Authors starting with B from The Book Block

Leipzig Poeschel & Trepte, 1926 [1856]. 32mo. (1 3/4 x 1 3/16 inches) in a clamshell case measuring 11 x 8 1/8 inches. Publisher's plain red cloth over boards; the bright yellow clamshell case has a central cut out section into which the book fits, and a silk ribbon to assist in its removal. FINE.Published by the Gesellschaft der Bibliophile to celebrate their annual meeting in Leipzig 23-25 Oct. 1926, the volume contains a foreword signed by B. Lässig and is a facsimile edition of a... more information

Philadelphia Henry Carey Baird, 1871. 8vo., publisher's brown ribbed cloth with minimal wear to the extremities. Bookseller's ticket on the front pastedown. A very BRIGHT CLEAN COPY.Second edition of the first American bookbinding manual with twelve full-page plates of binding designs, decorations and tooling plus seven examples of marbled paper, in addition to the illustrations in the text. The work reproduces specimens of rolls and hand-stamps made by the early American bookbinder tool... more information

Paris P. Lethielleux, [1897]. Tall 8vo. (10 x 6 1/2 inches), publisher’s wrappers. Fine.The work consists of 100 pages nicely printed on coated paper, and contains 42 illustrations reproducing 40 watercolors executed by Emmanuel Büchel between 1766 and 1768 from the 41 designs in distemper on the cloister walls of the Dominicans of Klingenthal in Basel in 1312. The verses relating to the designs are in French, as is the commentary and the translation of the preface to Büchel'... more information

Venice Gio. Antonio Rampazetto for] A. Sessa, 1588. Sm. 4to., recent full vellum over stiff boards with a decorative gilt frame border [acorns and leaves]; four corner fleurons and a larger central gilt device. Square spine with gilt bands, acorns & leaves in the compartments, in the manner of a contemporary binding. Professional repairs to the title-page with the loss of a few letters and the last part of the date, which have been supplied in manuscript facsimile; the lower corner of A2 and a small pi... more information

Coloniæ Agrippinæ [but Amsterdam] Apud Cornelium ab Edmond [i.e. G. J. Blaeu], 1634. 12mo. 4 7/16 x 2 inches), contemporary burgundy morocco with a series of triple gilt fillet borders forming an inner panel with a coat of arms in the center; spine with four raised bands, gilt tooling and titling. Board edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles; a.e.gA characteristic 17th century Dutch book (with its false Cologne imprint) opens with an historiated engraved title-page featuring an elegantly dr... more information

Berlin Bruno Cassirer, 1910. 4to., publisher's gilt decorated cloth over stiff beveled boards (the design signed AB Paris); the date stamped at the very bottom of the spine below the publisher's name reads: 1910. FRESH AND BRIGHT!One of the 600 (of a total of 650) of the Ordinary Issue printed on laid paper. See: Lasner, M. A Selective Checklist of the Published Work of Aubrey Beardsley 129B. The Turn of the Century 31. Another Copy ... more information

Berlin Bruno Cassirer, 1910. 4to., publisher's gilt-decorated vellum over stiff beveled boards, designed and signed by Beardsley. VERY BRIGHT! Of the German edition there were 650 copies, numbers 1-50 of which "in Pergament gebunden,"; (this is copy, although numbered 620, is bound in the DELUXE GILT VELLUM BINDING). The book’s small initials are engraved in wood. The full-page initial plates were printed in collotype on vellum finished paper. The publisher, Bruno Cassirer, always ahead ... more information

Chicago Field Museum of Natural History, 1924. 8vo., original tan printed wrappers. One in a series of Anthropological Leaflets of the Field Museum designed to give brief, non-technical accounts of the more interesting beliefs, habits and customs of the races whose life is illustrated in the Museum's exhibits. This study concentrates on conditions as they prevailed in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is illustrated with 10 full-page photographs of pipes, snuff bottles, etc. FINE. THE ORIGINAL ... more information

Stockport W. Bracher & Co. Ltd, N.d. [1929]. 4to., original gilt stamped rust cloth; FINE. In his Introduction to this Jubilee Catalogue, the company founder, T. W. Bracher, traces the company's accomplishments, especially "Brachering," a revolutionary means of trimming headwear, an innovation that has, "...ensured that the name T. W. Bracher will be as long remembered in hatting as are the names of Crompton, Arkwright and Hargreaves in the cotton trade."The catalogue... more information

London (John Wyat), 1701. 8vo. (7 1/2 x 5 inches), reddish brown turkey morocco in a triple panel design with two-line fillet and rolls. The second panel contains ornamental fleurons in the corners from which a single acorn tool is suspended; there are four larger fleurons midway along each side. The innermost panel is intersected at each corner. Spine with five raised bands and closely stamped decoration within the compartments (without title). Board edges gilt decorated, inner gilt dentelles; a.e.g., mar... more information

New Rochelle Peter Pauper Press, 1933. 8vo. (7 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches) publisher's marbled paper over boards; paper spine label. We liberally quote Jos. Blumenthal's Bruce Rogers: A Life in Letters 1870-1957: "The book, which consisted of the introduction and twenty-four large diagrammatic roman letters, each on a separate page, was very well printed by Bor.’s young friend Peter Beilenson at his Walpole Printing Office...the Bruce Rogers printer's mark of Father Time and the thistle appea... more information

New York William Baldwin, 1821. 8vo., full 19th century calf with double gilt fillet borders on both covers; spine with five raised bands and gilt decoration and a red morocco title label, lower sixth of spine lacking. Board edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles; t.e.g.FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, variant A. With the added engraved title-page bound in before the title; ads on p. 182, and p. 24 misnumbered 4. A tall copy, untrimmed along the lower and fore edges.One of Shelley's juvenile produ... more information