Authors starting with T from The Book Block

London William Pickering for John Major, 1828. 8vo. (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), full dark navy crushed morocco with a triple gilt fillet border; within the large cover panel is an over all blind blocked design composed of arabesque scrolls with intricate turns and whorls. Spine with five raised bands and triple gilt rules in the five compartments, inside of which there is complicated blind decoration; the remaining compartment is reserved for the title information, which is gilt stamped. Board edges gilt, inne... more information

Northampton Gehenna Press, 1998. Sm. folio. Quarter morocco over hand-made paper sides, protected by a matching clamshell case (all by Claudia Cohen). One of a total of 110 copies (the ten deluxe copies were spoken for before publication), printed on hand-made Italian paper in letterpress by Arthur Larson; Michael Kuch color printed Mr. Baskin's copperplates, which "relate to the poems both centrally and tangentially."Hughes and Baskin are longtime friends and fellow artists. These ... more information

New York Scott & Seltzer, 1919. 8vo., crushed dark burgundy morocco du cap with two gilt fillet borders and elaborate corner pieces made up of groupings of individual floral tools; spine with five raised bands and similar floral decoration within the compartments. Board edges gilt, inner dentelles, t.e.g.; stamped with the name of the binder on the lower front turn-in: THE ATELIER BINDERY.First edition. With a PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION on the flyleaf tO THE DEDICATEE, D. George Derry, Esq., da... more information

Newcastle upon Tyne Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick, 1811. 4to., newly bound in period style quarter green polished calf over marbled boards; spine with simple gilt decoration and a red morocco title label; t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. A TALL COPY in a handsome binding by Gray Parrot of Hancock, Maine.Bewick 326 engravings include most of the animals from A (Adive) to Z Zorilla) listed in the five-page index of this sixth edition. In addition, there are four proof pulls of the following... more information

[Leiden] , 1884. 8vo., publisher's yellow wrappers. Printed in Leiden in Javanese, the work deals with a big game hunt in Java. There are four double-page color lithographs (signed in the stone P. J. Mulder) that help tell the story. They are printed in green-brown-red-blue tints and depict (1) The campsite; (2) The hunter and his guide in thick cover aiming at a tiger at close range; (3) The hunter holding his rifle watching the dogs flush out a wild boar; and, (4) Two groups of hunters and their guid... more information