Authors starting with J from The Book Block

Easthampton Warwick Press, 1976. 8vo., stitched into green pastepaper wrappers with a paper label on the cover. One of 150 copies printed in van Krimpen's Spectrum type on Nideggen paper, in which the artist-printer-publisher describes the Warwick Press from inception to its three year anniversary and coincidentally celebrates her thirtieth year. There is a striking self-portrait on the title and a drawing of two ducks on the colophon, both touched with color. The colophon is signed by Ms. Blinn and is... more information

Easthampton Warwick Press, 1978. Lg. 8vo., handbound in blue/brown pastepaper boards with the title lettered in gilt on the spine. One of 250 copies printed in van Krimpen's Spectrum type on Mowhawk Superfine paper, the author-illustrator-publisher, Carol Blinn, provides the reader with four delicately hand-colored illustrations [each of which has been signed] to support her text, which she calls a "personal journal of her vivid memories of her former country life." In absolutely fine conditi... more information

Paris E. Dentu, 1875. 8vo. (7 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches), crushed tobacco color morocco du cap, with an elaborate gilt frame border surrounding two narrow onlaid orange morocco borders with a gilt rope border between the two. Spine with five raised bands and gilt decoration and titling within the compartments. board edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles, t.e.g. Watered silk doublures and end leaves; original publisher's wrappers bound in. Signed TIFFIN.One of a “small number” of copies printed ... more information

New York Hurd and Houghton, 1868. 8vo., publisher's pebbled green cloth with a gilt blocked portrait of Carter at work on a drawing, brush between his teeth; repeated in blind on the lower cover. Title and gilt decoration on the spine. First edition of a book about JOHN CARTER'S REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENTS AS AN ARTIST after an accident that left him completely paralyzed. The work is illustrated with photographs, color plates and facsimile etchings and lithographs of the artist's work in several me... more information

Newtown Bird & Bull Press, 1983. Oblong 8vo (4 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches), bound in quarter powder blue morocco gilt lettered spine over marbled paper covered boards with leather tips. The text is 64 pages followed BY FOURTEEN ORIGINAL MARBLED SAMPLES. First edition, limited to 350 numbered copies. This attractive book reprints the first American Treatise on Marbling, an account which appears in the April, 1829 issue of the Journal of the Franklin Institute, with additional text by Wolfe. Beautifully printed ... more information

London Printed for and Sold by The Author, N.d. [1791]. 8vo. (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches), nineteenth century tree calf with a narrow leafy border on the covers; spine with five raised bands and gilt decoration within the compartments, except for the one that contains the title information. All edges marbled to match the end leaves. The half title is wanting.First edition of a frequently reprinted autobiography (by 1793 there were copies with the words 13th edition on the title), the DNB calls it, &quo... more information

Berne & Lausanne Chez La Société Typographique, 1777. Two vols. 8vo. (7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches), full contemporary crimson straight grain morocco, with a gilt chain border between two gilt fillets; smooth round spine divided into gilt panels, lavishly decorated. Board edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles; a.e.g. The front board of volume II has been stabbed with a pin or needle several times, only one of which has reached the first few leaves of the book, with no noticeable effect. Bookplate of ... more information

Paris Bechet & Labé, N.d. [1840]. Tall 8vo., full 19th century vellum over stiff boards, decorated with a double black fillet outer border, surrounding a central border composed of two black lines spaced about half an inch apart, except where the lines swell (once along each side), to allow for the placement of a black-stamped skull and crossed bones, each about an inch tall. Near the top of the central panel the title, Syphilis, is stamped in black and afterwards canceled. There is a small blac... more information

London Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1825. Tall 4to. (13 x 9 1/4 inches), newly bound in period style quarter morocco over marbled sides with hidden morocco corners, red morocco title label on the spine; all edges marbled. Some light, widespread foxing but generally a clean attractive copy. For each of the twenty-five artists represented, Mr. Corner has produced an engraved portrait within a frame, after an existing painting or drawing. In the lower margin of each, he has reproduced a mini... more information

