Titles starting with A from The Book Block

Munich & Ingolstadt for J. Fr. X. Crätz, 1763. 8vo., contemporary gray boards, lightly rubbed; 21 pages of manuscript notes in an 18th century hand on the front and rear endleaves. Handsome woodcut printer's mark on the title. This fifth edition is an interesting COMPENDIUM listing, among other things, the founding dates of European universities, the various Orders of Knighthood, heresies, dynasties, important peace-treaties, etc. There are also large sections which have geographical interest,... more information

Greenbrae The Allen Press, 1982-83. Two vols., tall 8vo. Volume I bound in full native dyed terra-cotta goatskin with black onlays, blind tooled, carrying, in black Greek characters, the name Agamemnon across the top of the front and back boards (and spine), and the name Æschylus across the bottom. Full black goatskin inner doublures, leather joints, red Japanese endpapers, silk headbands. Volume II in a similar design but with the colors reversed; across the top, in terra-cotta Greek characters, is... more information

Carlsruhe C. F. Müller, [1821]. 64mo., (11/16 x 7/16 inches), original green printed wrappers (with portraits on both covers), in a decorated paper-covered slipcase.Let us turn to Bondy [Miniature Books pp. 54-55]: "The most interesting German-language almanacs are perhaps the tiny volumes produced by lithography by C. F. Müller in Karlsrhue and by Clemens or Alois Senefelder in Munich. The latter was the inventor of lithography and the earliest of these ALMANACH issues, ... more information

Verona Officina Bodoni, 1971. Sm. 4to., quarter blue morocco with the author's name blocked in gold over vellum-color, paper-covered boards with black Roman lettering spelling out the name of the author. T.e.g., other edges untrimmed; in a matching board slipcase. As new!One of 160 copies in English (translated by Betty Radice), printed in Dante type on Amalfi handmade paper, with an Introduction by Giovanni Mardersteig giving an account of those who collaborated in the work: Torniello who de... more information

Easthampton ABCedary, 1989. Folio (15 x 11 inches) bound in vellum by Claudia Cohen and Sarah Creighton with exposed vellum ties securing the boards. A rectangular cutout, with a gilt ruled border, to the vellum on the top board exposes an etching of a baby seal. Alan James Robinson created the 4 wood engravings and 11 etchings and Sara Krone printed the etchings on BFK Rives. Sky blue Japanese Moriki paper protects the etchings. Printed by Harold P. McGrath on T. H. Saunders hot pressed watercolor paper.... more information

Munich Johan Bapt. Dettl. bürgerl. Buchbinder nacht St. Peter, 1783. 8vo., black cross-grained calf with a single gilt fillet border surrounding a narrow floral roll border with corner floral ornaments; smooth spine without title, horizontal bands and elaborate mosaic tooling within the compartments; a.e.g. Stamped on the upper cover are the initials R. S. and the date 1824. Slight wear. Pink coated endleaves.The text is set in blackletter. The 25 full-page engravings are of two distinct sty... 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

Paris J, Barbou, 1776. 8vo., full crushed mottled brown morocco with a triple gilt fillet border on both covers with tiny gilt flower heads in the corners; smooth spine with elaborate gilt decoration and two red morocco title labels. Board edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g. An elegant English 19th century binding in ABSOLUTELY FINE CONDITION.There is a separate title-page [35] for the Satires of Juvenal along with a second engraved frontispiece [not in the collation], also by Duflos, who en... more information

London Printed for W. Wright, 1822. 8vo. (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches), three quarter acid calf over marbled sides; spine with four raised bands, green title label; t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. FINE.The author, a Gentleman or His Majesty's Chapels Royal, relied upon original material from Sion College as well as the records of the Merchant Tailor's Company and the manuscript check book in His Majesty's Chapel in compiling voluminous record of this instantly recognizable melody. The plates ... 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

Firenze Giacomo Moro, 1797 . Folio, contemporary brown pastepaper-covered wrappers a little worn at the very edges. Preserved in a quarter-morocco clamshell case.First edition (with brilliant impressions) of one of the most imaginative works of calligraphy and decoration that, according to Morison, revived Italian calligraphy at the close of the eighteenth century:"...the disappearance of calligraphy in Italy at the end of the seventeenth century was not so final as had at first se... more information

Amsterdam Gerrit Bos for I. Tinnekens & G, Roos, 1736. 8vo., dyed green vellum with a wallet flap extending from the lower cover; both covers stamped in black with the arms of the city and the date: Anno 1736. In very fine condition; preserved in a cloth, felt-lined clamshell case. Contained in the front compartment are six contemporary manuscript notes in Dutch having to do with daily life.The Almanack is PRINTED IN BLACK AND RED and is interleaved throughout for commentary; the first half i... more information

N.p. Not published, N.d.. 12 folded signatures (7 ½ x 5 ½ inches) laid into an artist’s sketchbook (three-quarter cloth over marbled sides, measuring 9 x 7 inches), with some preliminary pencil drawings and ink lettering trials; also laid in are illuminated paper leaves (with text) and a small (4 ½ x 3 1’4 inches) vellum folded signature (without text), with illuminated floral borders, highlighted in gilt.The 12 folded vellum signatures (48 pages) contain 32 fu... more information

New York E. Weyhe, 1929. 4to. (12 14 x 9 3/4 inches), publisher’s green canvas cloth with the title stamped in gilt on the cover and spine. Fine.Published in London (by A. Zwemmer ) and in New York (by E. Weyhe), based on the German edition (by Ernst Wasmuth), this first American edition contains 120 spectacular plates, early examples of close-up botanical photography. Professor Blossfeldt’s photographs are today also valued as pioneering examples of abstract images. The book ... more information

N,p. , 18th Cen.. 8vo., full burgundy crushed morocco with a double gilt fillet border surrounding a large floral border with elaborate corner tools extending towards the center, topped by hawks; in the center of the covers is a large rectangular panel composed of four gilt fillet borders with a wavy border in between and a central crowned supralibros. Spine with five raised bands, much gilt decoration and a morocco title label with the initials, C. M. Very attractive color, block-printed endleaves; a.e.g.... more information