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ca. 1970. 7½ x 9 ¼ inches. Housed in an inexpensive gilt frame with a linen liner. The liner shows some foxing but the painting is in very good condition and does not appear to have been cleaned. On the back of the painting the original brown paper backing is..... More
Lodi, Italy: Gianpiero Zazzera, 1987. Folio. 360 x 250 ½ mm., [14 x 10 inches]. (10), 35, (1) pp. Engraved stiff paper wrappers, text loose in sheets; enclosed in a hinged plexiglass box. Edition of 180 numbered copies (90 in English + 90 in Italian) Includes two original engravings signed..... More
London & New York: E. & F. Spon, Ltd. & Spon & Chamberlain, 1902. 8vo. 210 x 135 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 ¼ inches]. 94, 3 pp. index, plus 7pp. ads.; endpapers also with ads. Illustrated in the text with images of grinding equipment and brushes, including stipple brushes..... More
Paris: Place de l’Estrapade, No. 28 (Impr. de Panckoucke), [not before 1831]. 4to (280 x 220 mm). 64 leaves, plus 4 large folding specimen broadsides bound at end. 3 preliminary leaves: title, with Leger’s monogram, 2-page Avis to printers and booksellers, 2-page price list, the latter bearing the official royal..... More
New York: Wiley and Putnam, [1853]. Sq. 4to. 248 x 220 mm., [ 9 ¾ x 9 inches]. Illustrated with 53 illuminated pages (hinged boards), with highly gilded and decorated borders; all edges gilt. Orig. beveled brown morocco, with gilt title in shield on front cover in blind on rear..... More
London: Printed for Richard Ware at the Bible & Sun in Amen Corner Warwick-Lane, [1732-33]. 8vo. 205 x 140 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 ½ inches]. Engraved title-page and 12 engraved plates. Bound in later decorated paper boards. With a typed paper label identifying this copy as “Nevinson Loan 1979..... More
Barcelona: mprenta de Joaquin Verdaguer, 1840. 8vo. 213 x 160 mm., [8 ½ x 6 ¼ inches]. [4], 93, 1 pp. of text; illustrated with 100 engravings. Bound in contemporary brown mottled Spanish calf, red title label on spine. The binding is a bit rubbed but sound and attractive copy. ..... More
New London, Ct. Printed at the Office of the Daily Star, 1871. Broadside, matted and framed. Folio. Visible image size 340 x 258 mm., [13 ½ x 10 inches.]; frame size 420 x 370 mm., [16 ½ x 14 ½ inches]. Illustrated with woodcut image very well executed and printed..... More
San Francsico, California: Pacific Rolling Mill Company, 1890. 8vo. 250 x 170 mm., [10 x 7 inches]. 100 pp., plus 4 leaves of ruled paper, 2 with measurements in manuscript. Illustrated throughout with simple drawings of parts, many stenciled with green wash; one plate folding. Bound in limp cloth covered..... More
New Haven: William Edwin Rudge, 1941. Updike, Daniel Berkeley. Some Aspects of Printing Old and New. New Haven: William Edwin Rudge, 1941. 4to. 265 x 195 mm., [10 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches]. [vi], 73 pp. Illustrated with one half-tone portrait of the author at his desk. Bound in..... More
