Titles starting with D from The Veatchs Arts of the Book

NY: APHA (1997). . 7 x 10 1/2. vi, 181 pages. Cloth, dj. Fine. The rivalry between Boston's two great book makers, Updike and Rogers, shows in a new light in these intimate letters between DBU & RR (pp 136- 147). In 1912 BR wrote, anonymously, the London Times article on "Progress of Modern Printing in the United States," in which he curiously disparages the Riverside Press editions while seeming to extol the Merrymount output. Updike offered to write the Introduction to the AIGA ... more information

NY: American Printing History Association (1997). . 8vo. vi, 181 pages including index and two tipped-in facsimiles. Illustrations are reproduced in the original colors. With three original examples of Ruzicka's multi-color wood engravings printed at the Merrymount Press. Handbound by Judi Conant in quarter cloth & marbled boards, with paper spine label. Fine. One of 50 deluxe copies (of 500) numbered & signed by the publisher, Roderick Stinehour. The three tipped-in original wood eng... more information

Mittineague, Mass., ca. 1926.. 10 x 13. Four 4-page signatures printed as "typographic specimens of merit." Wraps tied with linen; a little creasing on one edge of wrap, else fine. W. A. Dwiggins' essay "A Rebirth of Typographic Art" is printed here. D. B. Updike printed one signature at the Merrymount Press. ... more information

Kelly-Winterton Press, 2000. . 8vo. 34 pages, illustrated. Wraps. Fine. Limited to 500 copies. ... more information

NY: Typophiles, 1988. . 6 x 10. 18, (2) pages. Illustrated. Wraps. Very good. Monograph N. S. 5. One of 550 copies. Designed by Jerry Kelly. ... more information

The Old School Press, 2011. . 7 x 9. 61 pages + 48 plates, 2 tipped in illustrations. Quarter cloth & blue boards. A record of nearly every piece of ephemera from the Press" when the Daniel Press was in Somerset, before the move to Oxford. They form a very lengthy addenda to Madan's bibliography. The Frome output of this very private press was largely bookplates and printing for the local church. ... more information

Copenhagen, 1930. . 9 1/2 x 12. 52, (2) pages, 108 plates, (4). Cloth-backed boards (tips slightly bent). very good. ... more information

Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1998. . 9 x 12 1/2. 165 pages (including 30 tip-ins: original folio & quarto leaves from Mountain House books, 4 original light-and-shade watermarked papers made by all three Hunters, color photos, and 30 pages of b&w illustrations). Quarter morocco & Japanese cloth, in cloth clamshell box (two corners of the box are lightly bumped). Book is fine, with prospectus. One of 225 numbered copies. Text reprints 80% of Dard Jr.'s monumental (and costly) The ... more information

(Basel, 1963) . 6 x 9 1/2. 14 pages. Wraps, slightly creased. Very good. Signed by Tschichold. Translated by Tschichold from the 1900 essay. Laid in is 4-page pamphlet by Tschichold about Cobden-Sander's ideas. ... more information

Munich: Münchener-Scriptor-Drucke, (ca. 1922). . 12mo. Wraps worn. Good. Printed in black & green from Anna Simons' calligraphy. ... more information

Meriden, 1936. . 5 1/4 x 8. (6), 61, (1) pages. Cloth spine, marbled boards. Fine. One of 315 copies (this un-numbered) printed at the Timothy Press. Recounts Hopkins' personal experiences as an employee with De Vinne for about 10 years until he was discharged because he started the Marion Press (a hobby/private effort) in his spare time. Illustrated. ... more information

Easthampton: Warwick Press, 2004. . 5 x 7. (29) pages illustrated. Golden silk spine, Nepali walnut paper boards. Fine with prospectus. One of 75 copies, signed by Blinn. ... more information

Denby Dale: Fleece Press, (2001). . Two vols. 7 x 11. 300 pages, illustrated throughout (including mounyed color plates). Quarter cloth & marbled boards. Fine in slipcase. Hassall's letters are interspersed with numerous reproductions and photographs (many mounted); wood engravings in the text. There is an index of Hassell's correspondents. One of 300 copies impeccably printed by Simon Lawrence. ... more information

Cambridge, 1942. . 6 1/2 x 8 1/2. ix, (6), 171 pages plus 33 plates of which 8 are facsimilies and 25 are tipped-on original samples. Cloth backed boards covered in Loring's pastepaper. Publisher's cloth slipcase has an old inobtrusive stain, book is fine. boston09 One of 250 numbered copies. The samples are: 11 marbled papers (including two 19th c. and three by Douglas Cockerell), 8 pattern papers (including one 19th c. and 3 from the Curwen Press), and 6 paste papers (including one by Veroni... more information

Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1964. . 8 1/2 x 15 1/2. (3), 83, (1) pages. Loose in full leather chemise and laid into a leather and cloth tray case, with a second suite of 21 etchings in a cloth portfolio; by Arno Werner. Wear to spine of case, else fine. With the 12-page prospectus. One of 50 special numbered copies (copy "29.C") with a second suite of etchings on large white Rives paper -- signed, titled and numbered by Cornell. Plates are numbered 44/50. The etchings with the text are o... more information

Montagnola, 1924. . 10 x 14. (24) pages. Vellum-backed Putois marbled paper boards. Light tip and edge wear to boards; small bookplate. Very good, contents quite clean, no foxing. One of 225. Text in printed in Bodoni Casale 20 pt. Roman on Fabriano handmade paper. Early 19th c. Italian poem on the deplorable condition of a Verona cemetery. The ninth publication of the press. ... more information

Mohawk Paper Mill & Push Pin Graphic, 1988. . 4to. 26 pages. Wrps. Lower tip bumped, all else fine. Cover design by Seymour Chwast. ... more information

Florence: Kat Ran Press, 2007. . 6 x 9. 64 pages with 36 full-color illustrations. Paperbound. Designed by Michael Russem and printed at Stinehour Press. One of 600 copies. ... more information

NY, 1993. . 8vo. (11) pages. Wraps. Typophile Monograph, New Series, No. 10. Lerner discusses the typographic challenges of designing the Chap Book Bibliography. ... more information

London (1995). . 6 x 10. (vi), 26 wood engravings printed on rectos only. Cloth & patterned boards. Fine in slipcase. One of 135 copies signed by the artist, printed at Rampant Lions Press from the original blocks. "The Engraver's Cut" series. ... more information