated papers. Book in very good condition. Just a little light soiling to covers and some extremely slight creasing to lower corners.