Titles starting with T from The Veatchs Arts of the Book

Bath, 2001. . 12 x 4 1/2. Five sheets (12 x 16) folded twice to make 4 pages each. Laid into heavy handmade paper folder with red ribbon tie. Fine. The Japanese tanka is a 31-syllable prose-poem in 5-line stanzas. A decorative initial letter in red accompanies each poem from A to Z (eg. Avalanche, Bamboo, Cavern, Daybreak). One of 190 copies on Rives paper handmade in the 1950s. ... more information

Newark, VT, 2011. . Twenty-four 8-page chapbooks contained in a three-part cloth folding structure with pockets, and enclosed in a paper slipcase. Each chapbook has colorful crayon drawing covers; the hand lettered text & interior drawings are in black. All were scanned and printed electronically. Cordels are Latin American street-market chapbooks containing poems on various topics. They were given the name cordel (book on a string) as the booklets hung over lines like laundry. Schumann's topics a... more information

(Grundlsee) Stamperia del Santuccio, 1938. . 6 1/2 x 8 3/4. 63 pages. Japanese decorated paper covered boards. Small/light stains in the margin of two leaves. Fine Printed on German rag paper in red and black in Hammer's Pindar Uncial; with a woodcut by Hammer on the title page. Victor Hammer Artist and Printer p. 158, "10-15 copies printed on a German rag paper; not all were numbered". Scarce. The text is expanded from that in Opus VIII, with a glossary pp. 50-63; there was also a tra... more information

NY: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1941. . Small 12mo. (28 pages). Self-wraps printed in black & red. Crease on first 3 leaves; small, dark smudge on lower cover. Very good copy of this humorous piece. ... 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

Tokyo, 1980. . Three volumes. 8 x 11 3/4. xiii, 118, 263, xxiii pages French-fold; 207 specimens. Japanese stabbed bindings, in a folding case. International edition with text in English and Japanese, limited to 200 sets. Fine set in the original cardboard shipping box. A history of the papers & papermaking regions, with biographies of the papermakers, and photos. Volumes 2 & 3 contain 207 fullpage specimens of contemporary Japanese handmade papers, half of which are decorative or special pur... more information

Tokyo: The Mainichi Newspapers, 1974. . Eleven volumes in 6 cases. 5 large cases (20 x 14 x 5) contain 1000 large, handmade paper specimens plus supplemental specimens and little "extras." There are 200 specimens in each folding cloth case, divided among several paper portfolios. Each specimen is tipped to a larger sheet with a fold-over portion bearing text. Thus, the specimen & text may be viewed at the same time. Case, folders, & specimen sheets are all printed in both English and Jap... more information

NY, 1915.. 7 x 10 1/4. (10), 111 pages; frontis portrait of De Vinne. Cloth-backed boards. Tips worn; binding very good, contents near fine. Signed by De Vinne on the mounted photographic frontis. Printed by the De Vinne Press in the Renner type De Vinne designed, on Umbria handmade paper. Includes a biographical profile by Henry Lewis Bullen, tributes, and a bibliography of De Vinne's writings. Undoubtedly a limited edition. ... more information

NY: Typophiles, 1968. . Two volumes. 4 1/2 x 7. 87; 173 pages. Illus. Cloth, board slipcase (edge darkened as usual). Books are fine. One of 500 sets. Chap Books 47 & 48. A bibliography of DeVinne's writings, with reprints of the "Plantin-Moretus Museum," "The First Editor: Aldus," and "The Growth of Wood-cut Printing." ... more information

Fleece Press, 2010. . 3 x 4 3/4. Sixteen leaves, 17 actual postage stamps tipped in. Cloth & boards with a repeat pattern by Claire Melinsky. Fine. The tipped-in stamps were made from wood engravings or linocuts by John Lawrence, Christopher Wormell, Andrew Davidson; David Gentleman, Yvonne Skargon, & Claire Melinsky. One of 250 standard copies. ... more information

