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200 Books -
200 Books is an annotated bibliography. Smith talks about how images were made and why he made some of the books, placing them into context of place and his personal experiences. The 200 books are described with over 550 photo illustrations.
Since 1967 Smith has been making books. They range from...
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American Book Design and William Morris -
A landmark study, this book docments the true extent of Morris's influence on American bookmaking. With 111 illustrations of bindings, title pages, type and decorations retaken from original photographs, appealing to not only book desigers, art historians, typographers and graphic artists, but also...
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Bookbinder's Finishing Tool Makers 1780-1965 -
This unique directory lists hundreds of toolcutters and their firms who worked from 1780 to 1965. With brief biographies of each craftsman or firm, the author illustrates many of their original trade marks and advertisements. He also lists the dates when they were active. There are opening essays on...
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Bookplates by Beilby & Bewick -
This work is both a catalog and and a history of this remarkable British British bookplate workshop. The author describes several hundred bookplates engraved on copper and wood, executed, and printed in the workshopof Beilby & Bewick over a period of 89 years. 384 pages, hardcover.
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By His Own Labor: A Biography of Dard Hunter -
The Biography of Dard Hunter by Cathleen Baker. With seventy-six pages of color and black & white illustrations, printed by the renowned Stinehour Press, Baker reveals for the first time the complete dimensions of this pioneering genius. Believed to be the definitive work on Hunter. 360 pages, ha...
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Edward Seymour & The Fancy Paper Company -
This book, limited to an edition of 300 copies, tells the story of Edward Seymour and his firm, The Fancy Paper Company. This British company manufactured marbled and other decorated (fancy) papers for the bookbinding and related industries from about 1919 to 1971. With eighteen illustrations showin...
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Encyclopedia of the Book -
Contains over 3,000 definitions of terms used in bookbinding, printing, papermaking and the book trade. There are also biographical details of printers, authors, bookbinders, bibliophiles and precise notes on machinery and equipment, famous books and printing societies. (576 pages)
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Flemish Bindery Poster -
This is truly a very special poster, published by Shepherds Bookbinders.
Unique in that the image portrays every step of the book from start to finish.
The image displays a few particularly noteworthy details. The first is how we can identify this as a Flemish bindery. Can you figure out ...
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Guild of Book Workers 100th Anniversary Exhibition -
This exhibition celebrated the 100th Anniversary of the Guild and closes its most active quarter century in its history. Sixty juried works bear witness to the changes in the world as well as the traditions that have survied these changes. An amazing selection of fine bindings, artist's books, cal...
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Hidden Treasure- The History & Technique of Fore-edge Painting -
If you are passonate about books and painting, you will love Jeanne Bennett's book on Fore-edge painting (FEPPNG). The secrets, technique and history of painting a watercolor scene on the fore-edge of a book are discussed clearly and enthusiastically for all readers and students and collectors of FE...
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Letterpress Printing-A Manual for Modern Fine Press Printers -
A comprehensive text for beginning and intermediate letterpress printers, this manual uses clear explanations of technical terms and more then 80 illustrations to describe presses, ink, paper, type, press operation and photo-polymer plates.
Included are chapters on how to set up and run small and...
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Lost On The Titanic -
A limited edition printing which chronicles the production of the greatest of Sangorski & Sutcliff's Peacock bindings - "The Great Omar." The book is considered to be one of the greatest bindigs of all time and was lost with the sinking of the Titanic. Limited to 1000 copies in letterpress with 11...
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Out of the Cellar: A Garland for Cantina -
The Cantina Press was established in 1936-37 in Northampton, Massachusetts by Clarence and Ruth Kennedy, scholars and instructors at Smith College. Out of the Cellar is the history of the press, presented by a local bibliotect. Featured is the transcription of the letter from Bruce Rogers. The te...
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Paradise Printed & Bound: Book Arts in Northampton & Beyond -
This book documents this unusual group's past and present and looks towards its future. The group is practicing what some others might consider to be outmoded crafts - letterpress printing, hand book binding, paper decorating and writing with pen and ink. This book hopes to demonstrate how and why...
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Printing 1770-1970: An Illustrated History of its Development and Uses in England -
This book discusses printing in the machine age and its diverse social implications. It carries a heavy emphasis on graphic design and machine printings effect on the commercial industry. 285 pages, Hardcover.
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Provenance Research in Book History -
Reprint of the first edition with a new introductory section containing additional references to update the original text. This handbook offers a compendium of information on the ways of recognizing and identifying marks of ownership. Topics include inscriptions, mottoes, bookplates, book labels a...
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Recollections, A Life in Bookbinding -
An autobiography of one of the world's leading book restorers, binding scholars and international lecturers on book techniques. In this new edition over eighty of his bindings are illustrated. Insight into Britain's indentured apprenticeship programs of the early 20th century. 140 pages, hardcover...
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Talas Catalog -
Our latest 13th edition catalog!
Still hot off the press... get your copy today.
Newest edition hosts 256 pages, with a newly revised and expanded full-color section of swatches including fabric, paper, leather, etc.
Catalogs are shipped gratis with any order.
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The Gilded Page-Softcover -
Second Edition; revised, with the addition of color plates and new information on ancient Egyptian Papyrus gilding. The Gilded Page traces the history of gilding from ancient Egypt to Babylon through Rome, the Near East, Medieval and Renaissance Europe, and finally into the modern day studio.
Th...
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The Great Omar Poster -
A poster of the magnificent jeweled binding of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam that was bound by Sandorski & Sutcliffe, England 1911 and lost on the Titanic.
This beautiful poster is the computer generated image compiled from fragments of the binding and printed in England by Ventura Litho.
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Trade in Artists' Materials: Markets and Commerce in Europe to 1700 -
Ed: Jo Kirby, Susie Nash, Joanna Cannon
Where did artists buy their materials? Who prepared them? What did they cost?
This volume draws together the international research in this new and rapidly developing field of interdisciplinary inquiry by historians, conservators, scientists, economic hi...
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Women Bookbinders 1880-1920 -
Superbly illustrated throughout - with 32 color plates and over 100 black and white photographs, this handsomely produced book will make a significant contribution to the study of the role of women in the late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century book trade. (208 pages, Hardcover)
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