Titles starting with V from The Veatchs Arts of the Book

Stamford, 1943. . 7 x 10. 122, (8) pages. Cloth & patterned boards with cloth cover label. Fine. One of 225 copies, printed in black and red, with numerous handset chess diagrams. Frank Altschul, a member of the Marshall Chess Club, felt most chess books were "abominably printed." The chess books his Overbrook Press produced "require the most exacting composition. Diagrams showing various moves are made up enturely of Monotype squares. There is a just jibing of rules, tight closing u... more information

Bird & Bull Press, 1991. . 6 x 9. 79 pages (52 text pages, 12 mounted specimens). Quarter cloth & marbled boards, leather spine label. As new. One of 250 copies. ... more information

London: Bibliographical Society, 1992. . 4to. 8 x 11 1/2. Wraps. Light wear. ... more information

Boston: Godine (1978). . 7 1/2 x 11. 57 pages, 26 color plates. Cloth. Fine. The color plates reproduce oil portraits, triptychs, sculpture, and metal work. Printed at Stamperia Valdonega on Magnani paper. ... more information

Boston, 1854. . 20 1/2 x 26 1/2. (4), 16, (1) pages plus frontis after a drawing by Allen and 5 plates after drawings by Sharp. Recent boards with linen spine; facsimile of original title label on upper cover. The contents have been completely restored with the paper de-acidified and each leaf hinged on linen. Very good. A cornerstone of American color printing. William Sharp emigrated to Boston from England in the late 1830s and produced the first chromolithograph in the States in 1840. His career culmi... more information

U. of California Press (1972). Second ed. . 8 1/2 x 11. xii, 241 pages. Profusely illustrated. Cloth, dj. Lower tips slightly bumped. Very good. ... more information

Berkeley (1973). . 4to. 160 pages profusely illustrated with color & b/w plates. Fine in very good dj. Inscribed by McLean. ... more information

Newtown, 1999. . 10 x 13. 77 pages, 20 tipped-in facsimiles and an original specimen. Full cloth, leather spine label in matching drop back box. A recessed compartment in the box holds two clay impressions of ancient Babylonian seals. Fine. This is one of only 18 copies (of 150) with the original handmade endpapers (printed upon) from Three Erfurt Tales laid in. Printed in black, purple, red, blue, green, & gold in Ehrhardt types. The chapters on B&B Incunabula contain newly revealed acco... more information

(South Norwalk, 1965). . 5 x 7 1/2. Title page with woodcut, 15 double column text pages, 11 full page woodcut portraits of Thoreau, printed from the blocks, all on French-fold Japanese paper. Boards covered in an additional woodcut by Frasconi. The usual glue seepage in gutters of endpapers, all else fine in worn glassine. One of 530 signed copies, printed at Spiral Press. The portraits progress from youth to old age. The Books of Antonio 24. ... more information

Chicago: Society of Typographic Arts, (1953). . 6 x 9. Frontis, 13 pages, 6 pp of photographs. Wraps. One of 800 copies printed at Thistle Press, designed by BR. Visit by R. Hunter Middleton and Jones in 1947. Floor plan and collotype photos by Jaffé.  ... more information

Cambridge, privately printed, 1954. . 4 1/2 x 7 1/2. Engraved portrait, xiii, 29 pages. Cloth & marbled boards. Near fine, with the typographic book label of R. D. Remley. Laid in is the one page announcement. One of 400 printed in Baskerville's types and ornaments cast by Deberny et Peignot from newly-engraved copies of the original punches, and shown here for the first time in a trial font. The paper was specially made by Balston. Ralph D. Remley was a hobby printer who served as a docent ... more information

NY & MA, 1987-2006. . 5 1/2 x 8. Wraps. Early catalogues are slim, but earnest. A 20-year run but LACKING no. 24. ... more information

(Vienna) A L'Insegna del Santuccio, 1939.. 6 1/4 x 8 1/4. 34 pages. Blue paper covered boards, dust jacket of same paper; both have title labels. Fine. Opus 10 from Victor Hammer's Stamperia del Santucccio. Printed on Magnani paper in red and black in Hammer's Pindar Uncial, with Hammer's metal engraving in red of Tasso on the title page. Victor Hammer Artist and Printer p. 146; "45-50 copies (not numbered)". Scarce. ... more information

Boston, 1933. . 9 x 6 1/2. Four pages, with greeting on first page and color wood engraving on the third page. Fine. The engraving was printed from the original block. ... more information

Boston, (1928). . 6 1/2 9 1/2. Four pages, with greeting on first page and color wood engraving on the third page. Upper & lower margins have some light creases, and some browning offset from the mailing envelope (addressed to Arthur Pforzheimer), but the engraving is fine. The engraving was printed from the original block. ... more information

Boston, (1921). . 6 1/2 9 1/2. Four pages, with greeting on first page and color wood engraving on the third page. A few small spots on first page, but the engraving is fine. The engraving was printed from the original block. ... more information