Fleece Press, 2010. . 3 x 4 3/4. Twenty-four leaves, 32 postage stamps tipped in, and 8 more stamps in rear pocket. Cloth & boards housed in a box, by Stephen Byrne, whose red & grey metal replicating lid replicates a Victorian English postbox. Fine. One of 100 special copies which have additional pages and stamps. The tipped-in stamps were made from wood engravings or linocuts by John Lawrence, Christopher Wormell, Andrew Davidson; David Gentleman, Yvonne Skargon, & Claire Melinsky. ... more information

Newtwon, 1988. . 9 1/2 x 12. 103 pages. Quarter morocco and pastepaper boards. With a cloth covered portfolio containing a generous amount of ephemera and sheets from books. Both are contained in a cloth clamshell box. As new, with prospectus. One of 300 copies, printed on damped handmade B&B paper. The specimen collection is a great trove of B&B memorabilia and some scarce epemeral material. ... more information

Florin Press, 1980. . 7 x 4 1/2. 34 pages. Quarter leather & cloth. Plus 19 prints laid into green passe-partouts with printed titles. Housed in cloth box (spine faded). Book and prints fine. One of 80 special copies (there were also 50 copies of the book alone, cloth bound). The wood blocks were printed on Troya & Hosho papers by Middleton at his Cherryburn Press. The book contains four more Bewick images printed from the blocks in Bain's collection. ... more information

Chicago: Cherryburn Press, 1972. . 7 1/2 x 6. Six-page booklet and 10 folder-mats. Nine mats contain an impression from the original wood block, along with a reproduction of Bewick's drawing for that block. The 10th, "Harrier Dog," was printed from a photoengraved block. Cloth & paste-paper boards. Fine in matching slipcase. One of 160 copies, signed by Middleton, who printed this work on a Washington handpress, in black & red. Nine of the wood engravings are printed from the orig... more information

San Francisco: BCC, 1983. . 8 x 10 1/2. 58 pages, original leaf mounted, matted print of "The Boys & the Frogs." Boards, dj. Fine. Biographical sketch by John W. Borden. History of the Fables by Janet S. Kruger. Designed by Jack Stauffacher. One of 518 copies. This leaf has the wood engraving for "The Fox without a Tail"with a vignette on verso. ... more information

Philadelphia, 1992. . 8vo, paperbound, 112 pages. Illus. Fine. One of 500 copies. ... more information

Pinner, (1967). . 8vo.45 pages illustrated. Boards, dj (spine slightly faded). Fine. ... more information

Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1987. . 7 x 10. 106 pages. 13 marbled specimens. Quarter morocco, marbled boards. Fine. With prospectus. First publication of a manuscript (Lyon, ca. 1642) on Turkish marbling. "The best Method of making Marbled Paper" from Journal Oeconomique 1758. The Marbler of Paper from Diderot-Alembert Encyclopedie, 1765. Mr. Wolfe translated the essays and marbled the specimens as reproductions of 18th century patterns. One of 310 copies on dampened Umbria handm... more information

Newtown: Bird & Bull Press: 1992. . 8 1/2 x 12. 40, (26) pp plus leaf. Quarter morocco. Fine. The leaf included here bears a large, clear, centered watermark of Tate's mill. One of 138 numbered copies; produced by the Bird & Bull Press. With a fine leaf, ca. 1495, from Wynkyn de Worde's edition of Bartholomaeus Anglicus' De Proprietatibus Rerum. The first English book printed on paper made in England, by her first papermaker, John Tate. A scarce B&B title, there were onl... more information

NY, 2004. . 12 1/2 x 7 1/2. Double spread title, 5 text leaves, 3 prints (2 double spread), 42-inch fold out with the text of "To Brooklyn Bridge" and a pop-up construction of the bridge. Textured cloth, design of suspension cables in silver. Fine with prospectus. One of 100 copies numbered & signed by the artist/printer Ronald Keller. The horizontal format reflects the span of the bridge. The typographic layout of the foldout forms the bridge's roadway; it is bordered by a cons... more information