Title: Seven fine press books on books Author: Place: Various places Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: 7 volumes. First Editions. A wonderful selection of fine press volumes on the art of creating and collecting books, two signed by Adrian Wilson Includes: Billington, James H. introduction. Vision of a Collector. The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Morocco-backed paper covered boards, gilt spine. Fine. No. 180 of 300 special copies of the first edition. With an original, signed frontispiece etching of Rosenwald by Tony Rosati. Washington: Library of Congress, 1991. Fauntleroy, Joseph. John Henry Nash Printer: Legend and Fact in the Development of a Fine Press Intimately Reviewed. Cloth-backed paper covered boards, spine label. No. 109 of 235 copies. Oakland, California: The Westgate Press 1948. Powell, Lawrence Clark. islands of Books. Cloth-backed decorative boards. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1951. Ruzicka, Rudolph. Studies in Type Design: Alphabets With Random Quotations. (Folio) tan/linen cloth, housed in a matching slipcase, cloth folder within holds 10 signatures of of illustrative type, each sheet is protected by a paper fold. With quotes by Robert Frost, Herman Melville, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Whitman, and Thoreau. Light wear to slipcase; else fine. Hanover, New Hampshire: Friends of the Dartmouth Library, 1968. Wagner, Henry R. Sixty Years of Book Collecting. Paper cover boards, paper cover label. One of 200 copies. [Los Angeles]: The Roxburghe Club, 1952. Wilson, Adrian. The Design of Books. Grey cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Wilson at half title. New York, NY: Reinhold Publishing Corp., [1967]. Wilson, Adrian and Joyce Lancaster Wilson. A Medieval Mirror: Speculum Humanae Salvationis, 1324-1500. Green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed by the authors on front flyleaf. Fine. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press 1984. Lot Amendments Condition: General light wear; all volumes very good or better, most near fine or better. Item number: 277007
Title: Seven fine press books on books Author: Place: Various places Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: 7 volumes. First Editions. A wonderful selection of fine press volumes on the art of creating and collecting books, two signed by Adrian Wilson Includes: Billington, James H. introduction. Vision of a Collector. The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Morocco-backed paper covered boards, gilt spine. Fine. No. 180 of 300 special copies of the first edition. With an original, signed frontispiece etching of Rosenwald by Tony Rosati. Washington: Library of Congress, 1991. Fauntleroy, Joseph. John Henry Nash Printer: Legend and Fact in the Development of a Fine Press Intimately Reviewed. Cloth-backed paper covered boards, spine label. No. 109 of 235 copies. Oakland, California: The Westgate Press 1948. Powell, Lawrence Clark. islands of Books. Cloth-backed decorative boards. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1951. Ruzicka, Rudolph. Studies in Type Design: Alphabets With Random Quotations. (Folio) tan/linen cloth, housed in a matching slipcase, cloth folder within holds 10 signatures of of illustrative type, each sheet is protected by a paper fold. With quotes by Robert Frost, Herman Melville, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Whitman, and Thoreau. Light wear to slipcase; else fine. Hanover, New Hampshire: Friends of the Dartmouth Library, 1968. Wagner, Henry R. Sixty Years of Book Collecting. Paper cover boards, paper cover label. One of 200 copies. [Los Angeles]: The Roxburghe Club, 1952. Wilson, Adrian. The Design of Books. Grey cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Wilson at half title. New York, NY: Reinhold Publishing Corp., [1967]. Wilson, Adrian and Joyce Lancaster Wilson. A Medieval Mirror: Speculum Humanae Salvationis, 1324-1500. Green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed by the authors on front flyleaf. Fine. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press 1984. Lot Amendments Condition: General light wear; all volumes very good or better, most near fine or better. Item number: 277007
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