Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1986. First edition. Soft cover. 167p, many ills., some in color. Exhibition catalogue of 72 printed examples of botanical illustration, each described at length and illustrated with several details. Grouped roughly chronologically by process: relief (woodcut, wood engraving, etc.), intaglio, planographic, nature..... More

New York: Brooke Alexander Editions, n.d. [1997]. First edition. Loose sheets in grip binding. [26] sheets, no ills. Press release laid in. Checklist of more than 100 American and European artist's books, with detailed descriptions. "This exhibition is conceived to present the wide range of bookworks produced during the past..... More

New York: Pantheon, 1979. First American edition. Hardcover. 232p, many ills. Photo is slightly cropped. Very informative history of women artists and their roles in the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain and America--design education for women, ceramics, embroidery and needlework, lace making, jewelry and metalwork, wood carving, furniture and..... More

Cambridge, MA: Charles B. Wood III, n.d. [2000]. First edition. Soft cover. 79p, many ills. Bookseller catalogue, continuing Wood's pioneering catalogues of books about and containing photographs.  203 entries, all scrupulously described.  Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More

Tokyo: Chuo Bijyutsu Gakuen Shuppankyoku [Chuo School of Art Press], 1987. No stated edition. Unbound sheets. 83 loose sheets total, housed in a folding cardboard case with ties. The sheets are ca. 9 1/2 x 13 inches. The photos don't do them justice. Portfolio of progressive models for learning how..... More

Paris: Maeght for Bibliotheque Aragon, Choisy-le-Roi, 1995. Cortot, Jean. First edition. Soft cover, self wrappers. [96]p, many color ills. Exhibition catalogue of dozens of books and manuscripts written and/or illustrated by poet-painter-printmaker Jean Cortot (1925-2018).  Poems and statements by Cortot; also texts by Pierre Beres, Michel Butor, Jean Tardieu, and..... More

Philadelphia and New York: Rosenbach Company, n.d. [1920]. First edition. Soft cover. [10]p, no ills. Pages age browned. Published to promote Rosenbach's offering of these books. With contemporary penciling, often noting buyer and price. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate... More

London: Coracle, 1997. Drever, Timothy. Limited edition. Soft cover. 60p, several tipped-in color photos, 2 maps. "The first attempt to link the work of the artist Timothy Drever with the writings of his alter ego Tim Robinson . . . dating from just before [Drever/Robinson] disappeared from the London art..... More

New York: E. Weyhe, n.d. [1944-45]. First edition. Unbound sheet. One sheet, ca. 9 x 12 inches folded. Creased across (probably from mailing), light age wear and soil. Promotes the "limited edition for libraries and collectors" of "a significant autobiography," Accent on America by designer Merle Armitage (1944).   The edition..... More

Vienna: Osterreichisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst, 1986. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., 30 black-and-white ills. mostly full-page pls. Cover handling soil. In German. Exhibition catalogue of 88 Baroque examples from the museum's library--sumptuous book bindings and book illustrations. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping..... More

Chicago: Ernest Dressel North, 1923. First edition. Paperbound. N.p. (429 items), a few plates of fine bindings. Covers soiled inside and out, creased; upper rear cover corner chipped off. Chiefly literature. The plates show bindings by Cobden-Sanderson, Sauty, Bradstreet's, Riviere and Son, and two embroidered bindings (one from the 17th..... More

Lunenburg, VT: Meriden-Stinehour Press, 1988. Limited edition. Hardcover. 300p, many ills., some with flat color. No. 431 of 1200 numbered copies. Checklist of 1006 publications printed by the Press from 1950 through 1979, with an index of titles. Also with an appendix of 64 serial publications, everything from the Lancaster..... More

Braunschweig and San Francisco: Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste and San Francisco State University, 1987. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., many black-and-white ills. Texts in German and English. Catalogue of a large traveling exhibition; chiefly German and American book artists. One plate per artist. More