Authors starting with C from The Veatchs Arts of the Book

Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1995. . 6 1/2 x 10. 105 pages, including many personal views and eight full-color plates of bindings. Quarter morocco & decorated bds, slipcase. Fine, with prospectus. One of 200 copies. With a lovely B&B book lapel or tie pin. ... more information

NY: Typophiles, 1949. . 4 1/2 x 7. 162 pages. Cloth-backed boards. Very good. One of 625 copies printed at Anthoensen Press. Five essays include: "The First Work with American types," Corpus Typographicum: A Review of Printers' Manuals," and "British Influence Upon American printing." ... more information

Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1905. . 4to, (6), xxiv, 346 pages; brown buckram gilt, original wrappers bound in at rear. Fine. Set in a variety of French typefaces, along with specimens of exotic types and ornaments. "...one of the most comprehensive and absorbing type specimen books of the period." ... more information

Boston (Washington St.), nd. (mid 19th c.). Trade card. 5 x 8 1/2. Printed on green coated stock, lettering in gold. Some wear and abrasions to face -- two small areas in upper corner were green coating has worn off. Glue marks on rear. Attractive. ... more information

Cambridge 1959.. 7 3/4 x 4. 16 pages. Marbled wraps. Scribbling on rear pastedown, top inner corners creased. Good. An annotated checklist of previous Cambridge Christmas Books, this booklet was the Christmas offering for 1959. ... more information

1988. . viii, 61 pages. Five illustrations. Calf spine, boards printed with the Tory "B." Slight wear to spine, but fine. No. 22 of 190 copies. Letters to H. W. Kent, Ruth GRannis, Emery WalkerSydney Cockerell. ... more information

Canton, 2001. . 8 x 12. 119 pages, illustrated throughout by a variety of processes -- relief prints, collage, pochoir, and a volvelle. Errata slip laid in. Purple morocco spine & heavy handmade paper wraps, in matching chemise with cutout of Ariel. Fine. One of 125 copies printed letterpress by Mark McMurray in Dante type on various hand & mould made papers. Text is from the First Folio. A major work from this fine artist/printer. ... more information

San Francisco, 1968-1998. . 8 1/2 x 10. Self-wraps. Most Keepsakes consist of either 10 or 12 folders; one has 11, as the editor died before completion. One is a bound book. A few tips slightly bent, but most in fine condition. Some in original mailing envelopes. Everything Californian--houses, inns, theatres, expositions, medicine, trains, trails, mining, stock certificates, Indians, the Chinese, book arts, ephemera, etc. Printers & presses include Allen, Arif, Artichoke, Berliner, Clifford Burke, Fe... more information

NY, 1941. . 11 x 7. (i) pages, 33 plates. Cloth. Very good. Printed from the original steel engraved plates of 1845. One of 1000, not numbered. ... more information

(Cottondale, 1985). . 7 1/2 x 12. (32) pages. Four multicolor woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. Morocco & pastepaper boards. Fine in slightly worn tray case. One of 75 numbered copies signed by Calvino and Faasconi. This story is printed first in Italian, then in English translation by William Weaver. Printed on dampened, handmade Magani paper in Post Medieval type on a Washington hand press. "The structure of this book is ingenious but difficult to describe." Certain pages were "printed on... more information

Cambridge, 1969. . 10 x 8 1/2. 42 pages. Quarter morocco & decorated boards. One of 500 copies. Small repair to inner hinge; fine. A Cambridge Christmas Book. ... more information

Cambridge, 1964. . 7 x 8 1/2. 22, (28) pages. Cloth, lightly rubbed at tips. Fine. One of 500 copies. Photographs depict hands in the various stages of bookmaking from typefounding to binder. ... more information

Cambridge, 1972. . 6 x 7 1/2. 69 pages. Quarter cloth. Fine. One of 500 copies. ... more information

Cambridge, 1967. . 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. Forty-six inscriptions (in various typographical settings within borders) each with a facing paragraph of commentary. Booklet of translations in rear pocket. Cloth-backed boards lettered by Reynold Stone, slipcase. Fine. Cambridge Christmas Book. One of 500 copies. ... more information

Cambridge, 1968. . Royal 8vo. 48 pages, two color illustrations by Tegetmeier, six specimens, each 4 pages, tipped to blue paper. Cloth & decorated boards. Fine in slightly worn slipcase. One of 500 copies. A Cambridge Christmas book about the impact Morison and Lewis had on each otner and on the course of typographical history. ... more information

Cambridge, 1971. . 7 x 10. vi, 73 pages. Quarter cloth. Fine. One of 500 copies, printed in black & red with illustrations by Charles keeping. Rastell was a major innovator in music printing, and the first English printer of a play. ... more information

Cambridge, 1948. . 8 x 10 1/2. 27 pages with 20 half-tone illustrations. Red cloth, some finger smudges. Very good. One of 250 copies. Gibbons' extraordinary wood carvings --busts, coats-of-arms, ornamentation--grace the Wren Library of Trinity College. ... more information

Northumberland: Bird Editions, 2011. . 12 x 9 3/4. (18) leaves loose, as issued, in two-part wrappers of grey glaciers against a blue sky, with a coordinating slipcase by the Red Bone Bindery. The 12 initial letters of the Greenlandic alphabet are illustrated by 12 pochoir-colored prints of icebergs. Fine. One of 50 copies hand printed by the artist. The evocative pochoir coloring includes metallic paint, making the images luminous. The title page has a bindstamped outline of a glacier. Each leaf bear... more information

NY: Rudge, 1923. . 4 1/4 x 7. (viii), 157 pages. Black cloth blind & gilt stamped. Fine in printed dj (slightly chipped), slipcase with numbered label is missing top panel. No. 217 of 510 copies. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Title in black & red, decorative initials. Warde 168. ... more information

NY: LEC, 1931. . 4 1/2 x 7 1/2. 377 pages. Blue cloth gilt. Spine faded as usual. Very good in worn slipcase. One of 1500 copies printed by Oliver Simon, who signs, for the Limited Editions Club. The first use of Bembo type (Monotype). ... more information