New York Red Angel Press, 1977. 4to., (12 1/4 x 8 inches). Bound in quarter beige linen over blue cloth boards that are divided into 3 unequal sized compartments via horizontal grooves. The design of the boards is carried through to the text that also is creatively designed in a split page, tripartite format allowing the reader to visually experience the “simultaneousness” expressed in the three part poetry where each part represents a separate character interacting with the other two. The text ... more information

London J.F. and C. Rivington, 1782. 12mo., rough canvas cloth over boards, final index leaf lacking, one leaf with a marginal piece missing affecting a bit of text, some early inscriptions; albeit, a solid, not unattractive copy. The 26 woodcuts are keyed to the text and illustrate the objects or concepts being taught. "An abridgment of Comenius's Orbis Pictus [Osborne. p. 123]." EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PEDAGOGY ILLUSTRATED ... more information

Easthampton Cheloniidae Press, 1981. 4to., (12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches) bound by Gray Parrot in quarter gray Moroccan goat and black Japanese paper over boards with matching quarter leather tray case; leather on both stamped in “tire tread” design along with the book’s title. Title page etching and 11 woodengravings by Alan James Robinson. Hand set in 18pt. Arrighi and Centaur and printed on handmade Japanese paper. 58 pages. In the Introduction, Mr. Robinson says “I encountered m... more information

Newcastle upon Tyne Printed for William Charnley, 1789. 8vo., tan diced binder's cloth, plain sides, title gilt-stamped on the spine: HOLBEIN'S DANCE OF DEATH. Spine rebacked with a small portion of the original lacking. FIRST EDITION with 52 woodcuts of the Dance of Death of which 51 are after Holbein's designs; the full-page frontispiece, which contained a figure of the Deity habited as a Pope, was changed in deference to Protestant sentiment, for an original design. This Charnley/... more information

London jas. Carpenter, 1828. 4to. (10 3/4 x 8 1/8 inches), full crushed brown morocco with a triple gilt fillet border surrounding a series of blind blocked borders and four small corner fleurons; the spine, which is lightly sunned, has four raised bands and is nicely gilt titled and decorated within the compartments. Board edges gilt, inner gilt fillets, a.e.g. Signed in gilt on the inner front fore-edge turn-in: COLNAGHI COCKSPUR STREET.The work with a general title (above) contains three separ... more information

Cambridge Printed for the Author, [1813]. In her Student's Guide to Western Calligraphy, Joyce Irene Whalley, formerly of the V&A, Library calls the title of this work "very seductive." She goes on about Jenkins, "He based his system on the theory that the round-hand could be divided into six basic strokes of the pen and that having mastered these, anyone could write a good hand. Unfortunately he found that certain letters such as k and s did not fit into his scheme, while z was omi... more information

North Hills Bird & Bull Press, 1981. 8vo. (9 x 6 1/4 inches), 120+(1) pages, frontispiece. Morocco spine and tips, printed paper over boards. Beautifully bound by Gray Parrot. Limited to 300 numbered copies, the work is set in Baskerville types and printed by letterpress on Hahnemuhle Ingres-Buttenpapier. It reprints a scarce work on paper, first published in 1829, which warns of the harmful consequences of the indiscriminate use of chemicals in papermaking. Murray's scarce text is preceded by a s... more information

London G. Bowyer & A. Millar, 1765. 8vo., red morocco, lettered vertically, with the staff of Hermes in the center of the spine, the figure of Britannia on the upper cover and the Cap of Liberty on the Lower cover, marbled end-papers and edges. Occasional foxing and some darkening of the spine; there is A SMOKE IMPRESSION OF THE EMBLEM OF LIBERTY on the blank recto facing the publisher's ads. Bound by John Matthewman for Thomas Hollis, notwithstanding the manuscript note tipped onto the front paste... more information

Paris Bechet Aine, Libraire, 1830. Two vols. 12mo. (7 x 4 1/4 inches); tan calf with elaborate gilt borders and decoration on each cover; compartment on front covers includes gilt lettering stating the set was given to Claudius Chazel as a prize for French grammer; compartments on back covers state the prize was given by the boarding school, M. Perrault Maynard in 1833; spine with gilt title and elaborate gilt decoration.With bookplate of the recipient of the prize on marbled pastedown. An abri... more information